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VOL. II.
PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, JUNE 17, 1880.
NO. 40.
Chath.nm Record.
JOHN M. MORINC.
Attorney at Law,
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The Two Spiders.
Two spiders so the story goes
Upon a living bent,
Entered a meeting house one day,
And hopefully were beard to say:
" Here we shall have at least lair play,
With nothing to provent."
Kach chose his place and wont to work;
The light webs grew apaac;
One on the sofa spun his thread,
Hut shortly came tho sexton dread,
And swept him off, and so, halt-dead,
Hu sought another place.
" I'll try the pulpit next, said ho;
" There surely is a prize;
The desk appears so neat and clean,
I'm suro no spider there has been;
lies des, how oltcn have I seen
The pastor brushing flies."
I In tried the pulpit, but alas !
His hopes proved visionary;
Willi dusting-brush the sexton came,
And spoiled his comi'tric game,
Not' cave liim time nor space to claim
1 he right of sanctuary.
At length, hull-starved and weak nud lean,
Hu mmil'IiI his Innner neighbor,
Who now had grown so sleak and round,
Hi' weighed I hi Traction ol'n pound,
And looked in il tho art bo d found
Of living without labor.
How is it, Iriend," he asked, " that I
Endure such thumps and knock,
While you have grown so vory gross?"
" "l is plain," ho answered; " not a Iojs
I've met since tlrst I spun across
The contribution. Imi.t."
BLUE SPECTACLES.
Tliat Gilbert Norcross should have
had :i somewhat overweening opinion
of himself, is perhaps not strange.
lielcn a hritfuilier-gi'neral in the late
war, or chosen representative by an ap
preciative community, I do not know
that lie would have felt more lifted up
than other under the same circum
stances; hut to he the only available
yotiiij man in a Now England village is
i position calculated to turn tho fctroiif!
eel brain.
On tlic battle field, or in the halls of
Cimere.?, he would have found tunny
eiiu:i!s and some superiors, and the con
sciousness of this would have had a
tendency to keep him humble, but in
l'uddleiown he was absolutely without
competition.
Was there a picnic, a sleigh ride, a
Fourth of July celebration, or a Clirist
mas festival, lie was the acknowledged
leader.
To be sure, there were others who
contributed to these entertainments, or
the entctninments could not have been,
but their names were never heard;
they scimed to be only puppets moved
Hi-curding as Gilbert Norcross pulled
the wires.
Hut it was among the young ladies of
I'udiUetown that lie achieved his
proudest triumph", lie was like a but
:erliy in a garden of llowtrs, or rattier
like a wicked bumblebee that stole the
honey and left a sling behind.
First, there was Sally Smythe. a
briirht, black-eyed girl of seventeen,
tie escorted her homefnm circles and
prayt r-meetints, tie look tier out for
moonlight drives, tie bought her pepper
mints and chocolate drops, and stai.l .-o
long of an evening alter the old folks
were ill bed that the extra amount of
kerosene consumed was a serii us item
to Sally's fattier.
Then, just when everybody, Saliy in
cluded, had set him down as Sally's
lover, lie suddenly and without warn
ing betook himself and his peppermints
to lair-haired Cora Dwiglit. And so lie
went from one to another, always stop
ping just short of the fatal question.
It is a wonder that the morocco arm
chair in which lie pursued his legal
stud ies d id not become a couch of thorns
;n requital of his abominable conduct,
hut in truth he seemed to find it very
comfortable indet d, which was no doubt
owing to the hardened state of his
conscience.
One d if as he was it. lining in its
soft embrace his head a trifle higher
than the window-sill, and his feet a
ri IK higher than his head he was
start led to a mote natural and becom
ing position with a suddenness which
threw the sheep-skin volume in front
of him to the floor, Irora which we in
fer that he was not so deeply engrossed
in the volume aforesaid that he had not
also an eye for what was going on out
side. "Who Is she?" was the exclamation
be uttered
It is observable that although there
were two ladies passing, he said, " Who
is she?" instead of "Who are they?"
although according to all the rules of
grammar, two persons are plural end
not singular. The fact is, he saw only
one face, the pretty and smiling one;
of the other he noted nothing but a pair
of blue spectacles.
