CHA.RI.OTTU MESSENGER.
BATIJRDAY. - JAN "• ISBB
- MIUBHIKS.
St. Michael’s (P. K.) • M-urcli, Mint St.
Services al 10 ». in. uinl s n. in. Sunday
school at 4p. in. Bov. I*. P. Alston, pus
{or.
M K. Clmroli. llraliiun Street. Scr
riePN at :i p. 111. and 8 p. in. Sunday
school at 10a. in. Rev. E. M. Collett,
pastoi.
First, Baptist Church. South Church St.
Services at 11 a. m.« ]>• h». and Bp. in.
Smiflay-school at 1 p. m. Rev. A. A.
PowßLfs. pastor.
Kbcmezcr Baptist Church, East Second
St. Services at 11 a. m., p. in. anil Bp.
i. Sunday-school at 1 p. in. Rev. Z.
iauoiiton, pastor.
Presbyterian Church, corner Seventh
..ml College Sts. Services at 3 p. in. and
.s p. mi. Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Rev.
11. I* Wyohb, pastor.
Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St.
Services at 11 a. in., 0 p. in. and 8 p. m.
Sunday-school at Ip. in. Rev. M. Slade,
pastor.
Little Rock, (A. 31. E. Z.) E St. Ser
vices at 11 a. m., 8 p. in. and 8 p. in.
l’ov. Wm. Johnson, pastor.
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LOCAL.
AXXOTJXCEM ENT.
Happy New Year to all.
This weak lias given us 'delightful
woatlier.
Our emancipation celebration was
the best ever had here.
Livingstone College has nearly 180
students. They have room for 300 or
more.
There seems to be more vacant busi
ness houses in this city now than over
before. What is the trouble.
lie sure to read all of our letters.
They are all good. One from Fay
etteville, New England, and Lumber
ton.
The New Year brings many changes,
but E. 51. Andrews remains at the
same old stand and sells furniture
cheaper than over.
Minister Taylor spoke at the Court
House on Thursday night He talk
ed principally about Africa. He is
making a tour of the South.
If you would keep up with the'
times you must read this paper and
to do so, you must pay for it in ad
vance Send in your money.
Miss Lizzie Kelsey of Chestnut
Grove S. C. passed through the city
for Livingstone College Thursday eve
ning, also her cousin Miss Walker.
It is reported that a white mail was
lynched by colored men and a few
white men at Central, Ga. the other
day for an outrage on a colored wo
man.
For a real good bargain in dry
goods, ladies or gents furnishings,
you should not fail to go to Hargrav
es & Alexanders while they are clos
ing out.
Mr. Tillman Scott died last Tues
day from the effects of a fall oft' a
freight train on the Air Line road.
He leaves two or three small children
without a mother
Rev. C. It. Harris of Salisbury
preached for Rev. It. 11. Stitt last
Sunday night. Rev’s Rives, McNeill
and Holmes were present also. The
had weather prevented a large gather
ing- /
Elder Rives held his first quarterly
meeting at Moore’s Sanctuary last Sun
day and reports a pleasant and suc
cessful meeting. Rev. P. J. Holmes
is in charge of this work and getting
along nicely.
Those who expect to read the Mes-
SF.xnK.it after today must call at this
office or send in and settle for the pa
per. The paper must be run by your
money and can only bo done so by
your paying in advance or at least
what you owe.
Mr. Albert Rrcwington son of Mr.
IV. It. Rrcwington of Fayetteville,
left a few weeks ago for California,
going by the way of Raleigh, and
Hampton Va. He goes to lake a
personal view of the long talked of
gold country.
Grace Church made a very line ef
fort the first Sunday on the year. In
spitc of the had weather they raised
$65.81 on the building fund. A uia-
jority of the members could not get
out and the collection will be contin
ued tomorrow when all the friends art
invited to help make out the hundred
dollars.
Among the many visitors in our
city during the holidays were Mr. and
Mrs. C. 11. Harris, of Salisbury;
Misses Rosa E. and Della 1) Richard
son, of Wadesboro. Miss Delia Toole
was home from school. Mr Joe Smith
Cato Thomas Tbos. Weddington,
Albert Torrence, Rufus Hyatt and
others came in from the South.
