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York Herald, 16 Feb 1882, p. 1

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â€"â€"Wendeli Philips heads a petition against compulsory vaccination, of course ; but so do thirsty Bostun physicians, which is more remarkable. â€"-A Chicago Grand Jury wishes the Mayor and Chief of Police to explain why thirty gambling houses are open in the buslness gut of the city, " The monument to Edward 1. on Burgh Marsh, In England, the scene of his death has just been carefully restored at the expenâ€" ses of Lord Lonsdale. â€"At the Grosvenor Gallery opening in London the wtlxetes mustered in strong force in every greeneryyellvry attire. and attracted {at more attention than the pictures. â€"The loss to England by the last three years' had harvesls is estimated a: from a. hundred to a hundred ano fifty million (lol- lara a year. â€"-Lord Bute, who has a colony of beavers wear Rothesuy, in Scotland, is going; to pre- Bnt several to the Zoological Gardens, the [reed there having died out. â€"-â€"Tho 1:3!»th phase in Parisian suicide is to shoot yourself in a. back. It is apt to damage the linings, but enables the suicide to be promptly conveyed. to the morgue. ~Samuel Piercy, the actor who Iamly died of smallâ€"pox in Heston, was a diaboliever in vaccination, and a month before: taking L119 disease refused to protect himself against 1n â€"-A workman was examiping a hole which he had just bored in a factory floor as New Britain, (101111., when his eye was destroyed by a red hot. iron thrust through from the other side. â€"Smce the Vienna disaster seats near the door have been at a premium in European theaters. ~During the past year 2,039 vessels were wrecked and property es‘imabed at, MAM) 000,000 destroyed. Add to this the property lost in fires andisee what. an appnl'mg amount of capital is unerly lost. 1â€"The venom of aerpants is said not to dif- ier chemically from human saliva, howm‘er powerful are its effects. Ammonia, long thought to belts antidote, does not render it innocuous. The poiaon when mixed with ammonia. kills pracisely‘ as though it was pure. ~0f the thirty inebriate asyiums estab- lished in fihis country during the past twenty five years but Iourhuvc gone out of existence Some peopie look on them as having a sam- tary value. while obhers regard them Tus con» venienh Joshâ€"ups for inconwmivn: relaz‘ivcs. â€"Signor Depretis, the Izalizm Premier, has sent strict crders to Sicily man the commem oration of the Slcilmn Vdspors on March 30 shall have no character of hostility to Franco. The Monitors, in announcing this, says this order is the result of representmionu made from Paris. â€"â€"-Hemy Merz, of St. Louis, pitiud Mm. Dinkelmann on account. of her mariml infuli- city. and paid all the cost of a divorce. Then he married her. But within a year he was cured of his love for L181“, and employed the same lawyer who had procured the divorce Lu aunul his own marriage. â€"â€"Une who grandiloquvntly styles himself Rfiaurgam, advcmses IL] a London pupxr for t we " younger sons, with small cnpmal, in the only grand adventure yst unumxmpted.“ Fame and splendid fortune sire gvmmnnued in two years. Sucmbss is pronunucm to be certain, and full palticulwrs will be, given in confidence. -â€"It is thirty years since the cable bctwe-m Dover aed Calais waa completed. The first message was handed to Prince l’residcm Louis Napoleon on Dec. 2], 1:45]. Puor to the message an electric simck fired a gun to salute the Dulm of Wellington, than an Dover for the last time as Lnd Warden of the Cinqne Ports. â€"Thu Zmiogicnl Society in New South Wales, who have succnssi‘uily introduced trout and perch into that part of Australia, have renewed Lhen‘ (din-m to introduce Sul' mom, and have applied for and received from the United States Fish Commission two boxes containing 4.000 ova. Thane, after great care and trouble being taken wuh ihem. have been safely deposxhed in haicliing boxes at anenfels. â€"The Springfield Glass.) liepubiiCan of the 25m innt. savs. that ibis understood at New Redford than the pmj- at of constructing a ship canul across (Jape God has been aban- doned, recent surveys showing that it \vnuld cost a million zuo!‘othunex1.»sctod. The Sun, referring to this, thinks it matters listlc whe- ther the project; is carried out in the nine» teenth 01‘ twentieth (mutiny, considering it was started one hundred years ago. ~â€"A bill has been iun‘oduced in the Home of Representatives in Mussachusettes provid~ ing that cities and towns be «aligxnwredv under conditions consistsnt with individual and corporate lights, to devote to the increase of forests such parts of their territory as they deem suitable lorit, the mle of such lande to be vesetd in the commonwealle and to be uudnr the care and management of a well qualified and wisely regulawd board of foresrry, responsible to the legislature. â€"It is asserted that the nutritiouflness o apples has never been properly appreciated and that they are far more nourishing than potatoes. Cornish workmen say that they can work boner on bulle apples than on potatoes. Them is n dish in Cornwall called equal) pie, made of muuon with sliccs of potato, apple and onion, and, strange as it nyiy seem to many, in is excellent; Cornâ€" wall is the coumy for meat. pies, as the miners carry their dinners with “mm in that. form. â€"'1‘he practice in Pennsylvania coal mines is to leave the pillars of cml in positlou to support. the roof until the rest of the lavel has been taken out Then the pillars are some times removed. but is a dangerous operation. even when strong rmd numerous timbers are inserted. It is in this part of the work than most of the casualities of the mines occur "Ribbing the pillara” is the term used in describing the careless removal of coal from these suppuss, and the miners continue the practice because it is an easy way to get the coal. -â€"â€"The island of Harm of the Bx‘i‘ish Chan. nel group, after being vacated by the Tmp- piets some montle ago has again been purâ€" chased by another of the monastic orderln hailing from St. Marie (13 Chartreuse. Dur- ing last spring Herrn was purchased by the Trappists. A father superior, {Accompanied by five brotlwrs of the order. took up LhUiF quarters on the ialaud for a few weeks ; but they ultimately left rather suddenly. not hav ing found the climate and surrouudmgs so suitable for a permanent settlement as they had expected. -â€"Shephen A. Rusaell, an Augusta, Me. jeweller has found a. troasuro which would rejoice the