North Carolina Newspapers

. " - - - ' - - : - lire ; A. R. H. CO WAN, Editor and Proprietor. We Proudly call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland. TERMS! 82.00--.-Por Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1886. NO. 34. 1 V J 1 5 ! Ajisokt Times Terms: Cash, in Advance. One Tear . -Six Jlonths Three Months - - - $2.00 - - - L00 50 ADYEBTISING BATES. One square; first insertion Each subsequent insertion Local advertisements, per line '. IL00 50 10 Special rates -given on applicatio for oncer time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their o.'lvertisements on Monday evening of each vreek, to insure insertion in next issue. ' PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John D4. Pembertoni ATTORNEY. AT LAW, WA'DESBORO, N. C. J57" Practice in the State and Federa Courts. JAMB A. LOCKHABT. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. 3T Practice at all the Courts of the States a. LITTLE. W. L. PARSONS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. 'q. Collections Promptly Attended to. - - . - I-I.H." DoPew :d e nmst, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. May 14, 'So it j i Difc b. k: FRONTIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offers his Professional Services to the citizens .f Vnde&iarx&"5)iI: surrounding country. Of fice opposite Bank. " ' '' A. B. Huntley, M. D. J. T. J. Battle, M. D Drs. Huntley & Battle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wadesboro, 'N C Office next to Bank May 7 if I. II. HORTON, JEWELER, WADESBORO, X. C. I'caJt ar in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading .Shot Guns,, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. D. A. MCGREGOR, PRTRCIPAL J. J. BURNETT, A. B. J. W. Kilgo. A. B. ' Assistants. Miss M. L. McCorkle, The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan- uarv 11th, 188S. ! Tcition In Literary Department, $2, o and 54 per month. Instrumental Music, $4 per month. Vocal Music, 54 per month. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, $10 per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. . For Catalogue apply to the Principal. Moryen High School, MORVJGX, C. JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. ZST The Fall Session begins on the 3d cf August 1SS5, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Advanced $2.00 2.50 3.00 Boardom $3-TO $10 permontlL Fcr further particulars address the Prin cipal. M.1MDSR, JItryUFACTUREK ASD DEALER EV Steies, Tin-ware, Sleet-Iran AND HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you go to Charlotte be sure to call on S. EL TIIIMONS, FOR Fine fountain Whiskies ns THE Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C.' v YARBROUGH HOUSE, . BALE1GH, N. C. ffflMEDDCED TO SUIT THE MB . CALL AD SEE US. IN;TE SOUTH.' Tbert is a Princess in the Sqntk About whos beauty rumors bum As honey-bees about the month Of roses dewdrops falter from ;' And O her hair is like tha fine Clear amber of a jostled wine In tropic revels ; and her eye3 Are blue as rifts of Paradisa. Such beauty as may none before Kneel daringly, to kiss the tips Of fingers suchvas knights of yore Had died to lift against their lips: Such eyes as might the eyes of gold Gf all the stars of night behold With glitt3ring envy, and 83 glars In dazzling splendor of despair. So, were I but a minstrel, deft At weaving, with the trembling strings Of my glad harp, the warp and weft' rondels such as rapture, sings I'd loop my ljra across tajJtrttJt Nor stay me till my knee found rest In midnight bank of bad and flower Beneath my lady's lattice bower. And there, drenched with the teary dewi I'd woo her with such wondrous art As well might stanch the songs that ooze Cut of the mcckbird's breaking heart; . So slight, so tender, and so sweet , Should to the words I would repeat, Her casement, on my gradual sight, "Would blossom as a lily might. TV. Riley, in Indianapolis Journal. The Last Man Flogged A STOUT OF TITE AMERICAN NAVY. Peter Featherstone wa3. an English criminal. He v as one of that large class n ho are criminal by instinct, by inheritance inJL by acquirement. Born of criminal parents, he soon took to the streets of London, r ni by the time he was off his Bother's knee he had been imprisoned vnd flogged for theft. Before he was twenty-five years old he had served five terms in prison; he had ceen transported to Van Diemen's land, md had there suffered, more because of ais good qualities than his bad ones the aorrcrs cf the absolute despotism of martial law governing a criminal commu nu.nity: In 1851 he set foot imon the docks of x j New York, a tec in an fcr the first tim3 j jince his boyhood. The inhumanity cf j society's laws had embittered his mind ' igaicst society. Still, wishing to be hon- 1 jst, ha enlisted as a common seaman in j the U. S. 2savy. : The United Sfates war vessel North Carolina w as then anchored at the Brook- j lyn