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I " ! " ' ' 1 r j : ""rw,"ft,''"MMMyi"""i - Sj W w 4y 4 4 4x gj J wl 4y " yLl Ijy 41111!) IP li 4 . - - " '' " 1 - ' "" ," ', " ii ... -I.... i ii. , , " ST OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXII. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1884'. New Series VOLUME XHT NUMBER 653 1 1- i THE Charlotte Home - Democrat, Published evert Pbidat by YATES & STRONG. Terms Two Dollars for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. o Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. q as second class matter," according to the ales of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, and Teton Fifth Streets. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1882. f - tT O. SMITH & OO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 11, 1883. J. P. Mc Combs, M. D., i Oilers 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. 1,1884. ,A. BURWELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practii in the State and Federal Courts, Office .adjoining Court House. Jan. 1,1884. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, i CHARLOTTE, N. C. Offite'mW.rown's building, opposite Charlotte Oaa '.used SUe painless extraction of teeth. FebLS,i8S. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. Jan. 1..1884, HOFFMAN & ALEXANDERS, Surgeon Dentists, Charlotte, IT. C. OflW ovpr A. R. Nisbet & Bro.'e store. Office hours from 8 A. M., to 5 P. Dec. 14, 1883. M. J. 8. SPENCER. J- C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, College Street, Charlotte, N. C. AGENTS FOR Rockingham Sheetings and Pee Dee Plaids. Special attention given to handling Cotton on Consignment. .' April 13, 1883. W. H. FARRIOR, I Practical Watch-dealer and Jeweler, Charlotte, N. C, IK.eeps Al stock of haudsome Jewelry, and Clocks, t$ps&icle3, etc.. wmcn i win sen ai (fair prices. Repairing, of .fcc.welry, Watches, Clocks, &c, tdone promptly, anf. atisiaction assured. Store next to Spripjgi' corner building. .Juiy.l..l883. .SPRINGS & .?jaWELL, (Grocers and Provision Dealers, lllave always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, tfyruys, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Mams, Four, Grass Seeds, Plows, which we t .l .1 IITI 1 lVVi -1. ill .11 oserxo oom tue yyuoiesaie ana tsiajj, paue. ah are iacited to try $8, kcmte smallest 'Jhe lar gest. Jan. t. IL84. LEItOY SPK1JIOS. E. B SPRINGS. E. . JBpRWEJUL LEROY SPRINGS & CO., 'Grocers and Commission Merchants, Lancaster, S. C. Jan. 11, 1884. E. M. ANDREWS, Charlotte, N. C. FURNITURE, Coffins and Caskets, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Fob. 9, 1883- yr HARRISON WATTS. Cotton Buyer, Corner Trade and College Sts., up- Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 14, 1883. A. HALES, Practical Watch-Maker and DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW ELRY, SPECTACLES, &c, &c. Fine and difficult Watch Repairing a Specialty. 'Work promptly done and warranted twelve imontbs. A. nALES, Central Hotel Building, Trade street. Sept. 7, 1883. 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 tyle and at short notice. His best exertions will be given to render satisfaction to those who pat ronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel. January i,iS4. 3. E. CARSON. C. M. CARSON. CARSON BROTHERS, Storage and Commission Merchants, Fourth St., between Tryon and College. Prompt attention given to the purchase or sale of COTTON, TOBACCO. FLOUR. BACON AND GRAIN, And consignments of above for Storage solicited Terms reasonable and as low as any other 4iouse in tne city. Oct. 12, 1883. 6m The Smallest Savings Bank. The smallest savings bank in the world, the directors of which are the smallest direc tors in the world, is the Irvine Penny Savings bank of Brooklyn, established in Public school No. 9. It has. according to its last annual 'report, 144 accounts, and the total amount in bank was 1267.33. The bank pays four per cent, interest on sums over f 5. .bach depositor has a tiny bankbook. The officers of the batik are boys and girls. The accounts are audited quarterly by the trustees of the school. The bank receives one-cent deposits. COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF VALUABLE FARMING LANDS ! By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court in the case of Elizabeth Wilson et. al., against Lena May Morton et al., heirs-at-law of Mc Wilson Miller, deceased, I will sell for partition on Mon day, 3d of March, 1884, at the Court House door in the city of Charlotte, at 12 o'clock, M , all the real estate of the late McWilson Miller, em bracing six Tracts of LAND in Crab Orchard Township, in Mecklenburg county, on the waters of Reedy Creek, between bOO and 900 Acres. 