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7 ' ... r vi it j. WE MUST WORK FOE THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. SUBSCRIPTION : $1.60 PER TEAR. t W, XL KITClliN, Owaer. VOLIMB IV. SCOTLAND NECK, X. C, FIUDAY. JANUARY ), 18SS. Ni miu;i: u. OvriTii a rrn I i fl till II iJf II I OUl .Sans n Rhyme. An honest confession is K""1 fr thd soul; As thin as a rail, or to, black as a coal. A hen that is settiDg will never grow fat; As v.-is" us (in owl or as blind as a bat. As the twig first is lient so the tree is in clined ; As many opinions jis people we- find. Better wear out than rust out; the under do-kick; Empty wagons make most noi-e; Tom, Harry and Dick. A lick and a promise; ill news travels fast; If you're not rich at forty your chancer are past. Tin- harder the storm is thi sooner its over; J',e just, before generous; living in clover. -After s'rm comes I ho calm; it takes two to lih ; Blessings all brighten when taking their flight. Bet we n hay and grass; there are tricks in each trade; A panic's never won till the end of it's played. Kvcrv man's his own doctor; clothes lor- rowed don't lit ; r.iwity always the soul is of wit. Birth may le good, but goxl brooding is more ; Afraid of his shadow; don't stick in your oar. Poverty makes for us bedfellows strange. Hanging's to gool for him; sweet is revenge. Never swap horse while crossing a stream; Always by contraries gocth a dream. By rogues falling out honest men get their lines; By distance enchantment is lent to the view. Jack of all trades but a master of none; Conscience, makes cowards of everyone. There's nothing so bad it cannot be 'worse; To some people money is only a curse. Cnadomed beauty the most is adorned; Homo's where the heart is;forearmed is fore warned. There's manv a slip 'tw ixt the cup and the lip; The little leaks often will sink a big ship. Blood's thick m-th in water ; all cry and no j wool ; A proud h 'art is made by a stomach that's full. Many go out to shear and come home again shorn ; All's not gold that glitter's; a man's made to mourn. It takes two a bargain to make; sour grapes, Taxes and death are what no one escapes. II. C. Dodge in Detroit Free Press. THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE. ' The right wiug of Shennau's army was only a few miles from Blue Kock, a mountain village in Georgia. The simple villagers felt little alarm, Blue Kock was the point of no strategic importance to cither the Federals or the Confederates. One fine morning in the early spring John Dickson started out from'thc little hamlet to visit his farm, onlv a mile or two distant. Dickson was a young man, but a chronic lameness ha 1 secured his exemption from military servic, and as he had a wife and two children entirely dependent upon him, he regarded his disability as n blessing. Stili, he Avas a strong Confederate, and on this particular morning, Avhile he was limping slowlv along the rough country i road, he paused more than once to listen Avith a frowning face to the sullen boom of Sherman's guns, several miles away. "I am. not able to do much fighting," lie muttered, "but if they come to Blue Hock and cut up any I'll kill some of them if I have to die for it !" lie meant what he said. This quiet young farmer had plenty of grit when he was put to the test. The walk tired him, and he left the road and stretched himself in a grassy place under the shade of a sturdy old oak. He threw himself on his back and closed his eyes for a moment. Then he looked up into the green foliage above 'him. , A queer expression tlitte I over his face, but his gaze remained fixed upon one point. In a careless way lie raised his hand to his face, and stroked his moustache. Then the hand wandered down over his vest toying with each button. At last it slipped downward to a hip pocket, and reappeared as quick as a flash of lightning, this time with a pistol aimed upward. "Now, you come down," said Dick son gruffly. "Ha! ha!" laughed someone up in the tree. "You have found me, have you?" The laugh surprised and irritate:! Dickson. His keen wyes had discovered a fellow with a blue uniform