"Who is she?" He spurned the
sheep-skin volume with his loot, for lie
was now engaged in a more interesting
study than anything its pages con
tained. It was a case of infatuation at
first sight, to be tried by a higher law"
than any put down in tl.e books.
He had no difficulty in finding out all
lie wished to know, for no stranger
ever remstned in Puddletown twenty
four hours incognito.
The owner of the pretty face was Miss
B'iscom, a student at Wellesley college,
who had come to pass her vacation
with her aunt, Mrs. Tufts.
Fortunately he knew Mrs. Tuftt, so
nothing waa more batural than that he
should call on her niece, whioh he tost
no time in doing.
Miss 13acotn was not in tue nouseon
this occasion, but presently came rid
iii2 up from the field on top of a loud
of liny in company with an indefinite
number of the Tufts children. Her
shade-hat had fallen off, and tier yellow
hair waa tossed and tumbled by the
wind, while the laughter of the merry
party came floating in at the parlor
windows witli the fragrance of the new
mown hay.
"As much a child as nnyof them,"
said Mrs. Tufts.
" Yes," assented Gilbert, absently,
and wishing with all his might that
something would happen which would
serve as an excuse for his going out to
the cart; wtien just then, to be sure,
Hilly Tufts began to turn somersets on
the hay.
"Sen that Iny tie's so venturesome,"
said Mrs. Tufts; "there, he's falling."
Of course Gilbert ran to rescue Billy
from Ids peril, followed by the distracted
mother, but before they reached him tie
had rescued himself, and was standing
comfortably on his head.
Mrs. Tufts first administered a rebuke
lo tier son, then inttoduced Gilbert and
Miss I&aseom, whereupon he took off
his hat and bowed, and she laughed
and blushed, and allowed him to help
tier down over the cart-wheel.
Here was an excellent beginning, and
Gilbert improved it by passing the re
mainder of tho evening, during which
lie was introduced to the young woman
in blue Siic- tacles whom he had first
seen with Miss Itacom.
He failed lo catch her name, however,
and noticed nothing more than she was
quite plain and somewhat deaf.
Miss Hasconi it was who occupied his
d reams waking and sleeping, and he
continued his attentions as assiduously
a circumstances would admit, but
with what success he hardly knew him
self She seemed (o him like a wi!l-o'-tlie
wisp, now close within his reach, now
further off than ever. Witli the per
verseness common to mankind, this
only madeHm t lie more interested and
determined ill his pursuit.
At length a time approached which
seemed to favor his wishes. It was the
glorious Fourth, which the young
people were to celebrate by a picnic at
Shamrock grove.
As usual, on such occasions, Mr.
Flint's great, vagon was engaged to con
vey the parly, but Gilli'Tthad far other
plans, though he thought it prudent tu
ke 'p them to himself till he was sure of
carrying them out
He therefore wrote Mi.-s Hasconi a
note requesting tier to favor him with
her company in a private conveyance.
The note b ing finished, it popped into
his head to add this postscript:
"If you accept iny company now,
mav I not infer that you accept it for
life?"
He thought this a very neat thirg.
and sealed his note with a good deal ol
complacency.
It then occurred to him that he had
never heard Miss liacom's lirst rump.
It was of no great e, ns quenee, and he
was about lo direct it, " Miss Baseom,"
when he saw Billy Tufts coming from
tho postoflice, which was nearly oppo
site. He be 'koned him over. It was
the second lime Billy came to his re
lief, and lie felt as though he could have
embraced him, although he did not
look particularly clean nor tempting.
Billy had a letter in his hand which
tie had just taken from the office, and
Gilbert saw at a glance that it was di
rected to " Miss Jane B iscom," so h(
directed his own accordingly, lind told
Billy he would give him six packages
ot India crackers and a pop-gun if lit
would deliver li is note and say nothing
about it to anybody.
