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VOL. -XIV. . GRAHAM, .N; C THURSDAY, MAY -1 Or; 1 888 . FQ 1 r. PROFUSION AL CARDS. . JAG,E.EO-rD, r ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, - . .Gteenboro, N. C. i. Will bs at (Indiam on Monday of each imch ' s attend to professional busliies. sep 16) I". H. Whitaker, Jr. C E. McLkan. WTAKER & MoLEAN", V; J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, - g'raha a, , - jv. c elf)-- is n .iiyw -I- J . .in .. j: T. I ernodle r ATTORNEY AT LAW : .i UkAII A.M..N.C. '' 4 Practice 111 llie btate aud Federal Conrs , will Jalihfu'.lr aud prompt!; attend to all bn - r- arMUtrueted to him ........ , . ,; DJl O. r. WHITSETT, C .. f '-.-j Dontlut , ; ... T-'i . -' W ill aiHff VlHic Aiaiuaui:e. una in ,: tf.e country tUiended. Atidretw me at . ; ; YlpAanoknl-n ... ..... , j -in,--. lleG .H tf ADYERTIBEMENT. ; STEWART, JR., tiKAIIAM, N. C.f . DEALER IN ; k., Watches CLOCKS JEWELKY ' Repairing of all kinds promptly done. Pat ronnge solicited. Call on blitt one door weg if Harden'a Drug 8tre . raar!tfr Real Estate Agency. PASSES ,& "ZSSNOSLS,- Agents, GRAHAM, N. C. I A plantation one mile from Me bane.iii Alomance county, containing 168 acre 45 acres in original growth. M In piues, ln in cultivation. .The place Is, we.l watered, a week and two branches runnlnc : rhroOL'li iti A Hho orchard, 8 fd tobacco barns, tenement ISonseaCifiiod feed linrus, an 8-room dwelling with biiserocitt and L. and 'KOMI well of water, are on lfe,: Convenient f ihurchesi school, and a Kod new mill 1 In h mile of the house. It Is a desirable fa.ir adap'ed to th a growth of tobacco, trruin and frosses. Plareels soedeil hi w'..oat and oatf. oeacaaionHva aionce. Price flSOOO. 1aiil8 DONT 3UY, ' Sell of exdiaiiite any kind of new or second hand Max-blnerr. Busrele. Ac, before ot tainliisr Prices jrom W. R. Burg"', Manager, r-nbro,' N. 0. IHrpe line f KiiJiiics, Boilers, Mills. 8haftior Wood-worklnir Ma rhinerv. yinvshera. Colton-tjInH, Prestes, Light eoraoliVcs, Pole Eoad I Jicomotlves. Bol.or -feeder, Lubricators. IVibacc.i Ma chinery. Oils. alinoet any Uiinxyuu want at whole sale prices. - Say wlmt you rant, mention this paper and luve inwney.- v , ; , Bcpt 12, 87-iy. . SUFFOLK : Colegiatejhtutc. ; T. -i. t TirRTERED 1872., . ' rrparal4irg, Practical or,Finihing in - -." Lias , Matnemattc,'acienee$ , . and ike Fin Art. - P. J.mNODLS. A. M., Principal. "Terms reasenabte. itotit sexes admitted lit dihtiuct departi.ieuu. - Thn next sessiou oicns Mondav. Sent. 19th ' 18S7. Write to the princlpa' f'r catalojjne at fcuBolk, va. . aug. 11, u, f FREEIIAII & CO BURLINGTON, - - N. C. Driip", Meiciaefl, Paint. Oil, Var- iiIkIics, Toilut au.l ,lIedUted . , Son pa."'. Tiolen, Bunjo aud - Guilarjtrings of the beat make alway in atock. ; rhyaicinn rr8criplion aud fomily recipra and tpecialtiea. '" A' V. 0. HTJinJLEY, Insura out GREENSBORO, N. C' . . ... r - ' Fire, LIFE, Accident -' " V . i ' SuOffica oppusila Ibe Court Ilanae, Korlh Elm llrett.' Oal3-t' - FOT1 SATiTI ! 3 Lot wttbla corporau Hn.lta of Grabasa cm talos a acrta; 1 rooaa Ottawa H. well, alry, b -rn. (,oJ srlrrUow f rait treca auy lti'nj rlttcs. Apply to TAEKER A KEK-VOPLE, AKt. THE SUPPLY OF MUSK, r , Perfumes that tho Jersey Blnrahes Tnr- ulsb. for Ladies', llandkorchlefs. s ! A reporter wna .in a dfug store thei ot.'tcr evening. Tne store is kept by a friend of his. A lady came in and bought an ounce of musli extract. After Blie had gone out the reporter said to his -friend, the druggist: - -' ; "I dare say tliut the race of fragile, ' but aromntio, little denr front- wliicB musk is obtained must lie nearly- extinct by this time, is it not?" ; : , .-. i "Not the fragile and aromatic Utile deer that furnishes, the musk I sell," re plied the drnggixt.' "That fragile and aromatic littledeer isn't any nearer ex tinction now than he was when, ho first began to dire and burrow, and that was away back in the pristine years. 'j . .. s "Why I" exclaimed the reporter. "Tho; animal that supplies the musk of com merce lives among the palm clad hills of Central Asia, wLsre picturesque native hunters follow its tiny track, risking their lives and undergoing great toil and hardships to secure the almost infinites!-' Dial sao which envelopes the precious, perfume, and by painful journeys of miles and miles they bear it to the marts of trade, where it is sold for many times Its ' weight in gold. Everybody knows .that.".- - Y- ; -'-,:-" . 