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M B.TAR ORGAN- ' Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where Vhey May VOL. I. MORGANTON, N; C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1885. NO. 18, 1HE TON )C iitprganton 0tai OFFICIAL PAPER OP BURKE COUNTY. Iu"blislxea. Every Friday! T. G. COBS, Editor and Proprietor. R. A. COBB, Manager and Soliciting Agent. Terms: $ 1 .00 per Year in advance ggfEnttred at the Post Office in Morganton as Second-Class Matter. What Fish Sometimes Swallow, ' Captain J. W. Collins. . of the United States Fish commission, sent to Profes tor Baird a knife found in the possession bi a codfish, and wrote as follows: "I fcend by to-day's express a knife, appar ently the kind known as a 'haddock ripper,' which was taken from the stom kch of a large codfish on Le Have Bank. The knife was presented by Captain Hemy McEachern, of the schooner A. F. Gifford, of New York, through Cap tain Benjamin F. Blatchford. Captain McEachern stated to me that the knife was found, in the stomach of a forty-five pound cod, which was caught this win ter on a trawl-line, in about forty-five to sixty fathoms of water, latitude forty- three degrees and eight minutes north, longitude sixty-four degrees eleven min utes west. As Captain McEachern is considered very reliable, there is no reason for doubting the correctness of the statement, though it does seem strange that a fish should swallow such an im plement." Mr. Henry Ffennell, of Land and Water, writes: "1 have before me the pewter flask which was presented to my father, the late Mr. Ffennell, commis sioner of fisheries. On the flask is the following inscription: 'This flask, con taining two glasses of an ardent spirit, was found in the stomach of a ling (Mol ra vulgaris), taken off; Brandon Head, County Kerry (Ireland), presented by G. J. E. Stopford, Esq., LL. D., and W. Andrews, Esq., to W. J. Ffennell, Esq., In testimony of esteem and of the sense of the services rendered by him as commissioner of fisheries. The flask is round in shape, and when full holds just four wine glasses. From its appearance it is supposed to have belonged to a Dutch sailor. Although I know many Instances of strange things having been taken from the stomachs of a fish, I have never heard of so curious a case as this.' A correspondent at Cedar Springs, Ga., Informs us that while fishing in Chatta hoochee river John Leadom caught a cat fish weighing five pounds, and in its stomach was found a gold $20 gold coin Hated 1816. The Hawkinsviile (Ga.) Kews is re sponsible for the following: 'B. W. Fus- lell found last Friday floating near his mild am a very large jack fish. Takin it from the water he found that death had been produced from swallowing another fish of the same kind. On ex amination the large fish was found to be sixteen inches long and the largest of the kind we ever saw, while the one that had been swallowed measured fourteen 'nches in length and was about one-third the size of the other. This may seem a little curious to the reader that one fish could swallow another only two inches shorter, but the fact can be substanti ated by several gentlemen. The tail of the Inside fish lacked about one inch of reaching to the point of the mouth of the outside fish. A Swell Reporter. The Baltimore American has the swell reporter of the country. He is a young man about thirty years of age. There is not the slightest necessity for his doing any work; as not only is his father a millionaire, but he has a fortune in his own name which yields a large revenue. Nevertheless this young man is so pas sionately devoted to journalism that he entered the service of the' American as a minor reporter in order to master all the details of the business. He has now been a reporter a good many years, and loves his work as much as ever. Wi rrnf a n rrrr colniir rAm 4T- r nonor dui speucts twice as mucn every week. When he goes out on any assign 4 ment he uses his private coupe or hires cab, and if he does not wish to return to the newspaper office he will telegraph ill his matter at his own expense. This '. i ' i - . louraiisuc pnenomenon travels use a lord. He always stops at the very best aoteis, ana win TaKe two sections of a sleeping car when he can get them. As for clothes, he has an infinite variety, and if ever a special correspondent had a suit for every day in, the month this en thusiast has one for every day in the year. He cares nothing for his salary, but works hard to make his mark, and is one of the best newspaper meii in this country". JVeij York tfraphicl " LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE. . What you are dull to-day! , In a sad muli to-day ? Up and be social and stirring, I pray, Why so lugubrious! , Take a salubrious Walk, and we'll talk, for I've something t -' say. . Verily, verily, Things will go merrily When you are merry and brave. But if not cheerfully Tempored, but tearfully, life is a tyrant, and you are its slave. If you go wilfully, However skilfully Tfurshing your moods and your delicate whims, Life will be dumb to you, , All things will come to you Touched by a shadow that saddens and dims; ; Life has two sides to it, Take the best guides to