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m mm n , TcriY THURSDAY BY PUBLISHED EVER I; J. STEWART, Editorand Proprietor. SALISBURY,. 0. PRICE OF StfBSC KIPTION. ?e i!oo On Year Six Months .50 ' Advertising Rate, by Contract, Reasonable. ; ; ' rutered in the P55t SJi.tmry oond-clau'mittAr. An indication of the spread of English "as" a language it given by. the fact that it has just been chosen for use the re cording of important treaty engagements between Russia and China. ' Paris morals are getting even worse. Last year out of 26,0 malefactors 16,. 000 were under twcr.ty years of age. The corruption in this wholesale way of the youth of a great city is the most tin favorable Sign of the many unfavorable signs given by the French capital. .. The ' moral reliance of Fraucc has long been in the provinces. i Probably 1000 steers are shipped alive out of New York every day. TLeit landing place on the other side, as a rule, as Deptford, London. Ships carry all the way from fifty or sixty head up to 600 each. If a hundred or two are carried they arc kept on the upper deck. If from 400 to 600. are carried, then two decks, and sometimes three must be de Voted to the cattle. f In the opinion of the New York Teh gram, the "new Republic of Brazil- has harder problems before it than had these United States one hundred years ago. The world is so much more closely knit together now by commerce that it is dif ficult not to interfere with the interests f foreigners resident in the country and Jiose non-residents whose capital is in- ed in, Brazil while the provisional Irernment is establishing of a new or- lofthmgsin a parsely settled, widely "extended countny7&he should, be treated with natience. W Latest British emigration returns show that Great Britain continues to be the European colonizer par excellence. Eng land has. delivered herself of 104,225 emigrants during 1890; ; Ireland comes ticxt with 64,972, while Scotland the land which founds empires on a peck of atmeal contributes . 25,371. This ) .Jjiakes Great Britain's total 254, 5G8 out- !putfor 1&S9 compared with 279,928 for 1888. Of foreigners making use of Brit ish ports for embarkation; 83,608 left Great Britain in 1SS9, compared with 113,230 in 1880. Of the total $f all na tions, three -fourths selected the United States as their new home, Scotland send ing so large a proportion as 17,593. The low point to which the price of hides has been forced through the de pression which has existed of late, seems to have tempted sellers to try to find a jnew market for their: merchandise. Dur ing the past few weeks about 80,000 to 100,000 dry Western hides have been shipped to Europe, in order to try that market. How this new departure ;vfal "Tobler. Vn use r a hoblemati- use, our new teadi- elt 1 f The Sultan of Turkey has sent three .hairs from the beard of the Prophet by a, special messenger as ' a - present to the town of Aleppo. Wherever the messen ger appeared during his journey he was receivtd in state, and the j Governor of Aleppo came to meet him before the gates of the town. According to the Cloverdale, (Cal.j I2eveSUt it has been ascertained that out of 185 cases of ; successful s wind ling throughout the State by traveling sharp ers in various ways, by which people ol the rural districts were robbed, some to the extent of thousands of nine or ten were subscribers i county paper. dollars, only of readers of The Supreme Court decides that the law requiring citizens of Idaho, when about to register, to swear that they are not bigamists or polygamists and that they are not members of any order that practices or encourages plural marriages, is constitutional. The decision was ren dered in a suit brought to test the con stitutionality of the, law, and will greatly aid in the suppression of Morinonism. The distress for food in some parts ol Italy just now is so great that the au thorities order the burial by night in se cret places of animals that die of dis ease, fearing lest the starv ing peasants may disinter them and use them for food. This is the heavy price whih Italy pays for. maintaining a monarchy, with its costly appendages of armjf and nnvy into which the life blood of! the country is drained. Appearances indicate thaf the United States, leading England, will become in 1890 the greatest iron-prodv eing country in the world. The "pig" produced in 1889 -was above eight'and a half million tons, an increase of nearly a million and a quarter toas over the previous year and the largest product we hate ever had. Pennsylvania is still the first iron-producing