Billy assented witli brightening eyes,
and was off like a flush. In less than
an hour lie was back again with ar
answer; it was propitious; Miss Bas
eom accepted the invitation, and would
take the other proposition into con
siderat'o". There was no longer any occasion foi
secrecy, and Gilbert openly boasted thai
he was going to the picnic with th
prettiest girl in town.
The glorious Foui tli rose clear and
balmy, and at the time appointed lit
drove up to Mrs. Tufts' door with o
high-stepping horse and a basket phae
ton. Mrs. Tufts looked out tl.e window
and said :
"Don't leave your horse, Mr. Not
cross; Jane is all ready."
There immediately appeared at the
door, not the person lie expected to see.
but the wearer of the blue spectacles.
" Good-morning, sir; you see 1 am
punctual; I make it a point never tc
keep any ono waiting," aid she.
She wore a scant gray dress, whi.'h
came just below tier ankles, disngplnyi
a pair of clumsy boots; a black hat
witli a green berege veil, and gray cot
ton gloves. Alt was to the last degree
proper and sensible, but also stiff and
angular ard uncompromising.
Her very gait, as she stalked down to
the phsston, seemed to say: " You see,
I have none ot the follies of my sex."
It seemed to Gilbert that she had never
looked so ugly as now in the bright
morning sunshine, and the blue specta
cles had never glared at him so mali
ciously.
Wtiile this was passing through his
mind he had made his bow and offered
h;s hand to help her into the phaeton,
since into the phaeton she ap eared de
termined to go.
"And the other young lady; is she
not going?" he ventured to ask.
"Cousin Blanche? Oh, she went
sometime ago, in the big team."
lie took t. is seat beside tier, not know
ing whether lie was the victim of a ter
rible blunder or a vile conspiracy.
As in duty bound, he made some at
tempt at conversation, but hardly knew
whether lie was talking sense or non
sense, and once found himself address
ing his comronion as "Miss Specta
cles." Probably she did not understand him,
as she pulled from some hidden recep
tacle a speaking-trumpet and applied it
to her ear, saying that slie always used
it when riding. The wind and the
rumbling of the carriage made hearing
difficult.
" Some persons are abashed to use a
trumpet," said she, " hut I consider that
a false pride. I don't know that Har
riet Martineau was not less respected
for using a trumpet." And then fol
lowed a glowing euiogy or Miss Mar
tineau, who seemed to be J.ane's special
heroine.
In all this there was consolation, fo
it seemed to imply that sliu had failed to
comprehend his postscr pt; or was she
expecting him to shout his sentiments
through the ear-trumpet.
But presently she liegan
" With regard to the second proposi
tion in your note, Mr. Norcross"
" Now it's coming!" thought he, witli
a shiver, and seriously contemplated
jumping out of the carriage and runrring
away, but her next words relieved torn:
" I have given tho matter due
consideration, and have decided that
while I am at college any such entangle
ment would distract my mind, and as I
shall afterward givo some years to tho
study of modicir.e, it would bo lng be
fore I could entertain such a proposal.
Ilaniet Martineau"
What more she said be hardly no
ticed. He had got out of the mattei
better than he expected, and breathed
freely once more.
Arrived at the grove, he got rid o!
Jane as soon as posible, and went in
search of Blanche. He found her sitting
on a rock by the water's edge.
She was dressed in something white
and fluffy and charming it might hav
been a cloud, for anything he knew
and fluttering ends of ribbon peeped out
from all manner of unexpected places
while her broad drooping hat en
hanced the beauty it was intended tc
shade.
'Good morning, Mr. -Norcross, 01
shall I s.iy Cousin Gilbert ?" said she
mischievously.
"Miss Baseom, you know that Wjt
was intended for you," said he.
"How should I? My name isn
Jane," said she.
"No, it was all a wretched blunder;
but now that you do know it, what is
your answer?"
" My answer? Oh, you can't be seri
ous, Mr. Norcro," said she.
"I am serious, and should like :i
serious answer," said he, almost an
grily. "What, me marry you? Why, it'
just ridiculous!" and she burst into a
girlish fit of laughter. " It was all very
well for Cousin Jane, she's so nice and
discreet and sensible, and would take
such good care of you ; but me excuse
me for laughing, Mr. Norcross, but it's
so funny!"
