BE 8TJBB YOTJ ABB KIQHT; THEN GO
SAJO. i Crockett.
VOL. 68. NO. 29.
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Contagions Blood .Diseases.
fleers, earn, pimples Itch, salt rbem, etc,
are evidence of contagious blood diseases.
It U manifestly a duty to eradicate blood
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j H Ontlaw, Mt Olive, N C, writes: -I bad
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Oue bottle BBB cured me entirely."
L Tnhnson. Belmont ata' ion. Vies. wri.
H B B has worked or me like a charm. My
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bir came oat, bat BBB healed me quickly.
W J Kinuin, Hatch' ns. Texas, writes, B
b B has cared my wife of a large u'cer on her
1 that doctors aad all other medicine could
lot cure." I' ,
M J.Rossman, a prominent merchant of
i n-enoboro, Ga, writes, "I know of severs!
.Hte of blood disease speedily cored by B B
h. Two bottles cored a lady of ugly scrofu
uut stin sores."
w Birch more A Co, Maxey. Ga. writes,
It B B in enrinz Mr Root Ward of blood
..i...n.riwtidoiii aI the mutt wonderful
Ver
nrea that ever came under oar knowledge."
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Ton kin chirp about yer cities an' yer miles o
brown stun fninta,
As' yee swarrtee, baUa. an censhuna. an" ye
other piaisure aunts ;
Yer 'lectlc Ugat an' boss cars, an'
steam bU-
ers whU'llnsTiU;
Bat them's the things wot never salts yer
homely Unete BUI!
brown' Man fronts .looks
part en sit an
Bat aiu'i nuchin' to a farmhouse nee'llu" whits
amongst the grean;
An yer boasted ois seroiety'
b'-'iwh!
a pack o lies.
Worfc r'ii patent med 'cine eir'iars or Doe Wis
gina' weather bosh 1 '
An know in' 'at her time hes earn to help all
things rejoice, I
The ole cow io the clover neT lifts up iter vood
ole voice, I
An' ten'cent like-the peaoefol bunba beslas to
skip an' romp, I
While tha bullfrog gargles out his throat 'way
back ther ia the swamp.
Tha time I alios feel the mUeeayam's oosas to
pa on I
Is after supper's over an I'm settin' on the
grass I
A Us'nin' to the oherrap o' the birds
the trees. I
A twltterin' sweeter nrasio 'an Miss Patty to
the breose.
WoS comes Bobbin' through the branches fer
tn ki tha dvln son.
in' eoes flirtiu with the swaUera fore tha
kiss ki half Tsscnn. I
While the sun keeps pe-gini right along a-
lavin' on his naint.
ICid the whia'le o' the ehie'dee and nla-ht-
hawk'ss'riil complaint.
An so I set hare. haMST. ith the children at
mv knees. 1
A-aakin lots o fool na-hnns about tha boa-
, sin' bees.
An when the wind hes died away an' ev'ry-
thine ia stUL
I stretch my legs along the grass an say out
with a will :
Sam folks hankers tar tha city, bat this suits
to ITiula Hill
TOPICS
A canal will soon be built between
Black and Caspian Seas.
The sight of the new British rifle allow
for an elevation up to i,8W yaraa.
1 he Japanese are cultivating a taste for
beer and porter as well aal for European
costume.
Labouchere nays that "J the American
girl has almost entirely cut out the Eng
lish eirl m public favor.
Baldwin, the balloonM, leaped from
his balloon with a parachute at the height
of 6.000 feet He fell in safety. I
At 260 yards the Lepel rifle wJuld go
through I wo men. The French arsenals
have enough ammunition supply each
soldier with 2,30U cartnogea.
A swimming dress, toenaMe a swimmer
to blow up mines and hostile boats, has
been tried in the German navy. It ia a
sort of modiued Paul Boynton anair.
A considerable par Ot the frince oi
Wales' expensea has gone to pay for uni
rnrma which he must wear at foreign
courta. He has over 80 of them, and
sortie cost $600 or $700.
