Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Page 4

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A bedtime luncheon of lettuce induces sleep. A very large acreage is devoted to grape growing in New Jersey, and the area is extending yearly. The Ceylon pearl fishery last season -was the second largest on record during the present century. The cheapest car fare known is said to be the 3 cents fare on the Pittsburg Traction Boad for a distance of six miles. Portuguese immigrants have begun to arrive in considerable numbers, many of them bound for the winegrowing districts of California. The Alta California died affirming with its latest breath, as the result of forty years of experience, that a decent paper couldn’t make a living in San Francisco. Major Turner Goldsmith, of Atlanta, enjoys the distinction of having lived under twenty-one Presidents. He is eighty-nine years old and has a host of descendants. A number of Parisian ladies recently applied hair bleach to their locks with the intention of turning them red, but only succeeded in producing a beautiful shade of green. Constant rains are very hard on women who are out a good deal. Since the bustle went out of style, they have had no way of carrying their gossamers in readiness for a storm. Walter Haynes has lived upon Haynes Hill, Brimfield, Mass, since he was 18 months old. He is 101 years now, has a wife of 93 and a sister of 83, and the horse he yet drives about confesses to 26 Years.

Brigham Young’s grave is covered by a plain and inconspicuous slab of granite. It lies in an inclosed city lot in Salt Lake City, surrouned by a low iron fence. A few of the prophet’s wives are buried near. The model husband was seen on a Detroit car recently. He had a letter written by his wife stuck in his hat band so as to have a sure thing on mailing it. There was not a lady in the car who did not catch on and smile approvingly. The right of felling trees over no fewer than 665,000 square miles of the Kerassond forests, and 497,000 square miles of the Fireboli forests, near Trebizond, has been granted by the Turkish Government to private speculators. The diamond eutters of New York earn an average salary of S6O a week, and are considered the best workmen in their line in the world. Twenty years ago nearly all the diamonds sold in this country were cut and polished in Amsterdam. It was long thought that the water from melted snow was the purest of all water. This idea has beer proved incorrect, as the reverse is true. Snow is really a purifier of the atmosphere, attracting to it as it falls, various impurities; and these are found in the snowwater. * One advantage enjoyed by those who live in Madagascar, where the Queen distingqishes Ijerself from the common run of people by’takin g abath ohcS i year, is that they are not likely to become deeply interested in a charming story and have it end in a soap advertisement. There is a paper in Harlan County, Kv., which may fairly claim to be entirely free from sensationalism. The other day it contained the following laconic paragraph: “Aleck Smith was killed yesterday by a man by the name of Holbrook. We did not learn the particulars.” A second-hand mattress, which for two months had been in the possession of its purchaser, aresidentof Mebanes, N. C., caused him some uneasiness the other night, because of a hard lump which had worked toward the surface He investigated, and found that the lump was a wad of greenbacks amounting to sl,Oll. After many years of rather ignoble neglect the town of Ayr, in Sco land, is at last od the point of setting up a bronze statue of Bobert Burns in ai open space in the town, and that, too, paid for by local subscriptions. It has just been successfully cast at a foundry near London, but it is the work of the Scotch sculptor, Lawson. Solid bodies can transmit sounds to a great length of space, the scratch of a pin at one end of a beam is quickly and distinctly heard at the other end; ’ and it is believed by scientists that a bar of iron ten miles long would transmit sounds with a speed second only to electricity. If this is a fact short distance telephoning as a complex question is easy of solution. Sam Jones proposed in a sermon the other day that the people arise in a rebellion against the liquor traffic and spill blood if necessary, adding: “I am willing to get at the head of the procession with my rifle.” As the evangelist made this remark he rolled his quid to the other side of his mouth and looked so fierce and bloodthirsty that his satanic majesty in the back row

