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l)c loncsboro Ccribcr. JONESBOR.O, X. C. The British Government proposes to i bu l l a very extensive barracks at Hail- j fax, which, ia case of var, would be oc cupied by troops on their way to India by way of the Canadiaa Pacific Railway. The site for those barracks has already been selected. The farm products of Vermont this season will realize $30,000,000, which, declares the New York Commercial Ad xtrtuer, is the best years showing for the Green M ountaia State farmers since ihn war. Imoroved methods of culture we largely credited with the prosperity Musical therapeutics is a subject that is attracting considerable attention rauong physicians and philosophers in London, where an attempt is being made lo introduce music a3 a medicine .for the sick in the hospitals, and several Amer ican physician are also studying the idea. Herbert Spencer was recently consulted, in the matter, and gave it as his opinion that exhilarating rather than solemn mu sic would produce the be3t results. The report comes from the village of Llanon, Cardiganshire, Wales," that the rector cf the parish, the Rev. William Herbert, lately entertained 500 of his parishoner3 at a "tea," in commemora tion of the recovery of his eyesight in hi3 ninety-fifth year. He is the oldest clergyman in Wales, and had held the living at Llanon for half a century. He became blind six years ago, and resigned hischargc. Lately he underwent an op eration for cataract, .which proved en tirely successful, and he is now able once more to read the service ia his church. In excavating the Casa Grande ruins inEastern Arizona with a view to repair ing the walls, Messrs. Stouger & White .find the cement foundations as hard a3 when they were laid, which was, per haps, 1000 years ago. The mystery is, .marvels the New York Post, how the builders, with the materials to bs found in the desert, were able to make a cement as hard a the celebrated Portland. The oldest writing discovered in the ruin3 is the name of "P.. Weaver, 1831," which was evidently scratched by that famou3 trappei. long since dead, who lives, likt Daniel Boone, in tradition. 'Banks in. the residence districts of this city," states the New York Observer, "are becoming very numerous. These banks do a very large business with women. One of them, the Fifth Avenue Bank, isknotmas "The Women's Bank." Of its $5,250,000 of deposits, over two thirds represents the money of three thousand women customers. It is said that the bank finds tnis business so profit able that it actually pays one hundred percent, annual dividends, audits stock is worth more than that of any other bank in this city, with the exception of the Chemical and the First National." It is said that a few years ago some of i the members of foreign legations in I Washington gave the police no end o! ! f trouble. Thsy knew that they could not be punished for any ordinary misde meanor, and frequently raised a row oa the streets. When arrested they had to be released as soon as identified. Fi- , ,. . , , , nauy tne ponce trica a new uoage. i ney had a few sluggers loafing around the station, who made it a point to pitch into the foreigaers, aad give theaa black eyes aad bloody noses. This quieted the riotous member3 of the legation, and for some time past they have given the po lice very little trouble. The Department of Agriculture of Victoria, Australia, sent circulars to the head teachers of all the State schools outside of the inetropolitai area a short time ago asking for their vie .vs as to the desirability of giving instruction ia agri culture to the children attending thosa schools. Of 12 IS teachers eighty-four per cent, ate favorabje to the introduc tion of agricultural lessons in the rural schools, aad thirty-four per cent, of them already have some acquaintance arith the theories of agriculture. Ia fifty-two cucs school children already care for gardens or trees in the school re- . serve?, aad the majority of the scholars attending 3G9 other school have garden . plots or assist their parents at home ia gardening. In 1C1 schools the pupili have regularly made collections of wild flowers, weeds, grasses, insects and but terflies, aad these collections have been used ia obiect lessons. IVORY NUTS. A MaTEKIL. FltOM WHICH MAN Y li II 1TO XSARK. 3f A i E. jjow the Xnts Are Grown in South America" 1'qaatorlal Kesrion Principal Uses ot Vege table Ivory. Do you know of what material the buttons oa your coat are made? . Well, perhaps, if you did you would never recognize it in the raw, for in four cases out of five it is a material vulgar i!y known as vegetable ivory. To the trade it is the ivory nut. Down on the pier of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany will be seen long rows of sacks nfade of jute, which beat the appearance externally of being filled with potatoes. These are stacked at the head of the pier in the open air. There is no danger of them being carried away, for they are as heavy as lead and not extremely valu able, as they are. Potatoes, would not remain in that exposed position