THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. V. NO. 15.
THE
Charlotte Messenger
IS PUBLISHED
Every Saturday,
AT
CHARLOTTE, N. C. '
In the Interest! of the Colored People
of the Country.
Able end well-known write™ will contrib
ote to its columns from different pert* of the
country, end it will contain thtflatwt Gen
eral News ofthe
Ths HnscKOER is a first-class newspaper
and will not allow personal abuse in its col
uinna. It is not sectarian or partisan, but
independent—dealing fairly by all. It re
*®rve* t“ e rteht to criticise the shortcomings
or all public officials—commending tne
worthy, and recommending for election such
man as in its opinion are best suited to serve
the interests of the people.
It is intended to supply the long felt need
of a newspaper to advocate the rights and
defend the interests of the Negro-American,
ecpedally in the Piedmont section of the
Carolina^.
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W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC
The New York Witness says: “Oyster
men on Long Island Sound are loudly
demanding protection againat that for
eign pauper laborer, the star-fish, which
hna entered into competition with them
*0 vigorously that they are in danger of
having to abandon their industry. The
radiated sea-pirate can eat oysters faster,
ft appears, than the human animal can
gather them. Let the star-fishes be pro
hibited by all means. ”
The Chinese Exclusion law is not
without its humorous effects, although
to the victims they are anything bft
funny. The wife of a rich Chinese mer
chant in San Francisco was on the ocean
when the bill was passed, and on the
voyage gave birth to a child. The cus
tom officers at San Francisco refused to
permit the infant to be landed. This
seema too hard, comments the Chicago
Herald, but there is no remedy.
Fifty yea™ ago the United States was
the home of a large number of peculiar
wild animals. Unless a National pre
serve comes to the rescue very soon,
another decade will see them nearly all
extinct. The grizzlies are disappearing
from the ltockies. A live buffalo ia now
worth trom SSOO to SIOOO, which three
years ago cost scarcely one-fifth that
amount, and they are found almost no
where but in the corner of Texas and in
the Yellowstone I’ark. The caribou has
been hunted almost out of existence.
The mountain sheep, the moose, the
beaver, the antelope, are ail disappearing.
If we are to know anything in the
future about our American wild animals,
wemuat arrange right speedily a “zoo.”
Bays the New York Graphic: “Here
ie a young mnn who is really too good
to live. Ilia name is Jerry Fields, and
he is Treasurer of Waubauseo County,
Kao. His father had held the same
office for eight yeans, and when some
months since he declined to occupy the
place any louger Jerry was e'ecled to
succeed him. The old gentleman was a
plain, homespun farmer, without much
knowledge of accounts, and when Jerry
went over the books he found a shortage
of several thousand dollars, or at least a
discrepancy that his father could not
readily account for. Did Jerry go over
the books again and try to straighten
the accounts? Not at all. lie sallied
forth to the nearest Justice of the Peace
and had his father arrested for em
bezzling the funds of the county, and at
last accounts the old man was in jail.”
Apropos of the baseball fever which
rages in this country for about six months
•very year, the New York Telegram says
that “the National Game” bids fair to
take np its quartera all over the world.
Our Metropolitan contemporary observes
facetiously: “This summer the gsme
penetrated to Germany and Consul Fol
som introduced it at Birmingham, Eng
land. Another encouraging symptom is
tha circumstance that ail the principal
cities of Australia are evincing great in
teract ia the prospective games between
tha Chiragos and the All-Americans this
winter; sod that young Barnc* is about
to aatablish a league in England, with
dubs in Ireland and Scotland. When
Russia comes under the influence, Asia
covets the international championship
and Abyssinia joins the league we shall
cease to hear of wars and rumors of wan.
Macaulay's New Zee leader, on his way
to sketch tbs ruins of tha Tower of Lon
doa, may, perhaps, run over to Afghanis
tan ia his balloon to witness the final
contest for tha international pennant be
tween the Herat# and the Stanley Pools."
ALL OVER THE SOUTH
NEWS FROM EACH STATE
NORTH CAROLINA.
Grandfather Mountain is covered with
•now.
An apple tree in Yadkin county, 80
years old, bore 50 bushels of apples this
year.
