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- "V L." 111 I) -i " l- ,..- f . r ; V . 1- . k - . ' .- - " - - ' ' - HIGH POINT, GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C, JULY 16, 1886. NO 12. 7. -. I I , n III in Itl III I III III III V II I I 1 I B I W M l w 10. - IB m I MM I III III III V III III III MY ilV l ITV tVSir wn.iv aijxy isy ivy ivy ji4t Jtv liv Ar ivv a . liT if r VOL. 10. Ia the Htt'e German village of Scge berg there lives a humble boejiakei ! named IIone!ach, who La, collected j 2,503 different kind of beetles, 1,3!JC ; being native and 1,173 foreign. They ae ; all scicnt fbaHy arranged and dassitied and the co'.leetion is an exceedingly val uable one from a scicnt i 5c point of view. Altbo.igh h-; is now eighty years of age, Honklach is still an enthusiastic student j of b.et!es, and he probably knows more j ab.iut the e insj ts thin any man living, j The emigration to this country from Austria, Hungary, Italy, Russia and China fcjr the five years ended in 1885 was 341,773. Nearly all of these emi grants took the places of American labor ers at starvation prices. A table recently compiled Rhows that from 1876 to 1880. inclusive, 23153 skilled laborers came to this country and 152,467 unskilled la borers. From 1881 to 188") there were 541,112 of the former and 628,783 of the latter, showing an increase of the latter of more th in 300 per cent. All of the unskilled laborers, as a rule, remain in the large cities. Tl'.e object of tho e who provide dot for shooting matches is to produce birds which will rise rapidly from the trap, fly erratically, sind make a struggle to get out of the bounds, even if hit. In Eng land th? plan U3?d to be to pull a few feather, out of the bird's tail and apply tar to the spot or to run a pin into the flebh. Thee practices were stopped by the authorities, an l now a new method is in use. 'I he only water given to the j birds for twelve to twentv-four hours be fore the tournament is salt water. This ilmost maddens them, and when they iie from the trap they fulfill all require ments. Farm lands in England continue to de crease in vulue so much in extent as to cause serious alarm over there. The loans made on mortgages by large moneyed institutions are above the value of the estates, so that they caunot be converted into cash, and the credit of some of the institutions is in consequenco gradually though steadily being im I aired. Even the best property of that kind is affected by the financial depres sion A very desirable estate near Castle Howard was lately offered at auction, and 7,000 was the best bid, although, seven years ago, it sold for 12,500. A singu lar fact, that, notwithstanding tho troubles in Ireland and the depreciation of agricultural interests there, land in certain of its districts is in more demand t'in in the English counties. Some ot the locaf newspapers, indeed, declare that the primary cause of nil the agrarian disturbances of Ireland is due to the overbidding for land. But there are so many and so contradictory opinions con cerning the present adversities in Great Britain that it is impossible to tell to what thev arc attributable. It is not an uncommon thing for Con gress to sit as late as August, says "Carp" n tho Cleaveland Leader and Herald. The first session of the forty-seventh 'ongrcss did not adjourn till August 8, u;d that of the forty-fourth was here uit'rl August 14th. In 183G Congress sat from December till August 18, while the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses 5ach held nine months' sessions. In I8o0 Ci ngress sat as late as September 'Oth, spending the whole summer at Washington, and in 1843 the regular ccond e;sion of the twenty-seven Con gress did not aljourn till Angust 31st. Running further back the Congressional essions were shorter. The longest ses sions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, Nghtccntli, nineteenth, twentieth, and wenty-first Congresses ended before the .r.st of May, and those of the ninth, tenth in 1 thirteenth came to a close in April Since 1810 thc regular sessions of Con gress have begun in December, but be foie this they seemed to have had no i.Wdt jtiuM. The first Congress met March V the second on the 24t'i of October, 17and the third on t.ie 17th of October, 179'J. Hie New York Evening Pott present! lome interesting statistics, prepared b) Superintendent Martin and H. R. Yar Keuren, superintendent of tolls, showing the Tolume of travel across the Brooklyt bride. A detailed statement of ttu number of persons actually crossing tht bridge in a single day has never before been" made, but a pian was conceived and carried out which enabled the gen tlemeu named to ascertain precisely ho many travelers passed over on foot, in the cars or in other vehicles. The da3 chosen was when seemingly the tve. , , . was of averae volume, t rom ci.iooratt computations it appears that the numbei of foot passengers who crossed by th promenade was 4,92j from New York and 2,914 from Brooklyn, total 7,839; bj the carriage-way 442 from New York nd 446 from Brooklyn, total 888; bj railroad 32 140 from New York and 38, 991 from Brooklyn, total 70,237. Tht wbnb- number cominti from New York .....ft- . 