f a very doubtful character. The New irk pound keeper died from fear and itarvation, and not from hydrophobia Four of the Newark dog’s victims were lent to Pasteur and returned to show ihemselves in dime museums. Two ithers who were not sent to Paris have lever shown any symptoms of hydropho bia, and two dogs which the same dog bit did not die. Dogs do not go mad—insane—as hu nan beings do; but Dr. Spi' zka called it spileptic delirium, epidemic meningitis, >r some other malady of the brain due to ■eadily discoverable causes. He sus pected that the dog that bit Miss Sloro lini was not mad. He believed that Pasteur had nevei tad a case of genuine rabies. He had aimself produced in dogs all the symp :oms described by Pasteur as peculiar to hydrophobia, and some of those dogs still live, and wero produced last night. One dog he inoculated with soft soap— that is he introduced soft soap into its brain, and all the symptoms of hydro phobia were produced, and the dog died is mad as possible. In another, the ipinal marrow of a calf, the meat ol which had furnished the Doctor’s family dinner, had served to kill a dog with apparent hydrophobia, while other dogs, into whose brain he had injected the ac tual poison of alleged hydrophobia casci bad recovered. He produced four dogs which he had 'repanned. Into the brain of two ol ,hem he had introduced the brain of a calf; in another case an emulsion ol :alfs cud, and in the fourth case a part it the brain of the man who died of •upposed hydrophobia in Brooklyn re eently. These dogs had all shown symptoms of disease—partial paralysis of the hind legs, wildness of the eyes, frothing at the mouth. The dogs were all brighl enough last night, thought sligtly wob lily on the hind legs and a little dull it their eyes. But they all seemed affec tionate, and were handled freely, and even permitted to run at large in thi room among the legs of the listening doctors. One of the dogs, a bull pup, Dr. Bpitzka chloroformed to death. Its brain was removed to show its condition Several black spots showed the prescnci of foreign matter—the matter which had been injected, and which had produced the symptoms of so-called rabies, whicl Dr. Bpitzka called merely cerebral men ingitis. Hore Dutie*. Though there can be no routine of labor suitable to every home, some gen eral rules are applicable to all. System and regularity are universally necessary; the work of to-day must be done to-day. Though there are times in every house hold when this system will be inter rupted, order should be restored as soon as possible. But these immediate home duties arc not all. Women owe some obi ligations to friends and society. These cannot be ignored without detracting from that genuine hospitality which should exist under every roof. Propel attention to all the interests of home is necessary to the fulfillment of woman's trust. Fitness for her sphere will enable her to throw off the allegiance to the ser vant girl of the period. When this is ac complished, the housewife will reign in undisputed sway over her empire, in the hearts and home of her family. —Good Housekeeping. Aa Artist’s Secret Out., The artist J. G. Brown was a witness day or two ago in a suit at law. Aftet he had given his testimony the artist wai somewhat astonished to hear the Judgi inquire in a matter-of-fact way, aa if he was taking up the examination whert the counsel had left it: “Are you the Mt. Brown who paints the pictures ol street gamins?” Mr. Brown bowed assent, j. “Well,” continued the Judge, “there is something I have long wanted tc know. I have noticed that your boys have phenomenally dirty clothes and phenomenally clean faces, which is con trary to my experience, and I want t( ask you why you represent them so?” “Oh,” said the artist, “the answer tc that is easy. I cannot sell pictures boys with dirty sanes; folks won’t I^| them, end jou know I muit sell tures. —Cleveland Leader. . ALONG THE NILE. A VIVID DESCRIPTION BY AN AMERICAN OFFICIAL. What United States Minister Cor Saw on an Excursion—Pio tnresquo Views of Oriental Lift and Character. In a Constantinople letter to the New York World Hon. 8. 8. Cox, United States 3linister to Turkey, writes about an excursion in Egypt made by him re cently. We quote from his letter: We had been in Egypt before, but never beyond Cairo or the Pyramids ol Ghiza, so that the scenes on the railroad travel were novel, diverting and inter esting. Having an apartment or carriage to ourselves,we placed our portmanteaus on the scat and mounted thereon as a ’vantage situation, and for eight hours, from 9A. M. till evening, we gazed out of the windows at the strangeness of the panorama, with its constantly shifting colors and forms. Remember, it is win ter—mid-February. The grain harvest is nearly ripe. The cotton is picked; only a few bolls remain in the fields. Th< sugar cane is being cut and carried on donkeys, camels and cars to the sugat factories. The long stalks are seen every where. The little Arab boys, in uttei nakedness, are grinding the succulent saccharine stalks between their glisten ing upper and nether teeth. Everyone on the route has a long sugar cane, carry ing one end in the mouth. The flies are settling thick around the juicy ori fices. The sugar factories are at work. The fumes not only add their fragrance, but the long iron chimneys give thoii peculiar business look to the landscape. There were other peculiarities sot which the car was a