Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Page 2

MEDICAL MATTERS.

A ted mi recently fought a* a Mitta aSkffa oa foe Briftaa frontier a which everything vu conducted under •trial antiseptic precautions. The Word blades were first placed in boiling water and then carefully washed In a 6 per cent solution of carbolic odd. The surgeons were ready with a corrosive sublimate solution es one to a thousand, and a number of gauze pledgets which hod been rendered asoeptic by thorough baking. Unfortu - nately for the success of the experiment foe duel was of the ordinary French kind, and the only wound received was a slight cut on the hand, which healed promptly after the application of a small piece of courtplaster. There are many women entering the profession of nursing whose sense of honor Is not high and whose appreciation of foe dignity of labor is not great, but who see in nursing either foe means of gaining a livelihood or a jray to escape from the rather dull and petty routine of a single girl's life at home. They like the eclat of doing a noble work and the independence which is essential to it, but are unwilling to do more work than they can help to attain their desire. There are, however, other women who. in taking up nursing, often as a means of livelihood, do so with the highest motives, and who, in rendering themselves independent, have at the 6ame time the great pleasure of helping others in their struggle through life. From this class, says Murray’s Magazine, come ail our best matrons, sisters and: nurses, and to them is due the high: position nursing holds os a profession for women. T j In his recent address before the . British Medical Association the emi-.i nent surgeon. Lawson Tait, has his ; little fling at general practice. No sooner is a new drug" placed on tho j market than everybody rushes to try ! it. At first it is well, and ‘•rubbishin” ; is good for everything. Then come a few isolated hints about the “toxic I effects of Tubbishin,’” and finally “rubbishin” gets dropped altogether and we hear no more about it. It is j positively awful to think of what some ofthesemewdrugs—sjay chloral, for instance —may have done before they got settled. For tho mischief that is done in this way tho public is largely ; to blame, if, indeed, it ia not wholly to blame; they like the idea of a new discovery, especially the upper classes, and Tait is told by men practicing near the dwellings of the princes of the land and at fashionable watering places that the great burden of their lives is to keep up with the new drugs and the new dodges. He distrusts men who are always going in for now drugs.

A Strange Fungus.

William Hamilton Gibson, in Harper’s Young Peup'e. Once, while Bitting in the woods by the edge of a stream, a young companion called my attention to an orange-colored cone about threequarters of an ineh in height protruding from a bed of green moss at my elbow. I discovered it to be the cap of a small mushroom, whoso stem penetrated deep into the moss. With much care I suceeded in separating •the moss, being curious to discover upon what the fungus had grown, and to my astonishment, when I draw it to the surface, found it attached to a chrysalis an inch and a half in length. The braenhing roots of the fungus penetrated the interior, and a dissection of the chrysalis showed the periectly formed ready to emerge, but now being transformed from an insect into a fungus by the absorption of the plant. What do wo infer from this? I have never seen this species described except in ray own paper in the Scientific American some years since, but it Irnafa to assume that' if*~W~TS T ~evoi> : seen again, in the moss or elsewhere, the same chrysalis will be drawn to the surface wit-hit. for it plainly belongs to a genius |>f Jfungi oof Jwhich are “among the most remarkable of their tribe. In New Z eland, for inst nee,’here is r.|shnii t species which has a fancy for tlio head of a certain caterpillar. It grows rapidly to the length of several inches, gradually absorbing the body of the insect, and at length takes root in the ground and continues its growth. ——- In the Chinese apothecaries’ shops we may obtain ajjqueer bundle, like a small bunch of dried fagots, about four inches in length. They are powdered and used as medicine by the innocent Celestials, and are a regular article in their pharmacopoeia. It needs but a second glance to see that these dried sticks consist of a longstemmed fungus attached to the head of. a wrinkled dead caterpillar, a species known as the Sphaeria Chinesis in the techical works. There are only one or two of the typical eccentricities of this wonderful tribe fungous growths. Almost any half-hour’s walk in the country will show us many equally as curious.

Go by Contraries.

