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t 1 v i J Papkr is 40 Years Old CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1892. VOLUME XXXX. NUMBER 1424 Vf ... 1 ' ICO 'jr vvvv v THE fARLOTTE DEMOCRAT J. P. STRONG. wTanM8 One Doller and Ffty Cents in advance for 1 year Two Dollars on time. Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class matter, according to the rules of the P. O. Department. J. P. McCOMBS, M. D., Oflers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1,1892 DR. M. A. BLAND. Dontist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Trton Street. Jau. 3, 1892. BUKWKLL. p D. WALKKB. BtJRWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts W Office in Law Building. Jan. 1, 1892. V. I. 08BORNE. W. C. MAXWELL. OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTT K, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts K3T Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. July 3, 1891. y aCKlOT CLARKSON. CHAS. H. DTJL8. CLARKSON & DULS, Attorneys at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted. Will practice in all Courts of the State. tSOffice No. 12 Law Building. Oct. 7. 1891. HUGH W. HARRIS WM. M. LITTLE, Formerly of Richmond Co. HARRIS & LITTLE, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice in all the Courts Special and prompt attention to collection of claims, Con veyancing, Negotiation of Loans and Settlement of Estates. Office, first door west of Court House. Jan. 29. 1892. Office McAden building, over First National Bank, opposite Central Hotel. Feb. C. 1892. BOYNE & BADGER, LEADING JEWELERS, SOUTH TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, N. C. :o: DEALERS IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware. Special attention given Repairing Fine Watches. March C, 1892 JAS. AUDREY BELL, Attornoy-at-Law. CHARLOTTE. N. C. Cartful attention given to all legal business Office Law Building, No. 6. Jan. 10, 1892. JOHN PARRIOR, NO. 3 NORTH TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, DEALER IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. ' Special attention crivnn In PNno OTotnk - t - ...... & mu it aivu Repairing. March 28, 1892. E. Nye Hutchison. R. M. Miller. C.P.Wheeler E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO., FIRE INSURANCE. Offices 10 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon Street, up staira. Feb. 19. 1892. O. K. BASON. O. N. BROWN BASON & BROWN. Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. tW Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office Nos. 14 and 16, Law Building. Jan. 17. 1892. y THE WHITE FRONT DRUG STORE, NO. 15, SOUTH COLLEGE STREET, Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy kept in a Drug House J. B- ALEXANDER. The Poor prescribed for free. April, 8, 1892. HUGHES' Quinine Hair Tonic, The best preparation made for the Hair. It im parts Vigor to the Salp, Cleanses it and thor oughly eradicates Daudruff. and stops the Hair falling. Price 25 and 50 cents. Prepared by R. H. JORDAN & CO., Druggists, Springs' Corner Charlotte, N. C Nov H. 1891 P1CUTRE FRAMES. A large assortment of NEW PATTERNS of picture frame MOULDINGS, just received: Oak, Cherry, and Gilt room Moulding. Call and sea the new MEZZOTINT PHOTOGRAPHS J. H. VAN NESS. March 11, 1892. 21 North Tryon Street. fff A vessel which is intended to be an esact copy of the Santa Maria, on which Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to America, is being built with the greatest activity at the govern ment yard at " La Carraca." As soon as the Spanish centenary feasts are over, the vessel is to sail for New York. The biggest telephone switch board in the world is that in the Ex change at Berlin, Germany, where 7,000 wires are connected with the main office. KIT It would take upwards of forty years for the water in the great lakes to pour over Niagara at the rate of one mil lion cubic feet a second. R. P. DAVIDSON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, Has continually on hand for sale, improved city property, from $800 to $10,000. Also, vacant lots In all parts of the city, and 5,000 acres of farm land, some near the city, others on Catawba Rivers and Rail Roads. Property, bought, sold and rented. Collections nude and loans negotiated. For terms and location, call at office, No. 1 over A. B. Rtese Drug Store, Charlotte. N. C. June 10, 1892. Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator of S. B. Christenbury, deceased, I hereby notify all persons having claims against said decedent, to exhibit the same to me, on or before the 5th day of June, 1893. Persons indebted to the decendent will please make immediate pay ment A. B. CHRISTENBURY, Administrator. June 3, 1892. 