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the mnmi PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EY 11 STEWART, Editor and Proprl&tor. SALISBURY, N. C. - PRICE OF SUIISCniPTIOX. Oae Year. .$1.50 lix Months. 1.00 Three Months.. .50 ' BIT Advertising Rate by Contract, fUasonable. Entered ia tho Post-OSae at aOiabury u nood-clua matter. Trie experiment or prou? snaring uas had a thorough test at the Bourne mills, a Fall River, . Mass., during the last twelve months, and the results have been so satisfactory a3 to elicit from the Presi dent of the company the opinion that it i3 the beginning of the solution t? the labor problem. If the cable is to bo trusted, some young Parisian brides are to be in luck each yeaf. It is said that a sum of money amounting to $3600 has been be queathed to the City of Paris by odc Pascal Fa vale, the interest of which is to be used annually to furnish dowries to young women from the Hges of sixteen to twenty-five, who must be of good ieport and natives of Paris. The modern idea is, observes the Argo naut, that it is better to wound than tc kilUnot because it is mjre humane, but because a deal man can be left lying oa the battle-field, while a wounded maa puts hors de combat his comrades who assist him. Therefore", the bullet that passes through half-a-dozen men, wound' iug each severely, is preferred to the bul let which simply finds its allotted billet and kills only one. It is very gratifying to those citizens wlin hrnn-Thf. ftrrmnn srino- liinls tf Ore- rgona year ago and released thcai in the . suburbs of Portland, rejoices West Shore, to see how they have increased in num bers in one season. In a few rears thev 1 - - - V will have spread over a large territory, and their songs will carry joy to the .hearts of thousands to whom the nightin gale aad bullfinch have been as unknown j 1 ' 1 1 1 f as tnc uira or paraaise. Next year a decennial census will be taken in Great Britain, and it is proposed to have the enumerators record the re-. Ugious persuasions ot tlxa people. The i Dissenters in England are protesting against this, on the ground tbat, as few people desire to confes3tbat they have nc religious belief, non-church-members ;.cufially will say that they belong to the Established Church. This will give the Established Church a better numerical 'showing than it deserves. General O. 6. Howard, in a recent address in Brooklyn, N. Y., referred tc woikingmen who earn 8-0 per month, pay $5 of that for rent and had only the remaining $1.2 to support families of foui or live persons for thirty days. Tht Christian Inquirer says: "It is that class of pinched, impoverished workingnie.i that is liable to rise like the blind Sam som and hurl the State to destruction. It i.i impossible to rhake such men fee the justice of the inequalities in inoderr. society." " '"- The Boston CulUtutor send? out this warning: "Sundry sharpers, with more -shrewdness than honesty, are working an" entirelv new trick upon the farmers out - td . West. They go to a farmer and pretend f o want to buv hi3 farm at once. The price does not exactly, suit the strangers, but they manage while negotiations are foin on to install themselves into th gdod graces of the farmer, and proceed to 'put up' at his house for as many days 'as they can. After they have stayed as. long as thcy'darj, they take their depar ture and look up lodgings with a fresh victim. If their price is met they givo the farmer the slip at the first op'portun . itv." A New York insurance paper has just completed its figures on life insurance for 188'.), and they show that during last year the companies increased their assets 53,000,000, and their surplus, which now amounts to 59,477,707, is $7,000, UOO larger than it was last year. Tht premium income increased 20,030,000, while the total income amounted to $181115, SOD, an increase of over $26, U0Q,000. The companies disbursed tc policy holders, $82,043,705, and the to'.-il premiums for the year were $121, '.170.031. The new business of last yeai mere;" ased $101,003,000 ever the pre- vlous year, while the, insurance was increased $130,235,251. iu force A cumber of 2s ew lories foremost citizens have organized themselves into , . .. the .'New York Bath Association, witn tho purnose of cstablisiiiag in that-cny a 1 x . , - . ., , . . ysteia of public baths similar to taat of , ' . i , , A, , a-jwent ltotne. The plans for the batus 1,,,,..,, . ha. been settled upon. The building wi'll nfcin- , , ii i -.will octupj nearly a v.hole cirv block, an-d accommodate a vast MmVr of ifor- Vat once, it will be patterned aftei soev Xman batns, with all v-- i.