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Charlotte iltcssfngcr. ‘Charlote, N. C., October 16th. 1888. OUB CnCRCHES, St. Michael 'i (P. K.) chureja, Mint St. Ber a v Tp a M AM ” ?KL , 5* BcSd at 4 P. M. rev. P. p. Alston, Pastor h >' roh ' Graham St; Services, ?n A tit’ - flll ® P - *■ Sunday School at 10 A. M rev s M Haines Pastor n , ■ , P tfe . t . chu °h, South Church St; Ser £S°." U A V;- 3P *• and 8p - «• Sunday School at I P. M. Rev. A. A. Powell, Pastor. raieiwr r Baptist Chun*, East 2nd St. Ser- A' “ «nd 8 P. M. Sun i>- P 5 hOOI at 1 P - 11 Hev - Z. Hatohton, „ PresbjfMtSan churh, comer 7th and Colleee at ;i p. M., and 8 P. M. Sunday »SrilMiel at 10 A. M. Rev. R' P. Wyche. Pastor. ttnton hi;) cl, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St; Ser vices at 11 A. M„ 3 P. M., and 8 P. M. Sun vlav School at 1 P. M. Rev. M. Slade, Pastor Little Rock (A. M. E. Z.l, E St Services at 11 A. M., 3 P., and 8 P. M. Sun day school at IP. M. Rev. IV m Johnson" Pastor. ’ Loca 1 News. The Ballot, the prohibition paper here, Las purchased a large power press. Mr. Thr.s, K. Samond is the Republi can candidate for Sheriff in this county. Vote for him. If you have moved in another voting precinct or have never voted in this county you must register before election day. We are requested to keep standing the names » jf R . c . McGinnis and 0. T. Thomas f or constables for Charlotte tov nship. Say, Mr. Independent, what State ticket are you supporting? Republican or Democratic. The Oriole literary society will meet next Tuesday night at the residence of Miss Sftllie Foster. A full attendance is vro'iested. Miss Annie Gordon and Mr. Charlie Mcßcc were married last Thursday even ing and left for a trip North via the C. C. railroad. Dr. Jas. H. Bugg, of Augusta. Gn., and recent graduate of Leonard Medical College, Raleigh, has just passed suc cessfully the rigid examinations in Vir ginia and will locate to practice in Lynchburg. Miss 1.. C. Black, of Greensboro, passed through this city last Thursday on her return home from teaching in Union county. Zion Baptist association convened at Watts Grove church, a few miles south west from Monroe, on Thursday last. The C. C. train coming west Thursday morning was crowded to its utmost capacity with delegates. The Appeal, published by Mr. C. N. Hunter, makes its appearance in Raleigh in the interest of the colored fair. It is neatly gotten up and very newsy. The AVomcn’s Christian Temperance Union met at the First Baptist church last Monday afternoeu. It meets at the Seventh Street Presbyterian church next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The M. E. conference met in Raleigh last Wednesday. Rev. Haynes, of Graham street church, left Tuesday night and joined the brethren of the lower C. C. section at Hamlet, Poor Will Brown is completely in the hands of his enemies. Who would havo thought it? Where will he be next. We do not know who the strnigbout dry men are, but it is a sad mistake if it is thought that the good Republicans of this county have consented to support a Democratic ticket. They have more re gard for honesty and principle. Which is of most im]iortance to us the Republican or the Democratic party? Some of our smart Alexs say bust up tuc Democrats and they arc doing all they Io bust the Republican party up. d you ever think how easy it is for ored man to fight for the Rcpubli f Then did you ever think it is true when a colored man works for Dem s he is paid? . b arc glad to know that while there a few of the city ladies on the show nds last Saturday there were fewer usual. It is hard to break off very I enly. 5e Craftsman made its first appear in this city last Saturday. It is the a of the Knights of Labor and •s a fine appearance. It isa 7-coliunn :ly published by Norwood Brothers. shop Jones does not deny that he the language we quoted from his on, neither does he tell the people I he meant by it, while he says we lim in a false light. » .om what we gather in the lower end of the District Col. Chas. K. will have other formidable opposition to contend against. Another ‘-Rowland” is in the field and he is a “Sir Knight.” The Messenger is a Republican paper and bus been since it first appeared in this city. It will support any Republi can in the field if he is not too badly be ameared for decent people to vote for. The man who says our politics arc changed is cranky. We are glad to correct a false report published in these columns last week to the effect that a colored lawyer had becii convicted in Wilmington for perjury, jt was taken from the State news in some daily paper. There is no colored iiuVyer in Wilmington; lienee none has been convicted there. We were last Tuesday shown an ex cellent piece of work—a picture or Pres ident Cleveland, executed by Master David McCaw. It was a pencil drawing that displays splendid talent and skill which deserves