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VOLUME III. GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1SS2. NUMBER 6.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
In Florida 8,000 pino apples can be
raised on an acre of ground.
One thausand men are implored in
the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala.
The only drawback to cocoanut rais
ing in Florida is that it takes ten year?
for the trees to bear.
Fifteen hundred executions for delin
quent poll taxes havo been issued in
Union county, S. 0.
An old man on Caney Fork, in Mid
dle Tennessee, caught $6,000 worth of
saw logs during the last rise.
Tennessee has a State law which im
. poses a fine of f 500 for failure to report
small pox cases to the State Board of
Health.
At Louisville, . Miss., John D. M.
Thrasher has been sent to the rcniten
. tiary for life for the murder of W. D
Triplett.
The Georgia Supreme court has de
' cided that the cities of that State must
stop their debts at 7 per cent of their
taxable property.
Six hundred partridges in boxes,
shipped from. Danville, Va., arrived in
Wilmington, Del.; last week for the
Delaware Game Association, which it
trying to restock that State.
Fifteen thousand dollars have beer
expended on the North Georgia agri
nnUiirnl rmllpirn at Dahloneca. It wib
take $5,000 to complete it. y
Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county,
Miss,, the second largest planter in th
South, employs 1,000 men, and made
2,000 bales of cotton last year. .
The acreage of wheat sown over East
Tennessee is unusually large,, and th
prosDect for an excellent crop was never
more encouraging for the time of year.
Within the last three years over $2,
000,000 havo been invested in manufac
turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
$10,000,000 have been invested and con
tracted for in new railroads in our State X
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died m
Fauquier county, Va., last week, in the
one hundred and fifteenth year of he
age, the oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Lord Cornwallh
assed through Eastern Virginia in the
mmerof 1781 she said she "was a good
smart gal, Dig entueu to get marnea.
The Nashville Banner, in some racf
recDuntingp, sayb : At another race over
the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson
entered his famous herso Truxton, and
was backing him quite heavily. Gov
Cannon wasxm hand, but had jio money,
so he bet a wacon load of negroes wit
the General. Truxton won tho race"
snd the General took in the negroes.
Gold is. being washed from alluvial
lands within the limits of Gainesville,
Ga., which" pays 50 cents to the pan.
The city covers a depositXof gold-bearing
material which should be utilized,
and no doubt will be as soon ns the ca
nal Atlanta so much needspasset
through that section.' Tho bed oftbat
canal for a distance of forty miles will
be cut through veins and deposits o)
gold-bearing ere. .
There are three trrcat land companies
now 'interested in Florida. The Disston
company holds 2,000,000 acres of the
4,000,000 acres it bought from the State.
A third company (headed by Disston
also) proposes to drain thf Lake Okee
chobee regioa and reclaim the swamp
lands.' The area of reclaimation is at
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela
ware and Rbode Island and the Disston
company will get half of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two enor
mous dredging boats are already at
work at this, and tho work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes :
Eight years ago there wasjonly $120,000
invested la steamers on the St. Johns
Now there are twenty eiht steamers
plying that river, one of which cost
$240,000, and to this fleet there are con
stant additions. The Indian river and
South Florida lakes and inlets are now
dotted with;ail boats, carrying freight
to and fro. In a very short time these
will be supplemented by steamers, and
then the quesaion will be settled, a new
region opened, the fertility, and beauty
of which caunot be put in words.
A contemporary asks : " How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate the
thieves?" Why, carry them empty.
Nothing frustrates a thief more than to
snatch a woman's purse, after following
her half a mile, and then find that it con-1 ,
tain, nothing 'but a reci for .d.c
pcaohes and a faded photograph of her
grandmother, , ....
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Cincinnati reports t88 cases of small
pox undor treatment.
Denver tv ill hold a National Mining
Exposition in August. '
This is the season of the year to make
predictions about spring.
The persecution of Jews in Russia is
exciting general attention.
The New York bar will give Judge
Porter a complimentary dinner. .
A woman in Graves County, Kentucky,
is undergoing a forty days' fast.
. .
Vanderbilt" pays over two hundred
thousand dollars annually in taxes.
Strawberries from Florida are selling
in New York at $ and $5 per quart
, .