untouched a single night. The ivory nut. however, is valuable onlv when it come3 from the hands of the manufacturer in the button or the ornamental state. The ivory nut is grown ia the equa torial regions' of South America. The principal point of shipment is Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama. Like the banana, the ivory nut ii perennial in its native clime, and may be found in all stages from the bud to the ripened nut at all seasons of the year. The nuts "row in irreat bunches of about fifty. incased in a shell, sis are chestnuts in the burr, though the shell outwardly re sembles in roughness the surface of a pineapple. The entire cluster of nuts in this shell is as big as a man's head. This shell comes off easily after the nut3 are ripe. At this stage they fall from the tree which are fourteen or fifteen feet in height and are packed pn the backs of natives to the points of shipment. The nuts are grouped together within the covering somewhat like chestnuts in the burr, which nuts they resemble in shape. They are about the color of an unwashed last year's potato, and as hard 13 an elephant's lusk. The grain of the ivory nut is white and even of texture, so that it is easily ;arved, sawed and worked into any de sirable shape. The. ivory nut tree is not farmed or raised aitifically, as is the Danaua tree, but grows in its natural tate and after its own manner in the forests, the same as the hickory or tho chestnut or walnut. About 4000 tons of the ivory nut are brought to this country annually. Ow ing to the cheapness of the raw material there is not more than $150,000 per innuia involved in the traffic. Perhaps 1500 persons in New York are employed in the handling and manufactures of the nut and its products. "The principal use of vegetable ivory aow," said a broker who deals in the article incidcatly, "is the manufacture f buttons. A good miuy people probably think the buttons oa their spring clothes are male of rubber or bone and so they used to be. Now. bowever, vegetable ivory is the principal j thing used. The nut iu its green stats j is filled with a milky substance, whic h , hardens unon rinenin" int: n. finrv prpn 1 , , , , ' i it . 4 t . , . . , . i tins state it is sawed into slab3 of the necessary thickness and turned into but tons by machinery. "Unlike rubber and bone, ivory is not affected by heat or cold, and is .not liable to break in the eye. The manu- iscturers are located ia a number of Eastern cities, though the raw material that comes to this country is usually anded at this port. The cost of manu facturing is the principal item of expense. About eighty per cent, of the cost of the manufactured article is in the labor. "In the earlier stages of its use vege table ivory was principally known in the suape oi ornaments or various kinds. H you rememaer, some years ago it was extensively handled by train men and "street fakirs, who peddled basketsful of little trinkets made from the ivcry nut At present, practically the whole product of the ivory nut goes into buttons. "One of the peculiar features of the material ia relation to buttons is its sus ceptibility to coloring matter. It caa be colored anything that is desired by the manufacturers. You will notice that the artistic tailor makes use of this to great advantage ia his adaptation of but tons to garments. Ia the Scotch tweed , suits of light aad mottled textures, or garments of any color whatever where solid button 13 used, oae ia perfect har mony with the material may be selected. The varieties ia shape aad color are al most countless." The mits, when scraped with a jenif e. emit a rich odor, similar to what is known as the Brazil or cream nut. Ly ing there, stacked up oa the' pier, they are interesting if only a3 illustrative of the great variety of extraordinary things brought to New York from various parts of the world and the ingenuity of those who have cleverly adapted them to the uses of mankind. Xexc Tori Telegram. FUN. It's the Irishman who wanU his mem cry kept green. Yale Record. The man who ride3 a wheel oftea comes to whoa. Xeu: York Journal. A man may be laatern-jawed and yet his face may never light up. Xeio York, Press. A distant relative The rich old uncle who won't speak to you. Xeo York Journal. When you feel it is all for the worst, it cheers you greatly to be told it is all for the best. - Visitor "You say you are here as the result of sowing wild oats. What did you raise?" Prisoner "Checks." Punch. Mamma "Why, Johnny! why do you call grandma grandma?" Johnny "Coz papa said he wai an old woman." Harpers Bazar. Jack "That is a beautiful dog Diaaa Scadhunter leads on the street." Tom "Yes. It is trained to point eligible young men." Pact. She "Why do you alwtys refer to music as a woman?" He "Well, you couldn't coaceive of music a3 existiug ia silence, could you?" Life. Husband "You look very happy to night, my dear." Wile "Well, why shouldn't I? I made twenty calU to day and found everybody out." Xeio York Journal. An Austin (Minn.) cow is the proud yet puzzled mother of a young animal that seem3 to be half calf and half