Two young Germans in Berlin fought
. lnJ with tricvclea. Starting at 800
yards apart, they charged, full tilt again
.li nthar with slis-ht' iiiiarT to them-
selves and serious hurts to their machines.
Their honor was satisfied.
Professor Thompson, who was a teacher
in PhiladelDhla when he made the discov
eries which hare placed him among the
world's millionaires, holds that sooner or
later electricity will be bbtained direct
from fuel without the lntervenuon ox
team.
A. P. Gordon dimming has discovered
a new species of violet on his place near
Sykesvuie, ana. m ub t
the flower leaves are a sort wmj, 'fu
or mottled with light al dark purple.
The fragrance is very sweet. The new
violet is welcome to a place among tne
old-established flowers that Woom in the
spring.
SIX BRIGHT
BOYS.
And How They All Became Mora or Leas
DIstlacaisTsed.
The death of Senator Beck, of Ken-jir-liv
touched none of his colleagues
more closely than Senator McPherson, of
New Jersey, and the reason of this was
told a few nights ago by John aawteuer,
a prominent merchant.
Ky. "About 40 yeand
"there were six farmer
of Lexington,
ago," said he.
lads working in
the northern portion of
the State of New
York, every one of whom has since be
nmminent ia Dublic affairs. A ra
dius of 50 miles from the point of junc
lrm of Tivinirston. Wyoming, and Niag
ara counties included the early homes of
these voumrsten. all bat one of whom
were born there. That one was nsmo
Burnie "Beck. Tfca others were Angus
Cameron, Francis Kernan, Henry M. lei
W Jerome B. Chaffee, and John Roder
ick McPherson. The young fellows all
worked hard, and mad4 the moat of tha
limited educational facilitiea afforded
them. t
"They were all acquamtanoas, and kept
nn thftir knowledge of leach other even
after they had drifted 'away from their
forms in search of wider fame and for
tune. On December 4, 1878. when Henry
M. Teller and Jerome
B. Chaffee took
their seats as the first Senators from the
new State of Colorado,
the four men who
ntood by their sides aa
the oath was ad-
ministered them, were
their former boy
friends, who had
known them years be-
rr TTWncis Kernan
hwas Roflcoe Conk-
liAAffue in the Senate, Angus
Cameron was r3eiiato4 from Wisconsin,
James B. Beck was
Senator
from Ken
tucky, and John B. JfcPbereon wai i Sen-
ator from New Jersey
The sextet wss
first broken by the
m,arTw a few vears
death of Senator
aero, and now Mr,
r.v frJInws him. All the others
ar.il! Urine. Mr. Teller, after. aerring as
c a- ni tha Interior, is back
in the
T" ' t in, TL McPherson is there
-pa.
or thk run
9
ALMOST EXTERMINATED.
Chapter
TBarely m The-
smtwt
Sseto Sana's Tame
Is TmrparaMe-
One of the
melaBcholy chapters
at least in Amen
is graphically told
m tha rneeaTstw pnhtisbad Qovernment
report on "The a-raaination of the
Amerioan Bison, " by W. T. Hornaday.
But a few year the bisons, buff aloa.
aaal tsaam, am our western
plains were as aavAaan the sea ahore. It
iposninis vat mey snouja ever
yet on January 1, 1890, tha
snunberof individuals in the whole coun
try was known aa exactly as the inhab-
of a rural village tnere were
only 1.091 of tham, aad of these 806
tame. The tribe will probably
oarer becoms entir ely extinct like tha
Kaw Zealand moa or tha dodo of Maur
Sxue, for the Government now protects
herd ia the Yellowstone Park,
rt these hy continual interbreeding will
probably decrease ia arse till the huge
creature that once roamed our plains
hall become a sort of domestic animal of
ao remarkable dimensions.