This is the year that the Mohammedans
expect the coming of their Messiah.
Of the 601 convicts in . the Arkansas
State Prison more than 100 are murderers.
Canada is considering the feasibility
of abolishing the duties on tea and
coffee. ' '
De Lono has been traced to a definite
locality. The next thing now will be to
find him. ,
A St. Louis man has started a fund
for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1
towards it.
We find that the more the editors say
against the Gainsborough hats the higher
they "loom up.
Cincinnati will probably try the ex
periment of propelling street cars by the
cable system.
. The Cleveland fund for the Garfield
monument is not quite $100,000 and
there it sticks.
RrDGEWAT is under the impression he
can freeze Guiteau's body so that it won't
stink". It may be that he can.
Febbcaby 27 is the day upon which
President Garfield in Congress.
The reporters of Chicago have ruled
women out of thoir press club. Men
want to get to themselves occasionally.
There is one thing Guiteau may rest
assured of : He will be out up, or froze
np exhibited in the flesh or as a skele
ton. . '
Female teachers in Boston who have
been in service ten years want $1,000 a
year. If tbey can't get married they
ought to havo it.
The Spanish pilgrims to Rome are
Carlist soldiers or well known friends of
Don Carlos, who urges tho movement in
letters to his partisans.
The Russian Government claims that
the persecution of the Jews in that
country was originated and is kept up by
revolutionary agents.
The work of tunneling the St. Law
rence River is to be completed in four
years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon
treal has the contract.
Wilde's face is so long that it is said
toh
ave the appearance of being reflected
froma convex mirror. Grief over he
fading lily produced it.
Under the law District Attorney Cork
hlll will get $20 for prosecuting ' the
assassin. Dr. iiss might give cjorkhill
a pointer on making out bills.
Oscar Wilde thinks Walt Whitman
is ch greatest of living poets not even
excepting Longfellow. Mr. Whitman
will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some.
Thf Grant phalanx, known as the
Three-Hundred-and-Six, are to bo pre
sented with bronze medals as mementos
for their unswerving fidelity in the hour
of sore trial.
If Barnum could secure the body ol
Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde
as lecturer, he might double his fortune
of $3,000,000. The scheme is worth
looking into.
Wa beckon Oscar Wilde don't like
America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm
are hurled at him from every conceiva
blequarter. lie must think we Ameri
cans are awful reckless. .
Tobacco is a foul weed, but it seems to
yield an enormous revenue wherever it
is raised. The tobacco monopoly oi
France last year yielded a net profit to
the State of about $60,000,000.
., . , . . .
greatly unproved. But he still do-
votes hours to the fatiguing work of
composition, and forgets sleep, food and
everything else except the work before
him.
The St. Petersburg police have issued
an order forbidding the appearance of
any actors or dancers on the stage of the
theaters of the Capital whose dresses
have not been previously rendered in
combustible by means of oblorate of
lime. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for five years.
An official report on the condition of
the eyes of school children in Philadel
phia says: "Hypermetropic eyes at
more numerous than both myopioand
emmotropio ; that next to myopic astig
matism, distinct lesions are most preva
lent to the eyes with hypermetio astig
matism " This will be startling news to
most people.
In its continual use in the Guiteau
trial many people have asked, what does
"court in banc" mean? "Bano, '
brought into legal language from the
French, means "bench," and comes to
us from English law. "Bano Regis-"
was the title of the King's Benoh, which
was above all other courts, and appeal
to which was final. The "Court m
banc " therefore means the Supreme
Court of the District in full bench.
Sixty Harvard students, wearing knee
breeches and black silk stockings and
bearing lilies in their hands, went in a
body to one of Oscar Wilde's lectures
in Boston. Oscar, strange to say was
not pleased. To see himself as others
see him so disconcerted him that he
failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap
plause that occasionally greeted him
Perhaps this sort of monkey business, if
pursued long enough, will teach the dis
ciple of aestheticism a wnoleBome lesson.
Editor Ramsdell, of f.he Washington
Republican, recently offered $5 for the
best written letter accepting an offer of
marriage, and here is the letter, by Ger-
trade Nelson, which won the prize :
"My Dear Donald -Fresh with the
breath of the morning came your loving
missive. I have turned over every leaf
of my heart during the day, and on each
page I find the same written, namely,
gratitude for the love of a noble maD, ran
milit v in flailing myself its object, and
ambition to render myself worthy of that
which you offer, I will try. Yours
henceforth."