encouragement. Mr. McCaw will have some work on exhibi tion at the State Fair. As the independents want all the Republican votes let them tell the people upon what grounds they expect out votes and whether or not they arc going to vote bur Republican State ticket. This is a State fight remember, indepen dents, you must vote our State ticket or We will knife you. If Chas. R, Jones wants to be elected to Congress l.c must pull off from this “dependent” county ticket. Let him run on his own manhood; if he ties on to this ticket lie will be weighed down Bure. A two weeks campaign against him out side this county among the colored people will fix him. Be careful Col.; we don’t want this mongrel county ticket and will not have it. If you throw a stone in the dark and somebody squeals, you may know some'- body is hit. A paper that will not take a bold stand and “do the right” is not worth reading. When a fellow runs against something lie may be assured he i is moving along. We propose after this to be more bold, spare no one, but cut right and left, using care to do injustice to no one. We have heretofore held up on a set of men for certain reasons. Bishop Jones winces much over an article that appeared in this paper two weeks ago. It is said the truth hurts, and it seems that this is one instance in which it is verified. He calls us a bene ficiary of Zion. Taking church relations into consideration we have made double the sacrifice for the church the Bishop has. We never received a cent benefit from tlu- church except what we worked for. It was only last year we resigned a position in which we were paid SSO per month to work for the Star for S3O. Beneficiary, indeed! The Bishop has the wrong man in mind. If we are a beneficiary, then he, Harris, Hood and several others are beneficiaries and made what they are by the church, which may count well with some of them in a finan cial sense. Wilmington Dots. It is rumored that a certain dame has made another mash. That the colored Jay Gould was out riding last Sunday eve. That there will be a foot iace and a funeral soon if a ceitain dude is seen smoking around Sixth street again. That a certain daughter of eve will have a soft shell crab commit suicide. That on the 26th inst. there will be some change to take place in a certain family—Ah! That D. W. Evans is the happiest man in town. Why? That when certain changes take place a certain dude will make an awful face. Wm. K. Price was in the city Monday P. D. Newman, of Philadelphia, was in the city on Tuesday. Miss L. G. Nixon was united to Mr. Joe Brisco, of Baltimore, Md., on'the 25th inst. Miss Fannie D. Newman leaves for Bcocia on 15tb. Master Jas. D. Brooks and Jeffrey James will attend Shaws University this term. Our townsman, Mr. B. B. Hill, is also booked for Shaw University. J. 11. Whiteman, Jr., left for Howard University on the Ist inst. We were pleased to see oil our street last Thursday Mr. T. Broadfoot, of Fuy. The wedding bells for this month will toll the happy fate of not less than three couples in the plymsic circle; who is next. D. W. Evans will hang out his shingle this winter as an attorney at law. Dan's weight is now 275 pounds. Mr. Jas. D. Dry is enlarging his busi ness and is now ready to cut and fit gents’ clothes. Me. Fishes That Bite Again. Anglers generally sav when a bass is hooked and es;apes: “That fellow will not bite again soon. He has a sore mouth and a lesson that will last him tome time.” The error of this theory was twice proved at Greenwood lake last week by Newark anglers. Mr. Wismer hooked a bass and Lefoic he could bring him t- the boat lost him by the wrapping of ihe hook -lipping from the snell. An hour later Mr. Wismer last in the same ipot and caught the identical tisb w ith the treacherous hook sticking in his lip. (lithe following day one of the guides struck a three-pounder with atnblch ok buited with n frog. The has-, came out of wgtrr aid sent the frog sp nn ng throng!* the air, then he >oui ded and broke th.* gang above th ■ hook, will h was cnib dded in the lower jaw. An other gui • ca»-i- in during the evening and remaned tha he lad c.-light a buss with a tioble hoot -a-t in his mouth. .V glance t the uoo’l. i-s-ur 1 gui le uumlicr' on that the fish was the one that he had lost. —/{mark Call. Personal, Miss Annie Wade; of Crtncord, is 111 the city stopping with het mint, Alts. Ester White. She expects to remain in the city several weeks. Miss Annie Haynes, of Salisbury, ar rived in our city last Sunday, and is the guest of Miss Lydia Robinson. The friends of Miss Eliza Houser will be glad to learn that she is convalescent after a two weeks battle with chills and fever. Miss L. R. Bragg has been quite sick since her arrival in our city, but we arc glad to learu that she is much better, Mr. M. M. Alston left last Tuesday night for Raleigh where he will soon enter the Leonard Medical