119 fr,im Rrocklvn 41.451. anc tho -rand total for the day 78,904. Th vehicles of all kinds coming from botl ways numbered 3,581, and thettotal re reipts for the day were $2,122.74. Thcs figures indicate the capacity cf thi t.iAn s nublic convenience. If thi ivera"ebe sustained they show that 28, i 521,860 persons cross the structure in t year, end put tte annual receipts a T?-i,800.10. the side m you erer ta tU, cro .t, In the glare of the city laur, And list to the tread of the mil :oa feet In their quaintly musical tram ? JlM the surging Towd go to and fro 'Tia a pleasant sight, I we.-n, j To mark the flgurts that f ome and gj In the ever-changing scene. j ! Here the publican walks with the t:i::r j i proud, ! 1 And the priest in his gloomy cowl, j And Dives walks in the motley crowd j ! With Lazarus, cheek by jowl; j And the daughter of toil, with her f (s i j I joung heart j A pure as her spotless fame, l Keeps step with the woman wbo ma!cc3 her j mart In the haunts of sin and sham. How lightly trips the country la a I In the mid-4 of the city's in?, i As freshly pure as the dais 1 grass That grows oa her native hills; j And the beggar, too, with his hungry eye, ! And his Uan, wan face and ' rat h. I Pivea a blessing the same ti ih pas er by As he gives him littl; or mu h. When time has 1 eaten the world's tattoo, : And in dusky armor d'ght Is treading with e holt ss fotstps thr u;h The gloom of the silent night, How many of thes? shall be daintily fed And shall sink to .-lamb r weet, While many will go to a t-leepl-.-is b.d And ii'jver a crumb to eat: Ah, me! whfn the hoars go joyful by, How little we stop to htwl Our brothers" and siste. s' d sp lirin j cry In their woe and thir birter ir e I: Yet such a worl 1 a; th". ai ge's son;.ht This world of ours we'd call, If the brotherlv !ove that tue 'fatlier ta ht Wus fell by each for all. Yet a few short years and this motley throng Will all have passei away, And the rich and the poor a.id the old and the young Will be undistinguished clay; And lips that laugh and lips that mourn brail in silence alike b sealed, And some will lie under stately stone, And some in the potter's field. But the sun will be shining just as bright, Anl so will the silver moon, And just such a crowd will be here at night, And just such a crowd at noon; And men will be wicked and women will rin, As ever since Adam's fall, With the same old world to labor in, And the same Uod over all. A HEROIC DEFENSE. NINE INDIANS KEPT AT BAY BY A MAls AND WOMAN. If the heroes and heroines of the las fifteen years of Indian warfare in the West had their names and deeds em blazoned on the pages of current history the world could furnish no more glorious record of heroism. Here and there a name is known and a record of thrilling experience is given, but the great major ity will live on unknown to the world at large, or sleep their last sleep in graves unmarked and unhonoreJ. One forenoon of a May morning a stockman named George Webber was riding along the south bank of the Loup Fork, in Western Nebraska, in search of stray stock, when he was fire 1 upon from a grove by Indians who had broken away from one of the agen cies in the west. Half a dozen shots were fired in a volley, and Web ber was hit in the calf of the right leg, in the right sice, and raked across the shoulder, and his horse was also woundel. As soon as the shots were fired nine mounted Indians dashed out, and Webber put his horse at the top of its speed and headed for the ranch of Charles .Moss, about four miles up the river and on the same side. For the first j mile Webbe(. had nQ hope flg thc were elsse enough to use their revolvers and arrows, and his horse was a common animal. A score or more of bullets were fired at him, and fully twenty arrows zipped past him. but thc wound his ani mal received, aided by the continued , Bhouting of thp red skjn; him out like a born race horse, lie soon be-an j lo"'Mfn the distance.and when he dashed up to tho ranch Webber was fully half a ! mile ahead. His shouts as he neared : the place gave the alarm, but to his dis ; may he dashed up to be informed by Mrs. Moss that she was the onW one j about the place, her husban 1 and his man ! """ ' 110 flour betore. . Tne cabin 8tJ on a rise of ground ! about twt'nt.v ro is from thc stream, and ! could b- apP'Ohcd from any side. The ! Indlans halle- t long range t see who "'f3 about tb- place, and this gave VVtbbertime to make explanations and ! fin ft litttn nUnnmr. Tl.. 