Our Christ inns.
A portion of our holidays were
spent on the railroad. In Wilming
ton we spent two days very pleasantly.
It is always pleasant for a young man
to visit Wilmington, and meet such
amiable young ladies as Misses Sa
rah Taylor, Maggie Whiteman, Lula
Smith, and Emma Hooper.
At Clarktou wc were entertained by
lion. John Newell. His two daugh
ters, sliss Lucy and Savana are intel
ligent young ladies.
At Elizabethtown wc had picnic of
a day and night 51isses slary Shaw,
Anna and Lizzie Russell, Anna Mur
chison and the Sheridans made it
pleasant for us till leaving time.
. AVe spent only a few hours in Fay
etteville, and at Maxton met the ever
pleasant Miss Carrie Miller and the
Rev’s Champlin, and Blaylock who
are among the good friends of the
Messenger. Wc had a huge time.
Barbers Moving,
John Henderson has moved in with
Anm Rudisill, next door to his old
stand. The firm name is now Hen
derson and Rudisill. sloore & Sum
ner have moved their shop to the
south side of Trade street, opposite
their old stand.
Charlotte Light Infantry.
The adjutant-General of the State
was in the city to inspect the colored
military company. They turned out
30 men in arms and uniform and
passed a creditable inspection. They
arc now a part of the regular State
militia, and entitled to the §3OO al
lowed each company by the State. It
is known as Company 15., N. C. State
Guard.
/ Minister C. li. ,1. Taylor.
This distinguished gentleman spent
Thursday in our city at the Virginia
House. He has resigned his mission
to Liberia, but we suppose he will be
well cared for by the present adminis
tration. Mr. Taylor, like many other
colorel men, is a great talker. He
has been made prominent by the col
ored press in their efforts to belittle
him. That only tends to strengthen
him with his friends. He gives ut
terance to some good ideas as to the
deliverance of Africa.
This is the Last.
We failed to get our new subscrip
tion book ready for this week, and
many will get this paper, whose time
is out. We give them a blue mark
again and beg them to send in what
they owe us. We cannot afford to
send the paper to them without the
money, and if wc could, we should
not, for each should bear an equal
burden. Wc know you mean to pay
us, hut good intentions will not pay
our bills Send us the money for the
time you have had the paper and then
renew for the year.
Trouble at liiilillc University.
Wo are informed that the students
at Riddle University are having no
recitations this week. They feel that
they have been mistreated by the fac
ulty. In short, ail but a few of the
boys seem to be on a strike. It seems
that the trouble arose in this way : A
difficulty occurred between one of the
students anil a professor, in the lattcrs
room ; the student seems to have got
ten the best of the Professor. The
faculty held a meeting and expelled
the student without a trial. The boys
think the youug man should have a
hearing and asked the faculty to re
open the ease, the faculty refused to
hear any statement from them, and
sonic say, Dr. Johnson says ho will
•resign before he will yield to nig
gers.” It is hoped that matters will
be settled satisfactory to all concerned.
Jt4f‘ lf you would keep up with the
times, you should take this paper,
read it, write for it, and help make a
good history for your race.
Erring Preachers.
It lias been published that a Catho
lic priest, and recently a professor in
the college at lieltuont, Gaston
county, was arrested mid lined a few
days ago, in Atlanta, for being drunk
and boisterous. We dislike to heaf
of the fall of any man, and wish we
could sec the white press of this
country treat all men with fairness.
Had this been a colored man, we
would have seen full head lilies,
“Nigger preacher drunk,” or some
sucit ridiculous allusion to reflect upon
the entire race. The sins of white
people cannot be hid by their efforts
to expose ours, and wo know as many
of them go wrong in the great and
small evils' as of us. This poor priest
is to be pittied as well as other white
and black preachers hero in Charlotte
who have been caught up with iu
their sins. Pitty the fallen and weak.
PrrsitlingEldcr’s Appointments.