sitting on one of t lie topmost limbs of the true. It had flashed into his head that it would be an easy matter to capture him, and march him into Blue Kock. And now the rascal was laughing at him! "You'll grin on the wrong side of your mouth pretty soon," said Dickson. "I mean business. Don't you know that you are my prisoner?" "Well, no." was the cool reply, "I hadn't thought of it in that light. In fact, I was under the imi ression that you u ere my prisoner, and I was won dering how to dispose of you." "Confound you!" roared the youn; farmer. "It' you don't cm- down ai once I'll shoot !" "See here, my friend," answered the 'you don't understand the situation. "O, I dont!" shouted Dickson. "No, where are your eyes? Take a good look, but dn't move." Thus appealed to, Dickson allewed his eyes to run over the soldier's entire figure, lie gave K start of surprif-e. The Federal hold in his right hand a .revolver aimed at the man on the ground. "I have had you covered cvt since you came here,"' said the man in the tree. "And what do you think of doing?'' asked Dickson in a tantalizing AVlay. ''I am going to shoot if you trv to get up. or if you cock your pistol," Avas the response; "but 1 expect to persunale you to drop your weapon and go off to the top of that hill ynder." "You are a f'ol!" shouted Dickson. "Don't you know that somebody fitorn town will come along soon and help me capture you?' "And don't you know," replied the other, "that some of our cavalry are coming this way, and may be here any moment .'" Dickson studied the face above him. It was a dark, clear-cot, handsome face, very youthful and pleastint in its expres sion. "Why, you are a boy, ain't you?" was his nect question, as lie took in the lithe, willowy form. "Xever mind what I am; my captain is satisfied with me, and that is enough." "You had better drop your pistol and come down. I'll see that you are treated Avell." "Thanks. Hadn't you fetter lay down your Aveapon and march over that hill, and go home to your wife and children, if you have any? I am not particularly anxious to have our boys come along and capture you." The frank and fearless eyes looking into Dickson's had a kind look, and the angry farmer found that his wrath was gradually melting. After all, he thought, i there would be little glory in capturing ' this boy soldier. And then the fellow' story might be true. If the Federals Avere coming in that direction it was time for good Confederates to hie out. "What are you doing here, anyhow?' ; he asked. j ; "I slipped in Blue Rock last night," J j Avas the answer, "and some of jrour pco- ; j pie chased me out. "My horse Avas shot j J and I had to take to the woods. I j climbed up here to be safe until our ; cavalry came along." "I'll tell you Avhat I'll do," broke in I Dickson, I don't much Avant to take j you prisoner, and I don't want to shoot . you. On the other hand, I'll admit that j I have no fancy for being shot myself, j Kut I'm not going to throw down my j pistol. I will get up and go to town ml when vlir crowd comes, if it comes all, J"ou "ny expect a hot reception if J'ou are not to man3' for There was a pause lor a moment, and then the soldier in the tree spoke. "All right, I'll trust you," he said. "Go ahead aud I'll take no advantage of A'ou. But you may expect to see me in Blue Itock before night." "We'll take care of Blue Hook," de- fiantly responded Dickson, off. Good-bve!' Well, I'm And he rose to his feet, and Avalkcd off as briskly as he could. He scorned to look back. If the federal Avas mean enough to break his word and lire, it was all right. But his heart bumped against his rib until he had placed 100 yards between him and the tree. When the blue jackets swarmed into the village that afternoon the score or two of male inhabitants saw that re sistance Avas useless against such a force. "The captain sent me to guard your property," said a soldier, as he paused in front of Dickson's door. "I am obliged to him." replied Dick son, "but I don't see why." The man Avent on duty, and the little family passed the night undisturbed, and Avith the feeling that they Avere se