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VOL. I. SALISBURY, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1887. NO. i. Bear It In Mind. Well begun" may be uhaH-ouf But beginning is not ending; ',' Great successes ne'lr are won ' By only wishing and intending. "Start" is good, but "stay!' is better, . ".Start" alone ne'er won a race;. - Start and stick" is sure prize-getter, wStaying powers" takes foremost place. Broad and deep lay the foundation, Bat be 6ure you count the cost; Or you'll rue, in deep vexation, Treasure spent and labor lost. Bold beginner, mark his folly! " Soon his zeal and means diminish; Rash or craven coward wholly, He began, but could not finish. James Yeameo. BILLY'S RELAPSE. Two little girls stood at the foot of the Uairs leading to the elevated railway tat ion. at Canal street at 6. o'clock P. M. jThey were dressed exactly alike in white IressQs, with blue sashes tied wound i ,- ... - heir J waists. They were waiting for apa. Train after train, stopped at the tat ion and -a steady streanx of home- vard-bound' feet came .pattering down he stairs. A big, portly man, who had topped at the station io light a cigar, ooked at the children for they were very winsome. and said: . "Are you waiting for somebody, little -iris?" 'Yes, sir," replied the eldest eagerly. 'Me an' Bcultfli is waiting for papa. He always cnies.at (i o'clock. We come to neet hira every night, and " 1 "He's going -to bring-me a gra' big jpeach' an-twp Jackson balls, ain't he, fattie?" interrupted the smallest child, ler. blue eyes opening and her lips pari ng, with pleasureable anticipation "Maybe he failed off the big bridge.. )id he?" - . The golden head began to droop and he little lips to tremble. The biir man -milcd and said: 4 'Oh, no,' I guess not; He'll be along very soon." Then ho took from his pocket a handful of loose change, gave the children each a cent, lifted them successively to a level with his bearded chin, and kissed them. Then he re sumed his cigar and his homeward way. I'he clock iu a jewelry store near by ticked off fifteen more weary minutes, but the familiar face came not. A bare- i i icaded w.oman ran quickly around the comer. - 4 'Hasn't your father conic yet, girls?-' said she cautiously. "Xo'm, he ain't. En I hain't got my pea,ch," replied Beulah. 4 'Well, never- mind. Perhaps he'll conic on the horse cars." . Withmany lingering looks at the rail way station the children were led away up the street. The teapot was simpr-' on the oil stove- and tkc .slipper table y.s waiting" whcii they arrived at the Slat, j Hunger made the children forget the libscnt fiiiher for the time. Beulah' was placed ini the high chair and Mr?. Hotels proceeded tcTeut the home-made io ii. : . . - . "I j want peaches first," said "'-Beulah impatiently. vo, no, myenuu. jreauanu miiK monies first, and peaches last," said the mother. 4 'I -73 on t like bread and milk;itfs nasty," said the child, drumming im patiently on her plate with a spoon. "I shall have to put my little girl to bed without her supper if she does not behave herself." Bjulah sulked awhile. . Then evidently making up her mind to get through a disagreeable job quickly, sho stopped chewing on her thumb and began shov cllingithe bread and milk so rapidly into her mouth that she began to choke. Mrs. ltogers slapped her on the back be tween the shoulders arid a piece of crust tley out of the child's month half way across the room. The absence of. the father was forgotten in the excitemjent of the moment. Beulah" Was snatched from her chair in a twinkling and pressed to her mother's breast. "When the dan ger was over and the clouds .were clear ing away Beulah stammered out between her staccato sobs : ' . "Ma-ma II I want m m y peaches!" - " Beulah was ladled out a larger share of the peaches than she was entitled to, but before she had eaten half the fruit her head began to drofi, like a violet at strasct. Hattio undressed herself and put on her nightgown, of which achieve ment she was very proud, while Beulah lay in sorrow's haven and was rocked into dreamland, while Mrs. " Rogers sang a little song, keeping time with the swing of the rocking chair, to the effect that Mr: Rogers was shaking a dreamland tree. Even while she sang Mrs. Rogers wondered drearily whether .her husband wasj not engaged in some more important business. Perhaps he had been run over by the cars, perhaps he had been sun-" struck. But then, she thought, why should I worry? lie has been de tained at the store, most likely, hud will be home in a little while. Despite, her attempt at cheerfulness Mrs. Rogers trembled as" she tucked the blankets around her children, and a tear drop fell upon Bulah's rounded 'cheek, which made thot 'jd stir uneasily. The teapot was pouring out a