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in 11 o n n o tip - gjgjg-- A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL-THE FEOPi J3 AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VIII. NO. 3 MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1893. SI. 09 A YEAR, Hir Samuel Baker, the African ex plorer, wants Iiuglaivl ioforra a flotilla : rams, cadi with a (-peed capacity of twenty-five knots an hour. . Since the famous earthquake in South Carolina the soil of Berkeley County has been much more produc tive. Professor Newman, of Cleiueon College, accounts for this on the theory that the earthquake provided better drainage than previously existed. George Vanderbilt has bought 20, 000 acres more of land in the "Pink Beds" district of North Carolina, near Asheville, and near the residence of ' 'BilF ' Nye. The Chicago Herald states that Mr. Vanderbilt will establish on his new purchase tho most complete and extensive game preserves in the United States if Mr. Nye can be kept off the premises. The Vanderbilts now own 50,000 acres in North Carolina. Joint-stock farming, by which larger agricultural operations can be carried on under one management than is pos Bible for the single-handed farmer, will probably be one of the future de velopments of our agricultural system. This is a practical way of reducing the cost of production. Doctor Edward Everett Hale has not .much patience with the idea that a clergyman must work six days over a sermon. He says : 'A sermon con sists of about 2500 words. I take a cup of coffee before breakfast and write about six pages that is, 650 words. In the morning I dictate to my amanuensis 1500 words. I am in tensely interested in the subject, and this takes only a quarter of an hour. In the afternoon I look it over and add 500 or 600 words, and the sermon ia done. In all, I haven't put my hand for over two hours to paper." Evidence of the most direct variety places the blame for the destruction of the British battle ship Victoria on the Admiral who went down with his ship, states the Washington Star. All the witnesses who testified before the court-martial at Valetta agree on that and every other material point and two of the officers heard Sir George Tryon confess the responsibility. In all great catastrophies there is gener ally an effort made to place the burden on a corpse, and when Admiral Tryon was first declared guilty many people, imagined that the accusation was due almost entirely to the fact that he was deal and could not, therefore, defend himself, but it is now certain that he blundered and did so with persistence that brooked no interference. The Textile World, in its semi-annual compilation of statistics relative to textile industries, shows that the growth of cotton manufacturing ha3 been greater in the North than in the South, and that there is no indication that the latter States are gaining at the expense of the former ; that there is a decrease of total productive capa city of the country, also a marked tendency towards the addition of looms out of proportion to new spinning; that there has been rapid yet solid growth of the knitting goods industry, and a tendency to finer goods ; and that there is a tendency toward con centration in well defined centres where skilled help in each line is most plen tiful. This would seem to indicate that in the location of new plants, the plentiful supply of skilled help is con sidered by manufacturers to be a more important factor than cheap reafc or power. Bays the Chicago Herald: '8ecre fcary of State Walter Q. Gresham, wiU go down to history as the first member of the Cabinet who became acting President in consequence of the ina-' bility of both the President and Vice President. On the same day in J uly President Cleveland and Vice-President Stevenson were both out of the country. Mr. Cleveland was on board the yacht Oneida, sailing out to find deep eea fishing off the coast of Massa chusetts. Mr. Stevenson was on the steamer Corona, taking a Pacific Ocean voyage from San Diego to San ta Barbara, Cal. Both were more than three marine leagues, or say, ten nd a half miles, from shore, which is Ae limit of the jurisdiction of the United States. It cannot be said they were the same as on United States soil, being on United States vessels and un der the United States flag ; for, if be ing on such a craft was the same as being on the land, they might have sailed around the world, claiming to be all the time in the United States, Per haps Mr. Gresham did not assume the duties of acting President, but that he was the legal acting President while Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Stevenson both were ten and a half miles from shore does not admit of a doubt." MONDAY'S STORM. Death and Devastation lantic Coast. Along At- The Seacoast Strewn With Flotsam and Jetsam. A dispatch from Blackville, S. C.,says 6evcral buildings in that town wtrc crushed, m;ll darh3 were washed away, country roads are impassable, the cotton cr p terrible damaged and tobacco yet to be harves'ed totally devasta'ed. In Waynesboro, Ga., the storm did great damage to the cotton crop and fenced were blown down. 17 DEAD BODIES FOUND. Savannah, Ga. The result of the storm is, 40 missing, fc-eventeen dead bodies found, one believed to be