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Jiirifl y it ii i i ." ,!y 1 Jly Jly Jly o T-Li.ED IK 137; IIILLSBORO, C. THURSDAY MAY 25,1699. NEW SEHIES-VOL. XVIII. NO. 19. Stx V2x n n fx n-.n m a. : , V ' ' '- MARVELS OF LIQUID AIR, 1 - hi A Scientific Discovery That M ay Effect a j Revolution "r, Industrial Methods Dur ins the Twentieth Century. i 10 ''i'fi: VIVHL AMI AlfAZI; i:Xfi:KIlIETS. fs. a'-lim-try exhibit ex er t em peratnre . :JPJ degrees . bedow was witnessed j zero. The problem has been -'how to el a few ni'kts a:ro j- obtain. Rial Si.bw-et air to.. that dea.-,-. '' ''iti "I the m'y, j of cold. 1 but; discovered that sir j t ( .ibni.-t, Supreme j compressed air can be so used an ! ''"ip" and other, to produce that degree of cold, and, j Ilj.v -mm under the j con'-e-piently, to lhJUefy othcu-air ; and 'ia; ad Geographical ) 1 have invented a machine lv which iv i ioiesor mo ihium t.rouuet ran be made in I L 1 . 1 . . , ' - , ... the t.dei'hoj i e. it :.tt i!-a7itities at a low eo?t.' : : t unitv for , Li-mid air is a clear and tlnr-nt vili. , . - , i i ..... .j j i i. : : "? Ne-.v Yuri;, to stam-r, yhieb, u i-xposure, evap- ' : ' is public -the ' o)-a rajii'Uy a heavy mi.st. It is j " r 'vi.j-U h- ha, 'lio- : intensely rohl tiuit the hand held i -i -.li ;iid ai : v. m- it i-1 sn.',:d:Iy chilled. If the hand i ...iiy t.'.t h, Mr . Tr;n- ; i )lun;.'e i into it, the sensation is ' " of oiibnai'y air that ot biu-nin, and unless it in ir.i- i v -viiido a and bv roai- ! nirdiatelv withdrawn the skin in lili. ; "-.Id i'-d i -f- it to one i ti'fed and scaled. Y.'hen the Viand is i h':i;l thai looks like : l'l-nios e,i. it bec.-jmes almost instan-I : . Mi: - i storm at. a tr:u- ; taneou'dy dry, f..r the li juid wiiich ! - ee i ii, ow .i-.'t). hud adhr-red mii-'cdrattdv c itlier m p. oids into vapor and j bright bai ls and drop heavily to the is ex- j no or. ;u 1 as v.-a'er i . -a a i y h rat. I v (( m- i p t:i do.i Mr. Trij-.h.-r a a ni'W motive I a For lj.jui 1 air, as p.,wer; Ir. Trip- ' .i.lvV !. It. J ViJ lllllj' 1 "! tranip'ortutiou ' tlrc-I the times lite exnansivo force of " ; i !i lan I, !; s ; 1 -.vA n:u,.sioii wiiuiOMiateiv be- ;,; ' r.'.t 1 tor every ot : r j v:n under the intluence of the pre- !i:.d ;-.oi and elertriraty i vailing temperature, and that every '1 !i- expansive force is 1 additional decree of heat applied yields '- ' ' 1 j' -'iii 1 i a sipiare inch, ' twenty pounds of pressure. '.Steam 1 wi.r,;d pip.; the pr-'s- , pressure, is not obtained until -water : at tiiat there is now iio has been heated to a temperatiire of niac-id ' tu n.th to re- , 2 decrees Fahrenheit, u:id each ad la otn.-r words, a junt o - a j ditioual degree of heat produces only : ''-''a! of i his liquid v. ill : oac i!,undOf prc-sui Me asserts, s ' ' -! Ill which it in iv be ! mori'over. ihat liouid air can lie nn- . . " i i i ai.- - t heir is an opportunity 'plied as a substitute for steam to any i.i i . i , . . ..." cn'-iiie. vaia suiisiantiaiJy.no lurther aiae. .'e than the displacement of the t iaal t-1- cape. ' in i ; i.aauufactured ly ap v ' di All ., dh ipb r lias Hi i i';r,-t g.dh u or two is !.v ''" of coal or anvotlier ' ; !' i, . " t as ice is made in a its i.u a power from the - re as it parses alone its wav. 'a tory '-uineer will simjdy boiler by the smaller and lighter- re ceptacle holding the air. Its general adoption, therefore, as motive power v.ou',1 not mean the discarding of ex pensive eii'dnes now used. Tfene f' th- ta-.-tfiei- he is able to I the lb-sl cost of its adontioii xrould lie. i' U gallons of tin; tluid by ! slight, and with its vastly mreater ' uditure: of two. A railway j potentiality, itjnust (he claims) super- lv." Ill" a st' 'llxSlilli will ('uMii. , si'i n i-ti 'l')i li it In. ..iia iulf .1.., f.4. ... j- I . lll.l "I . V 111 UJfl J enough. For that Mr. Tripler provides by his application, of liouid air to the maun- ' of a ventilation pio." : fadure of larirtM' nuantities of liouid '' i-mine and manufacture air. ll asserts that he has aecont- ' ! d- it. Mr. Tripier in- j piished sandi a- result; tliat he lirst !,i -'o-rgy can be uned with used stt am as. the power r;(uisite in ;':'"u!ty and at a c-o.