curely protected. "The captain requests you to come to his head quarter's !" This message made Dickson a little nervous Avhen it Avas delivered to him the next morning. His wife could not conceal her alarm. "There is nothing wrong," the messen ger assured her. "The captain merely desires to see your husband a moment." There was nothing to do but to go. Dickson quieted his wife, and proceeded to the dwelling indicated to him as the captain's headquarters. "Glad to see you, Mr. Dickson," the captain remarked with a peculiar smile, "My wife wishes to thank you for your courteous and sensible conduct yester day." "Your wife!" exclaimed the farmer. And then he saw Avhat had escaped his notice, that there Avas a lady in the room, a very charming nine lauy, Dick-ou thought. She looked fresh and bright in her simple traveling dress, and her curly hair, cut short like a boy's, gave her a roguish look. The lady's face was strangely familiar, and when the astonished Confederate gazed into her eyes he recognized her. "You Avere the soldier in the tree!' he cjied. "The same," admitted the captain's wife with a laugh. "You see," exclaimed the captain, sololier, ";ny wife would come down to see me in camp, and she would wear a soldier's uniform. She is a headstrong little thing, and I had to yield, but after her adventure of yesterday I have persuaded her to return home. War is a bad thing, my friend, if the ladies are to go soldiering." By this time Dickson felt perfectly at home. His hots were in such a jolly, good humor th tt it was contagions and the vi-itor spent a delightful half hour. The Federals did not hold B'ue Rock long. They moved oil with the main body of the army but before they left the captain's adventurous wife hid beea shipped home by her husband. "Queer tilings happen in war times." was Dickson's comment on the aflair when he spoke of it afterward to his friends, "and I tell you it is a wonder that the captain's wife didn't capture me and march me off. bhe is a daisy, if there ever was one!" Atlanta Constitution. Vie. Americans boast of the excellence of their pumpkin and other pies, and have the reputation of being a nation of pie eaters. When it comes to making good pies and pies of many varieties undoubt edly the Yankee is ahead of all the world. The Englishman occasionally makes a rough, blind, determined rush for the lead, and tlrm givjs it up. There are accounts extant of certain big pies baked in the ri 'ht little, tight little isle; one in 178S iu joy for the recovery of George III. from a fit of sickness, mental and physical; another iu 1815, to glorify Waterloo and peace; another in 1S1G to celebrate the repeal of the corn laws. The largest on record was baked a few month ago and styled the jubilee pie. It is some thing larger than the regular family size Washington pio as Avill be seen by the list of ingredients. Adz: Flour, S9G pounds, or nearly five barrels; beef, 1,850 pounds; mutton, 180; veal, 100; beef suet, 40; drippings, 40; lamb, 180; pork, 250; lard, 120; butter, 50 pounds; rabbits in number, 04; hires, 3; fowds, 42; pigeons, 40; grouse, 12; ducks, 21; plovers. 4; turkey, 1; geese, 5; small birds, 100 quite too much of a mixture in the way c f meats one Avouhl think. In addition there were eggs, 30; potatoes, 500 pounds; pepper, 8; allspice, 4; salt, 6 pounds, and brandy, 2 gallons. The Aveight of the whole pie was to and a quarter tons; it Avas eight feet in diameter, and nearly two feet high. This big, unskillful compound of pastry Avas thoroughly baked in two hours, and devoured by the population of two or three villages in a great deal less time. The Aveather Avas cool and pleasant, which may ac count for the fact that no unusual degree of sickness in the neighborhood followed the consumption of the pie.