"It doesn't strike me in that light,"
said lie.
"Oh, dear, I fear I've been rude I
didn't mean to be but pray forget it
all, and let's be good friends, Mr.
Norcross, just as if nothing tiad hap
pened." "Come, Blanche, the boat's ready,"
said a voice.
"Coming!" called slip. "Willie
Brcck and I are going out for pond-iii-ies.
Good-bye, Mr. Norcross." And
Gilbert stood and saw tier rowed oft by
an academy boy in a roundabout
jacket.
To be refused twice in one day is no
common experience. Yet it happened
to Gilbert Norcross, and although Jane's
rejection had been a relief, it was none
the less a mortification. He knew,
from the smiles and jests of his com
panions, that the story had in some
lastiion spread among them, which
made his position o uncomfortable that
he soon stole quietly away; nnd ever
since the mere mention of Blue Specta
cles has the same effect upon him that
a red rag lias on certain of the bovine
species. Youth's Companion.
Words of Wisdom.
Ability and necessity will dwell n.-ai
each other.
There is nothing so imprudent as ex
cessive prudence.
Men may be ungrateful, but the hu
man race is not so.
By over-sugaring of all enod qualities
you may turn them to acidities.
Success in most things depends on
kaowing how long it takes to succeed.
No man can end Willi being superior
who will not begin with being inferior.
Blushing is a suliUMon least seen
in those who tiave ttie most occasion
tor it
Knowledge without justice becomes
craft; courage without reason becomes
i asliness.
Tf mortals could discover tho science
of conquering themselves we should
have perfection.
Cheerfulness or joyousness is the
heaven under which everything not
poisonous thrives.
FOB THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.
Ruffs are mucti prettier than collars
for mantles.
riaitings in the lower edge of a skirl
arc considered indispensable.
Surah silk is used to make the chem
isettes and shirred trimmings for foulard
Towns.
Clusters of ostrich tips of all tho
different shades of heliotrope are pretty
and new.
Real pnnireo is about the cheapest
thing that one can have for a cool, sum
mer dress.
White lace rucliings nre now con
sidered absolutely necessary for the
necks of all mantles.
The proper way to use lace flounces
'Ins year is to make panels of them on
ihe side of the skirt.
The perfection of half mourning is a
black bunting dress embroidered wbh
gray nnd while violets.
The coolest wooi ilres'es for suuimer
wear have no trimming, but rows of
stitching on the bolloui of bob. skirt,".
Arabesque designs are preFj-red to tin
vine and fo'.i.-igc in gimp. Some pat
terns look lib' polka dots of braid or
gimp.
Long satin strings ure. attached to the
waist and r.n-k of mos.t summer man
ties, but ec jnumtcal girls replace them
tiy bows.
Handkerchief costumes arc perfumed,
suggesting that tliry have been made
up of the contents of one's handker
chief case.
The present, style of dressing the hair
in narrow coil-, at the back of the head
must not be used If the forehead be
higli, or the Ijeail urge.
The fou'.nrtl gowns are lighter than
grenadines because they need no lininy,
but some women do) line them with
silk in pa'w, soft colors
Light liriuennd whitechecked gingham
is tnmnw with -.nrk claret color, niak
inc sui'.s tit for tho Goddess ot Liberty,
but racier showy lor ladies.
Tli spikes nre made into fringes as
well as used for tassels. They arc still'
ana ugly in either capacity, but cxpen-
sjw and therefore "stylish."
Mummy cloth is more used for draper
ies and covers t ban any other stuff, for
It wears exceedingly well, and hangs in
graceful folds, and the two attributes
nre not united in any other material.
Din elnire collars of dark velvet, trim
med with Languedoc lace, are worn both
witli dark and iight gowns. These col
lnrs nre fastened bv scarfs of silks.
which are sowut to their front edges
ana knotted on the front of the waist.
Name lAtrltiimlal ('oitji-rture.
