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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. 111. NO. 9 TH* ChariottQ Messenger rnrusmn »‘.v Satnrdav. AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interest* of the Cfcteed People of the Country. _ I Able ami weii know® writers- will mmi* I’te to its cobtasna from (WSwrnz jsixts. effUSe country, and it i»tH co*tsh» 6b? tatrar (5® » e**l New* of tie. Tmc Hnamn j* , *n.i w;iJ not allow peiromj) afcos? m a* toJ nmns. It k not sirctmria* or partißunn. brt independent Jraliug f«rfy fcjr *jii_ ft f? i serves the righ ttc, criticise- Sb? sb>e*-..uniiB B e of all publi- officials— ,1?. ■nmrtlir. ami foretoeti™ sack nmnaoinitsopmeoarebertOTrtMl «w en? tht* in tenets ok tho .rtbfaeeafcj to supply «be Bra* Mr revet .' . * *tt advocate tb? rxJblM. and .lefemt the mtan sts of the Nvrerir.Anmrn Carolina 1 . «*M eff Kb? sn»s«nrmo*s: iAtmrnjfttn AiSwtm<r#. )\ 1 v-?ftr - - - «8 30> SmoMffep - - - fl *•> f* menzhb ... 4 months - - Sto 3 arutfes - - A'itresaw W.C. SMITH, Charlotte'. N C. It is sc id that the great guerinx ct Alaska is moving at the rate of a (quartet of a mile per maum to wand the sea. The front presents a wall of tee seme 3M feet in thickness, its breadth rains firm* three to ten miles, and it is about time hundred and fifty miles tomg. Atamett ; ■every quarter of an hertr kaadjeda. es tons es ice in large blocks fall mbs the vi which they agitate im tbe most rio lent manner, the waves being saefe a* to toss about the largest eesee s that ap proach the glacier as if they -were small boats. • Lieutenant Schwatka, mi cooMniajwl el ~ the New York Time** espHoring; cape riitioa in Alaska, is «rer air feet Ugh. and weighi two hundred and fifteen pounds. It was he wfno dnseorered iff ; King William's Land, in the stetir seat, evidences that Sir John Franklin and hat party had really perished. It waa he who. a few yeats later, sailed twelve : hundred miles on a raft oailhe dasgereras Yukon River, ia the polar uegimwa, anti explored also- the remaining eight h®m dred miles of that previously nmknoiwr stream. To-day the Lieu.teoa.-ct Us snp posed to be climbing Mount St. Elios. tft* highest peak of North America, its ele vation being almost four - miileA. Iff he ; reaches the -a iwy summit, he will he the first person to have ■cccmpidrbe-i that feat. Toe Smithsooian Iretitatina wasted' to send him cn the same errand. Bret wa out of funds. He expects to being bock many facts and specimens wahwftde le science and deposit them in the Inti of Natural History at the Cential P«k, and in the rnu eum of Pr mn-ten CHBtgt, «; where his assistant, Mr. JLihfcey. a** foo fessor? In conversation with a pe|>c«w®lfaßiT»' 1 of one of the largest Xtw Jersey a—tin a reporter of the New Ywk Xanß wmM JCs/ r>*.i learns that the ©W! Lambnn'&j jv?plar trees are again. eommg intu* ffw&- mn. The «iwarf maples off Japaua aw also now in favar. Tkey eonae *n®e aatJ a half to two feet Liglu an 4 cast ****** each. The Norway sprae* » stilE popm lar as an evergreen; also- the SarikMßt fir, which is new aadi taking tike pfiaoc , of the old English silTer Hr Thr irta®- losperp evergreen, from Japan » femur than the arbor eifce. In Lei&re** thr ; California privet is taking the' pAace off the old American privet. Its feline re 1 sembles the Irof of th# cameHEiaL. Box wood hedges are jet oat off sty&Cb la J shade trees rmipies are ia dcmaaflL. Eng lish, Norway and sugar.. Ttoe* efen w-wat ,: | off style, on account off a pevwEiar 1 of a parasite or carnivociMW <Je®rtripiriwm.. The farolina and jpreenleaJ popf-ara are in favor. New Jersey is «pr«*UEy caSairg:- ing its productiveness m maaE fcnadtesL There is a largely increamd safe w Mark b°rrv vines. Th# sweet cmily tarmn. 1 th'* earliest of all, which grew* ia cta tcr*. ia in demand. The small frail ia dustry has also increased ia New Ycek and Connecticut. The peach still Beads in th? nurseries, nil over the ematey. Ijirge numbers, both off perchts and , apr.cots, are ordered foe CnUfaeaiw. i Delaware and Maryland are leasing New jersey peach-trees. The old tree* in j those two States an dymg off defective l sidebark, and Jersey i» expected to wp- , P*! half a mi.lion this Sail—tww years from the seed sad one year from the ' bod. They are planted from the middle of October to the laot es November, nasi bear from two to three years frees the . time they are set out. The Kctfles and i Lament? p*irs„ both especially aiapffe 8 to canning, sell largely. TV* desk in , solid, but nut partiiralarty timriaas. i CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1886. TREASURE. Th* flnwwv I planted in the flush