- Detroit Free Press. The Czar's Son. Michael, the third son of the Russian emperor, is in the naAal serAdce. Some thing more than a year ago, when hold ing the rank of a midshipman, the flag ship in Avhich he Avas serving Avas wrecked on the coast of Denmark, The admiral ordered the life-boats to he low ered, and directed Michael to take charge of the first one. The royal mid shipman declined to obey. "I am your commanding officer, and I order you into the boat!" cried the ad miral. "I cannot obey you," returned the prince. "It Avould not become a son of the emperor to be the first to leave the ship. I shall remain Avith you till the last." "But I shall put you under arrest for disobedience, as soon as circumstances will allow me." "I mean no disobedience, but I can not obey," persisted Miclmel. In due time the crew, with the ex ception of lour or five men, reached the shore in safety, and the last to leaAre the vessel Aver the admiral and Duke Michael. Then as soon as temporary shelter was obtained, the rigid discipline of naval life was resumed, and the young prince was placed under arrest for dis obedience to orders. The Busuan Minister at Copenhagen, being at once informed of the facts, tele graphed them to the emperor, and re ceived from him the following reply: "I approve the act of the admiral in placing the midshipman under arrest for disobeying orders, and I bless and kiss my son for disobeying them." Youths' Companion. Ttro iiciiu to Her Strtnjj. Celia. "Why do you encourage at tentions from both Tom and Harry?" Irene. "Well, dear, I like Tom best, but he is not very well off, and can't afford a coupe if we go t the theatre. I call him 'my iin weather beau.'" Celia. "Then what do you call Harry?" Irene. "My rain-bow." Bazar. .4 Mean Man. He-V'My dear wife, I love thee so fondly that when I am near thee I feel not the cold blast of winter." She "Me, too." "Glad too hear .t. Then you don't need an sealskiu sacque this season." Sifliugs. A CHINESE HOME. Domestic Life of an Asiatic Family in New York. Duties and Accomplishments of a Chinaman's Wife. So far as is known, there are only fourteen Chinese Avomeu in New Y'ork says a writer in the Detroit Tribune. Of these nine are married, one is a widow, one an unmarried girl, one a nurse and two aaonymi. Although residents of the Vnited States, they obev to the verv letter the strange sys tem of law and custom which obtains in the flowery king lorn, a system Avhich strougly resembles the treatment of a (pieen bee in an apiary by her drones and workers. Five of these women celebrated their marriage vows in China, two in San Francisco and two in New Y'ork. The moment the mon golian damsel becomes the property of her husband a little more so than they do in America. Her spouse has the privilege, as all husbands the world over, to chide, scold and chastise'her for her faults, and they assert that in case of grave crime he has the right to kili her. In his punishment he may put her on Avhat avc would call bread and water diet, keep her locked up in a bedroom, closet or cellar or beat her with his hand or a bamboo rod. In this respect the Chinese law is almost a fac-simile of the common law w hich prevailed in Eng land and this country until about 1805, and which allowed the husband to "cor rect" his wife Avith "the open hand or a light rod," but not with "the clenched fist nor a club." Under this custom the average almond-eyed woman expects to be beaten with a regularity proportional to her (pied lord's affections, and like the wiAres of English "navvies," regard the omission of corporal punishment as a sure evidence of the loss of his love. In New York the Chines? family lives in the same flat or building as that iu Avhich the paterfamilias does business. To the wife is allotted one, two or three rooms, accord ing to his wealth. From these she practically never stirs. Either the hus band or servant does all tha marketing and shopping. Still worse, she must not receive calls from the opposite sex excepting in rare cases w hen the husband presents an intimate friend. O i such an occasion the visitor bows repeatedly, shakes his own hand vigorously for a minute or two, utters the usual stereo typed remarks about the health of her self, cousin and friends, and departs Avithout once having looked at her face. She goes to no places of amusement and never Avalks upon the street. She reads but little and that love stories, love poems and religious books. But she can