- the KVVnd comforts, and will be three hardlT fiQd iive stock icsurancc PTOflt acces qh. The outer walls will be of j able At ihe same tims' uhca Placed stories hnn . jgjj or stono, and all , UTltler such restrictions as are guaranteed ,tyra cottaVd- or tej The upper in bill now before the Ohio Legis thc floors marbiT rtd librariea laturc, the liurnl Arw Yorler can sea no floors will be conve hn(r rooms wm reason why it should not prove, forown- gymnasmms, ana uv pool" hot baths, have a large swimniin, plunges and dressing ro SUBSCRIBE NOW: According to the New York Witnea the climax of Stanley's earthly glory ha; been capped. A London firm has noti lied him that it ha? named a brand ol sausages in his honor. It is estimated that the regular insur ance companies of the United States wit disburse during 1890 the sum of 83, 000,000 in death, endowment and divi dend claims. It is an average of 8160Q for every minute in the year. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette pub lishes a list of thirteen Pittsburgers en gajjed in the iron business who have ac cumulated fortunes aggregating 137v 000,000. These comprise what is locally clubbed the iron peerage, the wealth ol the members ranging from three to thirty-six millions. There are no less than thirty different religious castes in. India, and when the railroads were first established no twe castes would ride in the same coach. The natives found it inconvenient, however, and now all 'sorts of caste3 mix up for a journey, but offset it at the end hj call- in each other dogs and infidels.' Among the causes of increased insan ity in the country enumerated by the Ne'w York Commercial Advertiser is too inuct artificial light, too long continued. Ar tificial light pouring in through the win dows of the brain awakens the million! of sleeping cells in the habitation, when darkness is needed for rest and repair. A ship called the David E. Ward pul into San Francisco in distress, and the Detroit Free Prtss is indignant .because the papers of that city speak of ."her'' long voyage, "her" loss of Bpars, arrival after many dangers, etc.; "her" "The English language," laments the Free Press, "was evidently invented to .sell as a puzzle. Had the ship been the Jenny P. Ward she would not have been re ferred to as 'he.' But why not?" ? Says the Chicago Herald- "The Frencl Government proposes to tax betting, the revenue accruing therefrom to be used in relieving indigent laboring men. Th plan 13 to prohibit betting in smallei amounts than five francs ($1), and to com pel betting men to pay a tax of tea pe: cent, on all bets of that amount and up ward. The French are even more per sistent and reckless betters than th( Americans; and the tax would undoubt edly produce a large return." Hypnotism is not tho oay patHeoiog- ical marvel to the fore just now. A recent communication to the Academic de Medecine respecting Dr. Mesnot's.in vestigations as to stigmata or cliches, as they are now.often called, shows that if pressure on the-skin of susceptible sub jects is made in the form or letters, such letters are clearly distinguishable when derangement causes tho skin to change color. In one experiment the words "Da Nature" were tracd out on a pa tient's neck, and the letters ia a few minutes dcve!ope in color. It is ob served that people susceptible to stig mata arc hysterical or epileptic, and frequently experience local want of sensation." It would seem that the project of im porting kangaroos into this country is seriously entertained by . several en thusiastic and wealthy sportsmen in the West. The first rumors of such a plar were received almost universally with smiles, but later, details show that sports men have decided that the project is en tirely feasible. The extinction of the buffalo has left the plains without any big game of importance, and hunting the kangaroo, as it is done in Australia, is second in excitement and interest only tc killing the buffalo. Kangaroo leather is exceedingly valuable, and the animals breed rapidly. They have b'2n success fully acclimated in England and France, and it is said that there is actually no reason why they should not thrive here. The idea of the promoters of this plan is to introduce the kangaroos at the begin ning of the warm season in Yellowstone Park, and give the breed Government protection for a few years so as to bat out the pot-runneis. A wild Indian brought face to face with a kangaroo for the first time would be a sight wortr traveling West to see. Some of the leading breeders discussed in a recent issue of the Rural Neio Yorker' the desirability of insurance for live stock. All seem to consider that valu able animals should be insured against death by fire at least. Most farmers aarree to this, and the majority of them so in sure their horses and cattle when inscr ing their barns;, hay aad grain. Tht New York World declares that the live- . 1 J . . - loss of life bv disease or accident. Com- - . rn t r rr T.-nc ocr tiki f'.