-.t seventy i t l:e pr x-e-s of makitig liquid air; that - t'l.t'i steam, and, having j he took Iniuid air thus ma le, applied a- ' t -rt t of its production.. ! it to an enciue as :i snbstifnle for to apply it to prac- steam, opi .rated the engine thereby,;! ; and used ihepov.a-f thus obtained as ; hriuiid sii gallons of he had livoi the steam-power. j 'l- ith. nun from New i k , j "1 liml m this" ina.ttt-r," he said ! ' j ie-eTiceof f.e it- or. live J "that I have be.-n generally niisun ' "us peid e'med the e- J derstood. 1 doti't claim to create en aia described in Me- ,' ergy, to make some' him? out of noth ' 'u--. lie dipped tin j i''.g. to upset any of the hr.vs of nature. '".in wiFu an oi omary I 1. .ay. t h u ar 1 1 , t hat the scientists ;u.-t as a milkt lan wm!-i j hav been wrong in some, of their dropped a polato 1:1 it, , mdnms. that they will have to ' :.: t w r tnvee nnnnt es .' chaime tio- a. I a-;-ooi tn-it bv ' o!i the lhua-, w'u.-re it j um -u' a cn quantity of liquid air, a th -u- and little rrysta s. u,itit utcd b.r stea.n ja.r.ver, 1 caul ; ball, in.mer.sr.t i in ; ii;a!..-. an-1 have ma le. larger quanti- ; ' then !'i-oe i' a- if i ' ti -s of hounl air. . I use owr ami over i ' ' iroo; -1 in a pn-ce ! a - :.a to- n ju; i a i r ."upi.iyed m tne ' w; a ii.'i'.it'i:! it niakinr. It s. .::i- sinsplc enoutrh to bitie fi-a-ments t! a! :ae, a d the principle so simpU-that v, tnt: -d uood. H- in:- ' it oneht to have b-. ru gra-p.'d bv anv " r i a!co!al, ami it, a --e'eut : jv laiad a i:.c. i:n. to mv ! . u.-iv f-o.-n ij;, a!io-;. ; .-urpris, , it ha- w jiat -my -ritiv., ' dei a pa-1 hoard, 'o say appears phiU-'id". but in fact their ' x . naaaa hen i m mers-al , coat en ; ion - are a-uh- from the' i air beca!a- a hard a- mark, for t hry have go' hold of the J ' i' 'd it as a he.: imer t h n-n end of ilie pnpe.sition, and do j ' i!)Mihl". i e lann'-r.-eg a. u can. pre he:.d at a!! what i ami . ' a ami sn a s t f m eel i i, nls at . " j :'. aa they er-:: ,hh 1 ; ;e " i'r . - " t' e modus op.r- ; !i. dr-aaa'strat' d the . - a". :i 'aay he. y. a: a d -; i ;:ct 1 v chi a ' n ' 1 ! i. m a simh ar t . :' bv i he u- o; auv u'lvea uuatit't v able railwRT train and steamliips to attain gi eater sj-'tedr'' ,4I lo look tor such a recult. There is every reason to believe that, given this greater power than steam, Lay her speed can be produced." "Hnw would it Ve used "toKd Uv iLftde in transit "it seems to me to be quit? feasible to make it in transit not only on steamer.; ami trains, but also in liying machines. " "You believe; that it brings nearer the day of aerial navigation?" "Certainly. there is no ether agency which, with purh ma!l weight and bulk, can produce such motive power as liquid air. " "To what extent has it been used in surge) y and medicine?" "Thus far cancer hs been treated with it, and the most gratifying re suits have been obtained. It is too early to say just what its value i?. I do kno.v that it" application to cancer lias stopped the spread of the disease, and in one case the wound has con tracted" to a very small one. In an other case, after a number of applica tions to a cancer on the breast of a woman, it fell out into the operator's Hand. - A number of cases of cancel have been under treatment, and in all which were in ineipieucy or had not be.