School. Mr. N. S. Taylor, of Raleigh, District Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of North Carolina, spent a few days in our city this week, He was here in the interest of the Order and reports the working of the Order in fine condition. Brother Taylor is a fine officer and made a good impression in this city. Mr. Tay lor is also chief of the Raleigh fire com panies. Messrs. J. H. Craig, G. J. Scott and Jabez Marshall, of Augusta, Ga., passed through our city Monday. They were on their return from the bi-ennial meeting of the Odd Fellows in Philadelphia. They bad a very pleasant session. The B. M. C, will convene in Nashville, Tenn., in 1888, Presiding Elder J. A. Tyler held bis district conference at Weeping-Willow church, about four miles cast of thiscity, this week. Quite a number of ministers were in the city last Tuesday among whom we recognized Revs. R. C. Collins, R. U. Stitt, J. 8. Caldwell, D. W. Smith, 11. L. Simmons, J. Husty and Hon. J. C. Dancy. Rt. Rev. Bishop Jones was in our city last Tuesday as was also Professor S. G. Atkins of Zion Wesley College. Miss Jennie Ilowe, of Wilmington, left home for Howard University last Thurs day evening. Mrs. Nannie E. Leary, of Fayetteville, arrived in the city last Saturday morning and will spend a few weeks with relatives. Rev. Wm. A. Alexander is very com fortably situated with his family in the parsonage of Chestnut street Presbyterian church, Wilmington, Mrs. Georgia Benson, of Chester, S. C. returned home last Friday after spending about three weeks in the city, the guest of Mrs. D. Hall. There were communion services at the 7th street Presbyterian church last Sun day and ten persons were added to the church. Rev. Wyche is having success in his protracted meetings. A Valuable Veil. The church of Meixotl, Mexico, issaid to contain a veil of great value. For marly three centuries Spaniards were in the hibit of vowing a jewel to the veil of Our Lady of Meixotl if they returned safely from a voyage to Spain, until in Maximilian’s time the veil was bejew eled to the value of $200,000. Three German adventurers with Maxmillan de termined after his failure to carry away this veil. They made elaborate prepara tions, succeeded in taking the veil, but a pursuing party had nearly overtaken them when they made a stand in a nar row pass, where two of them were, how ever, killed with their horses, the third making off under cover of darkness, but without the veil, which was recaptured and restored to the altar, to be more vigilantly guarded than ever. Pnnishing Incendiarism In China. They have their own ways of punish ing crime in China. Incendiar sm has given much trouble in a Southern dis trict of the country and a penalty was extemporized which will probably have a deterrent effect. A cul| rit taken red handed was placed during a long sum mer day in a cage, where his eyelids were burned with lighted incense sticks and hot incense dust was blown into his face. An official report states that the women in the neighborhood, several of whom had lost children in the fires, T-re espe cially active in adding to the severity of the punishment, —Brooklyn Eagle. Harper'» Weekly says: “The process of exaggeration which goes on with Eastern new-paper reports as they travel West is strikingly shown in a recent in stance. A report originating in Phila delphia stated simply that a horse be longing to an oyster dealer in that town had formed a habit of eating oysters, and seemed to like them. When that report reached St. Louis it stated that a horse in Philadelphia regularly ate oysters off the half-shell. Now from Denver comer the astonishing information that an enormous oyster in a Philadelphia mar ket recently bit off the leg of a horse 1” The Scientific Way. Dr. Benjamin Sharp, the naturalist, claims to have established th'i fact that the eye- of poisonous snakes have ellip tical pupils, wh.le in the harmleas species they are circular. Henceforth, gentle render, when you take your walks abroad, and a snake crosses your path, don't get frigbteue i and run. Wait until he geta near enough to see the whitca of his eyes. If the pupils arc circular, you have no need to fly; and if they should be ellip tical—why, then it would bo too late to run. Hence it w.ll be aeen that the sci entific i* the only sensible manner of dealing with snakes. —Botlon Traneerivt. Bishop Jones’ Eeply. Salisbury, N. C., Oetober6th, 2886. kr. W. C. Smith, Editor CkaCMi Mlsltngtr SIR: —I sec by reference to your issue of the 2nd, inst. that you have either carelessly or in tentionally, placed me in a false positoin in the matter of the discourse, delivered by me in Clinton Chapel the Sabbath previous. The “several persons" who garbled such parts of my sermon as were most favorable to adverse criticism, in the absence of what was said before or after, were possibly ignorant of the relation of a sentence or even