Charlotte District.— lst Round.
Little Rock—December 1-4.
Rockwell and Joncsvillc—Dee. 9—ll.
Torrence Chapel—December 10—18.
Riddle—December 23—25.
Moore’s Sanctuary—Dee. 30—Jan. 1.
Clinton Chapel—January 5-9.
China Grove—January 13—0.
Pineville—January 20—23.
Grace Church—January 2G--29.
HenryviHe—February 3-0.
Trinity—F ehruary 10—13.
Kings Mountain—February 17—20.
Monroe—February 24-26.
Redding Spring— -March 2—5.
Rock Hill—March 9-11.
Matthews—March 16—19.
Mowing Glade—March 24—27.
R. S. Rives, P. E.
Fayetteville District. —lst Round.
Fayetteville—December 8-11.
Manchester—December 17—18.
Jonesboro—December 81-. January-l.
Lillington—January 7—B.
Oak Grove—January 14-15.
Haywood—January 21—22.
Johnstonvillc—January 21-22.
Glover’s Grove—January 28-29.
Gee’s Grove—February 4-5.
Egypt—February 11—12.
Carthage—February 18-19.
New Zion —February 25-26.
A. M. Barrett, P. E.
Raleigh N. C.
Wadesboro District— lst Round.
Flat Rook—January 7-8.
Lethec—January 14—15.
Jordan’s C. Manly — January 21—22.
Green Lake—January 28—29.
Chesnutt —February 4-5.
Hallie’s Grove—February 11—12.
Roper’s Grove—February 18—19.
Bennette’s—-February 25-26.
Forestville—March 3—4.
Rocky Mount—March 10—11
Robeson’s X Roads—March 17—18.
This and That.
Llmberton, N. C., Dec. 28,1887.
Dear Editor: —Permit me to say
just a word in your valuable paper.
It comes to our house every week, and
is read by all the young folks who are
far enough advanced to read a paper.
Our young ladies who are now off
teaching, receive it as a welcome
“Messenger” every week—while
at homo; and wo shall have to send
it to at least ono of them each week.
Old Robeson is still struggling with
ignorance ; and we can sec many im
provements.
During Christmas there were fewer
under the influence of liquor than wc
have ever seen here. You perhaps
know that our burg is a dry town.
It is true that many of our way
ward sons go to Maxton, fa wot town)
on “tickler business,’' and some
times that business is not large
enough, and they go on “jug or keg
business,” yet, even then, there is not
one fourth of the critter used as was
before wc became dry.
There was very little fighting or
carousing; and so far only one case
of cutting is reported, that not being
serious. Sunday was the best ob
served day for Christmas day ever
seen in this place.
We have about twenty schools in
operation so far, iu the county, and
we may add six more yet, for the
winter.
Our standard is much higher than
formerly; and many have failed to
secure certificates this fall. Our
young pe qde fail to sec the importance
of attending some good school until
they become thoroughly equipped for
the work. Thus every time the hoard
moves up. there i- a scale among the
teachers.
Our own school here in Luuiherton
began its winter term December 5.
There are now eighty one enrolled,
I and still they come. In about one
month from now, come down to see
us. We’ll show you a huu^-full.
School has had a recess to'let, the j
children get Christmas out of their ’
bones and to have their good time (
over what Old Santa Claus brought
them. Wc shall call them from their J
merriment this morning. Did Old <
Sandy send you anything ? He sent j
me “what the hoy shot at.”
Excuse this random latter, and I •
will do better next time.
Truly yours, Tar Heel. 1
Republican Stale Convention.
The undersigned Executive Commit
teemen call a State Convention iif tho ;
Republican party of North Carolina, ■
to ho held iu Raleigh on Wednesday, ,
the 23d day of May, 1888, for the
purpose of electing four delegates and 1
four alternates to the National Repub- i
lican Convention, to he held at
Chicago, on the 19tli day qf June, '
1888, and for tho purpose of nomina
ting a candidate for Governor and
other State officers and three candi
dates for Supreme Court Judges, to :
select a State Committee and for tho
transaction of such other business as
may he deemed proper in tho judg
ment of the convention
Each county is entitled as delegates
in Said convention to twice the number
of Representatives in the lower House
of tho General Assembly.