State, with Ohio second and Alar bama third. The fate of the Panama anal shows that, although money is the first-requisite in engineering works, there jare other re quisites. . It is lalmost impossible to say what the ultimate fate of jthe Panama project will be, but it is quite possible that the Gommission now sent out to ex amine the canal as far as it i s made, and to report on the feasibility of its com pletion, may advise that the original de sign might be realized, and it is just pos sible that France might raise the neces sary money; but, considering that the preliminary work of the Nicaragua Canal is now 'well in hand, it does not appear likely. There are four members ofj the United States Senate who can never be candi dates for the Presidency of this republic under the constitution because of an alien birth. Senator JonesJ of Nevada, was born in England; General McMillan, of Michigan, in Canada; Se inator Beck, of Kentucky, in Scotland, and Senatoi Pasco, of Florida, in England. While it is the exception rather than otherwise that a Senator was born in the State he represents, sectional lines have been ciosely observed. Of the northern Sena tors only two were born in the South Cullom, of Illinois, and Senator Ilawley, of Connecticut, in North Carolina. Not one southern Senator is of northern origin. While Europe,with five times our popu lation and four times our wealth, has ad- i dec! iu twenty years over eight billions to its national debts the United States have reduced their national debt by nearly two dollars. Europe spend annually ),000 for military expenditures, visions, whereas; we says, of liberty, these are the great re- mt an army. great race remacy, impeti- Non V f ore Vast Vthe SECRETS. Where is the dearest place to lie? ; The very best place to laugh or cry ? ' . ' In the whole wide world, from east to west, The safest, warmest, coziest nest? Only the babies know ..The glad, glad babies know I What is more precious to have 'and to hold? Worth more than its weight in rubies or gold? The fairest purest, loveliest thing ' That earth can give and heaven can bring? Only the mothers know . The glad, glad mothers know! .... Emtfta'C. Doted, iti Young People. A LITTLE MAVERICK. All that hot August day there had been a cloud of dust in the east like a column of smoke. No breath of air stirred it, nor did it seem to advance a yard. The sky -Was a steely blue, the air quivered like the white heat from a caul dron of molten metal. In the crisp and dry buffalo grass myraid insect life gave to the simmering air a dreamy, monoto nous sound like the humming of far-away bees. - .' ' - The afternoon passed, darkness gath ered, and with the rising moon came a cool wind from off the snow-crested peaks. The cloud of dust subsided, and revealed a line of moving, white-covered wagons.' As the caravan drew near, a gaunt prairie wolf rose suddenly out of the grass, gave a long, dolorous howl, and fled across the plain. After him, as if they had risen from the earth by magic, went a pony and rider, a bronzed, grizzled old man, as gaunt, and evidently dread ing the new-comers as much, as the wolf . The caravan, numbering thirty wagons, went into camp in the form of a hollow square, the people and animals inside the barrier of wagon3. The sound of voiceSj the smell of cooking, the laughter of children and the red glow of the camp fires made a bit of welcome life in the solemn land, breaking the soundless monotony Of centuries. Later, when the fires were low, and when the only noises were the champing of the animals and the tread of the sentry on watch, a strange, elfish figure ran out of the stockade and begau to dance in the moonlight a girl of twelve ortherea bouts, with big, sparkling eyes and short, black curls flying over her pretty brow. A bearded face was thrust out under a wagon cover, and a gruff but not un kindly voice called : "Come in here, you Maverick, want the Injuns to git ye?" The child laughed mockingly, and continued her dance. After the third call $ie big man jumped out of the wagon and ran after her. When she could run no longer she dropped like a log, re maining stiff and still, while he carried her to the.wagon. "Gritty, ain't she, inarm?" he said, as the child rolled over like a stick of wood. The lady addressed was a tall, thin person with a wrinkled face, sharp black eyes behind spectacles, corkscrew curls, and a habit of wearing little shoulder capes in the hottest weather. She was a New England school teacher going West to better herself . ' ' 'Gritty' is Western, I presume, Mr. Chase," said