gathered his fewremaibing tail feathers under him and shrieked with fear. Arthur L. Perry, the widely-known professor of political economy in Williams College, has resigned. He is 61 years of age, aud has been an instruct tor in the college for thirty-eight years. Yet he had sufficient vitality to kick an impudent student out of his house, aud this was the cause of the Professor’s resignation. Plans for the irrigation, both in upper and lower Egypt, during the periods of low water in the Nile include the building of a high barrage across the river at the first cataract. Great opposition has been excited against this proposition, as it involves the submersion of the beautiful island of Philoe and its beautiful monuments for several months each year. Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exact reproductions in miniature of sycamore, oak, cedar, and apple trees, have for two or three hundred years been raised by the Japanese. The mode of producing them is a wellguarded secret. Some French gardeners have within the past five years almost equaled the Japanese in the production of these dwarf trees. Two hunters near Beading, Pa., stole a bear’s cub the other day and were pursued by the mother. After running until they were almost exhausted they stopped, and the man with the cub, taking it by the hind legs, attacked the mother. He beat her acoss the nose with her offspring so hard that she finally fled, leaving the hunters with the cub, which was dead. “Women’s ways are past finding out.” This was the comment of a bereaved husband on reading his wife’s will, which was reoently admitted to probate in Kansas City. She generously bequeaths to her beloved husband the sum of five dollars, with au emphatic request that he refrain from spending it recklessly. The rest ol her fortune, amounting to over SIOO,OOO, she leaves to distant relatives. A London letter filled with advioe relative to female beauty, gives as a recipe for fattening the neck a nightly application of olive oil,well “rubbed into the skin and bones.” Thi# treatment, “if persevered in for two or three months, will be found most gratifying in its results.” This idea of “rubbing into the bone" may be a necessity with the English maiden, but it is uncalled for in America.

Imagination caused a Bhort but alarming illness to a resident of Wicasset, Maine. He discovered a big gash in his boot where he had cut his foot while in the. woods, aud just managed to get home, feeling himself growing fainter from the loss of blood all the way. At his home it was soon learned that the gash only went through his boot, and the red color was not blood, but only a red woolen stocking. An investigation of the result of eating fish preserved on ice for use in London markets has lei to the discovery that those fish are most dangerous which had been kept in immediate contact with the ice. Poisoning by fish which had not been in contact with ice was not observed at all. This is attributed to the influence of the water derived from the ioe and bearing whatever impurities it had had before being frozen. Mr. Maxim is said to have practically perfected an engine of war that will fly -out of the range of the enemy’s guns and snugly drop a ton oiy soj>f dvnahute upon the Jiiemy’s devoted Sead, Plainly, at the rate destructive inventions are going on now, if the great European war doesn’t come pretty soon the whole eastern hemisphere will be wiped off the face of the earth when it does arrive. That would be a great blow to tourists, but it would simplify American politics immensely.

A few years ago there was a nice old lady living around synolironously in several parts of this glorious country whose particular mis sou was to pull needles out of heels and elbows and other knobby portions of her anatomy —needles which she had unintentionally and unconsciously lost in the thick of her thumb many years before. We speak of her now because she has been out of print so long we begin to fear she has either been foully <Lalt with or been bought up by tli3 needle trust. When the earth was young, says the astronomer royal for Ireland, it went ! round so fast that the day was only three hours long. The earth was liquid then, and as it spun around and around at that fearful speed, and as the sun caused ever increasing tides upon its surface, it at last burst in two. The smaller part became the moon, i which has been going around the earth ever since at an increasing distance, i The influence of the moon now raises tides on the earth, and while there was any liquid to operate on in the moon the earth returned the compliment. A philanthropic St. Albans man is about to publish a book for private circulation among the farmers of New England, telling how summer boarders should be taken care of. The philosophy of the volume seems to be eminently sound, since the author reoommends leaving the boarder alone to do as he pleases, condemns the feather bedand lays much stress upon the attractiveness of good plain food, with abundant fresh milk and eggs. The author of such a manual as this does more good for his kind than all the Ibsens and Tolstois that were ever spawned.

CHILDREN’S COLUMN.

A DEPARTMENT FOR UTTLE BOYS AND GIRLS* Something that Will Interest the Juvenile Members of Every Household Quaint Action* and Bright Sayings of Cute Children. Amusement for a Oompany. A quiet but interesting game is that of “doublets,” in which any number of persons may join. Two words of the same number of letters are first agreed upon, aud each of the players endeavors to connect them by a column of other words called “links,” each of which shall differ from the one before it by only a single letter. Thus “cat” and “dog” may be connected in many ways, of which two examples follow : Cat, cot, cog, dog. Cat, pat, put, pug, dug, dog. The object of the game is to make as few links as possible. There are several methods of scoring. For instance, the player who makes the greatest number of links may score nothing, and each of the others oue point for each link less than his; or the one who has the fewest links may score a numl>er previously agreed on, and each of the others as many points less as he had less links. The best plan in joining the doublets is to write them side by side and then work downward from each. Thus, suppose the words agreed on are “hand” and “legs.” When these are written side by side it is seen that the h in hand must be turned into au 1; this is done by writing “land.” The g in legs must become an n, so legs changes to lens, while the word lend now completes the chain, which reads: Hand, land, lend, lens, legs. With some words many complications ensue, and the player will not find the game quite so easy as it appears. Doublets makes au interesting solitaire game. The easiest doublets to connect urs those in which the vowels in one correspond in position to vowels in the other and consonants to consonants. The difficulty increases also with the length of the words. It is said that this game was invented and named by Lewis Carroll, the author of “Alice in Wonderland,” a book which in England is regarded almost as a classic, but with which American children are not quite so familiar. Some interesting experiments mavße tried on draughts of air. One is to open on a crack the door between a cold room and a warm one and hold a lighted candle at various heights close to the crack. The windows must be open in either room. At the top of the door the flame will be blown toward the cold room and at the bottom toward the warm About halfway up there will be a place where the flame is blown very little or not at all. The reason is that oold air, being heavier than warm air, flows into the room along the floor and forces the warm out at the ceiling. A lively game is what might be called catch-as-catch-can, and it is very popular among the younger boys. The players seat themselves upon the floor in a circle, with one of their number in the center. They have a light rubber ball, and the game is to throw it from oue Bide to the other, and keep it going thus without letting the one in the oenter catch it. If he succeeds in doing so, the player who threw the ball exchanges plaoes with him, and the game goes on merrily, amid great shouting and laughter.—New York Herald. A Drawing Puz'l*. Here is a little exercise for your pencil and your more or less skillful use of it. Suppose you desire to draw a pug dog. Well, first draw that figure at the top on the loft. It looks for all