6w THE BIG 20TH OF MAY CELEBRATION, lb OVER, BUT PHARR & LONG HAVE THE FINEST DISPLAYS OF Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Ever seen in CHARLOTTE, and to learn the art of MANIPULATING A DOLLAR to the beat possible advantage. We guarantee Avhen you deal with us you get EVERY TIME One Hundred Cents Re turn in the BEST val ues to be had. No Bad Bargains. All Goods Give Satisfaction. Because carefully bought, and Are the best to be had in the market. The Bargains that awuit you must be seen to be appreciated, and to buy them is to "learn the art" of making a dollar go its full length and more, ty Don't lose the opportunity. PHARR & LONG, May 13, 1892. 42 S. Tryon Street, NEW DRUG STORE. A fresh line of Medicines, Drugs, Paints, Oils, Toilet Articles, Garden and Flower Seeds and all articles usually found in a well regulated Drug Store like the white front on College street. J. B. ALEXANDER. Feb. 26, 1892. BABY CARRIAGES. -:o:- THE LATEST DESIGNS AND MAKES. A very handsome line now on exhibition at BURGESS NICHOLS,' And offered to the public at cheap prices. You can get what you want in that line at a bar gain at my Furniture Store. Call and see my stock. Also a fine line of Fur niture, Bedroom and Parlor Suits, Dining Room and Hall Furniture. Hand some, stylish and cheap. BURGESS NICHOLS, Furniture Dealer. R. S. SLOAN, Undertaker. Night call room No. 6, Bryan building, over Rogers & Co'a. March 11, 1892. SPARKLING CATAWBA SPRINGS. These justly celebrated Springs of Western North Carolina are Beautifully Located. The Climate is Delightful. The Waters are eminently curative for Dyspepsia, Liver Disease, Vertigo, Spinal Affections, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Gravel, Diabetes, Kidney Affections Chronic Cough, Asthma, Insomnia, Debility and all Skin Diseases. Hotel refitted and put in first-class order. Room for 400 Guests IS NOW OPEN. Write for terms. DR. E. O. ELLIOTT & SON, Prop'rs-, Sparkling Catawba Springs, N C. May 22, 1892. What Have Ye Done? Have ye looked"! or sheep in the desert. For those who have missed their way ? Have ye been in the wild waste places, Where the lost and the wandering stray ? Have ye trodden the lonely highway, The foul and darksome street ? It may be ye'd see in the gloaming The print of My wounded feet. Have ye folded home to your bosom The trembling, neglected lamb, And taught to the little lost one The sound of the Shepherd's name ? Have ye searched for the poor and needy, With no clothing, no home.no bread ? The Sou of man was among them He had nowhere to lay his head. Have ye cairied the living water To the parched and thirsty sonl ? Have ye said to the sick and wounded, "Christ Jesus can make thee whole ?" Have ye told my fainting children Of the strength of the Father's hand ? Have ye guided the tottering footsteps To the shore of the "Golden Land "? Have ye stood by the sad and weary, To smooth the pillow of death, To comfort the sorrow-stricken, And strengthen the feeble faith ? And have ye felt, when the glory Has streamed through the open door, And flitted across the shadows, That I had been there before ? Have ye wept with the broken-hearted In their agony of woe ? You might hear me whispering beside you, " 'Tis the pathway I often go." My disciples, my friends, my brethren, Can ye dare to follow me ? Then, wherever the Master dwelleth, There, too, shall the servant be. Anonymous. - . A Complicated Instrument. The beak of tho mosquito is simply a tool box, wherein the mosquito keep8 six miniature surgical instruments in perfect working order. Two of these instru ments are exact counterparts of the surgeon's lance, one is a spear with a double-barded head, the fourth is a needle of exquisite fineness, a saw and a pump going to make up the complement. The spear is the largest of the six tools, and is used for making tho initial puncture; next the lances or knives are brought into play to cause the blood to flow more freely. In case this last operation fails of having the desired effect, the saw and the needlo are carefully and feelingly inserted in a lateral direction in the victim's flesh. The pump, the most delicate of all six of the instruments, is used in transferring the blood to the insect's "stomach." Discovery. Hard Ltjck. Jimmy: What did yer get on yer birthday? Jakey : Nothin'! Never got anything since the first one, and then I only got born Brown, Weddington & Co., 29 EAST TRADE STREET. We are today keeping the BEST ASSORTMENT OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, AMMUNITION, Blacksmiths and Carpenters' Tools, BARBED WIRE, AND STAPLES, Fence Wire of all kinds. RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, all sizes and widths. Cotton Planters of the Best Makes. Harrows, Cultivators, Hoes, Shovels, Plows, Plow Stocks, and in fact, every thing used by the Farmer, the Black smith and the Carpenter. Call and see us, we want your trade. BROWN, WEDDINGTON & CO., 29 