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The Chronicle. TTILgESBOIlO. H. CL i ncraft ?m hi ?sajiOi sqi st Jfou34T -11 J oSa30Jsd rjt ;rq sqreoq vj&ox It Is a mistake, assert the Chicago Herald, to suppose that polar research has cost enormously in human life. j De ipite all the grea disasters ninety-seven out of every 100 explorers hare returned alive Count Von Moltke understood the vir tues of silence. At no time during ' his ninety years -was he much given to speak ing, although hie -was an accomplis'bed linguist. Indeed, it was said of him that he knew how to hold his tongue ia ten languages. '''-.' 4 Nut fanning is a new industry in North Carolina. Small manufactures are prose cuted with vigor in many parts of the South, and several new plantation and forest industries are steadily developing that region. "These," comments the Washington Star, "are among the (signs of hope on the American horizon. "( The Mail and Excreta thinks that one of the most unique railroad .stations in the country can be seen on the Green wood Lake Road at Soho. The platform la laid around the base of . a giant elm tree, while the roof is in the form of a huge wooden umbrella around the .tree, the whole structure resembling an im mense summer house. We doubt if a 4 1 more picturesque station can be found in the world. At least one person in three between the ages of ten and forty years is subject to partial deafness. The great majority of cases of deafness are hereditary and due to the too close consanguinity of the parents. ' Deafness is more prevalent among men than among women, because the former are more exposed to the vicis titudes of climate. It is thought that telephones tend to bring on deafness when one ear is used to the exclusion of the other. . j An interesting incident in' connection with Presdent Harrison's visit to Atlanta , was his meeting with Mr. George Cook, a courtly, elderly gentleman, and a well known piano manufacturer of Boston. The grandfather of Mr. Cook was the Captain Cook who saved the life of Gen eral William Henry Harrison from the Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe. Mr. Cook and Mrs. Cook had been spending a few days with Governor Bullock, and on invitation of Mayor Hemphill went up the road to ' meet the President.' The . meeting of the two grayhaired grandsons was very cordial, ana they enjoyed a pleasant chat during the ride into the city. : ' ' ' I Joef Shakespeare, the Mayor of New Orleans, was asked whether he knew how he. came by his surname.' "Oh," said he. "you think, perhaps, I claim descent from the Bard of Avon, j Well, I'm an American, and you know what Americans are after. I never heard that the Bard of Avon left anything but a name, so I took no interest in. his family. f he had left money it would be differ ent." As a matter of. fact Shakespeare did leave an estate that was reckoned good in its time. The new Shakespeare of New Orleans is a native of the neigh borhood of Baltimore, where his ances tors were farmers.' He is a rich iron founder. I George W. Childs, , of Philadelphia, has consented to exhibit his fine art and souvenir.tjollection at the Chicago Fair. Among his treasures are the little green harp which belonged to Tom Moore, and which he carried into hundreds of Irish homes; the massive silver vase presented to Henry Clay, when he was .at the height of his popularity, by the Whig ladies of Tennessee; . Washington's champagne glass; cups, saucers and glasses j which! famefrom Louis Napoleon, the late Emperor William, the late Emperoi Maximilian and the ex-Emperor of Brazil, a miniature ship, formerly thd property of President Andrew Jackson ind the silver waiter presented to Gen eral Jackson after his victory by the citi tens of New Orleans. . . I It really looks now, asserts the Nev fork Sun, as though the action.' of th Italian Government toward this country had so frightened King Humbert's sub jects as to- make tens of : thousands oi them hasten to fly from Italy arid seeL refuge here. They are coming over a fast as they can find ships to carry them, and, according to recent despatches, th Mediterranean ports are ' swarming witl Italians anxious to secure bunks ? in th steerage of the steamships bound foi - rica-' There- is reason for , enter : lainmg the apprehension that, if : Kin; ; Humbert were to threaten to