generally cook, weare, crochet, em broider and "keep house" miraculously. A dinner with Mo Kee, - a leading importer and banker at NbV-8 Mxrtt street, or with Fuong '-Hong Long at No. 5, is an event which will bear comparison with a banquet at Delmon ico's or the Hoffman house. The wife will take a dozen eggs, pierce them at either end, blowout the contents, refill them Avith . van-colored and van flavored custards and jellies, seal the apertures and then Avhen cooked paint the shells until they are a nightmare of dragons, flying griffins and impossible trees that look like men and men that look like trees. Si? will open and steam a fish until the skin can be removed without losing a scale and the bones without breaking the flesh. It is stalled with an aromatic and pungent mess of meats and spices. Then the skin is put back aud the eyes and head touched up so as to be half natural and half grotesque. Most of her culinary genius is expanded on steAvs and made dishes. Here she uses everj- article known to thj Parisian chef and President Blackford of the Ich theophacrous club and a host of food substances, spices and condiments for which there are no names in any of the European language?. Her skill in weaving and embroiding silk is equally great. With a needle no finer than that which her oc cidental sister uses she will construct a dragon an inch long and a half inch high, of which not onlv the teeth, eyes and claws are perfe't. but even the pupil, iris and cornea and the difference between the incisors and canines are clearly and naturally defined. Au aitr cloth of dragons in the joss house at 202 Catham square and a moving fcreen of peacocks at No. 8 Mott street are good illustrations of this marvelous Avorkman ship and probably could not be dupli cated anvwhere in Christendom. The Holly Tree of Yirjlnla. Peop e iivinir in the colder latitudes of the United States have little idea of the exceeding beauty aad brilliancy con ferred upon a landscape by the holly tree. In Virginia it grows to a com manding height, expanding into an um brella of glossy, prickly foliage, thickly studded with bunches of scarlet berries, I which, rising against a background of !, deep blue sky, makes in midwinter a spectacle not to be forgotten. Cen- tury. l'LARLS or TliOVOHT. Conscience is the pulse of rca-ox You will never have a friend if i must have one without fai.ings. A maa who cannot mind his own busi ness is not tit to be tru-tcd with the business of others. No falsehood can endure touch of ce lestial temper but returns of force to its own likeness. Keep trouble at arm's length. Never turn a blessing round to see whether it has a dark side to it. Blessings are strewed like flowers i i our pathway ; it rests Avith us to gather them up carefully or poss them by. Learn to think fast. The human brain is capable of lightning-like appli cation, and there is no limit to its rapidity of application when rightly and directly applied. Be cheerful, obliging and civil, and you will find every man ready and willing to speak a good word for you and help along your skill. We cannot sing thj new song with the old tongue. Make children love you if you wish them to obey you. History can be formed from permanent monuments and record.; but lives can only be written from personal knowl edge, which is growing every d iv less, and iu a short time is lost forever. Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels, the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. Fishermen, in order to handle eels securely, first cover them with dirt. In like manner doss detraction strive to grasp excellence. Icebergs. The vessel which traverses the At lan tic by the ordinary route b itwecu New York or Boston a:i I the British and French ports runs a chance of mceting,in the open sea, a craft which carries no lights, which makes no signal, and Avhich turns neither to the right nor to the left for approaching ships. These craft constitute a great danger for transatlantic navigation. They are the icebergs, floating down from the Polar regions. So serious has become the danger from icebergs that an intern itioii al con ference has been held at London to consider certain schemes of internation al legislation looking toward some means of preventing collisions with flu icebergs, which are most num.