'Yes," said the druggist, "I've heard of that . But the way I find it now is different' The animal that supplies the . musk of commerco around these parts Uvea largely in those luxuriant realms of bog and malaria known as the Jersey marshes, where tho following of its track is attended with no risk tolifo, no. toil,' no hardiihip. I never knew it to be at tended with much but a jug of rum and a long handled epear. The hunters are picturesque, though. An old fur cap, a Urge chew of tobacco oozing over an un protesting red chin whisker, nnd a pair -of gum boots filled with the legs of .hick ory overalls, and a long, lank Jerseyman. That ought to pass for picturesque, hadn't it f But hone of these hunters ever said anything to me about an ' infin itcsimal . sac, enveloping precious per fume, nor ever complained about having to journey many painful miles and miles to reach tho marts of trade; nor have I any recollection of their demanding many 'times its weight in gold for the precious perfume. . Not any hunters that I over dealt wilh didn't. They just jumped aboard' a ferryboat, landed on this aide and hoofed it up here, ftnd, chucking on the' conn tor what he had to sell, said: " 'Thar ye be Kernel! Didn't have much luck yist'd'y, an' only slashed the pods out o' ten. ' They're bang up uns," though- O't to be wuth ten cents a pair, Kernel.' " , "Do you mean to say'- the reporter began, but the druggist interrupted him. . "Yes," said he; '-I mean to say that the picturesque hunters who risk their lives on the t rail of the musk deer in the Central Asian mouAtains can do -better by packing' their grips and coming over here and chasing the wily muskrat on the Jersey , marshes. They might have to' .wear more clothes, but they'd get more musk and find a market right under their nose. Yes, my son. - The efleto orient is no place for tho musk hunter nowadays. " The robust Occident beckons him ond he iiad better come. He needn't fetch his spear with him. l'hey are plenty here at fifty cents per pear.'? t- -' - :. ';' . . .. ': . But somebody fells tho genuine ori ental musk yet, certainly," insisted the reporter ! - .. '-Yes;; oh, yes," said the druggist. "Thero's a good deal of it sold yet; but it's all nonsense. What 'a the use A drop of Jersey musk will reach just a far and last just as long as a drop of the most aristocratic article. that over came from Asia.,, A lady carrying a...drop of tho imported musk to church with her will not inako tho congregation a bit sicker than if she hod insinuated a drop of the' homo made stuff into her gar ments. Neither will the high collared voulh who sits down next to you at the tlieuiiOfulmlliig : iuiu$mxwx9A vt - sir Asiatic musk deer hunt, arouse in you any stronger desire to sweep upon hint as an army with banners and dust the floor with hinythaa will the same young man if he simply recalls to you the bolo where tho muskrat disappeared. Tlien what'a tho use? Tlioro ain't any; No ono can tell tho difference and I keep the home article. It's as good as the best and can be sold for less. - Mind you, I say can bo old for less. . Borne of the finest and most delicate colognes i sell today are .made from the aromatic' secretion of tho muskrat of tho Jorsey wanshes. I men tion myself, but if I should place 100 New York, druggists in a bunch and let yon chuck a stone at tho bunch you couldn't hit a man in it who isn't on just as intimate relations wilh the Jersey muskrat as I am. " . "Then,- said thoTeporter, "the Jersey men who hunt the muskrat must mako a nice thing of it." ' '. As far as it (toes, yes," replied the druggist. - "But as ten or a doaen musk rat pods will make enough extract to last a year in any drug store with a fair trade) in perfumes, there might bo mora money in it than there is for the hunter. But then you tee tho musk pod isn'tT all there is to the muskrat. . lie is an animal of great resources, the muskrat ia. For in stance ho furnislics the material for ninny thousands of sealskin caps, muffa, gloves and trimmings, do yen can readily see that neither the musk deer, the seal, nor the rabbit need go off and be extinct so long as the great Amerk-an mnskrat lives, breathes and has his being." New York Evening Sun, The Taw la Cold Westha, ' Sit before retiring for the night with the feet in as hot water a can be. borne. Try patting the feet in a Lttlo at a time and taking out, then trying it a Uttle longer again and again, till yoa will be arprised bow hot yoa can bear it. git for a time, toy far ten or fifteen minutes, or longer if yoa 'cbooae, when your feet will be very red and look almost par boiled. Then taJu a crash towel and dry thoroughly. Beat before the fir tiD pTTfccUy dry, then draw on a pair of clean hose and go to bed. Yoa will l surprised, to see how warm your fert will be all next day. I do not advocate .wearing boae at night only after suou a fooUuth. -a- lew aocn txuim wiu grew you warm feet all winter; it Inui the blwl to the feet, tle lack of which make lJUaa coki. IX-Uxat I'm l"ns. . , A Nervy Jfldcety People. : We ore emphatically a people of t frves. Visitors from other lands are'astonisHed at tho fierce activity that pervades our most insignificant actions: but they thorn ' Helve? ' speedily contract restlossncM and no longtT marvel at wonaenui develop ments of invention and speed of practical application.; - A portion of this energy is doubtless due to American climate, which teaches in a vigorous and obtrusive man ner, that quiet and rest do not form part of natural law in this country, but it is far' mote" a result of our newness, -our youth in the family of nations. . Scarcely put of. our swaddling Clothes