Navy Yard, having been converted j into a receiving ship. Peter Feather- j stone was placed aboard cf her, and there he entered upon his first attempt at re- j foim. He had some experience as a j ?ailor, was strcng, brave and willing, and i soon gained the favor of Lieutenant En- j shaw and the boatswain. Glittering opportunities to return to i crime always present themselves to the ; reformed, and Peter Featherstonewas ' aot exempt. He had been known to the : sportiDg fraternity of London as a 1 "clever, boxe;-" and a "hard hitter." Among his old time friends there was I John McGraw, at one time light weight j pugilistic champion of England. Mc- j Graw had come to New York and,' opened a "free and easy" at 85 Division ! street, which he had ca'led the "Old I House at Home." By some chance he learned . that Featherstone was aboard the North Carolina. Knowing him to be a valuable adjunct to a boxing resort, he planned Petei's escape from the ves sel, and after some correspondence the Bailor yielded to the promise of a gay life. . Among the other visitors to the North Carolina one afternoon, was a tailor. By ; arrangement he met Peter Featherstone between decks and secretlv measured him for a suit of clothes. A week later j another visitor smuggled aboard the i vessel a package which Peter Fcather ! stone received. It contained a suit of ! clothes of fashionable make', a silk hat, a pair of fine boots, a white shirt, a silk necktie and a large handkerchief. In the afternoon of the same day a j New York swell paraded the deck of the ! Ncrih Carolina and mingled with the visitors. On3 of his eyes was evidently I sore, fcr whenever a sailor approached i him he bowed his head and pressed his ! handkerchief to the side of his face, j Shortly after he appeared on deck a party of visitors left the vessel, and among them was the dapp?r gentleman with the Bore eve. As he descended the stairs on the vessel's sifle ar.d was nearing the small boat belrsv. a sailor cn dtck hur- riedly approached Lieutenant Ensha.v, who was looking over the s"de. "Do you see that man with a silk hat?' i inquired the sailoi, pointing below. ; "Yes."- "Well, he's a mes-mate of mine .and ' belongs to this boat. Hi n.;me i? i Peter Featherstrne."' ! "Halt!" cried the cfiicer. Every member of the party dtscendi g the stairs stopped and looked up, except the young man in the silk hat. "It is true," muttered the officer " Bring back that man with the hand kerchief in his hand," oider.-d tho 'lieu tenant. The young man clinched to the deck, looking cool and defiant. "You are Peter Feat'ierstor:e and le long to this vessel," said the lituterar.t. "I am not," was the bol I response .." The unusual scene attract d "Ccram. dore" Wilson, chef officer of ih bout. He was commander of a. s p- adnm ar J carried hi title of Commodore ln- cm r tesyonly, that office not existing then in the United States Navy. He' was as efficient officer, but passionate, and hac? been dubbed "Bully" Wilson by the sailors. - ' " , : tfWho is this man!" he asked. "He is suspected of beiug a sailor- at tempting to escape," replied the lieutc I ant, looking curiously at the defiant lace efore him, which he recognized. "Call the roll, ""ordered the Commu dore. In a moment the long roll of the drumi was heard and six hundred sailors poureo out of the vessel upca the upper deck. .They formed themst-Wts around the ve 6ers sides in rrgu'ar Tnc. The call of the rb'l- brought re-pons to every name but on 2. When ' 4 Pet ei Featherstone"' was called no vo said "Here'." The officer icokd at th? culpri sile-tly, as if waiting foi a defense He sUod in the centre of the deck, hit annsolded. still erect .d defiant. Tie aw'thaVhc wrs tapped i t.'s onl deshe ra for revenge. ; 'iWho isthe man who rerorted ttef1 1 asked, quietly. "John Simmons,' called the lieu tenant. "Ay, ay, sir," replied a young sailor, stepping forward in front of a mast and saluting. "Featherstone apprehended him: "Do you say my name'is Peter Feat ! erstone?" . "I do." -to ' "Well, take that, you," and, with the quickness of the skilled pugilist, Feath erstone struck his messmate three times in the face. The sailor's head struck an iron Land around tho mast a"d he fell senseless to the deck. As he fell Feath: crslone kicked viciously at his head, but in an instant the offender was seized bj the master of arms and two marines. "Put him in irons," yelled Bully Wit son. "I'll An? the life out of him." The stiuggling sailor was manacled hand ar.d foot and thrown into that iron l arred cage "between the lower deck? which the sailors call "the run." Here Le was guarded as is a murderer during his last hours. A sentry, like a death watch, paced continually before the Day by day the sailor awoke to antici pate his impending punishment, but ii d;d not come. He grew restless and im patient of r.stra'nt as the days passed. He lon-ed for the mental relief which would follow his