Geobge Q. Cannon, one of the con
testants for the seat of Delegate in Con
gress from Utah, speaking of the re
pressive measures respecting polygamy,
says : " Our people will be obliged to
submit with the spirit of martyrs, as
they have heretofore submitted when
oppressive laws have been enacted
against them, or when they have been
expelled or mobbed from their various
homes, before polygamy became one of
their tenets. They actually rejoice in
persecution, as it intensifies their ad
hosion to the doctrines of their church,
and confirms them, in their belief in its
divine origin."
A cotempqr aby ' tells the following
story: A man named Harsens who
keeps a saloon and a parrot in New York
went out a few minutes the other even
ing and on his return missed seven silver
watches he had there. A few nights
after William Cox, who was the only
person in the saloon during Harsens
absence, came in with some friends; and
while he was drinking at the bar. tha
parrot startled him by sayinggravely,
"Billy Cox stole those watches." He
hurried out to sue the owner pf the par
rot for defaming his character, when he
was arrested for stealing another watch
whuwas found in his possession.
IAcoobdino to the New York Herald,
now engaged in examining the Clerk's ac
count of the disbursements of the House
of Representatives, the most shameful
recklessness prevails in the manner of
spending the publio funds. We quote
from the list: "Two perfumery cases,
bought for ft member, $20; three fans
bought for a member, $16.63; six tooth
pioks, bought for member, $28.17; two
fourteen carat charm magio penoils,
bought for a member, $30.60; seven
knives, bought for a member, $109 67;
three eafd cases, bought for a member.
$10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for
a member. $40; one shaving case, bought
for a member, $13. These are only
a few of tho long list given. The"
Herald, commenting, says: "Surely Mr.
Adams, the late Clerk of the House of
Representatives, who furnished these
extraordinary artioles to member at
the publio expense, on the pretense that
they were needful for the discharge of his
legislative duties, does great injustice in
withholding the 'member's' name from
the curious taxpayers. He must have
been engaged in very dirty work to need
so much perfumery." v
One olcLIrish dame asked another,
touching soaft person recently deceased,
the following qo3.tion : "Eh, dear Judy
alannah, iv what did he die ? h " Ayah,
dear," replied Judy, "he diod iv
Tuesday, I'm touR'1
Spoopcndjke In the Role of a Sports
; . nian.
. "Say, my dear,"' said Mr. Spoopen
dyke, as he drew a gun from the case
and eyed it critically, "I want you to
wake mo up early in tho morning. I'm
going shooting."
"Isn't that too sweet 1" ejaculated
Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I'll wear my dress
and my Suratoga waves: Where do we
go?"-
" I'm going down to the island, and
you'll go as far as the front door,"
grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Women
don't go ehooting. It's only men. All
you'v got to do is to wako me up and
get breakfast. When I come home we'll
have some birds."
," Won't that be nice !" chimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke. "Can you catch birds
with that thing?" and Mrs. Spoopendyke
fluttered around tho improved breech
loading shot gun, firmly impressed with
the idea that it was some kind of a trap.
"I can kill 'em with this," exclaimed
Mr. Spoopendyke. "This is a gun, my
dear ; it isn't a nest with three speckled
eggs in it, nor is it a barn with a hole in
the roof. You stick the cartridge in here
and pull this finger-piece, and down
comes yonr bird every time. "
"Isn't that the greatest thing ! I sup
pose if you don't want a partridge you
can stick a duck or a turkey in that end,
too, or a -fish or a lobster, and Lring it
down just as quick."
" Yea, or you can stick a house or a
cornfield, or a dod gasted female idiot
in there, too, if you want to !" snorted
Mr. Spoopendyke. "Who said anything
ftxnt a partridge ? It's a cartridge that
goes' in there."
" Uh I ejaculated airs. spoopentiyKe,
rather crestfallen. "I see now. Where
does the bird go ?"