steaming pro test against being left so long on the Btove when Mrs. Rogera returned to the kitchen, id "she took the pot off the stove. After the'dirty dishes had been washed Mrs.. Rogers set the table for two, cut up some more peaches, and began her vigil at the window waiting for her husband. She had often told him, jokingly, -that she could hear his footsteps two blocks awav and he had made a laughing denial - But tonight it seemed to her that the quick fall of certain boot heels upon the pavement would have been recognized half a mile away, so acute was her hear ing. The night wore on; the gaslights flickered down the long street like atorch light procession; the trucks had long since ceased their rumble over the cob blestones. Eight, 9, 10 o'clock came and the bell was not rung. The air was getting chilly. Mrs. Rogers wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and fell asleep, from utter weariness. At about 5.30 o'clock a man of 30 years had stopped at a candy stand at the corner of ,Ann street and Park row and bought five round piecc.,of candy called Jackson balls. At a st;td near the big bridge four big blushing peaches were placed in a paper bag and handed to him. While standing in front of the Coroners' office waiting for a truck to pas3 by, a very solid hand came down upon his shoulder and a hearty voice sa luted him with: "Hello, Billy, old boy 1 How in thun der are you? Haven't seen you in a dog's age. Where do you keep yourself nowadays? Married, ehl and got two little children ! Well, -well, how pater nal you do look! Let's go and have a d r in k. You ain' t a Prohibitionist, I hope ?' ' 4 'No, but" 4 I 4,Oh, nevermind the buts. A of sherry won't hurt you." glass And, yielding to the persuasion of his old friend, Tom Barker, who had been over on the: Pacific slope for the past five years, Billy went into the saloon and plighted his friendship in a glass of yellow wine. Now, it happened that Billy had been a very dissipated fellow before his marriage. He had gone on sprees for a week at a time, -but during the five years of his wedded, life not a drop of liquor had passed his lips. That one glass of wine fired his pulses with the old intoxicating glow. The wistful faces of his children and the horrible suspense of his wife were forgotten in the magic spell. The two nien drank deep, drank oft. They visited all their old time resorts, and became very effusive and affectionate in-a maudlin way. At 3 o'clock they were in a Harlem saloon, treating all hands and shouting in such a disorderly way that the saloon i'eper was obliged to put thcnl LTURa1 sidewalk. Then they I ipuc.-y. Here the cone;: both the men out on the p they sang a duet in Very tones about how they marei Georgia, while the conductor iJ his belief that neither of theiL. jr p vfen outside the Fourth ward in jJjififc. Daybreak found them on TwentV-third street in a very sorry plight. Ton stood with his feet wide apart and jjsanin; against a lamppost. Billy stood 'of him with his forefinger raised, 'Le's play S'n'ny sc'l, Tom. sc'ij I'll be t'ch'r. Ar' y' on V felT' J.'' Tom blinked spasmodically and swayed from side to side like a hen on a clothes line in a windy day. His hat fell off and rolled into the gutter. Tom held up his right hand. " 4 'T'ch'r, kin I g' out?" "Wha' for?" ' "Hat fell out w'nd'r." . "Ye'll both avyez go afore th' Jedge in th' mornin' tiv yez don't move on," said a b;irly policeman, who struck both' men. some smart; blows across the back with his clulxaijd pushed them ,toward Broadway; At 7 o'clock they were sleeping oil theeffects of the spree in a Bowery lodging house. When Billy awoke at 6 o'clock that evening with a headache that threatened to crack his skull and a throat which seemed to be lined with lime, he was overcome with remorse. He knew that his children would be waiting for him at the foot of the stairs. In fancy he could see Beulah's wistful, blue eyes scanning every face as it passed by. He would have started immediately, filled as he was with contrition, but Tom persuaded him to have one more 'parting drink. This drink was supplemented with an other. Then Tom suggested that Billy should try 1i shandygaff. To put a whiskey sour and a shandygaff into jux taposition usually is disastrous as was proved in this case. Tom's fertile brain suggested other liquid mixtures, and the spree continued all day, and ended in both men being locked up in the Tombs. The next morning Tom and" Billy were brought before Judge "Duffy, who delivered a little lecture on the evils of intemperance, advised Billy to go home to hii wife and children, and discharged them. Billy felt the disgrace of his ar rest very keenly, but Tom cheered him with the remark, that no one had recog nized him. Billy wanted to start for home immediately, but Tom per suaded him to go to a hotel, from whence his clothes were sent out to be cleaned and pressed, his high hat was neatly blocked, and his face shaved. While waiting for his W It,T IJIIP fttf rout V TH be ihe, ol clothes Billy chewed cloves and other aromatic spices all day for prudential reasons. :- At 5 o'clock Billy came out of the ho tel looking much the same as usual. His nerves were a trifle shaky, and dark cir cles environed his eyes. He and Tom went to the candy stand at the ' corner of Ann street, w hell Billy bought five more Jackson balls. He also purchased ten peaches each one of which' was. lar ger, rosier, and . more luscious than the ones he had bought two days previous. . 