bear. She ought to start a board of trade with it. Chicago Tribune. Yon Crussher "After the encourage ment you have given me, to refuse me is a a bitterly rude thing to do." Laura "And to accent you would be a still more bitterly rued thing." Pittsburg Bulletin. Tommy "Papa, I was playing with the sickle this morning and I fell down and cut a finjrer." Papa "Did vou cry?" . Tommy "Nope, but Willie did." Pana "What did Willie crv for?" Tommy "It wa3 Willie's finger I cut." Brooklyn Citizen. Cholly (with unwonted enthusiasm) "By Jove! I see that some fellow has introduced a bill into the State Senate making it a niisdearueaor to scad aaaoy irg letters to anyone. . Dsuccd clevah law, thr.t. I'll hive my tailor seat up for six months, by Jove!" Life. "Rosin is a veryliae violinist." "He is, indeed; bat there is something straagc about his muslc.il ability." "There is?" "Yes; he plays first riddle in the orchestra, but p!a7 scciad :i 1 i at home, aal his wife isn't much of a musiciaa either." -dtps Col lien. Girls of Fifty Years Ago. The old Bostoa "Farmers' Almanack for 1S36 thu3 describes the farmer's gill of that day "Give me one of your ruddy farmer's daughters, who thinks more of the vellow harvest's abundance thaa of the spring posies a good, buxom couatry lass, who kaows how to boil a potato, and caa tell a mealy chenaago from a blue nose; one that can make good brown bread and is never afraid to be seen in the dough. Our genuint farmer girl is modest, but has no atlects tion. She affects not to be delighted with the effiuvium of a marigold nor to be disgusted at the sight of a cow. a caa make butter as well as ex. t. She can ride a trotting ponj without being itrapped on; and, though she never cut a pigeon-wing or whirled ia the mazy cotillon, yet she caa leap a fence like a foxhound and dance good old Rural Felicity to a charm." CMcagy Poit, A 'Human Freedom League" has been organized in Philadelphia, which jims to establish a new holiday for the cation, to be known as "Liberty Day." It Intends no disrespect to the Fourth of July, but asks for another day devoted to liberty in all phase. A SEA LION HUNT. UOW THK MOXA1ICIIS OF T!IC OCEAN Aitt: CAITUUIID. An Interesting Chase Alter the Uazc AmphibiansCatching .Monsters With a "Kiata Exciting anil Also lroUtab!e Sport. It is, perhaps, a fact not generally known that San Francisco supplies all the zoological gardens aad menageries oi the world with sea lions, but such is the case. If the lioas are wanted for their oil alone, or the skins, a rifle ball ia the ear, or near it, bring them to the try-pot. If hit anywhere else, a ball has no more ef fect ujxa them than it would have oa a errizz!-. But the hunter who desires liviag sea lions is compelled to go about his task with the utmost circumspection. Various devices have been tried. Stroag nets have been-made and set where the lions would become entangled ia the inc3hes-and so roll the nets about them as to make it possible to take them. They hive been cut ofl from a return to the water while oa shore aad geatiy drivea back to a point from which they could be transported to some s-italIe place where they. could be left until it was ascertained whether they would live in. confinement, but such driving over heats the bulky beasts, and the thresh ing about which thev do so bruises them as to make them sick and kill them. Louis J. Ohnimus has caught many sea lions for various institutions, aad his years of experience with the- animals at Woodward's Garden aad elsewhere have made him an authority in respect to them. Mr. Ohnimu3 long ago discov ered that any abrasion of the skin o! sea lion?, whea removed from their natural home, would certaialy cause fatal sick ness. His many experiments also estab lished the fact that young sea lioas can not be raised in captivity. The late II. B.Woodward offered a standing reward of $300 to any one who should raise a sea lion, and very many persons at tempted the task, failure being inevit able. In one instance a sea lion pup lived for six weeks after capture, but worried coastaatly uatii death relieved it. The ordinary price of living sea lions, which is $350, indicates something of the difficulty --ia takiag aad kctpiag them. The methods of capture u?ed by Ohuiraus are very simple aad successful, althouglf not unattended by danger. lit merely lassoes the beasts and uses ex pedients to prevent their knocking them selves about while confined. When an order is received for one oi more lions Ohnimus hunts up the half. dozen long ropes of an inch diametex and so worn as to be soft, which he uses, sees that the runuing nooses are ia work ing order aad he is then ready to proceed to the chvse. By preference he goc down the coast ia a schooner, which lands the hunter?, to the number of five or six, with their ropes and other tnings. The schooner then stands of! ai l along the shore, far enough away not to frighten the lioas. The men conceal themselves until the animals have regained coafldeacc aad i have resumed their ordinarv habits. Be fore long some of the beasts crawl tc places oa the rocks aad others scuffle