the lady, Miss Mary Ann Reed. "What on earth do you call her a Maverick for?" Miss Reed clicked her needles viciously. She knitted all day, jolting in a corner of the wagou,, a pic ture of martyrdom. "In my kentry, Texas," said Chase, "they calls them stray young cattle that don't git branded Maverick's : they don't b'long to no herd, an' them that finds gits 'em." . - "She's got folks iu Denver," said Miss Reed. - "I dunno," whispered the man, with an anxious look toward the sleeping child. "A feller that met me two days ago on the east-bound wagon-train told me her pa and ma hed died suddenly, an' the children hed scattered, an' he'd never heered o' Janet at all. Her grau'marm hed kep'her from a baby, an' the old lady dyin', Janet's uncle jest shipped her off to Denver where her folks was livin'. Don't seem nobody to take her." ' ' "Why didn't you send her back with these folks?" asked Mjss Reed: v'Caus,e they was only harf way, an' was short for grub ; they wouldn't take her." Yet the Maverick was. a great pet on the journey. ( Every one liked her, and welcomed her bright presence to their wagons. Around the camp fires even the men gathered to hear her sing the quaint old hymns her grandmother had taught her. She held tired babies till her little arms were numb, she told stories to weary children, and was a ministering angel at every wagon at the last one in the train most of all. This wagon had joined the train in Missouri, -and belonged to an unfortunate family that Chase called ' 'Pikes. " The father, a sullen, sickly man, drove the four lean oxen ; the mother, half -dead from malaria, seldom lifted her head f rom her bed ; and the nine children, practically rphans, took care of themselves, and of a little, motherless girl j sent to her father in Denver. This baby, Rose, was a merry little creature of three, beautiful and winning, and much, liked. But thedays were toil some ones, and as the Browns had charge of her, no one interfered, though many of the party wondered who could have trusted her with them.- The two younger Browns, homelr. ded little souls, were faithful miar. s oyer her. The other children were ""V and rude, but these two seemed vne good old folks who had lived -rounded lives and been trans krteeafth tp begin over again, le children Janet's presence was ppiness of their day. nor could tell stories enough to Once Janet, cominsr un heard the youngest Pike tell Rose, who was cross, one of stories. prrerful little things," cried 'em up your t you make own?" flt night, the sentry at the ar-off, black, moving horizon, and weary tne hours of dark- Mrt, eager the hope rtie attack. Each man. gray dawn, as hag vharnessed his team, uigat of peace, no One TnftTmncr bh him harness his comes an' mt ; on that ere leetle take Rose ccosa J V ancfi m. i feed her mvt me. smiled Janet, 4I chipper aiS? Te Maverick, yer so ThrTn?Iu3' "iChase said admiringly. it. That day a i :! , ,11 m nJ. ? ?mg wife was sick, and ;nr hKw t U0Qts Janet fended the wail- in? oaDy lts mother was too ill to care for. ; She looked hack'at the line of .heioverbesr0?? f baby that "Thcvu: t alL i ,r ""J-fodi little Pikes will see to wo liSe pS fB the thev lay in were weai7 tba da thetic guarL!frUSe Arl "Hans and no one noted 1 v unheed0 iCd each others arms they i " i and one was drifting away beyond earthly id. , , A.:'.e ni8ht! halt Janet, freed from her charge, t? Thea the news flew from wag0a to cUm ag gone and no 0n3 had seen her all day. Miss need remembered seeing her run ning among thefsunflowers at breakfast time. : T "Ain't nobody going for her?;': cried Janet, in ag0ny4 Sherau to each wagon, to be met with the same answer: "It cannot be done, f - "You see, JatJet,said Chase, a sob in his voice, "them's fifty women an' chil dren here aQ' 0niy thirtj men to 'em ; there may be hundreds of Injuns out there. We daren't leave camp or they'll know it, an we' searched all the plains with a glass aa' there's no sign of her." r. - -But ter-moiter " choked Janet. "She 11 not be a-wanderin', missy don't arsk me to! tell ye, but there's In juns an' perarie i-olves." "We must only tell her father she died never the jtyhole truth," said Miss Reed, coming td the wagon for her rub bers, which sM "wore on the drvest nights. Chase walked Way and sat down by the fire. "No, doa'fetalk no more, Janet," as the child went to him "it aren't no use. I m the ony old Injun i camp. I've growed grav at it. ter take the lead!" fighter in I've got Janet went quickly to her wagon. By the light of al flickering candle she printed, in a round, childish