44 Will the children be at the station?" said Tom. "Certainly they will; but I can easily satisfy them. The thing that bothers me is. What can I tell my wife!" 4 4Oh, fake up a yarn about how you fell into the hands of wicked bunco men, and ' that after enticing you to their den? they drugged you with a glass of ginger ale. She has confidence in you, hasn't she?" - ' "Implicit." ' 4 4 Well, it wont do for you to destroy that confidence by .working the honesty racket. Of course you don't mean to do so again, etc., and Yankee Dopdle; nosen sible man does. The end ' justifies the means, my boy." i Billy hesitated about taking Tom's ad vice, and while he hesitated the train stopped at Canal street and the two men stepped upon the platform. Tom ran to the head of the stairs. Looking down he saw4wo little figures, hand in hand, looking upward. "Billy," said he, "if you will take me to a convenient woodpile and hammer me with an oak tree you will do me r great favor." Here Tom used his hand kerchief very freely and muttered some thing about "that cussed catarrh." The twro men shook hands, and Billy ran down the stairs. He had taken but two steps downward when Beulah saw him and cried out, while she danced up and down with delight:. 4 'Is ye got my peaches, papa ?" Yes, papa had the peaches and the Jackson balls, too. Such a time as there was, to be. sure ! . Such bulging cheeks and merry gurgles of laughter ! And such an utterly crushed and shame faced man never walked up Canal street before carrying two children in his L arms. - Unly's wile neara tne iaugnter and the farniliarootstep and .her heart started beating a wild tattoo. She ran down and opened , the door. She saw how-Billy trembled; she' marked the dark circles around his eyes and his averted head. She had seen him that way before. "Billy," said "the, reproachfully. "Well Kitty," stammered Billy, 4 'the bunco men - " . -"Yes, yes, Billy, I know all about it. You have been out with the bunco men before. But I wouldn't cultivate their acquaintance if I were you, Billy." This was said with such au appealing look, such a moist eye, and such an evi dent appreciation ofthe whole situation that Billy was struck all of a heap. His wife's conduct in never asking for a bill of : particulars '.nor nagging him with.reproaches burned such a big hole in his conscience that he thinks lie is well fortified against future assaults of the enemy.- New York Sun. Mdeys Copying Unman Vices. Dr. Jamais, in a meinour sent to the Academic de3 Sciences of France, states that monkeys, unlike other animals, tin. less ltis the humau animal, readily ac quire the habit cf taking morphia. When monkeys live with opium smokers, as.they do in the eastern countries, wherehe habit is more prevalent than elsewhere,- and become accustomed to the medicated atmosphere, they acquire a taste for the pipe.. One particular monkey, it is said, would wait for his master to lay down his pipe and would then take it up and smoke what re mained. If tfot allowed to do so for several days it would fall-ints a state of depression and inactivity which would disappear as soon as it was allowed to "hit the pipe." j I - . - Turning Death Into Life. Death Vafley is to be turned into an ostrich ranch. . A Mexican has fourteen well-grown chicks that he hatched out there in his little ranch near the borax works fro in eggs brought from' the oo neighborhood Of Los Angeles. The eggs were buried in the hot sand, and of nights the ground wras covered with blankets to retain the heat it absorbed during the day. The ranch is about 220 feet below the level of the sea. Vir ginia (Ne v.) Enterprise. ' A Small Boy's Good Advice. "Say," said the editor's smart little son, as he entered ii store, 4 'do you keep knives?" " - ; ' :; : "Oh, yes," replied the storekeeper, "we've kept them for years." "WeH," returned the boy, starting for th.e door, 4 'just advertise, and tben you wouldn't keep them so long;" Printer's Review. Fearful Responsibility. Old. lady Conductor, I hope there ain't going to be a collision. Conductor I guess