" It goes to night school, if he hasn't
got any more sense than you have,"
snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Look here,
now, and I'll show you how it works,"
and Mr. Spoopendyke, whose ideas of a
guu were about as vague as those of his
wife, inserted the cartridge half way in
the muzzle end, and cautiously cocked
tho weapon
"And, when the bird sees that ho
comes and pecks it ! Isn't that the fun
niest I" and Mrs. Spoopendyke clapped
her hands in the enjoyment of her-dis-covery.
""Then you put out your hand
and catch him !"
" You've struck it!" howled Mr.
Spoopendyke, who had the hammer on
the half cock and was vainly pulling at
idea 1 All you need is four feathersaud
a gas bill to be a martingale ! With
your notions you only want a new stock
and steam trip hammer to be a needle
gun ! Don't you know the dod gasted
thine has to go off before you get a bird !
You shoot the birds ; . you don't wait for
'em to shoot you !" -
"At home we used, always to chop
their heads off with an ax," faltered Mrs.
Spoopendyke.
"So would I if I was going after
measly old hens," retorted Mr. Spoopen
dyke, who had managed to uncock the
contrivance, " but when I go for yellow
birds and sparrows I go like a sports
man. While I'm waiting for a bird,"
continued Mr. Spoopendyke, adjusting
the cartridge at the breech, "I put tho
load in here for safety, and when I see a
flock I aim and fire."
vBang I went the gun, knocking the
tall feathers out of an eight-day clock
and plowing a foot furrow in the wall,
perforating tho closet door and culminat
ing in Mr. Spoopendyke's plug hat.
" Goodness, gracious I" squeaked Mrs.
Spoopeudyke, " Oh, my 1"
Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up
and contemplated the damage.
" Why couldn't yo keep still !" he
shriekei " What'd yo want to disturb
my aim for and make me let it off?
Think I can hold back a charge of pow
der and a pound of shot while a mensly
woman is scaring it through a gun bar
Ml?" " If it had been a bird how nicely you
would have shot it 1" suMested Mrs.
Spoopendyke, soothinglyVl3"If you
should ever aim at a bird you'd catvh
him sure."
The Crater of ropocatapotl.
In a letter to the Philadelphia Eecord,
Mr. Nathan E. Perkins describes at
great length the ascent of the Mexican
volcano Popocatapetl, having reached
the crater after a toilsome clin b, and de
scended as far as he could without a
rope. From this position a good view
was obtained of the crater-walls. The
bottom was hidden by ascending smoko
and Bteam. -The lower walls were hung
with large masses of snlphur interspersed
with icicles hundreds of feet long.
" The crater is about one mile across,
and has the appearance of a largo funnel
whose sides are but little inclined, and
the bottom is not visible. There seem
to be three distinct rings, which divide
it into four nones, the largest beihg that
nearest the mouth. From the summit
the City of Mexico, although - over 100
miles away, was plainly visible, and,
surrounded by lakes as it is, seemed like
a magnifioent gem set around with
pearls. The whole great valley of Mex
ico can be seen at a glanoer" At our feet
lav Am oca, over tlurty miles distant,
with its luxurious growth of tropical
plants, orange groves and banana plan
tations, and on the right Pueblo and the
old cities of Chilulo and Tascalla, with
their 355 churches and spires. The dis
tant mountain of Orizaba, nearlv 200
miles awav, the snowy pcaks of Melen
cha, the White Lily and several others
in the distanoe, stood arrayed Ixjforemc.
I felt fnllv reoaid for mv toil in having
climbed the highest mountain in North J
America, whoso summit is ammt is.uuu
feet above the sea-level."
Consult the lips for piiiivns, the con
duct for convictions. "
A POLICE m'OYATIOX
The f hlnne Officer on the DTCr Fore.
Concerning Denver's naturalized Chi
nese policeman, Louis Johnson, alias
Kan Yun Yu, the fact that Johnson is
tho first Mongolian who ever wore the
star of a policemman in America, was
early developed in the conversation, and
is worthy of note. Johnson is married,
and more important, his wife is an
American, a lady in all senses of the
term.
"I married her," snid Johnson, " in
Louisville, Ky., in 1873. She was a
Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first
street. A good family. Oh, yes. First
class. She is of German descent, and
was a working girl, but I assure you in
every way an excellent woman oh,
yes !"
" Keeps vou preliy straight, doesn't
she?"
