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"NT" 7 r SWEET SAY EN DEL rni: dklicatr PKT!p;;:ir. so I'OPL'LAR A CEXTU1IY AG (X In O!l-Fashionetl Fragrant Water tli at Found Favor With Grand Dames in the Olden. .Time. Tlio lavender fields of Surry were once ! Df icat valutj, remarks the London ' Su.nj' (rl, but the importations of the fragrant oil from Japan and America (cheaper in price though inferior in quality) seriously injured the prosperity of the hme dealers, and some twenty- live years ago the business of lavender J Vhen the great Pompey was overthrown cultivation near Carshalton was rapidly I on the plains of Pharsalia, ho found declining. An energetic worain, owner j shelter and rest in the hut of a fisher of i.) oil distillery which had been in ; man. unfortunate 3rary of Soot her fi.m'ly for ever a century, then at- j lan(j suffered a decisive defeat from her tnvu d to revive the industry, and now j rebel nobles. She crossed the Frith of the air around "WaUington is fragrant wi:h the scent of the sweet plant which Ii?s bprules ('Purveyor of lavender Water to the Queen," as "din is -permitted i to style herself ) distiih into oil and anj wa3 giaj to accept the humble hos taveuder water. I pitaiitv of the fisherman. Tattersal. who Lavender was the favorite product ol she herb gaulens of our great grand mothers. Paid among raiment and linen its dried flowers were valued as preserv atives against moth as well a-s conveyors ' of i;erfume. To ransack old chests in country houses as usually to fill the air f with the faint fragrance of lavender. , Th; expression to "Jay up in lavender," was a cant phrase two centuries ago fo: a visit to a pawnbrokers. Een Johnson v thus alludes to a '-black satin suit which now lies in lavender," the article in question being pledged. Lavender was an emblem of affection, poH-Ibly so selected because of its lasting fragrance. Drayton, in his eclogues, ,' speaks of a pair of lovers exchanging posies of lavender and rosemary as to kens of affection and remembrance. Some persons have as strong an antipa : thy to scents as had Loui3 XIV., and his mother. Anne of Austria, fainted at inhaling the scent of roses; the Kina disliked perfumes, and prohibited their use about him in later days. The iuusl candid of autobiographists, the second wife of the Puke of Orleans. ChailoLU of IJavaria, mentions this fancy of the ' King's, adding, "however, the Old On? h (as she slvies her hated rival, Madame de M.'.intcnon) always used perfume, ano persuaded the King it was carried V other people." I Persons with this dislike to strong rcciits cannot echo the praises of "sweel .' lavender," which certainly exhales a pow erf ui fragrance. The perfume is pleas-aut-.-t when mellowed by time, ano j faintly imparted to household linen. ' "Lavender-scented sheets" are always described among the attractions at the i 4 ideal rustic ian or country abode. country garden is complete without i lavender l)ush; and, though street cries t are nearly extinct in London, ";jwce! lavender"' is still retailed by hawken with the old call. Old-fashioned house V wive3 had a knack of weaving daiutj ribbon-bound faggots out of sprigs o: lavender, which were laid away with linen or raiment as perfumes and preserv- 1 atives against the ravages of moths. Country lasses often carry lavendei I sprigs, instead of scent bottle3, tc church. : At the WaUington distillery even th refuse of the lavender is turned to ac count, the stalks being used as a littei for stables as well as manure. It is sat isfactory to hear of some native industri - that appears in anyway flourishing, and ( lavender seems such a peculiarly Englist plant that it is according to the "fitness of tilings" that a native distillery should supply this perfume to our royal palaces. Lavender is always associated with tht J typical Engli.-h cottage home, the life o! "rustic innocence," so be-vhynied bj eighteenth century poets. Distilleries like those of Walllinglon are of ane ent date, though the name o! "distiik-ry" usually conjures up othei visions than those of flowers. Eenveuutc Cellini, wri.ing in 1 ."!:!, speaks of a dis til! i of perfumed witers which were ex- ceuout tor ir-e complexion '5 V iv, n: lately set up a factory in Paris. Accord ing to the Italian writer, this was tlu Hr.