heart of an nutiqm‘ian. It is a silver tanknrd made over a century and a quarter ago by Paul Revere, tho famom Boston Silversmith unmnrmlizod by Long follow. The mukurd has the name of Paul Revere stamped upon in in two places. and igmved on me bottom is the name 0% lizaboth Goodwill. It; is of solid silver, 1mm weighs 289; ounces. Mr. Iiusseall foundim in a store in Watcrville, where its owner had left it, asking Lhzn he might be allowed $30 for it, about its value for bullion. â€"-â€"’1‘be lion hunt-1' attached to a menagerio at Edinburgh, aftor the lions had bren fed, xmfisaving their cagm When In slipped mm fell. This acculeut provied an irrimistible temomtion tn onu (If the limm‘ who, ahhough he had already dined, made a rush at. him and seized him by the fleshy nan of hue mm above the elbow. Being recmled, howwer. to a. sense of propriety by a sharp blow, the lion loosed its huld, leaving only the unrle of its teeth on the arm of ils victim. The lion tamer, having dressed the wound himself subsequently reappaurad in the manageri. and put the animals through their usual per» formance. â€"-ThIee lovely siaters-Lizzie, Funny and Maryâ€"lived in Loulsville, Ky. Lizzie and AROUND THE WORLD Funny admired the same young man. A discussion about him one day ended in such a terrific combat that Mary had to interfere in behalf of Funny, who received such a. heat- ing that she had to be put in bed. Marv went to town and got a. warrant for the arrest of Lizzie. who, when she was brought to juil, swore out a warrant against Mary; so Mary and Lizzie are both in jail, and Funny is in bed from her injuries, while tho young man. the cause of all of it. is no doubt running around the streets, possibly with another \VOIHEU. ~~AGer111an nobleman just died at Leona Springs, in l'exus, whore Ior thirty years be cultivated the soil and cherished the idea of meaning a magnificent baroninl estate. He built a house on one of the peaks of the neigh boring mwunmin range, commanding a splendid prospect of hlll and valley,hub seems never to have fully realized his plans. He made and sold fine butter and sausages, am disposed in San Antonio of other farm pro- ducts, in the qlmiiny of which he was excelled by no competitor. He was much of a recluse Karl Felik Georg von Pichwe was the name of this eccentric representative of German nobitity. â€"â€"~The New Orleans Times Democrat of the 218$ insb, saya, rvspecting the sugar crop of last year and the prospect for the present '. “ lu‘nrly in July last the Times Democrat omimawd the pending sugar crop at from 125,000 to 130.000 hogslxeads, and now. miner Illb crop has been mudo, we still put the en- tire oumome at 125,000 hogsheads, with an extra amount of Inolasws. When we remem: nor that tho sugm crop of ltho yea): previous greatly exceeded 200,000 hogsheads. it would he bumhatuml for the sugar plantvrs of Louisi- ana to feel despondent. But such is not 1116 case. On the (contrary, the tone among sugar plantora is not only a healthy one, it is also hopeful and cheerful.” -Dr. Beggs was murdered by or thlough thecunnivance of a number of persons at lronton. Ohio, and the hanging of one of them by lynchers a few days ago seems to have been an attempt to learn their numvs. John Wagoner was in jar! for the crime Twelve manksd men took him out, drew him up with a rope uv¢~r the limb of a tree, and the!) Jet him down to confess. But he Would not; buxmy 11‘s )1 azumplices. The operation was rammed scwml times, but not. a word ovum be tortured from himxmli 130 waniuurly clwlmd to doabh. Theu Daniel l‘bek, a. 81w pecied mm, was tuken in hund. A single hf: of the rope made him tell the whole Story of tho) crime, and his life was spared. wâ€"An English paper says that since the Melbourne exhibition, Belgian manufacturers have done a large trade with Australia. The German steamers ol the Sloman line call reâ€" gularly once a month at Antwerp, on their way to Melborne. and there is always an ex cans of cargo for Australian ports. Belgium which had scarcely any direct trade with Slelbourne hpfore the exhibition, has within the last (eight months forwarded 5,000 tons of goods orderod by Melbourne merchants. Gluius, iron and chemicals are the principal articles sent to this in n‘kot. The competi- tion with the mother country for patronage ll] the British colonies constimtea one 1:»: stance out of many constantly coming into notice. â€" Some time since in was stated that oxygen was alum; to be manufactured in Paris by a. new chein method, for distribu- tion to consumers for various purposes. The plOCSFB was said t0 be based on the absorp- tion of barytu. av 21 certain temperature. of oxygen from tlm air and the release of the oxymu by the barth when heated to a higher temperature. It had been thought that mum {gradually lost its power of ab sorptiou, but the Parisian chemlsgs said that they hm] overcome that difficulty. As, however. nothing seems to be demo in the 1navter,it may be that they have not; over- came that riiificulty, and {hat so useful a guy cannot yet be cheaply obtained. â€"On New Year’s Day, as M. Gnmbetla emu driving in the Boie do Boulogne, hie Citr- riage ran against the lirougham of a M. Lee mans, which was ahrtttered almost in two, and the horse grievously injured. M. Gann hetta's couchman feeling that he had got into 8. scrape, lashed his horses on. M. chmans ran alter him to uncertain who was responsi- hlc for the damage, and succeeded in stop- ping him. He threw open the door of the vehicle. M. (imnhwtta took no notice of his outcries, but an Under Secretary 01 State who wae with him gave his curd. An action was brought. M. Gmnhetm pleaded that, as he was riding in it job carriage. the chair did not concern him. The Tribunal having taken this View. the job master has been ordered alter the inspection of an expert, to pay the damages. â€"~'l‘he British Prado Journal, January 7. declares it to be “ hardly creditable to Bir- mingham gun manufacturers" that Ameri can firms should be able to beat them in ob» taming government orders in the Auatr tlinn colonies. A few works since the Australian agent to the Uolt‘a llevolver Company secur- ed on order from the South Australian gov- ernment to supply them with 1,600 Colt’r: revolvers for the police, and it cannot be I learned that any Birmingham firm made the slightest eflort to obtain the contract. In New Zzaaland u large contract for steel mil.