-n rendered incurable bv the free but. vain application of the surgeon's knife, it lias arrested the cancerous growth. It ha", besides, a marked effect in removing the pain accom panying the disease. A patient suf ftiing from cancer of the nose said that the shooting pains which had pre viously aidiirted him disappeared en tirely after tin first application of the air. Tt is (juke possible that it may have some special value as a local ana-sthetic. It appears certain thai gangrene can be arrested long enough for amputations to be made that will save a life. lut, of course, I am not a physician or a surgeon, and it is not the curative properties of liquid air which have ehietly interested me. Its use in medicine and surgery is now under careful study by physicians. I may add in this line that liquid air appears to be an irresistible germi cide, and that I think I have inci dentally discovered meaus by which it can be so applied as safely to reach the lungs and destroy the bacilli of tuberculosis. Indeed, the physicians have succeeded in applying it to parts of the body where I thought it could not be applied, and, therefore it re ems a distinct probability that meaus v.-ill be devised by which dis ease germs, wherever they may he in the human body, can be reached and killed. "As for its use for refrigerating purposes, that is as xvide as the need of refrigeration is. Ice can be made, with it; it can take the place of ice in refrigerators; it will be Useful in packing-houses, in markets, in hos pitals, and in hotels and hous'es in summer." - ' , Ry msin of ue peculiarly coasiritct .d valv, who-e detail.- art- not made public, a portioa of the - compressed air is kilo we 1 to expand into astub surrounding the tube through which 8 tne renaming" air is liowtm.;. Thi- erpftuded nir absorbs a large amounl of heat from the ar still nmler oon- Th eon- tube. vnessHU! m tne nicer tents of the 'inner iabe are tlm cooleu. In this way the air is brought below the temperature of liquefaction aim it's pressure is very much reduced, sc that, upon onenintr the valve at tht i , , ' . . . red topvanetof sorghum, ron bottom of the apparatu?. a stream o! . reu i - , ..Jp . M nr i- - i .I , ;fi in? l use an ordinary -xgiit or nin In uia air is received, flowing out w it L - i m tbo 4 1 , ti i wheat dn l, aud stop up a.l xne scarcely more force than tti watei , t,M .. f xcent tr second one from Uie in: fr(,tu our ordinary city service pipes.- j Thus the liquefaction ot the air is ac complished by the 'self-intensification of cold' produced by the expau ion of a portion of the compressec ami cooled air, without employing anj other substance to bring about this result. ! . a . ;. i . o . . i. i a i'iorincd ' o i i;,j:iid air vou e :n ::ak: a lartrer c re not i :i! v m : ouaut ': ci -f a'r is ,,f t! ' 'a:'-.ts ,,f the he v. la :.- -r s-a -. s e a : a ; e -.v ' r, .j - . ' ' a i o ; . oat s . "I p.. sitive'.y anl absojutcly make " oil claim al-o tuat by the u. c i lar-e a'ailttas of iicuid air v.ci have a.dnccd te i?' "I aa ve d.;. a: it v( ry thin,," Te- ' - br.f.s., sa;. at) s i 'v.'t, t-:a -: r a t -i ' oa a ct a in a:. t v -. h. . I '. . H ; - . ;..r;;:, ; a'- a:t v ... ,r i t - X '.ait be i.as t -:aa ;i: - '..' aa- ..t a e. -l " ab- -- - .i at a- a '.".: i .,:r .-a:: he : ' ';: ' ia. , - .' quanfitu - 11 ' v Co. 'lined t-v. Mr. dh 1 1 br :th M.a "I '"es its aa--.-- :.s a -.T' .".t rCV'.. .ut; a.,u:.a: a. eacy in u a.r:i uidus- v ..aa ah a ;;p -a th pr. i-: ''.. ; "a-a-xe" quauMl'- - fro. . ; -i -' ' th.-- report r a-i e-.i. ""I' I .at i :.-: s '.r-v, t the abolition oi s-,VlU. ... a.aaulaCt'iVe of i; ' a;r I - a '-a'! . -.a.- a,'c--.'..ph:p.-d :. .ta- . w . a a, a- ' a ' . .-i i c.se :u so-av Ma-c;a! . i i: a 1 - ... . . i ; C . ; o .i?: 1 1 . . in tar. a,-, ju s.;r- 1 ; aao . t-. .-. : v r. . , ... --at c. : h: t. - )-... ss ran be te . :..:- the :-;! ::.. -tad universal pnw- x 'hat, thf, e - K U - 1 " : - m ; aa. d :n ' - ' ;" " a ; ae: !eal-V a ' ' " --'. taat . ; tiU 11'. at'" a Is,. e?irr-sse ' ' '-t ' .it ,e '::,!..-(!;,' a ; . I :-a:ta as ,.f liquid, mr ; ' 1 .-rrr.portant tint ; s;.:.-.n reve'.utiuu i: ": : o.uja,.-. -env.u i expect it to he."' on ) ec. ev,- t'nat it will si;prr;.e,;e a- . ' ' - ' ti.e : .:.;- a " r..". u v iaa t a ' : "a!:-a of ships au,.i f i;..id:narv m en- A a. t . ri-; o a . r :!s a -Ivan- a" -. a. ; a r e.tt. !t n ;SI r h--. t v. i!'. save b;ik and of p :a.: an a ai-. .-a..: c, it h . ' 1 ' etice, sa; i 3.r i-.