-t intro-.ltr-iion of "perfume-.! waters' ii'-t.-) Fra-.ce, and he mentions th.it thh ui tiller won faor with Francis I. plea-ing with gifts of his novel perfumes. d hl-.TCSti-1-l laarufa -lure. etiunt:ng ti-eproee : Fcrfu-.:es are said tc hav e!.ted in France as early asi tlx twelfth century, but probably the lis - tiikr alluded t bv Cellini had iutro nuccu : .superior ;vel machinery, :ud producer scent. Perfumes of all kind: Were iavi-nly jntrotiuced into France bt ; Catherine dc 3Iedici, in whose time tli ! perfumer too often combined the trade; (Of sceut maker s-.vA pais -ncr. There o:nethin:r ejninently i expectable about i"sweet lavender;" it v.;i??ticated perfume, is homely, nu It is creel' tec with no miraculous e.Tects on the com Pleio'i: it is associated with no trah ,t;ilcs of poisons lurking under its scented breath. It is not imitated b k:lful chemists, who call products o! all many of nasty substances by tiu ialluriug name? of fruit fiowers and fruil crf;!mes. Visitors to the Surrey laven der fields may trace the process of the manufacture of the fragrant "water.'' from the growth of the plant through n p : age Oir:--'gh vats ::ad sli'ls to its I final emergence as "pure English lavendei .water." The favorite English scented J p'aateel is yet distiliel ia the country ol j its growth, and though large quantities j of perfumes are imported from England ; "Wellington can boast that it yet export some of its fragrant manufactures, India j being a customer for some of the Surrey wares. Fisharmea in History, Caius Marius, when he fled from the court ol Bicmpsal of Numidia, effected his escape by the assistance of fishermen, sending as a message to his enemies the following: 4,Go say to the Roman Gov ernor that thou hast seen the exile Pla nus sitting on the ruins of Carthage." Solway in a fishing bark, and was safe from her own subjects. Charles the Second, after the fatal termiLatiou of battle of Worcester, fled for his life, betrayed not hi3 greit trust. At the battle of Cullodcn, which was the death blow to the hopes of Prince Charle3 Ed ward, he fled, trusting neither noble nor knight, but sought and found conceal ment and succor among the humble but devoted fishermen, who had ever been loyal to the Stuarts. Massaniello, the young fisherman of Naples, led his countrymen in revolt agaiast Spanish rule, and rose to supreme power amid the greatest of the land. In the colonization of Massachusetts, when both men and money were required for the public defence, fishermen were exempted from the performance of mili tary ditties and the payment of laxe. Scorning to screen themselves behind special privileges, the fishermen o MarbleheaJ, Salem, Beverly, Xewbury port and numerous other rish'ng: place? of note, rallied to the defence of the f.ng, and in all the wars known to the country have borne their full share. Marblehcad sent nearly every able bodied man to the camp or continental vessels of war. No other town in the United States suffered in population and prop erty, in proportion to size, as she did. The close of the contest showed within ihe holders of the town 153 widows -aid OGU fathetless child: en. Duel Ectvsn Hcr?e ani Snaks. I U ram Blake, a wealthy farmer resid ing in the southwest part of Blount County, Ca., has related a thrilling story of a battle to the death between a spirit ed horse of his and a huge rattlesnake. The horse, a very line animal, valued at f?20GO, was loose in a pasture, through which ran a small stream of water. Along the banks of thi3 stream there was a dense undergrowth of small bushes, interspersed with patches of rank grass. The horse was feeding on this grass, and getting near a thick clump of bushes was struck about the nose by an immense rattlesnake The horse threw his head up and wheeled suddenly around. The fangs of the snake were so firmly imbedded in the animal's flesh that several vigorous shakes were required to throw it off. The snake fell in an open space, and the horse, instead of running away, plunged at the writhing reptile with his fore feet. Failing to strike the snake the first time the brave horse was again bitten on the leg. Hearing high in the air with a piercing neigh that sounded almost human, the noble animal plunged again and again at the striking mon ster until his iron-shod hoof crushed its head. An examination of the horse disclosed the lact that it had been bitten no less than live times, and, though drenched time and again with quart bottles of whisky, died in a few hours from the effects of the deadly bite3. The rattler was of the diamond back species and the largest ever seen in tint section, rt measured nine feet in length and had nineteen rattles. Mr. Make is going to send it? skin to the Smithsoniou Insti tute. Cincinnati J-Jw. nlrer. loclrst Yen???.:!