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A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL-THE PEOPLE AND TIIEIR INTERESTS.
VOL. VII. NO. 51
MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1893.
SI.CO A YKAIJ.
Ii EAT PANIC IN CHICAGO!
Pork Drops $8.25 per Bbl. In Three
Hours.
With If, John Cudahy, Worth. $18,
000,000 Goes to ths Wall.
Chicago. III. Tuesday was one of
tin.- most disastrous ia the history of the
l oinlof trade in this city. Wealthy
ii dividuals and firms were bowled over
lin.; nire pins and the pices of hogs
wr-nt turn! -1 ng like an aval niche. Bro
kers on the Chicago b.ard are aceus
t med to witnessing scenes and kaleido
scopic changes ia prices, but the oldest
menal ers of the Loud ts-day actually
stood aghast at the rapidity with which
the pr'cj of rn ss pork went down. A
sheer diop of $8.23 per barrel inside of
lliree quattera of an hour is enough to
take away the breath of old Stentor
hinifelf.
Therewas a hush near the opening in the
moi bing when Secretary Stern appeared
on the balcony of the trading room and
notified all concerned that those having
trades with the well known provision
brolteiage firms of Joseph E. Stever &
C . ; E. W. Baily & Co. , and A. Ilelthotz
& G.i. should proceed to close them out.
The s-ileuca lasted for a second and then
a mighty roar went up from the pro
vision pit. As early as last march it
becftme apparent to the trade that mess
pork was being "bulled" through these
houses, and it soon became noised about
iu the provision trade that A. M. Wright
w a - behind the deal a year before he
started a corner in ribs, and with the
a- ip of Julia Cuiahy carried it through
to f ucce.s, making a large amount of
niciuy. Appa eatly, according to the
general opinion of the board, he had
ttiirted to run a similar deal in mess
fork. Toe collapse has been looked for
s metimp, and as the monetary situa
tion became mere and more strained,
everybody not interested in meat drew
en.t, leuvii g the market so dull that
there was scarcely enough businec-s to
es-;.bl;sh quotation?, and the bubble
bur--..
Another and Leivier shock came in
announcements by the sccretaiy in quick
succession of the failure of the North
Ameiican Provision Company, a pack
ing concern with a capital of a quirteref
a million dollars in which Jack Cudahy
w s largely in eresttd; of Wright &
Ilaughey, a respectable firm, chiefly en
gaged in receiving and shipping of
wheat, but who are understood to be
ir-tvrestci wi h Cudahy iu his deal in the
j revision pi1", and finally of Cudahy him
self, the great packer and daring specu
la'er in provisions, whose wealth was
recently estimated at no 1 ss than $18,
000,000, of which about f 2,000,000 was
made in a deal in libs list fall.
The stoim broke loose ajain after this
in the lard crowd. This commodity had
he'il extremely steady throughout the
dump in pork, but it iu turn mounted
the toboggan' and we -it down as if self
1 brica'ed. The pr'ce for September
was fO.oo per tierce in the erly buying.
It was 6 within six minutes after Cud
ali "s fjilure was annouLced, and Sep
te.nber short ribs, which were sold at a
$?i i a- ge broke to $5.87. Before the
cl se, h .wever, both r.illied, the former
to $6 G2; the latter to $0.3).
It is sai i Mr. Cudahj's private alfairs
are separate from h's paitnei's mitters,
and that the con-pnics he controls with
Li- bro'her;, Mik: acd Pat, are not af
br.t.d. THE SEMIN0LES THREATEN WAR.
The Chief's Son Flogged by a Pale
Face mid H-p ua' ion Is to
ba Demanded.
Jupiter. Fla. Th-:re is fear that the
S;--nili:olc Indians in south Florida may
aguin go on the war pi;k after over forty
y ar of peacs. Lktle Tiger, a chief of
th it vortioa of the scattered tubes wkuh
b .is villages on the edge of the Ever
ghides, not far west of B'scaync Bay, is
on h:s way to Tallahassee to seek an
ofiici.-d interview wi.h Gov. Mitchell
Ujon what he and h's t:ibe considers a
serious insult to them.
