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POETRY.
One sight I met a testy friend
Whose best girl I had kissed ;
Before I could my act defend
He hit me with his tW
The blow was given with such a vim
That fairly made me stagger;
I started to s;et back at him
By whipping out a f
lie quickly struck it from mj hand,
And up against the bars
I flew head first and seemed to land
Among ten thousand
After thla fearful knockabout
I raised a piercing yell,
Which I am sure was quite without
A Western
I fled, but failed to get away
My friends saw, with a laugh,
la the police court news next day
I filled a 1
Across the Sea.
THE HOKTII CAKOLIHIANB ABROAB
A Faw Bauutrka A beat Hea-StcltBasa.
IIFI OK SHIFBOABD AND WHAT SORT
Of A SHIP AND SHIP LOAD IT
Wi8 THB LANDING IV
SCOTLAND AXD JOUB
JJEY TO GLASGOW.
Correspondence Statesrille Landmark.
"Jimmie, porridge is riddy," were
the first words which greeted my
ears this morning. Jimmie repeats
the refrain through the submarine
corridors of our ship. We are at
this writing 1,600 miles from no
where, I think, but the captain's
log book says we are in longitude
42, latitude 49.
This veracious journal begins
Saturday, July 13th the sixth day
out from New York. Great Jupiter !
how my mind has unfolded since we
left ! How my stomach has yielded
up tribute ! The stomach becomes
a rast continent on the troubled sea,
an inexhaustible mine the meal
and oil never give out. But I come
not here to jest of sea-sickness; it's
too solemn a subject, too terrible a
condition and not a theory. I will
turn aside right now from this his
tory and in the interest of innocent
humanity warn others of the Demon
of the Sea " mal de mer " a lady
who had escaped it called it Mal
de mer, the d 1 1 It hits the un
wary land lubber, after deluding and
delighting his senses, from 24 to 36
hours out at sea. He glides along
beautifully, cheered and soothed by
the majestic wave ; all the poetry he
has ever heard of ocean from their
hot cells pent up, rush out from his
brain and inwardly he exclaims,
"God is good ; great is Jehovah who
hath spread out these mighty waters !"
After these reflections he feels just
a little dizzy and he retires early the
Btcond night in love aud compara
tive charity with the world, lulled
by the thought that while others
may in weakness yield to the lurking
demon he will escape, He awakes
next morning as from an unpleasant
dream. Fool, he still feels solid;
he gets up, washes his face and then
he feels disposed to sit down juet a
moment; only a moment. The ex
ertion of washing his face taxes him
surprisingly. He goes on deck. Ye
gods! now the dance is on. Ohl
that he bad left his stomach at home !
The writhe, the twist, the unheaval,
the swirl, the Amelie Rives; oh!
for anything that will hold still;
oh ! for a North Carolina old field,
red road. It is simply awful. No
pen can fully portray the indescriba
ble distress, the hopeless anguish.
Then it is you fully realize you do
not belong to the amphibia. This
is not over-drawn. Sea sickness is
horrible. Ah! I would call thee
" fiend " preferable to anything else.
Oh, I had it, Mr. Editor, and Europe
ought to be beautiful indeed to com
pensate for it. I know you will
think this too much space for the
subject, but I would warn my fel
low man who fosters fool fancies of
Bailing on the deep.
Well, to my story: this is our
sixth day ou, and our company of
pretty girls and " f oine gintlemen "
are slowly emerging from the slime
and ooze of sea melancholy. This
is a Scotch ship, manned entirely by
that people. Our captain is a typical
brawny Scotchman, whose looks in
spire a sense of security an old
seaman. On first coming aboard you
think it's impossible to live in the
dark, narrow cells, about three times
as big as a sardine box, really about
one-half the size of a bed at home,
with a small bull's eye window called
a port. Imagine two coffins, one
above the other and space to stand
up and turn around and you have an
idea of the dimensions of our "state
rooms." Every inch of space is
made available. Our vessel, the
State of Nevada, is a very long, nar
row ship. She makes about 12 miles
an hour. Tor the last three days we
YOL. II. NO. 30.
