itteggettger. Chalotc* »V. a, November 18, 1886. OCR CHURCHES. St. Michael's at 1y - * «£WwiiE; Sc,loo, * t 10 A - M. Rxv. U A ii »»* St! Ser at nl iJSp'.i* H if K St ' ■ at 1 *&£«: Matters. The fair is over, and it was a suc cess. The Governor and others spoke on Tuesday. Prof. Langston spoke Oft Weenes day, and it was a btg day. Senator Blair spoke on Thursday, also O Hunter and E L Thornton, the coming orator. Mr Johnston White left last Mon day night to enter the medical school at Raleigh. Mis* Delia Toole returned to St Augustine lost Monday night. Miss Mary Barner and Mrs. Della Evans left on Monday night for the fair at Raleigh. Revs D J Saunders and W A Al exander, of Wilmington, passed through our city last Tuesday en route to the Synod in Abbeville. The sheet music composed by our Miss Lucinda Bragg was greatly ad mired by all. Mr David McCame’s pencil draw ings attracted the attention of all visitors of the fair. Friends, please pardon all defec tions in this paper. We spent all week at the fair. That is why we are late and have so little news. Mr R E Grier, of Matthews, has the medical department of Shaw University. It is reported that Rev J A Wright of Monroe will soon resign his charge there for a new field in Virginia. The oil paintings on exhibition at the fair by Miss Libbie Leary, were sjmgly grand. They will fit-' tingly grace the reception rooms of the United States. The crayon drawings by Mrs. Geo. 7 . Wassom were in our judgment the best on exhibition. They were as perfect as life. Mrs. J. A. Tyler has just spent a week with her husband out upon his work. She seems to have enjoyed it and probably would make a very good traveling minister. Ebenc-zer Baptist Church is ad vancing with the times. A base ment has been dug under it and heaters added and stoves dispersed with Brother Haughton wilnotbe left. Mrs. Geo. T. Wassom had com posed a piece of sheet music for the Industrial Association, in honor to Senator Blair, entitled, "Coming to the Fair.” Our knowledge of music would not allow’ us to pass on tiie merits of this piece, but from the reputation of the lady all are ready to pronounce it good. She had also a poem. Governor Scales said in his speech last Tuesday, if you have a home of your own, your debts all paid, you can defy the world, the flesh and taxation. Let all try to get a home, for there is no place like home. Our colored grated school build ing is about completed and as soon as the new furniture arrives and is properly fitted up, teachers and scholars will "move over to their winter quarters.” We regret to learn of a very seri ous accident that occured last Mon day morniug in the family of Mr. R. T. Weddington. His oldest child, Annie, in some w;.y caught fire in the absence of its mother and was severely but not dangerously burned, Mr I. P. Murphy of Statesville is well known throughout western North Carolina. We are glad to sav he worked nobly for the State ticket on election day, while Mott tore them up and filled his pockets with them. Messrs Murphy, Cham bers Murdoch and others deserve credit. Mr. A. P Tranthan and Misses G. D. Johnson, Sallie Hampton and Mary Massey left Monroe last Mon day night to enter the formal at Franklington. Mr. William Davis had preceded them while Miss Jessie Houston had entered Scotia. All these are sent out from the little Presbyterian church in Monroe. The exhibits in the fair from Hampton, Va., Normal School were conspicuous. Tin ware, wooden ware, shoes, harness and clothing were among the articles made by the pupils of the institution. Rev. R. H. Simmons, Prof. J. C. Price. Col. Wassom, Maj. Lane, O. Hunter, Jr. and Hon. J. s! Leary all setting abound Prof. Lang •cm make a picture cJuiLtcd to cau - r one to desire tobe good looking. We are informed that Biddle has J.e m’-st prosperous opening this yeat of any in its history. Its new president and colored professor are to be congratulated. Rev E H Collet, of the Graham Street Church, has just returned from a two weeks visit with his family in Raleigh. The mushroon politicians have gone into their holes, to remain till the “flowers that bloom in the spring.” Then they will come out to air their political nonsense in the Mayor’s election. When political discussions enter in the church or a secret organiza tion, trouble may be expected. Any church or organized society that al lows these things will find that its usefulness will be impaired. A house divided against itself cannot stand. There has been a general increase by the Republicans in all parts of the United