A St. Louis young woman enters into
some interesting statistical and matri
monial conjectures. She figures out
that she knows perhaps 110 young men,
in round numliere. Of tin so she thinks
she knows about thirty intimately, and
of these thirty there are not more than
four whom she would consent to marry
for love or money on the spur of the mo
ment. It may not be a pleasant way o
putting it, but what site says is that,
taking one hundred young men as they
come ami go, only one out of every
twenty-live can lie set down its unoh
jeclionable and able to make a living
for himself and a wife.
A Proper NNrrlae
"Little Brown Wi en" writes from
F.lmira. O.. to a Michigan journal : I do
not think it sad for a woman to be a
"bread-winner," unless there are little
children to be fed, who cling to her
skirts, and then it is pitiful indeed. A
proper marriage, which the heart and
mind bot't acknowledge, is the happiest
and best tlitngforcithernian or woman;
but to see a girl or a family (if girls sit
ting at home, where their help is not
needed, permitting their father to sup
port tlirm, and simply waiting for some
man to come and get them, is disgust
ing.
That Boy's Hair.
A Michigan doctor tins written a
book upon the human hair, in which
lie presents these views: Hairs do not,
as a rule, penetrate the scalp perpen-die-ularly,
but nt an angle. When the
angle of the different hairs is the same,
it is possible to pive it the easy sweeps
and turvis which we generally see it
take, but if they arc by some freak of
nature misplaced, we have the rebelli
ous " frizzle-tops" that are not suscepti
ble of the influence of the brush and
comb. Many a poor mother i.as half
worried tier life out trying to train her
Johnny's rebellious locks into better
ways, believing it was Johnny's per
verseness of manners that induced such
dilapidated looking head-gear, when it
was really none of Johnny's fault at all,
but simply a freak of nature in mis
placing the radiating centers of his
"hirsute covering." Sometimes (owls
suffer from a contrariwise! placing of
the feathers they run the wrong way.
The nutlior's father had a hen whose
leg-feathers ran v,p toward ttie body,
those on the body and neck toward the
head. This gave bora oeroetual "out-
ol-sorts" look, and she could never fly.
The erection of the hair of animals
(hiring anger or of human beinirs m
fright is caused by a charge in ttie skin
and the angle at which the hair enters
the head or body.
If you would reach the people's eyes,
arise. i wii-. i-. i advertise. Williams
vH 'l'i"- '.';.
There are six ev-governors of Georgia
now living, aua all reside within the
State.
A STRANG K DISEASE.
TheTerrlble Malady Which Attacks the
Miners or Ht othsrl.
The Oazctla Piemonlese gives some in
terescing particulars concerning the
'-fleets on the Health of the men em
ployed in the St. Uothard tunnel, of the
unfavorable eruditions in which they
are coripelhvt to work, with fpectal
reference a disease engendered by the
presence in the intestines of animalcula
having a certain resemblance to trichi
n i The general appearance of the St.
Gothard miners, particularly of those
of them and they are the n ajority
affected by the malady in qu stion.is
described as deplorable in the extreme.
Their faces are yellow, their features
drawn, eyes half closed, l ps discolored,
the skin is humid and the gait difficult.
If they eat with appetite they cannot
digest, and when wine is taken in it is
Invariably rejected. Lei a man bt-iis
strong aa lie may, three or four months'
work in the tunnel n jures his health,
and at the end of a year, or a little
more, lie is a confirmed invalid.
Professors Calderini, of Parma, and
Bozzolo and l'a.'liani, of Turin, have
made s veral visits to Airolo ror t)
purpose of studying the diseas- on tht
spot. They Utte that se vent, or eighty
per cent, of the men are sufferinc from
this complaint, to which t.ieygivc the
name of tin mid aiklot3ma, a term de
rived from the worm found in the in
testines of a miner who died in the
Turin hospital last year. A somewhat
similar malady, arising Iron, the
presence of the anl jIosluma in the in
testine, is endemic in Egypt and Brazil.