punishment. He did not dread the physical pain. His back had felt the lash. He did not know that there was then pending in the Congaefs of the United States a bill for a law to save him from tho whip. He did not know tlvit he was bfin? kerit bv his commander to b o t offered upas the last sacrifice on the altat of the "cat o nine tails," in the event of that instrument of torture being abolisheJ from the navy. ,r One morning, nine wei-ks after Perei Featherstone had struck his messmate or the deck, he was aroused by the guard and told that he was to be flogged. His irons were removed and he walked quickly to the tliird deck. The entire I crew of the Noith Carolina had beeD ; summoned to witness the flogging. The i marinep'-'tsented. fixed bayonels. Com modore Wilson ar.d the boatswain, armeJ with t!ie cat stood near a gun carriage, which formed the whipping stocks. Pel er Featherstone was well acquainted with the method of flogging tailors on board 6hip.; He walked to the gain car riae, and with a 'qu'ck motion pulled his blue 'shirt over his head. He threw it at the feet of the officer and exclaimed : "Now, I'm ready." "Not so fast!" thundered the Commo dore. "Wait till you get orders. Put on your shirt." . ' The sailor obeyed. Then the officer read from a paper the charge: "Assault ing a searcai and attempted escape," and asked if the prisoner had anything tc say. In reply, the sailor aain pulled off his shirt and approached the carriage. The boatswain lashed the culprit's feet to the timbers of the carriage and his hands to the hammock Look above. At a nod from the officer the bratswain raised his arm, and onee, twice, and ajain the nine thengs fell upon the white flesh with a cn.e! "swish." At the first blow the muscles of the ailor's back in voluntarily contracted and his shoulders ilightly shrugged. Then his head fell forward, his teeth set and hi 3 breath came fast. But the boatswain had admired the pluck of the" young sailor, and his arm, respondent to his sympathy, seemed to lose its usual strength. 1 he blows, severe as they were, did Dot satisfy the' com "dander. At the third lash he cried, "Stop!" Then, glaring r.t the boatswain, he said : "If you don't do your duty by that man I will find a man aboard who will do it by you." The sailor turned his face defiantly t" the boatswain and cried: "Lay 01! You can't hurt me." The boatswain understood his superior J officer and Avas nettled by the boasting tone of the culprit. He plied the cruel ?'cat"' as he never had before.' The blood spurted from the lacerated back; the perspiration streamed from the sailor's face; he gasped for breath, but he ut tered no cry, and when the whipping ceased his knees trembled "and his arm seemed to support his, body. Jle was released, nc " leaned ugainst the gun carriage for support ; but he was not conquered. He still icoked defiance at the ofllf er. . "How do you like that H aked Bully Wilson. : . ''How do I like it ?" cried the sailor "why my old mother 'in Liverpool has offer gi re me a worse licking than that with u dish: a V This sally brcugLt a roar of laughter from the t ailors, and the officer was beside himimsclf with rage. : "The rebellious sailor v-ai again ordered to 'the run,M thii tim.3 in double irons. Cn the af terncoa of the same da y the bill for the abolition of flogging in the navy wa signed by President Fillmore, and became a-law. The last flogng had been sanctioned by American law. " ' ; Two months later Peter Fcathcrtone'a irom were taken off, and one night at 10 o'clock he was transferred to the ship S ranac. She was to sail cn the following mom'nsr for th25ulf Stream, where Com modore Wilson was to join the" flagship of the squadron. - . - " "I wlllaltcFciiften,to'n3 with me," he U said to have rc.narked tOvXieuteri r.t Enshaw, "ami I will break him or Kill him.'H . ' H ,y :" "That night, aboard the Saracac, a ;entry saw a shadow pas? him and heard a splash in the water. - r ' Half an hour, later a half dsadsailoiy with his bundle cf c'.othes tied around his neck with a iKindkercliief, drew him self out of the water. II looked across the water where lay the black outline of a'ship, and the last man flogged in the Americau navy hurled out a curse and turned his face toward the great city. Cincinnati Qmnmercid. Life Studies by Lige Brown. The late worm escapes the early bird. Nothing but time can keep up with the indicator on a gas meter. " 'the man who loved the watch-dog's honest bark was not a tramp. The Chinese lave a sure way of remov ing dandruff. They do it with sand paper. A man is obliged to die before his.will imounts to anything, but that of a womau is always in force. In the pursuit of knowledge man never gets on the right track until he fins out that he doesn't know enough to brag About. Th.3 man who aid that "hope is brighter when it follows fear," had just dnished occupying a chair in company with his wife's bonnet. The