North Carolina Newspapers

. 4 . . 4 . r . OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1882. VOLUME XII. NUMBER 587 Vvy A AyiyilJ Ayil Ay THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published kvbby Friday by j. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollabs for one year. Ohk Dolt.au for six months. Subscription price doe in advance. o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C., as second class matter," according to the rules or the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, Fifth and Teyon Strests. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1882. tf DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Puie Drugs and Chemicals, White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, 1881. J. P. McCombs, M. D, Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel.- Jan. 1, 1882. DH. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER. SURGEON DENTISTS, CLIARLOTTE, N. C. Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building. Z3T Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. July 14, 1882. yr. A. ItUUWELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N.C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts, Office adjoining Court House. Nov 5, 1881. JOHN E. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office on Trade Street, opposite the Court House, No. 1, Sims & Dowd's building. Dec 23, 1831 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte lintel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb 15, 1882. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881. DR. J. M MILLER, Charlott6, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over A. J. Beall & Go's store, corner of College and Trade streets, enterance on College street. Kesidence opposite W. it. Myers . Jan. 1, 1882. .1. S. Sl'ENCKIl. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, iV. C. May 19, 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything periuinini; to the Druir Business, to which their jnvife the attention of all buyers both wholesale suu retail. Oct 7, 1881. HALES & PARRIOR, mctioal Witch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c. which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, uooe promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. July 1, 1881. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we offer to both the Wholesale and Rstail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest Duyera. Jan 1, 1882. TORRENCE & BAILEY, Commission Merchants, College St., Chaklotte, N. C, Handle Grain, Hay, Flour, Bran, Cow Peas, &c. Agents for the "EUREKA" GUANO. March 10, 1882. HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Buyer, Corner Trafle and College Sts., up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 14, 1881. Z. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey VANOE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors CHART OTTE. N. J Practices in Supreme Court of United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, ind Davidson. 16f Office, two doors east of independ- JU33 Square. June 17-tf English Tooth Brushes. 5 Gross just received at WILSON & BURWELL'S July 7, 188? Drugstore. iay 1 he coldest place on the earth is not, as has hitherto been believed bv meteorologist, Yakutsk, in Siberia, bat verKoyansk, in the same region, lying in sixty-seven and one-half degrees north latitude, on the nver Yana. Its lowest mean winter temperature is fortv-eisbt and six-tenths degrees below zero Centi- I grade. This is the cold pole of the earth in Asia, the corresponding pole in America Deing to the northward of the Parrv isianos, ana the line joining these two t ... places does not pass through the north pole itself, which is thus, in all probabili ty, outside the line of greatest cold. On the other hand, the greatest heat in the tropice is not at the equator, but some distance norm ana south. VALUABLE LAND For Sale. Under a Decree of the Superior Court, and bv virtue of the Will of the late O. B. Wilson. I will sell at public sale, on the premises, on Monday, November 6th, at 12 o'clock, M., the valuable TRACT OF LAND of the late C. B. Wilson. The said Tract contains about 160 acres, with improvements, and is well adapted to the culti vation ot cotton, corn, wheat and oats. II any one wishing to purchase will aDDlv to me, x win iaKe pleasure in snowing the prem i . . . .. ises. xerms une-inira cast, tne Dalance on nine and eighteen months time, at 8 per cent per an num. J. B. ALEXANDER, Adm'r., with Will annexed, and Commissioner. Sept. 29, 1882. 