All persons without regard to past .
political affiliation, who are is sym
pathy with the principles of tho Re- j :
publican party of this State, are in-!
vited and requested to unite with tho j
Republicans under this call in 'the
selection of delegates.
J. C. L. Harris,
V. S. Li st;,
J. 11. Williamson,
Geo. C, Scuri.ock,
11. E. Yoi a'ii,
If. E. Davis,
J. H. Harris,
A. V. Dockery,
W. C. Coleman.
J. J. Mott,
J. li. Smith,
G. W. Cannon,
J. H. Montgomery.
E. A. White,
T. M. Argo.
pAI’E FEAR AND
YADKIN VALLEY I
RAIL WA Y GO MPA ATT.
Taking effect 5.00 a.m., Monday, Dec. 10, 1887.
Trains Moving Nonm.
Passenger Freight and
anil Mail. Passenger ;
Lv Benncltsville, 8:30 am 1:30 pn 1
Ar Maxton, 0:lo 3:35
Lv Maxton, 0:57 41:5
Ar Fayetteville, 11:50 S:10
Lv Fayetteville, 12:05 p m 8:20 am j
Ar Sanford, 2:17 12:20 p’m !
Lv Sanford, 2:40 1:33
Ar Greensboro, 0:00 7:45
Lv Greensboro, .10:10 a m
Ar Pilot Mountain 3:00 p m
Passenger and Mail Xo. I—dinner at Sanford.
Pass, and Mail, No. 11—dinneratGcrmanton
Trains Moving South.
Lv Pilot Mountain 4:00 p m
Ar Greensboro, 8:40
Lv Greensboro, 10:00 a in 7:45 a m |
Ar Sanford, 1:30 pm 2:15 p m i
Lv Sanford, 1:50 3:15 p m j
Ar Fayetteville, 4:15 7:05
Lv Fayetteville, 4:30 s:3oam
Ar Maxton, 0:27 9:00
Lv Maxton, 0:40 9:45
Ar Bennettsville 8:00 12:00 m j
Passenger and Mail Xo. 2—dinner at Sanford, j
FACTORY BRANCH—FIIEIGHT AND !
ACCOMMODATION.
Trains Moving North.
Leave- Mill boro, 8:05 a.m. 4:25 pin j
Arrive Greensboro, 9:40 O;00
Trains Moving South.
Leave (Jreensbeiro, 1:30 p. m.
lieave Factory June. 2:30 5:35pm
Arrive Mi 11 boro, 3:15 0:15
Frei gilt and Accommodation train runs bet. I
Bennettsville and Fayetteville on Mondays, i
Wednesdays and Frit lays, and bet. Fayette- j
villeand Bennettsville 7m Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
freight and Accommoduteuitruiu runs but.
Fayetteville ami Greensboro Tuesdays,Thurs- 1
days and Saturdays, and between Greensboro
and Fayetteville -Mondays, Wednesdays anil !
Fridays.
Passenger and mail train runs daily except
Sundays.
The north bound passenger and mail train
makes close connection at Maxton with < 'ar
olina Central to Charlotte and Wilmington. 1
Trains on Factory Branch run daily except '
Sunday. ' W. JO. KYJ.F,
Genera! Passimger Age lit j
J. W, FBY.Gon’l Snot.
131 Vi) K r J'ANT XOTIC it
To all the Colored Masons in the
United States.
Tho Masonic Fraternity will at once j
see the utility, of having in their pos
session an Annual Masonic Directory
that will give the name of every Grand
Lodge, Chapter, Cojnniandery or mem
bers of the Consistory, Town, City or
State iu which they are convened.
And the name and rc.-ideneo of each
and every individual member. Such
a book published annually, will be
invaluable to cveory member of the
Fraternity.