have been off the "Banks," as it is
called, Newfoundland, and have been
enveloped in a dense fog. The
coarse whistle of our ship has been
blowing incessantly at short inter-
veals all the while to avoid collision
and the ship-men have been con
stantly on the look-out night and
day for icebergs. Capt Stewart has
not slept for two nights; he and his
first officer have been constantly on
the bridge and prow, peering into
the mists for the dreaded ice moun
tains and taking the temperature of
the water. At every hour through
the night you hear the man in the
stern as he strikes the hour crj out,
"All's well." The man on the prow
(extreme front) responds, " the lights
are burning brightly;" the man
on tne bridge closes witn, "All
right." Well, we haven't struck
any icebergs yet, though I overheard
the first officer say they have been
all around us nevertheless.
Prof. Winston has been the worst
sufferer among the men ; so far he
has made but a few brief visits to
the deck; has been in his berth
almost constantly for six days. We
have a bride with us ; poor misguided
woman! One look at her shows
she'd give her kingdom, husband in
cluded, to be on land again.
Since writing the above I've just
made another contribution t the
waves small, but like the widow's
mite, it's all I possessed. I shall
proceed now on an empty stomach.
have not stated before but will
now, that when this company is in
good health it is one of which North
Carolina should be proud, and I will
add, while my stomach is still calm,
that it does no discredit to America.
I feel it an honor to be enrolled
among the lists, the Uriah Heep of
the crowd.
The sea as revealed to us is utterly
destitute of life ; the buffaloes of the
deep have gone West, I suppose. We
have seen nothing except the inevita
ble Mother Cary's chickens and a
few gulls. The lowest temperature
so far on the trip was 46. This,
with the dampness, makes wraps a
necessity. If a "good Samaritan"
had not regarded me with compassion
and leaned me an overcoat there
might have been a small iceberg
aboard. If I ever live to get back I
am going to obey better a voice
which plead earnestly with me to
take my overcoat along. My heart
less reply to that voice was that " If
Cains Brutus ever grows so base as to
wear an overcoat in July, be ready,
gods, with all your munitions and
annihilate him."
The fare is varied and plentiful,
but foreign in its outward appear
ance. Their coffee is not as our
coffee, is all the comment I'll make,
for I feel myself growing a little
shaky again. 'Tis a reminiscence of
my New York hotel, I said ; yet not
simply that ; there's something more,
ever more. Uhl will the morrow
bring me surcease of this sorrow
Lenore. lost Lenpre, I implore.
The order of the meals is, porridge
at 7 a.m.; breakfast at 8.30 ; lunch,
1 p. m. ; dinner, 5.30 a constant
game of win and lose.
This is our eighth day out The
fog has enveloped us for four or five
days and much retarded our speed.
Boat stopped entirely for three hours
one night. So far, with the excep
tion of one dead cow and three
empty barrels, I've seen nothing
animate; as before remarked, th
ocean is a vast, silent waste, much
like a desert. We saw the lights of
a vessel last night which fired three
guns, which, like that storied bird
of the sea which wade into the
water to a certain depth, then wades
out again, was entirely inexplicable
to me the object equally dark in
both cases. On Saturday night we
had a delightful entertainment by
the company, exhibiting high and
varied talent The phosphorescent
display last night at the stern of
the boat was weirdly beautiful. It
suggested your arc lights, Mr. Editor,
but by no means equalled them; it
will take more than phosphorus to
do that. The light is emitted in
shooting stars and moons from micro
scropical organisms or animals by
the lashing of the waves by the boat.