- xastly a ore ii-;-:.t. "iat uir hquelles tt a. "Iio Xuii t-xject thai its use will en- Mr. Tri)ler referred to Hudson Maxim, the brother of Hiram Maxim, who had been present in the labora tory a few days before, drawn by re ports which he had heard of the pos sibilities of liquid air as an explosive. Mr. Maxim had been told that a small quantity of eotton waste saturated with liquid air had been placed in a small nam pipe, which had then been encased in a larger pipe, as protection from the possible effects of the explo sion, and that by means of a long fuse tlie wate had been touched with lire; he had. been shown the fragments of the in mr pipe and tvo great holes which had been blown through the outer one. Mr. Maxim desired to see precisely the .quantity of cotton waste which had. been used, and to know whether the ends of the pipes had heui closed. The meres: palm-full of waste had been exhibited, and the ends of both pipes, he was told, had been left pen. "There is ru explosive ill use, "Mr. Maxim declared energetically, "which. ;n such small quantity and with so little e-jiiiinement, could have pro duced anything like, this effect." His interest .was so much aroused that he at once male an appointment with Mr. Tripler for a business interview a.n the us of Hquid air in combina tion with an explosive which Mr. Maxim had invented. rro:V-ss,,r v. ' c. Peekham. of vdelphi Institute, Hrooklya, from wj;oe V' an article on liquid air ap pears m th.' Century, has also written on the suiq-e- ju tip- Sen- ntitie Araeri a,.:i. in t n e latter journal be has civen :m description of the plant and pro-i-o of Mr. Trirb-r. "It the r. !. : consists of a triple-air comiaess.o-. a co.d.er and a liquefier. Ti.e. corapres-er is of the ordinary tor iq., i;:tu:u three pump upon one piston shaft working m a hue. The lirst gives sixty pounds pressure; the secon I raises this to Too pound?, whi!e the thir I brings the air under a ccmrrei-n r-i -o(v pound? r er square inch. "After eah '"orr.pre;on the air flow? '.lirortgn jacKcte-i pipr. where it is. ceoied by city water. I,r this work about forty horse power is employed. Alter rne thir l comprs?iou the air t:ows throuch an apparatus which dis poses of same of its impurities, and it passes on to the Ihtur.ier. It is this part of tne apparatus vutch consti tutes Mr. Tripier's special invention. FIFTY .STATES AND TERRITORIES. Surli V ill lie I he Xuinlier in the Ceniin of Next ar. The number of Slates in the Union at the time of the census of 3690, when the enumeration began on June 1, was forty-two; and two Territories, Idaho, admitted on July 3, and "Wyoming, ad mitted, on July 10, became States while the census xvas in progress. Since then another State, Utah, vc? ad mitted in January, lS'.id, bringing up the total to the present number, forty live. When Texas was admitted ii to the Union, in 1845, it xvas admitted under a provision that, at any futur time, the State might be divided into quarters to make four States. Texas contains an .area of 2(50,000 square miles. Xew York has an area of 47, -0 JO square miles, Pennsylvania of -15,000, Massachusetts of 8000, Ohio of -10,000, Kentucky of 10,000 and Illinois of 53,00O. These six States, therefore, have, collectively, less area than Texas. Kecently a resolution offered in the Austin Legislature by Representative Bridges to the effect that the people of Texas declared themselves to be unalterably opposed to a division of the State, was adopted, aud there is an end, till after the next national census at least, to the agita tion for a division of Texas. Xo action was taken by the last Congress looking to the admission of the Territories of New Mexico, Ari zona or Oklahoma, or to the extension of political rights to Alaska or the TaitTjcf 0f Columbia; and hence (ex cluding Indian Territory under tribal government and not included in the regular June enumeration) there will be forty-live American States and rive Territories to be counted, or titty States and Territories in all. hetween 1S70 and I8s0 one State, Colorado, was added to the Union. Between SS0 ami 1890 there were six States admitted, and one has been ad mitted since. A