- A'jh . ' iTi . ' lorler savs: "It is very evident thai . - i such a svstem would ahord chances foi . . . - , ' , , , A . . roffiies to conduct a fraudulent bu5ine?s. . . . ' t both m the issuing of insurance policies J ... .. . ac-d ,n thC 'P0341 of keAVlI-v ln5ure? animls I'ss surrounded bj the most : coauiacMiiuias, "ni ...u , eT3 01 ry, valuable animals at least, about as safe as our present system of life insurance. In any event the watch fu"3'e "of the master .is the best pre Yative olios.". THE SONG OF THE SEA. Their world was a world of enchantmefiti A wonder of luminous light Came out with a flaring of carmine. From all the black spaces of night; The music of morn was as blithesome And cheery as music could be; But all through the dawn and the daybreak : I mourned for the song of the .sea. They showed me the marvelous flowera And fruits of their sun-beaten lands; They said, "Here ara vine-tangled valleys; Forget ye. the barren white sands; For a weariness unto the spirit The dash of the breakers must be; 3o dwell ye beside oar blue waters; Forget the sad song of the Bea.w a.nd I wrapped me about in the ranlight, On the marge of a dimpling stream, A.nd there in a tangle -of lih3, I wove me a wonderful dream; A. rid a song from my dreamland went float ing Far up whera tha angels must be, But deep in its undar vibrations I heard the sweet song of the sea. With the dew in his locks alla-glitter, The Prince of the Daytime lay dead; Fcr the silver-white lance of the twilight . Smote off the gold crown from his head; A.nd the Princess of Night came to see him, Her lights all about Mm to hang; 4.nd a nightingale screened in the thicket His song to the slumberer sang. nd the stream from tho tangle of lilies Came winding ita Way through the sedge; nd a silvery noaturna it rippled Among the tall flags on its edge; 3ut its bubble I fain would have given, For the sleep-wooing sea voices' lull, &.nd the nightingale's song would have bar tered For the desolate cry of a gull. Their world was a world of enchantment; And they laughed with th9 laughter of scorn, FThen I turned me away from its beauty In the hght of the luminous morn; 3ut I heard a grand voice in the distance Insistently calling to me, knd I rose with a jubilant spirit And followed tho song of the sea. Hattie Whitney, in BelforcVs Magazine. A Patchwork Quilt. BY iTA-TlY KYLE DALLAS. Have you anywhere about your house, imidst your counterpanes and comfort ables which you looked at five minutes before buying, perhaps, one of those old fashioned patchwork quilts made of the tiniest pieces, arranged in the most in tricate patterns, over which, at least one pair of eyes were strained for days and weeks before quiltiug time came, and all 'those puffy little diamonds were marked out, amidst chat and laughter, by half-a-dozen ladies? Did you tver, in child hood, sit upon the bed and hear the his tory of .the various pieces of chintz? , That's a piece of your first colored dress : ' that I had when I was a girl : that was your grandmother's morning gown; tliat ia a piece Miss S- gave me. I have lieard such a liiatory many a time, and little pictures used to pa.is ( before my eye3 with the words. I could i. 1 i J j. see jusc now granuma loosea m xne morn- t it u i luo"riu A tuuiu set; ixiyeeii ;i uauj,y taking toddling step.s in the blue frock. It seemed so funny to have been a baby when I was an important person of five years. It doesn't seem half so funny now, for I have begun to doubt whether I shall i ever be anything else, and to know just J how many big babies there are in this I world. I Dear old patchwork quilts? We've lost something in losing them, I think, and probably Mrs. Slumlord thought so, too, for whenever any of her children were found sitting with those idle hands, for which Dr. Watts declares that Satan al ways finds some mischief, she invariably remarked : 4 'You'd better get your patch- They always obeyed, those three little jirls, Lucy, Kuth and Olive, and there were piles of quilts in the upstairs room where spare bedding was stored quilts of many colors, quilts of only two, quilts with large, square blocks, and quilts with intricate patterns, like a Chinese puzzle, quilt? that had been made by people in their nineties, and quiit-s that had been made bv people who could not yet say: "I am nine years old." Piecing a quilt was the first work and the last of the members of the Mumford family. I think an ancestor made, some patches on board of- the Mayflower. At least,'it was said so. When a young person married, a Jowry of quilts had always been pro videdalways would be while Mrs. Mumford lived. When Olive was fifteen, she had been told that the white and Turkey red quilt witfeh her great-grandmother had made was to be among her share, as the eldest daughter of the house. She laughed then, and said : ."