hand, on sf bit of paper, these few words: i " "Mr. Chase, I am goin' to 'find Rose an' take Nanee. I aiut no good in fightin' Injuns, an' I heard you :say my folks was dead. Don't you come for me 'cause they need you. They don't me thait is only a Maverick. She pinned this j note to his blanket, then went softly jout in the starlight to the corner whee' Nance stood. Fear lessly she blanketed the animal, fastened the surcingle, thjja led her quietly out to an open space, between two wagons. She looked back at the dying camp fires, the groups jof men sleeping in the light of them, their guns by their sides, the silhouettes of the women against the wagon curtains, Miss Reed's prim and queer with the unny curls. How safe it was here, haw lonely and dreadful outside! She climbed on the pony and turned her headi toward the east ; the animal, thinking;of her home, struck into a run. The sentlnal saw Nance disap pear in the darknees, but did not note the little rider "That onery gray pony as aint been worked all the way hey got loose an' gone," he said to (the crowd of excited men who ran out at the noise. Every unusual j rattling of gravel under Nance's hoofs quickened the beating of Janet's heart ; every dark object was to her a beast off prey; every sound, the coming of the retl men. She thought of the old-time stories of Indian warfare and cruelty her grandmother had told her ; of the horrors of the plains the men spoke of by the camp-fires. "But I'm the bnlv one in all that train as hasn't anybody to care for me," she said, bravely. 'rThere was only me to be spared.' , - When the mooh rose it showed her no living object on ihe great plains. The camp was far out! of vision, and not even a spark from ats fires glimmered on the still air. Absolute quiet and solitude ; the world seemed asleep. . At the top of nf little rit-i in the road Janet halted to rest her tired horse, and once more to lok around the lonely land.. ' The quivering of Nance startled her, and peering ihead, Janet saw a sight sue never aiterward forgot. There in the moonlit road stood baby Ro3e, her ycllowj curls dishevelled, her lace tear-stained and dirtv, her gown torn, her little feet bare and bleeding. She, still clung tolher flowers that had led her, astray long hours bef oie Near the child ja lean gray wolf sat on ms nauncnes, regarding her with a pro found and melaneholv stare. At the sight of ;the nonv the wolf gave a weird howl, tur'ned and trotted swiftly across the plains. The child,with a wild cry, ran lorward.i "I knew you'd turn. Janie. I lost all day an' hungy anj the doggie corned an' singed. I had a doggie tmce, Bounce -wnere mamma jivas. Oh, I want my mamma! " 1 Janet held her close, kissed her tears away, ana men she gave her the food she had brought her own suoDer. She lifted her to the pony's back, led Nance to some low hills that miht give them suener, anu inerewaited for daylight. "1 never knew! nights was so long be fore !' sighed Janet, holding Rose in her arms. "Nance is laid down an' asleep. Only me awake, an' I must keep vratch for wolves an' Injuns. Now the moon's goin', too, aa' it; gets lonesomer. .; Iil say all the hymns I know to' keep me awake an' brave. 7 Try as she would her head would droop, the words grow eonfesed and weary. As the moon sank and the chill increased, the shivering child covered Rose with her own skirt. anA thpn to keep wrarm and down beside her. What was it. awake walked up and that lnt- fnmnl!n(r sound, coming loader and nearer so fast? Janet caught up Rose and ran hnck to the hill; the horse, followed, trembling in every limb. ' Jusjt beyond the hill in a furious gallop camte a mass of horses,and dimly amid the fog of dust about them Janet saw the forms of their Indian riders. . "Joe said Injuns was wuss n -wolves!" sobbed Janet, "Dear Lord. it fhtm tm on an" not find us If' The Indians pissed on their path, marked by cloudsj of sand that helped the darkness merci;fully to hide the chil dren. - - '; 'They're gone?" cried Janet; but hardly were thej words uttered when there came another louder trampling the click of arms against saddles, andmore horses hundreds of them it seemed to Janet and then, bringing j0y to her heart, ah America voice calling, 'For ward ! as the cavalrymen pressed on sl- tnr the Indians. i 4fVT- passed, the tired child fell asleep with Rose in her arms. When she woke- it was bright sunlight. Tier dazed eyes saw Nance feeding near by, Rose running toward her, and an oldish man, with a gray beard and bronzed face, looking at her kindly. : By his side was the lean wolf Rosy had