C. A. Ultneer, cashier Central Railroad Bmk. Eleven vessels at e wrecked in Savannah harbor and six outside. Jacksonville, Fla Hundreds of trees were blown down and scores of buildings were unroofed. St. AugustiDe reports ihe waters com ing in over the sea wall and, damaging residecces and business blocks. Lynn's Hotel was unroofed and badly drenched. About 33 or 40 yachts and small craft were badiy damaged or completely de stroyed. The wires are down in every direction from Jacksonville and coraoiu- nicat:on with the outside world abso lutely cut off. At Kernersville, N. C, fifty or sixty houses were unroofed, the Baptist church wholly demoli-hed, one person, a olored child, killed and several injured. To?al 1 ss $23,000. Crops suffered much damage. Savannah, Ga . (Later) More than thirty corpses have been reported so far. Fifteen vesse's on the hubor and off Ty bee were wrecked or Ladly damaged. More than thit number of smaller crafts are missing and are believed to have been lost. S:x unknown vess;?s are reported ashore on Tybee beach fr 3m the o itside Nothing has been heard from the steamship City of Sivanaab, many hours over du3. Tybcc Island is about wrecked. Had the island been washed away the demolition and destruction could not have bee much worse than it ia. The big Hotel Tybee U wrecked . Houses there were blown down, buried, washed away and otherwise demolished. The total damage at and near Savan nth will amount ti about $10,155,000. Wilmington, N. C. The three-masted schooner Three Sisters, with cargo of lumber from Savannah to Philadelphia, was wricked and abandoned off Cape Fear on the night of August 26th. Her commander. Capt. Isaac Simps jn, of Market Hoop, and mate, Johnson Heede, of Park avenue, Btltimore, were washed overboard and drowned. The names of the survivors are: William Simpson, stew ard, son of the captain; a passenger, John Washington, John Scott and another man, name not known." Th-3 brigantine Wastrow, Liverpool for this port with cargo of salt, went to pieces on Caswell Beach . The crew was saved, having swam ashore. They are now at Caswe'l Life Saving Station. An unknown three masted schooner is also reported ashore and leaking and showing signals of Dhtress on Sile Beach, two miles southwest of S-iutbport. The life saving crew have gona ti her assistance. Columbia, 3. C Your correspondent has just received a special which says Sullivan's Island is washed away entirely. King street is six feet under water. Several persons are drowned. The At lantic Coast line road bed is washed away for sev4 ral miles. A special from Port Ryyal, S. C, brings She startling information that fully 100 lives have been lost at Port Royal, Eeaufort and neighboring poin's during the storm1?. Over 25 of those were seen by the correspondent and his information was received about the others from reli able sources. Of the 100 persons killed and drowned, only six were white, th others being nrgroes. The negroes w re so frigh'ened and terror-strickened that many were killed and drowned by not leaving their cabins to seek places of sifety. Twenty per sons were drowned on Paris Island. No news has been received from St. Helena, four miles f " om Beaufort. It is believed ful'y 25 lives were lost between Port Royal and Seabrook, all negroes. Every house in Beaufort and Port Royal was more or less damaged. The Coosaw Mining Company loses $o0,000. The total looses ae estimated in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. Louisville Banks Reopening. Louisville, Kt. The Fourth Na tional Bank, one of the five Louisville banks to suspend payment during the recent p'nic, hns resumed business. The C ty Na'ional and the Merchants'National will also resume wilhin a few days. An informal meeting of the st ockholders of the K-ntucky National Bsnk will be held to discuss the matter of reopening that institution. In the early years of this century there were thirty-three tonjj of silver to one of olA circulation. The British school ot water color painting is deemed the best in the world. TO COIN GOLD BULLION. Philadelphia and San Fraucieco Mints to Be Worked to Fullest Capacity. Washington, D. C Secretary Car lisle ha3 ordered that the United States mints at Philadelphia, Pa., and San Francisco, Cal., be fully manned and the full capacity of both mints be utilized in the coimge of gold bullion. The Treas-' ury Department possesses from $85,000, 000 to $90,000,000 of g 4d bullion, which is part of the gold reserve of f 100,000, 000. Gold bars cinnot be used as cur rency, so it has been decided in the present need to co n the bullion on hand. This bu'lion will be coioed into $10, $5 and 2.50 gold pieces, preference being given to the first two denominations. The coinage capacity of the Phi'adel phii mint, it is stated, will be between $5,OGO,'00 an! $6,00000 dollars per month. The Sau Franc sco mint will also be utilized but uafortunately ne rly all the bullion possessed by the government is in the East. Therj are $23,000,000 of gold bullioa in the Philadelphia mint, $15,000,000 of it being in one vault, where it has remained untouched for fifteen years. Acting Director Preston visited Phila delphia Saturday and completed arrange ments with Sup rintendtnt Bosbysht.il to begin work at once. The Treasury U now paying out gold coin all over