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OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXII.
CHARLOTTE, N.C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1883.
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THE
Charlotte Home and Democrat,
Published evert Friday by
J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor.
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Subscription price due in advance.
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"Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N.
C.. as second class matter," according to the
rales of the P. O. Department.
ROBERT GIBBON, M.
Physician and Surgeon.
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OFFICE,
AND TeTOS
Fifth
Streets.
RESIDENCE,
Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C.
March 17, 1882. tf
T. O. SMITH & CO.,
WHOLESALE
AND
BET AIL DRUGGISTS,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
May 11, 1883.
J. F. Mc Combs, 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.
DR. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER.
SURGEON DENTISTS,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building.
jg Office hours from 8 A M. to 5 P. M.
July 14, 1882. yr.
A. BORWELL. P. D. WALKER.
BURWELL & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts,
Office adjoining Court House.
Jan. 1, 1883.
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, 1881 y
DR. M. A. BLAND,
Dentist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte
Hotel.
Oas used for the painless extraction of teeth.
Feb 15,1882.
DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM,
CHAKLOTTE, N. C.
Practice Limited to the
EYE. EAR AND THROAT.
Jan. 1, 1883.
J. S. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH.
J. S. SPENCER & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Trade Street, Charlotte, JV. C.
AGENTS FOR
Rockingham Sheetings and Pee Dee Plaids.
Special attention given to handling
Cotton on Consignment.
April 13, 1883.
W. H. PARRIOR,
Practical Watch-dealer and Jeweler,
Charlotte, N. C,
Keeps a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and
Clocks. Spectacles, etc.. which I will sell at a
fair prices.
Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c.,
done promptly, and satistaction assured.
Store next to Springs' corner building.
July 1. 1883.
SPRINGS & BURWELL,
Grocers and Provision Dealers,
Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses,
Syruys, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard,
Hams, Four, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we
offer to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All
are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar
gest.
Jan. 1. 1883.
PAUL B. BARRINGER, M. D..
Physician and Surgeon,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office Over Jordan & Co.'s Drug Store.
Residence At Gen. Barrinser's.
Calls in country attended.
Feb. 9, 1883. 6mpd
E. M. ANDREWS,
Charlotte, N. C.
FURNITURE,
Coffins and Caskets,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Feb. 9, 1883- yr
HARRISON WATTS,
Cotton Buyer,
Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oct. 14, 1882.
Z. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey.
VANOE & BAILEY,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
CHARLOTTE, X. c.
Practices in the Supreme Court of United States,
SuDreme Court of .North uaronna, reaerai
Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg,
Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan,
and Davidson.
E-Offlce. two doors east of Independence
Square. June 17 tf
TAILORING.
John Vogel, Practical Tailor,
Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte
and surrounding country, that he is prepared to
manufacture gentlemen's clothing in the latest
style and at short notice. His best exertions will
be given to render satisfaction to those who pat
ronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel.
EST" An officer of a school io Boston for
the blind says that sightless persons may
Decome the most expert piano toners.
Through its constant exercise the faculty
of hearing becomes so acute that intervals
in the scale of sounds, which are so slight
as to be nnnoticed by other persons, are
readily detected by the blind. The slight
est imperfection in unisons is .discord to
them. Their knowledge of the mechanism
of pianos is obtained through the use of
models and the dissection of old instru
ments. Besides, they are thoroughly
taught in that branch of physics which
treats of the nature of sound and the
laws of its production and transmission.
FARMERS !
Insure your Gin Houses at once and run no risk.
Apply to
C. N. G. BUTT,
At Merchants & Farmers Bank.
Sept. 7, 1883.
4w
LAND FOR SALE.
I will sell privately between now and Decem
ber 1st, a Tract of LAND known as the Joe
Stames place,contaiuing about 156 Acres, lying
in Clear Creek Township, adjoining the lands of
Mrs. Albert Wallace, James Mullis, John R. Mor
ris, and others. For particulars apply to S. H.
Farrow, Charlotte, N. C. or H. E. McCombs.
Hickory, N. C.
11. E. McCOMBS,
Adm'r. of R. W. McCombs.