of history, wo are called upon to stand up squarely in competition with a thousand years of. past, ana Buow tne oia logies a new imug or two."" And -we have done it, are doing it now and' apparently have shouldered a contract to keep in the lead for all time to' come. '- What With new instru ments for annihilation of time and dis tance, limited express trains across the continent and unlimited chances for ex press speed in dissipation, the American temperament has already grown to be or a of great delicacy or nerve, uur cmiuren, at an age when their contemporaries in other lands are still at .school, relegate the '-old folk" to the rear; and father's opiniou is voted as "good, of course, but belongs to a past period." . ' . Yet. in all this mad speed, there is reason. It does not follow that wo live shorter lives than elsewhere, - even in length of years;, that is not tho case. We are not less capable 01 xeen appreciation of good things, when once they are in traduced to us; an the contrary, we are apt to see' beauty and say so, too, when not even a glance of pleasure shows that our slower neighbor has noticed.it. cut, from a medical point oft view, our tem perament is a dangerous one to tne state, in that it does most distinctly repress re production. The future American will be conglomerate; the blood of our fore fathers will -be so far diluted that ita characteristlc will be lost in foreign over flowing tide, which,'; if sluggish far its flow,- may still be of service by reclaim lnK from too much nervousness our fidgety people. --American Magazine. . Tricks f Eastern Wtlards. . ' , , Aldnrohman. the conqueror of northern Spain, according to the Moorish chronicle of the Calipha, once engaged a "master wizard, ' who introduced, himself by "making the shadow of a dial retreat by IS degs.," an exploit which, indeed, even Russian facilities of collusion would fail to explain. That same court wizard- it said to have predicted tho iasuo of the , ... . m . . i , r L . 1 T Dauie oi lours (ino unorica juui ivi uuuurj a full year before his royal patron crossed the Pyrennes; but in that branch of his ait at least his prestige can be challenged by the record of a modern specialist. The clairvovanto Lenormand, whose sanctum in the Rue Madeleine seems to have rivaled the popularity, and almost the emoluments, of tho Delphic oraole, fore told Col. Murat that his career would end A on "tne throne ot a King (certainly an augurmm of quite classic ambiguity;, and .that his fortune would carry him. far beyond the borders of his native land.' blio also assured ex-jacobin jiassere tnac the ghosts of the past would) not rise against hiin; and when TaUeyrana vis ited her hi the garb of a country curate she outlined his political vicissitudes in a way that convinced him that her keen eyes must havo penetrated either his dis guise or tho veil of the future. In 1803 Napoleon Jiiuisolf could no longer resist tho witchery of her growing fame, end one evening gave her a rendezvous in the library of the Tuileries. 'The rising clouds will pass, sire," said she, "and the star of your fortune will continue to mount higher and higher, for years to come, tiU"' "Oo on." " 'Till tho ninth year shall witness its cllne." r ' . "Etapresf" , "All beyond is dark, sire." The sibyl herself kept no record of her nredictions. but the unanimous testi mony nf Wmntemnnrnrira wenMrtif leave no doubt that what skeptics called her random shots resulted in an amazing number of hits. Dr. Felix I Oswald in Cosmopolitan. " - ; Two Irons tb) School Boom. A teacher in a city near New York had a small class in easy physiology. They had had several1 lessons on tho car, and had been so thoroughly drilled on the names and uses of all its parts, that when some visitors dropped , in the teacher was glad it happened to be tho hour for this class to recite. After ask ing several questions, and receiving ITonipt and correct answers, she said: "Wliat is the name of tho canal in the car?" ' .'-..: Tho child hesitated a moment, and then spoke op, loud and plain: "The E-rie canal!" - Tho visitors thought if she judged by the sound it was no wonder the child tliought the Erio canal ought to bo in the ear, and were, perhaps, better pleased than tho teacher was with the answer. Another teacher in the same city asked ono of ber acltolars the meaning of the word "vicissitude." "Change," was the reply. 