East Trade Street. March 25, 1892. DON'T FAIL TO SEE J. R. EDDINS'S NEW STOCK OF STATIONERY. We have a full line of Stationery for LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S USE. ALSO, A full supply of SCHOOL BOOKS, Especially adopted by the North Carolina BOARD OP EDUCATION. A fine assortment of BLANK BOOKS, and everything usually kept in a first-class Book Store. Call and see our new line of goods, at J. R. EDDINS'S BOOK STORE, Opposite Central Hotel. Charlotte, April 22, 1892. LADIES' SHOES. Ladies fineDongola kid, button, patent leather tip, with low heel, price $2 00; by mail 20 cts. extra. These have smooth insoles, very flexible, and is the finest shoe ever offered at the price. We have all kinds of shoes suited for all pur poses, which everyone will do well to see. GILREATH & CO., 16 South Tryon Street. March 11, 1892. Charlotte, N. C. SABOROSO. The best 5 cent cigar on the market. Most popular we have ever sold. Our cigars are unexcelled. R. H. JORDAN & Co., Druggists. Jan. 22, 1892. Ready for a Court of Bankruptcy. The financial situation of tho Federal government is not encouraging. In fact the government is on the verge of bank ruptcy. There has never been a time in its history when the cash balance on hand was smaller than it was on the first day of this month. Then the aggregate amount was $26,005,886. The amount available is much smaller, and the $13, 866,270 deposited in national banks com. plete the sum subject to sight checks. This is a pretty condition of affairs. There is not a merchant in Raleigh or any whore else who would not promptly discharge any business manager who showed no more capacity for business than the republican party. And yet there are many who are going to vote at tho next election to keep this party in power. ' What is the cause of this alarming con dition of the Federal treasury, ask the Richmond Times? And it answers : "It can bo summarized in a few words the prohibitory duties of the McKinley law and the enormous expenditures for pensions. Since January, 1892, the customs receipts have been steadily falling off. In February the receipts from this source were $15,782,419 ; in March, $16, 415,313, and in April, $13,709,987, a decline in thirty days of $2,705,325. The total receipts for eleven months ending May 31, 1892, were $163,264,528, as against receipts for the corresponding eleven months ending May 31, 1891, of $205,731, 914, a difference of $24,467,386. If the ratio of decline in the last two months be maintained and the prospect is that this decline will be even greater the customs receipts of the government will sink to $150,000,000 before the opening of the fiscal year of 1893." And with such a treasury the Progres sive Farmer favors the buying of all the railroads. Where is tho money coming from ? But this is an indifferent matter with the sly demagogues who are willing to impose any amount of taxes for the privilege of holding office or filling their pockets with republican gold. Within the next three months these matters will be fully discussed before the people. Let them listen to reason, and all will be well. Haleigh Chronicle. JEHf The adoption throughout the South of the roller cotton compress, which by a process simple in principle, and using no more power than is required, for the plantation bale, will, it is anticipated, become very general, the capacity of the apparatus being equal to turning out a bale of less bulk, greater density, and of more even and smooth exterior than the large steam compresses make. The in vention is expected to take the place of both tho plantation press of to-day and the big compresses scattered - over the country. Substituted for the ordinary plantation press, it will take the cotton right from tho gin and turn out a 500 pound bale as small as.if not smaller, than a bale that has been crushed in the powerful hydraulic presses that are located at the various shipping points ; and a balo from the roller compress is ready to put on the cars and be shipped direct to the mill, saving, of course, the charge and expense of unloading and re loading, and doing away with one set of middlemen altogether. The amount of money that is paid out annually for com pressing the bales after they have left the country gins is very large, and this, it is claimed, is by this apparatus saved to producers and consumers alike. Science. But for the full-blooded Angora or Cashmere goat there is a great deal to be said. They are frequently met in Texas, Hew Mexico, Arizona and California, where they are a source of greater profit than the average sheep. The cur dog never attacks the full blooded Angora goat but once and lives to tell the tale. The flesh of the high toned goat is not easily detected from that of the best mut ton, his pelt is worth more than that of tho sheep and parts of his hair readily bring over one dollar per pound. North Carolina could add greatly to her wealth by raising the fine-haired goat, the moun tain country being especially well adapted to tho indnstry. Asheville Citizen. Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver be in active, you have a bilious look, if your stomach be disordered you have a dyspep tic look and if your kidneys be affected you have a pinched look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bittirsis the great alterative and tonic, acts directly on these vital organs. Cures pimples blotches, boils and gives a good complexion. Sold at Burwell & Dunn, wholesale and Retail, and at Jordan & Scott, wholesale Drug store, 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. . SEIGLE'S GRAND OFFER. Upon the receipt of fifteen cents, with your name and post office address, we will mail to you for one year, postage paid, our Monthly Metro politan Fashion Sheet, published by the Butterick Publishing Company, of London, England and New York. We also send our twenty page Cat alogue of Fashions, which is issued four times a year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and winter. These catalogues and a fashion sheet every month, sixteen copies in all, mailed to you free for fifteen (15) cents a year. Many are unable to buy these high priced fashion journals and we offer this to our friends, so that they can secure one that is first-class for almost nothing. The 15 cents just pays the postage, so you see we make nothing on them, but we trust that those who become subscribers to the sheet will become customers of ours. That's what we do it for an advertisement. Send 15 cents with your name and address written plainly, and get the Fashion Sheet for one year, and four Catalogues as they are issued. Address T. L. SEIGLE & CO. June 1, 1892. Charlotte, N. C. Pond Lily Toilet Wash. Delightful, refreshing, perfumed, pure, cleans ing and healing. Excellent for the Toilet and Bath. For sale at JORDAN & CO.'S March 11, 1892. A City in two Hemispheres. In one resDecl at least Om'to thn capital of Ecuador, is the most unique cuy in me woria it is situated in both the northern and the southern hemispheres, a distinction claimed bv no other nlan.A nf importance on the globe At Quito the sun rises and sets at 6 o'clock the year around. You may forget to wind your watch while you are visiting the Ecuado rean capital, but you need not hunt up a regulator set it when the Run risf-a nr sets and you will be sure to be right,01d Sol 1 . . -r uses no raisiaKcs. in one part of the ty the summer season does battle with old winter, who is just across the street. m 1 r. xne seasons, as iar as names are con cerned, change almost instantly ; but, as the temperature is remarkably even, these curious points are seldom thought of or commented on by the 50,000 people w no maite iuito tneir dome. An Oddity in Eggs. Soma silkworms lav-from 1.000 to 2.000 eggs, the wasp 3,000, the ant from 3,000 to 5,000. The number of eggs laid by the queen bee has long been in dispute. Burraeister says from 5,000 to 6,000, but Spence and Kirby both go him several better, each declaring that the queen of average fertility will lay not less than 40,000 and probably as high as 50,000 in one season. Termes fatalis, the white ant, is possessed of the most extraordi- nary egg-iaying propensities ot any Known creature ; she often produces 86,400 eggs in a single day! From the time when the white ant begins to lay until the egg laying season is over usually reckoned by entomologists as an exact lunar month she produces 2,500,000 eggs 1 In point of fecundity tho white ant exceeds all other creatures. Dried Basanas. According to a report made by Vice Consul Robinson, of Colon, on the Isth mus of Panama, the business of preparing banana meal for the New York market will soon be carried on iu that region, lie states that a company has been organized with a capital of $75,000, under the name of Banana .food Company, for the purpose of drying and otherwise preparing bananas and plantains for food. He says it has been ascertained that while apples yield only 12 per cent, bananas with the skins removed yield 25 per cent of thoroughly desiccated fruit. The supply of bananas is practically unlimited. The fruit grows to maturity all the year round, and may be obtained every day throughout the year, so that the manufacture ot the new food can be made continuous. Idip A new theory as to the origin and formation of the vast coal beds of the world is being agitated in scientific circles. Everyone,- probably, who has any mind to think with, has formed some notion as to the original condition of this dirty but valuable article of commerce. " We have heard miners who did not claim even a common school education advance ideas and theories on this subject