- G'rvtts. C-i:;.r:ts in the vegetable kingdom sceni to haw d'-.elo'.x u a siniru'ar vtruncn -itv j to keep themselves Jrddeu from public view, until, ia nhe-e later days, science is gradually finding them cut. A num ber h ive Leon l-ronuh: to view during j iceent year. Cr.e of the most rec ( a plant of the C-r.; , .anHy'icc-, or f the most recent is order of Lcll-llowers. It produces a stem j reaching five feet in height, and the ! flowers, nrr.'innrrd nl.-mt ilv ctnm nr over six inches ij diameter These liugo bills are of a rale, lavender color, as showy a ihey arc monstrous. Pegel, lite botanist of St. Petersburg, seems to have been the first to have taken notice j of it, and th it it is wholly new to science : ' so it has been named bv him for a Rus sian patron of science, Mr. Ostrowsky. Oslro ceLiit mrjiit', u, as it is now to be, was discovered in Bokhara ia 1SS1; but it has already found its way into cultiva tion in European gardens. Lidcpcnlcnt. The recent naval manoeuvres of Eng land's fleet show that "the chief naval need of the country is a largely increased number of cruisers, and that the prime factor in modern, naval warfare is tpeed.'' 7a32?s en Ur.brcI'ES Aic. ' "Let me sec a good silk umx - j u," said n matter-of-fart looking mari iu a Chestnut street story. "Here's a nice one.' s.vd the salesman, holding up a fine specimen. 4 I don't like these tassels,' remarked the would-lic purchaser. "I don't see what they're put on for. They're not ornamental, and I'll swtar they're of no use." "Ch, but they are useful," said the salesman. Many a man has saved his umbrella by having tassels on it." "How so?" "Why, instead of laying it down or standing it against a counter when he stops in any place, he simply thrusts one of the tassels through a buttonhole t his vest. When he starts to go out of the store or whenever he may be a tug soon reminds him that he is escorting au umbrella. I lost a good customer by explaining the utility of these tassels or rather his custom is not so consecu tive as it formerly was. lie bought a high-priced silk article or.e day, and took out his knife to cut off the tassels, when I stopped him. 'Don't do that,' I said. " 'Why not:' a-ked he. 'I always do when I get home. I ni ght just as well do it. They're no use.' I explained to him that they were of use.' " 'By Jove !' said he, 'that's so. What a fool I've been! I have invariably cut off the tassels as soon as I got home and put them away in my bureau. As a con sequence I have a score or more of tas sels and no timbre. las.' "That man hasn't bought an umbrella for over a year, whereas he used to come in every two or three weeks for a new umbrella." rPhiladi Ijmia JVeics. Is Deafness Hereditary? The State Convention of deaf mutes assembled in the City Hall at Rochester, X. Y. The President in the course of his address said, concerning the lon gevity of deaf mutes, that the average, according to present computation, is sixty-seven years. The oldest deaf mute in the State is Miss Mary Tabor, of Scipio, Cayuga county, aged ninety three. The statistical information of the association is against the theories of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell concerning the hereditary tendency of deafness. In all bat one of thee institutions in the State there were in twenty years 2'od-i ad missions to the deaf mute schools, and cf these eighteen were children of deaf mutes almost three-quarters of one per cent. The President said not one of the schools of the State was supported as it should ba. The State paid a yearly amount per capita of $250, which was not