~ was about to be sent to the United States for execution, but some Li ch occurred in the negotiations. ‘he Journal Suva “ it is to be feared that these are not isolated cases of British iudifl‘urence. -â€"The Ludies’ university of St Petersburg has I]. pluaical labomtox'y with 130 Htl‘ldontfifi chemical luborntory with 60 studnnts, and a physiological laboratory wito 100 students. The botanical cabinet has twenty microscopes and the tremury c :ntuimd on Jan. 1 :39 100 roubles. The wno‘e institution is maintained by private contributions and bv entrance fkes of 3325 per year, the Ministry of Public Jn~ struction allowing only 31,5!)0 per year. The lectures are delivered by m'ofruqm's of the St. Pete-ml)ng university, and since last your the programme has been rendered quite (qua) to that of the mulo university ; a special mathe [nation] faculty was recently owned. The number of ntudontn at this Free Ladies uni- mrsity is 980, and 4'3 assistants. -â€"A writer in the London Lancet states chat the populur improubion concerning the quick fataliiyof wounds of the bean is not supported by fact. “ We know L-f no case." he says, " of abnnlutely instantaneous drab!) from a wound in the heart. in any pint or hows Pr extensive.” Wounds iu the apex kill in an hour and upward. and a case is cited in which a man lived {waive houxs after thfi heart hit/.1 bven suvurvd in twain by a‘ swwrd cub. Out of twenty-nine coilecicd cases of heart) injury, only two were fatal Within ‘18 hours and 111 others demh resulted in from 4 ‘0 28 days. R covery may takw place Whvl] the w and is extensiva, for P. bullet has bzt I: found embeddes in tho substuncc of thehcart utter a lixpsa of six years from the date of the injury, the pntimn havmg died from a disease of another organ." â€"â€"A foreign exchange mentions receiving a Written copy of Prourvss, an ambussod mugan zine for the bfind, with a. sample of the emu DOSEed printing used. This magazine was: started in April last, and has appeared monthly sincu then. It is published by the British and Foreign Biind Aasocixtion for promming the education and employment of the blind, London, and is edited by Dr. T. R. Atmiango of that associasion. II is in VOL. XXIV. the Braille type. which is a character con- sisting of raised points. now used very largely by the blind in most civilized countries. The paper on which the magazine is printed is embossed on both sides from stereotype plates prepared by the blind themselves, which method of printing has been for some time adopted in the works, musical as well as lit~ omry, published by the association. -â€"Oomplaint comes from Milwaukee that oyster dealers were adding water to thc oys~ tors shipped in bulk to Interior merchants, for the purpose of maintaining a rivalry exis- ting between the dealers themselves without sustaining too greats loss. An investigatiâ€" on by a reporter of the Sentinel revealed “ that the country dealers were disposing of the bi- valves in bulk at prices lower than those ruling in the Milwaukee and Chicago local markets.” It was soon ascertained that the trouble originated partially with the Balti- more houses, the sources of original supply, and that there it was confined to the smaller dealers, and also to the country merchants themselves, who have also had access to the pump, after the fashion of the milkman, to increase the profit. . quiet village of Rouslench, in Wort cam “ire, England, has been the scene of en CILII‘aUrdinflly miracle play, which was suggested to the rector, the Rev. Mr. Chafey, M the Passion Play of Ober Ammergan. The interest in the play grew daily, and the ropxo luction was witnessed by a large number of people, most of whom had come cmmlcrablc distances. In style the place lmal lurcn made to imitate as much as possible the grout Passion Play 'uitzilile scenery and gorgeous dresses liming,r been obtained at great cost. The performance consisted of a series of tablequ vivants representing various events in the life of Christ. There were exactly fifty persons taking part in the per- formnnco, their ages ranging from four years to eightyâ€"two years, the rector taking a leading character from time to time. An explanation was given of the successive lesux, and selections of music were played durng the performance from Eliiah and Messiah. â€"’J‘he Austrian Crown Prince has published the aiary he kept in his tour made last Feb- ruary in the Holy Land. He wanted to sea the countries in which the ancestors of west em civilization were obliged by the sea and the desert to halt in their migrations, to take up their ahode and to found the primitive societies and those Biblical beliefs which the Caucasian race has assimulated and lived upon for thousands of years. That is the Prince‘s expression in the op-ming chapter. When he descends to ordinary prose he is more interesting. His taste. amountian to a passion, for natural history frequently breaks out. He brought back with him a large col- lwtion of birds that he had shot and plants that he had gathered for a museum that heis founding at Prague No technical dttml as to the manner of preserving them is left out. l‘hure is a complete llllt in the appendix of all the birds, boasts, curious stones. shells and plants that he obtuined by 1115‘ pernonal enter- prise and penance in the Holy Lind. â€"--Old customs still prevail to 9. great ex- Wilt in the northern and western portions of England. in the north, especially amid the great Black Country. they are almost umver eel, while in tho Midlands and the south they bikini to huve d:suppcur<vd. Many of these customs come Within the category of super- stitions. In the north. no child’s nails are ever out on a Sunday; no infant's nails are out uniil it has attained the age of one year, but are bitten; the inside of a child's hands are never Washed until three weeks after birth; infants, before they are carried down stairs, are always taken up stairs. in order to insure their course in the world noward ; no child is shown itself in a glass, or its teething process will be painful ; cake is always given to the first person met on the road to the christening ; murrie 6 should never be per~ formed on it Saturday, but always, if possi» ble, on 3 Wednesday; the person who sleeps first on a wedding night will die first, as will the person who kneels first at the marriage ceremony. In Cornwall no miner whistles underground ; a Cornish child born after midnight will see more of the world than or~ uinary folk, and Sunday is an especially lucky day for birth. â€"‘\1ichne] Lycet waited until he was 37 before seeking a wile, anuthen found the job less easy and more costly than he had expect ed, though he hsd