Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 February 1884 — Page 3

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A vamilt named. Edwards, tne most prominent citizens of Mason county, West Virginia, are endeavoring to establish their title to the Trinity church property in New York, now valued at $64,000,000. John I. McMillan, who is making a type-setting machine at Dion, N. Y., with which he expects to set 5,000 ems an hour, says that $500,000 was spent on the Alden type-setting and distributing machine before it was given up as impracticable, and that $1,000,000 was wasted on the Page machine, whose patent right was subsequently sold for $10,000. Dubuque is the envy of her sister cities who have no buried fortunes and Captain Kidd stories to tell aboutContractor Morgan, of Dubuque, has a letter from, an official in Madrid, Spain, to the effect that a resident of that city, while stopping in Dubuque some time ago, buried his fortune, amounting to 1,000,000 francs, in a zinc box in a lonelv spot in the outskirts of that city. A diagram of tfte burial place was sent with the letter. At a recent meeting of the Industrial Home, of Boston, Mr. Robert Swan ex pressed the hope that industrial education for girls might-be carried one step further, by the introduction of classes in cooking. A central kitchen could be established, to which the girls of the public schools might go on certain days. One, and perhaps the chief, reason why young women choose to work for a mere pittance in stores when they could earn large wages at cooking, is that they actually do not know anything about cooking, and have no opportunity, nor in the years which they have now reached, -time to learn the art. ' Employes of the New York Herald printed the words "The Herald, price two cents," in big letters on the walls of Fort Lafayette, in New York harbor. The government immediately ordered the impertinent defacers to remove the advertisement at once. The employes tried to do so, but the painter had used bis white lead with no unsparing hand, and the deep stain could not be removed. The Herald was told to remove it even if it was necessary to cut a foot deep into the stone. The latest report says that stone-cutters have gone twelve inches into the stone without being able to destroy the defacement. Ik the memoirs by Davis of Aaron Burr the letters of the latter to his daughter Theodosia are quoted, in one which reference is made to the marriage of the elegant and accomplished Sarah Duer to John Witherspoon Smith, a young lawyer of great promise and excellent character, about 1806. The lady referred to is now entering on her loist year. She is the daughter of CoL Wm. Duer, of the revolutionary army, and a Representative of New York in the first Congress of the United States. She is also a granddaughter of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, a Major-General of the revolutionary army, on. whose staff James Monroe served as an aide-de-camp. Ak English parliamentary return recently issued shows that over $250,000,00 have been invested in gas undertakings in Great Britain and Ireland, the authorized capital being nearly $90,000,000 more. Local authorities are gradually increasing their hold on this necessary of life, for nearly one-third of the whole is in their hands. In this, as in other respects, Ireland lags behind, -for while English local authorities own, roughly speaking, $72,500,600 and Scotch $12150,000, the Irish corporate bodies have only $2,500,000. It is a striking coincidence that the thxfie Capitals are still dependent upon private companies, so that Edinburg and Dublin, equally with London, are behind the more vigorous provincial cities, such as Manchester and Birmingham, Glasgow and Dundee, and Belfast and Limerick. We read that a recognized authority in agricultural affairs has written the following, which seems no exaggeration of facts : "In view of the formation, extent, richness and importance of the vegetable mold of our Northwestern prairies, it is established to a certainty that the United States is in possession of one of the greatest treasures in existence, which is not surpassed in value and importance by all the precious metals in the bowels of the earth. n To provide for the real necessities of man there is no comparison between the value of such earth and mineral treasures, and yet Darwin has shown that to the common earth worms we are indebted for all such rich mold; for they hay.e been years ahead of man in plowjag it, turning it over, and mixing its constituents intimately so that it will require a groat many bountiful crops to