6w Land for Rent. As Agent tor the parties in interest. I will rent for the year 1883, by Public Auction, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, on the 7th day of October, 1882, the George Norment iraci oi Liana in raw ureefc Township. Terms, rnoie witn approved security. 1UCHAKO M. NORMENT. Sept. 29, 1882. 2w VALUABLE LAND for Sale. Between 800 and 900 acres of first rate LAND is offered for sale by the undersigned. It is loca ted in Hopewell neighborhood, Mecklenburg county, on the Catawba River and McDowell's Creek. It will produce everything raised in this State, such as Cotton, Wheat, Corn, Tobacco, &c. It will be offered in lots to suit purchasers at private sale. Also, five or six Hundred Acres of .LAND, in Oaston county, are offered for sale. It lies on the Carolina Central Railway, not far from Catawba River, l bis land will also be ottered in lots to suit purchasers. Both tracts are well watered and timbered. For terms and information apply to me at Charlotte, N. C. A. B. DAVIDSON. Sept. 29, 1882. tf Sale of City Property. On Monday, the 23d day of Oct, 1882, at 12 M., by virtue of a decree of the Superior Court, I will sell at the Court House in Charlotte, N. C, that House and Lot at the corner of B and 5th streets, known as the late residence of Charles II. Elms. The House is large, ana very con venient to the business portion of the city. Terms 10 per cent cash, balance payable in nine months, purchaser to give note with ap proved security bearing interest from date at eight per cent. U. JN. U. UU1T, Sept 22, 1882. 4w Commissioner. MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of a Deed of Mortgage executed to me by Martin Orr and others, and duly recorded in the office of the Register oi lieeas ior Meck- lenburg county, I will offer for sale to the high est bidder, for cash, at the Court House door in Charlotte, at the usual hour of sale, on Monday the 9th of October proximo, the HOUSE AND LOT now occupied by said Martin Orr, T, IV, Sept. 8, 1882, 5w Mortgagee. NOTICE. Office Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Notice is hereby given that Morning Star Township has been divided into two Polling Precincts one at Matthews', the other at'l.P Pyron's, formerly known as the Lewis place, on the Concord road. The election Precinct at Morning Star Church is discontinued. liy order Board of Uommissioners. WM. MAXWELL, Sept. 15, 1882. ' 3w Clerk. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT Of ELIAS & COHEN. ALL NEW GOODS. Flavins? disn ised of our old Stock, we now o - offer an immense Stock of Fresh Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Carpets, Boots, Shoes and Hata. All new and the latest styles. Don't fail to examine our sroods and prices before buying. ELIAS & COHEN. Aug. 25, 1882. NEW GROCERIES. BROTHERS, HENDERSON & McGINNIS are now receiving, at tneir otore opposite tne Charlotte Hotel, a fresh stock of Groceries and Family Supplies, Which they offer to the public at fair prices. Best grade of Flour, Coffee, Sugars and Molasses, New Mackerel, Superior Hams, Cheese, Pepper and Spices generally. Salt and all sorts of Heavy Groceries. r- Ciears and Tobacco of all grades, and Lorillard's Snuff in bladders of from 1 to $ nounda best article. Give us a call in mown s ounaing, opposite iuc . . i i l. . Charlotte Hotel J. L. BROTHERS, E. T. HENDERSON, E. D. McGINNIS. Aug. 25, 1882. P. C WILSON, College Street, Charlotte, N. C., Dealer in Bug gies, Carriages, Phaetons.Spring Wseons, c. Louis Cook Manufacturing Company, Wa tertown Spring Wagons, Col umbus Buggy Company, Courtland Spring Wagons. P. C. WILSON, Opposite Sanders & Blackwood's Building. Sept. 1,1882. 4m At Last An open grave ; the mournful gathering ; The last sad look upon a peaceful face ; The flow of solemn music, soft and low Dust onto dust, its final resting place, Mingled, in one confused and dream-like whole, Passed, as a flood of waters, o'er my soul. He was my friend ; the current of his life - Beside mine own its changeful course had run ; Yet, in the undertow of mortal strife, With unseen foes, he stood or fell alone, Curious or unconcerned I watched the fray, And, when I should have strengthened, turned away. Not that my heart was cruel, or that I Sinned more against him than other men ; I only passed the little actions by Which might have made his burdens lighter then ; In this I was