the country and as a consequence stands more iu need of gold than heretofore. THE LABOR CONGRESS. Herbert Burrows Tells, a Pitiful Story and Draws Tears. Chic ago, III. At the session of the Labor Congress, Kite Field read the first piper before the Congres3. It was writ ten by Lady Emilia Dylke, of London, telling of the frightful condition of avo-ra- n in the lib.r market of the United Kingdom. Herbert Burrows, a repre5entative of the English Social Democratic Federa tion, led the discussion which followed. He tol J of women who worked 12 hours a day for $1.25 a week in the rail and chain fore3 of Cardleigh Heath, aDd there were many damp eyes in tha hall when he said thit they hang the cradles ontdning their little babies over the forges to prevent the little ones from fret zing or starving at home for want of care. He demanded equal pay for wo men who do the same work as men. and declared the woman question must be settled iu labor circles before the labor question can be satisfactorily settled. Mr. Burrows was vigorously applauded. The "Fairy Circles" in Pastures. The pasture freaks usually referred to as "fairy rings" or "fairy circles" are generally composed of one or more circles of talk green grass, separated from another circle equally as luxuri ant by an intermediate strip of earth destitute, or almost destitute, of vege tation. A second class, and which is by far the less numerous, ia a "fairy circle" of healthy -looking grass which gradually enlarges year by year, al ways in the form of a perfect circle. Brand says that some English investi gators ascribe the phenomenon to the effects of lightning, they being most frequently noticed after thunder storms, and that this opinion ia strengthened by a close examination of the roots and blades of the dead-looking grass surrounding the green circle, which seem to be of a scorched color and extremely brittle. In a footnote he adds that the "vulgar" (meaning the common people) suppose them to be the paths traced by the fairies in their dances. Josiah Priest also be lieved them to be of electric origin. He says: "One very singular effect of lightning is what are commonly called "fairy rings." These are of two kinds. One kind is a round, bare path, about a foot broad, with green grass in the middle, and seven or eight yards in diameter. The other is a cir cle of the same breadth, of very green grass, with a bare or scorched center. These are generally " observed after storms of thunder and lightning. The second kind of circle, without doubt, sprang originally from the first, the grass, which was burnt by the light ning, growing afterwards more fresh and green." But modern science has done away with these old opinions, giving Brand's and Priest's "electrical theory of ori gin" no more credit than they did the opinions of the "vulgar," who con sidered the rings the dancing-grounds of the fairies. The name "fairy ring" has, indeed, been retained, but their cause is now attributed to the spread of the spores of a species of fungi which proceed, by an annual enlarge ment, from the center outwards ; or, in the other species, a gradual en croachment upon the center of th cir cle. St. Louis Republic. The prison population of India is only thirty-eight per 100,000 popula tion, or less than half the ratio of Great Britain. France has 6,455,000 farm owners, who hire 11.794.000 laborers. HATCHING FISH. AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT AT THE FAIR. Machines In Which Thousands of Fish are Hatched Daily Dur ing; the Season The Pro cesses of Incubation. PE3LDE the north entrance of the Government Building if the United States fish-hatching exhibit. The water ever stirs the little globular eggs which half fill the big glass hatching machines, but the thousands of World's Fair visitors who each day crowd around the ma chines might watch them from now un til the end of the Exposition without seeing a miniature trout or whitefiBh burst from the egg, raise to the top of the hatching can and fall into the glass nursery below. The hatching season is over, but the exhibit is just as inter esting if not as complete as when 100, 000 yellow and white perch were be ing brought into existence each day. Near the entrance to the building the sign that last month ' lured sightseers to examine the incubating process still proclaims that "fish are now hatch ing" to every one who enters the north ern door of the Government Building. That sign goes a long way toward mak ing the display effective. The visitor has been told that the fish are hatch ing, and, as he passes the long line of jars filled with constantly moving eggs until he reaches the tanks filled with tiny fishes, he goes away firm in con viction that he has seen a whitefish, a shad or a carp, as the case may be, hatched by the Governmental process. The last fish were hatched a month ago. The Government would will ingly have supplied the spawn and had a bona-fide display of fish hatching throughout the Exposition period, but it was found impossible to obtain the eggs. So John A. Day, who has charge of the exhibit, put his wits at work and soon was making fish eggs at a tre mendous rate. In fact, enough were made in one day to supply the Ex position hatching for six months. He made his eggs out of resin. For white fish he made