the world like a sack, tied at the upper corners. Then add the piece shown in the second figure between the tied ends, shaped as much like a lump of coal as anything else. Add ears, tail, and doubled-np legs, and you have a very dignified pug. If you would like to have a life-like picture of three fishes, all the work of

your own hands, first draw a Y, as shown in the lower part of the cut. Add three lines in the middle figure, and then give the finishing touches, as shown in the last figure. There you have the nucleus of a menagerie. A Hoy's Essay on Tobacco. Tobacco grows something like cabbage, but I never saw none oooked. I have heard men say that cigars that was given them election day for nothing was mostly cabbage leaves. To bacoo stores are mostly Rent by wooden Injuus who stand at the door and fool little boys by offering them a bunch of cigars which is glued into the Injun’s hands, and is made of wood also. I tried to smoke a cigar onoe, and I felt like Epsom salts. Tobaooo was invented by a man named Walter Baleigh. When the people first saw him smoking they thought he was.a steamboat and were frightened. M> sister Nancy is a girl. 1 don’t know whet her she likes tobaoco or not. There is a young man named Leroy who comes to see her. I guess she likes Leroy. He was standing on the steps one nightr,, and he had a cigar in his mouth, and said he d dn’t know as she would like it, and she said, “Leroy, the perfume is agreeable.” But when my big brother Tom lighted his pipe Nancy said: “Get out of the house, you horrid creature: the smell of tobacco makes me sick.” Snuff is Injun meal made out of tobacco. I took a

little snuff once and then I sneezed.— Every Thursday. .... •* A Good Joke on a Lion* He must.bave been a bright boy, a very bright little boy, who said to his mother, “I wish a lion would eat me up. ” “Why?” the mother asked. “Because it would be suoh a good joke on the lion; he would think I was inside of him, aud I should be up iu hetLvea.”—C^ngregaHonalißL

LIEUTENANT C. J. W. GRANT.

Tine Gallant British Offloer Recently Promoted to the Rank or Major. Lieutenant Grant, of Manipur celebrity, who showed suoh skill and bravery in defending an intrenced position near Thobal, garrisoned by fifty Sepoys and forty Ghoorkas, against almost the entire Manipuri army, has been deoorated with the Victoria Cross and has been promoted to the rank of major. With ninety men he defeated 4,000 Manipuris, and took Fort Thobal when he reached Manipur on the march from Tamur. Grant and his brav«j command held Fort Thobal three days, and then repulsed au attack of the Manipuris at Alongtaing after three hours’ desperate fighting, during which

Sanuputtv prinoe and his two generals were killed and the Manipuris driven off ic the jungle by Lieutenant Grant’s men of the Second Burtnahs. Major Grant is but 30 years of age.

FRANCE’S TACTICIAN.

Ttie General Whom Marshal Canrabert Tiilnko Fit to Rank w.th Moltke. Marshal Canrobert, on being interviewed at the time of Count von Moltke’s death, remarked: “If the Germans have had Moltke, we have De Miribel.” The artillery officer of whom the veteran French Marshal has so high an opinion is at present chief of the general staff of the French army. Hewa9

GEN. DE MIRIBEL

born on the 14th of September, 183 L, at Montbonnot (Isere), and, after passing through the Ecole Polytechnique, entered the army in November, 1851, attaining his present rank on the 6th of May, 1890. Gen. de Miribel’s campaigns comprise the Crimea (1854-56), Italy ,1859), Mexico (1862-65) and the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71). He also fought against the commune in 1871. Gen. de Miribel was shot through both hands at the battle of Solferino, June 24, 1859, and in the head at the siege of Puebla, March 29. 1863.