not. Old lady I want you to be very keer ful, I've got two dozen eggs in this basket. Texas Siftbgs. A RICH REDSKIN. An Indian Who is.r Building t Railroad Out West. The Wonderful Career of An "Inventive - Aboriginal. A recent letter from Newton. Mo., ic the Kansas City Journal says: Had any one predicted a quarter of a century ago that an American Indian would build s railroad he would have been considered a fit object for a lunatic asylum. But to-day the people of Newton County; 3Io., a county adjoining the Indian Ter ritory have witnessed a scene such as man never before beheld. Matthias Splitlog, a half Cayuga and half Wyan dotte Indian, born in an Indian village in Canada, today at Neosho drove - the first spike for the Kansas City, Fort Smith and Southern Railway. This di vision of the Kansas City, Fort Smith and Southern railway was chartered the 8th of last March under the laws of the State of Missouri, with a capital of $3,000,000, and now there are about 33 miles graded and ready for the iron.' Mr. Splitlog has furnished the ."sin ews of war" out of his own ample for tune, and is backed by heavy capitalists to complete the road, and before the. 1st of next January he will have the cars running from Joplin, in Jasper County, to the town of Splitlog, in McDonald County, a distance of about thirty-five miles, and Matthias Splitlog, the mil lionaire Indian, who is probably the "rich est man of his race, will henceforth be known all over the country is the only Indian railroad man (at least the first) in the United States or in the whole world. The occasion of driving the first spike on the main line of this new road was a matter of more than ordinary interest to the people of Neosho. At 3.15" there were about one thousand people assem bled at the point where the main line crosses the 'Frisco track. After music by the Indian band from the Territory, and selections by the Neosho band, Mr. Charles W. Smith, Auditor of the con struction company, held the spike in po sition, and tin four bold strokes Mr. Splitlog drove the spike home into a carefully selected whiteoak ,tie. Cheer a '.j. cheer was given for the road, Matthias Splitlog, Neosho and the enter prise, after which many came to the track to look at the spike. Mr. Split log wielded the sledge with a familiarity and precision which indicated that he had used his sledge with good effect when he built his steamboat on the De troit river. Mr. Splitlog was orn in the . year 1813, and while a boy was apprenticed to a carpenter and millwright, and, al though his wages were only 7 per month, young Splitlog thought he was getting rich. He imbibed a love for machinery and inventions which has made his life a useful and. eventful one. In the year 1842 young Splitlog joined the Wyandottes, who wrere the last of .the Indian tribes then in Ohio. In 1843 Splitlog came west with some of the tribe, and found, after his arrival at Westport landing (now Kansas . City), that he only had 50 cents in his pocket. He induced an old Indian to go his se curity for the price of an axe. With this axe he cut cordwood for the steam boats at 25 cents per cord, and, after paying for the axe, which cost $2, he soon saved enough to buy srpony. . ' About the year" 1864 he married Eliza Barnett, a grandniece of Harry Jacques, the old Indian who went his security for the price of the axe. Her father was head chief of the Wyandottes when he died in 1S38. Her mother was a part Wyandotte and part Seneca Indian. They have a family of five children four sons and one daughter. Splitlog was never idle, and in most of his under takings he was successful. At an early day he " built a mill near Wyandotte, ' which was first run by horse-power and afterwards by, steam. Sp'itlog's mill was a success and was long an old land mark near Wyandotte. He began to speculate in real estate, and, although he can neither read nor Avrite, he has been one of the most successful specula tors in the neighborhood of Kansas City, and is to-day worth over $1,000,000. Many" interesting, incidents could, be written in connection with his useful life. , . -. ; - 0 . A Youthful Financier. ' A young financier, aged 4, who was given 5 cents for every mouse caught in a small trap, finally asked leave to spend the proceeds. The nurse was told to go wherever he led her, to see what he proposed buying. He passed all the toy and candy shops, but paused before a hardware store, . and pointing to" the j window exclaimed triumphantly: . "Ibtiy more mouse , trap, Fanny 1" Epoch. . I Wanted to Chop It , Customer (to. waiter, who has just filled his order) : Did you say this was a chop? - . - . ' -. v ... . . Waiter: 'Yes, sir. Anything the matter with it, sir? Customer : Nothing much. But say, when you are coming 'round this way .again please