" You bet. She objects to my going
among the Chinese, and makes me do
just as Americans do just the same."
" How do you like that ?"
" Ob, I don't object. You see I con
sider myself civilized, and my country
men ao not. Many of them are bad
people. They are envious and under
handed. When they see that a China
man has a good thing, they try to get it
away from him by under bidding him."
"Are they immoral ? '
' " Most of them are bad. So my wife
doesn't want me to associate with my
countrymen here." ,
" What do Chinamen pay for the Chi
nese women !"
"They are bought first in China,
Young girls are preferred. Tl-ey are
stolen on the streets in Chinese cities
and sold to slave dealers there, who
again sell them to men who ship them
to America., They are bought there for
from $250 to $300 by wholesale, and re
tailed in San Francisco for from $300 to
g,S00 young girls bring the best prices.
They then belong to the men who buy
them, who keep them till they get old
and then sell them to Chinamen, witli
whom they live as their wives. Their
owners collect all the money the women
receive, except what they steal, and feed
and clothe the womeD."
" How many Chineso women ore thero
in this country?"
" Well, I should say there are about
10,000. They are scattered pretty thick
ly over the Pacific coast."
"Why do no more -decent China
women come to America?.'
T Phini ev--)rvthinc is 'different
from America. The women are kept
very close. . Hence the women don't get
out much, and they don't come to this
country."
"Do all the Chinese smoke opium?'
"Most of them."
"Do you?"
"Oh, I hit the pipe occasionally when
I have a headache."
" Does your wife ?"
" Not much."
"How many Chinese aro thero in Den
ver?" "About 500."
Johnson says it. is his determination
to live the life of a respectable American
citizen. He is a member of the Meth
odist Church, while his wife belongs to
the Christian denomination. He has de
voted most of his life to the tea bus
iness. He was naturalized in Evans
viile. Speaking of his courtship, he says he
met his wife through her brother, who
was a friend of his. He courted her for
about a year, and when they decided
that they each loved the other more than
they loved any one else they were mar
ried by a Christian minister. -Denver
Xttcs. -
A Battle Between Birds.
A 'gentleman from Stone County gives
tho purtioulars of a remarkablo incident
which he witnessed while crossing White
River on the fi-rry just above the mouth
of Sycamore Cre ek. When nearly half
way aeros3 the stream an enormous efiglo
swooped down on a rlock of geese, which
were swimming in the river sumo eighty
rods below the boat. The fowls, upon
observing the eagle approaching, in
stinctively dived undr the water just ns
the bird struck the wave. Bnflied in the
first assault ther eagle flew slowly up
ward, and when the geese came to the sur
face, darted downward again, and bury
ing its talons in one of them, attempted
to bear it sway. The goose struggled
violently, while its companion swam
around "uttering shrill cries and' the per
sons on tho ferry boat watched the
strange scene with keen interest. Once
the eagle fitted its prev clear out of the
w itor iu14omod on the noint of convey
ing it to I mountain cliff that rose
grandly in Sie air on the other side of
the stream, but the struggles of the goose
forced the captor downward. When
water was egaiu reached the goose made
a supreme effort and plunged below tho
surface, dragging the eaglo after it and
viiikiii the latter to loosen its noiu aua
rise upward with a fierce stream.
The engle next attacKed anotner goose,
i-mf. it.li" tlu RftTiie rcsrdt. beinar com
pelled to rehnouish its htld when its in
tended victim plunged beneath the
waves, his strange contest lasted fully
thirty nanutes, at the end of which tune
the eaglo gave up the fight, and, rising,
soared away to the niouutains westward,
while the flock of geese swam further
down tho stream. None of the flock
were killed, but the water in the vicinity
was dyed with blood, and tho surface of
the stream was covered with feathers for
a considerable distant Little Hock
Letter to A tlanta Constitution.
One of the greatest pleasures of
childhood is found in the mysteries
which it hides from the skepticism of
tfce elders, and works up into small my
thologies of its own.
USEFUL 1F1STS.
Never lean the back upon anything
that is cold. .
Never begin a journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
Spirits of ammonia diluted with
water, if applied vsith a sponge orflannel
to discolored spots on tho carpet or gar
ments, will often restore the color.