exhaust the soil. But this ' treasure, as

well as the deep laid treasures of coal, gas and oil, man is doing his best to exhaust in the shortest possible time. The late Professor Sophocles, of Harvard, was a short but finely-built man, with bushy, snow-white hair and beard, olive complexion, and piercing black eyes, and looked like some venerable Arab sheik. Reserved and shy in manner, he was yet full of general humor. Once, in the class-room, he asked a student: "What was done with the bodies of the Greeks who were killed at Marathon?" "They were buried, sir." "Next?" "Why, they they were buried." "Next?" "I I don't know, Professor." "Right, Nobody knows!" He was never married, but lived alone in one of the college buildings andpreparedhw own food, getting up many curious Turkisk dishes. He allowed servants to visit the room to make up his bed, but would endure no further disturbance, and the floor was unswept from October to June. Isaac S. Sprague, the living skeleton, who is 40 years old, and has been reduced by atrophy to forty pounds weight, said to a correspondent, in regard to a rumor that he had given his body, in the interest of science, to the Harvard Medical College: "Yes, the story is true, and all the arrangements have just been completed. I have agreed that when I die they shall have my body; they wfll first cut it open and make a post mortem examination to find out, if possible, why I am so thin; then they will put the body in alcohol and place it in the museum of the college, where it will remain, but I'm go ing to need it myself for the present; they can't have it till I get through with it. My body will be preserved in the museum there as that of Calvin Edson is in the Albany museum. Edson died at the age of 45, weighing only forty-five pounds. The doctors, when they cut him open, found that his thin ness was caused by narrowing of the thoracic duct, a trouble with which other members of bis family were affected. His Jace and neck were ema ciated like the rest of his body, but mine are not, so my thinness is probably due to something else. The physicians pronounce it to be an extreme case of progressive muscular atrophy. It has been going on for thirty years, while the longest other case on record is that of a man who died after having the complaint for ten years." The question of corporal punishment was thoroughly discussed recently at a meeting of the New York Superintendents of Public Schools, and some interesting facts were noted. Superintendent Smith, of Syracuse, said that there had not been a case of corporal punishment in the schools of that city for sixteen years, and that the schools are kept in as good', if not better order, than they were when flogging was allowed. Syracuse is a city of 60,000 people, and its public schools rank among the best in the East, and the result of the experiment there is important. In cases of miner offenses, simple means of discipline are effectual, and in gtave cases, those in which it is commonly supposed that nothing but severe flogging will suffice, the principal of the ward school where the trouble exists, promptly suspends the pupil and reports to the superintendent. The latter on examination of the case sustains the principal or reinstates the pupil. A board of three commissioners have general supervisory powers over all the school interests of the city, and act' as a court of highest appeal. This plan of discipline has proved very effectual. When pupils are suspecned, the burden of responsibility is placed upon the shoulders of the parents, and they are generally ready within a few hours to offer satisfactory pledges of good behavior in the future. No teacher is allowed to strike a blow, and yet decipline is maintained, and scholarship secured, and that by methods which bring to bear other influences than a child's susceptibility to physical pain. It will not be strange if many other cities are disposed to give the Syracuse experiment a fair trial, and the result will undoubtedly prove as satisfactory. Talk to the Children. Children hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents from what they deem drudgery to learn from books; and, even if they have the misfortune to be deprived of many educational advantages, with such instruction they will grow up intelligent people. We sometimes see parents who are the life of every company they enter, dull, silent and uninteresting at home among their children. If they have not mental activity and mental stores sufficient for both, let them first use what they have for their own households. A silent home is a dull place for young people a place Jxom which they will escape if they can. How much useful information, and what unconscious but excellent mental training in lively, social argument! Cultivate, to the utmost the art of conversation at home. He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed Lavater.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. Lace curtains may be laid over a colored quilt and serve as lace bedsprcals. To clean door-plates, use a wet solu