'That if right," said the teacher, "now give me a sentence with the word vicissi tude in it" My mother sent me to the store to vicissitude a dollar UIL Christian Register.. nasjfr nt They are great travelers, and always go in a trot Their quadrupedal locomo tors are In aome way connected with an Internal granting arrangement This ca pability for locomotion, and their innate sinfulness, scientifically explain their ex istence in West Virginia and their an cestry. There is no authority far even supposing that all the swine historically deecribed as going down into the tea or lake with devils in them were drowned. The Sinaitic vatiean and Alexandrian manuncript say choked;" so I stake my aoentific reputation upon the- assertion, that tle raror back bogs of Went VirginU are descended from the survivors of those owned by the A. D. 1 pork raiser, for the reason that they have more devil in them than can possibly be compressed into modern pork, have cloven feet, a lona- tad. and never miss an opportunity to upset a bucket, eat a week's washing, oraqneaJ when the baby la aaierp." V-igarine , . THE OLD TIME TUMBLERS. f , Kb VTmj In Whleh. Table Glasses Came " to Havo That Kama. .' ' How many times ' a day do we uso a r ird without stopping to think what it means? Every day at luncheon aud at dinner wo drink out of a tumbler. . But, I, for one, never thought why the large glass that holds our milk or water was so called until, once upon a time, I hap pened to have luncheon at All SoubV college, Oxford. All Souls' is a .curious oollege. - It has no students or "under, graduates," as we call them in England. It consists of a master and a number of "fellows" men who have taken their degrees and have distinguished them selves as scholars. : There is a quaint old rule in Latin, that says a man to be a fel low of All Souls' must be "Well born, well dressed, and a moderately good doc tor in singing." . There is no question nowadays of singing! But of good breed ing and 'good scholarship there is. ' - And to be elected a fellow of All Souls' is a great honor. :,. , '. -" :,, .,.' "' . , One of the most distinguished fellows is Professor Max Muller, the great philolo gist, who, though- he is a German by birth and was not educated at Oxford, was elected to All Souls' as a mark' of respect for his immense learning. The "common room," or the fellows' smnJlcr dining room, is a delightful old place with its great fireplace and its walls c.ll wainscoted with black oak. while through the great window with its- heavy stone millions you look Out on to ancient ivy grown buildings round a quiet court which is filled with a space of velvet turf. On tho day of which I speak Professor. Max Muller was giving a luncheon in this splendid room to the charming and talented Princess Alice, the wife of . tho grand duke of Hesse Darmstadt, and second daughter of Queen Victoria. There were not a dozen guests besides the prin cess and her husband, and a very agree able luncheon we had, with pleasant talk on all kinds of interesting subjects. ": But what excited the curiosity of all the strangers present was a set of the most attractive - little round bowls ' of ancient silver, about the size of a large orange. They wero brought round, ac cording to the custom Of tho place, filled to the brim with the famous ale brewed in 'the college. . Those,' we were told, were tumblers, and we were speedily shown how they came by their names a fitting lesson for the guests of a philolo gist! When one of these littlo bowl was empty it was placed upon the table mouth downward. . Instantly, so perfect was its balance, it flew back into its proper position, as if asking to be filled again. No matter how it was treated, trundled along the floor, balanced carefully on its fide, dropped sud denly upon the toft, thick carpet, up it rolled , again , and : settled itself with a few gentle shakings and sayings into its place, like one of those India rubber tumbling dolls your baby brothers and sisters delight in. This, then, was the origin of our word tumbler, at first made of silver, as are these All Souls' tumblers. Then, when glass bo came common, the round glasses that stood on a flat baso superseded the ex quisitely balanced silver spheres and stole their names so successfully that you havo to go to All Souls' and a few other old houses to see the real thing. , ?. So do words, with the wonderful life that is in thein, change and grow and get fresh meaning,- full of interest and teaching and delight to those who think about them. Wide Awoke. Haw Watch Clnbs Are Fanaad. Watch clubs have done a great deal for tho business in this country and Jiave put gold watches into the rest pockets of thousands who could never hope to buy them in any other way. It is not like the installment business. The club maker or dealer docs not have to charge an ex orbitant price for the watches and he runs littlo or no risk, for he never lots a watch go out of his hands without good security in the signature of a responslblo man, who signs on agreement to assume th ilb if tla watch hnlilcr alt ins hrw fore the last payment is made. The dealer need not buy a watch until every dollar is paid in for it by the sixty or more members of - the club. Then he draws a slip of paper from a box, and the number upon it designates the rub- Bcriber who is to hare the watch that week. IIo notifies tho lucky member that he has drawn a Watch, and tells him to bring forth a surety, and he can carry it; but it remains the property of the dealer until tho last dollar has liren paid, and the drawer signs a document to that effect. Tho following week the coUear tion of 11 is mado from each tnember of the club, and another drawing takes place. This business has