Lit le Tiger h;s a young son, whom
Mr. Jensen, who owns a lare tract of
In d ! ear Cocoanut Grove, on Biy Bis
e yne. taught poaching on Thursday
i ii 1 ti gged. To war 1 night Little Tiger
:i!;d a ha f d zem of his warrio.s appear
id iit the vill.tge of Coeoanut Grove and
i::'piiied for Je. sn. They were armed
Ut ih-i teeth Jensen explained matters,
l,u they app p. red unsatisfied.
They s'otmed around for an hour or
n.crt tnd went back to their camp,
where at intervals through the night they
k pt up a shriek ng and yelliug, accom
pli. icd by the firing of rifles.
Men coming from the Lcighborhood of
tli - Iiul an villages tay thu the whole
t ibj is excited over the t flair and threat
(ii to go on the war path if Gov.
M tchell does not fix up the matter
su'i-f-iclori'y.
Killed Whilo After Honey.
Wilmington, N. C During a
; ur.der ttorm -John Carter, a colored
tii' innn employed at the Navas?a Guano
( ii Tactory, a few miles above the ci'y,
'limbfid a tree ne:r the factory for the
pur,iosi of securing honey mad? by a
vI;) in of wild he s in a hollow limb.
Lightning struck the tree and killed
Cartei
The South. Can Have China's Trade
in Cotton Cloth.
C -Es il Edward Bedloe, whose post is
the treaty port of Am y, Caina, a city
of over 1,000,000 popn'ation, including
i's suburb, se .ds to the Department of
S ate an interesting report on the trade
between h's city and the United States.
What Dr. B.dloe siys of the cotton
cloth market in China and the possibili
ties of American trAde in this line are so
much of interest to all our Southern
manufacturers that we reproduce the
following extracts from his report:
"Sifiicient care is not taken by manu
fat turcrs at home to" ascertain exactly
what the Chinese want. Apparently they
have but two views either their Eastern
customer is civilized like themselves and
wants what they want or else he U un
civilized and will take anything that
comes along. They seldom realize that
the East is a great civilization in itself,
with ideas, habits and necessities utterly
diverse from tho e of Chiistendom.
Cloths stronger, coarser and cheaper,
without weighting, with less gloss and
finish, like those th? village coolie buys
from the hawker, would meet with quick
er salts and net larger profits than those
with which the markets are now flooded.
"There is no rtason why the United
States should n ,t have a large portion of
this vast trade in cotton fabrics of all
sorts. There is especially no reason
why tbe South should not have the lion's
share and New Orleans be a centre of
commerce between that great section
and the extreme Orient.
"Instead of slrpping goods via New
York. Baltimore or San Francisco, a pro
ceeding as expensive ss it ii needless,
they should be sent from e'.ther New
Orleans or Mobile. From New Orleans
they could he forwarded by sailing vessel
around the cape or by steamer through
the Suez canal to the great markets of
China. In re tu-n the ships could bring
tea, siik and the other exports of that
part of the world. It is unnecce?sary
to await the rebuilding of the American
merchant marine. Present conditions
are more than satisfactory. It is an
easy matter to arrange with such great
houses as Jardke Mathe-on & Co.,
Butterfield D Swins, the China Mutural
S:eamship Co., the G!en, Btn or Shi;e
lines of steamers to have direct communi
cation between New Or'eans aud the
entire China co .st. With a 1 tt'e enter
prise, energy i nd se'f-s ciitice it is
possib'e to develop an indus.iy in the
South to be measured in n-illioiis."
This Looks Like Business.
Colvkeia, IS. C. Very few people
have any idea what a big thing the new
Columbia Cotton Mi 1 is to b. It will
perhaps be six or eight months before
the mill begins operation, but some idea
of the capacity and extent of the pro
ject might be had from the present work.
To begin with, it is located on the upper
side of the Canal neir the Gervai street
bridge. It is an L shaped structure.