make wa upon the United States, we could not fine ' room.here for the hosts' of his subject who would be seized with the desire tj fly from his kingdom, ,: , - ' s j! . ILLUSIONS. Go stand at night upon an ocean craft . j" i And watch the folds of Ita imperial train Catching in fleecy foam a thousand glows A miracle of fire unquenched by sea. : There, in bewildering turbulence of change. Whirls the whole flrmanent, till as you gaze, All else unseen, it is as heaven itself Had lost its poise, an each nnanchored star In phantom haste flees to the horizon line. What dupes we are of the deceiving eye! How many a light men wonderingly acclaim Is but the phosphor of the path life makes With its own motion, while above, forgot, Bweep on serene the old ttnenvlous stars I Robert Underwood John ton, in Century. UNCLE FLAXLEY'S HOBBY. BY HEXKM FOBBEST G BATES. The white, vertical light of a Feb ruary day shone down through the sky light of Julian Dover's studio, its pitiless brightness bringing out every layer of dust on the Venetian red draperies, every spot and stain on the much benicked walls. ' j The lay figure was doubled up in a most impossible attitude against a big chair, covered with cotton velvet and cheap gilt fringe; a bunch of faded roses, in an old "crackle" vase, hung limply down, and Mr. Dover, in a shabby plum-colored velvet coat, and a Turkish fez perched jauntily on, one side of his handsome head, was painting desperately away, intent on economizing every sec. ond of the precious winUr daylight. "Oh, the deuce 1" he exclaimed, ab ruptly. "What imade you jump so, Clarie? A man don't want the current of his ideas disturbed just when " . The model lifted her large, wine brown eyes to his face, with a depreca tory smile. "I hear Kitty Flaxley outside," said she. I . "Outside she -must stay, then I" re marked Mr. Dover, frowning at his pal ette. "I can't be . interrupted ; every minute is a lump of gold. Wait 1" he roared, as a gentle rapping sounded on the door. "Clarie is posing for me I" ' And then one perceived a slight, graceful figure in a coarse lilac cotton gown, and a striped handkerchief care lessly twisted around her rich, brown locks, leaning in an artistic attitude against a window-sash studded with many small panes, that was supported be tween two standards. Her fingers were intertwined in her hair; her elbows rested on the sill, where a coarse flcwer-pot or two were ranged. She was not Mrs. Julian Dover for the time being; she was "The Fisherman's Wife," destined bj good lusk and the grace of the hanging committee to figure in the forthcoming spring exhibition. "Oh, Julian, I am so tired!" she pleaded. Every bone in me is cramped. Mayn't I rest?" You've no idea of true art," said Julian, slowly. 4,You haven't posed half an hour yet." i 'I'm so sorry; but " Jump, then 1" said the painter for the first time realizing how pale and worn the delicate, oval face was. "I suppose I can be putting in the distant sea while you gossip with your Kitty." He caught her hand as she skipped past him, and kissed her a kiss which was a rich reward for all the cramp and weariness she had endured and she ran out to the hall, tugging as she went to remove the knotted red silk neckerchief which supplied an element of warm color to the picture. There stood her quondam schoolmate, Kitty Flaxley, with cheery lips and spar kling eyes. "Oh, Claire, how odd you look 1" said she. "Yes," said Mrs. Dover, composedly. "I'm 'The Fisherman's Wife.' Every bone in me is a separate pain, with sit ting so lon watching for my husband's boat." " Both laughed; and then the artist's wife led Miss Flaxley into the studio, where Julian nodded a pleasant saluta tion to her. "You won't expect me to stop work ing?" said he, "Of course not!" said Kitty. "It's work that I've come to talk about. Such news as I've got ! The family fortunes are all made. Our Uncle Flaxley came home yesterday. That is, he isn't our uncle he's only a sort of. ccusin; but mamma naturally wants to make the re lationship as near as possible ; so we are all instructed to call him 'uncle ". "And who is Uncle Flaxley 1" f "That's just it," said Kitty, laughing. "He went to the South Sea Islands, thirty years ago, and people took no no tice at all of his exit except to say some thing about 'good riddance to bad rub bish.' He comes back, and