along up the beach. If possible, the huaters select oae oa the beach, aad if necessary, wait for hours uatil oae of good size gets far enough away from the water to eaable the mea to cut o3 his retreat from the sea. His enemies thet, rush at him with loud yells aad generally succeed :ao coafu3iag the huge bulk o! blubber that the lioa loses all sense aai toddles about helplessly. Whea a point has been reached withia fifteen or tweaty feet of the lioa, the lasso coil i deftly thrown, aad as it settles down over thi Leal aad neck of the lioa, a twitch ol the rope throws the greater pari of the loop to the ground oa one siie of the animal or the other as is desired. A flounder or two aad the flipper oa the side" to which the loop has beca twitched is seen to be withia the loop. Thea the line is tightened aad the loop 1 seen to have parsed about the beast over the shoulder aad uader the flipper. The rope ead is Landed to aa assist ant while another lasso is thrown over the head of the lioa aad by a similar process engages the other flipper. The ropes are pulled ia opposite directions aad the lioa flounders about, roaring aal gnashing ia a vain eSort to reach iu tor mentors. In the water the beast irate: at a rate estimated at tweaty miles ac hour, but oa land an nri.-. - CtiTt maa can avoid d.iager from the ta'u c, the caragci bcasti. As sooa as is securely roped about the aad flippers a third lasso at a fT0r opportunity catches the prey So-j; tail, sometimes by throwing but more oltea by spreading i: n saad aad waitiag until the hae U0l his struggles chances to flirt hU flippers withia the snare. A fourth r is then taken aad applied to the ua the lion ia a manner similar U tht i neatioaed, whea the four roots xrt i3 place aad the running cooses adj The men holding the ropes nv to the tail of the Hoa take pocticai ia. front of he animal, while those hoM;a the ropes over the shoulders ire reqj to go behind the beast. All of the repe are then pulled tight aad the liaa itself iacloed ia a trap from whicati, is not oaly no escape, but in whi:h it a uaable to tumble about to aa extent likely to abrade its hide, tear its tip. or do other harm. After the roping Is complete! adv. men have rested a little and albrej their prey to quiet down oxcxtu tie final act in the scene is done, which is to ;et the lion into a box in which be cu be transported and properly Lvilcd. Mr. Ohnimus takes with him men! Urge, strongly made boxes thic'&IjUael with gunny bagging. After scccnag LU lioa ks described a box of the proper siie is selected aad carried to the sjk.: wbrt the hampered lioa is lyiag. The bcx n open oa one side, and while the rope tea pull ttelr lines tightly the box is iarertei aver the beast and held ia po;U3a It Dnc or two of the men while the othrn push planks underneatn both box til Uon. When a sufficient number of boxrii have been worked iato poitioa thcjir: firmiy tied in position, and the box U then turned over and the botrd L-!t nailci down to serve a a carer. Ic tie turning process the lion usually nils himself as the box turns, but soo.ctici3 the fit is too snug and the beait is en able to turn. After all is snug the tzb of the boards last used are tc1 oZ, and the sea lioa is ready for shipajs- Usually the box is shore 1 btotht ks and towed alongside of the $zzr, where it is hoisted almrd and C if. for San Francisco. ThcIIozs af:::kls; boxed up seem to realize the L xk& ntss of their position, and s on ccat straggle. The soft lining of lis t;i prevents injury t the valu1):? cav.x-!. and unless aa accideat occurs th; !i:2 i soon oa its way Id its inl-.-a li- f chascr. San FrinzLc ,V it. Doel Between Truck Driver. Two trucks, oae driven by a bc tua lad the other by a short one, net a Maidca Laae, New York City, the odtf afternoon. There was a third track rf the curb. The street is narrow zl thrs was no room to paA. "I've jri risht of way here," hoa:? 1 tat urivcr. ?You'rc a liar," sho man. "I'm going up i.ii!. right of way myself." "I've rot a load ua :i:v short man retortel. The long maa sal 1 ." : !- csr Cach refused to back L. v vn sl the other paw. They trg-' 1 n minutes and then the f "ior: r.ia r: his truck, took oil his out up his sleeves. The long :-a oil his truck, too, aad m ie ti? preparation. Neither ppe The short n;aa walke 1 un man and billed him on the cir long maa rcspoaded with u h-1 1 TV ca the mouth. Thca they tV. it - other bill, baag, irnib. T;.t man's lip was cut open; th-r 'Z nose was bleeding nd !- rvr. swellei. At the end oft 5 -1 . i , k cuas ngj. eje w,- and one cheek pufei oit. minute the short man Lcl I :- above his head and said: "I've Lad enough." These were the Crst T f after the raea hal got of thr :r- The loagnaaa dropped his Lad. " little maa pulled down h:s shir:-- nut on his coat nd rot oa -i Thea be backed his team with tii -track rv'i of the war. The b-J drove ahead without a wcrd, ! crowd that had watched the ;t: c- the short maa for kcaw, eaough. Clieajo .Vrvs. Rev. If. J. Parage, of Z" his congregation that the P-j ii now the stronghold cf Ua'-
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