it, Look at the best and the brightest, my friend. Be a philosopher, Don't look so cross over Matters you never can alter or mend. Look not so dismally Down the abysmally Dark hanging over the precipice brink. Worst of all bias is Hypochondriasis Sunshine is healthier than shadow, I think. If you would drive away Gloom, and would bive away Honey-like peace in your innermost cell, Work like the humble bee, Soft let your grumble be: Burn your own smoke, and the world will go well. C. P. Cranch, in Youth's Companion TOM'S EXPERIMENT. Tom was in a dilemma. , He sat on the rocks overlooking the sea, in the very spot to which he had been attracted two hours before by the sight of a scarlet jacket, and thought over his perplexities, and wondered how it would turn out. "Plague take the girl," he said, with rather more emphasis than politeness, as he ground a pebble into the earth under his heel, "I'd like to know how to get the start of her." That was just it ! How to get the start of Janet Stafford was what puzzled him more than anything he had attempted in a long time. He had tried, in more ways than one, to accomplish the feat, and every, attempt had been a failure. He was getting discouraged. The way of it all was this: Tom Win ters had met Janet Stafford a year ago, and had straightway fallen in love with her. Now Miss Stafford was something of a flirt, "a regular, born flirt" was Tom's way of putting it, and she liked to tantalize the men, and especially Tom, it stemed to him. Time and again he had opened his mouth to propose, but she always seemed to know what was coming, and by adroit tact would turn tne conversation unon j. i . some other topic, and talk on and on, until poor Tom would get disgusted, and conclude that he would wait for some otner opportunity to declare his love. In no way could he determine whether she cared for him or not. He thought she. did, however, and that kept him following her round as faith fully as her shadow, watching for an opportunity to put his fate to the test, and "Win or lose italL" He had seen ner sitting on the rocks that afternoon, reading, and of course he joined her. He wouldn't have been Tom Winters, if be hadn't. Janet knew, before he had been five minutes by her side, that she was verg ing toward a proposal. She could tell it by his face, and the awful silence which seemed to settle down about him, as he concentrated his courage for the momentous crisis which he hoped wa&at last at hand. Suddenly she started up. "I'm getting absent-minded, I think," she laughed, "I promised to go boat riding with Jack Devere this afternoon, and I had forgotten all about it till this minute. I'm sorry to leave you, Mr. Winters, but a promise is a promise you know, and has to. be kept ;" and with that she was gone, and poor Tom swal lowed the words that were sticking in his mouth, and 6ighed dolefully, while he thought unutterable things about Jack Devere, who was his special aversion, because lie was a good deal more atten tive to Miss Stafford than Tom thought he ought to be. growled Tom, getting up and brushing the dust off his , clothes, preparatory to going back to the hotel. "What did you say, Mr. Winters?" asked a voice at his side, and there was Miss Stafford again. "I left my boo here somewhere, and came back after it." "Don't go boat-riding to-day," pleaiu ed Tom, growing desperate under the laughing glance she gave him. ''I I've something particular to say to you." "I must go," she answered, "though I'd like to stay ever so much. But I'll have to keep my promise." "But one doesn't keep all the prom ises one makes," said Tom. "Do stay here with me, please." "If I had promised to go boat-riding with you, and didn't keep my word, I wonder what you'd think of me" asked Miss Stafford. "Think how dis appointed Jack would be if I shouldn't come." 4 "He'd get over it," answered Tom "And as I said, I've something particu lar to say " "It will keep till some other day," an swered Mis3 Stafford, biting her lips to keep back the laugh that always came when Tom's face took on that lugubrious look. "There are more days coming, you know." (C I suppose so," Tom had to admit. "But but you never give me a chance to say what I want to. I really believe vou know what I want to say, but won't let me say it, just to torment "There comes Jack," exclaimed Miss Stafford, a3 a whistle was heard down the path lea iing from the beachl to the cliffs. "Some other time you may tell me the 'something particular' you were going to to day if you get a chance." That wis it! If he got a chancel "It's a downright shane for her to treat tie so," said Tom, watching her and Jack De?cre, t they went down the bay. , "Sometimes I think she does to mother me, end sometimes I think she does it because she likes me and wants to make me jealous, so that III be sure to propose. But it can't be that, either, for she won't let me propose. Hanged if I know whit she does mean by it." Poor perplexed Tom sat down and took a newspaper out of his pocket, and ried to forget his trials in its accounts of murders and accidents and other cheerful matters of that sort. Finding them dull, he turned to the story de partment. There was a little sketch there