you would think him a canonized saint. Nothing is good enough for him." "Ohl" said Dover. "He's made money?" ' ' . "Exactly," nodded-Kitty. "But he's the oddest old fish a little, dried-up, parchment-faced man, who goes about finding fault with everything and every-i body, and promulgatiug the : most out landish theories that ever were heard of. The first thing he did was to upset all our family traditions. You know, Claire, how mamma has brought us up like the lilies of the field, that toil not, neither do they spin? ; Now, we are each of us to learn a trade. I'm going into dress making!" : i 'Impossible 1" 'cried the artist's wife, j "Theodora is going to tackle art em broidery. Constantino says she hasn't decided yet between telegraphy and typewriting. Oh, you may well look amazed 1 - It's all Uncle Flaxley' He says he'll give us a thousand dollars apiece when we've each learned a real, bread -winning, practical trade. ' He says it's what every worriSn ought to do. Dora wants to get a thousand dollars to get herself a stunning set of diamonds. Con would like to go to Canada with the Treiawneys next year, and . I don't tell anyone, please, Claire . and Julian but I shall give mine to "Rembrandt Alison, so that he can go to Paris and study in the Louvre." ' ' ' , "Good!" cried Julian Dover. "Then it' really true that you are engaged I Kitty, Kitty, an artist's wif,e ia a first- class martyr 1" r j ? An artist's wife is the happiest crea ture in the world, Kitty!" counter as serted Claire, her soft eyes lighted up with love. "A thousand dollars I ; Oh. I wish I could make a' thousand' dol lars!" i : i , 'I'm coin;? down town every day to learn the Graftenbursrh system," said Kitty. "I shall have to work three long, endless months before they give me a diploma; but I shall have, something to work for, don't you seel. And now good-by ! I'm off for Graf tenburgh's !" ' Uncle Elimelech Flaxley walked around the house of his cousin's widow, with his hands hooked under his coat tails, and his blue spectacles balanced on the bridge of his nose, peering into everything, criticising everything, and finding fault with everything Mrs. Peter Flaxley smiled at all his comments. In her eyes his conduct was perfect. . ! . i "What!" Uncle Flaxley had cried, "three girls, and not one of 'em taught to earn her living I Thats no way to bring up a family, sister Annabel. Every woman should have a trade. Every woman should be able to support hers elf the same as if she were a man.! This was Uncle Flaxley's hobby. ! He trotted it out, he bridled it and saddled it and rode it perpetually, and the upshot of it was that the thousand dollar propo sition was made and promptly, accepted by. his three nieces. 'It's dreadful!" sighed Mrs. Flaxley; "but of course it is our interest to con sult your uncle's wishes in every, re spect." ' "I've always thought I should like to learn dressmaking," said Kitty. One could clothe one's self at half the ex pense. And then a thousand dollars, all of one's own think of it.V "I know ever so many nice girls who do type-writing," said Constantia, a tall, willowy girl,' with yellow hair and pallid skin. "If one must have a trade, I be lieve there's nothing more genteel." But Theodora, the beauty of the Flax ley family, turned up her nose. "Such an absurd idea of Uncle Flax ley's!" said she. "I'm a tolerably de cent embroiderer already, and if the woman's exchange accepts a piece of my work, I suppose the old crank will rec ognize it as a token of being an expert in that particular trade!" And as she shut herself up with silks and satins and several dozen ounces of rainbow -colored filoselle and crewels, to design a pattern which should take the world of tapestry by storm. Kitty wrestled bravely with the tech nicalities of the Graftenburgh system. Constantina worked diligently at the clicking marvel of the nineteenth cen tury. Theodora was the first to look back from the plow-handles. 