called a dog. "I knew il was a ' tame one!" eried Janet. :' ,- "In course you did," smiled the old man, - ".Me an my gal, Ann Keea,ien out twenty odd year ago cause I owned tame b ar. She went ter Bosting, ; turned ' schoolmarm, an I emigrated to IowvJ' -- Janet, very wide-eved, told him about Miss Reed, who was one of their wagon- party. Gaining courage, she also gave her own history and Rose's as far as she knew. . -v - - f -- - -: "Wal, you be a powerful talker!" cried the old man. "Now come eat, an then we'll ketch tip with the caravan. Sav, though, sis, would yoii say, Towin fur age an' my whiskers, Ann Reed aint no better-lookin then me !" "You're both nice for old folks," said Janet, politely. ' He led them to a dugout in the lulls, where they found.plenty to eat, and then they set out " for thp wagons, Janet "with Rose on Nance, the wolf following the old man's bronco. "The row last night, sis," he said, Jimas Tingle Rnm'a sniPH arter Tniuns. same as has been hangin round yer train. Wonder how them serious ways of Ann Reed's would V took with Injuns?" At night they reached the camping- place of the wagons, where there was great rejoicing Chase, especially, com ing often to stroke Janet's curls, and mut ter: "Ef you aint a borned hero, I never knowed one! The stuff of a pioneer!" Janet's only sadness was that one little grave where tne youngest "rise lay ; the child had died the night before. How mUny nameless graves,some pathetic, tiny ones, there used to be on that great pathway to he West I When Janet, with Rose m ner arms, climbed into her wagon, the hermit ap proached and said, mysteriously ; "It s the same Ann Reed, sis, an' she's there a-pettin' that wolf like he were a poodle dog. Aint set agin 'em no more." . Two miles from Denver they met a horseman so pale and anxious they knew who he was even before he called hoarsely: "Is my baby with you? ' "Aye, she be," answered Chase, "but we'd met ye with blank faces an' sorrer ful hearts but for Janet here." Then he told the story, and the father got down from his horse tokiss her first before his own child. ' "I'm well on, Joe," he said, brokenly. "I can do well for her, and vou say she has no one. I will have two instead of one." daughters "You aint a Maverick no more, Janet," cried Joe something shining in his honest eyes, "an there aint one of us but will bid ye God-speed. Ef ever a lone little child was worth a father's love an' care, you be, an' the blessin' of all us that knowed ye goes with ye." And as she, with Rose and her father, parted from the companions of the long wagon journey, they followed her with loving, tearful eyes, that little Maverick who had found a happy home. TontVi Companion. The Moon's-Tide-Prodncing Power. The great scientists and astronomers concur in the opinion that only the igno rant common people believe the moon to exercise an influence over human affairs, only to tell us on the next page of mon strous tides invisibly put in motion and induced by the very agency steered at in a preceding chapter. That our attendant satellite does exert a powerful influence over our little globe may be inferred from what we know of its tide -producing power alone. As our planet sweeps along at an ua. thinkable rate of speed, it is drawn to ward the moon very perceptibly, enough to produce tides on opposite sides of thq earth's surface at the same time. If thesq great mountains of water can be put iq motion by the "pale white orb of night," why should we not attribute to it minor, influences, even though they be of a de trimental or pestilential character? Deny ing the truth in' the case can never help matters. ; "But how can the moon be the cause of tides in America and in China at the same time?" some one says. According to the best authority on the subject of tides, that part of the earth's surface which is turned away from the moon or i sun has a smaller degree of attraction than the side next the luminary exerting the "pulling" power; thus, in effect, leaving the water behind, and producing a tide on the opposite, as well as upon the side acted upon directly by the force of grav ity. The moon is now 240,000 miles away; geologists and astronomers tell us that there was a time when it was only 40, 0C0 miles distant, only one-sixth of what it is at the present moment. The tides of to day average all the way froirf three to fifty feet. Say that they are now three feet at the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi ; what would be the result of the moon being brought five-sixths nearer, or back to the old mythical 40,.. 