-roiii in the neighborhood of forty degrees north lattitule and ti ty de grees west longitulj. Icebergs, so plenty in that neighborhood, are never seen along the Atlantic coast below Newfoundland. The reason for this is plain. The great blocks of ice de scending from Bifiia's Bay do not find Avater enough to float then Avhen they reach the banks of Newfoundland, Avhich extend far into thi Atlantic. Ac cordingly they drift seaward, turning, twisting, plunging as they do so and aTe borne on by the Polar current until passing into tli3 Gulf Stream they gral ually molt in its warmer waters. An English steamer has counted three hundred and fifty-one of these ice bergs, whose height above the water varied from several feet to three hun dred feet. Some of th?se mountains of ice were seA-en miles long. Only one sixth of an iceberg ordinarily projects above the Avater a fact which goes to prove that the largest of th ;se masses reached a depth of one thousm I to one thousand five hundred feet below the surface. llermtt Crabs. These crab", are very quarrelsome and will fight desperately, csp -cially if two specimens be ejected from their habita tion and one of the shells remove 1. At last the stronger puts the weaker to flight, seizes upon the shell, aril whips into it as if shot from a spring. The homeless one tries in vain to pull him out, for at each attempt he retreats fur ther and fuither into the shell and press ing his legs firrrdy again-t it. and block ing up the entrance with his fighting claw, Avhich is always very much laigcr than its fellow. In consequence of this combative nature the crab is sometimes called by the name of "soldier."' Some times I hae caused much amusement by removing a hermit crab from its habitation and supplying it Avith a shell about two siz ;s too mall for the accommodation of its body. No other protection being obtainable, the crab picks up the shell, twits it round and round w ith ma: vcllous dexterity and quickness, measures its capacity with its legs, and at lat make.-, the best of a bad business by forcing the tip of its body into it as far as can be done, and then walks about disconsolately, knowing that the greater part of its soft person is unprotected. When it has had time to become thoroughly uncomfortable, a large shell should be placed in the A-es. d. In a moment the crab pounces on it, twists it about aud, with a movement almost too quick for the eye to follow, drops the Hub- sh.li aud jerks itself into the large one, where it rests with an air of absolute content which is in tensely ludicrous. PEITERMIXT. Where Seven-Eighths of thu World's Crop Is Raise i. Methods of Culture and Uses to Which It Is Put. A Lyons (N. Y. i letter to thr N'-mt York tiraphic ays : Ah:ig th- bank of Ganr;ua. river, hi-h flows through the southern portion of Wayne county, may be seen in the summer season of th yeir large fields of green colored plant ' about eight inches in height, extending over an extensive area. To a Ktani"t mentha pcperit.-i is th" name by which it is known, but to the world in general it is peppermint. In thi comparatively ; small area seven-eighth of all the pep . permint in the world is raised. The 1 low, mucky land is ploughed in the i spring. It is then laid oil in furrows J eighteen inches apart and set, portion : of old plant, are planted closely to- i gether in the row. This i done early in April. The roots are transplanted ; every other year. It take about eight j square rods of roots a thev lie on the ground to plant an acre. The roots that , are planted thb year, after the. crop i gathered, will be transplanted in every other row for next year's crop. The firt year's crop is always tho best, because , th-'; plant i the freest from weeds. I Usually they aro allowed to I run only two years, after I which the ground is ploughed under. When tho plants have grown to about ! two and one-half feet in height they I ripen. The harvest begin usually m I the