the advantage of a con- smershle bank account. He lives at Nice- town. a suburb of Philadelphia. He gave a fiddler, whose occupation put him in the way of knowmg a great many girls, $510 as a fee for introducing him to an eligible party; but the girl with whom the agent put him in rela- tion favorable to courtship was cross eyed aim therefore unsatisfactory. A second payment of 310 to the peddler resulted in an acquain- tance with Mrs Nolun, who jilted him after receiving two dresses and a cloak; and sub- sequently with Miss Casey, to whom he gave a bonnet, shors, gloves and hosiery before finding out that she would not merry him. Then Michael discarded the fiddler and struck out for himself with Miss Moran, the daughter of his lentilajy. He gave the Police Justice, a few days ago. the following account of his ex- perience with the girl: “ Furst she axed for a silk dhress. be yes moind that? b‘vz I. ‘ Will ye marry me ‘3 ’ [t's hasty ye are,’ 587. she ‘ Margaret" sez 1.’ ‘ it’s no silk dhress ye’ll have item me till ye promise.’ ' Very well,’ sez she, w1d a smile on her, " I’ll be Mrs. Licwt on Christmas Day.’ ‘ The day before Christmas, sex I, ‘ it’s married in the mornin’ we‘ll be.‘ ‘ Phwat mornin’ ? ’ sez she, openin‘ her eyes and starin’ we in the face. ‘ Christmas mornin’, sez I. ‘ It’s New Year’s I sed’, sez she, as bould as brass. I wur bilin’ mad, but she stud like 21 cow in the mud, and cud nsytlier be druv nor blsrueyed. So I waited an' to put her intil slipirrits l gev her a twentyseveu dollar goolrl ring. On New Year’s day she sint me a litther sayin’ she’d not marry me if I wuz made of goold.” It was to recover the ring, that Michael resorted to the Police Court, and, meeting with success, he has sued all three deceivers to make them give up all of his presents. When Sheridan was hard up for cash, he used to make his wit» earn the means of sub- sistence; and he could accomplish this in no homer way than by laying wagers with the Prince lit-gent. A discussion once arose as to the respective walking capabilities of tur~ keys and geese; and the wit expressed him- self Very incredulous of the assoriion than turkeys weuld walk twice as far as geese in a given space of sixne. He affrlctcd to believe that geese could be driven as fast on the road as turlu ys; and the thing appeared so very absurd that the Prince instantly laid him a. heavy wager that such was non the case. Sheridan. however, knowing the early to bed habits of turkeys, took cure to arrange for a. long distance ‘0 be traversed, and to fix the period of irial late in the afternoon. The conzeqnence was {him evening set in before the 1-1an flocks had anything like arrived at their (lamination, and, although the turkeys oulelripped tho geese at first, as the shades of night mil \liey refused to be driven lor- ward, and got. flying up on to the branches of the trees an the roadside. The geese how- ever, were driven steadily forward mthe goal, and the Prince, as usual, lost his wager. â€"Guiteau's last hope of a reprieve will {all â€"â€"1hrough the gallowa’ trap. A CURIOUS WAGER‘ RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, FEB. “ Am Brudder Abraham Scott in de hall dis evenin‘ ?” inquired the president as he looked down the aisles. " It was Brudder Scott!" whispered the president. “ Although two of his childen am bar‘iut, his wife needs cloze an’ he hasn‘t a dozen taters in de house, he had taken good money from his pocket 311’ paid it out fur bad whisky. He wasn’t a man whenI foun’ him. He was a hog â€"a great big hog. I could smell his breaf six feet away, an’ it would have made a dog sick. He had lost his hat. rolled in do slush, an’ den fallen into a stuporish sleep. I got help an’ toted him home, an to- night he comes to dis meetin’ to have a wote among men who work hard, respect demselvos an‘ lib sober lives.” “ Im: sorry, sah.” “ No doubt of it. but dat am no defense. A fool excites pity. knee God made him dat way. Alunatic draws sympathy, kase he has met wid misfortune. A druukard arouses nufliu’ but contempt. He deliberately goes at it to make a brute of himself. You have heard me speak of dis matter on seberal prevus occa- shuns, sn’ you know how do majority of dis club feel on de subjeck. In de las two months you have bin drunk fo’ times.” “ Yes, ssh ; but I'll quit.” "I hope you will, but I doubt it. You had ebery thing to lose by gettin’ drunk do lust time. You have lost caraoter, respect, money, an’ standin’, an’ dar’s leeele hope dat you will see any reason to quit. We kin‘ guard agin thieves by lockin’ up our money. We kin put do murderer in prison an’ have him outer de way. We kin expose do liar an kiver him with confusion. But do drunkard â€"-de hogâ€"do beast, who kin trust in him Who kin believe in him? Who wants his society? Who am not degraded by walkin’ beside him? Brudder Scott, you am a bounced man! Your name will be crossed from our rolls. you will be refused admission heah. an’ we Will forgit (let you wsr’ eber numbered wid us. Let us now attack de reg’- lar order 0‘ business." “ Yes 89.11," answered a. voice from the northwest corner. “ Den please stop dis way.” Brother Scott scuffed forward, head down and his countenance betraymg abom sevenâ€" teen dlfierent emotions, and when he reached the mark the president continued : " Brndder Scott, in gwine ober to de old man Johnson’s lus’ nice to borry a hunk o’ hunter fur breakfast, I diskivered some one lyin' on do sidewalk. My first thought was to yell murder. My nax’ thought was to smell of his breuf. Dan sealed de case to once. It wasn‘t a murder, but a case of dead drunk. I turned do subjeck ober to git a. look at his face, and who d'ye ‘spose it was?" Brother Scott igazeVd straight at a bust of Venus and had notfhing to say. CAN‘T TELL YET. A communication from South Carolina made inquiry as to whemer the Lima Kiln club was in harmony with the various State Legislatures, and brother Gardner replied that. lie could not return a. decided answer yet. They were in harmony on finance, foreign policy and civil service refo'rm. and all bad faith that cold tea was good for weak eyes. but they might difier on other questions. He had prepared and imended to forward to the different legislative bodies the following resci- lution : Resolved, Dnt we refuse all free passes on railroads, discourage set speeches, oppose a long seahun, favor a reduction of samry, an’ agree not. to vote fur {my private bills.” “All those who adopted the above Would be closely in harmony with the LimeuKiln Club. ABOUT EMBLEMS. A