000-mile mark? Instead of tides being three feet at the mouth of the parent of waters, they would rise to a height of 648 feet!" The whole of the Mississippi Valley would present the appearance of a vast beach; St. Louis would be covered out of sight and the waves forty-eight feet high would flow through the streets of Chicago into Lake Michigan! The writer is not an astrologer, astronomer or soothsayer; he knows nothing of. "di- mi ' vinations" or black art; does not even profess to believe that we are on the eve of a pestilential visitation, but will not deny believing in moon influence. Is it not rational, after all, to give Luna credit of having something to do with our for tunes and misfortunes? St. LoxiU Re public. Time Regulated by Bogle. Every watch and clock on Governor's Island, New York, is regulated by bugle call. Just before noon two enlisted men are stationed at a point commanding an unobstructed view of the tower of the Western Union Building, where the United States Signal; Office is. One of these is the post bugler, the other a trained signalman, equipped with a powerful field glass. - The non-commissioned officer is required to keep his glass fixed upon the time ball. The in stant it drops he gives the signal to the bugler, who stands in readiness, and the latter immediately sounds the specified tell, which 13 heard all ' over the island and there ii a general consultation and adjustment of watches and clocks, . , The danger having THREE TRAVELERS.1 Three travelers met In Brander Pass, "j -By the bubbling Brander springj f - They shared their cake and their renison, And they talked of many a thing. Of books, of song and foreign lands, Of strange aad wandering lives, .. And by and byr in softer tones, i They spoke of their homes and wives. I - , I married the Lady o' Logan Brae," ! Said one, with a lofty air; J .Tnere isna in af the North countrea . - a house with a better share: . i Ol gold and gear, and hill and lock, Of houses and farms to rent ; There's many a man has envied me i And rm mair than weel content." 'Dream of a woman as bright as day," The second traveler said. - . 'Dream of a form of perfect grace, . Of a noble face- and head. Of eyes that are as blue as heaven, Of flowing nut-brown hair; , That is my wile, and, though not rich Oh, she is wondrous fair!"" The third one said: ."I have a wife, She is neither rich nor fair; She has not gold, nor gear, nor land, Nor a wealth of nut-brown hair; But, oh I she loves me! and her love Has stood through every test. Beauty and gold are good, but, friends,- We know that love is best," They filled their cups in the spring again, And they said, right heartily : 'Here's to the loving, faithful wife. Wherever her home may be P And soon they took their different ways, ( One thought in each man's breast: v -'Beauty is good, and gold is good, y . But true love is the best." PITH AND POINT. A stovepipe The song of the kettle. A watch sold at cost is par tickularly a bargain. Merchant Traveler. Necessity is the mother of invention, but many inventions are orphans. The familv stove-pipe was never meant, for a pipe of peace. Binghamton ifrpu5j li&in. . . i It is the busy chimney-sweep who ap pears in a fresh , soot every day. Boston Courier. Appearances are against some people, and so are their disappearances. Texas Sif tings. U a rooster were as big a3 his crow, a whole family could live on him for six months. Washington Star. Boulanger is French for baker, and that's why Boulanger is such a doughty General. Washington Star. - The living skeleton goes on exhibition in a dime museum because he is in re duced circumstances. Picayune. - . When the gate's a-jar it is natural that it should be considered a proper place foj sweet-meets. Tonkers . Gazette. A manufacturer of artificial limba should never be forgetful. It is his busi ness to re-member. Waihington Post. - A man who plays the - clarionet hag some ground to regret that the season for reed birds is over. Merchant Traveler. r The girls, since first the world began, : I Have always sought the ideal man; i But when they captured theif ideal They found him more ideal than real. : There are persons that it is not safe to hold out the olive branchj of peace to, unless you have a club) in the other hand. I It is said that it takes three generv tions.to make a gentleman. The recipe fails when the third generation is a girl, Binghamton Leader. . They say that copper is so cheap it scarcely pays to mine it more, -But ordinary common sense seems just ar . rare as heretofore. '- ' -Was7iington Star. He " To live