The front is 412 feet, the main building
is 104 feet wide. The win g nearest the
Canal is 129 feet long and that fronting
the east 139 feet, which is to be extended
to 387 feet. The main building is to be
five stories high, and the east wing three
atd four stoiies on account of the elope
in the ground. The company ckim that
the mill when completed will be the
largest in the State, and the largest
ducking mill in ths world. Work was
started on thi 16th of April.and the build
ing is now beginning to !ook like some
thing. It is the intention of the ovtn.ra
of the valuable property to spend at
least $750,000, and in the purchase of
machinery quality will be the first con
sideration. The machinery will be op
erated by motor po?. er from the Columbia
Cana1, and quite an innovation in the
shape of individual electric motors for
eveiy piece of machinery will he introduc
ed. Heating and ventilating machinery
will be used, aad everything will be
equipped with the very latest mechanism
that can bs had. Ducking and drills
will be manufactured, and a specialty
will be made of the heavy canvas that
i3 used in sail making. The capacity of
the mill will be the same as is expressed
by abDiit 45,000 cotton spindles.
It i3 said that the mill will give em
ployment to about 1,400 operatives,
which means that about 5,000 people
will be brought here by the new mill.
It is the intention of the compiny to use
as much native labor as .ossible. At
the outset only a few experienced work
rain will bd brought here, and they will
be expected to drill the native labor.
The company has started the construc
tion of 100 hous:s that are to be U3ed by
the operatives. The new town is being
built in Lexington County, just across
the river.
Robbing a Postoffice.
Abbeville, N. C.-Thieves broke in
to tbe postoffice at Alexander a few
nights since and stole therefrom about
$212 in money, $28 worth of stamps,
about two dozen boxes sardines, four
Wrttches and n few other articles of small
value. Entrance into the building wa3
effected by prizing off tho window blind
and breaking a jane. 'I ho postmaster
was at home sick, and his assistant hal
been called awy on important business.
There is no clue to the perpetrators of
the crime.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A male adult has half an ounce of
lugar in his blood.
Insanity in every country is more
prevalent among unmarried than among
married persons.
A man in California has invented a
SLevice that will prevent gas escaping
when it is blown out.
Among all races the weight of the
male brain is ten per cent, heavier
than that of the female.
Aluminum can be hardened by rapid
cooling in water, more especially if it
be alloyed with a small percentage of
titanium or tungsten.
The amount of perspiration exuded
by a grown man every twenty-four
hours weighs twenty-eight ounces. His
perspiration is ninety-nine per cent,
water and one per cent, saline matter.
In the cast-iron water pipe of Paris,
which forms a continuous tube jyith
only two slight crooks, the lowest
whisper at one end may be distinctly
heard at the other although the pipe
is 3120 feet long.
Professor Newton estimates that the
average number of meteors that tra
verse the atmosphere daily, visible to
the eye on a dark night, is 7,500,000,
and if to these the telescope meteors
be added the number would ba in
creased to 400,000,000.
Naphthalene, which is a product of
coal tar distillation, in appearanee
something like paraffin, has been
found useful in England for the pre
servation of timber. The wood is
soaked for two to twelve hours in the
melted naphthalene at at temperature
of about 200 degrees Fahrenheit. ' ':
A four-wheeled wagon whose motive
power is supplied by a benzino engine
has been satisfactorily tested in Ger
many. It is intended to carry passen
gers through city streets or country
roads, and can be run at the rate of
half a cent a mile. The wagon and
engine can be made for $500. The
speed is as high as fifteen miles an
hour.
Germs of contagious diseases are
capable of multiplying"- themselveE
with marvelous rapidity. A single germ
when placed in surroundings favorable
to its growth, quickly divides into two.
Each of these divides itself again, and
bo on, the number soon reaching into
thousands. It has been estimated
that by the end of twenty-four hours
a single germ will have multiplied it
self into more than 16,500,000 germs.