Sept. 14, 1883. lm
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court in
the case of W. L. Houston against S. B. Hous
ton and others, I will sell at public auction, at
the Court House door in Charlotte, the 8th day of
October, 1883, a valuable Tract of LAND con
taining One Hundred Acres, more or less, in Crab
Orchard Township, near the N. C. Railroad.
Said Land is sold for a division among the heirs
of the late George W, Houston,
Terms Ten per cent cash, balance on a credit
of twelve months, with bond and approved pe
curity. J. M. DAVIS,
Sept 7, 1883. 5w Commissioner.
Postponement.
Sale of
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county, I will ofier for sale, at pub
lic auction, at the Court House door in the City
of Charlotte, on Mondav. the 27th dav of
August, 1883, the residue of that Tract of LAND
now in the possession of Jas. P. Irwin and wife,
containing about 150 or 160 Acres, situate near
the city of Charlotte, N. C, on the West side of
the Carolina Central Railroad, and adjoining the
Cemetery of the city of Charlotte, the Tucka
Beege Ford Road, the lands of W. R. Myers and
others, a portion ot which land lies on both sides
of the creek West of the city of Charlotte.
Terms made known on day of sale
GEO. E. WILSON.
July 21, 1883. Commissioner.
fT The sale of the above de
scribed Property is postponed until Thursday,
27th day of September, 1883.
UEU. K. W1LSOJM,
Aug. 31, 1883. 4w Commissioner.
LAND FOR SALE.
I oSer for sale a Plantation containing 125
acres, six miles from Charlotte, on the Charlotte,
Columbia & Augnsta Railroad. The Land is
well adapted to the cultivation of Cotton, Corn,
etc. Address,
J. A. ELLIOTT,
P. O. Box 178, Charlotte, N. C.
Aug. 31, 1883. tf
Catawba River Lands for Sale.
One Thousand Acre?, 16 miles South of Char
lotte, near Craig's Ferry, and same quantity
same distance North, near Cowan's Ford, to
gether with full outfits of implements, animals
and provender for ten horse farms, or less
Terms reasonable. If not sold, propositions to
lease will be considered.
R. D. GRAHAM, Attorney.
Aug. 31, 1883. lm
J. C. HAKGRAVE. It. D. HAROBAVE.
W. C. ALEXANDER.
NEW FIRM.
We have this day opened up a new firm under
the name and style of HAKU RAVES & ALEX
ANDER. It shall be our aim to meet the de
mands of everyone.
Our stock this Fall will be larger than ever
and will comprise everything kept in the Dry
Goods line. We will also carry a large stock of
shoes and Ready-Made Clothing
Our .Boots and shoes will be bought direct
from manufacturers and we will have every ad
vantage possible, that buyers can have. We
will as heretofore carry a very large stock of
Dress Goods and Trimmings. In fact you will
find everything in our house to be found in the
Dry Goods line.
We cannot be undersold, and will sell under
the motto, "live and let live " Thanking all our
friends and customers for past patronage, and
hoping a continuance of the same, we are
Yours truly.
HARGRAVES & ALEXANDER,
Successors to Haroraves & Wilhelm.
Aug. 17, 1883.
PEACE INSTITUTE,
Raleigh, N. C,
Opens September 5, 18S3. Closes Jane
0, 1884.
Instruction in every branch usually taught in
first-class Seminaries for young Ladies. Ad
vantages for instruction in Music, Art and Mod
ern Languages unsurpassed. Arrangements for
young Ladies taking a special course in any
studies.
For circular and catalogue address
REV. R. BURWELL & SON,
July 6, 1883. 3m Raleigh, N. C.
We have recently added to our
stock a full supply of White Lead and Linseed.
Oils. Call on us before buying.
R. H. JORDAN & CO.,
Druggists.
NEW DRUG STORE.
I have a full Stock of
Pure Fresh Drugs
AND
MEDICINES.
A well selected line of
Toilet Articles,
Pine Handkerchief and Flavoring Extracts, and
everything usually kept in a first class Retail
Druse 8tore.
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, 1883. ly Charlotte, N. C.
A Home Above.
BY JOSEPH W. HOLDER.
The Raleigh Chronicle, in publishing the fol
lowing for the first time, very justly commends
it as superior. The author, Joseph W. Holden,
was the son of Gov. W. W. Holden, and died in
the prime of life, and wrote this poem a short
time before his death Though quite young, he
was the Speaker of the House of Representatives
one term, and his ability and fairness was ad
mired by the members of both political parties.