papers are searching for the' man who is always ready for an emergency. Hie woman- always, in waiting for ah offer will be found first. A woman may not be very far-sighted in business matters, but ?he can diagnose the trimming of a bonnet as far as a man :an smell fried onions. "Conscience makes cow.ards of us all," wrote the immortal bard, but the man with his stomach full of boilel cab bage has his own private opinion, on the subject. A foreigner at once understands how it happens that the United States is al ways prepared for war when he learns that there are upward of four hundred colleges in this country. It is said that the ratio of marr'age is declining, but if so, statistics are some times contradictory. Over six million bottles of hair restorative wcre.soidin this country last year. A Michigan man by feeding a tramp found a long lost brother of his wife. We suppose this ought to be taken as a sol emn warning against something or other, because he has bad to keep on feeding him ever since. Prometheus was chained and tortured to have his picture taken, but no mrstei of the brush has ever had the forethought to cut "across lots" W-immortality by embalming on canvas the sufferings cf a .man in a barber's chair. When placed under a nfcroscnpe the sting of a bee presieats a polish of daz zling beauty; but when placed in the end of a man's nose the polish is missing, and the appearance more like that of a rat-tail file dipped in vitriol. This is of ficial. Vhicago Ledger. f ' : American Farmers. "Opportunities for Young fen ih America,"' is the title of an article by tho Marquis of Lome in Youth? Companion. Sneaking of American farmers he says: "I have sren such considering them selves fortuni-te in about twenty of the States . of the Union, although it must be 5onfessed that rural and bucolic delight! io not olwryi quell ' the rescssness which moves West until it meets tht ira Snnifttimea even the sea doesn't silence the craving for movement, and J j vave known a farmer who' began farming i'in New England and has ended for th present in continuing his oft-interrupted but ever resumed occupation in Western Australia. Of the farming grandees ? ive -known. I think the two grandes ire, first, a ranchman who had a fine aouse, splendidly furnished, herds of cat tie which would have made Abrahart envious, and a little army of cow-boys, ill ready to resist anybody but theii doss, who hns sufficient leisure to visit Europe or New York every winter. The iccond is a gentleman who has a magnifi :ent farm on the Pacific, and has showr that California can produce better olive oil than France, SpaiD, or jltaly; grapes is good as any man can. desire; Englisi walnuts and European almonds, in crops whereof the old cbuntriesj hardly evei j dream; oranges, lemons, and Japanese j persimmons, with other fruits and cropt ! too numerous to mention ; and all hedgee from the gentle-sea winds band3 of Australian Euca bv blts and ypti, which grow in ten years to one hundred feet. Rut such a mradiss is not for the be- ginner, who must make his pioney before he indulges in so many broad acres. Naturalists now count po less than 1,870 different kinds of fishes in North American waters, of which 500 live in the rivers and lakeq and 550 kinds belong to the Pacific Of the re- minw: 10j dwell only iin tne aeep waters of tho, Atlantic and the Gulf of irAiM nffvpr a rmro aching the shore or ; X & . the suffaco. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. TThat to lo In Emergencies. : In case of choking, a smart slap . be twem the shoulders oa the back maj loosen.' the substance, if not run youi finger down the threat and pull" it out . Sometimes dose v of oil, butter, or vols of egg will cause the substance to 6Up down. If anyh;ng is in the windpipe, the doctor must bo called in '.hast:. . When the skin is grazed, wa-h th wound of any dust with a fine new aponge and warm water, replace the skin and bind on the fresh lining of an egg . 6hell which is finer than any plaster thai can be applied. -.''. " For common buns nothjng jis bette than a pasto of baking' soda bound or with linen and kept wet iiir the pain is all out. Rc:ew the paste as often at the smarting begins. " A raw burn should be covered with carbolated sweet oil with cotton over it t j keep out the air. " Soft soap is also good on a burn, or clear thin varnish. If nothing else is at hand plunge the burn under cool water and keep it there till the pain is out, no mat-. ter how loner. Hospital doctors have kept a badly burned patient on a.bed. in a bath three days, relieving the pain and healing the dangerous injury. For a felon put a fly blister on the swelling and let it draw fiercely. Ease the pain by soaking the finger in hot lye. When riugworm appears, rub it and the skin round it with iodine or with carbola ted oil, applying the latter as often as you choose. Poultice a boil when it first appears with the oil or with hot water and it will sometimes change its mind about coming. If one rises on the face a blister on the net k may draw it away. Bathe sprains with hot water, or soak them in hot lyc and let the part have rest. If the ankle is hurt, ke?p the foot in a chair, if the wrist, carry it ia a sling.