that would put to shame the untenable argu ments put forth by so called "professors of geology." Some geologists have given facts aud figures to prove that coal beds are the remains ol vast forests, which have been covered with alluvium by some subsidence of the earth's crust. Thus shut out from the air the wood and leaves have decomposed and formed into com- pact layers of solid coal. This theory certainly seems reasonable, but there are difficulties about it which have not yet been satisfactorily explained. There is much evidence, nevertheless, that all coal was once in a plastic state : this is proved both by the fact of it being found in situa tions and under circumstances which can not other wise be accounted for, and, by the way, it varies in character with the strata underlying it. The coal-beds which lie upon hard rocks are generally bituminous, while those over lying soft, porous stone or clay have been, as it were, filtered, the liquid constituents of the mixture, such as petroleum, bitumen, etc., soaking downward until they strike the "oil shales," leaving only a hard anthra cite coal vein above. It is generally admitted by all geologists that all coal-beds once formed the bottoms of lakes ; this fact indicates an explanation of the production of coal which will re move the difficulties in the old theory. 'It is hardly conceivable that wood," says Paul Noel, "especially through the loss of its hydrogen, should ever become converted into a substance plastic enough to flow like a river,taking the impressions of object along its banks ; but it is not difficult or unreasonable to suppose, in stead of this, that the stagnant lakes of the coal districts were ages ago, when the temperature of the earth was much higher and vegetation more luxuriant than now, was literally filled with plants and spawn of acquatio origin, and that these, dying and decaying, settled, to the bottom and formed a layer of carbona cious mud of considerable depth. This, in the course of ages, was converted into coal." There is one thing in connection with Air. Noel's argument : It is at least as easy to explain the origin of coal by this hypothesis as by the old one. Globe Democrat. Forty Thousand Dollars Worth of Straw berries. Mr. A. S. Maynard, representing the California Fruit Transportation Com pany, who has been here two weeks, looking after the shipment of strawber ries in the patent refrigerator cars of his company, will leave today, as the season is about over. He tells us that from Wilmington and points on the Wilming ton an VVeldon Railroad this season he has bandied forty five cars of berries. This means 300,000 quarts of straw berries and the receipts in money to the growers aggregate the pretty sum of $40,000. Wilmington Messenger Preparing a Sensation. Diggs I shall make a sensation among the dudes at the mask ball. Figgs What will be your disguise ? Diggs I am going as a tailor's bill col lector. Truth, The Staked Plain of Texes. As Smooth &s an Inland Sea and a Mystery to Geologists. Tho geological mystery of Texas is the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain. It lies south of the Canadian and east of the Pecos and west of the 101st meridian. "In surface features,' Prof. Hill says, "the northwestern half of this plain is similar to the plains of Colorado, Kansas, and northward. But there is this differ ence. Instead of extending to the Rocky Mountains on the west or imperceptibly grading into the level of the eastern areas, it is surrounded on every side, except a few miles at its southeast corner, by a more or less precipitate escarpment of erosion resembling palisades. This isolates it from tho surrounding region except the Edwards plateau, which is its southeastern connection already mention ed." The Staked Plain is there, a great, steepsided island in an ocean of land. This elevation surface embraces 50,000 square miles. The geographical tradition is that the Spaniards gave the name be cause they had to drive stakes to mark their way across. This accords pretty well with Prof. Hill's description. He says this vast surface is perfectly smooth, with the exception of an occasional depression so much so as to resemble the level of the ocean at dead calm. It is unbroken by trees or bushes or deep drained channels. It is carpeted with a rich growth of gramma grasses. The new railroads of Texas and New Mexico have made accessible to the geologists this largest of all Texas plains, and perhaps tho greatest and least studied plateau of our country. The small amount of sur face water which is not drunk up by the soil is found in a few widely distributed ponds. Two streams flow around the plain. They are tho Canadian and the Pecos. Both have cut nearly 1,000 feet below the level. Neither of them receives any surface drainage from the plain. Yet the