bring the axe. Life. Bashful Bridegrooms. Av justice of the peace in Saratoga coun y recently joined a pair who were so em barrassed that they hardly knew what :hev were doing. The man wore a white trawhat which he whirled on' his fin- I ?r before the ceremony began. When :old to stand up he jumped before ." the justice with the greatest alacrity. For i few moments he did not know" what to do with the hat, but finally found his way out of the difficulty by putting it between his knees. .This was too much for the bride. ( With the handle of hr parasol Ghe caught the hat, pulled it from its position and then, abashed at her audacity, dropped hat and parasol to the floor. The same justice tells a story of an other couple who came to be married. The man was dreadfully puzzled, and without realizing the act pulled a cigar from hi3 pocket and began twirling it around. When that portion of the cere mony was reached where bride and groom join hands, he happened to have the cigar in hi3 right hand. What to do with the cigar he apparently did not know. The justice paused a minute and then again directed the pair to join hands. By this time the .poor fellow's embarrassment was painful. ' He gave one agonized look at the justice of the pqace and stuck the cigar in his mouth. Before the ceremony could be conclud ed the justice had to take the cigar from between the man's lips.- Rochester Herald. Balloons in High Altitudes. The recent attempt made by some French aeronauts to reach a great height above the earth has not been productive of any particular scientific results. The balloon in which the ascent was made reached an altitude oi over 20,000 feet without the occupants of the car ex p3riencing any ill effects, except a tend ency to faintness on the part of one of tkein. When abaut 12 years ago a simi lar attempt was made, and the height of 25,000 feet' was reached, it was with fa tal results to three out of the four aero nauts. The success of the ; present ex periment is explained by the allegation that the difficulties due to the rarefac tion of the atmosphere only begin at an altitude of 23,000 or 24,000 feet. This view seems supported by the fact that in the Himalayas and the Andes hdights of about 20,000 feet have been on several occasions reached without any incon venience. In such cases, however, the ascent has always been gradual. The ill effects experienced in balloons'are pos sibly due to the suddenness of the change London Spectator, i How Peas are Canned. The canning of green peas," which is now a busy industry in Delaware, is an interesting process. The peas are shelled by hand and then fed into the hopper of a separator, -which divides them into three grades ; then they are put into copper kettles, where they are steamed just enough to wrinkle the outer skin and intensify , if . possible the vivid green of the pea. They are then filled into cans, which arc placed on an iron tray and dipped in a trough or tub of boiling water, which runs into the cans filling them to the brim. This water contains whatever of a preserva tive nature i3 put into the cans to . pre serve the vegetable. The cans are then wiped, sealed and packed in iron cages, each cage holding 248 cans." These cages are put into air tight steam ket tles where the cans are subjected to hot steam under immense pressure. for about fifteen or -twenty minutes. The peas arc then ready for market. Chicago Tribune. A Chinese Anaesthetic. A curious anaesthetic used by the Chin ese has recently been inade known by Dr. U. Lambiith in his third annual report of the Soochow Hospital. It is obtained by placing a frog in a jar of flour and" irri tating it by prodding it. Under these circumstances it exudes in a liquid, which forms a paste with a portion of the flour. This paste, dissolved in water, was found to possess well-marked anaes thetic properties. After the finger had been immersed in he liquid for few minutes it could be pricked with a needle without any pain being" felt, and numbness of the lips and - tohgue was produced by applying the liquid to them. Boston Journal. Rat and Snake. , Charles E. Jackson of Halifax, Fla., has a pet snake that catches rats. Jack son heard a racket in a cupboard, and opening the door, found the snake had captured a rat and was trying to swal low it nose first. The rat was alive and strenuously protested against going into such a hole, using his feet to catch hold of the floor or other surroundings. The snake, wiser than the rat, raise'd him a foot or two in the-air,rand in that posi tion continued the swallowing process, dropping down to the floor to rest oc casionally, until the rat was swallowed. Principle and Interest. "If you haven't read that book you promised to,? said a lady severely to her son, 44you show great