not always kind and true ; Not what I did, but what I failed to do; I did not see as clearly then as now, ' The purpose of his life, the conflict sore Through which it led ; I saw not how His soul in darkness fought ; yet when 't was over, So oft I found him bruised and in the dust ; He saw as well, and almost ceased to trust. Thus in the shadow of a cloud he passed, un- Unknowing those about him, and alike known, God clears away the mists of earth at last, And lets us see the work bis hand has done ; Holds forth his child that all the world may see '"Whate'er he did to him was done to me." Too late ! Alas, of what avail that now Our unsealed lips the well-earned praise be stow 1 Unheeding lies the weary heart and brow Which once a word of ours had set aglow ; No longer now, his soul cast down and bruised, Craves at our hands the pittance long refused. O oft-repeated lesson hard to learn ! O Christ, make clear to us tby words again ; Help us, from out our cloistered lives, to turn In loving service to our fellow-men, As freely we receive, so may we give ; Not when we mourn the dead, but while they live. John Harvey. The fact is familiar to all, that an ordinary envelope may readily be opened V tt Aiatnmnrt t VtA ronor fWTUlP tha rr 11 m alter which operation, if done neatly, the contents may be noted, and the missive again sealed and sent to its destination. A perfect safety envelope, however not one admitting of any such manipulation may, it is said, be secured by treating tnat part of the paper covered by the flap with a solution of chromic acid, ammonia, sul phuric acid, sulphate of copper, and fine white paper. The flap itselt is coated with a solution of isinglass in acetic acid, and when this is moistened and pressed down on the under side of the envelope, a solid cement is formed, insoluble in acids, steam, water, &o. COTTON GINS INSURED Against Loss by Fire. The undersigned is ready to issue Policies of Insurance on Cotton Gins or Mills run either by steam or water. This is an important matter to farmers and owners of Gins and Mills, and their attention is especially called to it. E. NYE HUTCHISON, Sept. 8, 1882. Agent. OUR FARMING FRIENDS Will find us at the OLD STAND With our usual large Stock of Groceries, Bagging, Ties New and Spliced Provisions, Farmers' Friend and Brinly Plows, Grass Seeds and Fer tilizers, all of whicn we are anxious to sen. Everything warranted as represented and prices as low as any one. Sept. 22, 1882. For gale. A OnerHoise Wagon, and one Two-Horse Wagon, for sale cheap, WANTED A good Wagon-Maker. A man that is industrious and sober can find permanent work by applying to College St., between 5th and 6th, Charlotte, N.C. Sept. 8, 1883. NEW DRUG STORE. I have a full Stock of Pure Fresh Drugs AND MEDICINES. A well selected line of Toilet Articles, Fine Handkerchief and Flavoring Extracts, and everything usually kept in a first class Retail Drug Store. Landreth's Fresh Garden Seeds for sale. I will be glad to see all of my friends. H. M. WILDER,. Agent, Cor. Trade and College streets, Feb. 17, 1882. ly Charlotte, N. C. COME AND SEE THE Finest Sets OF BED-ROOM AND PARLOR FURNITURE Now in the city. A Large Stock of Furniture At Wholesale and Retail. E. M. ANDREWS, Next door to Wittkowsky & Baruch. Sept 8, 1882. Piedmont Patent Flour. 100 Barrels, just received and for sale by SPRINGS & BURWELL. April 7, 1882. Lanterns and Lamps. We have now on hand a fine stock of Lanterns and Glass Lamps. WILSON & BURWELL, Sept 30, 1881. Druggists A Shivering World. The last startling novelty in the way of surprise which scientists have invented is a machine lor measuring the shivering of the world, and thus another belief of our innocent youth has been remorsely shat tered. ' ' . Instead of the world being a great, big, burly, robust sphere a mammoth cricket- ball swung off throogh space from the bat of time in one har comnae.t d mM. the earth .a r j in vr. ow. i vi i f -li a u mi- i posture. " i Its skin of soil like a plate of blanc mange in the hands of a gentleman who loves Bacchus not wisely but -too well shakes incessantly.' The earth, in fact, has got the ague, and nobody yet knows tne cause. So gingerly susceptible is the world to motion, that if a man standing firmly planted on a gravel bed; upon two feet, only places his height first orroneleg and then on the other, taking care not to dis- .all 11 . turo ms peaai extremities, be causes a perceptible vibration through a radius of thirty-two