a Word to the correct meaning of a paragraph. But whether your informants acted from ignorance or base design, you could hardly have been ignorant of that fact. And yet without stopping to inform your self as to my meaning or intention-—which you could have had from me personally, up to the very date of your issue—you rush blindly ana With hot haste into print, to place me in a false light by arraying me against Education. I think yoti knew you were placing me in a false light, and therefore (fid it maliciously and wickedly in the interest of those wilo like your self envy the progress of Zion, and wish to retard it by misrepresentation. It can hardly have escaped a colored Editor, so deeply in terested in the education of the race, that the first regular Annual Address of Zion Wesley College, just 40 miles from his sanctum, was delivered by the writer. Thousands of copies of that address Wdffe published, and sold for the benefit of the institiitioil. They were adver tised in the Star of Zion, while you were em ployed as its printer at Petersburg, Va. Surely you must have seen and read it. I was present at the Commencement of the same College, in early June last, in company with Bisheps Thompson, Moore, Hood and Lomax. Dr. Crummell the most distinguished Colored Epis copalian Divine in America, who, in an address stated that in all his career as an Educator, both here and in Africa, in all his participation in commencement exercises here among white and colored institutions of learning, he never was so thrilled. with hopefulness for the negro race, as the briliiant exercises there had excited in him. Has it escaped you that I had the honor on that occasion, of delivering the address at the laying of the corner stones of Dodge and Hopkins Malls ? Were you out of the State at the time, or do your educational flights ordinarily range higher than the doings of a mere Methodist Connec tional College ? Mr. Editor, you were not ig norant of all thi^; and therefore I brand your attack on me, as a wantonly, malicious slander, for which there was not the slightest cause or excuse, never having had an unpleasant word with you in my life. But the animous, object, and point of your attack was not me, but my church organization. It was not so much Bishop Jones as “Zion," | that you aimed to stab in the interest and fur therance (though surely not at the solicitation) of "the Presbyterians and Episcopalians." Hard pressed but eager for some pretext which would afford the ghost of an excuse to stab the church, which, more than all others, has carried you along, and brought you where you are to-day, you have seized on garbled bits of my sermon, tortured by false criticism into the excuse for the following ungrateful but harmless effort of a beneficiary to slaughter a benefactor, for the unsolicited amusement ot those whose favor he cringingly panders to secure, as his last hope of courted recognition. "The reason Zion lags so far behind now, is because her leaders have pandered to the igno rance of our people, and stood in the way of education. The Presbyterians and the Episco palians have an educated ministry, and the result will be, they are going to have the edu cated people hear them preach. By this means the churches are going to cut into Zion. We dislike to speak of these things, but they are facts, and if we do not acknowledge them, we must lose. Nearly every village or count) ht>s an educated Presbyterian minister, with an edu cated wife—if our leaders are not educated too, how can we compete with them ?" Now 1 have not the slightest objection to your unso licited cringing and pandering for the favor of the few at the expense of the many. Some men's ambition leads in that direction. lam willing even to take my share of your silly at tempt to make these who know no better believe (as is evident you do by any fair inferental de duction from what you say in the above extract), that Methodist Ministers and their wives art all uneducated, and ignorant, so far as colored people are concerned, and especially Zionites (Although I cojld find hundreds of their wives leaving their husbands out of it, that would send you back to your books), nevertheless, 1 am willing to take my share of the laughter, which your silly effort provokes; and especially so, in view of the pressure which you s::em to feel that you are under to interest, cater to, ar.d please those whose approving smiles, you so laboriously seek. But I must insist that the next time your waning journalistic fortunes in dicate a panegyric effort in order to bring our Presbyterian and Episcopalian friends to the rescue, that you have the manliness —if there be manhood remaining—to refer to my record, and give me the benefit of it, rather than betray, as you-have in this instance, a love for the false rather than the true. In the above extract, you ignore all semblance of truth, and