Oh, is there no home for the wounded
and weary.
The heart that is broken, the eye that is
teary.
The mind that is sad and the bou! that is
dreary?
Oh, is there no home in some planet on
high.
'Mid the numberless stars of the beautiful
Bky? -
Yea, God' hath provided a mansion
above,
Whose timbers were grown in the garden
of love;
Whose walls are as bright as the sheen
of the snow
As the sheen of the shield of the sun in
its glow.
He hath built me a home in some planet
" on high,
'Mid the numberless stars of the beautiful
sky.
He gave to my fathers a home on this
earth,
But sin has dissevered the ties of ray
birth,
And life is a shadow a mist of the morn
ing That fades from the hills with the light
of the dawning ;
Yet still there's a home in sonie planet on
high,
'Mid the numberless stars of the beautiful
sky.
I know not the orb that will be my
abode,
But-1 know it was formed by the finger
of God,
That my mansion is empty, and I must
await
'Till He shall command me to enter the
gate
'Till the angel of death
in mercy
shall
come,
To bear me to dwell in ray
beautiful
home
My home that is built in some planet on
high,
'Mid the numberless stars of the beautiful
bky.
A Mechanical Life. Frogs continue
to exist mechanically alter all t-ensation
has disappeared. It the brain of a 1 rot;
be taken out, and food be put before
the animal, the food is not touched, and
the animal dies. But if food be placed
in its mouth, it mechanically swallows it,
and digests it, and its mechanical exist
ence may thqs be prolonged for many
weeks.
For Rent or Lease,
A valuable "Tarm in Providence Township, this
county, three or four horse farm, in good stateof
cultivation, well adapted to cotton and grain,
especially to small grain. The Land is rich and
very productive, adjoins G. C. Morris, Eeq., and
others, on the Flat Branch and Six Mile Creek.
For information enquire of G C. Morris, Esq.,
near the place, W. W Grier, Charlotte, or E A.
Armfield and B. F. Houston, Monroe, N. C.
Mrs M. H. TRAYWICK.
Sept. 21, 1883. 3w
NEW STOCK.
Our Stock is now nearly all in, and comprises
a comparatively new Stock of Goods. No old
goods to show you as we "cleaned out" nearly
all our goods in our closing cut sale this sum
mer. We have now a laige Stock of
Dress Goods,
In all the new shades, and Fabrics and Trim
mings in all the new varieties. Our Stock of
Velvets and Velveteens, in all colors and prices,
is complete, and 'twill pay you to look at tnem
before purchasing.
Velvet Ribbons, all Colors and Grades.
We have bought a iob lot of Ladies' Gossamers
that we offer at SI. cood quality. Our Stock
will be kept complete, and you will at all times
find evtrvthiner in our store to be found in tne
Dry Goods line. A full stock of
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,
Readv-Made Clothins. Trunks, Valises, Seal
skin Cans &c. Give us a call. We will sell you
as cheap as the cheapest.
HARGRAVES & ALEXANDER,
Sept. 21, 1883. Smith Building.
THE TIME HAS COME.
On Monday last the Graded School opened,
and all the Young Ladies and Misses who have,
not got a "GOSSAMER" can get one at T. L.
SEIGLE & CO.'S very cheap.
T. L. Seigle
Has iust returned from the Eastern market and
can now show you the best Stock of
DRESS GOODS
In all grades, and Silk, cheaper than you have
ever seen them in tms marsei.
This season you will he able to hnd in our
store one of the best selected Stocks to be found
m any House in the State.
Prices to
be Entirely
tory.
Satisfac-
Call to see us and be convinced that these are
Facts.
T. L. SEIGLE & CO.
Sept. 21, 1883.
IT WILL PAY
TO CALL ON
J. M. MILLER,
Corner Trade and College Sts.,
For Your Groceries.
I have in store and to arrive a full assortment
of Heavy and Fancy Goods to supply any de
mand, consisting in part of the following :
Hams, Bacon, Breakfast Strip, Canned Meat
and Fruits, Grain of all kinds, Mixed Feed, Bran,
Flour and Meal. Coffee. Sugar. Molasses, Syrups,
Vinegar, Lard, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco,
Snuff and Cigars, Rice, Grits, Crackers, Soda and
Starch, and a great variety of Goods impossible
to mention.