The bison, so says Mr. Hornaday, once
ranged over about one-third of theentira
Korth American continent, from almost
tide water on the Atlantic to the Western
prairies, across the Rockies to Utah and
Idaho, southward into Mexico, and north
to the Great Slave Lr le. It was at its
heyday about a century and a half ago,
and probably, if left undisturbed, it
would have reached the Pacific Slope.
As late as 1870 "it would have been as
easy to count or to c tiiuale the number
of leaves in a forest as to tell the nam-
b. r of b&ona lir th - coontry.- lto laa-1
of the great herds, seen in 1871, was 29
by 50 miles in extt and contained not
lees than 4,000,000. In places the plains
were black with the animals as far as
the eye could rer.ch. A train once
paeaed 120 miles through this great herd.
This was the northernmost of the two
great herds into - hich the Pacific Rail
road bad divided t - bisons of the west
In 1869. The buil. i . of the Karma Pa
cific in 1871, runniw through the head
Quarters of the southern herd, was the
main cause of its destruction. The
abnghter, which reached its height in
1873. waa ao wanton aad wasteful that.
ao it la said, every hide sent to market
represented four animals actually slain.
Three and a half millions of this south
ern herd were slaughtered between 1873
and 1874, aad by 1875 tha remnant, only
about-10,000, fled into Texas, where only
a few now remain. The northern herd,
partially preserved by the enormous ter
ritory over which it became scattered,
bad ita numbers thinned by the Indian
hunters till finally, in 1888, the Northern
Pacific Bailrftw1 gave it its death blow.
In that year the herd was hemmed in,
aad by February, 1884, only a few thou
sand of them were alive.
Even the hunters themselves did not
know how ruthless had been" the slaugh
ter, for in the autumn of 1883 costly ex
peditions were organized and actually
went to the hunting grounas, omy to nna
that the game, once numbered by count
less niiniona, was practically annihilated.
It was thought at .first that the herd bad
escarped into British territory, for it could
not be believed that the animals had been
exterminated in so abort a tune, but their
extinction is now only too well known.
In addition to the small herd about aw
protected in tha Yellowstone Park, scat
tered individuals or small droves exist
here and there throughout the West, but
thru are steadily hunted down, and soo
there will be none left
This whole story is rather sad reading,
esrjacially for any one who cares aught
for the preservation or game, or ior one
who laments the exaincnon or any race
of anrmalav bat ita commercial aide
ahonld not be overlooked. If any one
ever deliberately killed the goose that
laid the golden egg H was the hunter who
exterminated such a valuable animal as
tbeTaison.
Wa hear on all sides the time honorea
remark about the red man being gradu
ally driven into the Pacific aad about
m . 1 A
the rapid decrease ot nm numuere, re
reliable statistics are now given showing
that there are many more Indians on this
continent to-day than there were w heu
Pocahontas Averted the alleged war ciud
from the fertile and somewhat menda
cious brain of Captain John Smith. Is it
any wonder, then, that statements about
tR rWtraaee of me uson auouiu iwut
little attention?
But the fact remains that not more than
i or so el tfaeae animaBi are left
to ua, aad new their duties will be chiefly
ffftwA to filling engagements in mon
asteries sad m being stuneu aner tney
hava afctifled off their skin and horns.
There is only one task remaining to the
Anancia neoDle. part or, wnom nave
j.mUmk1 bMone from the car win
dows while the rest looked on with apa
thy. There is yet money to be made out
eh binon. Let the few tnousanataai
remain be killed and the bodies buried;
i ofjiffed carcases of those already
set upin museums be spirited away. Let
only one remain, or at least a doeen or
vhm wice oil these will at once raise
the fortunate owners so afniienoa. Let
na take a lesson of the dodo, a stuffed
specimen of which would to-day bring
than tlie whole dodo tribe were
m Aanght to be worth. So much does
enhance the value of a natural
quite as scare as the dodo, but its extinc
tion will be a much e-reater loss to the
tien
TARBORO'. N. 0. THURSDAY, AUGUST
imiianiiiuiMaiuuaiiiimtam '
HOW TO ElfOT A GOOD CIO ATA.