the eggs a rather ligh yellow and the exact size of the real egg. He made shad eggs by coloring the resin a darker yellow and making the little globes considerably smaller than those to imitate whitefish spawn. Before Mr. Day had finished his work with the resin he had made eggs for 11 of the fishes hatched in any great numbers by the United States Govern ment. Before Mr. Day had to resort to artificial eggs he had hatched 2,000, 000 yellow and white perch in the Government Building. He emptied the hatching machines into the north lagoon and the 2,000,000 little World's Fair fishes were sent out into Lake Michigan to battle for life alongside cf those which had come into this World by the natural process. The eggs for the perch hatched at the Government Building were ob tained by the Government "spawners" located at the hatching station at Putin-Bay, Ohio. jTwo of these spawners go out in a fishing dory. The net is thrown overboard and one hauls it up and captures all the female fish which become imprisoned in the net. These he hands to his companion, who robs the fish of its spawn. The eggs are put into a bucket filled with fresh water and as quickly as possibly im pregnated. Then the water is changed every half hour until the hatching is reached. The spawn is then dished into the hatching machine with dip nets, the water is turned into the machine and the eggs give the Gov ernment no further trouble until they have been broken open by the fish. There are any number of different styles of hatching machines. They are all constructed on practically the same principle and the arrangement varies with the kind of fish to be hatched. For most varieties of fish the Government experts have found the glass-jar machine gives the best satisfaction. It is composed of a large glass jar with a lid which screws down tight. This cover is pierced by two glass tubes, one of which extends to the bottom of the jar. The water is run through the long tube into the jar, which is half filled with the tiny eggs. The water coming into the lower portion of the jar keeps the eggs moving all the time. The motion of eggs is the great trick of hatching fry. Should they keej still for a couple ol hours they will become glued together and in a day would begin to decom pose. The constantly moving spawn remains in the jar until a pair of eyes appears through the thin covering of the egg. The fish forms on the outside of what corresponds to the yelk of a fowl egg. The first thing visible are the eyes, then the tail appears and the fry keeps this swishing around until i breaks the egg. Then the fry crowds its way up above the eggs to the water in the jar and is eventually carried through the overflow tube to a larger jar, called by the fish-hatchers, the nur sery. There it is nurtured by placing food ground to minute pieces in the water and when it has become large enough to eat larger pieces of food, it is placed in another tank where it re mains until it is loaded in a shipping can of special design and sent to some river or lake where fish are scarce. When the fry first leaves the eggs there is a curious sao attached to the under portion of its body. In this sac the fry carries its sustenance for the first few days of its life. This sac grows smaller and smaller as the fish grows until it entirely disappears. Then the fish begins to take its per manent form. It takes but four days to hat:h a shad if the temperature of the water is high, but whitefish take from ninety to 120 days under the same condition. Trout hatch in thirty to 120 days and perch in fifteen to thirty days. The rest of the fish-hatching exhibit is almost as interesting as the hatch ing process. There are all kinds of hatching machines. The first a com plicated machine that kept the eggs moving by dashing the buckets in which they were hatched up and down in tanks of water. Then there are huge funnel-shaped affairs that are used on ship board. They are so ar ranged that no matter which way the vessel careens the hatching machines will always remain perpendicular, Then there are models of the floating hatcheries which were used before the permanent stations were used. The old-time fish hatcheries were large barges furnished with hatching ma chines. Models of the present Gov ernment hatcheries show how fish cul tare has advanced. The buildings are large and roomy, and the chimsy wooden hatching machines have given place to the light glass jars. The cases in which the spawn is shipped to distant hatching stations are also shown. The eggs lay on wire netting in thin layers, while the box is thickly lined with moss, which, when dampened, keeps the eggs cool and prevents their hatching prema turely. Another interesting feature of the exhibit is the numerous ways in which ingenious minds have arranged ways for the finny tribe to get down rivers where the current is swift. In some of these devices the fish are re quired to swim zigzag, while othert are straight, smooth chutes over th dangerous water. Chicago Record. Hung at ftie tiirdle. In the Middle Ages at the girdle were hung the thousand-and-one odds and ends needed and utilized in every day affairs. The scrivener had his inkhorn and pen attached to it, the scholar his book or books, the monk his crucifix and rosary, the innkeeper his tallies and