The customs of the Chinese are so thickly covered with the duss of ages that it is bard for them to see that anything is superior to what they already have. Yet it is impossible for them to withstand the advancement of Western art and science, and sooner or later they must succumb to the inevitable. They are our opposites in customs as in their position upon the globe. Thfey shake hands with themselves, go to the left of the road, the women in 6ewing carry the needle from them and the books begin at the back. It is a fortunate thing that the newcomers do not appreciate the Immense task that lies in Ihe accomplishing of their they did I fear many would never go on. Every word has a separate character, made up from two to fifteen or eighteen marks. Then these characters are separated into four classes, according to their tones or inflections of the

avion. Ikb ti confusing to tn® nnac- 1 castomoA ear, and two of the tones are very much alike. Mistakes many and smoke are made by the students ;of Chinese. My wife wished a tongue ; for dinner, bnt gave the cook orders to prepare a stone. At first we found ourselves asking our callers to go, we really intended to invite them to We seated. If not careful you will buy a chair instead of soap, and so qp ad infinitum. When the chief difficulties ar® surmounted the reward is sufficient, for then fields of study and research are opened which are exhaust! ess, With an authentic history of more foadtwo thousand years, and one semi-authentic for almost a thousand years more, how could such a study be anything eise than interesting? With all their learning, moral character is not poessessed. or is kept wonderfully in the background. Not so lie fs the exception, and when detected they only shrug their shoulders. That ends it 60 far as they are concerned.; - .

The Enemies of Society.

New York Witness.- ■ ( ~ Al a large anarchist meeting in Now York Herr Most gave his opinion concerning the religion of Americans in general. He said* ‘•Ridicule their God? Why, their God is Mammon. Tho rich Catholic, the rich Protestant, the rich Jew—all —you don’t suppose they worship anything but Mammon, do you? Their creed Is ever stamped on their idol, ‘ln God we trust.” ’ He also stated that there were thouands of men in this country ready to wipe out this Government with blood, and the only reason they did not begin now was because they were not organized, and there were more in' Europe who would help in tho good work. At times tho greatest excite, ment prevailed, but the polico, who Were present didn’t interfere. Herr most then offered a numher of resolutions, concluding with the following: ' . —-Z—_7“7 “ism. - Resolved, That the .present system of murder and robbery, under which such odtrages are possible, should be fought by all means until no stone remains standing, and that on its ruins riSA a pommiinitv w Vina a fnnnria tion will be communism, whose soul will be atheism, and whose pervading spirit will be full and perfect libertyanarchy. Down with all who oppose to us! Long live the holy revolution.” And the crowd rose in a body and yelled their appktuse. And yet the Mayor of Brooklyn has been recently taken to task by the daily papers for refusing to permit tho hotding of a meeting at which such ideas as these were to bo advocated. Verily there is such a thing as to much license.

The Oriental Aspect of New Mexico.