1 i , - - 1 r."umi,. uu nacw nu pur- suers were "bad" Indians, who had skulked off the reservation, and realized that if he could keep them off for an hour or two reinforcements would come to him or the enemy would withdraw for ,lar ol luelr "--entity being discovered. e . n - i " ual arras you got?" he asked, ; af,cr "plammg the situation, j "Aolfs revolver." in l H7- , i nave iTincnester riHo We must Help me lld "cm off until aid comes ,u' The woman assisted him to alight, j and he gave his horse a slap and senUhe . animal galloping off up the trail. Some ; of the Indians pursued, but without The first white man whom the horse cn- ; countered would understand that some- , wing was wrong, and that his assistance ' for down the trail THB WORLD FROM WALK. The house wa a rrimitive affair, di vided into two rornn. with only a lower ' sash in each window. The only point from which the Indians could approach with shelter to cover them was the east ride. They could approach this side within revolver shot by creeping up a ravine. Webber realized that if the nine charged together from this ravine, with only the fire from a single window di rected at them, not more than two or three could be stopp d. If theothe;s reached the house the game was up. He therefore insisted on taking up his posi tion outside the house, without even a twig to shelter him. His back was to the logsand the ravine in his front. For fear some of the Indians might approach the house singly from another direction, the woman was instructed to first fasten all the doors and then pats from window to window and maintain an active obser vation. She was a woman of thirty-fire, who had been tenderly reared in an East ern State, and had been in the West less than two years. The sight of a snake would have made her scream out in af fright o.-i that very morning, and the thought of an attack by Indians would have been sufficient to chill her blood. Yet, when brought face to face with the terrible menace, she was a heroine. With pale face and compressed lips, and stop ping not to question the policy of the wounded man's plans to save their lives, she promply obeyed. The Indians must have known that Webber and the woman were alone, and that he was wounded, but they did not dare mak? a ru-h. Much as they desired scalps and plunder, they did not care to recklessly expose themselves. They cieptup the ravine, as was expected, or started to, when Webber saw that their pon es had been loft within range of his Winchester. He opened fire at once and dropped three of them to the grass before the redskins discovered what he was at. This cal ed a halt in the pro ceedings until they could remove the other six to a place of safety. He counted them as they returned to the ra vine and saw that three were missing. The trio had separated from the others to creep upon the house, and this fact was announced to Mrs. Moss. In the course of fifteen minuts the six had gained the position sought for opposite, and Webber gave all his attention to them, trusting to the women to watch and defend the house from the others. From the house to the ravine was a gradual slant, the ground being covered with grass nnd entirely clean. Webber sat there, as plain a target as a man would desire for his pistol, the blood from his wounds soaking into the ground, and his eyes watching the ravine with the Knowl edge that he was one to six. No Indian could fire on him without raisino his head above the b.;nK, and the first head up got a bullet through it, and one red skin tumbled back a corpse. This was a caution to the others, and insteid of raising their heads they rested the'r riiles on the bank and fired blindly. Tuirteen bullets struck the logs within six feet of Webber, and others only missed hire by a shave. It was simply a rue3- tion of time, if the firing were kept up, when a bullet would hit ani finish him. Meanwhile the three bucks who had left the main body were creeping toward the house from different directions. Mrs. Moss could see two of them but the third crept along a deep furrow, and finally gained a point from which he could tire j upon Webber at fair ran:e. From this! roint thc red fred n'nc times at. Webber's risrht side, which was ezno.