Opinion ea the Suhjeet from Oaa Who Is
Snrpoaed so Be an Kxpert.
A cigar" dealer on Park ; Row gives a
lesson to an Evening Sun reporter on
I how to smoke for pleasure.
'Few people know how to smoke a
cigar to enjoy it," said he. "itrnt men.
if te.- buying their cigars, sticc -n be
tween their teeth and gnaw Uiq .uds off
recklessly, tearing and looseming the
wrapper iu riany instances, ught their
'ai-8. and puff -away as if their very
lives depended on finishing them. In
many instances the finest cigar will burn
irregularly, and smokers lay the blame
on the cigar. The cigar may be to blame,
but in most instances the fault lies in the
way it is handled. Afi-. r the cigar has
boon bought the end should be cut
smoothly off by the clipper. The reverse
cud should be placed in th. moutli and
le ciirar blown through. Tins removes
all the little pnrticie of dut whieh can
not le avoided in manufacture, and pre
vents them from being inhaled into the
throat and from prodactng coughing.
Th cisrar should then be lighted, and
particular atteution should be paid to ita
wing thoroughly ignited all over the
surface of tle end. Instead of pulling
a war UVe a steam engine, three oi four
tfl every minute make the bet way in
which to enjoy the snvke. The smoke
should be kept in the mouth a short time
in order to appreciate the flavor. Then
it should beeuiitted slowly. In ca.se o ie
ule of the cigar should burn nd leave a
r. gged edge on the other side, it is not
necessary to resign: it. aa I haveseen
i isny people do. A g--ntle blo through
he cigar, toward the lighted end, will
ii'nite the rag-red side, and it will burn
re-ularlv. Smokiug this way ia a plea-
ire. It frets me to see a man smoking a
cigar who does not know ho w to enjoy it.
Why a J look Was Written.
Talking with an intimate friend of
General Lew Wallace the other day, I
learned the tru.' inspire'-Ion of his famous
novel. "Ben Hur. " " allace was on an
Eastern bound train, " said my informant,
"aud while going through the drawing
rn. iu car he Dassed the open door of a
compartment in which sat Colonel Rob
ert G. IngersoU. 'Come iu,' said the
latter. 'I'm lonely in here, and want
eome one to chat with.' Wallace entered
and seate 1 himjelf, 'All right, colonel,'
lie said, 'what shall we chat about?
'tots of thingV replied IngersolL 'Is
there a future life?" Looking out of the
window dreamily, as the express sped
on. he answered his own auery. I don't
know do you? Is there a God? I
don't know do you? Was Christ the
son of God ? I don't know do you? He
paused and looked keenly at Wallace,
The general was a little embarrassed by
the abruntness of the irreat inhdei s in
terrogatories. , He repliedi 'Really
Ingersoll, I have never given much
thought or study to the question you
m-ooound. I had a Christian training.
and I have always tacitly accepted
them.' 'Indeed! said Colonel Ingers 11,
Why, man, you surprise me! They are
vital issues. I have studied the suoject
thoroughly. Eery man ought to. Now,
take my advice and look into the matter.
You'll find you'll agree with me. 'I
went away from this interview both em
barrassed and mortified, said the gen
eral, ' that I did not feel competent to
discu-6 so important a matter with so
learned a thiuker. I made up my mind
that I would never place myself again in
so embarrassing a situation. I took
down my bks and read every authority
I could lay my hands on. Alter a years
study, so far from agreeing with the
great agnostic in his expressed opinions,
wrote "lien llur. mat is my repijr
to him!'" New York Star.
The Habits of Swans.