Where Pumice Stone Comes From

We often hear it remarked, and particularly after an eruption of a volcano, that pumice stone ought to be plentiful and cheap, as quantities must have been ejected during the volcanic disturbance. As a matter of faot, however, none of the white stone in general use is obtained from active volcadoes. It oomes from deposits of the article discovered in one or two quarters of the globe, the best of which is at present to be found in the island of Lipari, situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The island is mountainous in character, and consists of tuffs and lavas, and of highly siliceous volcanic products. The district where the stone is found is called Campo Blanco, or Monte Petalo, 1,500 above the level of the sea. After riding a considerable distance, partly along precipitous paths sufficiently dangerous to be interesting, and partly through vineyards and over grassy plains, one almost suddenly comes upon a seemingly snowclad narrow valley inclosed by hills, also quite white, and the whole glaringly bright on a sunny day. Into these hills workmen are ceaselessly digging deep burrows, working within by candle light. In their excavations they oome across many lumps of pumioe stone, which are placed in baskets, subsequently being conveyed along the valley to the seashore, where small boats are loaded and sailed to the seaport near by, where the stone is sorted, packed, and shipped to distant parts, either via Messina or Leghorn.—Manufacturer and Builder.

Hard on Civilization.

The contact of the Christian nations with Japan has been a curse to the country, says Kev. J. R. Porter. It is generally conceded that the morals of Japan are much worse than thirty years ago. Japan has taken up the vices, if not the virtues of the Occident, This is due to the, commercialism oi the Yankee and his European neigh bors.

EN ROUTE TO HEAVEN.

A Tower Which Wu Erected t»y • Mil* lerlte. Llewellyn Haskell was a well-to-do Millerite, living in Kearny, N. J., fifty years ago. In that day it was further away from New York than it is now, and the Clarks had not thought of coming from Scotland and turning die charming Riverside settlement into

a mill town. Haskell was an ardent believer in the second advent of Christ, who was to appear, according to the claim of the Millerites, on a certain day in 1843. The whole country was aroused, and, as the day approached, said to be prophesied by Daniel, the faithful prepared their ascension robes. Haskell, however, had an idea that the nearer he was to the celestial bodies the better would be his chance of being recognized. He intended to get ahead of his neighbors. Carrying out his laudable purpose, he built a tower 100 feet high. Inside was a spiral staircase and on top a platform. On the great day when Gabriel was to blow his horn, Haskell and his family, clad in robes of virgin whiteness, ascended to the platform and waited. The day passed and the night came, but neither the Lord nor his angels appeared. Haskell is dead, but the tower remains. It, too, is doomed, though, to make room for a new street, and in u few days the work of demolition will be begun. —New York Continent

They Make Jew’s-Harps.

The village of Bath-on-the-Hudson, though its manufacturing interests are few, can boast of possessing the only jew’s-harp factory in the United State's outside of New York City, says the Albany Journal. Simple as the jew’sharp is it requires, nevertheless, no little skill in construction. The proprietor of the factory at Bath is John Smith.' The faotorv is a small building situated a short distance off Third street, and although unpretentious contains every facility for the manufacture of jew’s-harps. Twenty years ago in England, Mr. Smith began his apprenticeship at the trade. Hearing from friends in this country that here would be found a better market for the sale of his specialty he determined to emigrate. Arriving in New York he failed to secure employment and, deciding to start into business for himself, he went to Troy and opened a factory there. He was but moderately successful in Troy, and after a short time moved to Bath, built a factory, and is perfectly satisfied with the location. The Smith jew sharp is sold principally to firms in New York, Boston, and Chicago. These firms sell the goods to retailers throughout the country. When the factory is running at Its fullest capacity over two gross a day are turned out. The busiest time of the year is just preceding the holidays. During this season the factory employs five people—the proprietor, his two sons, and two other Englishmen who live near the factory. The first work done on a jew’s-harp is to place the frame on a vise, file off the roughness, and taper do,wn the points, so that each side presents a sharp edge, between which the tongue is to vibrate. The most delicate work then begins. A piece of steel wire is cut from a coil, hammered flat at one end and left round at the other, and tempered with the greatest care. The flat end is then 6et in the arc of the frame, and then the two ends are carefully pressed and hammered until they come as close as possible to the tongue without touching. The round end of the tongue is then bent in the form of a rightaDgle, the point is turned over, and the harp is ready to be placed in the hands of a finisher. There are seven sizes and four kinds of finishing—the common, gold bronze, lacquered, and tin-plated. The harp can be toned to any pitch. To make the tone high the tongue is made small and pressed back toward the frame; to make the tone lower it is bent forward. Mr. Smith is not only a good maker of the harp, but can extract quite a little music from the little instrument. He can also play two at once, which he tunes so that they are in harmony by filing the frames.