Harper's Weekly, In many parts of New Mexico the landscape features present an aspect not dissimilar to certain parts of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine. There is the same clear air, high lights, and wide desert spaces bounded by plateaus and sand hills, and winding through the flat sandy valley, a silver stretch of river, its banks, bordered by occasional trees—ln New Mexico cycamores and cottonwoods —growing singly and in plumps. The low, flat-roofed, thickwalled[houses of sun-baked brick, of tints akin to the soil, add to this impression, and tho Oriental aspect of the country is sustained in many Of the structures, implements, and customs lof its people. In open fields are the i threshing-floors of heated clay,, upon | which sheep, goats or asses trample ! the wheat from the straw, and the, | grain is afterward winnowed by the ; process of tossing it from blankets into ■the nil-; and in RP.cluded- jcaimm.un-ities the Juice yetis troded from the grape in rawhido tubes by the naked feet of men and women, and fermented into I wine in great ollas, or earthern jars as ; large as barrels. In these by-places, ; oxen, as in patriarchal times, draw [SaSSen or one-handled plough or creaking cumbrous wooded cart by ! means of yokes stretched across their horns.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Secretary Mabie, of the American Baptist Missionary Union, is to visit the foreign missions of that society, Mr. George A. Pillsberry, of Minneapolis, paviDg all the expenses of the journey. r The highest church spire in the world has just been completed. It is that of the Cathedral at Ulm, Wurtemberg, and is 530 feet high. The top of the cross on the dome of St. Peters, Rome, is 448 feet above the pavement. ■ A jubilee of the Baptist mission, in Denmark; was recently held in Copenhagen. It was there reported that (5,000 persons have been baptized since the founding of the mission, the pres- , ent membership being 2,700. The number of missionary stations is Africa- now exceeds .500.. .There, are' 400,000 converts, and the number a increasing at the rate of 25,000 ayoai. Within five years more than 200 natives have suffered martyrdom for their faith. Several Christian ladies propose to conduct a normal class for the promotion of juvenile temperance work in New York and vicinity. First principles will be given, and methods stated and illustrated. The Bible House is at present the headquarters of the movement President Carter, of Williams College, is a very practical prohibitionist. The town authorized the granting cf two liquor licenses, but time passed on and no places for the Bale of liquor were opened. Investigation showed that President Carter had quietly bought the two licenses and thus pre- \ ented the legal sale of liquor in the town.

TWIN’S TRICK.

Bewildering Result* of a Remarkable Resemblance. Boiton Globe. » Glittio Heath, of This city, is the twin sistgr of Clayton Heath, and their resemblance surpasses anything related in fiction, and has been foe cause of several remarkable incidents. Bnt let Miss Heath tell her own story: “Our names are Chttte and Clayton Heath. We were bora in 1858, in Louisville, Ky. Our father at that time was connected with a large match factory. Until tbe age of four it was impossible for any of our family to pick out tbe boy from the girl, and so often was I taken for the boy that at the age of four my mother was compelled to put boy’s clothes on my brother Cfatie, in order to protect me from getting a sound thrashing from a boy in a back street, as my brother was full of cussedness. “He was also very fond of raw eggs and on one occasion when caught taking them he declared it was I who had done it. The result was a punishment from my father and the lovely name of •Sucking Eggs' by my sister, who was two years older, ‘ ‘Although only a child, I would not dress myself until father and mother both promised they would not allow Clatie to wear the same clothes as myself, and to make matters decided I insisted on mothen cutting his hair, to which she decidedly objected, as his hair was. very long and like that qj, many Southern children, blonde and curled.

> ‘My brother in breeches and lin dresses did splendidly for a week or so, but as he was so like me it only required a wrap on a stormy day to completely hide those little pants. So I was in for a sound scolding every rainy .day- When we had a week of wet weather, and mother was obliged to go shopping and sister was at school, we were left at home with the girl—a black auntie, who allewedbmsteAl-o anything we liked. ,T ~ “ • ‘Our faces seemed neverto change. When Claytie was ill I was. At one time we both lay for weeks with the same fever. “When he was eighteen years of age my brother fell in love with a pretty girl, and our people objected. But my brother declared it was only a flirting acquaintance. One fine evening I played the part of brother. I put on my best clothes, overcoat and glbves, and drove up to the abode of my brother’s lady-love. I asked her to drive for half an hour. I did my best to talk love. I did what I thought a sweetheart ought to do. I talked of future home and love by the sea. “After I fairly engaged myself [I found my dear little dove crying. I asked the reason for the sudden flow of tears from fooso lovely eyes. She said:

“ ‘Mr. Heath, I have been waiting for you to propose for so long, and to think it has come at last! 1 and then she put her head on my shoulder and wept ! •-I trembled for my brother, and I tried all manner of tale 9 to have Clayitie make a trip to some seashore for my health before the next engagement night; but that night came and to my surprise he was only absent a short time. *‘l crept out to the barn to see my brother as he drove in. I overheard him say: “ 'That girl is a fool; she must take me for a flat.’ ; I crept back to the house, and to this day my brother has the greatest By mpithy-for those who are engaged without their knowledge.

A Costly Conviction.