'I hate it !" said she, pettishly. "I can't make anything out of : it 1 Such wooden-looking things as my cat-tails and storks are I I mean to go and see Philomel Alison about it." Young Rembrandt Alison's studio was far smaller and less picturesque than that of his compeer," Julian Dover. ' He slept on" a sofa, under the window of nights, and his sister Philomel, who kept house for him on the most econ omical principles, occupied a three cornered closet at the rear, which she called a bedroom, and which, besides the cot-bed, held exactly two bandboxes, and a chair with a wash-bowl and pitcher on it. She was a skilled 'embroiderer, and worked her finger-ends off, 'while her brother, rapt in visions of Titian and Buonarotti, stood before his canvas. Children, you work too hard, both of you," said a little, old, yellow-com-plexioned man, who had once known their father on the Mexican frontier, and who came occasionally to the studio, and viewed them with not unkindly eye3. It's work or starve, sir," said Alison, with short laugh. i ' "What do you ask for this picture?" abruptly questioned Jlr. Flaxley. "Two hundred dollars when it is finished." , A ' "Tut, tut!" said the old man. "Too muca ! Two hundred dollars for a ! bit of canvas eighteen inches square?" "It's not a mere bit of canvas," said Alison, coloring up; "it's my. brains my ideas the visions I see nightly in my sleep." "I'll give -you fifty dollars for" it," hazarded the yellow-complexioned man. "I couldn't possibly sell it for that." "Humph! humph 1" snorted Flaxley. "The next I know, Philly here will be wanting to sell her bit of brown-and-yellow needlework for two hundred dol lars, too?" Philomel looked gravely up from her work. .. 'No," she 6aid. "I'm to receive fifty dollars for it. It is an order." "What is the world coming to?" ciied Mr. Flaxley. "People must be aching to spend their money.. What is the thing, anyhow ducks paddling - in a pond?" . : Philomel shook her bead. "Herens,' said she, "in a marsh full of reeds and rushes. Those lines of yellow silk see? are where the sunshine strikes the water. Flaxley peered dubiously at the mass of bright colors. -,-' "One has to exercise considerable im agination," said he. it ' ' "I wonder," said Philomel' to her brother, after the fussy little visitor was gone, "if I ought to have told him that I was doing this work for his niece in Radcliffe street?" " 'Speech is silver, silence is golden,1 ." said Rembrandt Alison, mechanically. "It's always best not to talk. Do i yOu think, Phil, I've got the red too deep in this peasant's jacket?" " Mr. Flaxley, making his way home, thought of the studio he had just left, with a softening of the heart. . "They are nice children, "he pondered. "Their father was a nice man. . He took me into' his ranch and cured . me" that time I had the gulley fever. I might have died IX it hadn't been forvbira. r Time passed on; the three months ex pired. Constantia, copied some letters for her uncle on a typewriter with such skill .and rapidity that he wrote out his check for a thousand dollars on the spot. Kitty showed him her diploma from Graftenburgh & Co., and proudly called his attention to a trimly-fitting dress that she wore. A second time Uncle Flaxley inscribed his autograph on an oblong slip of pale green paper, and then Theodora unrolled a banner of dark-olive satin, glistening with rich embroidery. ' "It has just been sold at the woman's exchange," said she, "for a hundred and ten dollars. Here's the receipt." Uncle Flaxley pricked up his feather like ears; he stared very hard through his spectacles. "Your work?" said he. "My workt" repeated Theodora, with dignity. "No, it isn't!" curtly contradicted Mr. Flaxley, whose iorte was not conven tional repose. "Fve seen those ducks and marsh-grasses before ! I" saw them when Philomel Alison was working them. Young woman, you have deceived me?" Theodora turned scarlet. The sudden ness of his contradiction had stricken her guilty soul dumb. "No thousand-dollar check for you," said Mr. Flaxley. "Go and say your prayers and read, over the Ten Command ments, where it says, 'Thou shalt not steal 1'. For you are a thief 1 " He had scarcely overcome his wrath against this backsiding relative when he trotted around to Rembrandt Alison's studio the next day. "I can't get that young fellow's wist ful face out of my mind," thought he. "I guess I'll buy the eighteenth-inch square of canvas after all." He stood wiping his boots on the mat in the studio vestibule, and plainly heard Kitty's veice Baying: "Do take it, Rembrandt! I've earned it myselt. It's mine to give, and I've no possible use for it. I thought of you all the time, and I do so want you to go to Paris and study in the Louvre !" Uncle