States. Republican mem bers • of Congress have been elected everywhere, and the next election will give us a Republican President. As we have not seen the "Inde pendent” lately, we guess she is dead. Poor little thing! Its little rag fluttered in the breeze; but when the cold winds of defeat struck her, she faded like a tender blossom. Here is a tear (or its untimely end, and may the grass always be green over the grave where it is buried. "Not a Sound was heard, Not a funeral note, As the paper to its grave they hurried, Not a. Mugwump wumped As the paper they dumped In the grave where the ‘lndependent - lies buried." Mecklenburg county gave the Democratic Judges nearly eighteen hundred majority, or six times as much majority as the legislative ticket. Why was that? Because Dr. Mott turned traitor to his party and his county chairman here re lused to distribute the Rhpublican judicial ticket in the county. Is Mott the right man for chairman? Is Gordon, his pimp, the right man for county chairman? ‘ Strange to say, our reply to Bish op Jones’ letter appeared in the Star of Zion last week. It did not follow his letter, as we desired, neither did Mr. Dancy’s correction of his unfair and unjust insinuations come at the proper time. We would not have saia so much, had he have made the necessary correction. The amount of space taken up in the Star last week concerning us was about five : columns. It has previously devoted 1 several columns to the same subject, i If Zion can afford so much space in its organ to the personal flings of two or three individuals, we can af ford to keep three or four of the same calibre writing a month longer, and then they will dodge our points and never try to meet our argu ments. If all are satisfied with the matter, then let it drop. Magic Lantern Professors Several times a year, for years past, Charlotte receives visits from colored gentlemen calling themselves "Professors.” They carry with them a little trunk or box containing a "show.” They generally make the rounds of the different colored churches, where they show their "show.” As an inducement to the churches, they give a portion of the proceeds to the church. Now, this is all very well so far as it goes, but it does not go fir enough. In the fiisUjiiage the church is not a theatre or "show house, but for Di vine worship. In the second place, these men are here for the purpose of filling their pockets, and not for any good they can do the church. In many cases we find them loud mouthed, bragging on the money they make, and to hear them blow off. one would think it was a ten cent show turned lose. They only secure a church be cause they wish to avoid taxes, and they also know that if they did not get a church they would not get a crowd. They show a few religious pictures, then a whole lot of funny ones to make people laugh. The religious pictures are only to catch the church people. I have no objection to any one making an honorable living, but when men go into the churches with a show, and a mighty poor show at that. I think it is time to stop. These magic lanterns arc getting to be a nuisance, a hum-bug, and a delusion. The iron-front buildings in Charleaton misted the earthquakeshocks much bet tor thm those with stone fronts. The Hesperian. The grand social feature of this Week in Raleigh was the Hesperian entertainment on Wednesday night at Briggs' Hall. The Hesperian is a literarj- and social organization that has been in operation several years, and is composed of the best colored citizens of Raleigh. The u--iderc-s -as delivered by Mr. Wiley B. Hunter. It was a master piece of composition, and most ex cellently delivered. Mr. Hunter is a young man of fine talent and cul ture, and bids fair to reach high up the ladder of fame. The recitation by Mrs. Ada A. Harris captivated the hearers and held them enraptured from the be ginning to the end. Music Was rendered by the harpers of Raleigh. Alter the literary feasts, all pres ent enjoyed the evening socially. Some where in the neighborhood, some of the young folks present in dulged in “tripping the light fantas tic toe,” but this was after many of the guests were gone home, espe cially some of our good Baptist and Methodist friends. The society was honored with the presence of Hon. J. M. Langston and wife. We noticed present also the following visitors: Prof and Mrs E E Smith, Fayetteville: Mrs C Randolph, Mrs Emma Cooper, Miss Oleona Pegram, Miss Hattie E Randolph, Newbern; Mrs Della Evans, Miss Bonner, Charlotte: Miss Ursula Williamson, Louisburg; and