Superintendent Cinkling says that the
swans are curious biros, iney pair on
every spring, and each pair marks off
for its own use a tract ot water m ine
great ponds for its own domain. If any
swan dunnir the breeuinz season swims
out of its own domain it is instantly at
tacked by the rightful occupants of the
territory and driven away, now toe
swans know the boundary lines of their
domains on the water is a mystery to all
but them, and they don't tell. But they
do, and they recognize them as thor
oughly as farmers recognize the boundary
lines between their farm. ine at
tractive spectacle of the lone black swan
sitting on lier eggs m trie nest on a
rocky islet under the bridge near one
of the entrances to Central Park, in New
York city, is interesting, and hundreds
watch her cygnigritude daily. mere
she sits all day, only rising for a moment
once an hour or so, to rest herself, while
her careless husband is Bailing all about
the pond, making himself agreeable to
some handsome cygnets who have no
nests to care for. "Just like a man,"
say the ladies who observe his conduct.
His wife sometimes stretches up her long
neck and lows mournfully after him;
but she never deserts the nest. It is to
be hoped that she gives him deserved
punishment when she gets hold of him.
Bew It Happen.
A little man asking how it happened
that many beautiful ladies took up with
but indifferent husbands, after many
fine offers, was thus aptly answered by
a mountain maiden: A young friend of
here, during a walk requested her to go
into a delightful canebrake and there
get him the handsomest reed. She must
rat it in once going through, without
turning. She v.ent, and coming out,
brought him quite a meal reed. When
he asked if that was the handsomest' on
"OVi nn." mrjlied she. . "1
saw many finer as I went along, but 1
kept on in hope of a much better, until I
v.-i avitbm nearly through. '"and then
&
tmiimnmiiiim I puiimtiuiwimiiiiiiimiiiiHii
oarrsat ow.
w
-
When I waa sofaewaas twanges.
I was reckoned an ay
I had my Sine at maw thing
Tn a roUiekin' OoUSBa way.
But times have strangely altered
Since sixty years ago-
This see of steam aa' things don't
I ike the ace I used to know.
Your modern innovations
Don't salt me, I ooaisss.
As did the ways of tha good ol days
But I'm gcttla' on, 1 guess.
X set on the piasaa
An' hitch round with the Sa
Soinetlmea, mayhap, I take a nap
Waitia' tiU school is done.
An' then I tell the children
The things 1 dona ia youth.
An' near as I can (as a veaar'ble man)
I stick to the honest truth 1
But the looks of them 'at Uaten
aeam aoeaetimas to express
The remote ieee that I'm tone you sea?
An' I aaa aettin' en, I guess.
I get np la ths rnernla'
An' nothin else to do.
Before tbs rest are np aa dressed
1 read the papers thronara ;
1 bans; round with the weave
All day, an' hear 'am talk,
An' while they asw or knit I show
The baby how to walk:
An', somehow I feel sorry
When tbey pnt away Us dress
And cut his curls ("cause they're Uke a girl's)
I'm getUn' on, I guess.
(Chicago Nsws,
MB. STAVLBrS CITlSKNSBir.
The Great
KxpUnr'i AUeglaeee te the
U alted States.
When an American flag wss presented
to Henry M. Stanley at the reception
given to him by the Americana in Lon
don a short time ago the great African
explorer said that he had always con
sidered himself an American and a citi
zen of the United States, but the circum
stances under which he became a citizen
are known to only a few. Stanley was
naturalized ia the superior court of New
York oa May 15, 1885. A few days ago
Thomas Boose, the clerk of that court,
told a Tribunt reporter tha cirtnunatances
connected with 'the incident. "On the
date mentioned, said Mr. Bofja, "the
late A. S. Sullivan came into my office
and introduced me to Mr. Stanley, who
wished to become a citizen ef the United
States. I did not know that my visitor
was the great African explorer until he
had been in my office some time. Stan
ley told me that he had always consid
ered himself a citizen of the United
States, aa he had served in the Union
army, and had been honorably dis
charged. While traveling in Europe,
however, he had met an American gen
tleman who had informed him that he
must go through the forms aa provided
by statute before he because a citizen.
and the fact that ha was an honorably
discharged soldier did not make him a
citizen of the United States. Stanley
waa about to depart for Africa at that
time, and told me that he had come from
London to New York especially to be
naturalized, and that only a few persons
knew that he was in this country. He
swore and produced witneaeea who swore
that he had always ooaaidered htmsett
citizen of the United States, so he re
ceived his certificate and departed,
Among the 300,000 or 400,000 autographs
which Mr. Boose has attaonea to naeur-
alization papers in his custody Stanley's
is the one which is probably pruea cue
highest.