assumed won derful proportions throughout the United States, and now tliere is scarcely a town without its watch club. Rogues have taken advantage of like scheme, but only in a small way, for they cannot operate more Cum one week in a place without being detected, and then the amount ia too small to be attractive. Dealer in New York Sun. . ' . i - Sixty Tkaasaad ChIhs Word. There is no man living," said a pub lic school teaclicr tho otlier day, "tliat knows every one of the 75,000 words in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, nor half, nor a third of them. Nor is there a man who could define them if he were asked. Shakespeare, who had tho rich est vocabulary used by any Englishman, employed only 18,000 words, Milton could pick out from 8,000, but the aver age man, a graduate from one of the great universities, rarely has a vocabu lary of more titan 8,000 or 4,000 words, Right hero in Buffalo there ere Ameri cana horn and bred wlio 'contrive to ex press all their wants and opinions in S00 words, and in the rural districts the knowledge of 150 or 200 words is suffi cient to carry a man through the world. So the unabridged dictionary is cluttered up with 60.000 or more technical or ob. solote words that you never bear tn ordi nary oonveraotioa or ceo la oruinary books or newspapers, " Buffalo Courier. x distorteq; modes of speech. s : i- .-' ' ' -,-' Medical firaek,? "Do Latin'', and Othae ..4,' Jargons Jxmdon Cadgers' Dlalaets. '' It may bo interesting to glance at a subject closely connected with. that of artificial., languagethe .attempt that have been made to twist existing forms of .speech Into siich now shapes as would form a now tongue. These efforts have been exhibited, chiefly t by persons who, were anxious, to have the use of a lan guage which Only themselves and their chosen friends should he able to apeak or understand. . . - - - i Most famous of these distorted modes "ot speech- is thnt which Is variously known in England as "Medical fireek," St..Gilcs' Greek'.' and ,'rnarrowskying.,, This consists of transposing all the initial consonants in-a sentence, and it does, when .spoken, fast, give the effect of an unknown, jargon. Thus in Medical Greek a mutton chop is a clratton mop, a -bull 'dog is a dull bog, butterfly is a flutterby andfo on. It is a very simple , matter to acquire a great degree of facil ! ity in speakiftg this lingo, but very diffi cult to understand it readily when spoken fast- The following familiar verse, be ginning "Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber," rendered into Medical Greek, will servo as a good specimen of the dia lect: Bush, by maba, stir 1111 sand lumber, Ally honcgels buan jry thud: . Blen-nly heasings uithout wuniHcr, Fently Jawllng on by tbead.. ' ' It will be observed that when a word begins with two consonants only ono of them need be taken. ' I bare also spelled phonetically those words where tlie ordi nary rules would give a wrong, sound, The name "Medical Greek" comes from the fact that this dialect has long been in use among tho medical students at the London hospitals, who find it con venient when they wish to speak to each other in the presence of a patient without his facing able to understand thenS.. It is also largely spoken by tho students of tho London university v - j ' At Winchester college the students em ploy a form of what is known in this country as "Dcg Latin." It consists of repeating the vowel of every syllable and prefixing to that vowel the letter g, accenting this additional syllable. Thus, "Can you go with me" would be Cagan yougou gogo wigith meget' The Winchester boys call this the "Ziph" language, and it is probably of consider able antiquity. Do Quincey learned it in his youth, and Dr. Wilkins in his work describes it as a well known device for making a conversation secret. ' A less complicated jargon prevails at some of the other English schools, con sisting simply of adding the syllable via to each-word. Thus, "Willvis youvis govie witbvis mavis?" This resembles tho "ugry igry ogry" dialect of Ameri can school girls, familiar to every one. In France,- the boys add the syllable drecrue m the tame ways Thus, vous- dregue avezdregue tortdrcgue for vous J avez tort , Two secret dialects are employed by tho London cadgers, and only long prac tice can make thera intelligible 40 one who has not been born and bred in the precinct Of St Giles. The first of these is, called "Back Slang," and consists theoretically, in spelling backward th principal words in a sentence. - But as tho orthographical notions of the average cadger are, to say the least, eccentric; and as many of the words which were originally formed in this way have been greatly altered in use, the vocabulary of a cadger is rjracticslly a new language, uncouth and unintelligible to all except his own companions. For instance, penny in back slang-U yenep; a 4nt ia jenip, namesclop means a policeman, and gennet ten shillings. The other dialect spoken by the street vagabonds of London Is known as the rhyming slang, which i described