- For ordinary poisons, arsenic, pans green, hellebore, etc., give emetics, quickly as possible, of warm water and mustard, or warm water alone, tickling the throat to produce nausea. For acid poisons "give a teaspoonful of calcinec? magnesia in water every three minute? or the same dose of castile soap scraped in water. For corrosive sublimate give raw eggs, oil and milk as much as the patient can swallow. For ccrbolic acid when swallowed or used strong enough to burn the skin, the remedy is Canada Balsam and sweet oil in tablespoon doses. Rheumatism and neuralgia may be relieved quiekly by rubbing the pari ffected with 6liccs of lemon. The remedy is very simple but very efficient, s ,1 know from experience, in severe cases. ' " To prevent lockjaw from a wound by rusty-iron, soak the part in hot lye, wash with strong vinegar and bind it . up in carbolated oil. This" carbolated oil whichis the fafest dressing for wounds of all kinds, festers, pimples and ulcers, is the purest olive or'almond oil with ten drops of common carbolic acid added to the ounce. Keep this on hand together with a roll of lint, oldoft linen and cotton for bandages, fine clean sponges, court plaster and common sticking plaster, arnica, camphor, ammonia, laudanum, ether, trong refinrd whisky, nitrate of silver, magnesia, powdered charcoal, pure sweet oil, sulphur, chlorate ofpotash, jamaiea ginger, rhubarb, castor oil and fine ;astile soap for washing wounds. Save your perfume bottles for medicine, on account of the glas stoppers, which prevent loss of strength. Keep these things all together where they can be found without loss of time, on a high phelf in a locked box out of reach of the children. Have the linen and cotton washed free of all starch, thoroughly boiled, bleach in the sun and ironed smooth to be as soft and fresh as possi ble. You must have perfectly clean isponges to wash wounds or ulcers. Doctors , say that a common washing sponge is not fit to use for wounds. To ;lean sponges, wash them thoroughly, rinse in water with carbolic acid and gcald with a little washing soda, rinsing and bleaching two or three days in the gun. The reason for this care is that a .sponge absorbs many, impurities not readily parted with, which will poisoD wound or sore. Wide-Awake. "Everylhing i3 Lovely, and the Goose Hangs High." This expression is a corruption of an old-fashioned saying that originated in the early days of this country. As most of you know, wild ge. se, when they migrate in autumn, form themselves into lines shaped like the letter 'Vj the leader flying at the point, the two liaes following; and as they sail away, far ibove the trees, and beyond all danger Jrom guns on tho-.e cold mornings when the air is clear, and the sky beautifully blue they seem full of glee, and join in a chorus : "Honk, honk, honk Any one-who has heard those curiously sounding notes, never could mistk them. And the folks on the earth be low who heard the b'rds' wild call, in old times, realized tha' bappine s of the wino-ed creatures in being so high and j wfe. And suit became quite ratur.l when two persons met each other under peculiarly -favorable circumstances or this or that enterprise, for them to say: "Everything is ' lovely, and-ths goose honks bfchr St. Xicho'as. A recent careful calculation shows that England Owns nearly three times as large n extent of colonies as all the rest of !Eu ope together. : Her colonies are' eight j five times aa biff as the, mother country. Cost of Running Churches. New York's total church expenses foot up about six million five hundred thou sand dollars each year. The figures xn slude the 'pay of pastors, 'the building fund, the cost of running the various :hurcbes And the outlay for missions and ill benevolent purposes. - The Roman Catholics lead the list. They hare some ieventy-five churches. and thtdr totil an nual outlay is estimated at two millions :wb hundred and fifty thousand dollars, half of which goes in charity. . The Episcopdians come next. They nave scyenty-nine , churches and chapels, with twenty-five thousand five hundred rommunicants. Their outlay is one mil lion one hundred and fifty thousand dol- ijirs six. hundred thousand dollars for 'shurch expenses" and "five hurdre'd -?fld fifty thousand dollars for .benevolent purposes. . - - ... After the Episcopalians come the; Pres byterians, with sixty churches, having a membership of twenty-one thousand five hundred, and an expense of seven hun dred . and nicety-five thousand dollars, something over half f "which is .for "church purposes." Tha Methodists have sixty-five :hurches, but fneir membership is