-ed to his! view. He cither had a poor gun or was much excited, for not one of his bullets counted, although some of them whis- tled uncomfortably close. ' I knew what was up," raid Webber, in modestly telling his story, "but I had to t.ust to lu k. He was not where I c:iild hit him, and if l:e happened to hit me it would have been no worse than to ! be kil'e.l by the others in front. After ! his first bullet I d dn't even turn my head that wav. Tha woman came to the wi.r dow near me and said the other two were : in sight, and I instructed her to open ;",re j with the revoh er. She had fired a pistol ' only a few times, and I did not count on anything beyond her giving the bucks something to think about. It must have been entirely by accident that at her very first fire she wounded one of the fellows ' in the hip, and he at once crawled away , to take care of himself. The other one sent three bullets through a window at which she was standing, but she kept firing away at him and sending so much lead around his ears that he dared not advance. The fight in front lasted about half an . ..... hour. Whenever there was a lull in thc firing Webb.T locked to see the Indians spring up and make a rush, ana to pre vent this he fired at random along the bank, tearing up the sod and flinging dirt over the red --kins in hiding. He had no idea that help was at hand, and wr.s yet depending upon himself when the Indians suddenly ceised firing and beat a retreat, and ten minutes later Moss and his man rode up, having been met on thc open prairie by the riderless hor;e. In re- treating from the ravine the Indians car- ried away the dead warrior, but the one wounded by Mrs. Moss was left to tako care of himself. He was found in the dry furrow and despatched. The hero- ism of Webber in takingand maintaining his position, severely wounded a he was, and of the woman in ooeying nis orders, hopeless as the defence must have appeared to her. deserves a place on the pages of undying his'.ory. New Tori Hun A Glimpte of the Late King Ladwlj. ; A gentleman writes to the New York 1 Evening Post, describing how he once saw ; the late King Ludwig, the Prussian ruler i who ended his eccentric reign by com- mitting suicide. Says the writer : "A residence of several years in the vicinity of his favorite monntain retreat I in the Bavarian Alps, made me inti mately acquainted with his surroundings, and occasionally brought me in contact with the King himself. His wondsrfnlly, ! picturesquely situated Castle of Hohen I srhwangau a Gothic pile teeming with associations of the most romantic kind was that in which the gallant young Con?adir, 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 verj 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 tie isured-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 hor9es, at a full gallop, on two of which "hard riding" postillions were seated, was tho strange-looking object that dashed into the field of my vision on that dark night and in that excessively lone'.y spot. It passed me and was gone out of it with thc rapidity almost of a fast express. It was in the early days of the electric li.ht, andtha continent few persons had heard of it, much less seen it; but King Ludwig was a great admirer of it from ita 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 the fairy-like spectacle of the dark, silent forest, the great pines, covered with glittering hoarfrast, illumin ated by the wonderfully bright light, of which he himself appeared to be the centre. A Dangerous Occupath , I was watching a brakem;.n coupling cars in the Grand Central yard the othei afternoon, when my neighbor, one of th principal freight officials of the road, caid : "You wouldn't believe it, to watcb that expert and nervy fellow risking his life, that there is a new car-coupler in vented every working day of tue year, ! and 7et 110 Patent bas sa f ar beon hit on that will replace the work of the hanr1 in making a coupling. The couplings themselves are much better and safet than they used to be when they consisted simply of a ring and a pin, but the work of makin; a coupling is still one of peril. Many o; the itomatic coup lings do very well for light cars, but the, cannot stanr- the jolting and jerking and the heavy strain of loaded and ponder ous cars, running now slow, now fast, and shaking everv bit of - ose :ron about i them till it rings like a bell. It takes i courage and intelligence to make a man i an expert coupler. A first-class man ii that line doen't stay t.iere very long. Hi ether gets killed or . omoted. " , "The mortality am ng the second classmen must be something fearful,' I suggested. "On the contrary, they la.t much longer. You see. they re more careful. It is the smar men who get reck'ess, don't observe precautions and so gel themselves hirt." "If he can hold a flag we make a Gag man out of him. Y u will find one armed and one-legged flagmen all n1one the railroads. There are several mc ' without arms flagging it. If a man - 1 loses both legs orcaa't get around lively. we put him in the store sheds and r-up plv departments. We never let a man go who is cr'-rf'.ed in oi r service, if he ran possibly I ' he ped in earring a liv ing. Xeir York Xeio. The London Ecor.om'itt publishes f-mi the report of the British mint a comp.!"