lack of principle.w "Oh, no, mamma," . was the calm re ply. "Not lack of principle; only lack of interest," Eposi, - SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.' It is reported that missionaries in the Congo region have ' discovered that a beverage made of bananas is a preven dve of malarial fevers. j Electricity, under favorable circum stances", has been found to travel at the rate of 288,000 miles per second. The majority of inks are made ' from copperas and an infusion of nut-galls. Solutions of aniline blue or violet are U3ed for writing purposes, but on ex posure to light and' air they fade quickly. ' ' Late calculations from compared ob servations show that Alcyone that one of the Pleiades around which the sun and the whole solar system were once thought to revolve - is about 954,000, -000,000,000 miles from us, a distance that it would take light about 163 years to travel. Th e veteran Russian anatomist, Wenzel G ruber, who recently celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his appointment iu the medical school at St.. Petersburg, -has superintended the dissection of 30, 000 bodies and has written 540 memoirs and pamphlets on anatomical subjects. During the five school years the di rector of the Royal Deaf -Mute Institu tion at Copenhagen has made semi-diurnal measurements of the heisht and weight of the children under his .care, and he deduced a number of coincidences between variations in their weight and those in the temperature of the air. " Great interest was taken in the paper read by Mr. Edison during the rebent session of the American Association fdr the Advancement of Science describing his new invention for obtaining elec tricity directly from fuel. The descrip tion of the experiments that lead up to the invention were as interesting as the invention itself promises to be valuable. Another of the new diseases which follow in the wake of civilization has been reported from Berlin, where two telegraph operators have been affected. The finger nails have fallen out, one after another, though the persons have been otherwise in good health. The curious affection is ascribed to the constant jar and pressure on the fingers produced by working the Morse key. . It is well understood tiat a cold sen sation reaches consciousness more rapidly than one of warmth. The exact time required to perceive each has lately been measured by Dr." Goldscheider, of Ber lin. Contact with a cold point was felt on the face after 13.5, on the arm after 18, on the abdomen after 22, and on the knee after 25 hundredths of a second." From a hot point the sensation was felt on the same surfaces after 19, 27, 62 and 79 hundredth of a second respectively. This great time diff erence has an im portant bearing on the theory of skin sensations. A Very High Church. 44The very highest church in Europe," according to the Bundner Tagblatt, Vis the pilgrimage chapel of St. Maria de Ziteit, above Salux, in- the canton of Graubundcn. It lies 2,434 meters above the sea level nearly 8,000 feet high above the forest, near the limits of per petual snow. It i3 only open during the summer time of that i or, as the folks thereabout reckon, from St. John the Baptist's Day to St. Michael's Day and is used only by the Alp herds, who remain there through the' summer with their cows and goats, and occasionally by hunters in search of the chamois and marmot. All the inhabitants of Salux climb up thither on Midsummer Day to assist at the first mass and hear the first sermon of the year, and there is also a crowded congregation on Michaelmas Day, at the last service of the year. From time to time a few stray pilgrim? from the Graubunden Obcrland and the Tyrol find their way here. The second highest church proTSably in Europe, that of Monstfin, also open only in the sum mer, belongs to Graubunden. At our visit the hale old preacher had five for eign tourists for his congregation. Origin of "Bogus." The word 4 'bogus" is of Georgia orir gin. Wm. A. Bogus was a Georgia land lottery commissioner who issued fraudu lent land rights. The word "bogus" is defined by Webster as "spurious ; a cant term originally applied to a counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything coun terfeit.". The newspapers associated this definition with the name of the ; fraudu lent commissioner, and since then "bogus" has been the universal Ameri can term for anything worthless. It is applied more particularly .to money. Detroit Free Press. Origin or Coal. 3L Grand 'Eury has propounded a theory that coal . was originally a liquid generated by the decomposition of in ferior vegetation in an atmosphere highly-charged with ' carbonic acid.