A vein of bituminous coal has been
found in Orange, and a syndicate has
been formed to develop it.
W. H. Styron, of Wilmington, dealer
in tobacco and cigars, assigned to E. J.
Barker, for the benefit, of hia creditors.
The assets and liabilities are put down
for some SIB,OOO.
Jeff. Bmith, living near Forest City,
hail bis barn and its contents, together
with one mule, burnt Thursday night.
The fire was incendiary. The loss is
five hundred dollars. There is no clue
to the party.
The Steamer Nacoochee, from Savan
nah to New York, before reoorted
ashore at Point Lookout lies easy. Over
1500 boxes of oranges have been thrown
overboard. The wrecking steamer has
arrived, and lighters are coming to take
the cargo. The steamer is not damaged.
Two assignments for the benefit of
crcditore are reported; one that of J B
Makepeace, of Sanford, manufacturer of
sasb, doors and blinds; she other that of
E W Ward, of Llneolnton. The assets
and liabilities are not known Ward
v\ as the liepubliean candidate for Con
gress in the Eighth district.
MOUTH CAROLINA
Chareston, S. C.—The gala fortnight
festival of 1888 closed with agiand lawn
tennis tournament, attended by an im
mense crowd, the Indies predominating.
The visitors departed by the thou
sands. From eight to ten thousand
strange™, it is estimated, attended the
celebration.
James Wood, colored, was hanged in
Aiken jail yard Friday, for the murder
of Robert Ollie in July last. Ollie left
his home in January and coming back in
July found Wood living with his wife.
While talking to his wife, Wood ahot
him dead. The murderer was sentenced
to be hanged November 2d, but was res
pited until Friday. He was banged in
the presence of a hundred people. He
wept aloud on the scaffold and had to be
supporten. His nick was broken by the
fall.
The steamer, Gulf Stream, from New
York reached her dock at Charleston in
damaged condition, three days overdue.
A terrific storm was experienced off Jer
sey coast, the wind blowing at the rate
of seventy-five miles per hour. The
doors of the engine room were stove, the
fires extinguished, the stearing gear car
ried away, and the pumps prevented from
working. The vessel was only saved
from destruction by the free use of oil
poured from pi pes on her side into the
sea. There was four feet of water at one
time in her hold. The only means of ,
bailing it out was by buckets, which the
sailore continuously used for forty hours
during the height of the gale. The en
gines were stopped for twenty hours, and
the sails of the steamer were used to keep
her before the wind. The cargo, con
sisting of general merchandise, lias been
very much damaged. No passengers
were on board the Gulf Stream, she being
used for freight.
GEORGIA.
The Presbyterian Synod of Georgia
met at Athens last week.
President Inman, of th Piedmont
Air Line, is at the Columbus Exposition.
Thursday was Carolina day at Augusta
Exposition.
D J Cronin, a city policeman; Patrick
McMurray an Ocean Steamship Compa
ny policeman; John Crimmen, a laborer
from New York; Mike Tilghman, and a
negro, all lost their lives in a riot in Sa
vannah on Thanksgiving day. it all
grew out of Patrolman McMurrav’s ar
rest of a drunken negro near Orange
and St Gaul streets. The n< gro resisted
arrest and swore lie would not go. 'Fhe
streets were full of drunken negroes who
were ripe for trouble. They made a
rush at tha officer, who used his pistol
freely, wounding many negroes. Mc-
Murray was finally overpowered and
beaten insensible. Crimen and Cronin
who endeavored to rescue him, were
tieated in like manner, but scores of po
licemen arriving on the spot quelled the
riot anil made many arrests.
VIRGINIA.
Gov I,ee has issued a proclamation of
fering SI,OOO reward for the apprehen
eion of a paity or parties engagi d in the
! release of Waymsn Sutton, convicted of
| murder, term the Wythcville jail.
Mrs Amclie Ilives Ohanler has re
j turned to Castle Hill. Va. She has been
| followed to her home by Messrs. Walsh
I and Stoddard, of Lippiucott’s Magazine,
! who are anxious to obtain another novel
from her pen. This ia not strange.
“The Quick or the Dead? ’ Is stillselling
at a tremendous rate, and the presses
' have never quit work on it since they
! lieimn to flood the country with this odd
i story.