Glasgow, our port, being north of
New York, we have been going a
northeast course all the while. So
far 296 miles in the 24 hours is the
best speed we have made. This boat
is manned by 74 men, 8 engineers,
12 or 15 firemen, with two large 400
horse power engines only one being
run at a time. The danger to one
of these boats on the ocean is noth
ing. Collision is the only thing
dreaded. The entire boat is lighted
in all its apartments with the in
candescent light.
Thursday morning, J uly 18th, our
.twelfth day at sea, we are electrified
at about 5 o'clock by the cry of
land! I arise with more alacrity
I have known myself to and go on
deck, and there on our right, about
a mile away, is the coast of Ireland.
We come closer and the green, well
laid out fields appear. These, we
are informed, are the crofts or small
farms. The first house we see seems
to be a church with a clustering of
white houses around. The bluffs
are all covered with green moss and
are about one-half the size of the
Brushy mountains as seen from
Statesville. We see already the ap
propriateness of "Emerald Isle."
This will be a day of great interest
to us. Giant's Causeway is in view,
and we will for several hours sail
along the north coast of Ireland,
and this afternoon we will enter the
mouth of therClyde and -proceed to
Glasgow with castle and heather in
view. Four bloody Irshmen in a
small skiff have just passed us,
waving their hats and shouting us
welcome we take it We return the
salute; the first inhabitants we've
seen. The Irish fields are becoming
beautiful green squares. We pass the
Irish coast and soon the rugged coast
of Scotland appears, which becomes
more beautiful as we approah. We
enter the Clyde and proceed up its
beautiful and populous banks until
we reach Grenoch, where upon giv
ing a signal the custom house officers,
ten or a dozen in number, come out
to meet us. We immediately sur
render and they in a very orderly,
polite way, go through our baggage.
We are then put ashore and board
the curious cars. The carriages are
as long as ours but open on the side
instead of the end; there are five
doors on each side admitting to as
many apartments; these hold six
persons, three on a side; the doors
are shut and tickets collected at
point of destination.
We are off for Glasgow. The first
tbiog I rotlce is the Scotch-broom
growing wild along the track, carry
ing me back to my grandmither's
yard. On ard ou we fly through the
daintiest fields with stone hedge or
wire fence fall of the greenest vege
tables and the whitest hay you ever
saw nearly as white as my shirt;
the neatest houses and prettiest land,
rolling and swelling like the waves.
On we speed, somebody head us! Tar
Heels in the land of Burns! No
wonder he wrote immortal verse with
such a home. Here we are at Glas
gow in one oi tne nnest noteis any
of us ever saw. Brass bedsteads ! I
guess we can stand it till morning,
I pull out my watch with New York
time and find it just five hours slower
than this time. The buildings,
everything here, has a finished, sub
stantial look. So here we rest Mr.
Editor, and you and your tired
readers. Glasgow.
A Judge's Shokt Courtship.
The shortest courtship I ever heard
of was that of an eminent jurist
He was on his way to hold court in
a town when he met a young woman
returning from market
"How deep is the creek and what
did you get for your butter ?" asked
the Judge.
"Up to the knee and nine-pence,"
was the answer as the girl walked ou
The judge pondered over the sensi
ble brevity of the reply, turned his
horse, rode back and overtook her.
"I liked your answtr just now,"
he said, "and I like you. I think
you would make a good wife. Will
you marry me ?" She looked him
over and said : "Yes." "Then get
up behind me and we will ride to
town and be married."
She did get up behind and they
rode to the court house and were
made one. It is recorded that the
marriage was a pre-eminently happy
one.
Till Mother How It Was. A
story came from Switzerland a year
ago of a mountain guide, whose
name was not preserved. He, with
two others, was leading a party over
one of the most precipitous passes of
the higher Alps. The men, as is
usual, were tied to each other by a
long rope. As they scaled tke wall
of ice they slipped on the edge of a
f riehtf ul chasm. This man was at
the end of a rope. Without his
weight there was a chance for the
others to regain their footing ; with
it there was none. He cast a glance
down at the dark abyss, filled with
fathomless snow, then drew his knife
from his belt, saying, quietly, to the
man next him : " Tell mother how it
was, Jose." He cut the rope and
fell, never to be seen of mortal man
again. Youth's Companion.