rainfall on the Staked Plain from June to September is from 20 to 25 inches. The soil is rich and from 6 to 30 feet deep. It seems like a lake deposit, and it differs from all other parts of Texas. Notwithstanding the rainfall, the plain is covered with nutritious grass. As one approaches, the edge of the Staked Plain rises like a precipice. This wall can be seen at a distance of fifty miles. The edge is serrated and cut into by the rain washes to such a degree it is evident the wearing-away processs is going on rapidly. This extensive washing is the same kind as that to bo seen in the edges of the Bad Lands of tho Dakotas. The geologist easily estimates that tho Pecos and the Canadian, flowing -around the west and north sides,' and the Red, Brazos and Colorado, heading near the eastern border, have already worn away great Blices of the Staked Plain. The top of a book resting on a flat table gives a good idea of the Staked Plain. This plain, taking it from the top downward, consists of, first, porous sediment of soil, sand, gravel, and salt in horizontal layers to a depth of 200 feet. Then comes a great floor of sands, clays, and granites. Part of the floor is composed of the Trinity sands. Part of it, whore the sands have been worn away by the con vulsions of nature, is of the red beds. The conditions are very curious to the scientist, but the main question with a practical generation is about the water condition of this great plain. Running water in- Dickens county is the only stream on the vast plain. It is a bright, sparkling stream that suddenly breaks out of the ground, ripples over pebbly bottoms for a distance of ten miles, and then mysteriously disappears. How is this absence of running water to be accounted for on 50,000 miles of country possessing a fair rainfall? The answer is, the great capping strata of the Staked Plain are as porous as a sponge. Every drop of water either evaporates of sinks downward through the soil. Until recent years the Staked Plain was considered utterly water Iobs. But there havo now been dug into these porous strata more than 1,000 wells These wells do not flow, but the water trom them is pumped freely by windmills, and the Staked Plain is thereby made a pasture for countless herds of cattle. These wells have been obtained in all parts of the Plain. Digging is no longer regarded as an experiment. The water soaks into the ground and is stored in the mortar beds and grits. It is kept from going further down by the- underlying red beds. It constitutes one of the most remarkable sheets of underground water in in is country. &c. JjOuis ifiooe juemo crat. Long Skirts. In these days of sanitary elighten ment, when the gospel of cleanliness is so widely received, when a social reform expresses his conviction that "soapology ana scrubology" are equally as efficient, if not more so, in the elevation of fallen humanity than is theology : in these days, when so many of the dictates of fashion are in accord with the teachings ot hygiene, we are at a loss to understand what diabolical motive has induced women to make of herself a street clean ing machine. We are, however, gratified to learn that the supreme sanitary council of Hungary has put its foot on theso filthy trains and absolutely torn them off by issuing an edict absolutely forbidding their use. What lolly it is for our women, most of whom walk, to take up a fashion originating in a country where walking is, practically, a lost art. A long skirt in a carriage may be a nui sance, on the street it is a filthy abom ination. Let us appeal to the good sense of our countrywomen that the reign of the long skirt shall be a short one. An nual Hygiene. SSf A recent census bulletin states that tho national debt of the United States at the close of 1890 was $891,960,000. The State and local debt of the United States was $1,135,110,000. The aggre gated national debts of foreign countries, $26,621,223,000. The Philosophy of the Gizzard. It Explains the Digestive Ability of the Ordinary Hen and the Extraordinary Ostrich. A fowl's gizzard, where so many lost articles turn up, is a curious trap as well as a necessary vital organ of the fowl. Diamonds, pearls, coin, buttons, tacks, orange peel, and about everything else, save dynamite, have .been found in the. gizzards of fowls. A study of the organ is interesting. Experiments have demonstrated that what may be called the gastric juice in fowls has not sufficient power to dissolve their food without the aid of the grinding action of the gizzard. Before the food is prepared for digestion, therefore, the grains must be subjected to a triturating -process ; and such as are not sufficiently bruised in this manner, before passing into the gizzard, are there reduced to the proper state by its natural action. . ihe action ot the gizzard is, in tnis