-'"I 8hall always stay at home with you, mamma. I shall be the old maid daugh- ierj" ; A year afterward she did not think this, whatever she might have said, for the year had made her fesl that she was no longer a child, and she had met Harry Martin, who had put an engagement ring on.Olive's finger, and, if all tvent well, her seventeenth birthday would find her a matron. Nothing like seeing your children settled before you are broken down your self,'' said the mother ; and thereupon began to teach Olive the higher mys teries of pastry. Plain cooking every girl of that family quite understood. A-lover always takes great interest in his lady's handiwork. Harry regarded all the little pieces of sewing which passed through Olive's hands with im mense admiration, and the homely patch work was just as tine in his eyes as any thing elee; and there was often much talk, about the pieces, and, once or twice, he had cut them out, after the cardboard patterns, loving to meddle with anything that she was busy with, in old true lover's fashion. One evening, when he went in, he found thj girl .looking, as an artist might look at a rare bid master, at a long breadth of old-fashioned, flowered chintz. "Mother has just given "me this, Harry," she said. "It is like a gown of old Aunt Hepsiba's.i -It -shimmer like silk, and ' see how fine it is. But fancy wearing such large patterns. Look! a butterfly on a bough, aad a rose, and a butterfly on a bough again, and then an other rose, like wall paper. The diffi culty, will be," said Oiive,pausing to con sider, "how to get the pattern into a patch without spoiling it." "I'll '.help you," said Harry; and to work he went, and for a pleasant hour or .two he kept cutting patches. A bud aadj. a' butterfly on one, a roso on t5 other, ( bud and batterfly, and rose again. "And he has not spoiled one,mammaj" said Olivein a tone of pride. "I'm sure I should have cut a dozen butterflies' heads off, if I had tried." So the young things laughed over their exploits, and then slipped merrily away to have their lovers' chat where nobody could listen. It was the last. The next day, Harry Martin was missing, and with him a large sum of money from his employers' safe. The news spread through the conn try town like wild-fire. Harry wa3 an or phan, and the son of an old friend of the head of the firm. - It wa3 understood that they would be merciful, but his charac ter' was blighted foiever. No one doubted his guilt .but Olive. She steadfastly declared him innocent. Weeks pissed on, aad there was no news of him at least, none that reached tho Mumf ord's ears ; but one night, when Mrs. Muniford went out to the cow-house to see that Crummie was safe for the night, some one came out of the dark ness, and called to her. 'Who is that?" cried the lady, her heart giving one great throb. "It's I Hirry," said a well-known voice. 'uni jyirs. jiiumiora, lei me see Olive." 'Harry Martin!" said Mrs. Mumford. 'Oh! Harry Martin, you've made a sad home of mine!" And she broke into tears. "And you all believed it at onco?" said Harry, sadly. "I didn't think you would." . F "Oh, Harry," said Mrs. Mumford, "Satan tempts U3 all. I'm sorry for you, but you can't see Olive. It's better for her you shouldn't. She was very fond -of vou, Harry." "And she has turned against me, too, then?" said the young man. 'You don't blame her, poor lamb," said Mrs. Mumford. "A girl like that can't have anything to do with one that has disgraced himself ." "Love is more stedfast," said Harry. "Evil reports could not have won me from Olive. Then, without another word, ha went away and such a hold have homely things -upon our memory sometimes, that, as he went, he saw the pretty household picture he had last seen beneath the roof that now refused to welcome him, as plainly as we see things in dreams ; his love, with her dark curls about her face and the needle in her hands, and the skein of thread about her neck ; a bright lamp burning upon the table-,and on the otherside, himself cutting out pieces for patchwork from a pasteboard pattern, and laying in a little brilliant pile, squares and triangles, on which were a rose and a buttorily upon a flowering branch, a butterfly on a flowering branch, and a full blown rose alternately. A western editor speaks or a wind that "just sat up on its hind legs and howled." Such a wind it must have been that was howliner through the bleak Maine country twenty years from the night on which Harry Martin turned from the Muafords door and went his way alone. . . 'v.iu It. xran I . : . . ,r uPon it. signboard SoSxXS: , . 1 r-any guests tnat mgft bufc nevi the. leifc, one came tod. as the clocks were ITLfv,- A pedple generally thinking of bed. The guest was a man of forty, with a sad sort of face a face with a story in it. But he was well dressed, and evidently no poor'Traveler. ' He had supper in the best parlor, and, meanwhile, a lire was made in the best bedroom, in which, when he made his way thither, he found a buxom, youngish woman spreading an extra counterpane upon the bed. "Good evening, sir," she- said, turn ing toward him with a manner that be spoke the landlady. "I thought I'd see that you were comfortable myself. I never leave everything to chambermaids. When I married a hotel-kesper, I made up my mird to help him, and there's no such way of making guests feel dis couraged as turning them over to help. And I've given you my prettiest quilt, too, said she, with a laugh "There's an honor." The gentleman looked toward the bed. The quilt was patchwork. It had a wide striped border, but in the center the blocks were all