Skim-milk and water, with a little bit
of gkie in it, made scalding hot, will
restore old rusty black crape. 11 slapped
and pressed dry, like muslin, it will look
as good as new.
. A paste made of whiting and benzoin ,
will clean marble, and one made of
whiting and chloride of soda, spread and
loft to dry (in the sun if possible) on tho
marble will remove spots.
Celery boiled in milk and eaten with
tho milk served as a beverage is said to
be a cure for rheumatism, gout and a
specifie in cases of small-pox. Nervous
people find comfort in celery.
Never stand still in cold weather, .
especially after having taken a slight
degreo of exercise ; and always avoid
standing upon the ice or snow, or where
the person is exposed to a cold wind.
A flannel cloth dipped into warm
soap suds and then into whiting and
applied to paint will instantly remoyo
all grease and dirt. Wash with clean
water and dry. The most delicate tint
will not be injured, and will look like
new.
To behove greass from white goods,
wash with soap or alkaline lyes. Col
ored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap
yes. Colored woolens, the same, or
ammonia. Silks, absorb with French
chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away -with
benzine or ether.
For salt-rising bread, stir up quite
thick in tho usual way, using cold water,
and place upon tho sitting-room coal
stove over night; it will be light enough
to spongo the bread by morning, and is
quite a help when the days are so short
for raising the emptyings; my family
prefer this rising. When one has not a
warm-enough place to set their milk put
hot water in to raise the temperature'.
To make a light wheat loaf, take the
thick buttermilk from the bottom of your
buttermilk dish ; stir just as you can, .
allowing one heaping teaspoonful of so
da to a pint basin of buttermilk. Pot .
pie is nice made in the same way, only
put about one third sour cream. A pud- ,
diug made in the same way with dried
clieri ies and steamed in the cake dish'
with a hole in the center is nice. The
advantage of the hole in the center is ,
that the steam passes through the center
of the pudding into tho steamer. Eat
this pudding with sugar and cream ;
nice tart apples will answer very well
for fruit.
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POPULAR "SCIENCE.
For several years it has been observed
that the European glaciers are steadily
retreating.
The molecules of hydrogen, at a tem- ,
rer:it.nr of (if)" Fahrenheit, move at the
average of 6,225 feet in a second.
Flammarian says that the tail of a
comet must sweep through space with
tho velocitv of 16.000 leagues per second.
3Ir. J3tone, her Majesty's astronomer
at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com
pleted his gire.it catalogue of Southern
stars, the result of ten years' labor at the
cape. . "
The algre known as protocoocaeese
have one peculiarity they do not live
in the water but in other plants, some in
dead, some in dying and others in living
parts.
Some peoplo havo come to believe
that salting or smoking will kill trichinae,
but a temperature of 212 Fahrenheit,
or at least 160 should be reached in
every part of the meat to bring about
this result.
The colors which distinguish our sum
mer and autumn flora reds, pinks, blues,
and yellows aro caused by the presence -of
substances which require a strong
light and high temperaturo for their
production. .,
It was at one time supposed that
among twining plants each had its own -direction,
some twining toward the sun
and others against it ; but, though the
theory is true in the main, there are
found" exceptions to the rule.
The amount of nervous action may be
measured by the quantity of blood con
sumed in its performance. The plethys
mography measuring the volume of an
organ, when the arm is brought in con
tact with its records the amount of blood
drawn from the body to the brain, and
thus indicates exactly the effort in men
tal action.
Experiments have recently been made
to show that the presence of ozone pro
duces luminosity in phosphorus. In
pure oxygen, at a temperature of 15 C,
and under atmospheric pressure, phos
phorous is not luminous in the dark,
and a bubble of ozone introduced under
tho bell glass produces momentary phos
phorescence. The practical value of the Faure ac
cumulator for the storing of electricity
is yet to be proved. It is said that sev
eral such batteries stationed in a house
and charged with electricity during the
day will be sufficient to light up the
rooms at night and perform such light
operations as turning a coffee-mill or
sewing-machine.
" Parting is such sweet sorrow, re
marked a bald old bachelor to a pretty
girl, as he told her good-night. "I
should smile." sjie replied, glancing
upon his hairlessness and wondering how
he ever did it
Fritz has named his doff Non Sequit
ur, because it does not follow.