point of observation. Not the costumes of the people, for they seemed uniformly a dark or blue bournous. The sexes are hardly dis tinguishable from each other, except by the mustache, beard or turban. Aftei an eager glance toward the pyramids ol Sakarrah, near old 3lemphis, the mul titudinous mud huts and villages appear. Palms in abundance everywhere plume themselves in their stately beauty. The soil iB being ploughed in places for the new crop. The people are said to be in dustrious, but everywhere we see them sitting under walls, in the shade, and covered with flies—eyes,cars, face,hands, feet covered with flies. The animal life seems to move as slowly as if it had ages to do a lifetime of work. The buf falo is very unlike our almost obsolete big-headed species. It is seen in thi fields ploughing with the old one handled plough of the time of Setis, or turning the water-wheel. At a distance, and especially when cooling in the water, it looks like a pachyderm. In fact, its brown-black tough hide, ungainly forn and hideous face, to which the hors gives a sinister expression, make him an object of curious interest. Here and there we observe shepherds, gen erally children, with shepherd dogs Some are Bedouins, with tents ot camel-hair, black and dirty. They have flocks of sheep and goats, and often mixed flocks. There are generally a donkey and a yellow dog and plenty of naked children. Yel low and white flowers are already be decking the meadows. At various times on the railroad we obtained glimpses o: the white and yellow sands; and thf peculiar masts of the dahabiehs at an od: angle, with their still more quaint rails Ridges and plains of sand soon give way to villages, which are the sign and sit* of palm groves. On both sides of thi valley of the Nile lone, arid and tawny mountains appear. They arc picture! not unlike the Desert of Moab—out ol whose wilderness the Baptist came They are the shaggy barriers of the fruitful valley. For such fences as are needed to separate the fields, the cane, inter woven, makes a tolerable pretext ot protection. It would not “turn” a reso lute rabbit. Everywhere are seen stakes, indicating metes and bounds and propri etorship, which have to be renewed when the Nile flood disappears. Old well sweeps are seen, such as were common in Ohio in my boyhood. They lift the water out of the soft soil to the surface. Thi bottom of the well is,of course, on a levc with the river; aad, as I said, the rivet is everything in Egypt. It is now quit* low; still, the fieldshave ponds in them, but the pond water does not seem stag rant. Indeed the people use the wate for every purpose—cooking, washing, bathing, Ac. After the buffalo, for number anC utility, come the donkey and camel. 1 had no idea that the donkey was such i “daisy” in Egypt. Bridleiess and sad dieless, he will amble gayly with a family on his vertebra;. He is as patient and a: meek as if his burden were nothing. Sometimes you do not see his legs and only parts of his cars when he is loaded down with sugar cane or grasses. Now and then wc approach near thi river. There wo observe the shadoofs or water-lifters. It is the old bucket on thi wheel, which is turned by a buffalo, and empties the water from the river to the level above and makes ahorrid creaking ■uif all the “weely-weelies” of the cen Buries were in pain. At some ot the f places, notably at Drouth, we perceivi immense Government works, where thi river is divided for irrigation. They con sist of slack-water dams and fine stone bridges, etc. The work is of the most elegant style nnd engineering skill. 3lany birds, such as the wild gray goose, storks, duck and others of aqmtic spe cies, are seen on the ponds and rivci banks and on the sand isles of the river We perceive frequently the heron, wit! hie dignified strides into deep water aftei hii evening meal, and another bird, with a bill as long as a river and harboi bill in Congress and with an equa capacity for shallows and swallows. A Glimpse of the Late King Ludwig. A gentleman writes to the New York Keening Pott, describing how he once saw the late King Ludwig, the Prussian ruler who ended his eccentric reign by com mitting suicide. Says the writer: “A residenco of several years in the vicinity of his favorite mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps, made me inti mately acquainted with his surroundings, and occasionally brought me in contact with the King himself. His wonderfully, picturesquely situated Castle of llohen schwangau—a Gothic pile teemiug with associations of the most romantic kind— was that in which the gallant young Consadir, the last of the Hohenschauffen Emperors, bid his widowed Empress mother his last farewell as he started, now almost 800 years ago, on the Crusade, which terminated for him under the exe cutioner's axe. The meeting I refer to happened one dark autumn night, on my return from a few days’ chamois-hunting in a not very distant part of the royal preserve. I was alone and had been walking homeward through the darkness along a very lonely but fairly good road (in this country one would call it a very excellent one), leading through vast stretches of dense pine and larch forest, and following in its windings the course of a rushing mountain stream. Feeling hungry, I sat down on the bank at a point where the road ran close beside it, and was finishing a treasured-up last bite of bread and “speck,” when sud denly, without the slightest