TBNNBMMRE.
I John Busson, a railroad watchman who
1 watched the South tunnel, which is
I about five miles beyond Gallatin, on the
i Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
found dead and mangled ori the track at
(the south end of the tunnel. He had
bran paid and as his money and Watch
was gone, it is believed by tbe railroad
1 authorities that he was killed during the
night and his body placed on tbe track.
I The remains had been run over by a train
i and were terribly mangled.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1888
GENERAL NEWS. r
At Durant, Miss., fifteen business
houses were burned. Loss $80,000; in- J
surance SB,OOO.
The Alabama Legislature have elected
John T Morgan to represent that State ‘
in the Senate. He received all the votes
cast in each body.
Rev. Henry Smythe, D. D. LL. D., of
Philadeldhia, has given SIO,OOO to the <
Grant Memorial University, of Athens, )
Tenn., to aid in educating ten young i
men for the Southern ministry. i
The fishing schooner Percy has ar- I
rived at Gloucester, Mass., from George’s
Bank, having on board Capt Durrah and
crew, of the brig Mary Fink, abandoned
at sea.
At Auburn, New York, a jury has i
found a verdict of guilty on all six ,
counts against Gardner, chief of the opi- i
um smugglers on the Canada border, -
Gardner was a customs officer at Lock- ;
port. j
Raphael Dnlano arrived in New York
from Jacksonville, with his family, '
and was taken sick soon after his arri- !
val. Shortly after noon black vomit
began. The doctors gay the case is one
of yellow fever.
All of the coal miners along the Mo
nongahela river, in Pennsylvania, closed j
down indefinitely. The opeiators claim ,
that they have been losing money on ac- ]
count of over supply, and are unable to
keep their men at work. Over 3,00(1
miners are thrown out of employment. 1
Miss Bello Wilson anil Michael Henry j
Herbert, who is at present, Lord Sack
ville West’s temporary successor in 1
charge of the British legation at Wash
ington, were married at St Bartholomew’s '
church. About a thousand invitations ;
had been issued and there was a brilliant ;
gathering of friends.
J B Thompson, foreman of the brick 1
work on the new court house at Binning- ‘
ham, Ala., fell from the tower to the
ground, a distance of fifty feet, llis spi
nal column was broken in two places,
and his left leg was shattered. He died
two hours later. Thompson was about
thirty eight years old and had many i
friends in that city. He was unmarried.
The Great Hudson Hny Company.
Most people of the present generation
think the Hudson Bay Company, which
once so potentially and magnificently
ruled half this continent, is a thing of
the past. But it is not. The company
still lives, and although not nearly so
powerful nor so wealthy as in the early
days of its history, it nevertheless gath
ers in its millions nnnually and distrib
utes tho u among its lucky stockhold
ers. John B. Hale of Winnipeg, one of
its most trusted agents, was at the Bar
tholdi tbe other day and told the Obser
ver so nething about the present con
dition of the company. The headquar
ters of its business is at Winnipeg, and
trom that point are forwarded all the
supplies needed for the more than six
hundied trading posts north of Manitoba
and extending into the Arctic Circle and
West to the Pacific. There are only four
I months of navigation during the year
in Hudson’s Bay, and all tie
goods for the entire season must be
shipped in these months. The Indians |
do their hunting in the days when navi
gation is closed, and during the pleasant
season gather at the trading posts to
barter the furs they have obtained for
the goods and suppl es sent up by the
company. Just before the closing of
navigation all of the furs are shipped
down to Winnipeg, whence they go to
the company’s storehouses in different
sections of the world. The trade is car
ried on with the Indians just as it was
more than 150 years ago by the men who
first started the great company, and com
paratively as much money is made. Mosi
of the stock of the company is owned it
England, and for nearly fifty years it ha
never paid less than twenty-five per cent,
dividends. — New York Graphic.
The Electric Millennium.
Professor Ayrton says that in America
there are OUU I electro motors driving
machinery, while Great Britain has
scarcely a hundred. He believes that
the time will come when coal will be
burned at the pit's mouth for the supply
of mechanical energy to distant towns;
I and that before long the cost of carrying
I power along a wire by means of the
: electric current will bo less than to carry
I coal the same distance on a railway.