everybody his knife. So many and so various were the ar ticles attached to it that the flippant began to poke fun. In an old play there is mention of a merchant who had hanging at his gir dle a pouch, a spectacle case, a pun niard," a pen and inkhorn and a handkerchief, with many other trink ets besides, which a merry companion seeing, said it wa3 like a haberdasher's shop of small wares."' In another early play a lady says to her maid : "Give me my girdle, and see that all the furniture be at it; look that cizers, pincers, the penknife, the knife to close letters with, the bodkin, the earpicker, and the scale he in the case." Girdles were in some respects like the chatelaines not long ago so much the rage among ladies ; but they dif fered therefrom in being more useful, more comprehensive in regard both to sex and to articles worn, and, when completely furnished, more nostly. It is partly for this last reason that we find girdles bequeathed as precious heirlooms and as valuable presents to keep the giver's memory green after death. They were not infrequently of great intrinsic value. One of King John's girdles was wrought with gold and adorned with gems; and that of the widow of Sir Thomas Hungerford, bequeathed in 1504 to th- mother church of Wor cester, was of green color, harnessed with silver and richly jeweled. Cham bers's Journal. . At the moment when horses have taken a back seat in this country cam els have come to the fore in Australia. It is said that five lines of traffic have been already opened up and are in regular operation there. Two thou sand camels are in use daily. It is not necessary to carry any food for thes animals, as they are able to subsist on the coarse grass and shrubs where horses or bullocks would starve. KING OF SIAM. THE YOUNG AUTOCRAT WHO RULES A QUEER PEOPLE. His Sway Is Absolute A Brilliant Costume The People Are All His Slaves Peculiarltes of the Siamese. THE King of Siam is a monarch who has more absolute power over his subjects than the Czar. Few men in this world have as much to make them feel big and important, but for one in his po sition he is a very much civilized young person. He is small in person. His head is crowned with a golden pyra mid of jewels, rising in circular tiers, diminishing as they go upward, until they end in a long, pencil-like point, which extends nearly two feet above the forehead of its kingly ownor. His body is clad in gorgeous coat and vest, heavily embroidered in gold and jewels, and in place of pantaloons he has the rich brocaded eurong of the Siamese about his loins and waist. It comes down below his knees at the front, and it looks not unlike a pair of fancy knickerbockers. Below thess are white silk stockings, and his feet are thrust into jewel-covered, heelless slippers, pointed like the shoe of the Turk. The whole makes a costume brillant and grand. He is a pleasant looking fellow, and his olive brown face is plump and un wrinkled. He has beautiful liquid black eyes, a broad, high and rather full forehead, and short, straight, black hair. Un der his rather short and half-flat noes there is a silky black moustache, and below this the lips are rather thick, and the chin plump and well rounded. His hands and feet are well made, and he is, all told, a good specimen oi Siamese beauty. He is the ninth son of Maha Mongkut, the last King o! Siam, and he was picked out of a family of eighty-four children to be placed upon the throne. He has thirty-four half brothers and forty-nine half sisters. Looking at him it is hard to imagine that he is the sacred ruler of from 6, 000,000 to 10,000,000 of people, and it is hard for an American to appreciate his absolute power and his holy dig nity. The people of the country are his slaves. He has the right to call them into his service either with or without pay, and all men in Siam are forced to give him either, the whole or a part of their services during the year. His word can throw a man into chains or put him to death ; de prive him of his property or rob him of his daughter. He taxes the people as he pleases, and these taxes are so heavy that at times some men have to sell their wives and children as slaves to enable them to pay him. Still, his vaults are full of treasure. Siam has no National debt, and he has an in come of more than $10,000,000 a year. He can spend tens of thousands of dollars in cremating a dead wife or in establishing a petty navy. Still, this King of Siam is the most progressive the country has ever had. He is far in advance of his people, and he is doing a great deal to civilize them. Before his second coronation in 1873 all natives who approached the King had to do so on all fours. They had to raise their hands in adora tion to him and bump their heads on the mats before him. The King did away with .11 that, and he ha3 intro duced the American handshake into his reception of foreigners. He gives receptions to foreigners, and he speaks the English tongue, though he never does this when noted foreigners have an audience with him. He has brought the telegraph and the telephone into Bangkok, has established a street car line, and lights his harem with electric lights. The King of Siam is a Buddhist, and he was for some time a Buddhist nriect as is the custom with all men in Siam. Every one is expected