1 he hrst Tract, containing 329 Acres, known as the Ezekiel Johnston Tract. The second Tract of 266 Acres, adjoining the first tract and Jos. P. McGinnis' land and others. The third Tract of 73 Acres, except that part sold to Hucks. The fourth Tract of 120 Acres, adjoining above Tract. The fifth Tract of 80 Acres, adjoining above Tract. The sixth Tract of 20 Acres, adjoining above Tract. All these Tracts constitute a valuable Tract of Land on the waters of Reedy Creek, and adjoin ing each other and the lands of J. K. .Baker, Cyrus Morrison, Jackson Wilson and others. Before day of sale said Lands will be sub divided into tmall farms as far as practicable, and plats of some will be made, one of which will be found in the Clerk's office and other with undersigned. Terms One-third cash, one-third in nine months, and the balance in 20 months. Pos session given on confirmation of sale. Title re tained. W. M. FLOW, Feb. 1, 1884. 5w Commissioner. Charlotte Land for Sale. On 15th of February, at Court House, 65 Acres, where Joe Orr now lives, only 2 miles from the city, on Lawyer's Road. Terms cash, or good bankaoie paper. . RUFUS BARRINGER, Jan. 25, 1884. 4w Trustee. PUBLIC SALE OF A Valuable Farm and Home In Gorton County, JV. C. By virtue of an order of the U. S. Circuit Court at Charlotte, rendered at the December Term, 1883, in the case of J. McD. Mclntyre et. al., against JS. D. Thompson and others, tne sud scribers, who are appointed special Commission ers, for that purpose, wili offer for sale at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, that ex cellent FARM lying on both sides of Hoyle's Creek in Gaston county, adjoining the Lands of John C. Moore, Messrs. Cloninger and oth ers, known formerly as the "Lee Moore Gold Mine Tract," containing, by survey, about Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven Acres, together with the Dwelling and out-houses necessary .to a con venient occupation of the .Homestead. The sale will he made without' any reserva tion of mines, ores, &C, which before the dis covery of the California mines, w.ere said to have been profitably worked on these premises, and which may yet contgip valuable deposits of the precious metals, as they lie jn the same range of mineral deposits as the Robinson and Ring's Mountain Gold Mines, both in Gaston county. This farm is in a compact form and lies well to the Sun, and is in a good state of cultivation, C reducing cotton and grain of fine quality. The ottom-lands are inexhaustible and are well, drained, and the Greek hill-sides are nearly as rich and are easily cultivated. The tract is well watered by springs. The sale will take place at BREVARD'S STATION, (Carolina Central Railway,) On Saturday, Ibth day of February, 1884, At 12 o'clock, M. The premises are now in the occupancy of E, D. Thompson, who will show the Land and give full information. Tne place is eligibly situated for trade and market, twelve miles from Lincoln ton. about eighteen irom Charlotte, four miles from Dallas, the county seat, two and a half miles from Brevard's Station, Carolina Central Railway, and same distance from "Hardin Sta tion," Narrow Gauge Railroad. The situation is healthy and attractive; a handsome Grove of native oaks surround the residence, and there is an Orchard of Apple an d Peach trees. The timbered land is sufficient for all farm purposes, fuel, &c. 1 he sale being by order of Court and by con sent .of parties, the title is perfectly good. Belling as Commissioners we will convey the Tjile under the Court's order. TTlfi TPTW of Sale One-half of the purchase money in cash on the day of sale, and the residue on a jcredit of nine months, the pur chaser giving bond and good security, bearing eight per cent interest until paid, and the con veyance of tne title jo ne witnneio unui pay ment in full, the purchaser to have the option of paying the whole purchase money in cash. Possession will be given immediately. W. H. BAILEY, R. D. JOHNSTON, Jan. 11, 1884. 6w Commissioners- The Greatest" Discovery of the Age. MORRIS' CURE FOR CHOLERA, AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE HOG. An Infallible Remedy. Every farmer and owner of hogs should have a package always on hand. ' The price is so low that all can buy it. It never fails when the Hog can eat. For sale by WILSON BROS., Druggists, Jan. 18, 1884 Charlotte, N. C. NEW Carriage Repository, Tryon Street, Next Door to Wadsworttfa Livery Stable, CHARLOTTE, N. C. A full line of Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons, Spring Wagons, &c, Including the Louis Cook Manufacturing Com pany and Columbus Buggies, at wholesale and retail. A. C. HUTCHISON & CO. Dec. 7, 1883. 