by your side, mein Fraus lein, I forsake everything parents, hon ors, titles, fortune." She (innocently) i "Then, pray, what is there left forme?' Basler Nachrichten. Kind Gentleman (picking up a boy) i "That was an awful hard fall, my young man. Why didn't you cry?" Small Boy "I didn't know anybody was look ing." New Tori Sun. , " -( "Shall I play you this little Spanish fandango?" she asked, sweetly. "I I beg your pardon," he said, turning red, "but the fact is, I don't understand Spanish.7' Boston Courier. Mabel (to Maud, who has just looked through Mabel's MSS.) " You didn't know I was an authoress, Maud?" Maud "No; and if you take my advice you won't let anybody else, either.' Har vard Lampoon. Gentleman (to tramp) "What, you here again? It hasn't been a week since I gave you a half dollar." Tramp "Just a week, sir; but great heavens you don't expect a man to live a year on fifty cents, do you?" Unsuspecting Mother "I can't imag ine where all the cake goes." Guilty Ethel (anxious to avert suspicion) "It must be the kid." Unsuspecting Mother "The kid! What kid?" Guilty Ethel "I don't know, but I heard Uncle Harry say to papa: 'That kid takes the :ake." Time. T ' Naming a Town. ';"'''' When F. H. Heald settled on the Machado Ranch, near San Diego, Cal,, and .began to build Elsinore, then un named, he was puzzled about the chris tening. What should he call the coming city by the lake and springs? Finally he choose Lake something or other a long compound but the postoffice au thorities would not have it. They wrote Mr. Heald that one word was enough and sent him a list to choose from. He took Elsinore, and a few days afterward announced the fact to old Seaor 3fach ado. The aged don was for a moment nonplussed. "EV Senor," he said; "which senbr do you mean, yourself or myself;" "Yourself, of course," replied the diplomatic neald. And to this day the Machados believe that the name Elsinore is but a gringo corruption of ,'El Senor," the senor who owned th original property. Argonaut'. Rings on Their Toes. George B. Dexter, of Boston, when at the St. Nicholas the other -day, exhib ited among his friends some gold and .silver rings of very artistic design and finish but of uncommonly large size for finger rings. Mr. Dexter explained that the rings were not for the fingers but the toes, and were the kind worn in Algiers, j He had secured them on a re cent trip abroad; The articles were ex amples of native skill and the workman ship would compare yery favorably with the best work of the most skilled jewel lers anywhere. Cincinnati Timet-Star. POPULAR SCIENCE, Hydraulic power at a pressure of 75$ pounds to the square- inch is nowcon veyed about beneath the streets of Lon don as steam is conveyed in this country.' A candle has recently been brought out which extinguishes itself after It" has burned for an hour. This it does by a tiny extinguisher of tin which is fastened in the wax by wires, and which- effectu ally performs its task. Our mints made -last year over 93,. 5 000,000 pieces, at a -( cost per r piece of two and four-tenth cents. This maybe interesting in connection with the recent reports' as to the . manufacture of bogus American dollars in Mexico. Professor Wm . llarkness calculates that "a body weighing one pound avoir dupois on a spring balance at the earth's equator would weigh only 0.16584 of a pound , 2. 6534 ounces, upon the same spring balance at the moon's equator." A laboratory of vegetable physiology; has been established in connection with the Faculte des Sciences ef Paris. Two' and a half hectares of land in the forests of Fontainebleau hav been assigned by the French Government for the purpose." The oil fields "of Canada cover over . 100,000 " square miles. There are also new fields in South Africa, New Zealand,' South Australia and Burmah. As coal is $ 100 a ton at the South African dia mond fields, it is well that oil has been discovered in that country. - Professor Wiley gives the values "of the chief cereals in the order of their nutri tive qualities as follows: First, wheat; second, sorghum ; third, maize ; fourth,; unhulled oats. Sorghum-seed furnishes a flour like buckwheat,that makes passa ble bread, and ' coming into consider able use. N An Englishman has invented an auto- matic rabbit to do away with the cruelty of rabbit coursing. It fits in a socket attached to an endless wire running in gutters below ground, only a narrow slot showing on the surface. The contriv vance is worked by machinery erected iu a small tower. . Respecting "'artists1 colors," Dr. A. P. Laurie said, in the