feet.' Some days the earth is, comparatively speaking, quiet, it does not shiver so much. Suddenly the fit cornea on- again, and it shakes aaray, as if it had got cold in its very bones. SVar lheref?ireV frm there belDg a"y wonder when the shivenng gets worse, as in the case of earthquake that buildings fall down, the marvel is that they stand up at all. In the course of a few decades, when science becomes more advanced, we may learn that the streets and edifices which we deem to. be fixtures are tearing at the rate of a million or so of miles a minute, and that all that we deem to be material ized solids is imperceptible gas -ourselves among the number. Losses. r'ew are tne women who have not a well developed talent for losing thing. This industry is steadily plied at the Hum mer resorts. Perhaps men lose something now and then, but when they do they are ashamed of their carelessness and keep quiet about it. When a woman loses any thing, she makes all the fuss she can : and again this summer the bulletin boards at the hotels have been placarded with the announcement of the loss of a miscellane ous collection of woman's belongings, from a jewel-headed hairpin to a green veil. Is it because woman is so scant of pockets that she goes about losing her wealth in this iashion ? A contemporary says that "woman was never intended for pockets " and a fair champion of her sex asks, perti nently, 'Wouldn't men, if they changed their dress as often as women do, forget as olten It you interview the dress maker on this momentous question, she will tell you that she places the pocket so as not to risk an unsightly bump or gap ing wound in the dress to mar the line of beauty. lo attain this desirable end, the pocket is in as exposed a position a pos sible, and is naturally addicted to empty ing itBelf, without the knowledge of the fair owner, on the slightest provocation, especially in a crowd. Consequently, on the bulletin boards of the summer hotel, in the office of a railroad station, in the vestry of a church, and at other places where lost articles are announced or kept until called for, the largest proportion of these articles belong to the fair sex. Hut one thing may be said in connection with the subject of feminine industry in losing things, They contrive to steal awav many a heart while they are leaving bracelets, rings, handkerchiefs and other odds and ends in their wake. Directions tor Making a Shirt The very first thing lo do is to set the linen bosom on the front. Stitch it twice across the lower edge, and cut out the neck by the shirt pattern. Next finish the back. If a yoke shirt is to be made, gather the fullness, and placing it between the front and back of the yoke, sew the seam and turn the yoke, leaving the seam inside. If it be a sack-shirt, face the back for a depth of twelve inches. Next sew up the shoulder seams, always leaving the facing of the back, or the lining of the yoke, to stitch down on the right side. This makes all smooth and well finished. Then take the sleeves, which have already had the wrist-bands sewed on. out are still open from wrist-band to shoulder, sew them into the body of the shirt, leav ing half an inch to turn down for a facing. This makes unnecessary the "troublesome arm-hole facing and gives the requisite strength and finish. Now comes the long seam, closing both the sleeve and the body, and almost finishing the garment This seam must be carefully felled. Make the narrowest hem possible round the bot torn of the shirt. Stay the ends of seams with tiny gussets or a tape stitched firmly across, i he pattern ought to De so per fect that the neck will need no trimming out. A circular band is the best fitting, and this requires a pattern. Remember that upon the set of the neck-band de pends the fit of the bosom and the com fort of the wearer, and use a tape measure that it may be neither too large nor too small, but iust right. Shirt bosoms should always be lined. They are some times purchased with a coarse linen lin ing, but the ordinary linen bosom sewed over the front, and the cloth beneath al lowed to remain instead of cutting away, I- : 3 TTT" Oi.j. T is quite as goou. nwsctmsm muie tvur - nal. tSlP There has been discovered in the sandstone rock at the Nevada State Prison what is considered a great "find." It is the marks of the sandaled foot of a human being, and the marks of the track of a mammoth in the same piece of sandstone, or upon the same level, showing that man and