6m Keep Nothing from Mother. "Now listen to me my little one, There's one thing thou should'st fear, Let never a word to my love be said That mother should not hear. "No matter how true, my darling one, The words may seem to thee, They are not fit for my child to hear If they are not fit for me. "If thou'lt ever keep thy young heart pure, Thy mother's heart from fear, Bring all that is told to thee by day At night to mother's ear." Christian Advocate. Certificates of Liberty. How Time has erased letters and syllables from the Great national Document. Few people know that the original Declaration of Independence is kept in the library ol the state Department. It is in a cherry case aud under glass. But the doors are thrown open all day long and strong rays of light are eating up its ink day by day. The Constitution is written on parchment. The text of it is in a baud as fine as copper-plate and the ink of this part can still be plainly read. The signature?, however, are written in a different ink, and they are very fast dis appearing under the action of the light. The bold signature of John A. Hancock is faded almost entirely out. Only a J, o, h and an H remains. Two lines of names are entirely removed from the pa per ; not a vestige of ink remains to show that names were ever there. Ben Frank lin's name is entirely gone. Roger Sher man's name is fast fading. I could not find the name of Thomas Jefferson, and Elbridge Gerry has lost its last syllable. Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Charles Carroll and John Adams have been scoured off by the' light, and only eleven names out of the fifty odd can be read without a microscope. Just below the Constitution lies the original of it in Jefferson's handwriting. It is on foolscap paper, yellow with age, and worn through where the manuscript has been folded. The writing is fine and close, and the whole Constitution occupies but two pages. The ink is good, and it remains as fresh as when it left the quill of Jefferson over one hundred years ago. It is full of erasures and interlineations, Borne of which are in Franklin's hand writing and others in the strong script of John Adams. tslf" When you come upon a poisonous reptile, though it may not harm you, you destroy it because it may sting and kill somebody else. This is just what ought to be done with a bad book or newspaper. Christian Advocate. We must look downward as well as upward in human life. Though many have passed you in the race, there are many you have left behind. NEW YEAR'S GREETING. Seeing. that our past endeavors have been fully appreciated by bur patrons by their constant in crease of patronage from year to year, we will show our appreciation of it by making still greater exertions' to have on our counters at all times the .Goods that our patrons' want at prices that tell and give satisfaction. On our Bargain Counter for the next two or three weeks will be found many gdods'at'.lessi .i -vr ir l . u . j -v rr y Dan IXtiW lum cost, nuuu aa Hosiery, &oyes, Collars ond Culfs, White 2oo,ds, Reinnjmts of Cashmeres, Momie Cloths, bc7 &c. Constantly kept in stock, a good supply of Bleached and Unbleached Domestic Linsays. Ala mance Plaids, Pants Goods, Boots, Shoes, Cloth ing, Hats, Caps, Trunka anj Valises. To those who have not given us their patron? age in the past we extend a cordial inyitatjon to give us a trial. T. L- SEJGLE & CO. Jan, 25, 1884- The Attractions AT Wittkowsky & Baruch's This week are REALLY MARVELOUS ! 250,000 yards Hamburg Edgings and Insert ings at less than cost of importation. Carpets. Rugs, Oilcloths and Mattings at lower prices than ever before. THE FINEST ASSORTMENT op Black and Colored Silks Ever shown in this market and at the lowest prices. Housekeeping Goods, Table Linens, Towels, Cottons, Sheetings, Quilts, Blankets, &c, marked way t down to close them out REMNANTS: OF ALL KINDS AT ABOUT HALF PRICE. Remarkable Bargains in BOOTS and SHOES. Great Bargains in every Department. Samples sent on application. WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH, Jan. 25, 1884. Charlotte, N. C. An Interesting: Research by an Eminent German Physician. Prof. Tyndall sends to the London Times a letter giving the summary of a lecture recently delivered in Berlin by Dr. Koch, showing the results of his re searches to 'prove that tubercular con sumption is caused by a parasite. In giving an account of Koch's experiment, be says: "Of six guinea-pigs, all in good health, four were inoculated with bacilli derived originally from a human lung, which iu