Flaxley pushed, the door open with a bang and walked in, regardless of etiquette. "Yes, take .it, Alison," said he "take it in the spirit that she elves it. She's a trump, that girl is!" Rembrandt Alison looked at Kitty's scarlet face with grave, searching eyes. "I will take it," said ho, "if Kitty will give me herself, also. There can be no crushing sense of obligation where love bridges the way." "I'll give her to you," said Uncle Flaxley, holding pushing Kitty lor ward. "Things are happening just to suit me." "Me also," said Philomel, in a whis per, her pale face lighted up with joy. "Herel" said Uncle Flaxley; "what's the price of this picture and this and this! ril buy 'em all ! Gracious met if you're really going to Paris, there's no reason Kitty shouldn't go, too, on her wedding trip." ; Of all Uncle Flaxley's eccentricities, this was the most delightful. Kitty had a long story to tell Julian Dover and Claire, in their studio across the hall, that day. "It will be such a glorious thing," cried Claire, still enacting "The Fisher man's Wife," "for you to marrv an ar tist!" But Mrs. Flaxley declared that her rich relation had been "shamefully partial" in the matter of the thousand dollar proposition. It is so hard to suit everybody ! Saturday JHighU A WonderfaV Clock. A marvelous piece of mechanism has recently been exhibited in Paris. It is an eight-day clock, which chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, playing three tunes every hour, or at any inter val required, by simply touching a spring. The hands go as follows: One once a minute, one once an hour, one once a week, one once a month and one once a year. It shows the moon's age ; rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and low tide, besides showing half ebb and half flood. A curious device represents the water, showing ships at high water tide as if they were in motion; and, as it recedes, leaves them high and dry on thi sands. The clock shows the hour of the day, the day of the week, the. day of the month and the month of the year. The. mechanism is so arranged as to make its own provisions for long and short months. It also shows the signs of the zodiac, equations and the difference between sun and railroad time for every day in the year. San JFrancitco Examiner, Balm of Gilead. The balm of Gilead, which is alluded to in the Old Testament as being ex tremely precious, and which is spoken of by Strabo, Pliny and other ancient writers as being a cure for almost every disease, is a liquid resinous substance of high fragrance and enjoys a very high reputation in the East. It is generally believed to be taken from a species of balsamodendrow, a small tree growing in Arabia and Abyssinia, and known as balsam of Gileadeuse. The finest balsam, called obobalsam or balm of Mecca, is obtained by incisions, is at first turbid and white, but finally becomes a golden yellow color and of the consistency of honey. Inferior kinds are obtained by boiling the fruit and the wood. Brook lyn Citizen. , The Deri ration of Buckram. ' Buckram, so called - from Bokhara, where it was originally made in the Mid dle Ages, was much esteemed for being costly and fine, and fit for use in churcf vestments and for. secular personal wear. John Grandison, Bishop of Exeter, Eng land in 1327, gave to his cathedral nags of white and red buckram, and among the five Yery rich veils for' covering the movable lectern in that church three were lined with blue bokeram. As late as the beginning. of the sixteenth .cen- ( tury this stun! was held good enough for j lining to a black velvet gown for Queen I Elizabeth. Dry Good Chronicle.- : I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A Bethlehem (Penn.) hammer weighs 125 tons. , Electricity runs) a Wurtemburg (Ge many) iron works. Gas must be furnished at fifty-two cents per thousand feet to compete with electricity in lighting. At Pittsburg the Second Avenue Elec tric Street Car Company is equipping its lines with vestibuled. trains. m , The system of riveting by hydraulic power is being successfully applied to the shell plating of vessels in course of construction on the Tyne, England. A fire engine that does away with the use of borees and forces the water by means of power generated by a storage battery is a recent electrical invention. It has recently been shown that when cast