the same bright chintz alternated with white a butterfly on a branch, a rose, a butterfly on a branch, and a rose again. ' The man took a fold of it up in his hand, and looked at it, as men do not often look at patchwork quilts. The woman bubbled on. "We're great for patchwork in our family. Such a pile as we had of these quilts at home. Sister Ruth had twenty when she was married, but. I had fifty. My other sister gave me her share, seeing that I married a hotel-keeper, and she thinks she'll never marry. Oh, dear! There's a storyin a good many quilts, if you did but know it; and there is a story in this. Ifs the last one Olive ever made. But I'm boring you, sir." "No, go on," said the gentleman. Go ! on, please.' "She was engaged." said the landlady, "and she was but sixteen. One after noon, she and her stveetheart cut out these blocks, the next they parted. He was suspected of a crimeof robbery, sir, if I must say it and she never saw him again. She knew that he was in nocent. She said tha all the angels in heaven couldn't make her doubt it, but no one else thought with her until a year had none bv, and then an old confiden tial clerk, who wa3 trusted in everything, being caught in another theft, confessed to that which my sister's sweet'nart had been accused of. The story he had told to his employers of being knocked down ia the streets of New York, where he went that holiday afternoon, and being thought drunk, and put into a station house, and being ashamed to give his name next morning, and too sick to come home next daw was no doubt true. His employers advertised for hn, but in vain. And mother owned to sending him away from the door when he came to set Olive. It is a sad story. Olive can t seem to like anv one else, and the poor le iiow ; so fond of her So" that's the story of the quilt." The woman stormed and gave a" little crv, for the cuest had flung himself upon his knees, and was kissing that patchwork quilt asv lovers kiss their sweetheart's lips. She gave another little cry in a mo ment, and knelt down beside him, and put her hand upon his shoulder. "Oh, dear! oh, dear!"i she 6obbed, crying hard herself. "Oh, dear! I do believe it is Harry Martin." And it was Harry Martin, who had been to the far eneb of the earth and had ouad gold, but not happiness, believing Himself' robbed forever Qf love and of f aff TrpC.'il"'1 "'tvha hacl returned to find both awaiting hnu, through the means of that patchwork quilt, with its butterflies and flowering boughs and roses. "Lucy" sa:d Olive to her sister, .a few months afterward, "now that we-are go ing to housekeeping, I want you to give me one thing." "Anything on earth that I can," said Mrs. Jolliver. "I was thinking of a sil ver service." "Oh, Lucy, dear,'.' said Olive, begin ning to cry for very happiness, "it's only the butterfly quilt that I want. The dear old quilt. Harry says we can't keep house without it, we both love it so." "I've rolled it up for you already," &aid Mrs. Jolliver. "It seems to belong to you, Olive." And so to-day Olive s last baby sits upon the brilliant quilt, and tries, with his chubby fingers, to pull therefrom the butterflies and roses. The Ledger. Carions Communication. That curious thing which may be called telepathic communication, and which has been observed in Ind:a and among our own Indians has had some interesting illustrations in Mexico. During the Franco-German war the City of Mexico waked up one morning to hear from its servants, and in the market places, and all over the streets from the people of low degree, that a, great battle had been fought, in which the French were oiferwhelnied. A week elapsed be fore ay direct word wa3 received ; mean- 11 1- - ' J 1 " A i 1 wniie xne rumor assericu. lisiii wim sucn assurance that even the French colony became distinctly depressed. And then they got the hews of Sedan. Some years ago there was a great risk ing of Indians in Western Mexico, who marched upon Guadalarja 12,000 strong. There were but 3000 troups in the West ern capital, under the command 'of Corona. One afternoon about 4 o clock the Indians, at a point two and a half days' distant, fell into a state of agita tion. They said that a great battle had been fought and the Indians defeated. Yet the battle of the Mojonera did not begin till noon o,f that day, and at 4 o'clock the Indians, m tumultous fashion, wefe still fleeing, from the field. During our Modoc- war, so-called,, though our newspapers had pony ex presses and even carrier pigeons with the troops at the Lava Beds, the Indians in Lake County, Cal., 209 miles away re ported from day "to day the substance of the actions hirs before the news reached the telegraph station at Shasta. Account for itl . Western civilization isn't "up" to accounting for it. Neu York Sun. The Musical Sense in Animals and lien The higher animals can also enjoi music, as my house-cat shows, when sht come3 at the playing of -he piano to sit by the player, and sometimes jumps intc her lap or on the key-board, of the in