warning, there flashed upon my dazzled eyes a scene that well might take away the breath of one who, unlike myself, had never seen or heard of it before. A gigantic golden swan, perfect in shape and in the curve of its proud neck, the body of which was made to hold one person seated up right as in a sleigh, and running on nearly invisible wheels, the whole lighted up by ingeniously applied electric lights and drawn by four foam-flecked horses, at a full gallop, on two of which “hard riding” postillions were seated, was the strangc-looking object that dashed into the field of my vision on that dark night and in that excessively lonely spot. It passed me and was gone out of it with the rapidity almost of a fast express. It was in the early days of the electric light, and the continent few persons had heard of it, much less seen it; but King Ludwig was a great admirer of it from ip; earliest hours, and it naturally lent the force of witchcraft to the scene I have just attempted to describe. The King, then in the early prime of a splen did manhood, was seated in his con veyance, leaning back in an easy pose, evidently enjoying thefairy-like spectacle of the dark, silent forest, the great pines, covered with glittering hoarfrast, illumin ated by the wonderfully aright light, of which he himself appeared to be the centre. Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the coun try, contentment in the Louse, clothes on the bairns, vigor in the body, intelli gence in the brain aLd spirit in the whole constitution. — Franklin. Chewing gum contos’s aro populai with the girls in the small towns of HU nois. • r* Arriva! and Departure of Trains Correct tor the current month. Richmond and Danville Air-Line. No. 50.—Arrives at Charlotte from Rich mond at 2.50 a. m. Levee for Atlanta at 3.00 a. m. No. 51.—Arrives at Charlotte from Atlanta at 4.05 a.m. Leaves for Richmond at 4.25 a. in. No. 52.—Arrives at Charlotte from Rich mond at 12.40. Leaves for Atlanta at 1 p.m. No. si—Arrival at hirlr.bj from Atlanta at 6.25 p. m. Leaves for Richmond at 6.45 p. m. Local Freight and Passenger Train leaves for Atlanta at 5.80 a. m. Arrives from Afc anta at 8.30 p. m. Charlotte, Columbia and Augtsta. Arrives from Columbia at 6.15 p. m. Ijeaves for Columbia at 1 p. m. C. C. & A.—A. T. & O. Division. Arrives from Statesville at 11.40 a. m. Leaves for Statesville at 6.50 p. in. Carolina Central Arrives from Wilmington at 7.30 a. m. Iscave for Wilmington at 8.15 p. in. Arrive from Laurinburg at 8.45 p. m. Leave for Laurinburg at 7.30 a. m. Leave for Shelby at 8.15 a. m. Arrive from Shelby at 4.40 p in. Mails. General Delivery oi»ens at 8.00 a. m.. closes at 7.00 p. m. Money Order Departmentoi>ons at 0.00 a. m., closes at 4.00 p. m. Virginia House, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Accommodations furnished travelers at reasonable rates. Comfortable beds and rooms. House located in the central and busines part of the city. Table fur nished with the best of the market. Meals at all hours. J. M. GOODE, Prop. CHARLOTTE N C. W.M.i Wilson &Go DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. BUIST’S NEW CORP TURIP SEED, RED TOP, FLAT DUTCH, GOLDEN BALL, AMBER GLOBE, WHITE GLOBE, WHITE NORFOLK, RED TOP GLOBE, PO3IERANEAN WHITE GLOBE, RUTABAGA, SEVEN TOP, SOUTHERN PRIZE, YELLOW ABER DEEN. ALL FRESH — AND AT — LOWEST PRICES, Wholesale and Retail. W. M. WILSON & GO., DRUGGISTS, dial-lot te, \. C. PHOTOGRAPHS in all the latest styles and finish. Photographs Enlarged to an3 r size from small pictures. No need to send them NORTH. Just as good work done right here at home and as cheap as in New York. Work Gruaranteed. Call and seo us H- BAUMCARTEN. CHARLOTTE, N. C. 6-10 ts. A. W. CALVIN — DEAMER IN — FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds. Country produce always on hand. CHICKENS, EGGS, BUTTER and all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS. AI-SO DEALER IN LUMBER and Building Material. Free delivery to all parts of the city. RACKET STORE Buys and sells all lines of goods which can be bought and sold for less than their market value. With our buyers always in the market buying for cash, we shall recaive goods daily and shall sell our entire lines at Unheard of Prices, Come and see. W. J. DAVIS & CO, Under Central Hotel. Gray & Co. old stand. Trade St, CHARLOTTE, N. C. HENDERSONS BABBEK SHOP The Oldest and Best. Experienced and polite workmen i alway s ready to wait on customers. Here you will get a Neat Hair Cut, and a Clean Shave. John S. Henderson. East Trade St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Colored Fair. November 8 to 13, 1886 COL. GEO. T. WASSOM. Secretary of the North Caroline Industrial Asseciation. am 1 Prof. Charles N. Hunter, will address the Citizens of the following places on the subject of ‘‘Mnstry of tie Colored People,” Asheville. N. C.. Monday, July 19. Morgoiton, N. CY, Wednesday July 21. Statesville, N. C., Thursday, July 22. Charlotte, Monday, July 26, Greensboro, Wednesday, July 28 Winston, Thursday, July 29. Company Shops, Friday. July 30. Durham. Monday, August 2. Ad who are friendly towards the prosperity of the Old North State are respectfully in vited to present. The citizens are respectfully requested to secure a suitable place in whieh to hold the ; meeting. We hope the colored citizens will not fail to come out ami hear something new about the 1 industrial classes, and learn HOW TO SAVE 1 MONEY AFTER IT IS EARNED.