of spring, Have budded, bloomed and withered long The grain say lavish fingers used to throw, Lang since was reaped for others' garnering; Y-rt I am rick amid ray nature dearth; My gold is where the rainbow touches earth. My waaltk s? molten of full many an ore, IfrCg from the sabred caverns of the Past; Stored where the Present’s quiet light is cast; PM an tire Promise land that lies before. AM blent together, all of priceless worth, A® iod just where the rainbow touches earth. And Memory, Faith and Hope its guardians are. ij As balding Love's strong hand I make my wy, Knowing I near a little ever day The -nne sure goal where, passing o’er the t«r, I find, in all tire glow of second birth, My Taeasum, where the rainbow touches earth. — AII tkm Year Round* FAIR ETHNE S CHOICE. X TALE or THE OLDEN TIME. St*»dT as » lily, beautiful as a rose, modest as a violet, was Ethne, daughter off tireat FJorimand, King of the b ranks. Sole heiress off her father's domain, she had been Hught as befitted a powerful monarch's daughter. No brighter eye flubbed icsponsive to noble deed, no ten derer heart wept over knight's wounds, no more dating huntress hasted to the chase, do maiden in all het train was aa skilled at the embroidery frame as she. Hot her heart was ice. ’ This beautiful bring, who could pity the squire's mis. hap, had »o mercy upon the noble knights whose hearts she had pierced by her glances. Right well did King Florimond like to keep his daughter to himself, and it was with scarce concealed joy that he saw •artor after suitor depart from his court with dejected mire and downcast head. Bat it came to pass, as he grew* older, his ministers began to consider that Shore nau be some rule capable of hold ing the turbulent Princes of the provinces in subjection. Sa they petitioned Flori anwnd to select from the Princes, who every day besought Ethne’s favor, one who should become her conaort. Fteimood knew that his daughter mm* wed one whom he should adopt ere she could rat upon his throne; so, with a great sigh, be prepared to give up his darling to another. But when he broached the mat:er to Ethne she looked at Bdm reproachfully, and asked; "And hast thou tired of me, my ffstberF' "No, do," answered he, ‘Tight sore sromld it grieve me to find thy heart held me serood; yet thou -know'st I am wax ing to tire end, and I fain would see thee happy ere I go." i nett Ethne clung to him, shuddering, as strong young natures will, at thought of death, and bade him not name the rgly word, it wrung her heart; and said dad be wish her to marry, sh" would, wot that her heart could be won by praaceorduke—no,no; but only to please he* dear father. The King smiled, for he was a shrewd old fellow and knew a woman’s heart, or nbmagkt he did, and when she asked that she might make her own choice, he laughed in his beard. But be readily promised, and royal couriers were des patched to the east and the west, and tho north asd the south, to announce that the Princess Ethne had at last agreed to wed. Groat was the rejoicing, and for a spare all thoughts of war left even the most puissant warrior's bead,and in their •trad caroe'drearos of love and ambition and the beautiful Ethne. To every Prince bad come a most saiths ul mi nature nff the King's daughter, and many a man. a* he gined uuon the dazzlint? counter feit, feUt that he would gladly barter his s*«l«« possess the real. Be cure the Princess had gazed upon the portraits of her father's most re nowned vassals, but if any among them had stirred her heart none knew it, not even her fauhful maid, Grunelle. She banted, and rode and placed her harp, and worked her tajastry with serene animn, and hung over her father with tender ministration; Imt Prince after Prime* rede away from the palace more than ever the beautiful Ethne’s slave, fan her than ever from Florimond’s throne. Thus Florimond began to wax a little angrr. as the l> at of men will when they Ltd themselves thwarted by a wo Ban's obdinary, and he swore by the homos of his forefathers tlist he would E" ea sax days’ tournament, to which all mighbres and jwinoely vassals should be hidden, and on the sixth day Ethne nad choose one for her husband. Such anohedirot child was she that she smiled aad kiswd his anger away. The torarnnmeiit came off at length, after vad preparation. Florimond’s cap ital was thronged with strangers, ard X os dozed in the saddle in the streets, e their noble masters were content to sleep upon bare floor*. All the beauty and chivalry nf the world was assembled ; *1 that man and wealth could do was d"ne t'- make the tournament of Ethne the Fait- unequaJed. And nature, smil