f.isdit on Yankee IMalert. Obvious necessity compels even the most patriotic of Englishmen to ad mit that vast numbers of their fellow countrymen use dialects so far re moved from correct English as to be little less than separate languages, but few. if any, o'" them can let pass with out protest the statement so often made by Americans that this or that, well-educated Londoner "talks with an English accent." The assertion is, indeed, a bit absurd, for the pronun ciation of .such-men is, or ought to he, the standard of the language, and not its peculiarities, but variations from them are x hat constitute "accent,"' acceordiug to logical and reasonable definitions of that word. Hut though the stay-at-home iiritishers still de ride or denounce our application -of a qualifying adjective to their Euglish, those, of them, who stray abroad are coming to treat the speech of- iNew York and of Loudon as variants of a non-existent i deal. At any rate, they talk as glibly as we do of " American secents" and "English accents" and one citizen of comparatively recent adoption xvas heard the other day to date an experience of his to a "time "when I spoke with a much stronger accent than J do now." Ly so doing he gave; probably, the ultimate procf of thorough assimi'ation "with U. The same man said that recently, having met a person who inserted an "a" in words like "cow" and "town." Le asked said person if h w.an't a ffd-low-Priion from Staffordshire. The reply was, "No. I was born n Ver mont" which throws everal interest ing lights on "Yankee diaiecr." New York Time'. ooooooooooooooo 0330 z ooooocooooooobdoooc orshffrr ireen Fee!. Select a good yieCc f laud, not too rich, as it will lodge badir n a very fertile So ih Break as early as possi ble, jueferably sod, and as soon as all danger of frost ihover. Prepare thor oughly by barrel!?!? and dragging or roliiuir, but never rebresk"- Then have the seed perfectly clt an. I prefer the r or seed nine hoe hoes ide On eavh md. Set the drill to sow about one-half Vnhel of wheat per acre. : You may think h crop will be too thin, but if your seed is pood, time will prove that it is all right. Com menen ou one fide aud drill back and forth, a in mowing wheat, except that the wheel must run about ten inches from the other wheel track, instead of in the hW .hoe track, as in sow ing wheat. 1 prefer sowing east and xvest, as the crop hshds the ground ami keeps it moist. --a-" Cultivate the same as corn, ketaping down all weeds and grass while it is small. Commence feeding as soon as it is in bloom aud feed as long as it lasts. Cut it close to the ground and feed if either as it leaves the field or cut into two-inch lengths and feed in that condition. Cut each day only what you want to feed that day, and if you take it to the barn, don't lay it down, but set it up,' as otherwise it xvill heat rapidly. If you cut it shorter than two inches the stalks xvill get crosswise in the cow's mouth audmake it sore. When there is danger of frost, cut and shock the same as corn, and you can feed it until Chiistmas. I don't thiuk it a good plan to feed afer that time,- as the stalks have gen erally begun to sour. 1 feed' it 1o hogs, horses and cattle, and all get fat. There is nothing bet ter than a lield of sorghum to help out pastures in the fall Until you want to put your stock int, xviuter quarters. The seed makes one of the very best feeds for poultry. I have been rais ing it for a number of years, and 1 be lieve I can get as much feed from one acre of sorghum as I can from two acres of the best corn. Where you first commence cutting .your cane it xvill sprout ui) very rapidly, but don't let your cattle get to it, as it has been known to kill them. J. W. Smith, in the American Agriculturist. THE BEST OF ALU Had I mv" no powerful throae. In truth, weald I occupy; Nor wealth possess, nor title own, Nor travel at will not I. A. boy I'd be. whose treasures are In the jrutse of ball and kite; Wntrse rambles by day may take him lar. But back to bis mother at nicht. A bo with