Eoscoe Conkling, writes Eli Perkins, came into Charles O’Conor’s office one day when he was a young lawyer in quite a nervous state. “You seem to be very much excited, Mr. Conkling ” said Mr. O’Conor, as Roscoe walked up and down the room. “Yes, I’m provoked—l am provoked,'” said Mr. Conkling. “I never had a client dissatisfied about my fee before. ” “Well, what’s the matter?” asked O’Conor. “Why. I defended Gibbons for arson you know. He was convicted, but I did hard work for him. I took him to the Superior court and he was convicted, then on to the Supreme court, and the Supreme court confirmed the judgment, and gave him twenty years. I charged him $3,000, and now Gibbons is grumbling about it—says it's too much. Now, Mr. O’ConOr, I ask you, was that too much?” “Well,” said Mr. O'Conor, very deliberately, “of course you did a good deal of work, and $3,000 is not a very big fee, but to be frank with vou. Mr. Conkling, my deliberate opinion ia that he might have been convicted for less money.”

Indian Nomenclature.

Jullian Ralph, in an article in Harpers’s Weekly, gives an interesting account of Father Lacombe. the apostle of the Blackfeet Indians, who, he says, is the most accomplished student of the Indian languages that Canada possesses. “He told me," he says, “that the white man’s handling of Indian words in the nomenclature of our cities, provinces, and States is as brutal as anything charged against the savages. Saskatchewan., for instance, means nothing. Kisiskatchewan is the word that was intended, It means •rapid current. * Manitoba is senseless, but ‘Manitowapa’ (the mysterious strait) would have been full of local import. However, there is no need to sadden ourselves with this expert

knowledge. Bother lotus be grateful for every Indian name with, which we have stamped individuality upon the map of foe world, be it rightly or wrongly set forth.” ,

A BARRIER BETWEEN THEM.

Hostile Neighbors ia Africa Who Have Established a No Man’s Land. A little British expedition recently steamed far up the Benue branch of foe Niger River in a small-Steam launch and finally entered a tributary of the Benue and explored a region which no white man has ever visited before. The most interesting thing about their journey was foe curious experience they had with the natives. They had been passing for a good while through a region that was inhabited by Moslem blacks, fruits of foe father severe methods of conversion employed by the Arab invaders of the Soudan. The country was very fertile, and the people were numerous: but all of a sudden, though the country still wore its usual aspect, and the soil was apparently rich, population entirely ceased. For a stretch of over twenty miles not a hut was to be seen, nor was a single sign of human life anywhere observed. The expedition wondered at this remarkable state of affairs, for the country was certainly inviting, and they could not imagine why it had no inhabitants. All at once, however, as they rounded a bend in the river, they saw big* crowds of natives running down the sides of the hills to the bank. They brandished their spears at the white men in the little boat, and told them to go back for they wanted no Moslerp, in their country. There was an interpreter on the vessel who succeeded in convincing the natives that the visitors were not Moslems, and thereupon the people became quite friendly. Then the reason for this curious lack of population was ascertained. When the tribes who had been converted to Islam found that the natives near them were j ust as strong as they were, the spread of their religion in that ■ direction abruptly ceased, but these heathen people and foe Moslem converts near them couln not live at peace with one another. It was finally decided that, as they could not be good neighbors, a stretch of country should be placed between them where no one should live, and in that way they expected to get along with less bloodshed. So all foe people who in habited this fertile region, about twenty miles wide, packed up their little belongings and moved away, and this stretch of country thus came to be without a single inhabitant. Today it is a No Man’s Laud, and the only reason is that the people who are neighbors there cannot live on friendly terms, and, tired of fighting, hay e put this barrier between them.

A Simple Compass.