called "Washed Ashore." Tom read it. It was about a man who loved a woman as he loved 3Iiss Stafford and singular coincidence, he couldn't find out whether she loved him or not. One day he was out rowing and lost his hat. The waves washed it ashore. The woman he loved found it. She thought he must be drowned, and to the poor. inanimate thing, she confessed the love she had borne for its owner. The sup posed dead man happened to be near at hand, and heard her tardy confession of love and then and there all his troubles ended or began. "Why couldn't I try such an experi ment on Janet 1" thought Tom. "If I could only contrive to make her think I was drowned, I might find out whether she cares for me or not. I don't see as I'm ever lively to find out in any other way. I'll try it." He went down to the beach and en ltKcu a uuaL. ae saw juevere couuag J 1 A TT T- ? as he went down the bay, and Miss Staf ford waved him a passing greeting with her sunshade "That's lucky," thought Tom. "She's seen me going out on the water. I'll leave the boat somewhere along the shore, and it'll be found, and I'll be missing, and she'll be sure to think I fell in, and was drowned, or committed suicide, and when she thinks that, she'll be likely to say or do something that'll give herself awav. and I'll hear of it after I turn up, and then I'll know what to do." , "It looks squally in the west," De vere suntr out after him. "You'd better not go far, Winters." . "Thank you," answered Tom; "but I'll look out for myself," and he was soon out of hearing of Miss Stafford's merry laugh and Jack Devere's jokes at his expense. - A peak jutted out into the bay, and Tom concluded that a boat abandoned there would be pretty sure to float back to the hotel when the tide came in. Ac ... i. ..... . . cordingly .'he lelt tne boat to tne mercy of the waves, and started back a round about-way to the hotel, over the rocky cliffs. The sky was overclouded by this time, and the wind began to blow. To add to Tom's discomfort, the rain soon began to pour down jn great torrents, and he was drenched to the skin before he could find skelter. The sun was going down before the storrii abated. It was quite well along in the evening bf ore he got back to the vicinity of the lhotel. He was thoroughly chilled in his Wet garments, he was hungry, and he was afraid that his plan would prove a failure. Therefore he was not jn a very pleasant frame of mind when he saw Janet Stafford's rad jacket just a little way ahead of him, as he came down the beach. The sight of that jacket, in It self, was not very disagreeable, but the sight of Jack Devere's broad brimmed 6traw hat, looking in the moonlight like, an aureole about his rival's head, made him very angry. "Deuce his impertinent attentions,1 growled Tom. "He's a puppy I I gup- pose he answers her, but I'd like to punch his head for my amusement. They're coming this way, Row's my time to produce a sensation. The waves were tumbling in on the beachl Tom threw his hat out among them, knowing they would wash it in, and that the couple coming toward him would be quite sure to see it on the sand. Then he hid behind a rock. "I haven t seen winters come back yet," Miss Stafford was saying, when they came within hearing distance. "She's thinking about me," said Tom, "and that shows she's she's well, it shows she's thinking about me, anyway, if it doesn't show anything else," and thi3 was some consolation to the poor fellow. "Perhaps they won't recognize the hat as mine, but if I keep shady to- night and the boat is found, then they'll think that I must be lost and we'll see what she'll say." "He may have been cast away on some island along the shore," laughed Jack Devere. Maybe he'll turn hermit and end his days and troubles there." 1 hope not," said Miss Stafford," "for if that should happen I should nev- er Know wnat sometning particular was that he wanted to say to me." Then she laughed, and the sound of her mer riment made the listaners ears tingle. x-oor lenow,"" said Devere, but his tone didn't seem to have as much pity in it as his words did. "You're really too hard on him. What's that at your feet. Janet? A hat, isn't it?" "Sure enough," said Miss Stafford, stooping to pick it up. "Why, Jack, I do believe it's Tom Winters, for here's a bunch of blackberry leaves sticking in the band, and I remember giving him some I had gathered yester day. He begged so hard for them that I couldn't refuse him. Oh, Jackl do you suppose he is drowned?" "I wouldn't wonder at all if he was," answered Jack. It made Tom's blood run cold to hear his rival's matter-of- fact tone. "He was a perfect muff with a boat, and never ought to have been al lowed two rods from shore in one." I hope he isn't drowned," said Miss Stafford, and Tom listened delightfully to the sigh that accompanied the words. It proves that 6he must care something for him. "Just wait till she hears of the boat,- chuckled Tom. "I presume she'd give way to her feelings now over the hat if he wasn't by." Poor Tom 1 "Oh, Jackl" exclaimed Miss Stafford, . . i if a j a moment later, "u ne is arownea i shall never listen to that 'something particular,' shall I," and then she laughed. Tom could hardly credit his senses. Looking at it from their standpoint, in all probability he was dead. And yet she could laugh. "Heartless creature," though Tom, dis gusted with all the world. 