Two cases in which fire was caused
by water are reported. In one a flood
caused the water to rise high enough
to reach a pile of iron filings in a fac
tory. The filings oxidized so rapidly
as to become so intensely heated as tc
set fire to neighboring woodwork, and
the factory was burned to the ground,
in the other case, during a fire water
from the engines found its way to a
shed containing quick lime. The heai
generated by the lime set fire to the
shed and the flames spread to othei
buildings.
A Long Tramp.
Chicago, III. Mrs. Lucille Rodney,
accompauied by her husband, G. B.
Rodney, and W. W. Holliday, arrived in
Chicago from Galveston, Tex., having
walked the entire distance. The trip
was made for a wager of $5,000 and
sundry considerations. Mrs. Rodney
wore out eight pairs of shoes and aver
aged twenty-three miles a day. he left
Galvestoa May lGto, and was dua here
August 1st.
Peru Ruined by the Fall of Silver.
San Francisco, Cal. James Hicks,
Ex-American minister to Peru, arrived
from Panama. He reports Peru iu bad
condition, all trade paralyzed and every -one
fearing a bloody revolution, that will
surely follow the attempt of Ex-Dictator
Pieroli to regain power. "President
Bermudas has governed the country
wisely," said nicks, ' but no adminis
trative ability can make headway against
the hard times due to the fall of silver."
Unexpected Relief.
New YciiK. A new and unexpected
element of relief has been injected into
the financial situation. United States
bonds have reached such a low figure
that the national banks see their way
clear to make a profit by issuing circu
l?tiou against them. It i estimated that
$8,000,000, or $10,000,000 will be so
added to New York's supply of currency
within a short time.
A Lineman Killed.
Richmond, Ya. Ucrbet Jackson,
a
colored lineman, while repiiring a
of the electric car line, fell from a
to the street, a distance of thirty
wire
pole
feet
and was almost instantly killed.
Mayfield, Ky., is going to save
money for road repairs by discharging
its one policeman and not bothering
with prisoners.
Gold Coming- in Big Amount.
London The sum of 930,000 was
withdrawn from the Bauk of England
for shipment to the United States.
NAVAL DISASTERS.
CATASTROPHES RESULTING IN
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
Great Britain Has Lost Many Vessels
and Thousands of Men Few
Ships Lost by the Amer
ican Navy.
HE loss of the British warship
Victoria recalls to the New
York Times that 'the history
of the navies of the world,
and particularly those chapters relat
ing to the navy of Great Britain,
abounds in records of disasters, at
tended with great losses of life.
As early as 1703 it it recorded that
three British men-ofvar were lost.
The York, with 70 guns, wenttdown off
Harwich and all on board perished
save 4 ; the Newcastle, GO guns, went
down off Spithead with 193 men, and
the Reserve, 60 guns, sank off Yar
mouth, November 26, carrying down
173 men.
In 1744 the frigate Victory, one ol
the finest ships of her day, carrying
100 guns, went down ofrlthe Island oi
Alderney and every soul ' perished.
Three hundred and ..thirty officers
and men went down with)Hi3 Majesty's
ship Pembroke, GO guns, near Porto
Nuovo, April 13, 1749.
Three years later, to a day, the
British frigate Prince Geotrge, 80 guns,
while on her way to Gibraltar, waa
burned and 400 men perished. Thie
was the most sensational) marine dis
aster of the century.
The fate of the Prince George waa
still comparatively fresh inlmind when,
August 29, 1782, the RoyaP George, a
man-of-war carrying 1.08 guns, was
lost off Spithead. Six Jiundred per
ished. The vessel lay keseled over in
order to effect repairs on a pipe, when
suddenly a gust of wind washed the
sea into her ports andhatches, and in
a few minutes she went down. Rear
Admiral Kenipenfeldt, (together with
the entire crew, many Warines and
women, were drowned In May,
1817, the diving bell was employed in
a survey of the wreck as it' lay embed
ded at the bottom, and twenty years
later, under the superintendence of Sir
Charles Pasley, portions of the cargo
were removed.