fifty-four days had produced five succes sive generations. Two of the six animals were not infected. In every one of the infected cases the guinea-pig sickened and lost flesh. After thirty-two days ono of them died, and after thirty-five days the remaining hve weie killed and examined. In the guinea-pig that died, and in the three remaining infected ones, stroDgly pronounced tubercular disease had set in. Spleen, liver and lungs were found filled with tubercles; while in the two unin fected animals no trace of the disease was observed. In a second experiment, six out of eight gninea-pigs were inoculated with cultivated bacilli, derived originally from the tuberculous lung of a monkey, bred and rebred for ninety-five days, un til eight generations had been produced. Every one of these animals was attacked, while the two uninfected guinea-pigs re mained perfectly healthy. Similar ex periments were made with cats, rabbits, rats, mice, and other animals, and without exception, it was found that the injection of the parasite into the animal system was iollowed by decided and, in most cases, virulent tubercular disease. In the cases thus far mentioned inocu lation had been effected in the abdomen. The place of inoculation was afterward changed to the aqueous humor of the eye. Three rabbits received each a speck of bacillus-culture derived originally , from a human lung affected with pneumonia. Eighty-nine days had been devoted to the culture of the organism. I he infected rabbits rapidly lost flesh, and alter twenty-five days were killed and exam ined. The lunsrs of every one of them were charged with tubercles. Of three other rabbits, oqe received an injection of pure bloodserum in the aqueous humor of the eye, while the other two were in fected in a similar way, with the same serum, containing bacilli derived origin ally from a diseased lung and subjected to ninety-one days cultivation. Alter twenty-eight days the rabbits were killed. The one which had received an injection of pure serum was found perfectly healthy, while the lungs of the two others were found overspread with tubercles. What is a "Sheeny?" In summing up for the defendant in the suit of Adolph Salbrig against Samuel Katzyke, tried be fore Judge Reynolds in the City" Court, lawyer Morris Godhardt edified the court, jury and ppectators with a lucid explana tion of the origin and significance ol the term "Sheeny." Mr Godhardt said that it came from the words "Meesa," a He brew word, which means death, and "Mashinnah," a Sanskrit word, which originally signified sudden. Collectively these two words signified sudden death. They were first applied as a mark of op- probiura to the Israelites by the Higyp- tians while they were in bondage in Egypt, and were afterward applied to eacn other lor tne same purpose auring forty-years' wanderings in the wilderness. Alter the Israelites arrived in Palestine the epithet continued to be applied to them by the surrounding tribes, and it has clung to them to the present day, after having been corrupted to its present lorm of "Sheeny." Originally it was "Meesa- Mashinna'.or "Sudden Death." Brook lyn- Union. IST The scene of the battle of Pitts burg Landing was visited the other day by a correspondent of the Call of Peoria, 111. He says that farmers still gather lead aud iron in the field, and that one mer chant shipped over 3,000 pounds of old bullets last year, The other day a child found a shell that exploded after it had been buried for twenty-one years. Of the 3,500 soldiers whose remains lie in the cemetery, 2,381 were unrecognized. Two large iron cannon serve as columns at the gate of the cemetery. The grave nearest them is that of the "Drummer Boy of Shiloh." Albert Sidney Johnson died under a large tree that stood near by; but of the tree there is only the stump re maimnsr. and the spot is marked by a H' a " young evergreen. flw The tendency ot social talk is shallowness. When people meet in mis cellaneous crowds they put their most superficial ideas outermost, and become social on their lowest plane of thought The sensitive and refined retire within themselves and let coarser persons lead the company and 'direct the current of conversation. This explains why a man who lacks education, ideas and polished manners, and disobeys the plainest rules of etiquette, will push his way among ladies and make himself the apparent centre of admiration, with an ease which is the despair of men more delicately or ganized and better informed. Memphis Appeal. THE SPRING TERM OF THE Female Charlotte Institute Begins January 28th and continues 20 weeks. This Institute is not surpassed in any respect by anv first-class