ing. viewed the gay pageant. The 1 :eld off Love was a groat plain outside the gates, and thither thousands wended Jarir way from early dawn. At the ex tremity off the et> l.ised lists was a raised dim cc'rred with purple velvet, and epoe this va place*! the gulden throne eff the Qteft off the Tournament, shaded ffna the Jaae sun by a canopy of silver sod owe Light-glorious vii the dsy. The green earth was bathed in the geMta sunlight, and the soft zephyrs pared with tire ladies' tresses and touched ttrear rounded necks like a trembling hoi’s kies. Herald* rode up and down the lists, proclaiming ia sonorous volee the knights' deeds of prowess. Mon than three hundred of the proudest and bravest Princes and Dukes of Christen- i dom had entered the contest, and as knight after knight paid his obeisance to the queen, many a brave bosom swelled, and many a noble warrior vowed to perform prodigies which Bhould win a look of regard from those match less orbs. But though the Princess joined in the storms of applause] which greeted each valiant deed, and bestowed upon each victor his meed with words of gracious cheer that sent the blood ting ling through the veins of the kneeling knight, there was no tenderness in tho tranquil eye, no carmine upon the pale cheek; ’twasif an angel had smiled upon man, and still was angel, and he but man. Florimond, upon his lofty throne of purest gold, with proud Princes bending their knees before him, was like a sun amid planets; yet as day pressed upon day, and Ethne made no sign, the cloud upon his lefty brow deepened, and upon the eve of tho fifth day he sought Ethne, and swore by his troth he would permit no further trifling. “Upon the morrow thou must make thy decision. Is it pos sible that of the three hundred knights who entered the lists not one has found favor in thy tight?” Then Ethne turned to him, and said ; “Dear father and sovereign lord, be not wrfjj ' with thy daughter and hum ble su' I live but to obey thee, and what*' w/eo/i dost command that will I do.? };<e r , r Tft . her soft arms about his li.olt-s®Bjj 0 -to sreat weeping, and FiorimW r y u l sore perplexed, for he was a most 1 A man, yet also was he . mighty monarch whose word would lot be broken, and should he permit the Princes of the east and the north and the wst and the south to depart, scorning a doting father a,d a spoiled capricious Ei aid? So he 1 sened the clinging arms, and bent his brow, and stamped his heel. “Thou hast heard; show that thou hast heeded,” and was striding from th* chamber when Ethne prostrated herself at his feet. “Most gscions King,” she supplicated, “not the meanest of thy serfs implores a hearing in vain, wilt thou deny thy duushter:” “Thou hast me there; but think not, Ethne, to cajole. I do not think in faeh'ouing thee so fair, God hath left out that chiefest joy in woman, a heart. Tell me not thou canst not care for lover. By St. John, full many a gallant youth have 1 seen these days, most comely to look upon. Were I a maiden, I could not say him nay 1 ween. And yet thou hast met looks of languishing Tovc with glace so cold it did freeze the marrow in the longer’s bones. ’Tis true what they say, thou art Ethne, the Icy-hearted. No, thou hast no h art. Yes, thou hast, too, for I have marked thee weep over a squalling child's mishap, yet thou art rock when thou knowest how much I would joy didst thou love some gallant knight to whom I could say; •Welcome, my son. ’ ” “Father,” saidEthne, “Ihaveaheait, and not more than other maids am I in sensible to manly worth and vnlor and beauty! but 1 cannot say to my heart: ‘Thou must,’ when it cries out it cannot ; and not until it would tell me would I marry. A noble sight those brave knights have afforded us, and well did I delight therein. And yet, if in three hundred I saw not ten to whont I could give a sec ond glance, am Ito blame? Can l force nty heart to beat when it fain would be still? But four of the three hundred have remained unapproaehed victors. It is from these I will make my choice. Perchance some one will speak the word | I have never yet heard. Yet my father, j King Florimond, need not fear to trust 1 his daughter's word.” Full well pleased were IvingFlorimond, j and Robert the Bold. Hugh the Great, j Tnncred the Wise, and young Ecrnard ! of 1 nscarene, gallant knights all. True, - Bernard of Pas. arene has little beside his , noble name and his trusty saord; but j said she not something of a speech? j Then it would be Tancred, who should j rule his kingdom, and keep up his fame. Thousands flocked to the Field of Love the next day, for it was announced that the Queen of Love would choose a husband