La Tribune, a French maa-of-war,
carrying 3G guns, was lost off Halifax,
November 16, 1797, and 300 i men per
ished. Two years later, October 9, 1799,
His Majesty's Ship Luiine, carrying
32 guns, was wrecked olf Vlieland, on
the Holland coast, and only one man
was saved. He died before reaching
England. The Lutine was a French
ship captured by Admiral Duncan of
the British fleet. Tho wreck lay im
bedded in the sand for fifty-eight
years. At the expiration of I that time
a Dutch salvage company recovered
99,893. The remainder of the specie,
amounting to 1,175,000, was never
recovered.
November 5 of the same year the
British cruiser Sceptre, 64 guns, was
wrecked in Table Bay, on the Cape of
Good Hope, and 291 members of tha
crew perished.
The closing years of the Eighteenth
Century and the opening years of the
Nineteenth appeay to have been disae
trous for the ships of tho British ser
vice. Besides the losses already men
tioned, the Queen Charlotte, a flrst-rata
ship of the line, 110 guns, the flag
ship of Lord Keith, then commanding
the Mediterranean squadron, was
burned off Leghorn, March 17, 1800,
and 673 persons perished out of a crew
of 850.
The Ajax, 74 guns, was also lost by
fire February 14, 1807, while off the
Island of Tenedos. Two hundred and
fifty men perished.
December 22, 1810, His Majesty's
ship Minotaur, 74 guns, was wrecked
off tha Diitfih coast and 36Q lives were
lost.
On the same spot, eleven years be
fore, the British ship Nassau, 64 guns,
went down with 100 men.
On Christmas Eve, 1811, there oc
curred one of the worst catastrophes
recorded in naval history. The St.
George, 98 guns; the Defense, 74
guns, and the Hero, 60 guns, all of the
British Navy, were cruising off ths
Jutland coast, with Admiral Reynolds
in command. A storm arose, and all
three vessels stranded. Two thousand
officers and men perished, only eight
een escaping.
Her Majesty's ship Avenger, a steam
frigate, was lost on the north coast oJ
Africa, and all the officers and crew,
numbering 200 perished, Decembei
20, 1847.
The loss of the British troopship
Birkenhead is still remembered by the
okler generation. She wa3 an iron
paddlewheeler of 556 horse power,
bound from Queenstown to the Cape oi
Good Hope, with several detachments
of British troops. She left Queenstown
January 7, 1852, and on February 26
T
she struck the point of a submerged
pinnacle rock and tore her bottom out.
Out of 638 persons only 184 were saved.
Another disaster to one of the fines!
of Her Majesty's ships occurred on the
night of September 7, 1870, when the
iron-clad Captain sank in a squall ofl
Finisterre. Her Captain, Hugh Bur
goyne, and Captain Cowper Coles, hei
designer, together with 472 seamen,
composing the "elite of the service,"
perished. Only eighteen were saved.
The United States has been compar
atively free from disasters involving
great loss of life, the loss of the Huron
being the most serious of recent years.
The disaster occurred November 24,
1877. The vessel was on her way from
Hampton Roads to Cuba to determine
the latitude and longitude of the isl
and, regarding which some dispute had
arisen. WTien about seventy-five miles
from Cape Henrj-, and in the neighbor
hood of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina,
she was struck by a terrific storm and
quickly went to pieces. One hundred
and four lives were lost. The Huron
was a stanch and well-built vessel, but
could not withstand the force of that
memorable 6torm.
March 24, 1878, another British ship
was lost, the Eurydice, a training ves
sel. She was returning home from
the Bermudas when she foundered in
a squall off Dunrose Highland, Me ol
Wight. Her Captain, O. S. Hare, to
gether with Lieutenant Tabor and 300
men, were lost. In the following
August the wreck was raised aad takea
to Portsmouth.
May 31, 1878, the German ehip-of-war
Grosser Kurfurst was lost. This
vessel was one of a squadron of three
ehips bound from Wilhelmshafen to
Gibraltar. When midway between
Folkestone and Calais the Grofisei
Kurfurst ported her helm to avoid s
bark. The Konig Wilhelm pulled hard
apart at the same instant, and the twe
collided. The Kurfurst was struck
with the Wilhelm's sharp prow just
forward of the mizzenmast and sank
immediately in fifteen fathoms. Oui
of her complement of 500 men only 23
officers and 160 seamen were rescued.
Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, a
double screw iron-clad, was struck in
a similar manner off the Wicklo
coast after colliding with the Iron
Duke September 1, 1875.
Her Majesty's ship Doterel, six gun3,
Captain Evans, was destroyed by an
explosion in tha Strait of Magellan
April 26, 1881, and out of 150 on board
143 perished.
The disaster in the harbor of Apia,
Samoa, March 15, 1889, is still fresh in
mind. Six war vessels were lost, three
of them belonging to the United States
Navy and three to the German Navy.
The Vandalia, Nipsic, and Trenton
were the American ships, and the Eber,
Adler, and Olga were the German ships.
One hundred and forty-five lives were
lost.
The British torpedo cruiser Serpent
was lost off the coast of Spain Novem
ber 11, 1890. The disaster occurred
at a point twenty miles north of Cape
Finisterrec A violent storm occurred
and the vessel went on the rocks. There
were 276 persons aboard, of whom
only three were saved. The Serpent
was one of the best of the British
cruisers. She was making her maiden
trio when the disaster occurred.
The Power of Charming Snakes.
In India and, to a certain extent, in
other Oriental countries, the profes
sion of serpent charming is said to be
hereditary, and has been practiced
from remotest antiquity. The serpent
charmer possesses a power beyond that
of other men of knowing when he is
within close proximity to a concealed
reptile, long practice having, probably,
given them a fine sense of smell which
enables them to detect the odor emitted
by the serpent, even though it be so
faint as not to attract the attention of
the novice. These wily fakirs usually
ascribe their powers to some constitu
tional peculiarity, but it has beer
noticed that they generally pull the
fangs and extract the venom glands oJ
the reptiles handled in giving exhibi
tions. What power the human voice
may have in controlling the actions oi
these venemous creatures is uncertain ;
however, it-has been noted that ser
pent charmers continually talk, sing,
whistle or have an attendant play upor
some shrill musical instrument during
the time exhibitions are being given.
That these sounds have their influence
there is not the least doubt. The
"charmer" also exerts an influence
over these creatures with his eye, som
reputable travelers declaring that they
have seen fakirs control and govera
their poisonous pets by merely fixing
their eyes steadfastly upon those of
the serpents. St. Louis Republic.
Assuming the working ago to ba
from twenty to sixty years, and count
ing only male workera, 440 persons in
this country live on the labor of
every 3 00 workers
PERIODICAL PRESS.
INTERESTING FACTS AROLT THE
WORLU'3 NEWSPAPERS.
The United States Lead the World In
Newspapers China Has the
Oldest and Borneo the
Smallest Paper.
" 7T0:RE ttaa oae-third of tho
1 daily newspapers in the
-- Y -- world are published in the
United States. There are
1759 of them printed in this country,
which also has 13,404 weeklies, and
305 that appear periodically at no reg
ular dates.
New York State, eajs th London
Tit-Bits, has more papers than are
published in all the continents of the
world south of the equator.
Canada has ninety-four dallies, 576
weeklies and 132 monthlies. Latin
America including under this roo
venient term Mexico and Central South
America, where Spanish and Portu
guese are spoken has over 4500 news
papers of all 6orts, 200 of which ara
printed in other languages than Spaa
sh or Portuguese, almeet every "foreigi
tongue being Tepret? en-ted.
The newspapers of the British Isles
number 2272, London alone sending
out 496 of these. The monthly mag"
azines and reviews of all kinds pub
lished in the British Isles total up an
additional 1900.
Paris has twelve moro dailies than
London, New York, Philadelphia and
Boston combined. The Parisian papers;
of which there are 141 altogether; aaa
generally distinguished by having
larger circulations than those of all
other cities.
The largest circulation in the world
is that of the Petit Journal, which is.
eues more than a million eopies daily.