Mrs. J. N. Kellog, wife of the at
torney-general of Missouri, has been
made assistant attorney-general
She was admitted to practice in the
supreme court eight years ago,
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1889.
lira. W. E. Gladstone.
To Mrs. Gladstone, the wife' of
William E. Gladstone, the "grand
old man," doubtless owes much of
his success. She has been to him a
wife and a helpmeet, in the fullest
sense of the word, and ehe has made
of him what a true wife should of
her husband an idol. It is she who
looks after his physical welfare,
sympathizes with him in his little
cares, and it is she who mixes the
egg-flip, which is the subject of bo
much ridicule, with which he regpleB
himself during protracted debates in
Parliament.
Mrs. Gladstone is the daughter of
the late Sir Stephens Glynn, and
from him inherited Hawarden Castle,
the family seat of the Gladstones.
The old castle, of which but the
rnins remain, dates back to the re
motest antiquity, but the new castle
was built in 1752, and it is this part,
with the additions made thereto, that
is occupied at present. In 1839 Mr.
Gladstone was married, but it was
not until the death of his father-in-
law that he came into possession of
Hawarden, but such was the admira
tion of Sir Stephen for Gladstone
that he had an addition made to the
castle, in which the young couple
lived when at Hawarden. This addi
tion was called the Gladstone wing.
Like her husband, Mrs. Gladstone
is wonderfully robust for her years,
and her hair contains but few grey
strands, whilst her face is almost
free from wrinkles. Like many
English women of the last genera
tion Mrs. Gladstone never knew how
to make herself attractive as far as
dress goes, and it has been said that
she is the worst dressed woman in
the United Kingdom. Her features,
although they betoken the true wife
and affectionate mother, are some
what coarse.
Of the three sons of the couple
Herbert, the second, who is cut out
for a political career, looks much
like his father, whilst the elder, W.
H., looks like what we would sup
pose nis motner looked like in ner
youth. The youngest son, Stephen,
is rector of the church at Hawarden.
Mrs. Gladstone celebrated her
golden wedding week before last
She and her husband received con
gratulatory messages from all parts
of the world. She was also the
recipient of valuable presents, the
Royal family of Eugland leadiug
the way.
Mrs. uiaustone is, oi course, an
enthusiastic Liberal, and has many a
time, especially in the east end of
London, made nice little public
speeches. Lately she has become
president of the Liberal Ladies'
League, an organization which woiks
upon the same lines as the Primrose
League, favoring, of course, liberal
principles and home rule.
X.earn a Trade.
National Publisher and Printer.
A good trade is something which
bank failures or commercial panics
does not destroy.
It is a passport to all countries
and climes.
Something which can be carried
in our heads and hand3.
A demand note wnich passes cur
rent everywhere.
The one thing that cannot be
learned in an academy or college in
the laud.
A strong crutch upon which to
lean.
The very friend of our youth who
will not desert us in our old age or
pffliction.
The only language which is un
derstood by the people of all races
p"d climes.
It is beyond the possibility of de
cl:ne at any time years enhance its
value.
The only property which cannot
be mortgaged or sold.
It is a calling which can be declined
or taken up at pleasure.
Something about which neither
friends nor kindred can quarrel.
Unless you are perfect you have no
right to talk about your neighbor's
faults. If you are perfect you won't
do it
w 0m
If
A Ctarrnlous Womai
Atlanta Constitution.!
Nashville, Tenn., July 20. If
anybody wri ever surprised, Mrs.
Flavia Canfield was to-day, when she
saw printed in the Nashville papers
a private letter she had written a
friend in Topeka containing some
remarkable statements.
THE FOOLISH LETTER.