righteousness, by telling us that “Zion lags far behind, because her leaders have pandered to the ignorance of our people, and stood in the way of Education." Who originated Zion Wesley College ? Who are its managers? What Institution of learn ing has been established in the last quarter of a century, of equal magnitude and of equal promise, officered, presided over, taught, and run by them? Who are Hood, Lomax, Price, Dancy, Harris, Moore, Tyler. Reeves, the Clin tons, Simmons, and a host of others—who give tone, character, and weight to the colored ele ment, in the Carolinas, irrespective of Denom - nation? Are they “Presbyterians and Episco palians," or are they “leaders" in Zion ? And yet we are told unblushingly that these great ! and grand men—“leaders ' in Zior—who have done and are now doing, such yeoman service 1 in the interest of the negro race, both North ! and South, anjl notably in North Carolina — educationally, morally, and religiously—are “pandering to the ignorance of our people, and stand in the way of education." Shame, where is thy blush ? Yours for truth, S. T. Jones. Card-playing in Paris has become an ! absolute passion among all classes. Card? are played at all hours of the day and night. In all the cases, from the Case j Kiche to the Taverne de Bagne, the game j goes on uninterruptedly. And not only ; in cases, but in the houses of rich and i poor alike. Those unfortunate mortal? I who cau not get out of Paris on Sunday* ! resort to the quiet excitement of card -1 playing to pass the time. You may se< the concierges playing in the doorways, and the milk-woman and the coster at it j on the pavement during the intervals ol > business. The passion dominates th< 1 whole community, and, as money i» generally introduced in the game, it ex ercises a demoralizing effect. This little bit of explanation is necessary in ordci ! to fully comprehend the fact that during ; the last year the duty on cards in France, which was firat imposed by Henry 111. amounted to 2,500,000 francs—sloo,oo( —an excess of SI,OOO on the previou! year, More mooey is probably put or cards under the republic than in th« century of the Itoi Soleil, when Mine. | Montespau lost 70,000 ecus in one even * ing. A PERSIAN CARAVANSARY. SCENES IN A GREAT REFUGE FOB TRAVELERS. A Huge Stone Building With Room for 2,000 Men Receiving the Quests—A Queer Place. Alter a march of some four and twenty miles, we come upon the caravansary. To European eyes it seems more like a fort ress than a lefuge for travelers. At each corner of the huge square stone building is a round tower loopholed at the top. The crenellated wall is also loopholed at regular intervals. At either side of the huge gate are similar towers; above the doorway is an incised inscription, beau tifully cut, which states that “Shah Ab bas the Great built this caravansary and dedicated it to the use of travelers in the name of God and the prophet Mahom med. ” There is plenty of accommoda tion in the caravansary, for on a pinch it can house and shelter comfortably two thousand men. Close to the caravansary is the ab limbar or covered reservoir. It is supplied from a kannat or under-ground channel that has been excavated,at times at a depth of many feet, for some miles; it is always full; the surplus water runs off in a tiny brooklet; the stone dome that covers the reservoir keeps its cool. Unfortunately these water cellars are a favorite place for hiding the bodies of murdered travelers. There is no other building of any kind within a circle of twenty-four miles of our caravansary. No food for man can be obtained there. Perhaps in quiet times the doorkeeper may have barley and chaff for the horses for sale and a little firewood or even charcoal. But these things cannot be depended on. We have sighted our halting place some three miles off at a turn of the road —that road that was never made or re paired, but that centuries of traffic have marked out. Our horses, directly they see the place, prick up their ears and, neighing, mend their pace. The lagging mules no longer need the awful curses of the charwarders (muleteers) nor the frequent application of the cruel chain whip. The leader of the caravan, always a horse (not a mule), quickens his pace, Eroudly jangling his bells and tossing is gaylv bedizened head, which is decked with woollen and leather ornaments and a scarlet headstall, on which are sewn many rows of cowries. The muleteers beain to sing and the servants to smile. The cook urges his mule to a canter and, amid much clanking of pots, hurries on to prepare his master's dinner. He will supply a good dinner of perhaps four courses and a sweet, his kitchen being four bricks in the corner of the stable. As we enter the frowning gateway— which is very similar to that of the stage baronial castle, and at times the size of the old Temple Bar—a dervish humbly presents a flower, an unripe