Germany' occupies the second plaee
with regard to tho number of daily
papers, having 973, besides 2630 week
ly and other papers. The oldest Eu
ropean newspaper still published is
the Post Zeitung, of Frankfort, which
dates from 1616.
The oldest newspaper in the world
is the Pekin Gazette, which has been
regularly published since A. D. 911.
It has now threo issues dailv fnol
9
merely editions), with a circulation oi
10,000. 'The contents are simply offi
cial information, imperial electees anc?
the like, which are communicated tc
the publisher by the functionaries ol
the imperial palace. The official doc
ments are drawn up with great care,
and are only published after such care
ful revision that they do not appem
until two or three days after the pub
lisher has received them. However,
he has time to publish an unofficial
edition, and also issues a manuscript
edition, which is the first edition, and
appears two or three days before the
official. There are six editors, so that
there is ample reserve in case of ab
sence of any of them for Government
reasons. That this is not a needless
precaution, in view of the etrict watch
kept on the paper, may be understood
when it is stated that during the one
thousand years or so tha paper has
been in existence seventeen of ita edi
tors have been beheaded. The Gazette
is exactly the same in form to-day ae
it was a thousand years ago. It is
four inches wide by ten inches long,
and each issue consists of aboufc eight
een leaves of soft thin paper, with
ragged edges, printed on one side in
Chinese characters, the whole inclosed
in a thin yellow cover aad lightly
stitched.
But, though China can boast of thie
ancient newspaper, it otherwise makes
a poor'show in the journalistic world.
For all its 400,000,000 inhabitants it
has only twenty-four newspapers, ten
of which are daily, and fourteen ap
pear at longer intervals. Only -levcn
are printed in Chinese, one is printed
in French, the rest being English.
Japan presents a Etfilimg coidraei,
having ninety-two dailies and 175
other periodicals. Nearer borne, even
the little inland of Iceland, with some
70,000 inhabitants, has the sime num
ber of newspapers as the great Empire
of China.
The newspapers of India are pub
lished in many languages, and it is
said that those in the native tongues
are more widely circulated and read,
in proportion to the number of copies
printed, than is the case anywhere
else in the world. A single copy will
servo a whole village and will pasa
from hand to hand until it actually
falls to pieces.
Persia has six newspapers, all in the
native language except one in Syriaej.
Persian newspapers' aa not Tainted
from type. When the reading natter
is ready it is passed to a scrib9, who
makes a clean eopy. From this s
beautifully written fine copy is made
by a handwriting expert, and this is
finally exactly reproduced by lithog
raphy. Borneo has the smallest regularly
published newppnpf-r in tin- wcn'M the
Sarawak Gazette, printed in English,
and t'rst indued in 1S07.
The newpfipirH of Autri:i hov n
p-reatcr variety in ihiw respect tlmn
those of nny other country, iin hi lin
in tho li-t Gorman, Tt-ilinn, IVrm-h,
Magyar or Hungarian, !r-Hh, I.ntin,
r i-Ti, Servinn, SI a vie nwi ITeVrcw.
The mof-t remnrkfiMe piipT in Aus
tria, find probably in th... world n re
gards languages, i th r,.m
pnrationis Litcrurum IJiiiu j -nf ,nn.
semi-monthly levies' of com jmrut iv
litcrnture, whi'li hn.s n-i.trihiitors in
every purt of the world, whose in tieh
aret 'ill printed in their native tongues.
Tho longest iiewj.;i. r tii!eine
Istenro is that of a Greenlsnd sheet,
which rejoicoR in th euphonious
defcifrnfttion of Arrrmen;.;,,! ! Nnlin
ginmtvnik SyHaramnias Sivih.
Tho mofct northern newspaper is f lie
Nordrdap, publiphed at Unnum i .-t'in.
The editcr and hi;: biniY nrh in u
email, tuif-roofed wooden liou.-e.
News oeniics by mail bont v.ul tho
Ilfimrnersteincrs jieuiaiVavw of tlei
world's events generally eieht dnyi
late, and as the paper is a weekly iti
news is often a fortnight old.