communication from Oberlin, 0.. signed by Judge Burnem, Ben Colwell, Prof. Lane sud other men of national renown, amazed hat the colored people of the Buckeye State had concluded to adopt the Sunflower as their emblem, and the assistance of to the club in making it. national was solicited. “ I doan’ take no stock in emblems,” re~ plied Brother Gardner as the letter was filed for answer. “ De laziest crowd I eber knode had a beaver fur its emblem. I have seen a. dozen saloons wid bee hives ober de dosh. A man may take a white dove fur his emblem an’ yit keep his wife eerryin’ a. black eye ten months in de y‘ar. If de cull’d people of Ohio feels de need ob an emblem do sunflower is {LS good as any odder. It’s a. flower which stays out all night widout goin’ to sleep nex’ day. You kin allus tell Whur’ to find it. It grows faster dun do turnip, an’ produces a bigger head dsn do cucumber. Dis club won’t pledge itself to any pertickler emblem at present, but will continue to do white weshin’ at de same reasonable figgers. an’ put a better shine on a stove for twenty~tive cents dun any odder club does for fo'ty." INTERNAL HARMONY. Giveadum Jones, Chairman of the Com- mittee on Internal Harmony, reported a sad state of affairs existing between Pickles Smith and Kyenn Jenes, starting originally with a dispute over the ownership of a twelve feet clothes-line. The members had not only used violent language towards each other in * the presence of a. grocer who sells two boxes of sardines for a quarter, but had clinched 3 and rolled in the mud and solemnly vowed ‘ sch other’s destruction. The two members ;being called to the desk, it was discovered l that the pieces of rope belonged to neither, l and Brother Gardner ssid : “ Gem’een, I doan’ ax you to fall on each odder'a neck an’ shed tears. bm I want you to nnderstan’ dab it dis gulf ain‘t bridged ober befo‘ d6 ncx’ meetin’ you will h'nr sumnhin’ dmp ! As (13 case stands. you am bonf fined 85, which money (16 Treasurer will place to de credit. of de fund to purchase silk stockings fur de widows of deceased colored poets.” The two members retired to the ante room for a short time and returned to report; that all was not joy and harmony. A motmn was then made to remit the fine, which was can ried, and the united pair returned to their seats and lovingly chewed on the same bul» ogna. “ You see, gentlemen, that I place Luis $10 bill in this envelope, this $5 greanback in this cover, and mis 62 note. issued by the United States Government, in this third and last. en- closure." Thus spoke 9. partially red haired young man who wore a stova pipe hat and chockerrd pants, out tight. with large spreads at the bottom, as he stood in mud an inch d. ep at the approani] to the Charlesbown bridge, at 11.10 o’clock to-dny. He was surrounded by quztc a large number of man and boys, but there was not a policeman in sight. “ You see, gentlemen," he continued. “this is the manner in which I introduce the faâ€" mous soap manufactured by the celebrated Multuni in Purvo works, and whmh is gunh auteed to eradicate from clothing anything of drrt that the garments may contain, such as grease, dust, oil, ink, pitch, paint, tar or var- nish. I have now right before your eyes plamd in three envelopes a sum of good, sound currency of the United States, aggre gating in value 5517. In each of those enve~ lopea. beside there is a cake of the celebrated Multum in Parvo soap worth at any retail drug store fifty cents a. cake. Now has any gentleman in this crowd the nerve to offer me $1.50 for the three envelopes? Remember, this is simply done to advertise the article of which I am agent.” THE LIME-KILN CLUB. Some Information for the Boys. BUYIN G SOAP. And he put up another three envelopes supposed to contain another 817. But al though the young man was very flv and would make & tolerably fair prostidigitnteur his hands were not as quick as the eagle eye of the \Vorld’s representative. The dizzy young fellow this time instead of placmg the bills in the envelope with the soap, adroitly palmed themâ€"then is. crushed them ft) the palm of his right hand. after he had made believe to place them in the envelope. " Theré you are, my friend {open your en- velopes and see how you have been rewarded for your nerve.” The crowd pushed eagerly around the gnwky~looking fellow, and. could have kicked themselves with rage when they saw him calmly fold and put away in his capacioua oowmde pocketbook seventeen easily earned dollars. It was at this juncture that the World young man came on the scene. An acquain- tance in the crowd told him what had 00- ourred. “ Never mind, friends,"said the spreadubottom-pants young man. rapidly pro- ducing another roll of greenbacks from his pocket, ” you shall nave another chance ; the company by whom I am employed is not meanâ€"~80 here goes again ! ” There was no immediate response made by any one in the crowd to the eloquent ap~ peul. People are mutually suspicious and a man hates to be the first one to lead OR in a scheme that he knows at his heart must be conducted on a. “ skin ” bat-us. At last a tall, hungry, fur-nwuyâ€"oyedâ€"looking specimen fished around, go: out a trade dollar and a fifty cent please and handed it up. “ I’ll give you another chance, gentlemen, but not on quite as easy terms as before. Now who'll give me $10 for this 617 and the three cakes of Muitum in Parvo '3" immediately three or four persons signified their willing- ness to negotiane. The tight pantalooned young man grabbed the first $10 he could reach, and handed over the envelopes. “ That closes ‘he sales for today. gents ; thank you,” and he moved off. The man who had invested opened his envelopes. There was nothing in them but the Multum de Par- vo. The man swore. \Vhere was the bum gry looking wrench who had drawn the first. prize?” He was gone also-he was a cap per. i Let the fool killer come this Way and open: ate on all those gentlemen who wish to buy $17 for $10. Travel Around the World on Posts at 150 Miles an Hour. E. M. Boynmn, an aneDLOI‘ in Brooklyn, recently turned his attention to rapid tran- sit. The result of his medizmion was the patenting of what he terms a bicycle railroad. He said to a reporter yesterday that his in~ vention will revolutionize the present; system of railroads, and he explained how. Mr. Boyuton, though from Massachusetts, has the appearance oia Louisiaman. He is dark, of medium height, with black hair, sharp, pen- etracing black eyes, quick mosions, and a rapid and volublc utterance. He showed Lhu reporter the