Ixradon Truth. - A few days ago I was standing by an Atnericanogeutleman when I expressed a wish to know [[which point was north. He at once pulled out his watch looked at it, and pointed to the north. T asked him whether he had a compass attached to his watch. “All watches,” he replied, “are Compasses.” Then he explained to me how it was. Point the hour hand to the sun, and the south is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII on the watch. For instance it is four o’clook. Point the hand indicated 4 to the sun, and HI on the watch is exactly south. j Suppose it is 8 o’clock, point the hand indicating 8 to the sun, and the figure X on the watch is duo; south. My American friend was quite surprised that I did not know this. Thinking that very possibly I was ignorant of a thing that every one else knew, and happening to meet Mr, Stanley, I asked that eminent traveler whether he was aware of the simple mode of discovering the points of the compass. He said thrt he had never heard of it. I presume, therefore, that the world is in the same state of ignorance.

Wedding Gifts.

Harper’s Bazar, in a judicious editorial on wedding gifts, has this to say concerning a custom which happily is no longer countenanced by the best society: “That one may have as many recurring wedding festivals as there are wedding days recurring, no one will deny- But that one may turn .any of these festivals into an excuse for begging and receiving, an excuse for imposing another domestic tax hpon friends and acquaintances, no one now will assert, whatever may have been polite usage a generation since.... In, deed, whenever one thinks of the great sacredness and tenderness of the marriage relation, it seems difficult to see how any’can be willing to vulgarize and profane it by such a custom as the asking and receiving of gifts, and we would expect its anniversaries to be celebrated not in rude merrymaking, but with a sort of sweet solemnity making such things impossible,”

Shaving With Vaseline.

Globe-Democrat A friend of mine a few months ago told me how to shave easily and painlessly, and I have never shaved in a barber's shop since. The plan is to use oil or greass instead of soap to prepare the chin and soften the beard. Vaseline is the most convenient, and it should be rubbed in quite freely. Then with a keen razor shaving can be done quickly and without a suspicion of pain. At first I couldn’t reconcile myself to doing without the orthodox lather and used soap after the vaseline had been applied. But the soap is real’y unnecessary, and shaving with oil or vaseline is cleaner, as well as pleasanter, and what is more to the point, there Is no trrita* tion whatever to the skin.

THE FAIR SEX.

London is said to have no lees than eighteen thousand newspaper women and the London School of Journalism, like our Normal College, turns oul fresh material at the rate of 200 • term. There are no less than twentytwo press clubs, where foe fair scrib. biers meet to lunch, retd, gabble and exchange notes. The successes aro few and the salaries lamontably small. Mrs. E. L. Lowe edits the Qusen, which is the leading women’s paper is England. The English Woman’s Review is under the management of Misi Helen Blackburn, and Miss Becker 5 responsible for the Manchester Journal of Woman’s Suffrage. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, who draws thi biggest salary of any woman editor in the United States, has written a comedietta in one act, entitled 1 ‘His Socle, ty Play.” It is the experience of a New. York playwright with the scene: in the top story of a New York lodging house. This quaint, nervous little woman is a Georgia product, unusually gifted, with as many whims as a child and a disposition quite as sunny. She is a tremendous worker, writes nighl and day, most of the time sitting on the floor Turk fashion, with her copy paper on a lap board, and the wholq place littered with pencil chips. Alrs—H. Lillian Dougins, who recently married Dr. Harry Sims,intend! to write a book on “Woman’s Health and It’s Influence on tbe Morals of a Nation.” Dr. Sims, under whose direction the work will be prepared, is the bob of tbe eminent surgeon who founded the Woman’s Hospital of New York, who won the title of the Father of Gynecology and decorations from three European monarchs. The Lon. don Lancet said of the surgeon: “Th« name of Sims will live until woman dies.” Dr. Sims was educated by his father, and it is the purpose of his beautiful Baltimore wife to assist him in being worthy of the famous name and taleDt he inherits. The attention of the lady Factory Inspectors has been called to the New York modistes. There are on aristo. cratic Murray Hill dressmaking establishments where the apprentices and seam stresses are crowded into unwholesome quarters, where the lighl i 6 poor, the ventilation and space insufficient for health or comfort. In the largest, oldest and richest house the sewing girls work underground from one end of the season to the other. It is necessary to burn gas all day, and the only fresh air is admitted through the crystal openings of the iron grating that covers the coal hole Here in this subterranean room all the employes are compelled to eat theii noon lunches. Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, now living in Holy wood, N. C., is eighty, four years old, and still vigorous in mind and body. Forty years ago she was a strong advocate of woman’e rights. She contributed articles to the magazines and delivered lectures in all the large cities. Her “Woman and Her Needs,” published in ISSQ, was reprinted all over the world. She was a Miss Prince, born in Maine, and married at the age of sixteen. Hei husband died in 1870, and ever since she has lived in the South. She is probably the oldest living authoress in the United States. Sketches and poems from her pen often appear in New York weeklies, but she left the lecture field about the time Anna Dickinson entered it.