at some time to enter the priesthood, and this royal monarch, with his millions of treasure, his score of wives, and his $10,000,000 a year, once shaved his head and nom inally gave up his crown and his harem to wear a yellow cotton scarf about his waist and to go fasting and ( praying. The Siamese priests are picturesque, as well as devout. The priesthood is useful to married men. A man can be divorced whenever he likes by enter ing the priesthood for a month or so, Nobles do not require any such for mality. The great event in the life of Siamese is the function of having his hair cut. This is sometimes a great event in the life of an American young c-an also. On the top of a Siamese baby's head a certain lock of hair if preserved. All the rest of the head is shaved, but this lock is kept sacred until he reaches the age when he officially passes from boyhood to man feood. Then off comes the lock. Th relebrations attending the hair cut ting of the present King lasted thre days. The ljuceu is not far from twenty years of age ; she rules the harem, and f-he is a very pretty Siamese girl. Hei complexion is a light brown, and her oily black hair, about two inches long, EtHnds straight up and is combed back ward from a fair open forehead. Kh has beautiful eyes, wears diamond ear rings and lmn a dinmoud pendant at her neck, and her fingers are covered with precious atones. She smokei cigarette, as does also the Kirijj, and she chews the betel nnt, making hei teeth as black as jet aud her lips stick out. The Siamese say that any dog can have white teeth, but that it ie only those who are rich enough to af ford the betel nut who can havo black ones. The debtor class of Siam afford a great contrast to all thin gorgeousnesn. They are stripped, and, chained to heavy logn, arc compelled to work ps lilaven. The interest ou money is bj high in Siam that when a man once gets iu debt the most he can possibly hope for by the hardest kind of work is to pay the interest on what he owes. This has discouraged industry and has encouraged the practice of allowing women to do the work. Man, being proud and ambitious, soon tires of in dustry indulged in for its own sweet sake. The temples and palaces of Siam are structures of complicated magnifi cence. Witnesses in the courts are tortured in very ingenious waye. Certain classes are prohibited from testifying. They include drunkards, gamblers, ex ecutioners, beggars and persons who cannot read. When they whip a man they stretch his skin from his head to his heels to make the blows effec tive. The sacred white elephant for which Siam is famous, if he ever did amount trO anything, has gone all to pieces. He is at present a mangy, scraggy, wild-eyed creature, with nothing whit about him but his ears, which seem to have le2rosy. nis keepers are dirty, he is not bound with golden chains, and the only thingroyal about him is his bad temper. San Francieco Chronicle. How Chinese Are Educated. The Chinese school children have in stilled into them at an early age habit? of hard, steady study. At the age of rive a boy begins hi schooling. At daylight lie rises, and after dressing as quickly as possible, he starts br;akfast!enB to school. He is given a task and after it is completed he is allowed an hour f'r breakfant ; again, later he has an hour for luncheon, but he is at his study nearly twelve hours a day, seven dnys iu th' week. All this time when he is not reciting his lessons, he is studying aland at the top of his voice. He ii under the eye of hib master both in school and on his way to and from school. Th'j lad is taught rudimental astron omy, physics, and natural history, but greater stress is put upon writing aud hi literary studies. "A Thousand Letters," a poem, i the stil ly that forms the backbone of his literary education. Iu it are taught the duties of children to par juts and ail such matters. Whatever the btudy may be, history, classics or science, every lesson is learned and repeated word for word. Chicago Inter-Oceau. The Rise o? Mica. Mica fills the interstices of modern progress. A few decades ago we wera seeking practical use and market for the output of mica already found ;now we are seeking new mines to supply the multifarious uses to which mica can be applied. Thus the law of ne cessity changes in its relation to all things. Mica is now as essssntial to the va rioususes of electricity as this great force is necessary to human progress. In all appliances for electrical lighting aud power the most important recip rocal agent entering into their mechan ism is mica. All armatures are built up with insulation, whether for dyua mos, motors, generators, or transfor mers. When at night one looks upon the marvelous splendor of the White City, crowned with a halo of light and festooned with incandescent drapery, such au entrancing sceno has been made possible by mica. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Slaughter family, of Texas, are said to be the most extensive land owners in America, their combined ownings amounting to 500,000 crm. From irif2 to 1690 the accounts of the New Netherlands were kept in wampum, beaver and raccoon skins. The total number of colored troops in the United States army during the Civil War was 186.017,
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