Fresh Parched Coffee a specialty. And every
thins for the inner man. Call and see how
cheap we sell for Cash.
J. M. MILLER.
Sept. 14, 1883. 8m
How we Lived Forty Years Ago.
To go back forty years, fully as useful
a contrast and as instructive a comparison
may be made as to bring the early settler
from England, Holland and France in op
position to their descendants of two hun
dred years later, in 1843 and for some
period thence onward," money, as cur
rency, was very scarce. - Possibly general
busiuess suffered for want of the medium
of exchange. Money, in bills or coin, had
a value that wonld be looked upon now as
almost a worshiping ot a. fetich. "One
dollar a day" was "a good day's pay,"
and so it was considered even for fairly
skillful labor. Several men, for instance,
were employed in squaring; by chalk line
and broad ax, the round timbers to form
the framing of a dam. Others bored the
holes for mortises and chiseled them out.
Others did the "scribing the sawing and
dressing of the tenets. Jew of them got
over one and a quarter dollars per day
"from sunup to sundown." The man who
could "scribe," and who laid out the job,
got perhaps one dollar and fifty centsJ
The machinist got from one dollar and
fifty to two dollars per day ; and he who
got the two dollars was a fortunate man ;
and for that time he was a competent
man. Laborers had fifty cents per day,
and in haying time, when several days'
ordinary work must be crowded into
twelve, fourteen, or possibly sixteen hours,
tbjy got seventy-five cents. Special
workmen, apt at any jobs, one dollar.
How this is a fair showing of the value
of labor forty years ago. V hat was the
relative value of housing, fuel, food, and
clothing? Rents were low. A good
house ior the times cost from $25 to $40
per year. Fuel wood was somewhat
less than it can be furnished, as coal now,
at any place remote from the mines ; say
for an ordinary family six cords of hick
ory, $24; now four tons of coal (two
fires,) about equal. Food cost less iorty
years ago than now ; but it was not the
same lood. I resh meat once, or at most
twice, a week, and rarely that except in
"the killing season ; ' fish caught at the
stream or pond, or hawked about at four
cents a pound dressed. Vegetables from
the garden, or from the market at twenty
five cents a bushel for potatoes and less
prices for turnips. Onions almost as dear
as now, and cabbages no cheaper. Cloth
ing can be bought cheaper now than it
could be forty years ago, and it is cheaper
in more than one sense. Perhaps it would
be better lor the country at large if bet
ter clothing at higher prices should be
the rule.
It is scarcely necessary to add to "how
we lived forty years ago" any statement
of how we live or how we might live now.
It is enough to the present earner of his
bread by labor to know of the annoyances
and lack of opportunities of his prede
cessor. A glance over the condition of
forty years ago and the present condition
will convince any unprejudiced mind that
an improvement has been made in the
condition of our workers, and that the
worker of today gets a better return for
his labor than be did forty years ago.
And this Btaiement applies as nearly to
the unskilled worker as to the adept me
chanic. Only that the ad vantage now, as
ever before, holds with the intelligent,
skilled, experienced mechanic. Scientific
American.
The Consternation an Owl Made.
The action, of the Washington monu
ment is watched most caretully and its
every movement registered. Two plum
mets are cuspended in its inside, one trom
a height of 200 feet and the other from a
height of 150 feet. The movements of
these are compared many times a day.
The movement of one should be about one
and one-half time that of the other if
there wore no irregular internal move
ment on the part of the structure. But
the register shows that the movement is
irregular in both direction and in bise.
Sometimes the plummets move in opposite
directions and sometimes in the same
Sometimes the top moves a little, but its
whole sway since the foundation was
strengthened has been only one-quarter of
an inch. All of these movements are
very slight, and can only be detected with
a microscope, l he longer plummet line
is encased in a wooden box, to prevent
the atmosphere having any effect upon it,
and since the finding that the spiders had
once drawn the line out of the perpendicu
lar, a careful investigation is made daily,
to see that the lines are not influenced by
outside causes. Once, when great con
sternation was caused by the irregularity
of the line, it was found that an owl was
perched upon the top of the line. It was
caught, killed, stuffed and given to Mrs
Hayes, and it is now probably on exhibi
tion at Fremont.