British Association, that one point that came out . in the bourse, of his inquiries about the colors used by the old masters was the fact that they largely employed vegetable' pig ments," many of which were not used by modern painters. .A new submarine, ram vessel has 1 a cylinder " fifteen feet long and twelve inches in diameter, the piston of which constitutes the ram proper and is driven by steam with a 100-ton blow. It is supposed to be able to punch a hole in anything anoat. The boat itseit may be carried upon the deck of a man-of-war. j The German . incandescent lamp for inspecting . the inside of boilers under steam is a novelty. A thick glass tube is introduced through a stuffing box,.and a small incandescent lamp is lowered into this,; and lighted by means of a small battery; thus, the whole ' of the boiler is lighted up, and can be inspected through thick glas3 plate inserted in the boiler. The first effect of alcohol on the syst tern " is to : accelerate the action of the heart and raise the temperature of the body about one and a half degrees. It is this effect which makes it valuable in-cases of fainting or collapse. The secondary effect is, however, to lower the temperature, which sometimes $<e two cr three degrees below the normal point of ninety-eight degrees, and the warmth of the body cannot be restored as quickly ai JL 13 lost. . 2 A patent has just been taken out for wrhat is claimed to be a .new mode of cooking. The process is remarkable, for its simplicity. A very simple form of oven is heated by a lamp, which is placed beneath it. The floor of the oven is covered with a thin sheet of water, in which the cooker or steamer is seated so as to form a water joint. By this method the inventor claims that no odor is per mitted to escape, and the flavor of the food is perfectly retained. ,rJ A Tropical Forest. It is not easy to fix upon the niosi dis tinctive features of these virgin 'forests, which, .nevertheless, impress themselves upon the beholder as something quite unlike those of temperate lands, and as possessing a grandeur and sublimity alto gether their own. Amid th3 countless modifications in detail which these forests present wre shall endeavor to poiut out the chief peculiarities as well as the more interesting phenomena which generally characterize them. The observer new to' the scene would perhaps be first struck by the varied yet symmetrical trunks, which rise up with perfect straightness to a great height without a branch, and which, being placed at a considerable average distance apart, give an impres sion similar to that produced by the columns of some enormous building. Overhead, at a height perhaps of a hundred feet, is an almost unbroken canopy of foliage, formed by the meeting together of these great trees and their interlacing branches, and this canopy is usually so dense that only an indistinct glimmer of the sky is to be seen, and even the intense tronical sunlight only! penetrates to the rrvrni n A subdued and C3 broken up into scattered fragments. There is a weird gloom and a-solemn silence which combine to produce a sense of the vast, the primeval, almost of the infinite. It is a world in which man seems an intruder, and where he seems overwhelmed by the contemplation of the ever-acting forces which from the simplest elements of the atmosphere build up the great mass of vegetation which overshadows and almost seems so op prow the earth. Wallace. Wine at 82,000,000 a Bottle. Wine at $2,000,000 a bottle is a drink that in expense would rival the luxurious taste of barbalic splendor, when price less pearls were thrown into the wine-cup to give a rich flavor to its contents ; yet,' in the city of Bremen just such a costly beverage may be found. In the wonder ful wine-cellar under the Hotel de Ville,' in the Rose apartment, there are twelve. cases of holy wine, each case inscribed with Ihe name of one of the apostles. This ancientwine was deposited in its present place in the year 1624 255 years ago. One case of this wine, consisting of five oxhofts of 204 bottles, cost 500 rix-dollars in 1624, including the expense of keeping up the cellar, interest on the original outlay and interests upon in terest, one of those oxhofts would to-day cost 555,657,6 40 rix-dollars ; three single bottles; 2,273,812 rix-dollars r a glass, or the eighth part of a bottle, is worth 340,476 rix-dollars, or about 262,000; or at the rate of 540 rix-dollars ($265) per drop. Panama Star and Hftahl.
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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