'I wouldn't have believed it of her. She didn't care two buttons for me. What a fool I've been. I wish somebody 'd kick me I" "I don't want gentlemen saying, 'something particular' to my promised wife," said Jack, and then he kissed Miss Stafford, and she kissed him back, and said she'd "do just as he thought best, only it was such fun to bother the silly fellow." His promised wife 1 Tom didn't want to hear anything more. He didn't want to see anything( more. He had heard and seen enough already. "I don't know but we'd better go back and get some one to turn out and look for Winters," he heard Jack say. "They needn't bother themselves about me," thought Tom, making bis way up the rocks as fast as he could. Tm. afraid, Tom Winters, youv'e made a, great fool of yourself, and that your experiment was & failure. And yet, after all," he added, as he stopped to take breath on the summit of the cliff, "it wasn't, for now you've found out what she thinks of youl" It is hardly necessary to say that Tom's "something particular" was never said; at least, never to Miss Stafford. Men E. Bexfordt in Chicago Herald, The German Society for the Develop ment ot Aerial Navigation have at least gone so far toward the realization of their ideal as to publish a monthly maga zine entirely devoted to the discussion of questions of aerial navigation. A Brahmin Explains His Religion. Gopal Venayak Joshee is a Hindoo and i native of Sangamner county, in the Bombay presidency, ne left Bombay acre than nine months ago, and traveled hither via Burmah, Siam, China and Japan. " Joshee was visted by a Chronxd reporter in his rooms, oa Bush street," md, having placed a lighted candle on a small table, with his legs crossed under aim on his chair, his small bronzed aands clasped his small bare feet, he pre ceded to explain that the communica tions he was bound to make were not roluntary, but only in answer to ques tions. "I travel for my pleasure and instruc tion, and to find out for mvself if all - ------ mat En dish missionaries sav Is true. rhey make attacks oa my religion and :ustoms, and I want to find out what is fact and what is falsehood." "Are you a Brahmin or a BnddhistP "I am a Brahmin. There are very few Buddhists, but hundreds of thousands o! Brahmins. We are all idolators. and we ire proud of it. We do not respect the mages, but the holy men whom they represent." "Yes. But we do not worship Him. Df course not. A Supreme Being doe! jiot want any worship. People can not worship what they can not conceive." "Tell me about your religion." memory ot their dead relatives; they j of ft false no-e it will be difficult to reo worship insignificant beings such ai I tify the error later. One song should be their fathers and mothers. We won hid those who have been worthy men and have left records behind them, and who are God incarnate like your Christ. Ota religion is not idolatry; we do not wor- J ship gods, but godlike men." I "You seem to hare studied different religions." "I behove I have studied well and maintain my own ground. Our aim is to destroy our inditiduality. We should be above our passions, else we are only animals." "But you worship anima's," remarked the reporter. The Brahmin, howeTer, was not to be cornered. We do not worship the ser pent," said he, "but the extraordinary power it possesses. A serpent with us is the symbol or eternity, because with s tingle sting he can pass ft man into eter- city." ( "What other animals do you thui revere, since we must not sav worship" "The cow is very dirine. We respect ft the same, because it gives milk to all, I must tell you we do not worship animals themselves, but their powers. I am a Hindoo a so-called idolator; our religioa is superior to yours. We strive to look oa all things with even eyes. A man who says this rood and that is bad is not fit for ab sorption in God, because he is selfish. Nothing is bad in this world. If a man hits me I must bear it, or I unselfish, IW A MW VMW KJm JS lIVKit Chronicle. Uva Stock of the United States. Thn live Btoek of the United States in January, 1883, is given by the depart- ment of agriculture at $2,456,425,005, divided as follows: Cattle, $1,107,285,- 000; horses, $352,282,000; mules, $162,- 494,000; swine, $220,401, 6S3; and sheep $107,060, 050. There were $43,771,000 cattle, an increase of $1,220,000 during the year; 50,300,000 sheep, a decrease of 266,000; 45,102,000 swine, an increase of $940,020; 11,564,000 horses, an in crease of 194,883; 1,072.000 mules, an increase of 58,000. There was ft shrink age in value of all kinds of lire stock during the year, least in horses and greatest in sheep and swine. From English and other statistics it is found that the stated increase of cattle in Great Britain and Ireland for the last seventeen years of 395,223 is offset by ft diminution in the sheep supply equiva lent to 748,003 head of cattle, a' net de crease of 333,679. Of cattle, sheep, and swine, all told, Great Britain possessed in 1884 about one head per capita of its population, of C5,000,000 head. For