Society in Caloutta.

A funny story concerning the “Upper Ten” of Calcutta has got abroad. It is to this effect: A lady oalled at a house, sent up her card, was admitted, paid the usual visit, and enjoyed the usual amount of small talk with the lady of the house. Beturnipg home, she informed her husband where she had been, when that distinguished member of society at o:ice wrote off to the “Oocupaut of the house No. —, street,” saying that his wife had called by mistake, and requesting the return of the card she had left ou visiting the lady of the said house. The husband of the lady visited, however, was equal to the occasion, for he replied that on returning hqcne and finding the card he had looked at his wife’s visiting list, and, not finding the name of the visitor, he had torn up the card, and was therefore unable to return it. Leo XIII. will grant no more private audiences. Press comment upon the reports of the interviews rather than inability to hold them is the cause.

A GENUINE COWBOY’S SADDLE.

The cowboy saddle, illustrated herewith, was drawn from a photograph sent by a Montana correspondent whois himself a cowboy. He describes the • saddle and its uses as follows: An ordinary saddle would never on earth stand the racket of cow work. You see, when a puncher ropes—l guess in the East you would call it “lassoes”—a. big, healthy 4-year-old steer, which is lighting out on a Salvator gait, and undertakes to stop him with a jerk, he has a big contract on his hands. When a steer is running, and you rope him, he will run still faster; then you “take your turns,” that is, vpu twist the'end of the lariat, which you have in your hands, around the horn of

MONTANA COWBOY'S SADDLE.

the saddle two or three times and jerk your cayuse up short; the steer comes to the end of the rope or lariat, suddenly turns a double somersault, and lands on his back, pawinjc the air. So you can see that it takes a good strong saddle to stand the jerk. The horns of our saddles here aremade of steel, and are strongly fixed to a mahogany or ironwood tree. Thewhole thing is then covered with wet rawhide, which shrinks on, and then, the leather parts of the saddle are put on. A saddle ordinarily weighs thirtyfive to forty-five pounds, and nearly alt good cow-puncher saddles are made in the range country. The saddle I send the photograph of is not particularly ornate or costly, I paid $35 for minewhen it was new. Fine saddles are the desire of every cow-puncher’s heart, and they are willing to pav big" prices, although they are not willing to take care of them after they get them. A man often has a riding outfitcosting $l5O or S2OO. Indeed, these are average, although some have outfits that come much higher. Silver inlaid bits, spurs, guns, conchas, and. so on cost like not a little out here.— American Agriculturist.

THE NEW EARL GRANVILLE.

A Youth of Nineteen Left with a Bl; Title and a Small Estate, The successor of the late Earl Granville is a minor now in his nineteenth year and cannot take his place in the* House of Lords until he attains hismajority. He was bom Aug. 8, 1872*

BARI, GRANVILLE.

and up to his father’s death bore the> honorary title of Lord Leveson. Hisfull name is Granville George LevesonGower. He is the eldest son by thelate Earl’s second marriage, the first one proving childless, and is now a. student at Eton, where the photographs from which the accompany cut was made was taken. The new Earl has at present no home, his father’s property, which was largely in coal mines, having very much depreciated in value. His mother, the late Earl’s wife, was Miss Castalia Campbell,daughter of thefamous Campbell of Islay, whose magnificent style of living, both on his family estates and in London, dissipated a large fortune in a few years. The dowager countess is still handsome, with a tall, stately figure. This is the second time she has been compelled to live on slender means. As. Constable of Dover and Lord Warden of Cinque Ports, a position once occu--pied by William Pitt and afterward by the “Iron Duke,” the late Lord Granville occupied Walmer Castle, which* he turned into a beautiful country seat. As soon as his successor is appointed the family must move out.

His Choice.

Proud Father (showing off his son* before company)—My son,‘which would, you rather be, Shakspeare or Edison? Little Son (after meditation) —Fd rather be Edison. “Yes? Why?” “’Cause he ain’t dead." —Street &■ Smith’s Good News. “The way to sleep is to think of Dothing,” says a scientist. All an fditor has to do is to ruminate over his. Dank account. ,