The publisher 'earnestly requests
that the Grand Secretary of each and
every Lodge, Chapter, Conimnndery ‘
and Consistory will please forward to
me, on a Postal Card his name and
address, as I wi: h to forward each one
of them a printed letter: desiring of
them to accept the agency, and guar
anteeing them a royalty on each book,
something to their financial and person
al interest. Address
Hunky li. Griffin,
“Boston Advocate,” Boom ■> • .11,
05 Hanover Street, 80.-ton, Mass
Sunday Promenade in Wellington.
Usually Saturday is tho great “show
day” of Washington, though the great
pedestrian parade always takes place
Sunday afternoon (or “evening,” an they
call it here and in the south) on (Connec
ticut avenue, at from 3 to 5 o’clock.
Then the world of fashion appeal’s ;
on that beautiful avenue. Carriages, !
grooms, glittering harness, liveries, i
clanking silver chains, village carls, j
coupes, and oven bi- and tricyles are abau- j
doned, and the great swell, official, diplo- ,
malic, home and foreign, blooded and j
shoddy, and old family and nouveau j
riclie, newcomers and old timers, blue ;
blooded and no blooded, beau monde and j
hoi polloi, walk up and down Connecti- !
cut avenue and exchange bows and 1
greetings, cold stares, or “hovdies,” as
the case may be.
It is a great eight on Sunday afternoon,
when the American aristocracy and tho
aristocracy of foreign legations # and the
Amorico-European hybrids get out in
style: on Connecticut avenue for the
weekly Sunday afternoon stroll. It beats
“Unterden Linden” by a large majority.
The Misses West, daughters of the Eng
lish minister, appear with a small “but
tons” tugging at the leash of a couple of
beagle hounds chained together; and half
a dozen dudes who have just got through
with their demi-tasse of case noil* and
their Chartreuse at Chamberlain’s, and
tackled their cigarettes, are dragged
aloe;;' by their enormous St, Bernard
dogs and Siberian hounds, while the ir
reverent remark, “Where is the dog
going with tho dude?”
A young- lady from Scott circle, who
is very plain herself, attracts attention
by leading at the end of a ecuriYt ribbon
a bluck-und-tan terrior, which is about
as I .; c . a cockroach, with legs like
Vi;;t. ig needles and tail like a Limerick
•ii: h luv»i: a: l sore eyes. A tall young
.lady. F; ■ daughter of a cabinet officer,
w: iks all .: with her sinewey left hand
gripped upon the silver rivet studded col
hr of a I ig Newfoundland dog, while in
her right site carries a laced rawhide
whip with a silver handle.—Cor. Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette.
One of John Maraliatl’a Descendants.
The <!e.-:cendants of Chief Justice John
Mar: hall arc a sturdy race. Ono of t hem,
bearing the great jurist’s name, owns a
farm in Virginia and runs a sawmill
thereon. lie got down in the buzz saw
pit not long ago to fix a loose screw.
Suddenly lie felt something moving be
hind him, and ho threw his arm up and
felt the saw cut through above the elbow,
almost from skin to skin. Raising his
head, ho struck tho saw, which cut a
groove right through his hair, over his
foreltfad and face, and down into
his throat. When he was taken
out his face was one mass of
bleeding flesh. They laid him on the
grass and brought a surgeon. While the
latte:* was running across the fields to the
spot where the men had left Marshall lie
| heard his voice saying, as well as the
! wounds would permit: “Shove this stuff
| away from my eye so that I can see
| whether it’s hurt.” They did “shove tho
stuff” away from his eye as carefully as
! possible, and he gave them one ghastly
j glance and then murmured: “It’s ail
! right; I can see.” It took the surgeon
! an hour and a half to dress all his wounds.
'He endured the pain with perfect com
j posure. Within a month he was out
| again as well as ever. Some one was
telling ono cf the old darkies on the
' place, while “Marster John” was still in
I bed, what a narrow escape he had had
fr- in deatli. “Huh!” said the darky,
“take heap more than that to kill Mars
John. Why, if you wanted to kill Mars
| John you’d have to cut his head off—and
I then hide the head.” —Detroit Free Press.
Kr.sikm O .icial.4 Not Cruel.