Misses Libbie Leary, Mary Pearce, Hettie McNeil, Fayetteville, Messrs W R Davis, J B Hyman, A T Jack son, W H Goins, G Hunter, Jr, Dr Fizer, Washington City; Profs J C Price, J L Battle, S G Atkins, J C Dancy, Salisbury; J S Leary. JFK Simpson, G C Scurlock, Fayette ville; J H Hanna, Halifax: G H White, Newbern; Mr and Mrs Geo T Wassom, Goldsboro. At the meeting of the Emperors re cently held at Gastein the German Princes wore the Austrian uniform. They have been in the habit of doing so now for many years. The Pall Mall Ga zette says that the origin of this custom dates from the courtesy of a monarch whose life is more associated with feats of war than with the scrupulous ob servance of the details of a chamberlain's office. In 1770 Frederick the Great had to pay a visit to the Emperor of Austria. The visit, which was rather a critical one, was paid at the castle of Nenstadt, in Morav a. It was only seven years be fore that Prussia had been engaged in her great struggle with the Empire, and had thoroughly beaten Austria. Fred erick feared that the too familiar blue uniform might now awaken unpleasant memories. He did not. indeed, wish to discard the costume which belonged to his country, so he discreetly adopted a compromise. He and all his staff ap peared at N'eustadt, not, indeed, in Aus trian uniform, but in colors that were not far removed from it. The coats were white, the ornaments and facings of silver, and there were no epaulettes. If i it were not Austrian costume it certainly j was not Prussian. That was the pre cedent for a rule that now obtains, at least on the continent, that when a crowned head visits a brother soverign's court, he and his suite wear the uniform of the country in which they are guests. A representation of Marshal Bazaineas a stage villain has nearly caused a not in Paris. What long memories those Pa risians hive i If Martha! Bazaine had been an Ameriein, says the New York Graphic, be might have created and lost a dozen governments and been forgotten ]in five years. Tne Mexican “expedi tion,” on which the play is founded, has more of romance in it than anything else in the continental or international poli ties of the last thirty years It has ma terial for an exee lent play. It has not been half written up for books. There was never a more interesting character than Maximilian, the only imported Em peror that Mexico hat had; and the heroism attending hie execution has not been half celebrated. Ilia wife, Cirlotta, still lives iu one of the s« plastered estib ! lithments of the Haps burgs, hopeless y insane. The Princess Salm-Salm, origi nally a circus-rider, was one of the meet brilliant members of the Ccn.-t at ; Queretaro. The misfortunes of the last Napoleon as a ruler, began in Mexico, to bs ended at Be an. Marshal Bszaine led the French force) that were to establish a French foothold in Mexico. His Emperor was exiled. Maximilian was shot The Prince Impe rial died with a spear in his si le in the oountry of the Zulut. Os that imperial : establishment only Engenie rema ns, heart sore and old. The only victory ol Marshal Bazaine in Mexico was winning a young Mexican woman, who accompa nied him to France as bis bride In the war with Germany that fol owed the low of Mexico, the death of Maximilian ens the end of our Civil War, the Marsha 1 was hopelessly disgraced for military in capacity and sentenced to confinement for a term of year*. The Mexican lady helped him to escape, and since then hi has pass d out of the memory and inter eat of this busy world. It is estimated that 190,000,000 tons of matter in snlntinn is annually poured by * the Mississippi in tbs Gulf of Mexico FUN. Tb# Postmaster la about she only one price dealer. —Danacitte Breeze. "That's what sticks me,” remarked the fly, as he gazed at the fly-paper.— Tii-Bilt. An advertiser wants “a strong boy for bottling.” It occurs to us that it would be easier to bottle a weak boy.—Phila delphia Call. An English physician says abort hair deprives the brain of electricity. There are lot* of people who need long hair.— Hertford Peat. More than four thousand coupler* have been patented in this country, and yet there are hundreds of thousands of men and women yet unhitched.— Loutll CUi ten. A correspondent writes: “lam In love with a young lady, bat too bashful to propose. Who can help me out?” We should say her father could; that is, If you happen to stay too late. —Nett Haven Aon. Small coins are said to be coming into prominence. We are glad to hear it. Heretofore they have had a mean kind of way of getting down in one corner of your vest pocket and staying there.