strument. I know of a dog, too, in I family in Berlin, which comes in in lik manner when tere is music, often from distant rooms, opening the door with his paw. I knew jnf another dog, usuallj thoroughly donjestic, ftvhieh occasionallj , playfcti tlio vagolbontl for love of music Whenever the semi-annual mass wai celebrated in the city he could not b kept at the house. As soon as the so called Bergknappen, which were accus tomed to play at this time in the streets, appeared, he would run av.'ay and follow them from morning till evening. Evidently neither cat3 nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appieciation oi it, for i,t is not of the slightest use ' to them in the struggle for existence. More over, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music'"' is therefore an uncontemplated side-facultj of a hearing apparatus which has becomt on other grounds what we find it to bo. So it is, I believe, with man. He has not acauired his musical hearing- as such. but has received a highly developed organ of hearing by a process of selec tion, because it was necessary to him in the selective process ; and this organ ol hearing happens also to be adapted tc listening to music. Popular kcienct Jilonthly. Meteorites. Meteorites are particularly interesting because they comprise the only material coming to us from outer pace. In con sequence of the striking phenomena re sulting from their rapid passage through our atmosphere, making them appear like balls of fire visible at great dis tances, sometimes exploding with such violence as to be taken for earthquakes, their falls have been noticed and recorded since the earliest time3. The accounts,. however, were imbued with superstitions, and so distorted by the terrified con dition of the narrators, that in most cases the witnesses of the event were laughed at for their supposed delusions, and it was not tilt the beginning of the present century that men of science and people in general began to give credit to such reports. . The earliest authentic records of stones falling from the sky are to be found in the Chinese annals, which go back 644 B. C-, and between that time and 33S A. I. Biot has traced sixteen distinct occurrences., In Europe, a meteorite ia said to have fallen in Crete as far back as 1473 B. C, but Grew: history cannot be depended upon for events earlier than 700 B. C. A more probable fall, in 7j5 B. C, h meajtioned by Plutarch; while Livy,in his History of Home, gives an account of a shower of stones which fell &n the Alban Mount abjrat C52 B. C, and which so impressed the senate that thev decreed a nine days' solemn festival. Popular ikic;tci Moriit-y. Broad Acres in Australia. Roman cobles sometimes had whole provinces for estates, but thec are almost paralleled in Australia, where immense estate are numerous. They are adver tised for sale in a Melbourne paper. The area of the first is' 434 square miles, ol which the rent is $1005.37 only, and the cattle on the pasture are valued at 12. 5C each. The second comprises G4S square miles, and the third 553 square miles. All three are in Queensland. The first lot is described as watered by a river, and having a town ninety miles distant on one side and 150 on the other. The advantage of the second is that it lies be tween three towns, which are respectively 180, 300 and 350 miles away, and 'the third apparently most fortunately situ ated of all, is "within 100 miles of a railway.-' " "CANDLING" EGGS. KAPID WORK IN THE EXAM IX A TION OFHEN FRUIT. , As Many as 3200 Dozen Eg-jrs Han dled in One Bay by a Tester Storing Eggs Utilizing the- Bad Eggs. It was a room about ten by ten feet, without windows, and with only one door. . The walls, ceiling and floor were painted black, and the funeral gloom seemed deeper and blacker under the rays of a single gas jet of many candle power. Seated in front of the ga3 jet, and so close that he could touch the flames easily with his extended hands, was s imooth-faeed, medium-sized man, whose gray eyes had a preternatural pupil dila tion, like? those of a cat. On either sida of him was a box half filled with eggs, which he wa3 engaged in shifting from one box to the other. Taking five in his left hand and three in his right he juggled the lot before the light, shifting the eggs from the top to the botcn of his hand with astonishing rapidity For a moment each egg was broughtto the level of his dilated eyes, which were directly opposite the gas jet and did not blink in the powerful light. As the eggs were thus held each was skill fully turned until each portion of the shell was critically inspected. Like a well-constructed machine the man's arms and lingers worked, and the pile of eggs in one box decreased while the other re ceptacle was rapidly filled. Finally one box; was emptied and the other was heap ing full. Then the man's arms and fin gers ceased to work and he turned to face his visitor. "Yes," said he, to a Philadelphia Press reporter, "lam an egg-tester, and the . process you have just witnessed