A 'farmer of East Hill, Chemung
couuty, JS. i., has sued bis neighbor,
William Georgia, ior $150, the value
of a horse killed by coming in contact
with one of Georgia's barbed, wire
fences.
FERTILIZERS.
On and after this date we will have on hand
Etiwan Dissolved Bone
AND
STONO ACID PHOSPHATE
The experience of some of the best farmers
is that these Brands have no superior and few
equals.
Other Grades of Fertilizers furnished on short
notice. -
SPRINGS & BURWELL.
Aug. 3,1883. .
R. H.
JORDAN.
NEW
DR. JOB. GRAHAM.
STORE.
DRUG
We have opened and have now on sale a new
and complete line of Fresh
DRUG S,
Toilet articles, &c, which we respectfully invite
our friends and the pumic generally to can ana ,
examine at our Store on
TBYON STREET,
Opposite Elias & Cohen's.
Prescriptions "
Carefully Prepared at all Hours, Day ; ana
Night
&. H. JORDAN & CO.
Feb. 3 1883.; - : '
Church Manners.
BY CHAS. F. DEEMS, IX. D.
It would seem an impertinence to say
anything to ordinary well-bred people in
regard to their manners in church. Nev
ertheless, there are certain points of be
havior which would be modified by
thoughtful people, if they see them from
the point of view at which they are
looked at by a sexton, or an usher, or a
pastor.
We propose to give our readers the
benefit of our own observations on this
subject.
The first important thing is to be in the
pew before the minister enters the pulpit.
Few hearers have considered the vast im
portance of this direction. Tardiness in
reaching church has a wide-spread and
disastrous spiritual influence. Iu differ
ent churches the ritual is different. , Some
commence .with an exhortation; some
with the reading of the Scripture, and
some with prayer. To auy one of these
t ho iiflhpra mi or h t. in oritru nnintormntai)
aUention. but if you come in to be shown
to your 6eat,Nyou lose the whole effect
yourself, and you deprive other souls of
the good they might obtain. You injure
yourself seriously, because you either
think that you are more important than
the service of God or at least appear to
think so. If you have real reverence, you
fail to show it.
A member of the House of Commons
in England would disparage his reputa
tion for decency, if he came in when the
queen's address was being read by the
queen herself. His behavior would not
be half as reprehensible as that of a per
son who should enter a church and dis
turb the congregation while the minister
was reading the Holy Scripture.
You ought to know the precise time at
which the service begiiif, and on Satur
day night lay all your plans to be in
church. The minister may be making,
as in the Episcopal Church, the exhorta
tion to confession. But that exhorta
tion and that confession are exceedingly
solemn things, and never to be taken in
the .mouth without an intense conviction
of the grandeur and goodness of God, and
the wickednets and infulness of man.
w no are you, that you dare come tramp
ing down the aisle atid slamming the pew
door amidst such eule runity ? hen
great companies of singers aie engaged at
a concert, every man i- expected to be in
his place before the hrsi note is struck,
and in churches where congregational
singing prevails, every oje is expected to
assist, and you houid be in your place
with composed mind ami heart attuned to
the service; ready to perform your prt;
or at least, not to jostle those who are al
ready singing.
Sometimes, as in the Presbyterian and
other cnurches, the minister may be
opening tne service with prayer ot invo
cation. Every worshiper ought to he
present at this. In some churches the
service is oommenced by reading the Holy
Scriptures. A minister who discharges
his duty faithfully in this department,
carefully reads over the les-ons, practic
ing the proper tones of voice, to bring:
out in the reading the shades of sacred
meaning in the text. His whole intellect
and soul ought to be iust as much in the
reading of God's Word as in the utterance
of the sermon. How much you disturb
such utterances vou can never tell, but
we can assure you, trom a sad and bitter
experience, that ministers are sometimes
so mucu inrown on tne tracic in tne
reading of the morning lessons that they
never fully recover themselves before
the close of the sermon. And one late
produce a serious eiiect upon tne man
ner in which the truth 'shall he presenied
to a thousand hearers. Therefore, be
early.
Indian Food in Arizona.