respect, mechanical, this organ serving as a mill to grind the feed to pieces, and then, by means of its powerful muscles, pressing it gradually into the intestines, m the form of a pulp. The power of this organ is said to be sufficient to pulverize hollow globules ot glass in a very short time, and solid masses of the same sub stance in a few weeks. The rapidity of this process seems to be proportionate generally to the size of the bird. A chicken, for example, breaks up such substances as are received into its stomach less rapidly than the capon, while a goose performs the same operation sooner than . either. Needles and even lancets given to turkeys have been broken in pieces and voided without any apparent injury to the stomach. The reason undoubtedly is that the larger species of birds have thicker and more powerful organs of digestion. It has long been the general opinion that from some deficiency in the digestive apparatus fowls are obliged to resort to the use of stones and gravel in order to enable them to dispose of the food which they consume, some have supposed that the use of stones is to sheathe tho gizzard, in order to fit it to break into smaller fragments the hard, angular substances which might be swallowed. They have - also been considered to have a medicinal effect. Others have imagined that they acted as absorbents for undue quantities of acid in the stomach, or as stimulants to digestion, while it has even been gravely - asserted that they contribute directly to nutrition. Repeated experiments, however, have established that pebbles are not at all necessary to the trituration f the hardest kinds ot substances which can be intro duced into their stomachs ; and, of course, the usual food of fowls can bo bruised without their aid. They do, however,, serve a useful auxiliary purpose. WhenV put in motion by the muscles, they are capable of producing Borne effects upon the contents ot the stomach ; thus assist ing to grind down the grain and separat ing its parts, so that the digestive fluid or gastric juice comes more readily in contact with it. Hartford Times. History and Mystery of Playing Cards. The origin of playing cards has been and still is a disputed point. Some his torians credit them to the Chinese, who, by tho way, invented or popularized many of tho ingenious devices now in common use. Some antiquarians attri bute them to the Hindoos, who are very skillful players at a card game in which ninety-six cards are used, which makes eight suits of twelve each. The story that cards were introduced into Europe for the diversion and. amusement of Charles 11., the mad King of France, has. long since been disproved. They made their appearance in Holland, Britain, Spain and France long before the demented monarch was born, a fact which the editor of "Notes for the Carious" can prove to the satisfaction of certain bo hind the times cyclopedia makers, if they care to change the old stereotyped false hood. The early European packs con tained fifty-six cards instead of fifty-two, the extras being the "cavaliers," who stood between the queens and the knaves. Besides these, tho early Western devotees of the game often used as many as twenty cards with the same power that the "joker" of the present pack has. Some writers claim that Western Europe was the first to use wood or ivory in place of paper for cards, but Captain Dubois mentions a Thirteenth Century pack of Chinese cards "carved the one and the other from solide woodo ; the figures on the same being carved alsoe insteade of painted on nutgals, which in most com; mon." There was a great deal of history in the game of cards as originally intended. The Four kings represented David, Alexander, Csesar and Charlemagne. The queens were Esther, Judith, Palais and Argine. During the time of the American Revolu tion the soldiers whiled away the hours of camp life with cards which had the pictures of Washington, Franklin, Adams and Lafayette in place of the kings. A pack of these historical oddities is now worth many times its "weight in gold." Dispatch. small vegetable plants will prevent their being frost-bitten, and is very quick! applied. After all danger is over take a broom and brush it off. Pronounced Hopeless, yet Saved. ' From a ietter written by Mrs. Ada. E. Hurd, of Groton, S. D., we quote: "Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my Lungs, cough set in and finally ter minated in Consumption. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Saviour, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. 1 gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles ; it has cured me, and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman.' Trial bottles free at Burwell & Dunn wholesale and retail and at Jordan & Scott, wholesale drugstore, regular size. , 50c. and $1.00 . 1