Institute in the South. It s Jr n fessor of Music and the Instructress in Fine Arts, are of unequalled ability and success in their several departments. The graduates in music of this Institute attain to a standard of taste and culture rarely reached in any school. It's Art pupils, with no more time devoted to it than in other schools, have given in both North and South Carolina such exhibits of their work as have never been equalled elsewhere in the South. The reason of this superiority is that only teachers of approved experience are engaged. Every department is kept up to the same high standard of excellence and thoroughness. Rev. Wm. R. ATKINSON, Principal. Charlotte, N. C, Jan.. 4, 1884. 7wpd WANTED, A select School of fifteen, twenty or twenty-five Scholars. Salary not less than $50 per month. Apply to A. J. HARRISON, Jan. 4, 1884. tf Monroe, N. C. , For Youn People of All Ages. BY FRANK A. HILL. Everybody has seen the gray and the white of the mottled moon; everybody. too, knows there are mountains tip there, some of which look like dead volcanoes. But there are some, doubtless, who are not aware how far study of the moon's surface has beeu carried, how elaborately that surface has been mapped. On a lunar map before me there are depicted more than 500 craters, plains and mountains to w-hicb special names have been given, to say uothing of thousands of unnamed de tails. . Surpassing this is that laborious work to which Schmidt devoted thirty-four years of his life, a map more than six feet in diameter, with the astonishing number of 32,856 craters represented upon it, to say nothing cf other features. And yet it is on too small a tcale to show minor points to advantage. In 1866 the British Association issued sections of a map that. if completed, would show the moon with a diameter ol almost seventeen feet, but the work has not been carried far. , A sharp eye can make out. unaided, a few of the larger craters. A good opera- glass brings put scores of them. So, too, when the morning suu of a lunar day falls obliquely on the mountain-lops just inside the crescent, the opera-glass reveals them as shining islands in a dark sea. With telescopes even of moderate power the de tails increase with surprising rapidity. Of , course there are limits, aud they are soon reached, but within them no heavenly body responds so well as the moon to the searching caze of science. Even when the old moon is in the arms of the new, that is, when its sunless disc is faintly seen by the earth-light reflected from it, the telescope can pick out the more con spicuous objects. How small are the smallest omenta a telescope can distinguish ? If some lunar Boston should take fire, some lunar Vesu vius steam up, would the smoke and flames appreciably discolor that pearly disc i the natives of Tenenffe wanted to know if Piazzi Smyth could see the goats up there, skipping from ledge to ledge. buppose a power of a thousand; diame rs, a power not often used with profit. It brings the moon, or a piece of it, to within 240 miles of the observer. What of it? Ml. Washington may be seen from the coast of MaiLe clearly outlined against the horizon sky. It is only ninety miles away, but the distance is great enough to dwarf out. of sight the carriage road, the summit houses, everything: but the bare profile, and would dwarf them out of sight, il, for ninety miles of light.absorb- ing air, -we should substitute the clearness of that space that separates us from the moon. So, in spite of the highest skill, a lunar plain may persist in looking smooth when it is as rough as the slopes of llecla. Drop St. Peter's or the Pyramids upon the moon and they might"" be seen as masses' better revealed by their shadows than by themselves, mere lunar specks, certainly with nothing Roman or Egyptian about them, and probably nothing human. A power ol six thousand diameters has been tried on the moon, bringing it to within forty miles of the earth, but this power magnifies the tremors of the air as well as the moon. Objects cloud up with films, dance about, and disappear at times altogether. Ihe true site for such a power is above the air, beyond the reach of its dusty, Beething currents some such site as Archimedes wanted for the ful crum of his lever, when he dreamed of moving the world. The next best place is some mountain summit, not so high as to stop the astronomer's breath, nor so low as to plunge him into the mist and dirt like .VI t. Hamilton in California, the site of the Lick .Observatory. JNext to the moon, as a whole, the gray parts are the most obvious. Though called seas, bays, lakes, marshes, they are nothing of the sort. On the