All the varieties of cacti bear fruit,
which is valued by the Indians for food,
says an Arizona letter. They also cook
the fleshy leaves of the prickly pear when
young, which are said to resemble siring
beans in flavor. The Indians also use the
head of the maguey, or century plant, for
food. It is found everywhere in the terri
tory and is cultivated tor revenue in Mexi
co. It contains a large amount of sac
charine matter. The century hypothesis
in regard to its blooming i a myth, how
ever, long since exploded. Instead ot re
quiring a hundred years to attain maturity
and blossom, the plant blossoms in seven
years from making its first appearance
It then dies, its mission ended. The
leaves, which are fleshy and stiff, with thin
edges covered with thorns, branch from
the root in long lances, growing to the
height of three or four feet. The centre
of the plant consists of a large head, some
thing like a cabbage, t rom this springs
a pole, eight to twelve feet high, which
branches near the tob, bearing a yellow
flower. The Indians prepare the head for
food by roasting in an oven made of stones
sunk in the ground. We had an oppor
tumty to taste a piece ot tne maguey so
prepared, and found it delicious, sweet
and nutritious, tasting very much like
old-f&shioued, home-made molasses candy
If that was a specimen morsel, the Indians
deserve no sympathy on the score of their
diet, as it was really a luxury.
The juice of the plant is also converted
into syrup and a lermented drink, called
tizwin by the Indians, and the Mexicaus
distil it, making an intoxicating liquor
called mescal. We also tested this liquor
burnt, on an omelet, and found it as good
as brandy for that purpose. In its natural
state, unburnt, it has a strong, smoky
taste, esembhng Scotch whiskey.
Many useful articles are made from
the fibre of the maguey, ropes and
even paper having been manufactured
from it.
df" Snow as red as blood was shown
at the meeting of the Microscopical Socie
ty in San Francisco. It was gathered on
a spur of the Wosateh Mountains, 10,000
feet above the level of the sea. Its color
comes from a one-celled plant, potococxu
nivalis, which is very rapidly reproduced
bv sub-division. The phenomenon has
been observed from the earliest times,
and various theories have proposed to ac
count for it, until at length science settles
the question.
A Portable Garden.
Here is some advice from the Scholar's
Companion about cultivating the kind of
a garden thta young people and old peo
ple carry with tbem: ' .
H.very one has a garden called conver-
oation. Is the unpleasant words which
blossom into thoughts are kept oat. the
garden becomes beantiful and interesting.
There are a lew kind of weeds which un
consciously creep into this gaaden ; aud
unless they are put down. or. better.
pulled out, they injure and spoil the good
flowers.
1. Untruth. This is dark-leaved and so
small at first that it is scarcely noticed.
In its early stages it is called exaggera
tion. You are not at all sure whether
you saw three or four things, and you say
four. The next time the number becomes
larger, and so the weed grows until it is
strong and hardy. Be sure and pull it
2. blang. Ihis spoils many a garden of
choice flowers. It is sometimes overlooked
among boys, but it is not considered to
have any beauty.
3. Bad grammar. This is - a common
weed, found in gardens of uneducated and
careless persons. It grows slowly but
steadily, and finds a place beside the
nicest-looking nowers. ihere are a num
ber of varieties, and among them are "I
seen," which chokes up "1 saw" or"l have
seen ; "it's her'n," which grows out of "it
is hers," and it is "it is me," which grows
close to the little plant "It is I."
4. Gossip. Every one knows. this ugly
week, which works mischief wherever it
appears, it is one ot tne worst varieties,
and has been known to completely over-
run ana spoil tne gardens in-which it was
allowed to grow.
These are the principal weeds which
find their way into the garden of Conver
sation. Examine the one belonging to
you, and Bee what weeds are gaining
headway.
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A Bat can See with its Wings.