mammoth live not only in the same age, but in the same year, and, perhaps, in the same day. Ihese marks were found in the sandstone quarry at a depth ol nf- teen feet, on which is supposed to have been, at the same time the marks were made, the border of a lake, where the man went fishing and the mammoth to drink. A superseded foreign minister, while passing through London, on his return to this country, registered himself at the American Agency, as col. Ameri - can minister In rought for home. Liva ror a Purpose. Live for Some purpose in the World. Act your part well. Fill up the measure of your duty to others. Conduct yourself so inai you snau oe missed with sorrow when you are gone. Multitudes of your I species are living in sucn a selhsb manner that they are not likely to be remembered aiter meir aisappearance. iney leave be- in wild luxuriance. Yet, however wide hind them SP.ampl v an v trsiro rf ikni. 1 m.-A :. r - ..vi. r t . 7 uZI I" r" i " "T.r .V . icutc, uut aic iuruueu ttimOSl US inoncn I inov nnn nrr. hun han sm ... k ; l l, . - ... ... .-. ' . I j "v. "vu... " v t , c. n uiits Liiev i nve, use one peDDie lying unobserved among a million on the shore ; and when they die, they are like the same pebble thrown into the sea, which just ruffles the nuriace, biukb aim is iorgouen, Witbout being .missed from the beach. They are neither regretted by the rich, wanted by the poor, nor celebrated by the learned. Who haa been the better for their life? Who has been the worse for their death ? Whose tears have they dried up ? Whose wants supplied? Whose miseries have they healed ? Who would unbar the gates of life to readmit them to existence? Or what face would greet them back again to our world with a smile? Wretched, unpro- ductive mode of existence! Selfishness is iv.n unn i-uiot, u uaoiamug vitc. me i man wuu uues nq gooa, gets uone. ne is i like the heath in the desert, neither vield- I inS fruit uor 8eei,)g whe' g cometh; a stunted, dwarfish, miserable shrnb. J. A. James. A Massive Safe Deposit Vault The safe deposit vault for the Nassau Bank, corner of Beekman and Nassau streets, is 6aid to be the largest steel vault ever constructed. It is made of welded chrome steel, iron, and Franklinite, and is, to all appearances, thoroughly fire and ourgiar prooi. entrance to tne vault is effected through the bank proper. A staircase of marble and iron leads down into a well lighted and ventilated base ment, about 12 feet high. The floor is paved with tile mosaics and marble. The vault, which is 35 feet long, 22 feet wide. and 9 feet high, is built clear of the walls ot the building, and rests upon a thick foundation ot concrete and granite. Ihe sides, bottom, and top of the structure are very thick, and comprise inner and outer walls ot welded iron, chrome steel, and Franklinite, between which is a solid layer of fireproof cement, 9 inches thick. There are two massive iron doors at each end ot the vault, and the outer ones are the largest single doors ever made for this purpose. The doors are built of the same material used in the construction of the vault. The inner doors are about 6 inches thick and the outer are of the same thickness, but larger and hung on central hinges. Their locks are double dial time locks of the very best make. It' will re quire two persons to get into the vault, for one will have the combination of the inner doors and the other the combination of the outer doors. Outside of the heavy steel doors are electric burglar alarm door, which cannot be tampered with without sounding a loud alarm, lhere are now nearly 1,400 safes in the vault, but that number is to be increased to 4,000. These safes are 24 inches deep, of various sizes, and are made of hall-inch chrome steel. The door of each is pro vided with a double key lock, and some of them have combination looks. No cus tomer can unlock his own without the help of the attendant, who has a key with which he sets each lock. Neither the cub- ! tomer nor the attendant can get in singly. Ihe vault is lighted by the electric light. -Seientijic American. Poor Little Danny. There is a touch of Dickens in Little Danny's soliloquy over the death of his mother. We find it in the New Orleans Picayune : I've just been down in the parlor to see mamma, she's in a long box with nowers on her. I wish she'd come back and bathe my head it aches so. Nobody ever makes it feel good but mamma. She knew bow it hurt me, and she used to read lo me out of a little book how