Lace Making.

The lace trade of Devonshire, England, has- recently come in for some attention at the hands of certain ladies of the county, and an attempt is to b« made, says the St. James Gazette, to instill new life into the industry. Honiton lace, like other delicate productions, is made chiefly in cottages, and One of' the chief features in its manufacture, says the Drapers’ Record, lies in’ the fact that in no one piece is a whole design produced. Different families will work the separate portions oi a design, and the work passes from band to hand until the pattern is complete Owing to its extreme fineness the production of Honiton lace is slow and laborious, and consequently its price is high; and one of the proposals which the organization to which we refer have in view is that patterns should be introducee suitable for coarser thread than is at present used. By thiß means it is hoped to avert a further decline In thi9 ancient industry. Honiton lace is what it is because of its exquisite fineness; if this, it! chief characteristic, is to be removed by the introduction of materials which will necessitate the production of « coarser lace, it is not quite clear is what manner this interesting industry is to be preserved.

Her Babe Was Her Bond.

St. Louis Globe Democrat A curious ease came before Alder» man Roessler, of Scranton, Pa., recently. Thomas Lawless had Mrs. M. Kearney arrested for assault and battery. She was adjudged guilty, Bai in S2OO was demanded. The woman, with a six-months’ old babe in hei arms, started to leave the office tohunl up a friend. She was bared at the door by a policeman, who said: • ‘Madam, you are a prisoner. ” Thfe woman begged not to be senl jail. A compromise was effected. The justice concluded to hold the babe foi security. Mrs. Kearney returned in an hour with a bondsman. When sh« re-entered the office the alderman'wai walking up and down the floor trying to keep the baby quiet.

The Stave Went Out.

New York Weeklv. Mistress (during a heated term) ■ ‘Get dinner today on the gasoline stove, Bridget.”. Bridget: “Plaze, mum, I did try but the stove went out. ’ Mistress: “Try {again theD. Bridget: “Yis mum, but it’s not com< back yit It went out t’rough f roof."

A STRAY FORTUNE.

————— -** - £/•, ’ A Young Man Surprised by an In-I herkance. H Oik- morning, while the air was raw! and gusty and the dust of Johannes-1 burr, after being purged of its gold J oil those that ventured out of floors, say® I a Kimberley (South Africa) letter to! the New York Sun, a young man wa*l a of tha Standard I bank with the welcome tidings foul I £T >.OOI had boon wired to his credit! from London. The youth, unable tel a:iy aged rel-uivo who was icl pus-oedou <>f such a sum. and know- 1 io, w -.1 tear his large.-.'- a; .hags were I usually in the old jewelry or watch! line and that lie’'could not possibly! have had a transaction implying the! t rnnsference of so much coin, modestly! repudiated the idea that the sura wat|l for him. This happened April 10,1 The authorities of the bank, whose! repot;:lion for liberality is not great, I pressed tho sum on him, saying that! it was his and no other’s. What could! the young* fellow, whose name was! Galiewski, do but accept the windfall?! In due time it was transferred to his! account at the Johannesburg branch I of the b oik. and from then-e to the! pockets of those who helped to minis-! ter to flip indulgence of youth. M But a day of reckoning came. The! bank discovered that it h d made a I mistake; tint the telegraphic message, | in-le d of being for “Gnutcli.” which I was meant for Ben Galiewski, should! have read “Gaud,” a different person! altogether--a mistake only discovered! when the cable was followed up by the I letter of advice,. They then called on! Ben to disgorge. By this time the I bulk of the money was spent, conse-1 quently there was no chance of recov-■ ery. So the case has been taken te l court and heard before the judges ol I the Transvaal. What may be the is- I su.o of it one can not tell, but, it is car- I tain that the bank will not be able tc I recover from him who has not, and I that such a romance has rarely occur- I red in the real life of our old-world I community. si ■---aZ•• . "~ ==J! '. •-: “7.77-*™