only thirteen thousand three hundred, and their total expenses are set down at two nundrcd and forty -thrco, thousand dol-. lars-two hundred thousana dollars ueing for church purposes. . . The Baptists, with thirty-six churches and a membership of twelve thousand, even hundred, expend nearly one hufK drcd thousands dollars more than th3 Methodists, their entire outlay being three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. The Dutch Reformed and the Lutheran jombined have forty-one churches, with i membership of sixt -cn thousand, and t'heir expenses foot up three hundred and dxty-three thousand dollars. The Congregationalists have only six churches, with two thousand four hun dred members, and a total expense list of ainety-six thousand dollars. Next come the Jews, end they make a very good showing. They have nine teen tabernacles, with a declared mem bership of three thousand (the regular ittendance, though, is at least four times that number) and an expense of over three hundrc l thousand dollars. Church ExTMment. Selection by the Sea. An observant rambler along the shores, willfe here and there, note places where the eea has deposited things more or less similar, and separated them from dssirn ilar things will see shingle parted from sand ; larger stone3 sorted frcm smallei stone?; and-will occasionally dibcovci deposits of shells more or less worn by being rolled about. Sometimes the peb bles or boulders composing the shingle it one end of a bay, he will find much irger than those at the other, interme diate size?,' having small average differ ?nces, occupying the space between the extremes. An example cccurs, if I f e aiembcr rightly,. some mile or two to the Vest of Tenby; but the most remarkable ind well-known example is that afforde J by the Chesil bank. Here, along, a shore iome sixteen miles long, there is a grad aal increase in the sizes of the stones, which, being at. "one end but mere peb oles. are at the other end great boulders, n this case, then, the breakers and the andertowhave affected a selectionhave it each place left behind those stone9 which were too large to be readily aioved, while taking away others small inough to be mqyed easily. But now, ii we contemplate exclusively this selective jction of the sea, we overlook certain im portant effects which the sea simu'tane iusly works. While the stones have been differently acted uponin'so far that some have been left here, and, some carried ihere, they have been similarly acted itpon in two allied, but. distinguishable, ways. By perpetually rolling them about and knocking them.one against another, die waves have so broken off their most prominent parts as to produce in all ol Ihem more or less rounded forms; and then, further, the mutual friction of the stones simultaneously' caused, . ha smoothed their surfaces. That is to say in general terms, the actions of cn- rironinff agencies, so Jar as mey 1 1 have operated indiscriminately, have produced ; m the stones a certain unity 01 cnaracierr 1 it the same time that they have, by thei ; differential effects, separated .them,, the nM9 having withstood certain vio- ent actions which the smaller ones could aot withstand. Popular Science Monthly. The Taxiderm fst's Art. When a taxidermist wants to stuff and mount a dead bird or animal he has to gc to work carefully and methodically, j he has a bird in hand, the skin is eut with a sharp scalpel along tb, breast, from thcthroat to the tail. While thi- is being done, the- feathers are blowr sid. in order to escape .blood. Then with the same scalpel, the skin is pulled j back on each side of the breastbone, and. i as the work progresses, liquid -re'.c u applied. ' This is to prescrr s the skin Wheii,it is removed from the body of the bird the tail and throat are cut through and the carcass is lifted out. The skir is pushed back over the skull, the brains are removed, and, after the legs are cut at the second joint and the ilesb removed. Vie skin is ready for stuffing. Wirec are placed in the legs, tail and Tans, eiiougt raw cotton is put in the skin to distend it as in Iff ei glass eyes are inserted and the skin is then sewed up and the wiret bent to give the bird a natural pofition. Philadelphia News; . , P0FUIAR SDIEMCE. The noueo trce tad has a sleod bedy and broad, webbed fret that y be ,prerd out to act like a parachute, cn ibling the animal to l:ap frem a trecrto nd float through the air for a consider 1 able distance like a flying squirrel. The principle' of tele-copes was de-, scribed by Roger Bacon about 1250, and Leonard Digg-, who died about. 