The American this morning print
ed the following :
We publish below, from the To
peka, Kansas, Capitol, a letter from
one of our most cultured visitors,
the wife of President J. H. Canfield,
giving the impressions made upon
her by her visit Sonth. It will be
seen that the impressions are hardly
what might be termed favorable, but
as we are publishing so much favor
able comment it is but fair that
those who look with less partial, or
more prejudiced eyes, should be given
a hearing. The writer, we believe,
has made quite a number ef friends
daring her stay among us, and there
will probably be some surprise on
earning that her opinions are, to say
the least, very uncomplimentary and
her feelings not of the kindliest na
ture. The letter is as follows:
We came by way of St Louis, and
covered Missouri, part of Illinois
and the whole of Kentucky.
I was rather disappointed in the
ooks of the Sunny South so far as
I have seen it Kentucky, seen from
our car windows, seemed very much
like Missouri; unkempt and unin
teresting, the towns are small, poverty-stricken
and dirty. At the sta
tions the people were sunburned, sad
and stolid creatures, men chewed
tobacco, women wore sunbonnets,
and negroes were plentiful, ragged
and dirty. Tobacco warehouses were
conspicuous in every place we passed
through ; miles and miles of swampy
roads, and seldom saw a well-kept
and prosperous-looking farm. It is
quite possible the railroad passed
through the worst part of the coun
trv. JLt often does. JNasnviiie is
beautifully situated on the Cumber
land river, and has a population of
100,000 people.
Yesterday we went to the largest
church here, a Methodist one. The
minister was an invited guest of the
one in charge, and much to my sur
prise he gave
A TINE, LIBERAL SERMON,
a regular Simon-pure Unitarian ser
mon. I have been told that they are
very old-fashioned in religious mat
ters in the South, maintaining a
strict orthodoxy. A Unitarian church
does not exist here. Imagine my
surprise, then, to hear this sermon.
But, as I say, the man was a stran-
i , ii i i -i
ger, ana i don t tiunK nis discourse
was relished by the congregation.
There were no responsive faces around
me. His one thought was : " Reli
gion is a simple thing ; follow the
truth as it is revealed to each soul
and imitate Christ." He wa3 odd
and "Beechery" iu some of his
illustrations and expressions. "If
you think heaven is going to be re
cruited from the amen corner of the
Methodist Episcopal church alone
you will be migntily mistaken.
"We should not make forms and
ceremonies a part ot ourselves, out
wear them a3 we do our clothes,
ready to lay them aside for better
ones when they are outworn. If we
wear them like our skins we are sure
to become hide-bound, and a
HIDE-BOUND CHRISTIAN
i3 no better than a parchment-dried
old Pharisee. " The Jew is bound
by the clip theory ; the Baptist has
the dip theory ; Presbyterians have
the grip theory ; Episcopalians have
the tip theory ; Methodists have the
hop and skip theory, and they are
all apt to wear these theories like
their skins, till they are hide-bound."
Much of his discourse was smooth
aud eloquent and think of his quot
ing Emerson and Tennyson ! A
Methodist minister in the South !
In the afternoon we took a "dum
my" street car and went to the out
skirts of the city, to a pretty park
six miles out Thousands of people
were enjoying the cool breezes under
the trees in a very quiet way. We
saw no drunken people all day.
When we returned we took another
" dummy " line to see West Nash
ville and the suburbs in another di
rection. The train had two cars,
one for whites and the other for
blacks. Several
COLORED GIRLS,
well dressed and quiet got into the
car we were in while we were waiting
for the time to start The conductor
told them they must go in the next
car. They left the train with indig
nant faces, and did not go at all. I
discussed this incident with a South
ern woman who sat next to me in
the car. " Those girls ought not to
have been allowed to enter the car,"
she said. I asked her if the colored
people often demanded equal rights
of this sort "Oh, no," she said,
" as a rule the negroes are right obe
dient" " They know they have to
be," she added. So you see the color
line is drawn sharply and is some
times resented. We will see more of
this no doubt as the meetings go on.