A Paper Offered in Evidence.

“I offer this paper in evidence,” said Attorney Boltheart of counsel for Fiovonco Blythe. And then he displayed a.. piratical scowl, incurred unconsciously by infection from Attorney Billifut’s May-morning smile. “I object!” shouted Attorney Hulkley of counsel for unassorted claimants. -- “I shall have to read the paper,*! Judge Caffiolay remarked, “in order intelligently to pass upon the objection.” “Certainly,” said Mr. Boltheart. “Certainly,” said Mr. Hulkley. “If I find by rending it that it ought not to come before me to influence,my , mind-—"- - , .. ■—_ . _L, “We will consider it as returned to us unopened,” interrupted Mr. Bold- i heart blandly. “I’ll see that you do not consider it,” j sneered Attorney Nailer of counsel generally; “but that is not enough. In the event supposed we must ask your honor's knowledge of the existence and contents of the paper not to have any effect upon your honor’s judgment.” “Certainly,” assented the court. “Certainly,” assented Mr. Boltheart. “With that understanding,” hia honor said. “I will now read the paper.” Deeply and silently, like a steep sunbeam thrust into the sea, the meaning of that document penetrated the profoundost hollows of the judicial mins. lighting that unthinkable under-world with a bleak, uncanny fire. Then he folded the paper and lifted bis • eyes in sign to speak and seventy-one attorneys for forty-two explaintiffs and olfendauts caught back their breath to hear. He spoke: “I admit this paper [cries of ‘We except! We except!’] for what it] is j worth. JA cry: ‘The court is assuming that it is worth something; that-is—-prejudgment!’] This paper is [Except' Except!] a manuscript copy of the multiplication table.” Attorney Boltheart smiled his own bright, haunting smile.

A Foreign Built City.

One of the most notable things which any English syndicate has done America is the building of a city, in what was before practically a wirderA ness. This city is to spring up, full grown, with public buildings, banks,v school houses, electric lights, telegraph! and telephone offices and all tho pajrar \ plirenalia of a large city, where a year ) ago there was not a house. It will have street railways and mammoth hotels. Half a dozen railroads will center at this spot. The name of this city is Middlesborough, and its situation is in the Cumberland gap. Fifteen millions of dollars will have been put in there by the principal company: Numerous sub-companies depending on this main company will build gas works, electric light establishments, attend to the sale of land, erect tremendous factories, and so the city will rise almost, as it were, in 8 night, like one of the fabled palaces of the Arabian stories. It will be an English manufacturing town, situated in the heart of the Cumberland mountains;- ■ In the immediate vicinity of the magic town is found coal of all ’ domestic, steam, smithing, cooking and , cannel. There is iron ore of various J kiqds, clay and manganese ore, zinc, r metallic paint, lead, cement, marble 1 and sandstone. The town will be situ- ' ated frpm 1,000 to 2,00 ) feet above the .sea level, and the experiment of build ing a whole city at once will be lookod forward to with interest

The Progressive Farmer.

It is an easy matter to farm profitably on rioh soil, ample capital, and with all the necessary appliances, but the farmer who expects to succeed - with but limited facilities will find it unprofitable to adhere too rigidly to eustoms of the past. It Is essential that the farmer advance carefully, but\ no farmer can expect to obtain the full \ benefit of his labor unless he is willing \ to aocept the results of ibis expert- 1 ments, and to endoavor to improve hie * opportunities. n