and malleable iron are used in .the structure a galvanic action is set up be tween them and 'the malleable iron is corroded. j . i i ' . A calico printing machine has been in vented in this country, the novelty of which is that the cloth may be printed on lone side in eight colors, or on both sides with four colors each. It is well known that vegetable and animal oils are unsuitable for cylinder lubrication, and recently in France where colza oil was used it was found necessary to burn out the deposits in the ports of the locomotive cylinders. . English manufacturers are bleaching paper by an electrical process without, it is stated, impairing its strength. A mag. nesium chloride solution i3 decomposed Dy;a powerful electric current with the evolution of chlorine and oxygen. J A newly-devised insulated screwdriver has the shank so thoroughly insulated, nearly to its tip, that shock, can be avoided. The metal-shank is flattened and bent into a loop at one end and then moulded into , a rubber handle, . which gives perfect protection from the cur rent. ; A new system of house wiring for elec tric lighting consists of fitting the build ing with continuous tubes of insulating material, through which the wires are drawn. The tubes are made of paper soaked in a hot bath of bituminous ma terial, and are said to be hard, strong and tough. A handy lock is now used upon tri cycles, boats, chests and boxes. It weighs about half a pound, and, although not much larger than a watch, is consid erably thicker. This padlock is a ! com bmation, and it is fitted with a numbered dial, very much like those used for safes andt vaults. The highest atmospheric pressure on record seems to be 31.72 inches, which occurred at Sempalatinski, on December 16, 1877; and the lowest at any land station is quoted at 27.13 inches, which was recorded on the coast of Orissa, on September 22, 1885. The difference of 4.6 in these readings is probably the maximum range of the barometer ever observed at the earth's surface. I Chicago's latest rapid transit project calls' fur the building of a single-track, single-column elevated electrical railway. Cars will be operated continuously in the same direction in a loop twenty miles in extent and at a distance apart of 750 feet,1 which is equivalent to a headway of twenty and one -quarter seconds, an arrangement considered feasible with single car units, with special track brakes. This would give 140 cars in continuous operation on the circle. A' new apparatus for water has ap peared in the form of a still, which is described as consisting of "a series of large flat disks of metal, placed upright and kept in position by pipes running horizontally on the top and bottom. Water is boiled in a vessel and the steam is conducted from the same to the dish through a pipe. The ' steam radiating from the water is condensed in the disks by a current of air, and the water is col lected in the bottom pipe." The size of still! designed for family use has "eight disks, and is said to distill a gallon of water in an hour. The Papal Swiss Guards. Most foreigners, . who have been in Rome,remember the entrance to the Vat ican with the Portone diBronzo at the end of the semi-circle at the right of the Bernin colonade. On the way to the mass you pass along this por tico, befoie the post of Swiss guards, whose uniform of "lansquenets" of the sixteenth century is one of the curiosities of Rome ; and you may hear the halberds clashing upon the stone floor in salute of some religious functionary as he comes in. ;':-..''!-- I need not describe these guards, with their heavy mustaches and beards; their fresh-colored faces and their unconscious swagger and their doublets, j which seem so wofully out of place in modern Rome. . ' ! On a little triangular place, at the foot of the high and massive wall of the Sis tine Chapel, between the great stretch of the Pontificial garden and the colossal sides of St. Peter's Church, there is an other Swiss guard, at that door of the Vatican by which, last spring, Leo XIH. made his little excursion into the outer world, which was so much talked about in the newspapers. Near by a sentinel of the Italian Army stands guard in the name of King Humbert. .' Here we have the two opposing principals, with their picket lines scarcely twenty paces apart. New Tori Journal. I ; Leanness and Self-Reliance. The razor-back hog, the yellow dog, the lopsided Thomas cat, despised of the world, the hard-featured billy-goat who sservously chews his tough quid and looks at the world in unmitigated disgust all these earn their own living. The fat shoat, the fat dog, the fat tom-cat,' the fat billy-goat, the which we have never yet seen, are wholly without self-reliance, have no object in life, keep no move on, they can't sing, they can't fight, they them nothing on earth, except fat, which . their masters have put there - Let us be lean and independent. Jft York Jo wr aU . ' . .:';. .