- The carbon of the jelly-like mass thus formed, after passing through various transfor mations into asphalt, petroleum, " bitu men, etc, finally assumed the form of coaL The author cites various facts connected ' with the occurrence of coal which, he thinks, are batter explained by Ms theory than by the usual one." Tis all the same, 4 As I look back from this long distant ye- If on on dav the wintry winds blew drr r i itlewcTf ri Or perfumed breeaes. brought cheer " Tis all the same. So, when I trace the errors I have xnada, 9 And reckon - the good parts that I Lav4 1 played, I smile as into mist they merge and t ada ' 'Tis all the same. v And when I count what I have gained aa.3 lost, . . And find that I have paid too great a cost For baubles that have hi my way been tossed' Tis all the same. So now, though I may darkling glances rattt. Or bask in Fortune's smiles and favors sweet. When I have coursed far down life's currezJ fleet, Tis all the Sam. Tin all the same, - When this brief hour has passed away, If cloud or sunshine lined the winding way? And yet, proud heart, tis hard, so hard td say, " Tis all the same." - a-mC auu- C. M. HargeT Jn thty occa - - lefa. AUilUU assemenK rri JaboratetVe s It would seem Daiuralfor a ca . to walk with a lumbVVnjj gait, i ; A baker may havcik shop V th, west, but Ms work is &hwy9riain jf east. io . Tr 4V. a Tr. similarity between 'a flash of llt "with n.nd A bit tit nnfnindrl nnoiin . vsa0U- It is said that 2G2 pairs ol twins k. ' born in Chicago last year. This may grU count for the squalls oq EajkQQit' 'What is tVia man charged withf , asked the jvugk! 44With whiskey, your honor," replied the sententious polics manl " There are 78,000,000 ,acre3 ofcora. . planted in this country and about thai number of corn achers on the feet of its inhabitants. ' Fond wife Would yon believe that -Mrs. Eccles next door, speaks seven lan guages? Fond husband Certainly I would,4 she's got tongue enough to speak flftv. - . . -V A New England man has just had a patent granted to him for "an electric switch." Tt is expectod that all the boys of the country will rise up la vehement protest. . i One youngstersWe have a nice cano py top to cover our carriage. Other . jouagster-That' j -f' chattel mortgage on ours thatv -Ti--V covers tt, -pa says. .. L ig uscd'7 as a' . It is'recorded of a youngfj new fall cos visited one of the RothscMldslTn anJ with , , , . . ...I same beaver, was so proud of his malachii buttons that he insisted upon Leiyet9 which them to his host. The latter ldLiUinery and them and said : 4 4Ycs it is a jiretfccts. Striped I liav alwava liked it; 7 havft e worn anu a - curious piece made of it in the next roo Caught in the Itm;., ! , ik so s A ship once fairly "feUset, and str'mtt held during a gale, is completelyy 1", : yond control ; and no real good can'V accomplished by the severe tasks eC warping and continual shifting iof ice anchors, which, only exhaust the crew and render thenTmore or less unable t take a thorough advantage of a favora ble situation fehould one occur' Parry," however, under these circumstances, did not hesitate to employ his crew's to their utmost at the hawsers and sails, plainly acknowledging that "the exertions made by heaving at hawsers, or otherwise, ar of little more service than the occupa tion they furnished to the men's minds tinder such .circumstances Of difficulty; for, when the ice is fairly acting againsf the ship, ten times the strength and l genuity could in reality avail nothing. But the greater majority of Ice naviga tors are now decidedly of the opinio that it is best to yield to . fatej and re serve the men's strength for palpabla efforts. Still, in these besetments, tha mind of the commander must be ever active; for new events follow each other so rapidly, that a favorable chance for rescue is passed before it can be fairljr weighed in all its aspects. Swiaf .Cross. . - ' Just What lie lleant A citizen of Detroit j who probably in-, tends to run on the next county'. ticket . met a farmer from Romulus on Michi gan avenue yesterday and held put his hand and said": 4Ah, fine rain thUl" ' 4 Well, I dunno." ! 44Do the crops lota of good." - ' "Itwill, eh? What crops r 'Well, er you know won't it help the crops f i' . 44It may soften up the dirt so . J caa dig up a few stumps. w "Exactly exactly that's what meant.- Beautiful rain for softening beautiful.' Good-bye." The Least Intoxicating CoL Yerger and several of Ms friend were talking about the intoxicatb qualities of the various liquors. ' ' " "la my opinio, genuine chamagne h less intoxicating than any other liquor," remarked' Ilostetter McGinni. "How do you make that out?' -'Because so few people can afford ta irink it." Sif tings. , ' ' .. 1 n ,7 t i - V ; , v 1
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Oct. 27, 1887, edition 1
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