There is a singular property with which
the bat is endowed too remarkable and
too remarkable
curious to be passed altogether unnoticed
lhe wings ot these creatures consist Ot a
delicate aud nearly naked membrane of
great tdze considering lhe size of the body,
out oemae mis, me nose is, in some varie
t - : r
ties furnished with a membaanous folia
in others the external membra-
ious ears are greatly developed. Inese
membr;iiious tissues have their sensibility
so high that something like a new sense is
thereby developed, as it in aid of the
sense of sight The modified impressions
which the air, in quiescence or in motion,
however slight, communicates the tremu
lous jar ot it s currents, its temperature,
the indescribable conditions of such por
tions ot air as are in contact with differ
ent bodies, are all apparently appreciated
by the bii. If the eyeys of a bat be cov
e red up, or ' h e cruelly1 tleprtved o
sight, it will pursue its course about a
room with a thousand obstacles in its way
avoiding them all; neither dasing against
the wall nor touching the smallest thing,
but threading its way with the utmost
precision and quickness, and passing
adroitly through apertures or interspaces
of threads placed purposely across th
apartment. This endowment which al
most exceeds belief, has been abundantly
demonstrated. Forest and Stream.
talf" It has long been said that the man
who could contrive a way to store the
force now lost by stopping a car and apply
it effectively to aid in again starting the
wheels would confer a great boon on man
kind. This invention seems to have been
made,or at least to have been approached,
by the patentee of a new street car whioh
is soon io be placed on the rails in Phila
delphia. This car is fitted with a num
ber of spiral springs that are wound up
before the car starts, and which have
stored energy sufficient to propel the ve
hicle to the end ot its route, lhe details
of the machinery have been worked
out to the entire satisfaction of the
projectors, and an experimental car is
soon to appear on the1 rails in the Quaker
City.
ISP" The Savannah News was shown a
small brick Monday made from the clay
thrown out by tne explosion of a mine
known as the "crater," in front of Peters
burg, Va., made by General Burnside aud
the Ninth Corps of the Union army, on the
30th of July. 1864. Eight thousand
pounds ot powder was used in the ex
plosion, making a crater 200 feet long, 60
feet wide and 30 feet deep. A Confederate
battery and part of a regiment of infantry
were blown up by the explosion.and near
ly 4,000 Union soldiers lost their lives in
and around the crater.
1 There is a passage in one of the
novels of Henri Conscience, who recently
died, delightfully appropriate to the pres
ent month. "Whence, asks the great
Flemish novelist "Whence comes this
sudden fever of travel which thus bestows
wings upon our souls? It is because a
year of toil and care and struggle has
come to an end. Judges have judged.
lawyers have pleaded, students have
worked, people have saved, merchants have
calculated, weighed, and balanced, but to
day, hurrah ! to-day it is the month of
I September.
25 Jim Smith, who was released from
the Tennessee State prison the other day,
is a master mechanic and toolmaker, who
can earn $4 a day. He worked in the
machine shop 2,836 days, and his good
behavior cut two years and eleven months
off his term of ten years for robbery
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on tne highway, deducting tne cost
of his support, estimated at 18 cents a
day. he earned $10,746.94 net for the
State.
An experienced arboriculturist
advises dwellers in smoky and dirty towns
not to plant evergreens in their grounds,
as is so generally done. Soot and smoke
stunt and spoil the trees, and they soon
become anything but things of beauty.
White poplars, silver maples, American
1mi ' a nil Via ailantVina urn Vtpttfr in anrh
niaoo.
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True mends visit us in prosperity
only when invited, bnt in adversity they
come without invitation. .
Know Thyself. , .
The average weight of an adult is 140
lbs. 6 oz. . . ..-
The average weight of a skeleton is about
14 lbs. Number of bones. 240.
The skeleton measures one inch less than
the height of the living man.
The average weight of the brain of a
man is 3 1-2 pounds: of a woman. 2
lbs. 11 oz. i
The brain ot a man exceeds twice that
of any other animal.
The average height of an Englishman is
5 ft. 9 in.; Frenchman, 5 ft. 4 in., and of
Belgian, 5 f U 6 3-4 in.
The average xumber of teeth is 32.
A man breathes about twenty times in a
minute, or 1,200 times io an hour.
A man breathes about 18 pints of air
in a minute or upwards of 7 hogsheads a
day,. ' v- . :
A man gives off 4.08 per cent, carbonio
gas of the air he respires; respires 10,666 "
cubio feet of carbonio acid gas in 24 hours;
consumes 20,000 cubic feet of oxygen, in
24 hours, equal to 125 cubio inches of
common air. ' - ? i
A man annually contributes to vegeta
tion 124 lbs. of carbon. :
The average of the pulse in infancy is
120 per minute; io manhood 80; at 60
years, 60. The pulse of females is more
lrequent than that of males. '
The weight of the circulating blood is
about 28 lbs.