— Rxheeter Pott Erprees. It is the mnn with a voice like a fog horn and a note like the rising suu on a misty morning who is generally tame enough to put out the clothe* line while his wife is having her breakfast in bed. —Fall River Advance. Two little boys were discussing the strength of a bee. “He can pull more’n a fly,” said one of them. “Well,” said the other, “I dunno how much he can pull, but when he backs up to you and pushes, I guess you'll fall back every time.” Editor, (tapping bell violently)— “Where's that boy?” Enter office boy v who stands a full minute at the editor's elbow, awn ting orders. Then, at length —‘•Here I an, Mr, Blank.” Editor, fwithout taking hit eyes from his menu script)—“Well, what do you want?”— Eotion Record. Down-Town Clubs in New York. There are more down-town clubs in New York now, says Blakely Hall, than there are general clubs in nearly any other city in the country. The expenses are not heavy, despite the high rents, for there is only one meal of consequence a day, and it is not necessary to have two sets of servants in the business clubs. The prime object of ail these institutions is to supply an eating place, where men of position in the business and financial world may meet for a midday meal with out being wedged into stuffy and ill smelling restaurants along with a lot of office-boys and small clerks whom they don't care to come in contact with so cially. Theave age New York business man. if his interests are large or if he presides over an extensive establishment, is a very autocratic and exclusive sort of person. He may be pleasant enough up town, but to his smployes he is a very g eat man indeed. There are more men of the Dombey stripe in the commercial world than people imagine. Anyone who thinks that it is not so should go to one of the big down-town clnbs and ob serve thestdemn, reserved, trimly-dressed, and. indeed, rather arrogant-looking men who float into the club at the luncheon hour, and bow with great dignity and stateliness to one another. The entrance fee to the down-town clnbs ranges from s*o to $75, and the annual dues are low. As a rule the restaurant supports the club. The cuisine is always excellent, and the furniture solid and substantial. Down-town clubs never go through the experiences with delinquent members that rack the managers of the up-town efuhe. for no man is admitted to the clnbs below the city hall whose business integ rity is not above reproach, and accord ingly the widest credit is allowed to all members with entire safety. Japanese Papers The papers manufactured at the gov e nment paper-mill, Oji, Tokio, .'span, are composed of the b irk of a tree in digenous to that country, the fibers of which, being compact, are tough and strong like vellum, bet’de possessing luster. Not being liable to swell or shrink when damped, the most d licate disigns ran be executed upon them with perfect distinctness. For th* shove reasons they are specially adapted for paper currency, government bonds and other document.-!, valuable books an 1 im portant ledgers. These papers possessing porial qualities, there is no fear of their becoming musty, although stored for many yea s Imitatioa leather papers are a! o manufactured from the same ma terial. A “careful observer” has discovered that during the winter months a radial sweep of one hundred miles, described from the city of Philadelphia and touch ing the cities of New York, Harrisburg, and Baltimore, will include in the day time, la its western semicircle, fu ly two thirds of thee ows inhabiting North America, and at night an equal propor tion in ita eastern half. The eastern area of this circle, with the exception of more fertile portions of west and north .terser. i« as notably devoid of them by •’ay as it is Infested with them by night. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. “Red alcoholic noses cured in a week” a a new and odd London advertise ment. As for “Le Fere Mustache,” who died in Algeria lately,he waa “the oldest man in the world”—how old no one knows, but he helped to build the Arache bridge! in 17611. It was a common practice among the Romans to reciine at length while writ ing, the tablet being placed against one knee, which waa raised up as a support for the purpose. The monks of Westminster in Chau cer’s time in the middle ages had special rules for their behavior at dinner, for bidding them to stare or put their el bows on the table, or to crack nuts with their teeth. Several fine specimens of “masked” quail or Arizona Bob White have been received at the Museum of Natural His tory in Central Park, New York. This species has long been known in Arizona, but until recently was mistaken for the Bob White of the East. The falling-off in the average size of families in France, as shown by recent statistics, has induced the enactment of a decree reaffirming th# law whereby every father of a family having seven living children may have one of hi* aona educated at the expense of the State. When Brodie, the New York new*- boy, jumped from the East River Bridge, some of the newspapers said that he was thirty seconds in reaching the water. The Manufacturer and Builder has fig nred it out exactly, and demonstrate* that he dropped from the bridge to the water in just 2.8 seconds. In thirty aeo onds he would have fallen 14,753 feet, If there had been room to fall so far. A silver dollar was received at tha Boston Sub-Treasury recently that evi dently got there by mistake, for some skillful worker in metals had hollowed out the centre so that it could hold the photograph of a child, while the face of the coin formed a cover, faatened by hinges and clasp. So excellent was the work that the changes In the piece would not be detected at a casual glanoe. Ericsson and 01* Bull. In coversation a distinguished ehemiat and physician, who is also an enthusias tic and critical lover of mnsic, told an interesting story about Ole Bull and John Ericsson, the great inventor. It seems that they were friends in early life, but drifted apart and did not meet again until each had become famous. Bull had charmed the ears of admiring thousands all over the civilized-world, while the part the great mechanician played in naval warfare during the war roused the North to enthusiasm and startled the world. When taking his leave Bull Invited Ericsson to attend his concert that night Ericsson, however, declined, saying he had no time to waste. Their acquaintance being thus re newed, Bull continued to call on hia old friend when visiting New York, and usually when taking his leave would ask Ericsson to attend his ooneert, but Ericsson always declined the invitation. Upon one occasion Bull pressed him urgently, and laid: “If you do not cornel shall hying my violin here and play in your shop." Ericsson replied gruffly: “If you bring the thing here I shall smash it.” Here were two men the very opposite of each other. Bull an impulsive, ro mantic dreamer;Ericsson stern, thought ful, practical, proving every movement with mathematical precnion. Bull’s curiosity was aroused to know what effect music would have upon the grim, matter-of-fact man of squares and circles. So, taking his violin with him, he went to Ericsson’s shop. He had re moved the strings, screws and apron, »o that the violin would seem to be in bad condition. A-, he entered the shop, noticing a displeased expression on Ericsson’s faoe, Bull called his attention to certain de fects in the instrument, and speaking of ita construction asked F.ricseon about the scientific and acoustic properties in volved in the grain of certain wood*. From this he passed on to a discussion of sound-waves, eemi-tones, etc. To illustrate his meaning, he replaced the strings, and improvising a few chords, drifted into a rich melody. The workmen, charmed, dropped thair tools, and stood in silent wonder. He played on and on. and when finally he ceased, Ericsson raised his bowed head, and, with moist eyes, said: “Do net stop. Goon! Goon! I never knew until now what there was lacking in my life.” Late. On every road, since railway trains To turn tbetr wheels be^an. At every station yon will sea A solitary man. Hie brow is damp with beaded sweet, His heart with woe le cleft, Most earnestly be wants to go, The man that’s always left. If the train due at one r. H. Should wait till half-past eight, Tb' ’d be one man oome down to go, Just .ulrty seconds lets. Mis# Cleveland's ealaiy a* editor of the I l iterary Use is said to be SSO e week. Book* In Anolent Rom*. In the "Hlustrlrtes Bchwelzerisehe* Unterhaltungsbiatt fur Stenognphon” 1* an interesting account of the production of books in ancient Rome. It i* stated therein that notwithstanding the Ro mans had no printing presiea, books were at that time produced much more quickh and in larger number* than most modern works. Paper waa used which was almost woven oat of the fiber of the Egyptian papyrus, which grows to a height of ten feet, and which has given its name to paper. A Roman residing in Egypt assures us that