Americans now have twenty-two electric
street lines, while England has but four.
Ho believes it possiblo to so regulate the
current that cars on electric railways
cunnot get upon a section already occu
pied by other cars without losing the
current, and so comiug to a stop. All
danger of collisions would thus be
avoided. As it is now, when a train
stops at a station, the steam that drives
it is largely wasted. When the electric
train stops, its energy will simply fly
along the track for the use of distant
trains which are moving.
Southern Enterprises.
Special reports of the activity of the
industrial interests of the South show
this week has been a very busy one.
Among the new enterprises is a $5,000,-
000 company, composed of New England
capitalists organized at Forth Payne,
Ala. to develop mineral land, build fur-
I nance, lolling mills, etc. Knoxville, a
i $5,000,000 slate quarrying company and
! $300,000 improvement company to
I build street railroads, etc. Ocala, Fia ,
I a $500,000 general improvement coinpa-
Baltimore, a $500,000 agricultural
implement company. El Paso, a $350,-
000 irrigation company. A $500,000 com
pany will build a manufacturing town
i near Asheville, N. C. Cotton mills are
projected at Gaffney City and Wmsboro,
j 8 0 and Oedartown, Go., and at Ma
con, Ga , a SIOO,OOO spindle mill will b«
i built at once.
THE STORY OF AN EXILE.
i
PATHETIC EXPERIENCE OP A RUS
SIAN BANISHED TO SIBERIA,
I
A Han of Fine Attainments Doomed i
to Perpetnal Banishment—His 1
Wife’s Sad Fate. <
The following from the Century is one 1
of the most touching stories that Mr. *
Kennan has yet told of the fate of Sibe- j
rian exiles: “To me, perhaps, the most J
attractive and sympathetic of the Tomsk
exiles was the Russian author, Fexil j
Volkhofski, who was banished to Siberia '
for life in 1878, upon the charge of ‘be- j
longing to a society that intends, at a ]
more or less remote time in the future, to 1
overthrow the existing form of Govern- ' I
ment.’ He was about thirty-eight years >
of age at the time I made his acquaint- j
ance, and was a man of cultivated mind, l
warm heart, and high aspirations.
He knew English well, was famil- i
iar with American history and i
literature, and had, I believe t
translated into Russian many of the I
poems of Longfellow. He spoke to me i
with great admiration, I remember, of .
Longfellow's ‘Arsenal at Springfield,’ i
ana recited it to me aloud. He was one ,
of the most winning and lovable men ]
that it has ever been my good fortune to ,
know; but his life had been a terrible ]
tragedy. His health had been shattered
by long imprisonment in the fortress of j
Petropavlovsk; his hair was prematurely
white; anc. when his face was in repose
there seemed to be an expression of pro
found melancholy in his dark brown eyes.
I became intimately acquainted with him
and very warmly attached to him; and
when I bade him good-bye for the last
time on my return from Eastern Siberia
in 188>i, he put h’s arms around me and
kissed me, and said, ‘George Ivanovitch,
please don’t forget us! In bidding you
good-bye, I feel as if something were
going out of my life that would never
again come into it.’
“Since my return to America I have
beard from Mr. Volkhofski only onee.
He wrote me last winter a profoundly
sad and touching letter, in wh eh he in
formed me of the death of his wife by
suicide. He himself had been thrown
out of employment by the suppression of
the liberal Tomsk newspaper,the Sikriun
Gazet e; and h.s wife, whom I remember
as a pale, delicate, sad-faced woman,
twenty-five or thirty years of age, had
tried to help him support their family of
young children by giving private lessons
and by taking in sewing. Anxiety and
overwork had finally broken down her
health; slie had become an invalid, and
in a morbid state of mind, brought on
by unhappiness and disease, she reasoned
herself into the belief that she was an
incumbrance, rather than a help, to her
husband and her children, and that they
would ultimately be better off if she were
dead. A little more than a year ago she
put an end to her unhappy life by shoot
ing herself through the head with a
pistol. Her husband was. devotedly
attached to her; and her death,
under such circumstances and in such
away, was a terrible blow to him. In
hia letter to mo he referred to a copy of
James Russell Lowell’s poems that I had
caused to be sent to him, and said that
in reading ‘After the Burial’ he vividly
realized lor the first time that grief is of
I no nationality; the linos, although writ
ten by a bereaved American, expressed
the deepest thoughts and feelings of a i
bereaved Russian. He sent me with his
letter a small, worn, leather match-box,
which had been given by l’rince Pierre
Krapotkin to his exiled brother Alex
ander ; which the latter had left to Volk
hofski; and which Volkhofski had in :
turn presented to his wife a short time
before her death. He hoped, he said, I
Ithat it would have some value to me, on j
account of its association with the lives j
of four political offenders, ail of whom I
had known. One of them was a refugee
in London, another was an exile in
Tomsk, and two had escaped the juris
diction of the Russian Government by
taking their own lives.