Ocean of Storms, the storms never rage; on the Sea of Showers, the showers never fall over tne Sea ot Jlouds, the mists never gather. No trace of water in any form nas ever oeen lound. utber names are equally fanciful, like the Marsh of Slum ber, the Sea of Danger, the Sea of Nectar, Smyth's Sea is more intelligible. The moon is rich in mountains. They may stand alone like Alt. lluygens, a grand mass that rises 20,000 feet above the surface, or form ranges whose names in many cases are borrowed from the earth. There are the Appennines with their thousands of peaks whose highest summits may, at the right time, be seen by the unaided eye, giving to the moon a broken edge. There, too, are the Alps, the Caucasus and the laurus. Highest of all are the Leibnitz peaks, some of which measure six miles, and one, the highest on the moon, attains the dizzy altitude of nearly seven miles. By far the most numerous and the most unique structures on the moon are those that are classified as walled plains, ring- plains, craters, saucer-shaped depressions, and the like. Neison, in his work on the moon, describes minutely hundreds of them. Copernicus, for example, is a "gor geous ring-plain," fifty-six miles across it, and surrounded by "magnificent walla" crowned by bright peaks, perhaps fifty in number, appearing "under favorable con ditions of illumination as a circlet of pearls amidst the brilliant background." The wall is two miles high, gradually sloping on the outside, very steep towards the in terior. The walls of Tycho, another ring plain, are three miles high, mere is a mountain in the center as large as Mt. Washington. Were it as colossal as Mont Blanc, the lunarian from the crest of the ring might still look down on its summit. Clavius, the grandest cavity of the moon, is 142 miles broad. At leastninety smaller craters have been counted in this vast pit and the ring of mountains that border it. From the highest pinnacle of the encircling wall to the floor of this plain, it is three miles; and to the bottom of one of the craters at its base, nearly five miles. And yet "of this gigantic bul wark," says Mr Webb, "not a trace can be discovered in the full moon." So changing and illusive are lunar reliefs un der varying illumination ! Sunrise, not our?, but the moon's, is the time for bring' ing out these reliefs with electric light contrast's of brightness and shadow. Such is the curvature of the moon, it being so much smaller than the earth that one might stand in the center of a arge ring-plain and not see : the bounding walls. Were the same plain on the earth. one at the center would see the wall on every side. If this seems for a moment strange, think of the horizon of a fly as it creeps around an apple. There is no end to these cup-like depressions. ; Schmidt, with his thirty thousand, has not ex- lausted them. How many more there may be buried in the shadows of a lunar morning or lost in the glory of a lunar noon, how many too small for the great- eyed telescope to catch, how many for ever hidden on the averted side of the moon, is past conjecture. What caused them r science says Don't know," and then proceeds to an swer.. "Volcanoes," eays one; "the force that would send a stone a mile on the earth, would hurl it six miles at the moon, for the resistance of gravity there is one sixth of what it is with ua. This six-fold displacement with equal causes wilt ac count for the gigantic disturbances of the moon or, at least, many of them." "Huge bodies," guesses another, "falling on the moon in some old, plastio mood, sinking into the fiery mud and splashing up jagged walls around the depression that hardened these. . Such a meteoric hail storm might, at any rate, explain Bome of the smaller craters." "The rough, blistered surface of a molton mass in its last spasmodic bubblifigs," says a third. "The remains of molten lakes, left unfrozen in the gen eral cooling and crusting over of the once fiery globe, with alternate shrinkings and overflowings because of some fluctuating power beneath," conjectures a fourth. riesides the craters there are valleys and gorges. Some of them are quite nar row and run through everything in a way that looks lawless. They are called clefts, canals, rills, but look as much like huge cracks as anything else. A thousand of them are known. From a few of the craters, sometimes from the ring, sometimes from the center, there issue bright streaks, very conspicu ous, and, like most things in the moon, ex ceedingly aggravating to those who want to know their meaning. They show very prominently in photographs of the moon. ndeed, lunar photographs remind one of a peeled orange, the