Thirty percent, of the cases are classi
fied as "severe;" and among the men
who havo wrought in the tunnel a year
or more, ninety-live per cent, are
affected. For boys of from fourteen to
sixteen, many ol whom, I can pr
9onally testify, nre employed in the tun
nel, the professors stigmatize it as " a
veritable hell," continuous labor in its
pestilerous atmosphere being almost
certain death for the young. Professor
Ruzzolo is of the opinion that ten hours
spent in the tunnel aro sufficient to
bring about a condition of body favora
ble to the development of anemia anky
lostoma. The disease, though it lias probably
prevailed more or less for years, 1ns
only shown itself to an alarming extent
during the last six months. Several
.'auses have contributed to produce this
resu't. The distance of the points of
attack, as the extremities of ttie gal
leries where the perforators were at
work, ltave been called, from the re
spective entrances (on the nortti side
nearly live miles) rendered ventilation
PMremeiv difficult an evil which has
increased by the occasional freezing ol
the cotupressers. The air thus insulli
;'iently renewed was further Vitiated by
'.he perpetual explosions of dynamite
of which the col sumption has been at
the rate ol (ho pounds a day, the smoke
from J00 to 500 oil lamps, and the ex
halations fiom the bodies of 4H) men
and forty hor.es. Add to '.his tli.it a
like number of men and horses have
been working night and day in each sec
tion of the tunnei for years, that there
is an entire absence of sanitary appli
ances, and that the temperature has
averaged tioiu eighty to ninety-five de
grees Fahrenheit, and we have a state
of tilings inimical to life and health as
can well be conceived. Of this the mor
tality among the horses affords ample
proof They are kept in a reat tunnel
only eight hours out of twenty-four, yet
they die generally dropping down dead
as if struck by h uiiet at the rate of
twenty-five per crnt. per month; that
is. the average duration of equine lite in
the St. Gottiard tunnel tuts been exactly
four months.
The Antiquity of the Spoon.
Ttie use of our common tabu utensil,
the spoon, is widespread, and its inven
tion, as it appears, dates irotn remote
antiquity The form that we use at the
present clay a small oval bowl provided
with a shank and flattened handle is
not that which has been universally
adopted. If we examine into the man
ners and customs of some of the pi ople
less civilized than we the Kabyi"s, for
example we shall find that they use a
round wooden spoon. The Romars also
used a round spoon, which was made ol
copper. We might be led, from the lat
ter tact, to infer that the primitive form
of this utensil was round, and that the
oval stiape was a comparatively modern
invention. But such is not t lie case, for
M Chantre, in making some excava
tions on the borders of Lake Paladru,
the waters of which had been partially
drawn off, found in good state of pre
servation wooden spoons, which in
shape were nearly like those in use at
the present day- the only difference be
ing in the form of the handle, which was
no wider ttian the shank. The lacus
trine station where these were found
dates back to the ninth century, and we
therefore have evhlence t hat oval spoons
were already in use during the Carlo
vingian epoch, and learned men tell us
that spoons of a primitive kind have
been found among the fossils of the
reindeer age.
A Famous Enigma.
The following once famous enigma s
again receiving the attention of the
newspnp i s. It w J originated by Mr.
Canning, and the answer literally com-
(jlles with the requirements :
A worn there is ol plural number,
Foe to ense and tmnquil slumber;
Any oilier word you tiike
And add sn will plural make,
but ii you add an a to thi,
So strange Hie mntamoiphneis,
1 lural is plural now no more.
And sweet what bitter was before.
The answer is aorea, earett.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
I mm w
Mexico was colonized just 100 years
before Massachusetts was.
There are calumnies against which
even innocence loses courage.
" Dear at any price!" yelled the
hungry traveler who ordered venison
for dinner.
Ships nre frequently on speaking
terms, and they lie to. Union Tran
xcript. Sitting Bull lias given his tomahawk
to a Canadian missionary, who has pr
sented it to a college museum in Ottawa,
A Kansas weekly publishes "fourteen
rules to be observed during a tornado."
Only one is necessury. Be somewhere
t'lse.
In tho United States 100.000 bushels
of hemp seed are annually consumed
tor bird food nlone. Much ol it is Im
ported. Engineering states that speeds of over
sixty miles an hour are now common
with many of the ex press trains In Great
tiritain.