from the four victorious Princes. The wrestlers failed to attract a single 1 plaudit, the tilting passed by unnoticed All eves were riveted upon the Queen of ! Love. She sat upon her golden throne, I garbed in purest white, for so gloriously | lovely was this gem it needed not rich ! setting. In her right hand she held a j great ei imson-hearted rose. After the minor awards were made, j ’mid breathless t pence entered the four knights. First, Robert the Bold, on his coal-black steed, whose proud step j showed he knew a conqueror pressed his | back. Robert dismounted, and throw ing the reins to his squire strode forward ■ with slow and stately step, and bent be fore the Queen and received his guerdon. Then stepping back, he made a low obeis uire and spake: “Pee-less daughter of a noble sire, I know not how to frume my speech. I am a follower of Mars, not a frequentor off courts. If my speech jar thy delicate ear, I crive pardon. Never did Robert Ihe Bod ask favor, or kueela suppliant, mv banners have floated from the Sara cen's most guarded towers, my good right hand has sent many a doughty war rior 1 1 bitethe dust. Vet didst thou lay thine within it, I pledge my knightly honor tliou shouldst ne’er regret it; so help me, God, and St. Martin.” “I do not tell thee my record,” said Hugh the Great. “’Tis in every man’s mouth. I stk thee, wilt tho i have me for thy husband, imd be thy answer yea or nay, I will abide by it, nor bold a vengeful thought ” “Fair Ethne.” spoke Tancred tho Wise, "men call ine wise, and I would take murh of comfort in the i ana did my wisdom now show me how to woo thee. 1 must needs beg thee to have compassion upon one whose wit has been j stolen by thy beauty.” The.i slowly advanced Bernard of Pas caren* upon his milk-white stecrl, with I trappings of azure and silver. A goodly youth to lock upon, with his lithesome j iigure and chestnut curls falling upon his blue doublet, and his brave, sweet lips ; half shaded by the gold-brown line. He sprang from his horse and threw ! himself at Ethne’s feet. i “O Princess, maiden so fair, I know ; l not whether thou art mortal; I think it - heaven to thus kiss the hem of thy robe, - I would not presume to seek to wed thee, i i I do not ask thee to give back my heart ! i which thou hast possessed since that j < blissful hour when first I saw thee. Ij I am happy if thou wilt but deign to look ! i up n me, to let me say, ‘I love thee, I ' i love thee!’ And had I ten thousand 1 tongues each would say, ‘I love thee, \ i I love thee!’" 1 Then uprose Ethne and blushed cheek i and neck and brow, and she lifted him, and put in his hand the crimson j < rose. “Thou art the man,” she said. “Thou ; i hast spoken the words which alone can i open woman’s heart. Thou lovest me. 1 Bernard, and thy love has wakened i mine!”— C. if. HoUoway, in Tul-Bits. i i 11 How We Grow. The rapidity with which this country 1 is growing may be understood from the 1 increase in population. The census of 1 18S0 gave the population of the United 1 States in June of that year as 10,155,783, 1 which was 11,597,412 morethan in 1570. I The Cincinnati Price-Curie.,t has made ! an estimate of what it is now, w hich 1 seems to ba nearly correct. For tile ten j years from 1870 to 18S0 the increase of ] population was almost exactly equivalent ’ to twd per cent, gain annually, with the ] yearly immigration added. The immi- ; gration for the years ending June 30, 1880, and the approximate population on June 30, of those years, on the basis of ! calculation mentioned, is as follows, ac- : cording to thwieeice- Current: Immigration. Population. 1881 669,431 51,82s,001) . is 82 788,902 53,654,000 ! 1 is«i 603,322 65,330,000 * i IKN4 518,502 60,063,000 , 1895 395,346 58,490,000 , 1886 328,917 50,988,000 j Th e Price-Current explains that “the above figures of immigration for the past , year covers only the six ports, of Balti more, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and San Fran?isco, at which , Ihe immigration for tho prcccdingyear was 849,030, cr about ninety per cent, of the ; , final report. Current statistics nf immi •gration embrace no calculation for immi- ! grants arriving from Mexico and British North American Provinces. It is likely the final returns of the Treasury Depart ment will show fully 350,000 for the past year—which would imply that the pres ent population is almost exactly 60,000,- 000, calculated as mentioned.” In six years, therefore, our population has increased from 50,155,783 to 60,000,- 000, or neirly 10,000,000; and in the ten years preceding 1880 it increased 11,-j 500,000, making a gain in sixteen years of 21,500,000. As