my head would get well and not ache any more some day. I wish it was "some day" now. Nobody likes me but mamma, lbats cause I've got a sick head. Mamma used to take me in her arms aud cry. When I asked her what's the matter she would aay, I'm only tired, darling. Aunt Agnes made her tired, for wheu she came and stayed all day, mamma would take me up iu ihe evening on her lap aud cry awful hard. I ain't had any dinner to day, Mamma always gave me my dinner and a little teenty pudding with "D ' for Dauuy," on the top. I like little pud dings with D's on the top. I like to sit in my little chair by the fire aud eal 'em. I wish mamma wouldu t stay in the long box. I guess Aunt Agnes put her there, cause she put all the flower trimmings on and shows her to everybody. There ain't any fire in the grate, but I guess I'll sit by it and make believe there is. 1 11 get my little dish and spoon and play I've got a pudding with D for Danny on it. Hat any way l want mamma so oaa. Perpetual Fretting. We all know a few people who are never happy under any circumstances. The weather is always obiectionable: the tern' perature is never satisfactory. They have I- . . .. I 1 too much to do, and are driven io aeain; or too little, and have no resources. If they are sick, they know that they never Bhall get well; if they are well, they expect soon to be sick. Something is sure to disturb their sleep ; their food is never I quite to their taste; they have corns which I every one treads on, or a toothache which I no one realizes. Their daily work is either I drudgery, which they hate, or so difficult I and complex that they cannot execute it. To hear the prolonged recital of their pet- I ty woes, one would think them the most persecuted of mortals, and when people shrink from the disagreeable character, their lack of sympathy adds another drop to the cup of trouble. Yet these people have no more real cause for repining than the rest of the world. They do it simply becaus "it is their nature to." IST There is to be a $30,000 monn- 1 ment placed over the grave of the late J Hon. B. H. Hill. i Pineapple Fiber. The nineannla ia inatW oBtoomed in Europe for its delicious aromatio flavor and when grown in this part of the world requires to be kept in hot-houses. In the more sunny regions of the East and West Indies, South America, Mexico and the Philippine islands, the pineapple grows V.1? "? laut"5 M uiraVt isaouoi- tnl ' whMhai manv nann . l-nAn K i . ; . i . . ... r " uixuii in connpri. nn wun inn lartiin una it produces. According to one practical authority, the leaves ol both the wild and cultivated kinds yield fibers which, wheu spun, surpass in strength, fineness and 1 A A 1 . a f -W . lusier mose pDiamea irom nax. it is farther added that, in its manufactured state, this product has been . long known as an article of commerce in the couutries referred to. . One of the leading trade papers of the German textile industry has given attention to the investigation of the properties ot this fiber. From -India and lrom Central America two specimens of tissues woven from it had been received. The former was a Diece of strined mnslin and the latter a sample of dress material in which the yarn had been bleached, thus Buowiug mat .ne Doer is capaoio oi under going tnat process successfully. As to the uses to which tha fiber can he nnt it is asserted that it can be employed as a substitute for silk and as a material for mixing with wool and cotton. It is likewise stated that for sewing thread twist, trimmings, laces, curtains and the like us particular qualities render it specially applicable. Chambers' Journal. m m Woman's Charm. uirls who think that it is necessary to be beautiful in order to be attractive should get bravely over that notion. A young woman's plainness which, by the way, saves her from a great many annoy ances and dangers need detact nothing from her loveliness if only her disposition is amiable, her mind cultured, her heart kind and pure. Ihe story is told of a famous lady who once reigned in Paris society, that she was so very homely that her mother said one day, "My poor child, you are too ugly Jor any one to ever fall in love with you." from this time Madame de Circourt began to be very kind to the pauper chil dren of the village, the servants of the household, even .the birds that hopped about the garden walks. She was always distressed if she happened to be unable to render a service. This good will toward everybody made