The race question is the question of
our time, I believe. The blacks are
increasing faster than the whites. It
is only a question of time when they
will outnumber the whites two to
one. They are strong and sturdy,
they are being educated and they
have the ballot. What is to hinder
them from having the power in their
hands some day ? May I then be in
some convenient corner in the sky to
look down oi the spectacle of
BLACK HEELS ON WHITE NECKS.
" Cursed be Canaan " will do now,
but it won't last forever.
Well, our trips to the parks show
ed us the people of the middle South,
or rather the working people of a
Southern city, taking a holiday. To
night after supper Mr. Canfield and
I walked to the State House and
walked through the grounds by
moonlight We passed many solidly
elegant houses. There is much
wealth here. The capitol is on a hill
overlooking the city. It seemed very
massive and imposing tome to-night
Seen by daylight I have no doubt it
would not look so fine, but would
appear dingy and uncared for, as
everything else in the South does. I
had a call from two Southern women
to-day; wives of members of the
local committee.
THE DIALECTS,
as given in novels, are not at all ex
aggerated. I rather like the soft
voices, the invariable drawl and the
absence of r's. I am inflicting this
long letter on you to-night because
my husband is late in coming in, and
I am waiting for him. I hope yoH
will be able to wade through it all
I have .a flickering light and e
scratchy pen, both drawbacks to good
letter-writing.
I am in a depressed state of mind
because I have just finished a dread
ful book, a novel by Florence Frich
Kelly, whom my husband is inter
ested in as an ex-student of Kansas
university, and one he
thought
promising.
I have read the book because
this interest in her. "Frances"
the name of it. It is weak and vile.
jno otner word win do. i am
ashamed and disgusted that a Kan.
Eas woman should do this thing,
wnat is tne matter witn women
novelists nowadays? It is as if they
had discovered that indecency was
in demand and nothing else in the
literary market would sell.
I hope to see Craddock's mount
aineers and the Mammoth cave be
fore I go home.
Yours, affectionately,
Flavia Canfield.
.airs. Uanheid was overcome, and
had had to be taken to her room
where she has been crying all day.
Since her arrival she has been the
recipient of a great deal of atten
tion, and nad made many warm
friends. She prepared the following
card this afternoon :
SHE TAKES IT ALL BACK.
"A private letter or mine was
published in the Tcpeka Capital, of
Kansas, and republished in this
morning's American. No line of
that letter wa3 intended for pub
licity. It was written in an idle
hour, immediately after reaching the
city, as one intimate friend would
chat confidentially with another.
This statement should mitigate,
somewhat, the just resentment of a
generous people, who may see in this
letter the illbred criticism of a guest
upon her hosts. I can only say, in
extenuation, that they appear far
more severe in print than I felt, and
were simply the unweighed and ex
aggerated utterances of private con
versation. No words can fully ex
press my regret at the occurrence.
Hoping that this brief explanation
will have some weight in the minds
of those whom I have had the plea
sure of knowing here, I am, respect
fully, Flavia A. Canfield."
Mr. Canfield called the directors
together this afternoon and tendered
his resignation, which the directors
declined to accept saying that they
could not, in any justice, hold him
responsible for the statements con
tained in the letter.
Good to Have a Mother. An
exchange remarks that "mothers
have trained our Presidents and
Statesmen." True. They were for
tunate in having mothers. They
would have had a difficult time if
they had never had a mother. The
only man who ever made a success
in life without the training influence
of a mother wa3 Adam, and he felt
the need of one before his career
i closed. Wilmington Star.
WHOLE NO. 82.
The Rinsing Habit.