bright streaks stand ing for the sutures that radiate from the gentle depression where you begin to peel. it is interesting to notice how knowl edge quickens the imagination and deep ens the enthusiasm. Here is a lunar shadow, there the peak that casts il. The untrained observer sees them, a patch of black, a point of light, and that is all ; no more to him than a primrose to Peter Bell, (a yellow primrose and nothing more." The traiued astronomer knows what time of the lunar day it is, what re- ation in shape and size the shadow bears to the peak that easU it, and, in general, the particular - scale to whiUh his - fancy should work. At once the patches of dark aud light become the grandest of scenery. ihe problems of the moon's surface are numerous and absorbing. Do animals ive up there, plants grow, streams run ? Do rocks crumble, volcanoes rage, earth quakes rend? Is there trace of air or vapor? What causes that flush of color? How fares the moon under the burning heat of its long, cloudless day, under the terrible chill of its long, cloudless night ? May not the seat of lunar empire be on that mysterious other half? In short, is the moon what it seems to be, a dead world, rugged, cheerless - and almost changeless? That it is such a world, an extinguished ember, science is inclined to believe, but how can it ever be certain? Conpregationalist. - Heroism and its Recognition. In the quiet cemetery at Marion, in this State, is a monument that few people now living have any knowledge of, though it commemorates an act of heroic devotion in humble life more worthy of commemora tion than many that are heralded to the world by the trump of fame. It is a plain marble shaft, perhaps eighteen feet high, surmounting a granite pedestal, all in sim ple and unostentatious style and taste, The inscriptions on the four sides of the shaft tell the story, and are as follows : On the west : "Harry, a servant of H. Talbird, D. D president of Howard College, who lost his hie from injuries received while warning the students at the burning of the college building, on the night of October 1, 1854,- aged 23 years." On the south : "A consistent member of the Baptist Church, he illustrated the character of Christian servant, faithful unto death." a On the east : As a grateful tribute to his fidelity and to commemorate a noble act. this monument has been erected by the stu dents of Howard college and the Alabama Baptist convention." On the north : "He was employed as a waiter in the college, and when alarmed by the flames at midnight and warned to escape, replied I must wake the boys first,' and thus saved their lives at the cost of his own. lhis is all; but "storied urn nor ani mated bust," would tell no more, or better illustrate unselfish devotion to trust and bravery in the discharge of duty than was displayed by this humble- negro. The heroes of this life are not all found among the great men of earth. Montgomery Ala.) Advertiser. SEP' The newest use which has been made of luminous paint is its application to harness. By this means the position o: the horse is plainly seen at night, and the animal is not alarmed by his bright equipment. Cagr" In selecting fruit trees see that the bark is smooth and healthy; that they have entirely shed their leaves and have plenty of small, fibrous roots. A tree with leaves remaining on it after frost sets is unhealthy. EST" It takes a great many things to educate a man. Joy and sorrow; sun shine and shadow; hope and despair are all educators. It you repudiate your teachers you will only be partly educated. jsranson. -) Know Thyself. The average number of teeth islhirty- two. ' - ' . ' The average weight of an adult' i9 140 pounds, Bix ounces. The weight of the circuiting blood is about twentyeight pounds. ihe brain of a man exceeds twice that of any other animal. A man annually contributes to vegeta tion 124 pounds of carbon. One thousand ounces of blood passes through the kidneys in one honr. A man breathes about twenty times in a minute or 1,200 times in an hour. Ihe skeleton measures one inch less than the height of the living man. -. Ihe average weight ot a skeleton is about fourteen pounds. Number of bones, 240. The average weight of the brain of a man is three and a half pounds; of a wo man, two pounds, eleven ounces. A man breathes about eighteen pints oi air in a minute, or upward of seven hogs heads a day. rive hundred and forty pounds, or one hogshead, one and a quarter pints of blood pass through the heart in one hour. Twelve thousand pounds, or twenty- four hogsheads, four gallons, or 10,782 pints pass through the heart in two hours. The average height of an Englishman