A Patasoniaa Child lleeter.
When a child in Patagonia is sick,
messenger is dispatched fer the doctor.
and never leaves him uniil ha comes
with him. As soon as the doctor arrives,
he looks at the sick child, and tiien with
much ceremony rolls it up in a piece of
skin. He then orders a clay piaster, and
Tor this time tlte chikl has ceased crying.
soothed by the warmth of the akin, and
so rendering still more solid his reputa
tion as a wise man. Yellow clay is
brought and made into a thick era
with water, and the child is pointed
from head to foot, causing him to cry
attain.' "The devil is still there," says
the doctor sagely, and undoes two mys
terious packages he carries, one contains
rhea sinews (oatrien) ana trie otner a rat
tie made of stones in a gourd decorated'
with feathers. He then , fingers the
sinews, muttering something for a few
minutes, then he seises the rattle and
shakes it violently, staring very hard at
the crying child. Then wraps it in the
akin again and it ceases crying. Again
it is painted, rattled at, and stared at,
and again it cries. This is done four
times, and then the cure is considered
complete. The doctor leaves the chad
auiet, enfolded in the warm akin, and
goes his way, having received two pipe
fula of tobacco as his fee. strange to say
the child aenerauy recovers, but if it
does not, the 00010 gets out of the diffi
culty by declaring that the parents did
not keep the medicine skin tightly
ground the child and so let the devil get
back again. This is the only treatment
sick children in Patagonia ara aver
known to receive.
Before Yfe Turn te Bust.
How long will a human body remain
in the earth before it decays until it can
not be distinguished from the surround
ing clays is a question ss yet undecided
br the scientists. Much depends upon
the character of the soil and the different
elements of which it is composed. , In
countries abounding tn limestone, or.
again, in regions thoroughly saturated
with alkaline waters, human flesh will
retain a natural color and firmness for
an indefinite period of time. The bogs
of Ireland have yielded up bodies fresh
and natural t'iat had been bur lei iu their
slimy depths for centuries. It is said to
be an historical fact that the bodies of
three Ropwi soldiers were found in a
peat bog on the Emerald Isle in the year
1569 A. D., fresh and lifelike, although
they had been buried almost 16 centuries.
7, 1890.
jjiEMFiBiETrs
i'n imi.
THI HKARTT LAVOR.
She Bible Caaswles Ne Command
That
Mis SanU Laacn.
The Bible conhssnn no cheerful exhor-1
tetion to Laughter. r the most part,
indeed, it Is reformed t- 'm the metaphori
cal sense of "scottskn- as when it is
written of Leviathan that "he laugheth
at tlic shaking of a spear. " But there
are p.. tinges also where the ordinary
meaning is evidently intended, and in
almost every one of these it is eyed
askance. Saleaassi issthe great authority
on the subject. Let him speak for him
self: " I said of laughter, it ia mad; and
of mirth, what doeth it?" "Even in
laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the
and of that mirth is heaviness. " Again,
A fool Kfteth up his voice with laugh
ter, but a wiee man doth . scarce sniUe a
little. " Not very encouraging, truly, to
these of hilarious proclivities. It may
be legitimate enough to compare the
gtggle of a fool to "the crackling of
thorns unier a pot, but it seems hard
that there should be ne word of approval
for the milder merriment of tlie few who
may be supposed not to belong to iool-
dom. Yea, by the way, there is one, and
onlv one: "A time to leu " but we
may search (he Scriptures from Genesis
to the Apocalypse without det.cling.aay
intimation as to when that ti occurs.
Probahrv Solomon meant the rief per
iod of childhood, when irooretM-e is buss
and we are merry will it kr..wmg or
caring to know why. He could not con
sistently reeesnmend any such frivolity
to those of a larger growth after having
ao bitterly commented on the practice in
previous chapters.