1573, U said to have arranged glasses so that he cold sec very distant objects. Galilee constructed te'escopei in 1C0?, and dis covered Jupiter's satc!Ht6 ia 1610. Dr. Andriev, writing in Petennann's Miltheilvttgeny says that the dangerof a house being struck by , lightnings has in-. cresed- from thxei tofive'foM tot3ermany within the"last: half century. He looki for the . explanation to tho impurities carried into the atmosphere . from the in creasing number of factory and other chimneys. , The engineer officers Messrs. Renard and Krebv. who were commissioned by the Frtf.c.i military authorities to expert mint. up m the possibility of steering balloon,have reported the entire success V of their trials. Theytate that an mde- pendent velocity through the air of thir eecn miles per hour has been at tained and that their balloon has. not only been managed, steered and guided with th utmost cascr'. but , has, been made "to re-, turn to its. starting point against tho wind. " , The purpose of ventilating cellars 1? to make them cool and dry. They are often Ventilated so as to be warm and damp. This is don? when the air ad mitted to .th-.-m from without" is consid erably warmer than the air within them Coming into the cooler cellar, thjs air, while it raises the temperature of the eel lar air, itself is cooled, and deposits it! moisture, which soon becomes evident a? I visible or palpable dampness. There 1 fore ull the. ventilation of cellars in warn veat her should be done at night, and the I cellar should be kept closed between sun j rise and sunset. ' - ! An ingenious arrangement to guard ' the records of the Dock Department, in i New York, from being burned in case i :f fire, has lately been constructed. It onncists nf an kon door 'wcierhintr 750 pounds, -which travels on an .incline. This is held op'.n by a latch under all usual circumwt"uces. If a1 fire should oecur the he"- would cause the expan sion of certain sensitive bars of metal,, these in turn would then close an elec trical curcuit, and on the establishment of tho current the latch is released and down comes the door.- A device is also provided whereby the latch can be tripped at will from any part of the building. .' Talk about the migrations of the Eng .lish sparrow ; that is nothing to the extra ordinarv spread of 1 common American butterfl y (Da nn is A at rppus) . Its prigi nal home covered - territory enough, one might suppose, to satisfy the wandering inclinations of the most enterprising of insects, for it ranged on both the Ameri can continents from Hudson's Bay to th Rio de la Plata. It has made its waj 2,350 miles to the Sandwich Islands anc into New Zealand and Australia to the westward, and t the West Indies and then to England-".na. France eastward. Naturalists are now watching for, new of its appearance in Asia and Easterr Europe.' i Tea as Prepared in the East. , i The Huumas (Himalayan natives) drinl j iea which comes from! China in small j packets, made up of the large leaves, j mill branches, seeds, etc.,' forming a j tiass reduced to the smallest possible size j dv pressure, and rendered sometimes still j more compact by a slight addition ol , she ep's blood. Tho Hunnias travel great ! iistances, living only bn tea and what he Hindus call sutloo, that i?, flour made rrom roasted beans or pea'. To prepare .he tea they boil the leaves for some aours, all night, in f act, if fhey are in ;amp, in a small cuthen iot; then they pour out the infusion into a large basin full of hot wate, adding some salt and. .clarified butter 'ghe?j, if they happen tc have-It. All these -naturally make a kind of soup, and the natives can live on if several months- and undergo severe fatigue-without taki.ig any other nourish ment. "The net hod adopted by tin Mongols and other Tartar tribes for the nrenaration of tea in. bricks is," tijt I Johnston in his "Chem.Ptry of Common Life," "it is believe 1, that h u..-.i cxtr 3 I I . from the leaves tMc greatest possioio amount of nourishment, tluy crpe the t:a into tine powde. ?od lx,il it in the al kaline water of the stc,r s, adding somo fat and salt, after whi-A ay pour off the liquid, leaving t'c deposit.1 They drink twenty,, eve?- forty, glasses of this liquor in thed-.y, nJxiu in it i oney and butter, w th a Lute rouct mnt; but with only a litt c milk instCKf o t meat they ca;: a ih,:s't .jy w-ks witfl this drink for sole sustenance." Cham- j fcrV Joniwd, ; Costly Pilgrimages to Mecca. Over a million .pounds is still spent yearly in- pilgrimages to Mecca and Me dina. Many of these Mohammedan pil grims travel immense distances. Thin nearly 6,000 of them are from the Soudan and the neighboring parts of Africa, 7,000 are Moors, 1,400 Persian-, 16,000 Malays and Indians, and some 25,000 Turks or Egyptians. These are the fig ures for the year 1883, when there were no fewer than 53,010 pilgrims to these , 0 famous shrines. St. James1 Gazette. . .7- , , .j : : tjuitting advertising becaasc times rf i d.;il is likcpullhig -hwu ansill-dam when ,t ie water ii low. 7wl ; , " FUN. Another washout On the clottea lin. An animal to make light of Th tapir. 