by an English writer as "the substitution of words and sentence which rhyme with other words intended to be kept! secret It transforms into a rough speech tho various odds and ends, of old songs, ballads and street nicknames which ' or SUjtakb) 1 ftkt pirpaa." Tbaaama author rives a list of examples. Thus Trog and toad means "the road;" finger and thumb means "ram cat ana mouse a house," and I'm afloat "a boat." Back slang plays an important part in the lower forms of French argot, in the peculiar slanc spoken by Spanish thieves and called germania; in the German rothwelsch and in the Italian furbesco. . In fact the author of a slang dictionary, published in London in 1864, shows that the same principle runs through the jar gon of the Bazeegnrs, or wandering jug glerrip Hindustan, and cites a number of interest lag examples to prove it 1L T. Peck, Ph. D., in Homo Journal. Engiaeers Faralysta, - "It's a strange fact, but nevertheless true,'? said- railroad engineer to me as wo were whirling over tlie track between Lake Elmo and St Paul, "that more engineers havq been paralyzed during tlie past year than in any year since railroads were first started. There's a train that runs from St Paul to Stillwater, on tlie Omaha, that we call the hospital train, for every man that runs with it has either had a stroke of paralyses or has been in jured in some way or other. A scientist stated that the paralytic strokes were due In a manner to the . niiidity with which the trains run nowadays, the constant motion and terroa strain breaking a man down." rjoneer Press. ' Accidents Cross Beetrlolty. ' , ' "It fa a singular thing," said a mana ger of arc lamp system, "that accidents usually happen to men who are more or less familiar with electricity. ' They git so used to manipulating tlie apparatus that they sometimes become careless, just as the brokemau who regularly jumps on amoving train gets careless sometimes and suffers the inevitable consequences. Fooling with, electricity is like . fooling with red hot iron. . Nobody but an idiot would think of .handling heated iron without proper iasplements, and nobody, should handle exposed . electric wires without .rubber gloves, or allow any de fect in insulation to go unrepaired a mo ment 1 - The accidents that happen are all to be traced, to .carelessness, either in neglecting repairs or in handling the ex posed charged wire. We reduce danger to the minimum by insulating all our wires that run Indoors with rubber, and by hanging tho wires that run through the streets,- and which ' are insulated with material made chiefly to resist the effects of the weather, away up in tlie air where people can't readily get at them. That is all the safeguard that it is possible to throw about this wonderful -secret force ot nature. With such safeguard we can run as much as 2,000 volts of electricity ' along a wire safely. 'When some of the electric supply is desired to light a build ing along tho route of the street lights, a shunt or guard box is placed at the en trance of the building, and separate sup-, ply wires are run from the inside. Then only as much electricity as is wanted to light , the building goes into it, and the rest is diverted by the shunt and carried back to and along tlie street ifnes. As an average only. 1,200 volts of electricity is carried on the street wires, and very few buildings require so many lamp that the current sent to supply the lump is really dangerous, even if the insulation of the wires wero imperfect" New York Sun. , j . . Illustration of Sfasaalncsv 'What have you to sy about Illustrat ing!" was asked of Richard Watson Gil der, editor of The Century. . "Illustrating requires technical educa tion. 'How, for instance, can a man draw a scene illustrating a story without a thorough knowledge of the human fig ure f Magazines are constantly on tlie lookout for new illustrative talent but a man br a woman must prove that he or she has illustrative as well as the artis tic, capacity. If ho wishes to illustrate fiction, for instance,' he must be able to follow the thought of another. In the matter of descriptivo draughtsmanship, he. must be able to make pictures of places and things, which pictures adapt themselves readily to tlie condensed form In which they are presented in the nar row pages of a periodical. That faculty comes from practice. We constantly hear from girls or boys in tho bock woods, who send in specimens of work which have no art in them at all, though they may show a certain inventiveness." "That brings us down to a practical point Now, in this branch of art, when the' person hot talent and ability, yet no money to start with, where could be or she go to seek this technical training?" "It is not absolutely necessary any more to go to Europe; several of the large cities in the west A well as in the east, have excellent school; but New York is probably on the whole, the best place in America for training in art; and tlie better the training the better for the artist of course, in sny branch he may follow for a livelihood. The illustrative faculty comes with practice and thorough attention to the needs of the periodical. The best school for magazine illustrative work is in the magazines themselves. New York Mail and Express. 