The ninft curious of all e-l.-iss jour
nals is Knrely the Beg,c,nr" .Tonrmil
Parirt, which in published daily nud
gives its eubferilicta aeoinpletH list of
baptisms, weddings nnd funemlsi to
take pluee (he Rami day. Beg'j.ln'j
LfctteT writers are provided for by u
special Heetion, wLieh gives 1hi ;ir
ivals nnd departures of persons rf
known charitable tdoneies.
My Lord Buys a Belt.
Amon, th'j rfiatinguhoiivd mrivuls nt
the Unmet Houai the past v,e--k uu.- ii
title.il Ihigl'shni'iu, Lord Til 1 iuui
BrookH, With Lady Broolr- nu l valet
and nmid necompaniiueiit, the Yn.'j
was "doing iiainerieu" in yrcat ot ,vl.
He i reputed to bo very wealthy iui l
eccentric, and on his way from Wash
ington, where Ii-- snwnt soma time,
came via th ( ;hes..je:iky and Ohio
line. Wbiln en route th bell on
the locomotive that drew bin train nt
trautud his attention, owin. t tha pe
culiar swoetncsH of its tari', and when
the train reac1t1 tha central Ktrdiun
his vnlet was commanded to gn to
the engineer and asot-rtitin t ))) i iou
of the bell and buy it. Of Kouiwe
the engineer had no voicii in tha imit
ter, and so informed the luehey, wh
reported to his lordship. Determined
to hive the bell, the 4eentri lord
visit od the Chesapeake nnd Ohi Hi
eialvi, and after quite, u Jot of 1 iokcrin s;
the railway men put a good priee on
the bell nnd sold it. The evtej,l
piece of brass -vf securely pn'ik'Nl ruel
sent, to his lodik.ip'n English address.
Ciriixrsti. inquirer.
H's a Nap You Weed.
A room without a couch of eomc.
sort is only half furnished. Life y
full of ups and elewns, and all fVtfc
saves the sanity of the mentally jaled
and physically exhausted fortun
fisfhtsr is the periodical good cry and
momentary loss of sonioirmo-.s on
th& upstairs loungs or the old fof i ir
tho sirting-room. Thfro nro time!
when ho rnmy of the thin is that, dis
tract ns could be f:tri ightenod out Rni
th? way niide clear it only on- hal a
a Ion 7, cornfoi tab's couch on who:-
bosom he could throw hbnseH, boot-.
and brains, kI retell his v. en ry fruw,
unmindful of tidies and tapestry, elo--
his fired eyes, relax the tvmiou of his
muscles and give his liarrassed mind a
chance. Telt minutes of this aarootic
when the head throbs, the soul year.n
for endless, dreamless eternal ref-.t,
would niake tho vision el:r, n -es
steady, tbe heart light and the star oi
hope shin again.- Hall'e Journal ol
Health.
A Gun ot Kerr.arka'3!3 Power.
A elistinctive progress :n gun making
is recordfed. A jfin has bec-n tested in
Franae, which, upon trial, ha,-, given
most remarkable results. It is f 6.3
inches calibr and ovr forty fieveu
feet long. To this enormous lor.gth
the wonderful initial vtloeity f iia
projectile i attributed. This velac-ky
reached the phenomenal figura of al
most 4800 eet a Kexml, fcuvanoiug c
previous reeordd. The guu is impaa
ticable for use on board ship, uudr
present condition?, but it iLir-V.'t
necessarily follow that it rciv not bo
used with advantage on fchore, espe
cially in seacoast defenses, wltre such
high initial velocities vouLl be greatly
'le-drable for the purpose of piercing
the armor of hostile vessels, r-rondsd,
cf courts, that a projetil ecnll be
found cf tmeh hardn&s as to pss
through th.2 opposing armor. Detroit
Free Prer.s.
Prinled on Spiders' Web.
A newspaper printed on the web
the sacred white spider ef C1,:-i i-
chronicled. It is a sheet llxli inehes
contains two column f matter, in
eluding an English story, and is excel
lently printed