-: . JOHN D. WILSON, Civil nqeef, WILKESBORO, N. C. Map Drawing at Specialty. W. II. H COWLKS. W. W. BARBER. COWLES & BARBER, - sat f WILKESBORO, N. I C. ir." M. WEIXBORN. " R. N., IIACKETT. WELLBORN & HACKETT, Attorneys at Law, ;TVILKESBOftO, N. C. "Will practice in the State5 and Federal Courts. ' ISAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney - at - Law, Willtosboro, 3". O. Will practice in all the courts. Dealer in real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. T. B. FiNLiyr. H. L. Gkeexe. FIHLEY & GREEUE, Attorneys - at - Law, WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in all the courts. Col lections a specialty. Real estate sold ou commission. - i C. E. WARREN, M. D. - . - Mulberry, N. cl Can be found , in his offic.ewhen not professionally engaged. J. M. TURNER, IY1. D, WILKESBORO, N. C. feOffice at his new residence, where he can be found when not professionally en gaged. . E. S. KING, M. D. NORTH WILKESBORO. . i lfeOffice at Hotel Gordon where he ran always be found when not professionally encased." T. N. Chaffin. A, E. & J. Q. Holtox. CHAFF1N & HOLTON, jflLttornoys ' Law WILKESBORO N. C. WTill practice in all the Courts. Col lections a specialty. jA little Cart That Carries Billions. ! More money has been carried in a small Eand-cart that is trundled daily along Tall street than any vehicle, big or ttle, that travels on wheels anywhere in jthe world, It is the Government Treas ury cart, and it has been traveling to jand fro between the Custom House and jSub-Treasury every business day for the ipast thirty years. In it are conveyed all the money re ceived at the Custom House a3 impost 'duties. Assistant Auditor Josiah . M. 3napp gives - statistics showing the iamount of money that has been carried in it. Thelargest'shm in one day was $2,308,000, on August lv 1872, when there was an increase in the payment of duties because of a change in the tariff. The total sum it took last year to the Treasury was $154,000,000, and in the thirty years it has been rolling through Wall street it has been the receptacle of many billions. . . The body is a foot and a halt square and rests on two heavy wheels. The box is dark blue with red lines running along theedges, and on the panels appears the monogram 'TJ. S. Heavy iron plates clamp the sides and. ends. One end opens on hinges and permits the sliding of the lid, which is fitted in a groove. The customs receipts " are made up once every day, and sometimes more frequently, in the cashier's office of the Custom House and packed in strong ob long wooden chests, which are then pad locked and sealed. These boxes are conveyed on the shoulders of porters to the hand-cart in waiting. ' After they are safely deposited the lid of thevcart is closed and padlocked and the treasure-laden vehicle is shoved by stalwart Government employes to the Sab-Treasury. Its usual route is. along William and Pine streets to the Sub Treasury. There it is unlocked and the boxes removed to the cashier's office and opened and the contents counted and triplicate receipts for the same given to the collector's messenger. In all the Ion? -rears that the wan-on has made the daily trips to the Sub-Treasury noi at tempt has been made to rob it nor as any money been missed. f S Once a three-thousana-douar . gr h certificate was missed, but was aftcrw m discovered in a draw, ia the. cash! 's office in which it had been misL ' Customs officers, who are armed, . company the wagon and watch the mocc i boxes from the time they leave t' ) Custom House until they arrive safe tne casniers room m.tne Duo-i.Teasu. s Attorney Law II r iyijNi They are not lost sight "of any part the way. 2Teo Tori Ei&rdtr.
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