A writer in Good Housekeeping
vigorously condemns the kissing
habit, and calls for its abandonment
iu this wise: "This kissing habit
has been carried to its greatest ex
treme among English-speaking peo
ple, and the people of other
blood are often greatly amazed
and amused by the universality and
cheapness of the kiss among the
English nations. It is not necessa
rily an argument in its favor, how
ever, that it is thus found to be an
accompaniment of the highest civi
lization, for it may be promptly
retorted that vice and crime also in-
crease with civilization, and that even
civilized and refined peoples often
keep alive barbarous practices inher
ited from savage ancestry. The kiss,
in its proper functions, has a fine
significance, and may be made the
vehicle of the purest emotions, the
honest expression of legitimate feel
ing, a greeting fall of genuine, vol
untary sympathy and love. The
kissing habit is an abuse and a
misuse. It has brought the kiss
into disgrace and made it vulgar,
cheap and hypocritical. Be it the
province of this generation of re
finement and education to rescue it
from its degraded estate and restore
it to its natural elevated and elevat
ing place and use in the social
economy."
A Sailor's Wondibjtjl Endu
rance. All experience of suffering
at sea can hardly have furnished an
instance of .greater endurance than
tnat or jvicuarry, one or tne survi
vors of the Alaskan, was buffetted
six days on a frail raft over which
the sea was continually breaking, till
he was thrown ashore on the beach
near Cross Bay. Probably not one
man in a million could go through
that ordeal and live. Without food
and without drink, save as he could
catch a few drops upon a piece of
board as the rain fell upon himj
continually in the water or drenched
by the waves, while obliged to use
all his strength to hold on to his
raft wirh his benumbed hands and
chafed and weary arms ; carried into
the surf after six days and nights
spent like this, thrown ashore, then
carried back and again thrown
ashore on a breaker that left him on
the beach still retaining strength
enough to crawl to a place of succor
and safety the story presents an
example of endurance and fortitude
that excites wonder and probably
never has been surpassed. Port
land Oregonian.
George Washington Farms.
General Washington possesses 10,
000 acres of land in one body, where
he lives; constantly employs 250
hands, keeps 24 ploughs going all
the year, when the weather will
permit; sowed in 1781, 600 bushels
of oats, 700 acres of wheat and
prepared as much corn, barley, pota
toes, beans, peas, &c; has near 600
acres in grass and sowed 150 with
turnips. Stock, 140 horses, 112 cows,
235 working oxen, heifers and steers
and 500 sheep. The lands about his
seat are all laid down in grass; the
farms are scattered around at the
distance of two, three, four or five
miles, which the General visits every
day, unless the weather is absolutely
stormy. He is constantly making
various and extensive experiments
for the improvement of agriculture.
He is stimulated with that desire
which always actuates him to do
good to mankind. In 1786 he killed
150 hogs, weighing 18,500 pounds,
for his family use (exclusive of
provisions for his negroes,) which
were made into bacon. From an
Almanac of 1790.
Tight Lacing. Miss Oakey, an
artist who has devoted years to the
sfudy of dress, thus writes! in her
book entitled "Beauty in .Dress";
"Any woman is too tightly dressed
who cannot raise her arms straight
above her head and clasp her hands;
who cannot stoop to tie her shoe, or
pick up a pin, without heightened
color. Tight lacing unrelentingly
indulged, like a painless poison,
saps the beauty, the grace, the brains,
the life from its unfortunate victims.
Tight lacing is not only a hideous
stupidity, it i3 a crime a crime that
casts a heavy burden upon the next
generation, and renders the present
one incapable of its duties. It
makes all the movements of the
body angular and stiff. It totally
ruins the digestion and the circula
tion, and consequently the complex
ion, which we all know is one of
the greatest of feminine charms. It
injores the sight and the color and
the expression of the eye."
Danville, Va., is going to build a
tabernacle for the UBe of evangel
iats.
-IN THE
NEA TES T MA JJfEB
AND AT
JHE LOWEST RATES,
ODDS AND .ENDS,
It will require 60,000 cars to haul
off the Kansas wheat i; .- , .