“I tried to read Volkbolski’s letter
aloud to my wife; but as I recalled the
high character and lovable personality
ofthe writer, and imagined what this last
blow of fate must have been to such a j
man—in exile, in broken health.and with
a family of helpless children dependent
upon him—the written I nes vanished in
a mist ot tears, and with a choking in my
throat I put the letter and the little
match-box away.
“The Tsar may whiten the hair of such j
men as Felix Volkhofski in the silent
bomb-proof ea-emates of the fortress,
and he may send them in gray convict
overcoats to Siberia; but a time will come
in the providence of God, when their
names will standhiglier than his on the
roil of history, and when the record of
their lives and sufferings will be a sour, e
of heroic inspiration to all Russians who
love liberty and their country.”
Mrs. Gen. Sherman Bead.
Mrs Ellen Ewing Sherman, wife of Gen.
W. T. Sherman, died at 10 o'clock Wed
nesday morning at her residence, No. 75
West Seventy-fifth street, New York.
Mrs Sherman was sixty-four years of
age, and was borne at Lancaster, Ohio.
I She was married to General Sherman
'! thirty-eight years ago. and they were
I I acquainted from the time that they were
1 | children.
Mrs Sherman’s fattier was Senator
1 i Thomas Ewing, who represented his
1 state in the senate for a number of year*,
’ and was also a cabinet officer,
i i Mrs. Sherman's remains weie taken
' to St Louis. Mo., for intcriuert. St.
I! Lou in is the old home of the hhermin
family, several miinljers of which are
'! buried there.
1
' The famous straaburg clock, one ol
' the moat noted curiositiee of ihe Stras
-9 burg Cathedral, was constructed by
I Isaac Habrecbt in 1510.
A SOUTH CAROLINA SENSATION.
Township Subscriptions to Railroads is Un
constitutional. |
A decision rendered by the State Su- 1
preme Court of 8. C. has created a great
sensation all over the State, and particu- I
larly in financial circles. It has been tbe <
custom in South Carolina for townships
as well as counties and cities, to sub- I
scribe large sums to the capital stock of i
projected railroads in order to induce
them to rail through their territory, i
These bonds have been freely sold at i
par, and as they generally paid good in- |
terest, were considered in the State and
the north sound securities. Several re- j
luctant citizens last year instituted suit ,
in Abbeville county to save themselves (
from paying taxes to defray the interest |
on some of these bonds, and a circuit
judge in January decided them unconsti
tutlonal.
Contrary to general expectation the
Supreme Court has now affirmed tbe de
cision of the court below, and announces
the broad principle that the incorpora
tion of townships for the purpose of en
abling them to issue such bonds, is un
constitutional because of the absence of
a corporate purpose in a township so in
corporated. The decision makes worth
less a million dollara of township bonds,
a considerable proportion of which are
held at the north, and will cripple and,
perhaps, stop absolutely the progress of
half a dozen new railroads which have
been working their way through the
State with the aid of township subscrip
tions.
THE FARMER’S VICTORIOUS.
Shrinking in Sales of Jute Bagging
Kills the Truat.
A special from St. Louis says the jute
bugging trusts is reported to be going to
pieces. The sales of bagging by the
combination have been far below tne us
ual fall average. In addition to shrink
age in sales, another obstacle now con
fronts the bagging trust, which causes
no small uneasiness m its ranks There
are in all twanty-four bagging factories
in the United States, and of these six
teen are shut down, having been leased
by the “combine” and closed. The first
day of January these leases expire and the
sixteen factories are ready to start up
again unless once more leased by the
trust and allowed to reman idle. So far
there has been no arrangement made to ■
wards leasing the bagging “combine”
and it is probable thas several factories
will start up after the opening of the new
year, which is calculated to interfere
considerably with the plans of the com
bine and naturally cause a serious decline
in the price of bagging.