our population was • only 38,500,000 in 1870. it has gained | over sixty per cent. What influence such ; an increase in population lias upon con- j sumption of products, is not easily to be j conceived. Take the case of wheat alone. It is estimated that four and a half bushels of flour per annum are con- J sumed by each man. woman and child in i the country. An increase in population j of 10,000,000 means that the country must produce 45,600,000 more bushels of wheat for home consumption than it \ did in 1880. An Increase of 21,500,000 in population means an increased wheat I consumption at home of 96,750,000 bushels. Just that much more wheat is i re luired to supply the home demand , i than was needed in 1870. In this we 1 take no account of the additional amount reqaired for seeding the increased area 1 put into wheat raising. —Hew York Indi j w tor. How to Keep a Hoorn Cool. The composing room of the Picayune is situated in the upper story of its pub- i lication house, just under the roof, and in summer is extremely hot. An inspire- I tion seemed to have come to one of the oppressed occupauts, and, in accordance i with it, a vertical wooden box was con- ] ' structed in the corner of tlic room, with openings at the floor and ceiling, and ! furnished with a pipe for supplying ; water at the top, and a pan and drain j at the bottom for receiving the flow and carrying it awey. The supply pipe was bent over the upper end of the fhaft, ! and fitted with a nose like that of a - watering pot, so as to deliver a shower l of spray instead of a solid stream. Oa connecting it with the service pipe the movement of the water was found to I cause an active circulation of the air in that part of the room, which was drawn in at the upper opening of the shaft and issued again ccol and fresh at the floor level. The most surprising thing about the experiment seems to have been the effect of the water in cooling the a t to a degree much below its own tempera ture. With Mississippi water, which when drawn from the service pipe, in dicated a temperature of eighty four degrees, the air of tho room in which the thermometer at the beginning of the trial stood at ninety-six degrees was cooled in passing through the length of the shaft to seventy-four degrees, or about twenty degrees below the tem perature at which it entered, and nine teen degi cca below that of the water which was used to cool It. Os course the absorption of heat by the evaporation of a portion of the water accounts for it* refrigerating effect, but the result seems to have been so easily and inexpensively attained, that the experiment would be well worth repeating in other case*. — New Orleane Picayune An Amador county (t’al.i man has ap plied for a patent on a process for making butter by boiling the cream, i ■ j A CITY’S SEWING GIRLS ! SEAMSTRESSES AND THEIR SMALL WAGES IN NEW YORK. Working Long Hours for a Pittance i —Work. They Do, and the Prices They Get., As a rule seamstresses on men's weaf receive the least pay, according to the fineness of the Trork and the extreme care bestowed upon it, though work on some women's garments is illy enough paid. Ttie large tailor and manufactur j mg establishments give all their work ; outside, and it is curiously divided up. i Some women receive tho*e parts tint re quire special basting. The cutter cuts out so many coats and with them all the linings, buckram and velvet which arc necessary, and these are graded in a meth- ; odical manner and each size placed by itself. In some cases men do tne stitch ing of the seams, but generally women do that. Then they are all given to the pressers and then to the basters. From them they go to the liners, after which they arc sent to the finishers and the but tonhole makers. They are afterward given to those who sew ou the buttons, and then others take out the bastings, after which the pressers again have them, and finally the inspector orders the tick ets and little silk patch with the firm’s j name sewn on. Thus ten persons work on each coat. Each part of work is done on a dozen coats and each dozen as soon as finished is fastened to gether and returned. When the work is J returned it is inspected, and if the least imperfection is discerned the mistake must be rectified. The cutter and inspec tor are well paid, but those who do the work piecemeal only earn about thirty five to forty cents a day, working con stantly and giving half a day to take the work and get more. In one tenement house lives a woman who supports her self and three small children by finish ing gentlemen’s fine overcoats. She hems the satin linings and sews in the sleeve lining 3 