her the idol of the city Though her complexion was sallow, her gray eyes small and sunken, yet she held in devotion to her the greatest men of her time. Her unselfish interest in others made her, it is said, perfectly irresistible. tier life furnishes a valuable lesson. A Suggestion. In au English Industrial school contain ing about six hundred children, half girls and halt boys, it became convenient to give the girls about eighteen hours of book instruction per week and eighteen hours of work, while the boys remained at full school time of thirty-six hours per week. On examination day it was found that the girls were more alert mentally and practioally in advance of the boys When work was lound lor the boys and their schoolbours reduced from thirty-six to eighteen, they did as well as the girls While too much work and too little play makes Jack a dull boy, it seems pretty evident thai a portion of children's time can be employed in industrial work to their advantage. Perhaps it would be well to divide their waking hours, one-third to work, one-third to study and one-third to play. Dr. Footers Monthly. iST" A gentleman in India went into his library one day, and took a book from the shelves. As he did so, he felt a slight pain m his finger like the prick of a pin. He thought thai a pin had been stuck by some careless person in the cover of the book. But soon his finger began to swell, and -then bis arm, and then his whole body, and in a few days he died. It was not a pin among the books, but a small and deadly serpent. There are many serpents among the books nowa days. They nestle iu the foliage of some of our most fascinating literature ; they coil around the flowers whose perfume in toxicates the sense. We read, we are charmed by the plot of the story, by the skill with which the characters are sculp tured or grouped, by the gorgeousness of the word-painting we hardly feel the pin-prick of the evil that is insinuated. liut it stings and poisons. When the record is made up. on what multitudes 'Poisoned by serpents W 111 J2 1UOVI among the books." SSif The wine business of California is no small item in tne resources ot tnat State. About 10,000,000 gallons of wine are produced annually, and about 2,000, 000 gallons are yearly sent eastward, where it is adorned with foreign labels and sold as an imported article. The quality is said to be good, and even some professed connoisseurs are deceived when California wine is ottered them under the guise of well-known foreign names A Chinaman is said to have in- j scribed upon one -grain of unhulled rice an original poem containing thirty-three dis- tinct and well-formed Chinese characters written out in full. The curiosity is kept under a magnifying glass in a silver locket, and is considered one of the wonders of the world. An Arizona special says that five persons were killed in a church which was struck by lightning at Concordia. A num ber of other persons were seriously injured in the rush to escape. A serious corn fam ine pre veils in Sinaloa; in some sections it bring 25c per pound. Cif A candidate for a teacher's certifi cate in the recent examination at El Do rado, gave as a reason for the length ened days of summer that they were ex panded by the heat. Of course they contract in . the winter. Leavenworth Timet The Wife. A delicate attention to the minute wants and wishes of a wife tends, perhaps, more ' than anything else to the promotion of do- mestio happiness. It requires no sacrifice, occupies but a small degree of attention. yet it is the fertile source of bliss; since it convinces the object of your regard that, with the duties ot a husband, you have united the more punctillious behavior of a lover, xuese inviai lOKens ot regard cer tainly make much way in the affections of a woman of sense and discernment, who ooks not to the value of the gifts she re ceives, but perceives in their frequency a continued evidence of the existence and ardor of that love on which the super-, structure of her happiness has been erected . To preserve unimpaired the affections of her associate, to convince him that in his- judgment of her character, formed ante cedently to marriage, he was neither blind-1 ed by partiality nor deluded by artifice, will be the study of every woman who consults her own happiness and the rules of Christian dnty. The strongest attach ment will decline, if it suspects that it is received by diminished warmth. Inon. The Mania for