The people of Leadvillo stand nshast
at the boldness of a woman lot jumper,
who Los been asset ting her claims In
that vicinity in that manner.
There nre two kinds of oranges grown
in this country, one is the kind that is
good to eat. and the other is the kind
fiat is sold on the railway trains.
Iluiukiye.
America now lias lioany a bundec1
varieties of American grapes under cul
tivation, and more than eight hundred
varieties of pears.
The annually revi-"d nnd touching
story of an old gander having fallen in
love with a cow, cornes to us this time
from Lancing, Ky.
Agriculture is to be made an obliga
tory study in all the eieniciit-w, schools
of France. This is a recent action of
the French senate, and was adopted by
a majority of irl votes.
Tho London Times estimates n;t
there nre 52,i00 blind persons in Great
Ih-itnin and Ireland. Nine-tenths of
these, it thinks, could have been saved
Irom their atllietion had the highest
special skill been called to their aid in
time.
Brass pins are whitened by long boil
ing in copper vessels containing block
tin. The process of making white iron
pins is still a secret. There are eight
pin factories in the Uisted States, with
an annual production of about 7,000,-
000.000 pins.
French dress designers raakflthe sides
if some ot their skirts to represent five
arge box plaits. K.o!ct holes, or bound
iiittoiiholes. are then made in tho front
i'ges of two of these plaits, and '.he
I'n nt of the .skirt is laced across with
rditliat tic nnd fall in a cluster of
pikes, balls, or tassels near the bottom
i the skirt.
An examination lias been mane of me
original Declaration ot Independence,
now among the archives of the state do
nnrttueiit at Washington, nnd it is found
in such shape as to suggest that, unless
something is done to restore it, it wiil
soon be unintelligible.
Ladies who wear sealskin sacks nre
very liable not to wear them, for in
Belgium rabbit skins are successfully
prepared to resemble sealskin, and ttiou-
inds of rabbits are annua ly killed in
England whose oelts go to Belgium,
r.d leave that country as genuine seal
skins.
A counterfeit one hundred-dollar noU
on the PitishU' g National B ink of Com
merce was detect' d recently. It is the
most dangerous counterfeit which has
yet appear, d on any national banknote.
Country editors will do well to be on
their guard for this lel'aiw. WtUcrloo
Let the nexl noeiiing reform conven
tion be held in Maine and adopt meas
ures to reform the spelling of the lakes
! that Siate. S.uneof the lakes there
miy a quarter of a mile in length have
names half a mile long. The reform-
rs might wrestle with Like M tgogue-
liunkittcliogneinusiuitamackinogue to
hegin witli. Xorristou'H Ihrald.
Holland boasts of a house in which
ives a family of six persons, which in
cludes one widow, two liusb' nds and
their wives, two sisters, two aunts, oue
-on, two cousins, one son-ln law, one
hiughter-in-law, two daughters, two
nieces, one half-brother, one half sister,
ne stepmother, two mot tiers, one
tat her, one iatlier-in-law and three chil
li sen.
The property of pine-pollen to floa
for a long t .me in the air, and to be Car
rie.! by storms to very distant localities,
is well known. Dr. Kngleman has
.aunt in the streets of St. Louis, after a
rain storm from the south, when no
i.in. s north ol lxuisiana were in bloom,
nine-pollen, which must have come
irom the forest of T. Austr.ths, on Red
river, a distance of about 400 miles in a
tired line
As a woman in Whitehall township.
Lehigh county, in this State, was scold
ing her children, the neighbors, a hiied
.iirl and everybody in general, her hus-
and entered and interposed a mild
word. She opened her mouth fir an
ingry reply, but a spasm contracted hei
clueK. her lower jaw fell, and she could
cit her speak nor shut her mouth ; bet
tongue hung out. and her eyes nearly
tart, d out of their iwiekets j she had dis
located her )w bone in her violent effort
o make astinging r ply to her husband
A surgeon was railed, who reduced the
I i.-location, boilnd up tier head and pres
cribed a quiet diet. rhUaddphia Ledger