letters patent of the bicycle railroad. “ Hucflhe said, “ is a row of posts or pil- lars. They support a V~rliaped tiough of steel or iron. Twenty feet above this trough is an inverted trough like this.A. lronlattice~ work or pillars, supported on the row of posts below. support in turn this A at the edges and connect its edges with the edges of the V, and we get an elevated tunnel. One mil lies in the bottom of the V and the other, reversed, is fixed under the apex of the A. The locomotive to run in this tunnel will he sixteen feet high. made of Bessemer steel, elliptical in its vertical cross section. with two driving wheels, one at each end fifteen feet in diameter, or about three times the diumetercf the ordinary locomotive wheel. Running on the upper rail or track will be two guide or traction wheels, opposite the drivers. The wheels will be grooved to fit the tracks. Each car Wlli be four feet Wide in the center, shap- cd cars are grooved in the part opposite the lower ritil. I propose to treble the speed at tained by the present locomotives by the same piston stroke. I will reduce the weight of trains to one fifth of their present Weight. I will reduce the cost of construction one fifth, and the friction one-fifth, by employing one-eighth of the number of Wheels and axles As these wheels are three times the diameter of ordinary locomotive drivers, three times the speed, or 150 miles an hour, can be at~ tained with precisely the same amount of friction on the axles and boxes. By running the train on elevated tracks upon single posts the necessity for bridging is done away with. By traction wheels, that may be pressed against the upper rail, the trains can ascend or, without danger, go down the steep grades. If a wheel breaks, or is loosed, the cars, which are grooved underneath to fit the track, fall down upon it and slide along until Siopned by the friction. They are so con- structed as to be light. narrow, and to aflord little resistance to the air. “ The tracks will not shade or obstruct the streets. Show drills are avorded. because we go above the snow. The passenger capacity will be greater than that of the present pals ace car, weighing; twenty tons. The neceSHity for sleeping cars will be avoided between points one thousand miles apart. Business within a radius of one thousand miles of New York may be transacted personally by a merâ€" chant in a day. Grain and coal can be trim- sported at one-fifth of the present cost. I will run a train on an air line lrom New York to Siska, about 3 500 miles. From Sitke by water I will take one of Lurillard’s steeelcigar steamboats to the Asiatic coast. Then I will jump on my elevitted train again and traverse Uhina, India, the Ville of the Euphrates, Turkey, through Europe, to Paris ; and all in less than a week ! North and South America would be within fortyneight hours’ travel of each other. Resting upon iron poets, my cars could traverse the narrowest canon. the boldest cliff, and the densest forest. There will be no baggage emashing, for the depth of the cars will permit the passenger to store his baggage between his feet. What a blese~ ing it will be for the tired business men of New York when, by taking a train almost be- fore their oflice door, they can be wnisked to Coney Island in five minutes, take a draught of item air. swallow a. cocktail, and re urn to work, refreshed and satisfied with the World I” ~â€"Ib would be interesfiing to know what kind of an ice bridge Niagara will hava a thousand years hence. Every year the bridge is more wonderful than the one of the pruu cecding year. i-“ Youngy man, we eat all the rind here," said u. boarding-housekeeper to aboutder who was takmg off the outer portion of a piece of cheese.” “All right," replivd the boarder, " I’m cutting this 01$ for you." -â€"-“ D0 yuu pretend to have as good a judg- ment as I have?" exclaimed 2m enraged Wife to her husband. “ Well, no,’ he replied slowly, “ our choice 0! pntners for life shows that my judgment is not to be compared with yours.” â€"â€"-An Oil City gentleman, who recently traveled in Europe, said he was at. dinner one day in Paris, and while telling a story wan attacked with a. sudden and continued ii: of sneezing. When he ceased, a. Russian gen- tleman at two her table, named Pliccheekee, turned about and complimented him on his excullent and correct pronunciation of the Russian language. 1(1 BICYCLE RAILROADING. 1882. One day last week 9. couple of young ladies went to the Perry street depot to see a friend who was coming from the West on her way to an Eastern city. A young gentleman met them at the depot, and the three boarded the Pullman out together and found the friend. Then it was agreed that the Daven- port trio should accompany the fair Western or as far as Molme, It was a. beautiful, bright morningâ€"and one of the young ladies, not being so intimate with the passenger as was her friend, thought to leave the two in com munion, and so said she would like to stand on the rear platform while the train was crossing the river. So the young gent handed her out to the platform aforesaid . and right there, While the coach was above the middle of the mighty Mississippi, he asked her if she would be lllS ; she said she would. he kissed her. and a tittor in the doorway alarmed them. And in that door stood the two young ladies who had been left for communion of heart in the car. There were blushes and confusion on the part of the lovers, but the momentous crisis had been passed, and the two spectators became as happy over it as the la vets themselves.