Gambling. - The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that the mania for gambling, now so common in New York, Chicago, and other American cities, is an evil which it seems almost impossible to discourage by either legal or moral restraints. Few people who live out of the circle within' which the operations are made have any just idea of their magnitude. At the New Yoik Slock Exchange the yearly sales foot up nearly (1,000,000,000. Last year, while the receipts of wheat at New York were 44,000,000 bushels, the sales at ihe Produce Exchange were nearly 500,000,000 bushels. The receipts of corn were 45,000,000 bushels and the sales were 233,000,000 bushels. In lard but little over 500,000 tierces were received at New York, and about 6,000,000 tierces were sold. At the New York Cotton Ex change the sales last year reached -31,-000,000 bales, while less than 2,000,000 bales have been received at that port al together in the last ten years. Women. Great indeed is the task assigned to wo- man. Who can elevate us dignity r jnoi to make laws, not to lead armies, not to govern empires but to form those by whom laws are made, armies are led, em pires are governed. To guard against the' slightest taint of bodily infirmity the frail yet spotless creature whose moral, no less than physical being, must be derived from , her ; to inspire those principles to incul cate those doctrines, to animate those sen timents which generations yet unborn and nations yet uncivilized shall learn to bless to soften firmness into mercy and chasten honor into refinement; to exalt generosity into virtue, and by soothing care to allay, the anguish- of the mind ; by her tender ness to disarm passion ; by her purity to triumph over sense; to cheer the scholar Bighiug under his toil, to be compensation for friends that are perfidious, for happi ness that has passed away, such is her vo cation. The couch of the tortured sufferer, the prison of the deserted friend, the cross of the rejected Savior these are the the aters in which her greatest tritmphs have been recieved. Such is her destiny to visit the forsaken, to attend the neglected; when monarchs abandon, when counselors betray, when justice persecutes, to remain unshaken and unchanged ; and to exhibit in this lower world a tpye of .that love, pure, constant and ineffable, which in an other world we are taught to believe the text ot virtue. Blackwood. There are some parts of Siberia where a traveler is as likely to lose his way as if he were upon the sea; but a guide has been provided for man where one is required, even amid those pathless wilds. There is a little plant which grows upon the stems and branches of trees, and as it is always found on the north side, where moisture is more abundant, those who are acquainted with that fact can use it as a chart. The traveler' can thus find bis way amid difficulties which might baffle the instinct even of an Ameri can fcavage. EST A singular phenomenon occurred in that section of Americus, Ga., east of the Methodist church. The wells of an entire neighborhood were blown dry. These wells up to the time of the gale were full of water and unfailing. The explanation of this remarkable occurrence is the existence of subterranean passages, and the violent agitation on the surface opened channels of escape for the water to these. lzT At a recent meeting of the. Hoyal Horticultural society of London, Rev. G. Henslow exhibited potato-tubers which had grown upon the stalks of the plants in the axils of leaves. He also showed Elum leaves perforated with small circular oles, caused by the lens action of rain drops which concentrated the son's rays and burned the leaves. Another exhibitor, Mr. Laxton, sent green, purple and spec kled pea-pods the last a result of crossing the two others. fl The Solicitor of the Treasury has decided that it is illegal to print and cir culate advertising circulars in imitation of paper money. This decision will abate a great nuisance. Many of these circulars are abroad in the land, and some of them so closely resemble bank bills and treasury notes that they have been passed for such. t3T" A Chicago girl of thirteen is ex posed as a professional burglar. Instruct ed in crime by an old woman, she entered some house nearly every night, and the booty recovered had been taken from numerous places. It is a great blunder in the pur suit of happiness not to know when .we have got it that is, net to be content " with a reasonable and possible measure of it.