is five feet nine inches; of a Frenchman, five feet our inches; of a Belgian, five feet six and three-quarter inches. The average of the pulse in infancy is 20 per minute; in manhood, eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The pulse of females s more frequent than of males. One hundred and seventy-five million holes or cells are in the lungs,which would coyer a surface thirty times greater than the human body. The heart beats seventy-five times a minute; sends nearly ten pounds of blood through the veins and arteries each beat; makes four beats while we breathe once. A man gives off 4.08 per cent, carbonic gas of the air he respires; respires 10,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in twenty- four hours; consumes 20,000 cubic feet of oxygen in twenty-four hours, equal to 125 cubic inches ot common air. Exercise as a Remedy for the Nervous. "When I reflect on the immunity of hard-working people from the effects of wrong and over-leedmg," says- Dr. 15oer- have, "I cannot help thinking that most of. , our fashionable diseases might be cured. mechanically instead of chemically, by . climbing a bitterwood-tree, or chopping down, if you like, rather than swallowing a decoction of its disgusting leaves." " For male patients, gardening in all - its branches is about as fashionable, as the said disease, and no liberal man would shrink from the expense of a board fence, if it would induce his drug-poisoned wife to try her hand at turf-spading, or, as a last resort, at hoeing or even a bit of wheelbarrow-work. Lawn tennis will not answer the occasion. There is no need of going to extremes and exhausting the lit tle remaining strength of the patient, but without a certain amount of fatigue the specific fails to operate, and experience will show that labor with a practical pur pose gardening, boat-rowing, or amateur carpentering enables -people to beguile themselves into a far greater amount of hard work than the drill-master of a gym nasium could get them to undergo. Be sides the potential energy that turns hard ships into play-work, athletes- have the further advantage of a greater disease-re sisting capacity. Their constitution does not yield to every trifling accident ; their nerves can stand the wear and tear of or dinary excitements; a little change in the weather does not disturb their sleep; they can digest more than other people. Any kind of exercise that tends to strengthen not a speoial set of muscles, but the muscular system is general has a proportionate influence on the general vigor of the nervous organism, and there by on its pathological power of resistance. Jb or nervous children my hrst prescrip tion would be the open woods and a merry playmate ; for the chlorotic affec tions of their elder comrades some di verting, but withal fatiguing, form of manual labor. In the minds of too many, parents there is a vague notion that rough work brutalizes the character. The truth is, that it regulates its defects ; it calms the temper, it affords an outlet to things that would otherwise vent themselves id fretfulness and ugly pabSTons. ' Most school-teachers know that city children are more fidgety, more irritable and mis chievous than their village comrades; and the most placid females of the genus homo are found, among the well-fed but hard-working housewives of German Pennsylvania.-From "The Remedies of Nature? by Dr. Helix L. Oswald, in Pop ular Science Monthly. .. i " ST Matthew Arnold is quoted as say ing to a Chicago reporter : "I find one; thing in America which impresses me. It is the tendency of the people" to flock to the cities and to seek an education that will fit them for clerical rather, than manuel labor. This is bad and is to be regretted.as the demands of the country are more -for manual labor than for such duties as the people generally are anxious to prepare themselves for. It is a great mistake that the tendency of the young people especi ally is for city life." In the United States treasury the "scrub woman" alone get over 113,000 per year, though, as there are seventy-five of them, it is easy to see that their salaries are not munificent. They go to the Treas ury building in the afternoon, just as the clerks and other employes are leaving, and as soon as they are oot of the building set to work to sweep and dust and scrub the whole building, and are done their duties within a couple of hours. t3 No Norwegian girl is allowed to have a beau until she can bake bread and knit stockings, and, as- a consequence, every girl can bake and knit long before she can read or write,and she doesn't have to be coaxed into her industry, either. Elmira Free Press,