â€"â€"stenport Democrat. Learn Your Business. A young man in a leather store used to feel very impatient with his employer for keep- ing him year after year for three years hand- ling hides. But he saw the use of it years after when in an establishment of his own he was able to tell by the touch the exact quality of the goods. It was only by the thousands of repetitions that the lesson was learned ; and BO it is with everything in whlch we uc~ quire sk1ll. The half-informed, half-skilled in every business oumumbor the others, dozens to one. Daniel Webster once replied to a young man who asked him if there was “any room in the legal prolession.” “ There is always room at the top.” The better you know your business the better your chance to rise. You can gather much information by making a wise use of your eyes and Hil‘i. and perhaps be able to surprise your employer in an emergency by stepping into the next man’s place and discharging his duties satisfactori- ly ; so learn your business. Popping the Question on a Car Platform‘ How Beer is Clarified. Lectures on scientific brewing are delivered Weekly at St. Louis. Dr, Bauer spoke about the degree of fermentation that bear under- goes, and said that the degrer- reached had great influence on the keeping quality of the product. Mr. Schwurz took up the clarifying process. When beer fails to settle in one cask it should be drawn into number and re. clarified. An old mmhod and one recently tried by several brewers without success is to take hops that lmvo been used, clean them, and put them in instead of shavings! or ism glass The reason they fail as u clarifying medium is because they have lost all flavor. It the clarification be stubborn a little tannic acid in thin solution may be added to tho isingluas or sounds This concentrates the isinalasa, making it heavier, and cons: q on y uccclemtes the process. A certain tine flavor, probably from an ethereal oil im- partod by tho hops. i»; contained in the hour before clarification, but after the bocr has settled tnis flavor dlmppems, because it has combined with the inlnglass and in lost For this reason Mr. Schwurz favored the natural rather than the artificial proceed. He Didn’t Mind the Expenae. (San Frzuxcisco Cull.) “ Fourteen dollars for a little lunch for two! exclaimed a prosperous looking cus- tomer to the proprietor of a Kearney street restaurant the other day ; “ why, what; the devil do you take me for ?” “I know it’s a little steep,” said the steak s‘u’retcher; " but you‘re the only soul that’s been in to-day, and my rent falls due to Amorrow.” " I’m blamed if I don't really admire a man with a. nerve like yours, and so I’ll pay lhe swindle.” and with an amused smile the blwoded stranger tossed the hash pirate a fifty dollar note, flipped 9. dollar out of the mange to the waiter and walked out. “ What a pity we can onlyliave one chance at a. man like that,” murmured the dyspepsia dispenser regretfully. But. when, the next day, the rent collector threw out the note as a counterfeit, his despair was such that, is was all the four waiters and the cook could do (.0 prevent his swallowing 21 bottle of his own alleged wine, and thus putting an end to himself. i The New York correspondent of the Cinâ€" cinnati Gazette makes up the followmg list. of the Wealthy citizens of New York who have died wuhin the past, few years : Commodore Yunderl )ilt, mil road. a king .............. . ..... .. \Villuun B, Astor, 1 u 1 (astute \iug ...... Alexander ’ ‘ Stewart, dry goods auto- . ............. >.. ~ ‘ . ) ) real (astute lords... Alexander Stekviu‘t, su ur rufincr . 1)l‘/tr£il‘ Gilscy, maul cstutclord \Vilfimgl C. Rhinelzmdm', 11ml ( 10rd,. . James Blown, buukvl . Murmmd Palm, 1', retlred (tupltuhs John Anderson, tobuuaonist ............. John \V Jhu‘mllcl', suxriuum' of Wm 13. Astor Charles Mm‘mm, shippng mm hunt Juhu (J. Jones, Uhcmmul bunk )U‘CSI- dent . . . . . . . . . ‘ . . V , . , . . . . . . . . . . V . V . . . . Col Vilkl Duran. mu] estate lord Dzwixl Lcm‘nt, Inmkcrund fimuwh Benjamin \Viubhmp retired wealth Dm‘ul Jones, brewer.... Julm Lenux, philzmlhrop 1, uml (cupi- Lulist ...... A (‘morgu Luw, V Websm 1' \Vugue)’, milwug Hiram J. Maxim, inventor of the Maxim electric lamp, has written a letter on the prevention of theater fires, in which he says : “ I maintain that an automatic extinguisher, needing no human supervnsion whatever would renoer impossible such catas rophes as we have spoken of. I have Contrived an ap puratns which, placed in a theater, would communicate with a water main, a reservoir, a steam pump, or With a special carbonic acid generator. Whenever a. tire breaks out. the heat sets the apparatus in operation, and at the same tune opens the discharge pipe, which sends forth a. jet of water, or of water with carbonic acid,on the precise point where the fire has Inadeite appearance. Should the lire be confinrd to a particular part of the theater the discharge is directed in that part only. If it is general, the heat opens a great number of pipes, and the diuchirgc is in. creased accorn‘ing to need. The apparatus work instantaneously, and nothing: whatever can prevent it from working. Fire in a theuter spreaus so rapidly that none of the apparatus at present in use are of any avail. They re» quire time to be set in operation, and besides they are not always sure to w :rk. 0n the other hand, the automatic apparatus I speak of works instantaneously, and its action, which cannot lgil, is even more rapid than the advance of fire itself. Centipedes, Tarantulas and Scorpions An engineer upon the Southern Pacific Railroad recently sent to General Master Me. chanio A. J. Sievens, from Gila. Baud, Ariâ€" zona, an assortment of the semi-tropical WHOLE N0. 1,235 râ€"NO, 47. M Teefy Automatic Fire Extinguisher The Millions Left Behind BRIC-Aâ€"BRAG. 70,000,000 00,000,000 ,,0:10,000 20,000,000 7,000 000 2,000,000 1,500,000 10,000,000 2 500,000 1,000,000 6,000,000 (3,00 ,0 0 2,0ou 00 .,,.;uo;om) 1,0uo,wo ,uUu,uuU 500,000 ,uom mu ,0 10,000 ()0U,W0 I animal pots of the region. Among them is a centipede seven inches in length, and half an inch in diameter ; a tarantula mm a body § over two inches long, and legs covering a cir- lcular space of. fully six inches. An inter- ! (asking specimen is the tarantula. hawk, which ' resembles a large wasp in appearance, but about as large again as that insect. It is said to have been given the name it beers from the fact of its enmity to the tarantula. It lights down upon the tarantula’a back and bites it to death, and then finishes up its destructive work by eating off its legs. Nearly 261) years ago the donut do Merret, son of Henry 1V. of France, invented juniper wine, WhlGh was found cheap and easy to ‘muke, pleasant to drink and useful as a. med- icini», for uropsy or any other dlSOklh‘U which requires thut the kidneys should he encourn aged to do their work cllictently. The Wine soon came into use, but, as it proved too much of a medicine for persons who Were not iiivulids to cure about taking it in large qu nvitios, It Dutch professor, Mynheer Syl- vina, of Leyden, who died two centuries ago, discovered a process for converting the juice of the juniper berries into a liquor which had all the medicinal properties of juniper juice and grape wine, and was at the same time more suitable for general nee, and as the French Word for juniper is genievre, the new spiiit CELYDG to be called Geneva, the capital of Switzerland. The invmitor came, not from Swiizei'luud, but from