It may he supposed that officials who
i are capable of treating prisoners in this
j way must he constitutionally cruel, cold
blooded and heartless; but such a suppo
' ition would bo, in many cases, perhaps
I iu a majority of cases, ail erroneous one.
i Many of the officials are naturally no
' worse than other men, hut they have
! been trained under cC system which is in
; tolerant of opposition, and especially of
; that form of opposition which in Russia
lii called insubordination; they have been
| accustomed to regard themselves rather
:i s the rulers Hum as the servants of the
people; they have not felt personally tho
fifll weight of the yoke of oppression;
; they have lieen irritated and embittered
II >y a long contest with fearless and im
p<! nous men whose motives and charac
ters they misunderstand, and whom they
g c'il as unreasonable fanatics and
! treacherous a -assins; and, finally, their
! fortunes and prospects of advancement
<!- -pend u on the success with which they
carry on tills contest. —George Kennan
| in The Century.
S’- .. ire of Fto Doji!
“Children i liould not bo allowed to ap
; pronch strange dog.*.’’ said a physician.
| “Some dogs are vicious, particularly
where children are concerned, and snap
at them without warning. Others doit
| from pare nervousness, for a child ap
* proachf■« a dog in i: boisterous manner
which tho deg doc n’t understand, and
| when he resists in the only way nature
| Ims given him he is unjustly blamed.
The dog is the inu- l devoted friend the
| l.uman race has. but it is his nature to
!beso to his mastin’, not to strangers. It
; is not fair to put him in a iw-ition where
! ho will be condemned and punished for
; what is not his fault. Let him have jus
tice, if lie is only a dog. ’' —Philadelphia
Times.
Csri.ifj for the Ouinlue Tree*.
The price of quinine has been reduced
from $0 an ounce to leas than sl. and a
dealer any.' that it will remain cheap
hereafter. The reason is that the cliin
chonn trees are destroyed in taking off
: the hark. Formerly the bark was stripped
clean and the trees wore left naked to
bleed to death. Now when the lark is
* removed the trees are swathed with
moss, new bark forms on thorn, and, in
stead of living to !x*ar ono crop of bark,
tliev yield their hark yearly.—Boston
Transcript.
Diamond ; by tho Ton.
Six and a half tons of diamonds—
surely <nth Kinbad the sailor never ven
tured to compute bis diamonds by tho
ton—valued at aixmt JL‘RMM)O.OOO, have,
wo arc informed, been extracted from
four Afr.c:m mines alone in the course of
the last few years.— St. James' Gazette.
IN THE FRENCH CEMETERIES.
That Favorite Fmblcm, the Evaluating
Flower, Superseded by tho Class Dead.
The everlasting flower, which used to
be the favorite emblem of mourning in
the Frencli cemeteries, has now been
almost superseded by tho glass bead. At
the recent festival of the dead, to every
person who carried a wreath of immor
telles to the cemetery a hundred carried
wreaths of beads. Those who along the
shores of the Mediterranean gather the
everlasting flowers to be sent to Paris
must lx: sorely tried by this change of
custom. There is a little town called
Ollioules, near Toulon, whose inhabitants,
about 3,500 in number, have for many
years earned their living by collecting the
everlasting flowers on the sun scorched
hills and preparing them for commerce.
Care must be taken to pick them in tho
bud, for if the inflorescence is advanced
the seeds will ripen afterwards, and the
so called flower, which botanists describe
very differently, will fall to pieces. There
is still a certain demand for immortelles
in Paris, for there are workshops in the
Roquette quarter, where women are con
stantly employed in making them into
wreaths, crosses, etc. This is usually
done by fastening the heads of the flowers
upon a foundation of tightly packed
straw.