- lion of the coinage of nearly all countries for 1835, showing that 65,344,150 goid and $75,804, 005 silver were added to tho world's stock of coins in that year. Of the new silver coinage $28,950,000 was in India, and $28,848,900 came from four mints in the United States, leaving only about $18,000,000 for all other countries, j -md of thi? the Japan mint produced $5,800,000. " ALONG THE NILE. A. VIVTD DESCRIPTION BY AS A3IERICAN OFFICIAL TThat United State Minister Cor Saw on an Excursion Pic turesque Views of Oriental Life and Character. In a Constantinople letter to the Ne Tork World Hon. 8. 8. Cox, United States Minister to Turkey, writes about an excursion in Egypt made by him re cently. We quote from his letter : We had been in Egypt before, bui 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 seat and mounted thereon as a 'vantage situation, and for eight hours, from 9 a. m. till evening, we gazed out of ttye 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 co'.ton is picked; only a few bolls remain in the fields. Tht sugar cane is being cut and carried on donkeys, camels and cars to the sugai factories. The long stalks are seen every j where. The little Arab boys, in utt i j nakedness, are grinding the succulent : saccharine stalks between their glisten- j ing upper and nether teeth. Everyone j on the route has a long sugar cane, carry ing one end in tne mouth, ine me? are settling thick around the juicy oi fices. The sugar factories are at work. The fumes not only add their fragrance, but the long iron chimneys give theii peculiar business look to the landscape. There were other peculiarities fot ' which the car was a point of observation. Not the costumes of the people, for thej seemed uniformly a da-k or blue bournous. Thc sexes are hardly dis tinguishable from each other, except bj the mustache, beard or turban. Aftei an eager glance toward the pyramids ol Sakarrah near old Memphis, the mul titudinous mud huts and villages appear. Palms in abundance everywhere plume themseives in their stately beauty. The soil is being ploughed in places for tht 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, ears, 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 th fields ploughing with the old one handled plough of the time of Setis, or turainj the water-wheel. At a distance, and especially when cooling in the water, it looks like a pachyderm. In fact, iu brown-black tough hide, ungainly fora and hideous face, to which the hon 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 ol camel-hair, black and dirty. The have flocks of sheep and goats, and often mixed flocks. Thero 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 sails Ridges and plains of sand soon give waj to villages, which are the sign and Bit ot palm groves. On both sides of th( valley of the Nile lone, arid and tawnj j mountains appear. They are picture! j not unlike the Desert of Moab out ol , whose wilderness the Baptist came Thej ! are the shaggy birriers of thc fruitful i valley. For such fences as are needed j j to separate the fields, the c:me, inter ! woven, makes a tolerable pretext ol i protection. It would not "turn" a reso lute rabbit. Everywhere are seen stakes, 1 indicating metes and bounds and propri etorship, which have to be renewed when i the Nile flood disappear. Old well ' sweeps are seen,such as were common in Ohio in my boyhood. They lift the water out of the soft 6oil to the surface. Th( bottom of the Well is, of course, on a leve with the river; aad, as I said, the rivet is everything in Egypt. It i now quitt low; still, the fields have ponds in them, but the pond water does not seem stag nant. Indeed the people use thc watc for every purpose cooking, washing, bathing. Ac. After the buffalo, for number anc u ility, come the donkval camd. J had no idea that the donkey was such i , "daisv" in Egypt. Bridiclcss and sad dleless, he will amble gayly with a family on his vertebrae. H is as patient and a meek as if his burden were nothing. Sometimes you do no; sec his legs and r nly partsof his ears when he is baled down with sugar cane or grasses. Now and then we apprca h near tht river. There we observe the shadoafs or water-lifters. It is the old bucket on tht wheel, which is turned by a buffalo, and ' empties the water from the river to ths level above and makes ahcrrid creaking as if all the "weely-weelies"' of the cen j turies were in pain. At some ot the places, notably at Drouth, we perceir immense Government works, where th river is divided for irrigation. They con sist of slack-water- dams and fine stone bridges, etc. The work is of the mosf elrgant style and engineering skill' Many birds, such as the wild gray goose, storks, duck and others of aqnatic spe cies, are seen on the conds and rivet banks and on the sand isles of the riveri'rneTerbeen survefed' We perceive frequently the heron, witt Llttle u known of the effect o solw his dignified strides into deep water after I!" on ur atmosphere. To add to his evening meal, and another