It must have been constant study or
the preacher's gloomy utterances which
made laughter so unpopular among the
monks of the desert and some or. the
early fathers. St. Basil, for instance.
wfil have noshing to do with it. no
person, he says, of well ordered mind
can ev bring himself te indulge in a
good laugh, or, in the quaint patristic
language, in twiMnsi cacnlnnos pror
umpere et oorpore auasultare." A little
further on. think las. perhaps, that ne
has not spoken with decision enough, he
takes cocaeion to improve tne text, wee
unto you that laugh now!" It is per
fectly plain, he adds, that there is no
room whatever for laughter in the life of
the faithful ("nullum omnino locum dari
fideli. in ouo ridere defceet-. Plato, a
wood many centuries earlier, in con
structing his ideal state, expressly
warned his readers that laughter loving
persons were ineligible as guardians He
even forbade that worthy men should be
rerwesented. on the stage or elsewhere.
as overcome by their sense of tbtfridio-
ulous. He does not condemn laughter
in itself, however: this was reserved for
other and less genial systems of philos
ophy. Qentlensan's Magazine.
tbi latbst rauzparrVAi. motion.
This Tlaee It
la a Cleek
That Needs Ne
Winding-.
T. G. Farrar. of Columbus, Ohio, watch
maker, has invented one of tne most ps
cuhaa docks of the nineteenth century.
H rjonaistoef a plate glass dial suspended
fwa She ceiunce. and all the parts of II
tV4 aaa visible are the two hands, the
nisml: noon which they swing, and the
diaL
B ' X "
Mr. Farrar worked on the invention
for six years before he socceded in per
reeting it. He alleges that the only mo
tive power ia the gravitation of tne earth,
and that the clock will run on forever
without windinsV The only imperfection
ia that it leans Sm 4 to 8 minutes per
day by the fatotion of the hands on the
pivot, and therefore the hands require to
be resrulafed once in. aoura
The hands are of nn. ana are nouow
and perfectly Manced on the pivot. Mr.
Farrar says tW are moved by the grayi-
tationof She earth, bus w puxaaea sue
spectator to account for the power tnas
raises tbem after tney reaon o. ou.
AH kinds of theories are afloat to ac
count for this. Some peopae say that
the bellow hands are flUed with Balds oC
different densities that own corns the
gravitation of the earth when she hands
reach that point. But Mr. rarrar keeps
his secret and rejoices over the morttnea-
tion of the beholder. He insists tnas
electricity is not the. motive power.
. Woman add' Bar BtemaeU;
"Woman is an omnivorous animal,
savs a rreat London physician whose in
vestigation of woman s power oi esuag
has led Mm to the conclusion mac sue is,
as a rale, much more fond of unseasonable
food at unseasonable hours than man.
Men do not eat some thmgs, " continues
this observing practitioner, "because
t.iwv know if they do they will be dys
peptic and ill tempered ths next day, but
the frailest woman bless her sweet soul
and etrom? stomaeh will consume tne
very things a man refuses and rise on the
morrow without swruuufl on ner uw
a ruffle in her temper to be a comfort to
herself and to erery one else. Heaven
only knows how they do It; the doctors
don't," . .. -
Highest of all in livening Power.
ASS3JLfsfEI2f i PUBS
TBXIR GOUXrV WSODDCQ Dir.
Just nfty years a, Aaar wifs, V
Since yea aad 1 eta wad.
TsdagH ear geldea wedding dar
Where one the years have Aed?
Am I that ghy aad awkward youth
Are ywa ha maiden tnlrt
Wltk atrvw threads aanoas the ourkt
That onos was golden hair t
I never oaa forget the day
That made yea eD say own.
Year Hps like tempttag cherries ripe.
Tear ntnh nka roses blown.
Tear saiid eyes r-tg bright as stars
la faney yet I sset
And you that day than all the world
Were dearer far to me.