sufficient. JSTew York Star. This Space is Asher it? IjOW Cf: ev i p. - 5 v m Fc rt a n Te! ! i n . A foreigner visiting America for the first time would naturally inquire, says the Detroit Frr.e Pre$, why the jaws of the people were constantly moving, and the answer would be: "That is nothing; they are chewing gum!" I 'everybody chews gum," said Mr. j Hull. "We can hardly supply the de mand for it. I have just returned from j the seashore All the fashionables were j chewjng. There is a mania for it since the doctors recommended it as a cure fox dyspepsa. "And will it cure dyspepsia?" Mr. Hull shrugged his shoulders. "It sweetens the breath and cleans the teeth," he said. 'Isut spruce gum popular now?" "Yes, with Canadians and those who have lived in a pine country. City peo ple do not like the wild taste it has." There are about fifty diaenent kinds of chewing gum. One kind is a fortune telling gum. It is put up enticingly in fringed yellow paper and La3 this gill's fortune printed on each label: 4 "Yours is a sad lot indeed. At the age of seventeen you will run away from home to marry a man thirty-rive, and the third week after he is killed in a rail road accident, but h s lite is insuied for 10,f.00, which you get. Five years after you ra irry again, this time to a man three years younger than yourself. You li.e together ten years, when he dies, after spending all your money, and you, to support yourself and chi.clren, accept a situation as a matron of an orphan school, living to be old enough to see your grandchildren." As the fortunes are different, the 'chewer" ia tempted to try again. The gum itself is a thin red rubber concoc tion, sweet and favored with checker berry. mi- Aluminum in Plant Ahes. Possibly one of the most interesting discoveries in chcmico-phytology made for some time, though introduced to the public in a very quiet way, i3 the one that aluminum once supposed to be con fined to lycopodium", is to be found in the ashes of a great number of plants. It is found in all lycopodiuim so far ex amined, except those which grow wholly cn trees; in these it is not found. In many ferns it is inconsiderable quantity. It some tree-ferns full twenty per teat, of the ash was aluminum, and it is re markable that it has been so long over looked. Strange to say. though compara tively abouadant in Australian ferns, lit tle or none is found in the ferns of Brit- i ain . iude.iteii Jen f. j A monument to the memory of Dr. j lllisha Mitchell has recently been erected j on the summit of Mitchell's Peak, in North Carolina. The monument i3 of j bronze, and is probably the highest me . morial shaft in the world, this mountain .having a greater altitude than any cast of the Eockies. Beserved for Hid wards, '1 rices Leader of THE LFlDilsra Pry loods ii Ming Slouse. GOLDSBORO, IT. C. IN ECONOMY THERE IS WEALTH. In the Judicious Expenditure of Honey there is Economy. In buying your Goods of us you will find that you are expending your money JUDICIOUSLY. HAVE YOtJ VISITED OUR. U Clothing anfl Gent's Fnrnishin o: :Departmea ts, Which comprise the very latest and most unique styles er befor brought to this city. Our Dress Goods Department Is Pronounced the 2ost Extensive in this Section. THEY ARE NICE, NEW AND NEAT. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY IH Ladies, Gents' and Children's HAND-MADE SHOES, Which for make, quality and style cannot be surpassed by any of my Competitors. The Remainder of our Stock, consisting of HATS, and CAPS TRUNKS and VALISES, and a varied Assortment of NOTIONS, SHAWLS, BLANKETS is Complete in every Petai!, and will be sold LOWER THAN THE LOWEST. CLOAKS. WRAPS AI IWMffiETS In JPluli. TO SUIT THE MOST FASTIDIOUS. CARPETS, R yes. Ia iMs Dspart32t tfs My Coapiiliep, We can show you Carpets from 1 5 Cents up to SI. SO. per Yard. flJRMTURE. FOEHITflSE! FOENiTBEE! We are still headquarters in the above line, and have on hand'the largest upply ever carried. Ilcmcmber tLat wc continue to be SOLE AGEXTi? or the Goidsboro Steam Furniture Factory. Which Enables Us to Sell You Pnruitnre, AT NORTHERN MAHDFACTDRERS PEICE3- FUCKTLER & KERF. Astrican and Beav er. AID OIL CLOTHS. ) . ... . . . . , , i -
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