and the velvet collar and puts in several stays, in all setting from eight to ten thousand stitches on each, and earns at most thirty-five cents a day. Out of this she pays $5 a month for rent. She works Sundays too. She sends her babies to a kindergarten, where they are fed, but in the summer the Bchool is closed, and how she lives and keeps them in clothes and fire none but those who live in the same way know. Just now another woman with ODe child ia sharing her room and her rent, which relieves her | a little. The man she obtains work from ; has a factory, also a flue tailoring estab- , lishment, and the class of work: these : women do is for overcoats which cost forty and fifty dollars. Allowing each of the ten workers on each coat ten cents for what she does, and the c utter and inspector each fifty cents, the cost of making a man’s fine overcoat is about two dollars. Many manufacturers give all their work to con tractors after it is cut out, and they in turn give it out in small parcels to the i poor women who do it, and to make money themselves grind them down to the very lowest figure. Other contractors take in large quantities of work, and then hire hands in their own work-room | and set them to work there. When the j work requires machine stitching they \ allow [the girls the use of machines, charging them so much a day for the use of them, and they pay by the piece always. Some of the work is ot the cheapest quality and some of it again of the richest and finest, but however it is the girl’s pay remains about the same, [ just enough to keep body and soul to- . gether while living in the most squalid ; manner. There are immense quantities ' lof this work clone in the poorer houses in i the city by the mothers of families who 1 cannot leave their little children. In cases iof contagious diseases the work goes on just the same, and the germs of sickness can be carried in the tine coat of the society man. Where the girls or women can leave and go into stores or factories I they have a chance to earn more money, | but on tailoring the pay is cruelly small. There arc several places where shrewd men have bought up a number of oldsew- I ing machines, and these they either rent or sell to those who have none, and take their pay in work. For an old machine not worth $lO they will make these un fortunntc poor pay from to SSO in work at starvation prices. The work 1 , they give is usually men’s common drawers and overalls and jumpers, as well as the commonest calico shirts. And they earn the gratitude of these un fortunate women by only retaining half the price of the work toward the pay ment of these machines each week. Sometimes it takes two years to pay for a ramshackle old machine that these men have bought up for a few dollars, and by the time they get it paid for it is good for nothing at all. Men's shirts are some times macle by giving out lots of a dozen or so to those who can make them com plete, but generally they arc given out piecemeal. For instance a dozen pair of wristbands and those littlo naps which go at the bottom of the bosoms, the yokes, and then the sleeves and bands together, and finally the bosom, then the body and at last the finishing off. The swiftest «nd neate.-t s *wer on bands and flap*, with the aid of a first class machine, can muke at home about fifty cents a day, from early morn ing to 10 at night. Those who do the fells and bodies, in short the other wora. cam on an average about the sime with the aid of their machines. The shirts when all done but “finishing” require four gussets,six buttonholes and five but ton! 4 , and this vork is given out in large quantities to women in tenement house*. '1 hey are paid for the common ones seven rents s dozen &hirts, and for the finest' shirts nine to nine and a half cents a dozen shirts—forty-eight gussets, sixty buttons and seventy two buttonholes!— Heio York Mail and F~yre*9. The Australian colonies are all legis lating against the Chinese. Term. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Thomas Edison is going to experiment with earth currents, which he thinks may revolutionize telegraphy. He says, sooner or later, telegraph wires will be a thing of the past. Careful experiments by Mr. Joseph Jastrow show that the evidence obtained in favor of a “magnetic sense”—a per ception of the mysterious forco of mag nets—is unreliable. The sense does not exist. An incandescent lamp which requires no vacuum ia the globe has been invent ed in Germany. The wire used is a mixture of conducting and non-conduct ing elements, the latter preventing the former from melting. Aniline oil is reported to bo gaining considerable favor as a local aniesthetic in simple surgical operations, such as opening a felon. On dipping the finger in the oil for a short time it becomes so insensible that the flesh may be cut to the bone without pain. A Spanish inventor, Senor Pumariega, proposes applying an electric current to the body by a novel method. Flannel is impregnated with oxides of iron, cop per, zinc and tin, which are excited by the prespiration of the body and subject tho latter to a weak but constant electric current. It is not generally known that coal which remains in store perfectly dry is rendered less valuable on that account, yet such is the fact. Most coal mines are saturated with water, and if this as drained off, the coal becomes flinty and valueless. Coal stcred throrgh the sum mer should be sprink ed and kept moist. J. 11. lullard, of Spring eld, Mass., has for several months past been at work on a tricycle for which steam shall fur nish the motive power. The experiment has so far succeeded that recently several trial trips have been made with such sat isfaction aa to already cause two manu factur rs to apply for the right of manu facture. Ebony can be imitated on wood by first painting with a one per cent, solu tion of sulphate of copper. When per fectly drv the wood is painted over with a liquid consisting of equal weights of aniline, hydro-chloride and spirits of wine. The blue vitroil acts on the ani line and forms nigrosin, a black which can not be affected by acids or alkalies. A luster can be added by coating with simple copal varnish. It is said that the great glacier of . Alaska ia moving at the rate of a quarter I of a mile per annum toward the sea Tho ! front, according to this account, presents a wall of ice some five hundred feet in thickness, its breadth varies from three to ten miles, and it is about 150 miles long. Almost every quarter of an hour hundreds of tons of ice in large blocks fall into the sea,, which they agitate in the most violent manner,thc waves being such as to toss about the largest vessels that approach the glacier as if they were small-boats. The ice is extremely pure and dazzling to the eye, and has tints of th? lightest blue as well as of the deepest j indigo. The top is very rough and l broken, forming small hills, and even | chains of mountains in miniature. The Use of Christian Names. The following table exhibits the pop ular names of the day. It is based on the first cr leading names of 100,000 children—so,ooo males and 50,000 fe males—registered in England in 1882: Order. Names. Number. 1 Mary 6,Kit ; 2 AVilliam. 6,519! 3 John 6,2:9. | 4 Elizabeth 4,61? 1 5 Thomas 3,876 j 6 George 3.62 C 7..w. Sarah 3,602 8 James 3,0611 9 Charles. 2,323 10 Henry 2.06 C 11 Alice 1,925 12 Joseph 1.78 P 1.3 Ann 1.7 H 14 .Jane.. 1,697 15 Ellen 1,621 16 Eaiily.; 1,615 17 Frederick 1,604 18 Annie 1,590 19 Margaret 1,546 20 Emma 1,640 21 Eliza 1,-507 22 •••• Robert 1,323 23 Arthur. 1,237 21 Alfred 1,233 25 Edward 1,186 Total number of children (out of 100,00*9 registered under the above twenty-live uame5...63,895 It will be observed that these tweaty j five titles belong to about two-thirds of ! the 100,000 children. It is also evident, on examination, that, however great the ] variety of the namrs divided among tho remaining third, there was but one name jto every 26.85 persons. There is good ! reason for supposing that the table af i fords a fair sample of.the proportions in 1 which personal title* are distributed ' among our own population in general, ! and we do not wonder at the confusion I that often arises in large cla-ses, as in I our public schools, on account of so many | children bearing the same name. A Collection of Boot-Heels. Ilere is the lat.st new thing in collec j tions. An old gentleman in t aiis, fired, I supprae, by the example of tne collec tor- of cclebrit es hats and laris, and storking - and snuff-boxes, has been for st me time engaged in collecting the boot beds of lamrus people ot boih sexes. He has already more than 1.000 speci mens, and declares that Ihe character of their former owners can be read in the I state of the boolheela they have left be j hind them. But, after all, the old ma * j is not to be laughed at. Boot bed- uru quite as interesting as the old corede ; which another collector is accumulating I The nucleus of this last collection was I formed by one that was formerly the I property of the auihoros* of “Jane Eyre.” which was s Id at a recent ealc of 1 Bronte relics for half a guinea.— London I Figaro-
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 4, 1886, edition 1
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