But, as I have already stated, it is the
bead wreath that is now ala mode. The
change is not one for the better. The
immortelle, although it is one of nature’s
sham flowers, is, like the amaranth, a
poetic emblem of eternity. That it de
cays, those who went to the cemeteries
on All Saints’ or All Souls’ had ample
evidence, but it will last a few years
without looking very shabby. It, there
fore, imposes no great tax or expense
upon mourners to put a fresh wreath over
the old one as the latter wears out. The
bead wreath is without beauty and with
out any of that association of poetic and
religious idea which gives an emblematic
value. It is simply an economical expe
dient ; glass beads do not wear out, and
when they are strung upon wire that does
not rust they remain where they are
placed year after year, quite unchanged
by wind and weather.
The French are practical people, and
they appear to have come to the conclu
sion that the best emblem of immortality
to put upon a tomb is made of glass and
wire. The reasoning may be sound, but
the taste is detestable. The bead wreath
is ;i lamentable invention, oma par with
that of tiio metallic flower which is to be
seen in a i>ot on many a grave in the
Paris cemeteries. The French are un
doubtedly a nation of highly cultivated
taste; but their decorative sense lias an
inherent tendency to break out into vul
garity and tawdriness. We see this in
their rococo buildings, like the Grand
Opera house, where unity of design and
nobleness of proportion have been utterly
sacrificed to the flashy adornment that
the crowd mistakes for art. And yet
there is no country in tho world that
contains so many superb examples of
pure architectural taste as France.—
Paris Cor. Boston Transcript.
Gas and Sewer Gas.
Wo live to learn. Every householder
has been worrying himself about the
plumbing in his residence, expending
money to put the lx?st traps that can be
procured under his sinks and basins,
making experiments with all sorts of in
ventions to consume the foul gases, pull
ing his wall to pieces to build air shafts
from tho cellar up to tho roof and six
feet beyond, and nevertheless living in
constant dread of diphtheria, typhus
fever and other diseases supposed to be
engendered by the escape of the deadly
sower gas. And now we are told by doc
tors and learned professors that we have
been frightening ourselves with ghost
stories; that sewer air is comparatively
free from noxious gases and contains pro
portionately fewer micro organisms than
the outer air of the same locality.
Os course, unscientific people will be
apt to discredit these conclusions and to
pronounce them “humbug.” But what
arc we to do when those by whom these
conclusions are reached offer proofs of
llieir correctness? How can we reply to
tho matter of fact statements that “scav
engers who work in sewers are generally
I healthy and long lived:” that “plumbers
1 seldom die of zymotic disease,” and that
; “sewer rats grow gray in their subter
ranean quarters?”
Such proofs of the nourishing qualities
of sewer gas are unanswerable. Yet it
is questionable whether they will remove
the popular prejudice against tin* inhala
tion of the elastic fluids of the house
drains, or induce people to abolish traps,
ventilators and air shafts, notwithstand
ing the long lived scavengers, the healthy
plumbers and the venerable subterranean
rats.-—New York World.
An Imperial Luxury.
Tho tracksof the Russian railroads have
a width differing from those of the Prus
sian roods. The ears of Prussian lines
cannot, therefore, run through to Russian
lines, and vice versa. That is why every
traveler must elmnge earn at the frontier.
Whenever the imperial family of Russia
passes that point in winter a viaduct 19
built leading from the Prussian carriage
to the imperial waiting rooms at Wir
ballen, the Russian frontier depot. Such
a viaduct is now constructing. It is made
of stout wood, covered all over with thick
felt veiled under copious folds of rich
ear j ito and curtains, lest the sensitive
skins of their majesties and their off
spring, just risen from the measles,
should feel a draught and catch a cold on
their run from the Prussian to the Rus
sian saloon car.—Chicago News.
A Methodical Antliorraa.
In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock-
Craik was remarkably methodical.
Though many of her works appeared in
periodicals, she would never under any
circumstances consent to a beginning of
publication before the work was entirely
out of her hand, and, what is very sigu
lar. she is said during the whole course
of her forty years’ lalxirs never to liavo
begun writing anything which she did
not carry straight through, and it is be
lieved that she has not left behind a sin
gle line of unfinished work intended for
publication. Indeed, everything she ever
wrote with the view to publication has
been published.—London News.
111 Europe thrifty trees and good crop*
of poaches have been secured from graft*
up 'ii tin* hawthorn.