last of August, It is cut like clover ! with a cradle, raked into cocks, when it I is allowed to wilt a little before it is i taken to the distillery. The proross in ! distillation continues until the liit of ' October. The plant is brought from the i fields in large wagon and tightly j packed in steam-tight vats. The steam ! is let into the bottom of the vat, and th- oil from the plants thus volatilized. The oily vanor ami steam pass tlirougn a ! condensing worm into a receiver, wh-re ! the oil, being lighter than water, is i dipped off and then put up in tin cans J hobliricj iwantv mntlo ai1 i-s Taken i j the refinery of II. l. Ilotclikiss of Ly J ons, where it is refined and put into j twenty-one ounce bottles, eighteen I bottles to a case, labeled and shipp-d to all parts of tho civilized wrld. Mr. Ilotclikiss is justly styled "the Peppermint King." "The aver i re crop per year ia Wayne County " he -, ii I, "is between 80, 000 and loo, 00) pound--, and yields on an average about twenty pound to the acre in a good season. Seven-eighths of the whole crop in the world is raised in Wayne Cnnty, and that pricipally in the the towns of Lyons, Arcadia, Palmyra, !Sj In and "Wolcott. A large proportion of the oil is exported. Oil of peppermint has many ! uses. It is used for medical purposes in rrnrTn - it la nn imnnrt'int fWcnt IOr , , ' , ' . . cholera. It is also used in flavoring confectionery and in perfume", fanner s and peppermint cordials, the latter be- j lng a favorite drink with Kuropcaus. : It is used a-s a .household medicine all over the world, and for children' com- J plaints is unrivalled." "How much of the oil Tt you handle?" " ,' "Over three-quarters of rite crop' j raised in this county and more tSar any j other one man in the world. 1 have' j been in the business since Ih.W, 1nd had i a varie 1 experience. In 17'.) the yie'd j was the largest ever known, nggn g at ! ting 150,000 pounds. This year it w ill l be hardly one-third of that. I have known the market to jump ?l per pund in a single day. One farmer lit year brought into our refinery a common sleigh load, which when measured. u , found to be worth $10'jo. You can e from this how- much money there ii in peppermint." ; One Onl. l It is almost impossible to attach any i importance to one cent, hr at the -anie ! time it is a very imp -riant coin t i times, suv; an exchange It will take a 1 circular to California arid it i!l make i you madder than a h ate, and a March I hare combined wh in you go to piv your ! fare on a horse-eir .and tin 1 that you ' have but four cent- an 1 a ten-dollar bill. One cc.it i- v.-ry mali, but when it is ad led to the rate of in terest you receive onji stock, it p s-s-! es a Btern. magaitie n gnndeur that carries vou away like a -train o! mu-ic. . The pennv. it seem- was made to put j on church plate ; aud. althou :h a man mav sav it amount to nothing, he wi.l i , 6trike matches and lift m t and crawl : about in the straw ,:. a horse-car to find ; the one he drops. It is so small a coin I that you have to take oil your g ov-j to take hold of it in y ur pocket, and yet ! it i.s so large when t ae ba y swallow it. , the chances of the baby' 'iving are l sometimes not worth a cent. Although i one cent is less than ten t '-r rents, yet i one cent is a great deal hrg-r than a ; dime. Many a man ha gone thirsty ail ' day with four cents i.i hi pocket. For the Avant of that one cent the lour were as useless a the eleven men uu u jury who are held out against by one. fl - . p.i-.r, .ii ;' t . ; : i ,;ril i . ' p- '::;: i; - 1 h it t .... - 1 ', vl,; 1: s 'I 1 1 .; -: . " ' graj -h t . . ' -; i tcle raph w ir - It ha bre.i y. , t pc! U'.u sit , !'.; .'. .iSt going ni a !-.! k over two mi'.e- r Mrpp'-d Had trv.m. d Ves If ! hv: a : : ' r , o , . t - r ; :.. -ve .i r . : :;tv .1 i it ; h of a !. trie v Und i virw rer and by th h the half as th r o .He 1 progress. It 1? a Miigular f . t a '. mr. or star taken t hr . atone recently lonntruett h th I at C fr tu j il w (;,., rv .! ,,f the hea nlv ohe t mi. h :. more distinct th vi th Hi.en .tlftKed ev i i l ., K i . ' thr 'i : .w( rfnl intrum-at. ,. , , 1 1 V at the neat ! be,: hi . t ' '. ii nvcii 1 ; k id, decapitating m a !.; : name. An "id pr ha t he town tun e : ' Hi n hieh show that ! Ii" . .! tl! w ft A in Per- u-ed there two h i . lr.