California sent 3,500,000 pounda
of honey to Europe last year: v
Missouri has set apart $2,000 for
wolf scalps for 1889 and 1890."
The black spot just discovered
on the sun is 24,000 miles wide. ""
Any man may commit s mistake,
but none out a fool will 'continue in
it -i -v : :
Utah women are moving to regain
the suftrage, which Congress took
v
away.
The Bible society has issued, up to
date, a total of nearly 50,000,000
Bibles. . n . , ...
"London consumes 10,000 ! tons of
ice daily during its very .brief hot
season. -.
,If a man. were.hi own eajmy
what hard stories he could ' tell on
himself.
There is a company organized in
England which insures you against
burglary. V
The Hartford (Conn.) Theological
Seminary has opened all its claifes
to women. '
King Htmbert, of Italy, squan
dered more than $100,000 during his
four days visit to Berlin. ;
A Japanese student has captured
the highest honors from 49t gradu
ates Of Michigan University.
The Americans in Paris subscribed
$10,000 in a single , day ' in aid of
the Pennsylvania flood sufferers.
A good name is to be prized apere
great riches; as Shakespeare says, "it
is the immediate jewel of the souL"
Human beings are still sold in the
famine stricken districts of China.
A child under 10 brings from $1 to
$1.50.
The cat population of Great Brit
ain is over 7,000,000, and almost
4,500,000 kittens annually enter the
world.
' Quills are things that sre some
tine taken from the pinions of one
goose to spread the opinions of an
other." A Birmingham colored preacher
preached a powerful discourse on the
subject: "Are we sons of God or go
rillas?" There are over 800,000 more wid
ows than widowers in England. In
France for every 100 widowers there
are 294 widows.
In the Sydney courts.it has been
decided that no : Sunday . newspaper
can sue for adrertisementf , the con
tract being illegal.
A man at Hawkinsville, Ga-, has
been married twice in the same trou
sers. They are forty years , old and
he still wears 'em.
A Confederate home has bean in
corporated in Missouri. It will shel
ter Confederate veterans, their wives,
widows and orphans.
.The Cherokee of Indian territory
have just built a $500,000 seminary
for girls. -And yet .'people say that
the Indians cannot be eitilired. '
"Man," says Bacon, is -certainly
of kin to the beast by his tody;
and if he be not of kin to God by
his spirit, he is an ignoble creature."
The wearing of gotd, watches by
members of the ' Baptist , church, bf
Harrisburg, Va isprbhibiied ' .Any
person wearing one will ha 'expelled
from the church.
That is a pretty pocketbook' yon
have. Where did you get it , JJA
present from my wife." . Anyning
in itr "Of coarse. The .uni
bill for the same
No man for any. considerable pe
riod can wear one face to himself
and another to the multitude, with
out finally getting , bewildered as to
which may be the true.
The antiquity of . dolls has. lately
been proven at Borne, where there
was found in a sarcophagus, contain
ing the skeleton of a young girl, a
wooden doll with jointed . anus and
legs.
The possessions of Trinity Chnrtb,
in Kw York; foot up to $140,000,.
000. Kev. Du Morgan Dixy Its pas
tor, has a nominal salary of $12,000,
but really receives just m -touch-af
he wants.1'. ' ; u
It is estimated that the iand "con
tained in Central Part:; Heir !York,
which ori ginullrcost'f'OOls
now worth oref 'flOoV.m15 The
maintenance of the'park 'ik'udtto
cost $4O0,OO;aeMV1I't ''l
! The raveifVrnal' 'ikji'ipo
not jwear? 'tJ'isXf.bcooif to
swear outside .'ci a' printing office.
It is useful ib proof reading, and
indispensible in1 getting forms to
press,, and has1 also been known to
aaaiatin looking over the paper after
it is printed, but 'otherwise It it
I very disgusting habit,