6QN,:orTHrT"- asaatlsat TTarhlac till. A Paterson machinist kas completed a s&k loom which occupies less tpaee than a typewriter and weaves silk hanJker chiefs of pretty tat tern, four incline square. A child can operate it' tik 1 raanufacturers of Paterson snv it is the smaiiebt workii'g loom ever ru!e. tl j cajo LicraM. ; - ' ' ' Alaakaa Indian Weasaa, There is one prerogative of the Alaskan Indian women tliat I must not fail to note as showing, their rerfect equality with the men. Every one knows how common a vice polygamy is among savages (a theme on which many moral writers dwell, and tlirows stones' without stopping tooisxrr iho large amount of Mormon glass in our own national conservatory), and- in this lack cf morality the Alaskans are fully up to the average savage standard; but it b not con fined wholly to plural wivesf occasionally aome lone, foraaken female rises ta the majesty of her right and marries a couple of husbands, so as not to be behind tlie fashionable follies of h trihe. -.Ueiit. Frederick Schwatka Dcmoteat's Monthly, Ex-Sorrefciry . lUcotnh, of the Am lean segatinsr at Pea in, says that out the 400.009.COO inhabitants of U a ncee rciptro ful'y 8.o0.000 apriid Oaa tt.63 exjcuh tor food, - la It MamorrT It is an experience familiar enough to many persons that they find themselves at times in places where their surround ings seem to have been known to them' before; and yet they know that this ia the first time they have ever been upon tlie spot. - . 1 ' In some instances tho recognition may be due to a picture 61 Ififl piaw, seen somowhero at some time, of which all recollection was lost except the Impres sion it made. Or it may be that the place lias been described under circum stances which are wholly forgotten, or 1 an account of it has been read, so minute and so interesting as to have made the impression received more lasting than any circumstance attending it We are able, in some instances, to trace tlie impression, by suggestion and association, bock to somo such origin. This leads us to infer that in cases where we are unable to do this, it is because suggestion or association fails us. If wo deny that memory has anything to do with these impressions, then they become mysteries, and such mysteries as haunt and perplex a sensitive mind. It is more leosonablo to admit the possible weak noes and untrustworthincas of our facul ties than to suppose that anything has happened contrary to the courao of na ture. Youth's Companion, alder XT eh rape. The Hon. Georgo West, of Dalston Ppa, is in pnsseasion of a curiosity in pqper sent him l y a friend in Uong Kong. China. It is a sheet 11 by 14 inches, made from the rcb of Ike sacred white spider" of tho Flowery Kingdom. It b as light as air and almost as transparent but is also beautifully printed, and con tains about tlie equal of two columns of matter, giving in English the story of How Midahipmau Copl loatosie was Present at tho Court of IV kin." Mr. West lias made the manufacture of paper bis life work end study, but it is safe to say that bo never ran a spider web paper factory. The Saratogiaa. , Maaletao mm TaaalacT The coupling of medicine with theology in tlio Christian mission to Corca ptoai'ws suoorws. Since 1S&J five American tniakiaD-ses and their ;tves have been luboriiig ia the capital city through tho mediant of erhoola and e hospiuL Born sucoies crown(3 the first surgical operation which the medical mis sionary performed that tlie confidence of the natives in Lis ability led them so far as even to bring him dead people to be restored to hie. Chicago Timce. An Ljiliah engineer proroacs liv manna of electricity to condense I ho solid part of 3!ok and send pa eJUi.'ieJ fyux, back to Cie fat sacs. , ' . Like eckmd tig.on & ... ...ntAi, .--'. likeabnbtolQonafountmn, -1 am seen awl pass fiwx : a dream. For the wild wind flriv. s n.e ever, ..- Overland, ami sen, una r.,.r, 7111 the aunshlna snail ! ., : me In Its bu I am swept on the wli 1 of 1 - k! . And I rush 'twlxt thei ea-th an -Tlie earth that sewn -' i AMtbeeioontl.nl 11-. I rush o'er the ocean a 11 And the white snrs? 1 Till I feel la its kiss as c Of the salt of the b 1. sky. - t .rm, IP! j ' i : 4 i wnfdteme, ... .a,tntaa -cms see. t pass oVr the ship. And T hover and a , Midst tb vasts, and the sails, and, the abroad. But the wind wltb a whirl, -. .Makes aweddy and cn rV , And bears me 000a more to the elooda. - From the place of my birth, 1 swoop downward to earth,' ,.