And yet, dear heart, I know that I
love better far as lsy
Than e'en I loved that maiden fair
The wife that's old and gray
And I will pray that yon and I
May walk law's gotten sands
Until we reach that better place.
The bouse not made with hands.
ITaokes Blad
SFOijJEO A GBBAT SPKKCB.
frebared by Oaa WfUlasrts for a Wateh
bet Nee AppUeak-le te a Cane.
Gas Williams, the comedian, was ten-
AarA a TnsmaSt in Rnotan In 1872. He
was a great favorite in that city. The
nsnent was to occur on rnuay evening,
and along about Wednesday John Stet
son, who was manager of the theater
where Gus was playing, approached the
comedian on the quiet and said:
Qua, my boy, your friends here are
to present you with a watch at your
benefit next Friday evening. I didn't
want you to be broken up when they
came upon the stage with it, so I thought
I would tell yon, confidentally, what was
in the wind. Now you can write up a
neat little speech for the occasion and
yourself for the ordeaL" Gus
thanked Stetson heartily, ue was
pleased with the idea of getting a nne
watch. He carried a cheap one, which
kept good time, and thia he gave away
to the rwonertv man at once, m order
that the presentation committee might
see that he had no timepiece.
When he went to his room at the hotel
that night, he wrote out a pretty im
promptu speech, in which he said that
when he gazed at the face of the beauti
ful watch he would see the faces of his
Boston friends; when he saw the hands
he would be reminded of the Boston hand
of good fellowship; the spring when he
looked at it would suggest the well
spring of friendship; the chain would
bind him to Boston, etc It waa a neat
response, and he studied it carefully.
He knew that when he sprung it they
would think him a great extemporane
ous speaker, and he shook hands with
himself. Well, the eventful Friday
night came at last. The vast house was
packed with his enthusiastic friends. At
the proper time the presentation com
mittee filed out on the stage and laced
him. He braced himself for the ordeaL
The chairman stepped forward and - pre
sented him with a cane. They might as
well have hit him over the head with it,
as he was unable to speak a word. Bos
ton Herald.
THI VIS BRITISH MATT.
Completion ef the Big Battle Ships Nile
aad Trafalgar.
The English battle ship Trafalgar,
which was launched in 1687 and now
just completed and ready to go into com
mission, is one of the heaviest and most
powerful war ships afloat. She has a
length of 845 feet, a breadth of 78 feet, a I
displacement of 11.M0 tons, and an in
dicated horse power or ia.uuu. wua
draftof 87 feet s inches. She looms up in
the distance one of the most powerful.
l.lt aawal iasetVltn WwinXkTag fInBnnk lanHVnB
appeared upon the face of the water
- iVnmmsnaaf msn. Wn
at the command of man. Wrought iron.
steel, and teak provide an armor that
would seem impregnable, and from ram
to sternpost provision has been rnede
against the most formidatne weapons eg
modern warfare. Turrets will revolve
by hydraulic power. Each contains two
67 ton breeohloading guns, which m turn
will bs loaded and worked by hydraulic
power and so arranged that they rise for
firing and descend for loading. A full
chars calls for 020 pounds or. powoer.
This tremendous monarch, with its
towering turrets and citadel, carries 1,900
tons of coal, the amount necessary for
steaming 6,500 knots, and the highest
speed yet attained' by the snip mi io
knots an hour. The estimated cost at
completion k (4,600,000, and is one of a
pair, her sister ship being christened the
NOe. - The navy of England, with its
present appropriations and growing
numbers, will soon be the admiration of
the world. To what extent these im
mense battle ships will be available ia
offensive warfare is yet to bs shown.
For purposes of defense, however, they
much excel anything yet produced and
the momentum for ram power must be
tremendous and terrible, wrula the arma
ment provides for fierce execution. But
how these frwwmTtaa ships wfil behave ia
oceanic storms or in long cruioeaata dia-
tanoe from home is yet to be shows.
TJ. & Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1885,
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