bird knowledge. Norwegian seamen hap with a bill as long as a river and harbciPeainS to in ocxi havi bill in Congress and with an equaH0 lUMted to mke barometric and capacity for shallows and swallows. -nennometric observations during tht fCfleit total eclipse of August 29th next. How Etna Looks Ii Empties. h Mexican volcano, Popocata , . , ' . petl, has been re measured, and found t T Ann Ait m a iAVMmAnHnr wnA ... bas recently witnessed Mount Etna, the great Sicilian volcano, ia eruption, de scribes the scene as follows : It is perfectly impossible to describe it, as no one can hare any concepts of . what it is like until he aees it, and . .bo ; nntil he sees it from where we did, which was on high ground overlooking nearly the whole of it. At the top is thi4 enormous crater throwing out flames an j throwing up stones some hundreds ot j yards, with a continual roar like any j: number of battles going on, and just ; below is another mouth, from which the i lava comes, traveling at a tremendous pace. It divides into several streams nd follows the valleys. : Now imagine from where .we were that night, with our back i to Catania, whafe we saw. On our right this enormous i flame going hundreds of feet into the air, making the whole sky bright red, tnd all down past us from our right and extending down miles to the left streams of red hot lava moving downward in t mass for miles, and looking like an enor mous sea of red hot coke. The width across the lava, where we were, was, per- haps, three or four miles, and it started about two miles atyove us and flowed some four miles or so below us, so you must imagine a sea of angry, red hot lava five or she miles long, and three or four wide, and about thirty or forty feet deep, but all of it bright red. The lava is not liquid, as most people suppose, but consists of many millions of large and small blocks of rocky-looking stuff rolling onward. We saw one huge rock of old lava, standing in the middle of the steam of lava, which was divided by it and ran around it; thc rock was about the size of (say) Quidenham Church, and the rock suddenly split into two parts, the smaller half crumbled up, and the other half was carried bodily down with the stream slowly and iteadily. We watched it until we left, and it moved about three-quarters of r mile in about three-quarters of an hour We waited there until nearly midnigh as we could not venture down nntil the moon got up, and then we reluctantly left : this magnificent sight, which, as I tell you, no description can give you say idea of. As we went up we had all gone into a little house to see it, and walked round it and thought it was unpleasantly close to the lava. Well, as we came down this house was in flames and caught by the stream. In many places we had to take different paths, so quickly had the lav spread as it came down; and from below it is awful (quite close to it) to sje this mass, thirty or forty feet, coming siowly toward you. I brought a piece ot red-hot lava down with me, whieh the guide got hold of for me, as I could not' jet it myself, it was so fearfully hot ) ocald not go close enough. We put wir sruid it, and I carried it down on th end of my stick. In fact we each brough:' t b't down, and also some ashes or cn fort which rained down on us whenewj Ute vad was our way. . ..- Expensive Clothes. "The average swell in New York soe; ety fl quote from a fashionable tailor fo.-. authority) is spending now from $l,IV0fS to $2,000 a year on his tailor if lie is cu tirg any figure at all. Men do ncrSd know much about the cost of clothe and expenses of manufacture (so thie clothesmaker says). Show a man a coal that costs $20 and another that costc $70, and he will seldom hesitate to pay the $50 difference to get thc higher priced garment." A physician who is known up town a the attendant upon some well-knowniam ! Asparagus purges the blood. Celery iliea, was presented some time ago by a j acts admirabsy upon the nervous syitem English manufacturer with a piece of mi is a cafe for rheumatism and neu cloth for a pair of trousers. He took the j ralgia. oloth to his tailor and ordertd it madt I Tomatoes act upon the liver. up. When the pantaloons were seas! Beets and turnips are excellent ap- him a bill came with them for $30. B petizers. dropped in to pay the bill, and with VV teUucc and cucumbers are cooling in smil that sejmed based on the well- grounded belief that his tailor bad Wop. dcred he pointed out the figure and sign gested that somebody had made a mil. ta'ie. The tailor looked the bill ove and said he guessed not; the bill was aUr- right. Trousers of that sort were worth $30 But I furnished the cloth," persistedjJ the doctor. "Oh, the cloth. That ia a matter ofc: ii . ..n " uid ihn titor. "We never charge for the cloth. Our fit and oar reputation are what make panta loons cost in this establishment." tton, in New York Time. Japan, according to the new census'J has a population of 33,500,000, or aboui the tame as that of the United States it; 1870. In area Japan is about thre times the size of Pesasjlvania. POPULAR SCIENCE. There is no patch of the moon's risible surface half a mile square that is not ac curately mapped, according to Professot Young, while the earth contains immense tracts, as in Central Africa, which hare be 17,800 feet above the se.i. The crater, which is completely .obscured . ithin bj ulphurous vapor, is about two and a hall j mile in rirrnit nrt 1 OOO f.