'Are the planets inhabited t" Oh, yes, we have subscribers in nearly all of them. - K(nturly State Journal. Latest burglar-alarm Tear that tho bank cashier will "get there" before ho can. Ihtton Po$t. s . , ' "That was a sad blow", exclaimed tho man whose house had 'been.' overturned by a cyclone. XUional Wtclly " The barber is the greatest of. modern traveler.. Jle roams continually from' poil to poll. Sioux Falls Leader. ,' , A. news item says : '"OhWfcas eighteen cows with one wooden leg." The qucs- . t ion now comes up: How can they all 6tand on itl-Xeu Ilaeenfttv. " V ."I wonder what makes these buttons , burst off so,' Dcra petulantly exclaimed; j David looked at her tight dress. "Force of labit, I think," he said softly. - A Denver paper says "tho songs' and: dances by Indians in Buffalo Bill's play ttQ n0TC n1Cy m0re than tha& TW - . dimc- novel. Picayune. "The whale is a warm-blooded animal, we are told, and he resembles the small bov in another particular.he is, very much given to blubber. T.urtm nwiget. t . "Clear out here." yelled an exasper ated Tcxm nloon keeper to a dead beat. ."You . know you ain't tolerated in any decent saloon ; that's why you are always prowling about here." Silings..' You hardly ex cr hear a woman cxprcis- ing her idea.of distanro bsaying that a ' thing is "within a stone's throw." Tho piirasj is too indefinite and circuitous- . like for accuracy Springfield Union ..r When you see a business man look melan cholic, ' ' With haggard fa?e and dull, complaining eyes, ' It's not because of biliousness or colic; The trouble is doesn't advertise. : ( 'tim Observer v Father-in-law "Perhaps sir,youthihk I'tii going to support you for tho rest of your natural life." Son-in-law 'fWdl, I don't know why you shouldn't. I took, your daughter off your hands." Tid' Bits, ' 1 " . A Florida land agept has hit upon a most successfuf scheme for settling the swamps Of that section. , In his circulars he advertises that "the climate is so salu brious that it actually forces the hair to .grow upon the baldest head, and it is singular what a great lush oi naineas men has started for the section of Florida ho represents; Philadelphia Jlerald. Guarding the Rloh. i The residences of tho Varidorbilts, the Astors and Jay G'Lf Id in New York are constantly guarded against 'cranks by private detectives. The private service t for the protec'.oh of the Vanderbilts, Astors and Gould was organized thre years ago, and is ostensibly separate fbt each family, though the men who defend fhe Vanderbilts aad Astors axe provided by thejsamo establishment, and practi-, cally work togcti. Regular patrol dutj is done, night bd day, and twenty .de tectives are exclusively employed for, the purpose. There are four A 6tor'residence3 and five belonging to the Yanderbilt", all in or close to Fifth avenue, between Thirty-third and Fifty-second streets. The spies are on witch eight hours each per day, and the beats are o arranged that the nine houses cannot be ap ' proached unseen by One or more of the guardsmen. Wi'win H. Vandcrbilt was the originator 0 this system, and hewo? incited to. it by the large number of cranky letters which ha received. . He professed to have no fear of rational evil doers, but was apprehensive that maniac? might attack him or some member-of . his family. Sir 3c his death the mails have been ladta with all sorts of appeals, demands, and threats directed to his- j sons. . . i Jay Gould's self-protection is more se- ! frpt. And charac .ristic. He does not cn- -V trust it to a uetcctiv agency, but nires his own body-guard. For years he has always been accompanied by a stalwart young fellow. But that is a saieguara. against Wall str et enemies,. Crankfj who might cut .p C'pers in or around his home are under the view of 6p:e j whose quarters are in a room of the Windsor hotel, acjos the way. That Ji additional to patrol duty done by a sep arate set of men. These' employes of tho millionaire families, whose names are poor people's synonyms for wealth, ar kept informed as to very new; demon stration, by a, crank, and they are alert todescry and drive off the monomaniac! vwho attempt any exploits.- Cincinnati Enquirer. ' r.. An Ocean Oil Well. Captain Eden of the British "schooner Storm King, bound from Utilla. to New Cfrle'ans, reports passing over a submarine nineraih?il spring, bubbling and rippling all around the vessel, and extending out over lio to 200 yards. This was about 250 lmles southeast of tho Passes. At 11 A. m. they were over the spnnj inr rrAT. er, and at 11:C0 a. m. outside the cir cumference of the oil circle. It is sup posed that this spring is the oil cargo of ' a foundered vessel, which, breaking through tho casks, caused this peculiar marine freak, or that it may be a natural phenomenon. Scientific American. , A new gold country is said to fiave been discovered by a shipwrecked French sailor in Patagonia, between the Straits of Magellan and the River Gallegos. The man had collected from the sc,ds h little fortune when taken off tho cbart "t7 a steamer. ; ,