Biggest Flagstones Erer Quarried.
Everybody who has been able to see
the mansions built by the late William
H. Vanderbilt lor himself and his two
daugbte™, with their families, knows
that the structures oceupy the whole
Fifth avenue front between Fifty-first
and Fifty-second streets. New York City,
and most visitors have noticed the
enormous stones which form the side
walk. These blocks of granite reach
from curb to area rail, and are propor
tionately w'de. The city home of Mrs.
Willie Vanderbilt is on the corner just
i across F'ifty-second street, and it is more
ornamental with its carved granite, than
the larger piles of brown stone. But the
20U feet of sidewalk bordering the
two sides of the premises was com
posed of flags not remarkably big, al
, though rather better than the Fifth
; avenue average. The whimsical young
1 matron did not choose that her
| sister-in-law neighbo™ should be better
i off than she, eveu in what they tread on
in transit betwixt portal and carriage.
Therefore, she has ordered her sidewalk
torn away and replaced by the biggest
flagstones ever quarried. They w.ll be
about twenty feet Bquare each and a foot
and a half thick. The difficulty of get
ting out such tremendous blocks, and the
cost of transportation, will make tbe
price rather more than $1001) apiece by
the time they arc laid. To realize the
| extravagance one has only to think that
j tl\e money paid for every one of these
stones would build a pretty house in the
country or buy a considerable farm.
Nevertheless, as not less than ninety-six
per cent, of this outlay is for labor, isn’t
it better for many poor people that this
i very rich person should want that kind
of a sidewalk? — Times-Democrat.
Agriculture's Effect Up»n Climates.
The effect of the cultivation of the s«3
upon the climate has been practically ex
hibited in the far Southwest, where th«
hot winds which pievaii burn up the
vegetation and prevent the growth of
crops. This obstacle to agricultural
progress lias been gradually pushed back
to the borders of Colorado from Central
Kansas bv the breaking of tha ground
, and the growth of crops. It is a lata!
. warfare to the pioDeers, who are swept
i away in the strife with the het winds
just as a charging line disappears before
f! the tire of an intrenched enemy, but ths
support ng line succeeds in dislodging
, the enemv auel holds Ihe fort. So the
, second line plants itself firmly upon tha
, ground from wh ch tha pioneers have
been driven, and thus the lint advances.
The cause of the difficulty and the means
1 of ita removal are simple. Ths hard
s beaten surface is heated by the sun’s
' rays to a very high degree, the winds
I absorb this heat, and, blowing over ths
9 ad scent cultivated land, take all ths
• moisture from it and desiroy the grow
-1 ing crops. By thia absorption ol mobturs
9 the winds are cooled, and, passing on
with their lone! of vapor at they cool,
they precipitate it in showers. As tha
line of cultivation advances, the piocaaa
1 goes on, changing the climate and
- permitting the growth of crops on a
f i-aduallj aeivancing line. —Aeo York
* inset.
Tm. $1.59 per Annm Sii£le Copy 5 cents.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The doctors are said to have a new
heart tonic oxypropylcndiisoamyU
tnine.
The scientific theory that some men
have two brains possesses some dements
ol plausibility.
Don’t burn a lamp in the children’s
bedroom, as the flame soon vitiates the
air, and renders its unfit to breathe.
Asphalt, the article of prominent cran
merciai importance sot the present day,
tens used in the building of the Tower of
Babel and other ancient structures.
Carbolic acid as a deodorizer and dis
infectant, in fact, as a general purifier,
•tends unrivaled. Cntil its virtues were
discovered, we were often at a loss to
know what to use for this purpose.
Professor Auschutz has succeeded in
getting a photograph of n rifle bullet
traveling at the rate of BUM) feet a sec
ond, the piste which he used for the
purpose being exposed for only 0.000076
of n second,
Carpectera and builders frequently
find it necessary to bore holes in glass,
but are at a loss how to do it without the
aid of a diamond or a drill. It may be
easily done, however, with the use of
a little sealing wax and fluoric acid.