The heart beats 15 times a minute,sends
nearly ten pounds of blood through the
veins and arteries each beat; makes four
beats while we breath once.
Five hundred and forty pounds, - or
one hogshead one and one-fourth pints
of blood pass through the heart in one
hour.
Twelve thousand pounds, or 24 hogs
heads 4 gallons, or 10,782 1-2 pints pass
through the heart in two hours.
One thousand ounces of blood pass
through the kidneys in one hour.
One hundred and seventy-five million
holes or cells are in the lungs; which
would cover a Bnrface thirty times greater
than the human body.
Attachment to Newspapers.
The strong attachment of subscribers
to a well conducted newspaper is fully
confirmed by publishers. "Stop my pa
per I" words of dread to beginners in
busiuess, lose their terror after a paper
has been established for a term of years.
So long aB a paper pursues a just, honor
able and judicious course, meeting the
wants of its customers, in all respects, the
ties of friendship between the subscribers
and the paper are as hard to break by any
outside third Iparty as the link which
binds old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defects and errors in a news
paper are overlooked by those who have
become attached to it through its perusal
for years. They sometimes become dis
satisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and
may stop taking it; but the absence of the
familiar sheet at their homes and offices
for a few weeks becomes an insupportable
privation, and they hasten to takeitsgain,
and possibly apologize for having it
stopped. No friendship on earth is more
constant than that contracted by the
reader of a journal which makes an honest
and earnest effort to merit its continued
support. Hence a conscientiously con
ducted paper becomes a favorite in the
family.
How to Save Yourself, from Drowning.
An experienced swimmer says in re
gard to drowning : When you find your
self in deep water, you will sink first a
few feet down, but if you do not struggle
you will come quickly to the surf ace again,
which on reaching immediately draw a
full breath, throw your bead back and this
will have the effect of placing yon in a re
cumbent position on the surface of the
water. Now, this is a most critical time
for those who don't know what to do next.
Extend your arms at once on level with
your shoulders, palms of hands down
ward, so that the water cannot penetrate
them,and begin gently paddling the water
with the movement of the hands from the
wrist only. Extend your legs quietly and
slowly in a line with your body. If you
raise your arms or your legs above the
surface of the water yon will sink, bnt if
yon have the presence of mind not to do
so, or struggle about, yon will never
sink, so long as you keep paddling gent
ly, without exertion, with jour hands,
and so you may float on until you are
picked np or until you are numbed by the
cold.
You cannot get rid of the figure
nine by multiplication; and scarcely by
any method. Whatever yon do is snre to
turn np again, as was the boy of Eugene
Aram's victim. One remarkable property
of this figure (said to have been first dis
covered in 1794) is that all through the
multiplication table the product of nine
comes to nine. Multiply by what yon
like, and it gives the same result. Begin
with twice nice, 18; add the digits to
gether, and 1 and 8 makes 9;. three times
nine are 27; and 2 and 7 are nine. So it
goes on, up to eleven times nine which
gives 99. Very good; add the digits; 9
and 9 are 18, and 8 and 1 are 9. liomg
on to any extent it is impossible to get
rid of the -figure nine. Take a couple of
instances at random. Three hundred and
thirty-nine times nine are 3,051; add np
the figures and they are nine. Five thou
sand and seventy-one times oine are 45,639;
the sum ot these digits is 27; Z and 7 are
nine. : , - . . :. -
IW The National Park is in the north
western part of Wyoming and has been
set apart as the property of the nation.
It is celebrated for its beautiful scenery
and for the natural wonders which it con
tains. Among them are the most remark
able geysers in the world, hot springs,
water-falls and canons. These geysers
throw up columns of water to a height of
"om unJ lo .
m,pertt,?,re ,n
from fifty to two hundred feet, and the
some cases reaches 200
Fahrenheit.
IW r A , Connecticut man will start
1 from the headwaters of the, Yellow-
i stone, in Montana, for New Orleans, in a
I skiff. -; Distance to be travelled, 3,000
I runes.
January 1,1881.