Holland, and to this circumstance and to the fact that for 12. very long timu it wus principally manufactured in that country, both it and the similar liquor which now goes with us by the name of gin we often called Holland. The original Geneva. in very diflerent from both Hollands and gin. It. is a spirit formed by the fermentation of iuuipcr berries by themselves which contain a peculiar saccharine principle, yielding al- cohol to the extem of thutywhree per cent. Mr. Woollendon said he had no idea where the ear came from, except that it was not mailed in Detroit. The motive of the sender, or the possible effect it would have upon the recipent, must remain subject only of conjeca humâ€"Detroit News. A Ghastly Souvenir. “ Talking about the strange things that go through the mails,” said Assistant Boat-1M”- ter Wuolfenden to a News reporter Tuesday morning, “ I wan'. to show you the latest Ollrinr-ity. an earâ€"~” “ What, a human ear. ? ” " Yes, It human ear in a. s all White box. It was found this morning by the lady clerk who looks through all the unmailable matter and takes a list of it. before it is sent to the dead letter oiliue. The box containing the ear had it three cent postage stamp. instead of which it should have baa 10 cents.” Mr. Woolfenden produced the box, which bore the following address, written in ink :â€" " Dr. Harvey, Wyoming, Canada, Ont.” Inr- side the box was a human ear, and a. scrap of paper upon which was written in pencil : “ A sinner’a emu G. \V." Fabricated Wines. Serious apprehension if not actual dismay, 1133 been caused among the proprietors of Vineyards in Western Switzerland by the in- creasing production of fabricated wines. The manufacturers can not be prosecuted, for they sell their product for what it is -a com» binutfln of the elomonts found by analysis in puro wine. Ninetv ner cent. of their mixture is: water, winch cost: them nothing. and of course thoy can undersell producers of the genuine fruit of the vine ; while consumers of low grade winos would about :13 soon drink one liquid as the other, even if they were able to distinguish between them. It is apparent that the problem thus presented for solution ia a, serious one, from. the fact that the pros- perity of several cantons is largely based upon the success of viticulture. Among the collection are also several Gila. monsters, which are simply overgrown liz- ards, thelargest of which are more than sixa teen inches in laugh. A “ beautiful” rattle- snake. with seven rattles and a. button, which pet the engineer found in his bed beside him upon waking up one morning, was also sent to Mr. Stevens, as the engineer acquired a lively interest in this particular snake upon first sightâ€"Sacramento Union, oi the entire substances fermented along with about one per cent. of every powerful es- sential oil, which is the real medicinal ele- ment of the liquor. The old Geneva soon came into fashion, and from being made and sold exclusively by drungists, began to be Suld in larger quenties by ordinary distillers, until they iuund it convenient to develope 8. new trade by adding a. certain quantity of juniper juice to ordinary formed spirits, and thus to produce a yet more palatable bev- erage for the use of healthy people. This beverage also took the name of Geneva, alâ€" though to separate it from the juniper spirit the more appropriate name of Holland was applied to it, and its manufacture rapidly be- came a very important branch of business, es- peoiully in Schiedam, where now there are about 175 dissilleries. nearly as many as in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Gouda and all the other Dutch towns. Every gin distillery hes Ft recipe of its own. which is usually kept a. secret. A large variety of substances is emu ploycd in the flavoring of gin ; among others may be mentioned bitter almonds, turpenu tine, creosote, cardemoms, garlic, Canada balsam, horseâ€"rmlieh, grains of paradise. cayenne pepper, and many herbs and seeds. Perhaps nothing used as a diet by men is lie- ble to greeter or more injurious ndultemtions than gin ', and the difficulty of getting it pure from any poisonous drug should induce every one to let it alone. A Man Shot in the Chest Breathes Under His Armpits. There is a. man in the hospital named James Divyer who has three bullet holes in his chest, one of which is still unhealed. Through the last mentioned wound, which is a little way below the loft aimpit. he expels air from the lungs A Tribune reporter visited the man last evening at St. Mark‘s hospital. He had no hesitation in exhibiting his pecu- liaritv, and when requested to strip. removed his shirt and showed tho reporter four holes in his chest and hook whore two bullets had entered and another where a ball had struck his shoulder and came out under his arm. There was also a hole in his leg. From the wound ulldul‘ the armpit he breathed so loudly that the sound of air escaping through the orifice could he heard through the entire room. The roportsr held his hand before the hole and felt the air rushing out. Dwyer tells his own story ns follows : “ I was in Bomnzu City, about three years Hon. I had a naming cluim, and a man named Fluxonâ€"Chrirloy was his first nameâ€"came in me with a Six shooter ior a fight. Well, before I know it he had filled me up with lead. I had holes all over me, and they UIUESGd this way and that until I couldn’t tell for a certainty which bullet made any two holes. For a \VllilR you could look into one of the holes and see my heait quitoplain, but that healed up and now there is no show to sue the heart at all. If you’d 8. been here a year or more ago I could have shown you tho heart beating right along. I ain't much oi on exhibition now; all 1 can do is to pump air out of my lungs by this hole. Once 1 Could take it in one place and send it out another, but the larger hole healed. I was all wall once. but tho wounds opened again. ” “ Did you roturn the tire ?" -asked the re~ porter. “ Hudn't my gun; but after I was shot I went for him and got him down, and we crowd pulkd me off. When I got him down helzcgnu to holler murder; nice chap to be singing out murder after the way he had actud. H0 8110!. his partner once the same way. (moss I’ll be out. in a few days all right."-Salt Lake Tribune. â€"Guitnau may find cold comfort in the ease of Kronz, who has buun flied four times and kept in prison seven years, is sentenced to be hung on the 24:11 inst, after all. THE ORIGIN OF GIN. A HUMANt BELLOWS

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