-d y-ar n criminal :n t;:i'.!'i . I at S l-it an I the inn dune w .i- i- d si.a lon before that d ate. It U uni vt r-.i'il v t plant rcfri red t in tie translated "H e-e of S!, rose as vc !lov U"d. !- r tempt have beea i lade plant to hich thi name . led 1 hit th S- ri p! ore mid ei" wa- leit th I it. Many at to t J . it i f y th" ! l b.-.-n ; iven. he til! of Mui- p. r i iie.al that - i f A t ravel r recent i on t ron notes in a scie:t whatever may ha e !ei-n tended, the Allein-Oie e, r- n. n, iiitf in n hi i - pointed out by tin; d i 1 r - on t le on n the plant referred to. In 'ome parts of (b-imany .u.d Austria natural pumice st-eie ha- ben -uper-scded by mi art i ti i i' -to-.', to which a suitable shape can !; ii n rind diiT. rent degrees of fineness ot gf riin ehtaim d, which allow the stone t - u-ed in nil the industries where nat ir.il pumico fctiuif. u. uw formi-ilv d-n -.1. The ingredi ents are white sand, feldspar in l flro clay, mix 'd in suitable pi . .port ion to obtain the desired o;np -it i ni, and the pa-te is poure 1 into p! -t'-r in-old, being finally pi iced in liie-cla recepta cle and baked in ovens. Nature is full of odd thmv. Th'Ta is no end of them. As in hi i-tration, take water. You can fre- it and melt it back to jnst. the same amount f wa ter. And tle-re is camphor; y.m tan bury it an 1 br-ng it to !i'e. Put an ounce of camphor gum in alc-hl and !e( ft dissolve, then pour u-ab r into thw untilcri!l the camphor it tut ft in 1' ike. I'ut trujso in 1 ' mf rrl th-y will weiglr"W tyMut-f. ! Bur ft 'n1 k,, weigh t the aslus th; irider and til'. p i-e ; r!J the mail iihyit tyjiit the. log did .1 In a -word. chan i:.i, not dottfvrt ion J "Chln-Chtn Jluthlha." In Anaui the French on-juu'-r havt found ona cuitom w hh h t heyjuve, in some measure, fallen in with, t-iun- it is so universal among the pctq.h; thit ills almost impossible to get along with them without some iw of ih ' It i- tho j custom of "Chin-Chin Jbi'Mh;., or homage to Buddha, which the Ammitea repeat in a thousand forms nrj:n;! OpOIl the wall cf their room, the French h.av pan' N of i!k ornamented with in1-, rij-'io.-is which are iit once pious and d cor it i v- -- pious from the Anamite - point of : :v, and decorative from the J-. .;jf , man's. These panel, ar " li;n- 'hia li.iddi. t n The term "Chin-f'hi.u liii ihi" me ana "II ul, Buddha :' but it h i. coti,e to bo applied not only to -v ry -rt -t rn h'jh'iis liouia.'e, bit t - per-'i! ieunie and pohteue-i w-'!. A'.! pravera, obeisance-, ojf ri.ig-, e!f t ne-niil deference, and even . f nrdmar v j. ronal j o'it"nc, are arromp-uii'-d " . ' it the utterance cf thi pi.ra-- : ''Chin-Chin Buddha;" and onj-'t- "- id' h are to bo k rificcd, as we'd a d. . r-.ti v-: ''jects bearing pious inscriptions bear t;- -aroe nam". When a French la iy, th wif.- of a commander, 'aib- l up the el r.cr to tin-town of H ;noi, ni'. th'- cniblreri of the town r".m; crow li-.gto t'i'- hore, making il u' es 'Sipping th-ir hands arid shouti-ig, "Chin-Chin Bi I l'-i The lx-ggars in tie- -'m'"4 utter plaintive - ri-, of "Chir.-Ch;n B.dJh'V ss thev fo!h V the p i-- T i'V, a v. i v a peaking th" pt.f name very re . efl ;.t!y. Tin- French in Annam have fall n into the use of the term and ev -n use- it in their own relation". There, i-t certainly no formal exprc--ioa in any Kurojaa language which has anything iike ao w ide a use. A recent isue of the P- lv t r: Gazette contain an imperial decr'-e p rem; t .ri'y forbidding in the future any a'obr. i ition of the nam -s of province., p. r-ons, place, fete, in me:rioriils addre --dtO) the throne by high Ali- iaU of th" Chi nese Empire, liuch a'obr -viati-i.ns nr-i considered serious breuche oT etiqu-tte und esiLinot be tolerated. j n '
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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Jan. 20, 1888, edition 1
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