Blood stains can be removed from an
article that you do not care to wash by
applying a thick paste, made of starch
ana cold water. Place in the sun, and
rub off in a couple of hours. If the
stain is net entirely removed, repeat the
proceas, and soon it disappears.
Cod liver oil is a nutritive and an
alterative. It has been advantageously
employed in all chronic cases, in which
the disease appeared to cons st mainly in
impaired digestion, assimilation and
nutrition. It penetrates dry or moist
animal membranccs much more readily
than any other fatty oil.
A rather inconvenient disability which
affects a well-known naturalist is color
blindness. It is difficult for him to
distinguish insects from leaves, yet he
keeps up his punuit with entbusiasm.
“Ia that a butterfl i” he asks of a friend
as a great red and brown creature settles
on a green leaf. “It looks like a leaf to
me.”
Yellow or orange stain for wood is one
of the most sough; for in ornamental or
cabinet work. A beautiful result is
reached by digesting 2.1 ounces of lineiy
| powdered turmeric for several days ia
17.5 ounces of eighty per cent, alcohol,
: and then straining through a cloth. The
solution is applied to the articles to be
stained.
Steel that is too hard to cut or file may
be drilled with a mixture of ooe ounce
sulphate of copper, quarter of an ounce
alum, half a teaspoonful of powdered
salt, a gill of vinegar and twenty drops
of nitric acid. This will eai a hole ia '
the hardest steel, or, if washed off
quickly, will give a frosted appearance
to the matal.
The Odessa physician. Dr. Gamaleia,
has gone to Paris to make practical
demoDßtratioas of his method of inocu
lating against Asiatic cholera before the
eyas of his master, Pasteur. Since the
French scientist communicated the dis
covery to the Academy of Sciences, Dr.
Gamaleia has made further experiments,
which, he claims, have been very suc
cessful.
A successful cat trainer says that next
te the goat, which is the most obstinate
animal ia the world to instil an idea in
to, the cat is the most difficult animal to
traiD. They never take any interest or
Sride in their work, like the horse or
og, and they have not a particle of
affection. Old tabbies who are the pets
of the social corner would probably ob
ject to this criticism.
The benefits derived from the use of
ripe fruit as an article of diet are gener
ally understood, but an English medical
journal calls renewed attention to the
matter. Apples, pean, plums, apricots,
peaches, gooseberries and grapes are
spoken of as being as the very summit of
excellence as human food, for they pos
sess the essentiml conditions of pleasant
ness. digestibility, nutrieocy and roedi
cinality. Apples are particularly com
mended.
The President’s Thanksgiving.
President and Mra Cleveland attended
the Assembly church, at Fifth aud I
streets, Washington, where several of
the Presbyterian churches held union
1 services. The sermon was preached by
Rev Dr Pitzer. Afte r tiie servlcees tbe
p.esident reviewed the district national
guard from a stand in front <»f the White
House, and then went to Oak view. Hu
I ate his thanksgiving dinner with Mrs
I Cleveland, Mrs Folsom and Mr Hoyt, a
relative of Mrs Cleveland. The day was
generally observed in the city.
Parsley and Turkey.
No one in Turkey, says a writer, hat
ever yet succeeded iu producing pota
toes at a price moderate euou.h to com
pete with those imported from Marseilles
and Trieste. To eat a beefsteak in < on
6tantinople one must get the beef from
! Russia, the butter from Italy, the pota
toes from France—quite an international
beefsteak, is it not: Turkey only—ah!
we beg pardon, Turkey does supply
i something; the supplies parsley.
I
Test Pocket Ineuhat on.
The following is from a Grata I aka
11 (Mich.) doily: “Last Monday morning,
11 while a small knot of men were raising
. together at tha Central Depot in .lack
, son, Mich., the peep of a chicken was
, distinctly heard. Thereupon one of the
! number opened his vest, end in an inner
11 pocket was revealed a chicken just
i i hatched out and eiill partly tu us shall.
| He reported that hg had carried an egg
l for twenty one days on a *lO wager
j that it wou d hatch from the natural
warmth of his