plum or a blade of grass. Nearly naked, his long hair hanging unkempt about his shoulders, his eyes sparkling with hope and the combined effects of bhang and religious meditation, a panther skin over hi 9 shoulders and brandishing a spiked club, the mendicant looks sufficiently formidable. “Yahuk!" (“Ohmy right!”) he cries, as he asks for alms. A few coppers satisfy him. and he magnificently deigns to indicate the cells chosen by our servants. Around the square inclosed by the four sides of the caravansary are forty eight deep arches of heavy stonework. In each archway are piled the impediments of its tenants; their road-kits, th ir bales, their panniers, their merchandise. Sep arate piles of boxes and bales flung down in the spacious courtyard have formed the loads of several hundred mules, of perhaps a dozen different caravans: the mules are away grazing around the cara vansary. Our servants hive taken pos session of three of tho archways. No man demands hire cf them, no man says them nay. First come, first served, such is caravansary rule. From one of the archways come clouds of dust; the doorkeeper is preparing it for our reception. At the back of ea h recess is a doorway (a hole in the wall) some four feet by three. This leads to a windowlcss room of stone work, which has a fireplace and perhaps a chimney—nothing more. The walls arc immensely thick. The place is cool in summer, warm in winter; the walls and domed roof are black with the smoke of ages. Behind these rooms runs the stabling—stabling for a thousand ani mals. As the mules enter the courtyard their loads are hurriedly slipped off and piled in a heap; the servants drag out the carpets, the portable beds, the bedding, the table and the two chairs. The groom takes onr horses; the table servant hands J us the fragrant kalian (or hubble-bub- i ble); we s uiat on the square raised stone platform that is in the center of the courtyard, and en:oy the finest mode of I smoking in the world. Xte mules in a j long string, each bearing his angling i bell, canter off under the care of an as- i sistant muleteer, to be watered at the rill running from the water cellar. The place gets quietei as the caravan sett'es down. We see that many recesses are occupied by various families; some are poor, even I beggars; some wealthy merchants; per- i ' haps there is (. prince and his suite. The accommodation is exactly the same. First come, first served. No man is ejected. If you arrive too late to find a vacant room, you must sleen in the stable, on I the roof or on the platform—or buy some poor man out. Our spe -ial recCBS and room have been swept and carpeted. Our chairs are set up. We partake of tea under our own special archway. In the inner room there is a remarkable transformation; in the recess stand our lighted candles; in the co-ners are our beds; there is our tub, I ot which we gladly a ail ourselves: a heavy curtain over the doorless doorway i secures our privacy. Tired out, we lie | down for a welcome nap. We are awakened at 5 by the jangling ; of bells and the shouts of the muleteers. | The various beasts of burden are return ' ing from pasture. In the courtyard there are rows of mules tied un to ropes pegged to the ground. Facn has bis nose hag. There are circles of squatting camels, all chewing at once at a heap of | cut straw. In a corner are our own horses. Wc seo them fed and examine their backs, being old hands. The cook i letoiling, all bo ited as be arrived, over his tire. • “Dinner, sahib,” announces our table ser. ant. The man. as is the custom in this country when traveling, bristle) with arms—a long straight sword, two pistols and a dagger. We adjouru to the welcome meal. it is sunset—the gites are closed, the travelers drink tea together and chat in groups. Art occasional neigh or squab ble among the numerous beasts tells ui that we are on the-road. A mule breaks loose and runs amuck. He is secured; all is quiet save an occasional bell and the constant bubble of the water pipes. Some enthusiastic Musselman intones the call to prayer. “In the name of God, the mighty, the merciful. There ia no God but God; Mohammed is the Prophet of God.” Many kneel in prayer, at many more go on with their pipes. We dine. Dinner over, we hasten to rest— a rest often broken by the incident of a loosed mule or the departure of a caravan. At dawn we reluctantly awake to par take of tea and bread and butter Lazily we mount our horses. Our caravan hat left an hour or two ago. Followed by the faithful cook, the tableman and tbc groom, out we ride at a solemn walk, and we bid the caravansary farewell. Wt have another twenty-four or even thirty miles before us, and we await with ardoi the capital hot breakfast which our para gon will give us in three hours’ time upon the road, at a little stream some twelve miles off. And so ends a not un pleasant night in a Persian caravansary. —SU James's Qautte. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The new material for unsinkablc ap parel has been further tested, with suc cess, inT-ondon. This material is com posed of threads of cork interwoven with cotton, silk or woolen, machinery which slices the cork to the required thinness forming part of the invention. The gar ments which are made in this manner have the same appearance as ordinary clothing, and possess remarkable buoy ancy in water. The art of photography is still ad vancing. German photographers have Succeeded in photographmg a projectile In the course of its flight, and some of the photographs show the head of con densed air which precedes every shot. It Is said to be this "head” which prevents even skillful riflemen from hitting an cjnpty eggshell when hung on a long thread. The air blows the shell out of the way of the bullet. A French geologist, M. Ee Lapparent, lately called the attention of the Paris geological soeietv to tho effect gravita tion has in heaping up sea water about the land. The continents are thus all •ituatid at the tops of hills of water, and in crossing the Atlantic ships have first to go down hill, then to cross a valley and finally to climb another hill. The calculation has been made that in m d ocean the surface may be more than half a miffs (1,000 metresi below the level it would have if the continents exerted no attraction. A long-prevalent opinion has been that the living body, under some circum stances, might take fire and be more or less comp etely consumed, and thero are actually many cases of th s kind on record. Liebig, however, demonstrated the impossibility of any such result, and has au.rmed that no amount of fat, alco hol or phosphorus uhich the living bedv c )uld possibly contain would make it combustible. Upon examination, the a leged instances of spontaneous com bustion were found in no case entitled to credence. Knowledge says the lowest member ol t’ e protozoa, that is the lowest known animals, if we except certain paientes, is the moneron. Like the lowest p ants, it live, in water, the element in which life had beginnings. It is an extremely minute, shapeless, colorless, slimy mass, alike all over, and the efore without any O’gans. Every part of it docs every thing—eats, digests, reproduces— and it breathes all oicrits body. It propels itself and spreads over its prey, sucking the soft body even from shelly creatures, and casting away the refuse. According to the remits of some ex periments on the ignition of coal dust and fire damp, which have been pub lished by Air. C. Hitt in the llmue des Mines, coals containing from sixteen to twenty-four per cent, of volatile tuat'er appear more dangerous than either richer or poorer qualities. The ignition qf coal dust may be induced by an explosion of lire damp as well as by a blast; and the explosion may be occasioned oil firing a blast by electricity as well as by a safety match or a port fire. With dynamite there is less danger; and with gun cotton dissolved in nitro glycerine, prac tically none, if it is ignited by a cap of sufficient force. A Meal In Cantoa. When noon came Ah Cban gently in timated that he had not yet breakfasted; so we went into a very respectable-look ing restaurant and proceeded to order luncheon. Being in Borne, I was obliged to do as the Romans did; so I took what Ah Chan ordered and ate it, for better or for worse. It certainly was the most foreign meal I ever encountered, for in it all there was nothing I could claim ac quaintance with, save a shark’s fin and a few grains of rice. I wish I could de scribe some of the dishes and how they tasted, but, with one exception, I did not know what they were, and to this day I have not been able to decide what they tasted like. For aught I know I may have eaten rat pates and eat croquettes ; but I rather think not, for Ah Chan was a very decent sort of a fellow, and I do not believe that he would have imposed so shamefully on a poor pilgrim. The shark's fin soup was the only thing I could be certain of. which, in flavor, was not unlike glue water.— Canton ICAina) Letter. ■an. What ajqeer combination of cheek aud per versity. Insolence, pride, gab. impudence, vanity. Jealousy, bate, scorn, baseness, insanity, Honor, truth, wisdom, virtue, urbanity. Is that whimsical biped called man Who can fathom the depths of his innate do pravityf To-day he’e all gayety, to-morrow all grav ily. , , r blowing hie own born, be has a propen w ‘“y- . , i Even under clouds of singular density. Ob, mystical clay-bank called man He can be the source of beastly brutality, be modest aud meek, or indulge in bi.arit’ Don airs aud gre. es of saintly totality. Or equal the old Nick io daring rascality, This curious enigma called man. ‘ • —W. J. vKeardon, in Life,
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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