the yield of hi* paper manufactory would be sufficient to support an army, and whole shiploads of paper wore sent from Egypt to Rome. Before books of any description were re produced in large numbers, they were read mostly either in private cirolee or publicly, so that the author eould adopt suggestions for the improvement of his work. Wealthy Roman* used to own a large number of slaves for all kinds of services, which rendered labor cheap, as they cost nothing in many cues, and had only to be supported. The works of authors were dictated to a number of slaves, women also being employed for that purpose. Even among freemen and liberated slaves the desire to obtain employment became to great that hundreds of willing hands could be had for writing books at a very low rate of wages. The instruction imparted in the workshops of Roman publishers ne cessitated a regular course of training, which was to teach the appren tices an easy and elegant hand writing. If a publisher had at hi* disposal say a hundred writers, and reckoning the working day at ten bonrs, a document which took an hour to write would be multiplied in the oourse of a day to a thousand copies. The writers became in time expert to such a degree that they combined quick ness with elegance. It ma t also be ad ded that in cases where speed was the first consideration, the use of steno graphic contractions became general, and we possess illustrations of their em ployment in the old manuscripts still in existence. We are also informed that both readers and copyists were instructed and trained, the former in the solution, the latter in the application of contrac tions. Their object was to copy works as quickly as possible, the use of full words being only resorted to for the best works. The above brief account dem onstrates to us the fact that the Romans made the nearest approach to the inven tion of printing, although they never at tained to it. The movable stamp* of iron or other metals used by the Romans for marking earthenware vessels or other utensils also prove this. But the art of rapid writing, which was perfected by them to an unusual degree, counteracted a further development. The Work of Beaver*. Mahlen Withars, of Wind River, Mon tana, tella in the New York Sun a atory of beavers’ work, as follows: I was acting as an agent for a man who owned a large timber track in Can ada West, and I discovered that timber thieves were cutting some thrifty young cedar trees along Weifer’s river. I could get no traoe of the th eves, and one moonlight night I watched the timber. I hadn't been long on the spot before I saw a dark object rise on the bank of the river, and at it came up in the moon light I saw that it was a bea > er. Then I knew at once fonr-footed thieves were taking the cedars. As I bad never seen a beaver ent down a tree, I thought I would watch the operation. This ons selected a good-sized cedar near the river bank and at once began work. The rapidity with which he cut through that trunk with his gr at teeth is almost incredible. Almost as quickly as a chop per with an ax could have done it, that beaver felled the tree. Just before it fell the beaver gave a cry that made me Jump, and he scurried down the bank and plunged into the stream. The tree fell into the river, and under cover of the noise it made I crept quickly to the bank to see wbat the beaver would do further. The fallen trees lodged in the water, and the beaver came to the sur face and began lopping off the branches. In this work it was joined by three or four others. They worked industriously, and the noise they made with their teeth could be heard a long distanoe. Thoy lopped off those branches as if they were working with hatchets and in a short time the bare trunk was stretched across the stream. Then the beaver* went to work on the trunk, and they cut it up in lengths of prooably four feet, and as a length was eut it was Boated down the stream until tree and beavers had disap peared Carnegie’* Castle. Andrew Carnegie is building on the summit of the Alleghenies, near Cresson Springs, a house, or castle, which will cost $1,000,000. The entire walls will be built up altogether of the undressed surface stone whit h is to be found on the place, and they are no' to show in any place a single murk of the chisel or ham mer. Mr. Carnegie’s orders are positive on this point, he having expressed a wish to have as far as possible even the moss on the rocks used in the walls un disturbed. Many people are busy in this world gathering a handful of thorns to sit upon.