o lcn?r, long look ahead, , And a past so sboyt aud near ' That at night, whilt? drowsy-eyed in bed All he has deue is clear. The brook he waded, the llsh he caught. The ton in the wind and eold With a morrow at hand which surely ought Fresh pleasnre in store to hold. ffo hort a past, that th rosy hours Qufte blot from th1 sight the gray. And th foture is only a mass or flowers G rowing from day to day. While the world ot the present has wonder more Than eyes have timeio see. With creek aud meadow and wood to ex plore. And cities beyond the lea. Tis reserved fo a lad of ten. indeed. To encounter Hon and pard. And Indian's fight, and rescues lead In the depths of his own back yard. With many another source of joy No older head may ken I'm certain it's better to be r. boy Than even the greatest of men. Edwin L. Sabin, in Youth's Companion, In IPit-kin a a I'tHtanrch. an account given bv a .ict!n- aisa-umau oi tellers oi Hteceut visit i r, de- . T T I- - . 1 - i' an. Luskin, inis - gentle ma scribes Mr. Luskin's appearance as singularly ennobled by the Ions, snow-xvhite beard, which descends nearly to the wait. and give a patriarchal dizmty to tb? Cnelv melded face. The end of life gn-Ys .jr. risinn tireen MaunriiiK anil Nitrogen. The nitrogen of the soil is the only cue of its valuable constituents which I is subject to serious loss by natural agencies. Whatever t he form in xvhich nitrogen is applied to the soil, whether in farm-yard manure, in dried blood, in ground Ssh, ground bone, tankage, cottonseed meal, sulphate of ammonia, or nitrate of soda, it sooner or later is so changed by natural agencies as tq become soluble and in this form the soil cannot hold it. With heavy rains it is dissolved in the downward sink ing water, and with it is carried ulti mately into the streams and rivers and to the ocean: None of the other valuable elements of plant food are. subject to this loss by leaching to any where near the same extent. This loss of nitrogen can be prevented in a large measure by the growth of green mannriug crops. The agencies of nature which convert nitro gen into the soluble' form are most active during the later summer months. At the close of summer there is com monly present in all fertile soils a large quantity of nitrogen in soluble form. If the field be left bare .during the autumn, winter and earlv spring this soluble nitrogen will be washed out of the soil. The only practical method ot preventing this is to cover the held with a growing crop. . Lor this purpose those crops which grow late into the fall will be found best, although even those xvhich are killed by autimnal frosts will before their death have taken a considerable share of this soluble nitrogen out of the soil. It will have become a part of the vegetable tissue. In such form it is not soluble and will not be sub ject to waste until this vegetable tis ene rots, as it will do with the advance of the warmer weather , of the follow ing season. It should be the aim of the farmer to leave his fields bare just as little as possible. Keep the fields covered, keep the soil filled with feed ing rootlets of growing plants. . Thee hungry rootlets will take up nitrogen hicri would otherwise be lost. It j will be locked up in vegetable tissues I and safely kept to meet the demands of the growing crop of the next sea- ; son. Or-ea manuring, then, inav b- f ( ma te an important means of saving or i conserving sou nitrogen. Prof. W. ! CU&ngeJudd Farmer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Customer (in hardware store) ''Do you sell the golden rnc'r' Clerk "We don't even keep it." Manufacturer's Agent "Is the head-buyer upstairs?'' Accommodating Employ "No; he s out. lint tno sub-seller is doxvnstairs. unieago Tribune. "I see there's anew telegraph sys tem that will transmit 1000 xvortls g minute." "Say, I'd like to have my wife dictate to it for a miuntd or txvo." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "They say Cholly'n father is great ly disappointed in him." "Yes; but he expected too much. He thought Cholly might be able some day to cam his board and clothes." Puck. "I .hear that you assisted at the post-mortem examination of your old enemy," said Gaswell to a surgeon of his acquaintance. "Yes; I cut him dead," Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Rivers 'Harkins carries politeness to an extreme. 1 returned his um brella to him a little xvhile ago, and ho. thanked me." Brooks "That doesn't surprise me. The wonder is that he didn't drop dead." Chicago Tribune. Visitor "And your daughter painted this beautiful picture?" Mrs. Upstart-- "My daughter paint it? No, indeed! Her teacher did the work. Considering what we pay him for lessons, it was the least he could do You owe a bill you cannot fay! You do. Yet quickly come? the reckoning day For you. ' Your creditor will sell you out, The news xvill soon be all about, Thoe now your frierid-s will jeer and flout, And sue! Tis true. Principal "Well, did you get that money owing by Lexvis?"' Collector "I am sorry to say I did xQ. There are a number of Lewises at Jhat ad dress, all of xvhom denied being" your creditor. One-of them threw me out. Principal "That's the one. Call yon him again." Harper's Bazar. Hicks "They tell me that Hin son's xvife consulted a clairvoyant the other day, aud she says the woman's powers of seeing into past and future are truly wonderful."- Wicks "Yes; she told Hinsou's xvife that she was thirty-two, and everybody knows that Mrs. Ilinson xvill never see forty again." Boston Transcript. "I have called, Mr Billiwinks, to tell you loxe your daughter, Miss Fanny, and I want to marry her.' "Well, it xvill not take me long to an swer you, Mr. Harkalong. You can't have her." "Your refusal pains me deeply. By the way, Mr. Billiwink, are you carrying all the life insurance you want?" Chicago Tribune. ""A Front Flower. Mr. John Bookwalter, who has re cently returned from a year and half's travel in Asia, tells of a remark able flower that grows in Siberia. They will grow, it seems, in the coldest climate from frozen earth, and bear beautiful blossoms in the month of January. In the duration of ita bloom the flower resembles somewhat our convulus, each blossom lasting but a day. The flower is star-shaped when it opens, its petals of the same length as the leaves, and about half an inch wide. The anthers, which are five in number, at the third or fourth day show at their extremities minute glist ening specks which shine like dia monds. They are about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter. These are the seeds. The name is an unpronounce able Russian word. Cincinnati Enquirer. When Srnoklne XV a Crime. Smoking was a:ly part of the seventeenth centurv by tne Russian Government and made a crice. In some cases the noses of smoker!5 were cut ill ft i ; r. tr t . i 3 i -r - , . " .un i?r .mwa:a l .. aront serenity; tne storm and sie-- hive .;,; T lu" . departed, and all that ,s I.ft U ! fr mo,mg wa," death. brought sweetness and cent ene? H: fav, I .v " f , - - lQe aevic. Ijuivingon tnecslm waters of th a.- 7 undertaker beiow. He receives great numbers o; letters, but the prrent cay a?hir of this troubled world n'-' little un prcssici upon him. nave lixe points. Vrlenee Crowd Oat Pallbearers. The latest novelty in- the lina 9 condemned in the ' faneral equipments has just been in- trodnced into Portland. It is in the nature of a caBket-lowering device which dre wav n-itK tV. I iu... on. In lurkev- : imrinV .v, v iU , ,- '"is mjuj iuoj icegrave. bj w mveuuon tne casket 11 from the hearse and placed on wtucb is automatic in iU and at the proper time the touches a spring and thm casket is, by invisible means, lowered quietly into the grave. Thus does science smooth our passage to the cold and Mien; tomb. Portland Oregonian, 1 'j'" '---i 1 ue coins 01 me l niteo ' Sta:- are six-pointf 'cv.,.0 oa tUe 1 A ' I a
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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May 25, 1899, edition 1
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