the same period the United States possessed two and one half head per capita of its population. Ia Ihe former country there are 220 head to the square mile, and in the United States thirty-five head. . Of countries outnumbering the United States In particular .species of domesti cated animals Russia leads in horses,with the United States second. Australia is first in sheep, with $77,230,000; the Ar gentine Republic second, with $67,416, 000; and the United States third, with 10,360,000. Chicago Tribune. One-third of the cattle and less than one-thirtieth of the sheep imported by ureat Britain come from the Unit btates. Tea stains can be takes out of lace by boiling it ia tnilk. . Slng!n Parrots. An advertisement called for ft sin flag parrot, with the addendum that the price must not be a fancy one, and that no dealers need apply. "Are singing parrots rare V a bird fancier was asked. 'Singing is an accomplishment that very few parrots acquire," he replied. "and a good singing parrot one that knows three or four songs and sings them well is very rare indeed. The advertiser will hardly secure one without paying a 'fancy price. His warning to dealers not to apply teems unnecessary. for if a dealer chanced to h&ve a good one he certainly would cot care to sell him cheap. Bat dealers do cot very often have tinging parrots in stock, for the birds only learn to sing well la pri vate families, where music is an every day recreation, ar.d some one is p&tieat enough to give them lessons. After they are once tauzht their owners are not rilling to part with them. "The African and Mexican parrots are, by Jlong odds, the best lingers, as they are the best talkers and whistlers. They are, ia fact, by far the most Intel ligent, and so, of course, much the easiest to teach. If one of either kind is pet la ft musical family, sad the penoa who feeds him sings to him while he is eating, he will quickly learn both the words and the tune of the sung tearo thoroughly maste.ed before another is attempted, and bo eHort should be tasds to teach ft p&rrst to sing before he hsi passed his first year. If a parrot is well and patiently taught he will tiag so ae curately, both as to the tans and the pronunciation of the words, that it will be found, after ft time, wholly imps- sible to distinguish his singing from that of the humaa voice. Wo have had. though rarely, such birds, and it one of them were placed out of sight, but with- ia hearing, I would defy the sharpest musical ear ia the world to detect any- thing ia his song indicating that it was a bird singing and not ft man or woman ; for he sings always with ft voice pitched after the manner of his Uscher. "Of course, such birds are very ex- pensire, and it is lolly to advertise xor a cheap one. Some time ago we had an African parrot here that tang 'Pretty Polly Perkins but not very well. Wt sold him to ft dealer for $30. He wsj perfected in 'Polly Perkins, and told for $100. Later, having learned ft second ton, he brought $200, and finally, s finished master of three songs, he was bought by a gentlemsa ia this city fo? $300. You could not purchase him now for love or money, he knows to many songs and whistles such ft number ol tunes, to say nothing of his conversational powers. "The birds learn to sing ia German, English or French indifferently. The I A . l language oi ineir songs is uepenaeni upon the nationality of the family by t .1 1 1.4 C - -t WOOEa incJ orougu up. eumo .Bfi in more languages one, ana sucu SQIJ Taiucu- " C5- Before Paper. Wood was one ot the earliest sub- stances employed on which to inscribe names and record events. Stone, brass, lead and copper, were also used at aa early period; after which the leaves of trees. These were superseded by the outer bark of the tree, but this being too coarse the inner bark came soon after to be used, that of the lime bcicg preferred. This bark was called by the Romans l&rr. the La tin work for book, and these bark books, that they might be more conveniently carried about, were rolled up, and called tolumen, hence oar word volume. The skins of sheep, goats and asses were the next materials used, and so nicely were they prepared that long narratives were inscribed oa them with the greatest accuracy. Some of these wcra fifteen feet long, containing fifty and sixty skins, fsstcned together by thongs of the same material. Tht intestines of certain reptiles were ft!so used, for it is a well authenticated fact the poems of Homer were written oa in testines of serpests ia letters of gold. This roll was 120 feet long, and was de posited in the great library of Censtantl nople, where it was destroyed by fire ia the sixth century. The next material was parchment skint smoothed and polished' by .pumice stone to which succeeded vellum, ft finer descrlptioa of parchment, made from the skins of very young an.ima.li. Oa this ve'.lam gold and silver letters were stamped with hot metal types. Some of these productions are very beautiful, requiring much time and labor to prepare and complete them, and the more carefully they are examined the mors do we adm'xe the taste and in genuity displayed. hancrf JawrnaL i, -7
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