- I am bornoo'er the plain aad the bJH, And I long for my rest, ' - 1q th ground's mow clad breast, ' ' , Or a home la tbe etrram or the rtlL ' ' -E. F. Pellew in Temple Bar. - REMOVED BY, ELEQJRICITY. Hovel Borgtea! Operations -SnreeMfnl Ke- asoval af Kales aad Wans. A friend has been telling me of his own and his wife's experience in having moles and wens removed by electricity. His wife htfd on her right shoulder a blemish in the form of a large mole, quite half on -inch in jdiameter, which practically made it impossible for her to wear ball or evn- uig dresscs'whiclr would -reveal her otherwise shapely VLbhidariC ? She acci dentally heajsiot-tlia electric operations, and.'obtaintogther ad dress of the suiyon who performs them, she went without her hubband 'a knowledge to his office and submitted, to the 'operations It required; about a week, to heal: the wounds made, by tlio needles snij.h which' the mole waa perforated in every direction; then the mole, which - had been- burned to a dry, black crisp. fdeOfff leaving the shoulder perfectly white, and with only the slight est indication' to show where the diacolor-. ' ation had been." ' 'A new skin formed over it and there is hardly a noticeable blem ish there now. Success inspired her- to insist on her husband's undergoing the same operation on a more deucato nert of his person namely, his nose. He thus teUs his storyt ...,;,'.,.,..,...?.--.''- "(.had oh my nose at birth, sol waa told, a wen; which grew with my years until I : became a man, and for many years is greByxasnnganns aij wuiiur nance. T It "was about the size of a pea, and was on "my lef tr nostrfl. It changed color from time toithhe. and would grow to be a -frightful, sanguinary red when ever I indulged myself with wines and' liquors of any sort 'I came to regard it af times as a gin blossom,' and an irrev erent reporter in describing me once sug gested that this object had evidently been one of -long and patient and costly cul- ' ture. I went on my wife's argent en treaty to her surgeon and asked him if it could be removed. "Ho looked at it and suggested that it might be if I would not look upon tho wine when it was red; but T told him I was bora so. He examined farther, and at oncer proceeded to oper rate upon it ' " " He bathed jny nose, first ef afl. in co caine, It grew cold at first then became perfectly numb, as though asleep from lack of circulation of the blood. It felt as if paralysed. He then applied an eleo- and through, as near the roots as poaei blo. There was nd pain, though half an nuur was., consumca m tno operation. Whenever he,. Increased the current of electricity 't saw billions of stare, and sparks seemed tp flash from my eyes, and tlie eyeballs seemed to crack wilh each BJJUXa 1 1 1U It IUITUUJ UVW tlWl UH.1I1. When tho opcrnUon-was completed tho , wen waa blacVok?nrared, and morn unsightly than, ever, . lie put flesh col ored court plaster brer It and kv there for about a areata ' Then m wah. ing ii o& the mass oi blackened flesh fell away. A new skin formed, and yon can barely see a small scar where the un sightly object once waa,"' XashviUo American, :. Vllpwlasj" Street Car Kalea, If you will notica, you will see that aH the streetcar mules are, closely clipped tn the faU. - To" the unknowing this doubtless looks cruel, aa nature srema tn intend that the hair of animals shall grow.' long every fall tb protect tlmu sgainst 'tbo eotd ft may he cruel in many cases, but It ia diflcrcnt with the street car mule; it is a sanitary precau tion. His hair crows much longer in Srinter tlian thntof a horse, and when bo travels at a lively rate, as he i mado to do in a ear, ho pcrtpirca fxorly, and tho hair raeserves the dampness for a longtime. Hence, when be iaat rest, be freezes . and gets the rbeomaham. With bis hair clipped, he may be colder tn tho stable, but be la all tight while traveling, and dries totl afterward with, out any unpleasant consequences. It ia not necessary todi this clipping Ha horses nutans they have unusually long hair. They da not perspire kke mule, and benee do not need clipping except ia tlie spring.' Ahorse that has once been, clrpped must be clipped ever afterward, or he will- ertrh cold or suflX; tho hrt badly, -Clol - Democrat Aa CacUaa Tsrava Ska Xra. I rc-tonexl to my own onartrra, re flcctmontlie sn-res J had witnessed. andlcouU Tn4 f.abcar wvEdering how far these -civilized" Southern iletho. Baptists" as Ute B - negroes called thcnawl rrj were renxiTed from tlio fetbU vt ( -.rlilp a-i'l sscred make d.incce of tlirir aavage African ancestors. There fosavia snort) for foult tiat the planta tion, iireroi b profoundly ignorant ai.4 snperstUKxis; "Lis belief in witchcraft, Vharojs,w 'i. a., fetislics, and awsdkiiie rarn or anmn, being almost as slnm (tlmtirli kyt strictly secret) ia lbs citi. iiol (?) rmunripated negro "of today as when bo waa rt transplanted from I ii talivo African sod ta tlie ehorre of t: groat American cont iiient Times. .Warahc lit C'Jrt. jt i iripT to warn art or"-"' sm''t prrrJui-'ig sny IlemLrsn '. I rers (. T-.; 1 n. a vL.ch m.-.y ::-t i Hie r .ul h. frernt. A re v prwx-j Cf c-; ; ii i 1 1 1 i" : aw-liJ l.i 1'. i i r-Hj jn t f 1 (.:;,. tv : t 1 . ... i f .. T I aad t:.c fact !..' a . - . V". V 'TV'::' It tc ..- :'- -i.
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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May 10, 1888, edition 1
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