-nt ileen Til entire of ,hc o of tho mtmn tQ goHd wmch dtposited tt the tc of a ton 8 dav. Jea that whca, u fertilized j,y meaQ8 of the anthcrs rrotriiing from gpikeiets of the ears while the wheat ig in flowcf ha3 b(?ca pr0VC(, (o ye crr0. neoug by recept expcriment9 made b, Dr Pa,eVi n Englishman, nnd others. ie fact is thc anthers whpn protru. g from the glumes, have already per fi.-.med the office of fertilization, whicb place withjn thf cloS(,d RlumeSi paving conclusively .that each glume ol . ';i,t r u hi.cpvn-ii nn.l E.lf frtiiiz. 'The prevention of decay in wood i said to be effectively accomplished bj exhausting the air from the pores and filling them with agutta pcrcha solution, a substance which preserve Tie vood alike from moisture, watt-rand the action of the sun. Thc snlution i made by mixing two-thirds of gutta percha to one third parrafine, this mixture being then heated to liquefy the gutta perc a, when it is readily introduced into the pores of the vrtod, the effect of the gut! a percha being,'-when it becomes cool, to hirdea the poes. An SEcount has just been given of some rerqarkftblc phenomena observed at Tschembar, in Siberia, on a night of laot January. A meteor suddenly rushed across the town, accompanied by gusts of wind, and burst with a great repo killing a horse on the highway. Ten minutes later later a loud report as of at explosion was heard, and " as fobowed directly by a still more terrific report, -which shook the ground, overthrew sev eral houses, and broke the thick ice oi an adjacent lake. At the same time s shock aftd report were observed at a tc a dozen tniles away. The whalebone whales differ frotr others ii their absence of ti eth. At at early 8tge of their development they are present,but disappear and are replaced in the-Plale by the baleen or whalebone of commerce. Thi. whalebone that it the right whale often weighs from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds is a strainer or trap by which the animal obtains its food, whicb consists Of minute pelagic ani ..!, jell fishes, etc. Thc whale opens iu moutb as .it mves along, ami when it is filled doses it, i the water finding ts way out between the plates of whalebone that serves as a complete trap or sieve. The engineers who made the survey oi a new railroad at Niagara, whL-h will run alongjthe bank at the edge ' th river, clain to have discovered some facti which will surprise scientists. J,'hen th survey w"ss made in 1851 for the suspen sion bridge It was claimed from the sur veys that:-the river was hie er at thi Buspenaioif iridgc than at thc foot oj the falls-r'tnd this theory was accepter' it "being claimed that "thc immense res sure from the falls carried the watir up hill." - The present survey, which i. ei the first levels ever taken through tl water line, explodes the uphill theory, and shows that from thc foot of tue fa clined road to the cantalever bridge, tw miles, the incline is si feet, and from the cantalever bridge to the w h'.ilpool, little less toan a miie, is 54 1-8 feet, thui giving the .water the tcrrble fo-ce it at tains on going through the .hirlnooL vegetal l$ Better Than Drugs. Spinach h t a direct effect upon com plaints of th'-;kidneyi. The comm'n dandelion, osed as greens, j ts excellent fr the ssme troubl . the enecu upon the system. Onion, garlic, leeks, olives and shal lots, all of which are similar, possess nedical virtues of a marked character, itimlating the circulatory nystcm and the cons quent increase of the saliva tnd the gastric juice promoting diges tion. Red onions are an excellent diuretic UK wut ones are recommended -aten raw as a remedy for insomnia. rnev are a tonic ana nutritious A soup nuAp from onions is regarded y the Frencas an excellent restorative i debility oHhe digesti.e organs. As to the'- Uative merits of hard and foft steel rail the investigation.) in Ger many seem t( . leave iLe matter of weal indeterminatf .w th the conclusion that the wear of i;4ls depends more Kin the imparity of t steel than upon iu hard- i neas and softf-Ssi. it V ,,- fCK
The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.)
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July 16, 1886, edition 1
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