is what we can canaung eggs. i ormeriy.can-j, die was used, but it is not as satisfact as gas. The burner we use wa3 maae specially for tho purpose and gives a very powerful light. We have tried elec tricity, but it doesn't work. It dazzles the eyes, and after a while we can't tell a good egg from a bad one. As it is, egg testing has its effect on the eyesight. "I was reared at the business, and reckon that I am as expert as any man in the country. Just before Easter, when a great many eggs are coming in, I han dle as many as 3200 dozen .in a day. Every egg that comes into the establish ment passes through my hands. "The lot that I have just examined contains an unusually large number of what are known to the trade as 'float ers You will notice, if you hold the egg between your eyes and the, light, a dark, almost black substance close to the shell. That is the yolk, which has set tled through the albumen and is stickinq fast to the shell. , It is caused by allow ing the' egg to lie too long on one side. In summer time a 'floater' would be bad in two days, but now it will last a week. "In the spring and summer we get a great many 'swimmers,' or halt-hatched eggs. They have been under the hen two or three days, and in the albumen is a little black spot, not larger than a pin head. These eggs are all right in the winter tim, but in the summer thej soon becom V1 . . . -. "When v?e receive more eggs than we have a market for, we store them for future use in an air-tight loom, wrhichis kept at a uniform temperature of thirty five degrees. They are packed in flour barrels, in oats that are extra cleaned. In the bottom of the barrel we put two or three inches of clean hay, then a couple of inches of oats, on which we put a layer of eggs, with the flat side down. Between the layers are oats, and on the top of the filled barrel we put more hay. The barrels are placed on their sides, and they will keep in that condition foi eighteen months, perfectly fresh and good. These eggs are not Lworth much now. When we fetch them out next winter, they will bring twenty-three oi twenty-four cents. "Somtimes we wax eggs to preserve ! them, but this gives the shell a glossy J appearance that injures their sale. In j this process beeswax is melted, and when very warm the eggs are dipped into it, ! and the pores of the shell are thus ; stopped up. Then there are also liming and pickling as means of preservation. The shell of a limed egg is always rough, while that of a pickled egg is smooth. If you examine the latter before a gas jet, the white looks watery, and if broken and eaten the albumen will taste salty. You can't boil either a limed or a pickled egg. Both lime and pickle eat into the shell, and make it very thin and fragile. When you put them into - hot water the shell cracks open and the albumen oozes out." "What do you do with the bad eggs?" "If they are too utterly bad we throw them away; ones that are a little 'off bring three cents a dozen." . "To what possible use can those eggs be put?" ' "The yolks are used by morocco fin ishers in their business." "And the whites?" "You'll be surprised if I tell yb'a that confectioners use them ia making fancy cakes. They can't use a musty egg, though. The best eggs that are sent tc us come from the West. A frosted egg becomes watery and cracks. The cracks close, though, when it is thawed out.bui will open again when it is placed in boil ing water. An egg that is six or nine months old is graded by dealers as fresh. Cracked eggs bring t.o-thirds price. An Innocent Victim. The Paris edition of the New York Herald teli3 a pathetic story of a man named Joseph Borras, who was sentenced to death and served three years in prison, ten months of which with a ball and chain fastened to his feet, for a crime he never committed. A subscription started for . him by the Paris Fijiro and the Herald realized a considerable sum. When questioned after his release Bjrris said: "I am not yet accustom ed to my liberty. ZIy stomach is cramped, and 1 can cat only a very little atii time. If I walk for an hour I become ired -aad ha7c .o sit down. But 1 am onlv twenty- ;ight years old aad shall, soon by ready for hard work asrain. A QnDer Easiness in Babylon. A collection of very valuable tableb from ancient Babylon has been received in London. One pair, dating about 220C B. C, reveals the curious fact that there were in Babylon at that time . a class ol 2ien employed a3 agents to obtain chil dren to be adopted by wealthy citizen! who had no family. These men received i regular commission, both from the parents and from those who adopted the LOST. Iost somewhere here, I think it was. Between noontime and night A pair of precious, priceless things All full of sunny light; And each was made of tiny links Pure gold from tip to tip -And sixty of these links were joined ; In cunning workmanship. Upon each tiny link there lay A diamond bright and clear, Could I have lost them, do you think, "As I was coming here? -I fear that they began to slip "When I was in the lane And filled my mouth with raspberries And, both my hands. with stain When L stretched out upon the gras3 And had that lovely dream, I'm sure a dozen links or so Slipped down into the stream. . And many more I must have lost When I went slowly down . Beneath the forest trees that make A cooler path to town. These several links I felt them go When loitering at the gate Slipped from my hand, although I knaw That I was very late! Gone are the precious jeweled links 'Mongst berries, brooks and flowers And no reward could bring me back Those two lost sunny hours ! Defroit Free Press. PITH ANDP01NT. The smart trout doesn't "catch on." Springfield -Democrat. A pawnbroker should live up to his pledges. lexas Sif tings. A heart that has been often tendered is tough. Boston Transcript. The glutton can never tell when he has encagh, ujetmsg"he never has. . a TtOfge. . - A shortcake must, indeed, be shoit when it can't raise the wherewith to berry itself decently. Puck. In a Military Hospital. "And where abouts do you " feel worst, Corporal?" "On sentry-duty, Doctor." Juige. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is gen erally true that women who don't fancy work do fancy work". Elmira Gazette. Strange to . say, very few fans are pawned,although it is very easy to "raise the wind" with theni. Boston Bulletin. " 'Twas on the cheek I kissed her She made resistance weak; But murmured as she felt my lips: "Well I think you haye the cheek !" Iuck. Labor is honorable; always excepting, possibly, the laboring jaw of the dema gogue or ignoramus. Olathe Kan.) Mirror. Bronson "Who shall decide when tho doctors disagree?" Johnson "The coroner generally has to do it." Jfun seijs Weekly. , No no matter what sized shoe a man wears, his feet, if perfect, should meas ure two feet ten. Counting his toes. Dansville Breeze. "Batter's out," sang the cook," a3 she slapped down the last griddle-cake. "There are no flie3 on this' 'pitcher." Harvard Lampoon. - . - - "Books on paintinsf my spirit enthrall ; Yet hare frankly I'm bound to confess That my cheque-book I love best of all. , Judge. The best cure for opesity is to board for the summer at .3 farm-house where you will be treated "like one of the fam ily." Boston Gazette. A man over in Paris makes a living by waking folks whose business necessitates their rising early; ha doc3 a rousing business. Peek's San. Jack "Do you remember old Lord , Grumly?" Maud "No. He died be fore I was born ; but rou remember him, do you not, Edith?" Munseys Weekly. Sweetam "She smiled oa my suit. Robbins, old boy," Bobbins "Well, I think she might.' The wonder is she didn't go into hysterics." Boston Herald Her figure scarcely would entice, ', , Although in love I pledge har. The onlv place it looks so nice Is in the bank's big ledger. New York Sun. Robinson "Do you know thai you have the reputation among your creditors of bng very polite?" Travel "Of course. I always ask them to call again." 1 "I've changed my mind since I saw you last," said Cidley. "Ihopethenew one is better than the last," pTit in Cyni CU3, and Cadley got mad. Neu York Herald. Mrs. Cumso "John, dear, I wish you wouldn't get your hair cut as short a3 that." Cumso "Why?" Mrs. Cumso bility." A fly crawled into a syrup jug. And. issued a sadder ani wisar b-jg; And he cried in a voice that was shrill and loud, "Though I'm stuck up lam not proud V.. :' La wrence A m erica n. Henry II. Stanley will improve the time between how and his marriage by delivering fifty lectures in America. After marrjage Henry will be the au dience. Buffalo Next. "I think that Venus de Milo is a hor rid, homely thing," said Juno, in a rage. "Oh, come, n6w, Juno," put in Jupiter, "don't attack a defenseless, unarmed woman." New York Racket. Sufferer "I called, doctor, to see if you could relieve me of tlm excruciating pain from a bad tooth." Dentist "Cer tainly, madam. Step . right into my drawing-room." Chicago "Times.. " I come," tho lecturer bsgan, a And then he gave a gentle cough, For ia the au iiffnea a man Irreverently said, "Come off:'' A'ew? York Herald. Little Johnny "You ought to have seen Mr. Merritt and sister make lemon ade." Mrs. Brown "How did they do it?" Little Johnny "Cora held the lemon while 3Ir. Merritt squeezed Cora.' Drake Magazine. A health journal says in going up-' stairs the mouth should be kept closed. Most wives understand this. It is not until after they have go their husbands upstairs that they begin to open their mouths. Siatuman. A Young Lady (hesitating for a word in describing a rejected suijtor) "He ia not a tyrant, not exactly domineering, but" "Dogmatic," siiggested her friend. "No, he has not dignity enough for that. I think pupmatic would convey my mean ing admirably." Chatter. The Mexican Government has granted to A. K. Owen, the head of the Topolo- 1 bampo Company,a zone of 31,000 square ' t - mt JI A A 1 m ? w miies oi lanu, siretcnrag ironi xne uuu of C&Iifonua to the Rio Grand
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