tion of ammonia in water, applied with a wet rag. Clothes-pins boiled a few minutes and quickly dried once'or twice a month become more durable. To extract ink from wood, scour with sand wet with water and ammonia Then rinse with strong saleratua water. A piece of matting neatly tacked down by an outside door will protect the carpet, and will require less care than a piece of oil cloth. Mildew is easily removed by rubbing common yellow soap on the article, and then a little starch and salt on that. Rub all well on the article and put in the sunshine. Antique lace may be washed in borax water, and after soaking awhile in it, and then left for an hour or more in warm suds,the water should be squeezed out and it should be pinned in shape on a clean board to dry. Do not iron it or blue it. Pew things amuse children more than blowing bubbles. Dissolve a quarter of an ounce of castile or oil soap, cut up in small pieces, iu threequarters of a pint of water, and boil it for two or three minutes ; then add five ounces of glycerine. When cold this fluid will produce the best and most lasting bubbles that can be made. Scientific American. A German writer states that it is a custom in offices in that country to have a sliced potato on the desk. He does not say whether the esculent should be raw or not, but the probability is that it is not boiled. The use of the potato is to clean steel pens, and generally act as a pen-wiper. It removes all inkcrust, and gives a peculiarly smooth flow to the ink. He also states tlmt Hamburg clerks pass new pens two or three times through a gas flame, and then the ink will flow freely. Strained tea Ccold) is good to clean black silk or black cashmere, if very dirty. Wash first with potato water (grated raw), and then clean off with strained tea. Water in which ammonia has been dissolved is useful for cleaning colored silks, or take benzine to remove the worst stains, and then-wash off with ammonia water. If the black silk has become brown and shabby, soak in a decoction of logwood, putting it in while the mixture is hot. If the color is faded from dark silks, make a tea of ivy leaves, and soak the piece in it. Clean velvet with bread-crumbs and powdered French chalk, using a brush, liaise the nap by steaming on the under side and holding the flattened spot over a heated iron. The Countryman. A countryman called at the office and wanted to know if we wanted some items of news. We told him we did. "Weil," said he, "I think I can give you some." After depositing a well, chewed cud of tobacco as large as a goose egg on the corner of the stove, he proceeded to replenish his month with one of equal proportions. Then spitting a few quarts of amber on our new carpet, said : "Did you ever hear of thunder and lightning turning sweet milk sour." We told him that we had heard of such things, but did not believe much in thunder souring milk as much as unclean vessels. . "That is one of the items I was going to give you," said he. We told him to proceed. Said he: "You remember one night last week when it rained all night hard, and thundered and lightinged all night?" We told him we guessed we did. "Well, the next morning the old woman went out to milk and pretty soon she came in with a couple of pails of sour milk, fresh from the cows. The storm was so strong that it soured the milk in their bags. How is that for an item?" We told him that was pretty good, and we would like to have another. "Well, we have a Sycamore tree about fifty feet from our front gate. It is pretty tall, about seventy-five feet to the first limb, and the grain runs pretty near straight around it. The lightning struck the tree, and it took half an hour before the lightning got to the ground, fire and splinters flying all the time." "That is good, give us another." "Well, the old woman had a hen setting on some eggs down in the grass by the barn. One night some animal carried the old hen oil', and in the morning we found a big rattle snake coiled up on the eggs. The old woman concluded to let the snake alone and see what he would do. In about ten days every one of the chickens was out and doing well. The snake goes around through the grass and whenever he finds a worm or a bug gives his tail a rattle, and you ought to see the chickens run. At night he coils himself on the nest, and the chickens all gather around him, some under and some on top. He seem to enjoy the little ones. The chickens themselve seem to be well pleased with their new guardian.- How is that for an item ?" said he. We told him that would do for this time, and to call again. Si. Joe Grip. Graham Bread. One often hears Graham bread praised as superior to ordinary white bread because it possesses more of the nitrogenous and mineral constituents of the grain, but it has been wisely suggested that this apparent advantage may be rendered of no account by the harsh nature of bran bread, which makes it liable to be rapidly passed on through the digestive organs without permitting complete assimilation of the nutritive portions of the graiu which cling to the branny portion. It is well said that "the state, as well as the chemical composition of our food must be considered." Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. An Albany (N. Y.) tobacco dealer says that during the last six months cigarette smoking by ladies in that city has grown to unusual proportions, Only a small number, however, are purchased by them in person.

The Inundation of the Nile. fSn the mon'h of May an-1 t' e beginning of June the Egyptian Nile is little better than a great sluggish ditch, the surface of which, in Upper Egypt, lies many feet below that of its steep banks of irregularly stratified mud and sand. A short distance north of Cairo it divides into two main branches which take a northerly course through the delta and finally debouch, the one at Kosetta and the other at Damietta. Innumerable artificial canals connect these arms of the Nile with one another, and branch off east and west for purposes of irrigation ; while, in the north, the complex system of water-courses communicates with the series of lakes and marshes, from Mariout, on the west, to Menzaleh on the east, which occupy a large portion of the area of

the delta southward of the sea coast. In the latter part of June, about the time of the summer solstice, the motion of the torpid waters of the Nile seaward is quickened, and their level rises, while at the same time they take on a green color. The rise and the flow quicken, and the green color is succeeded by a reddish brown ; the water becomes turpid and opaque, and is found to be laden with sediment, varying in consistency from moderately ooarse sand, which'falls to the bottom at once when the water is still, to mud of impalpable fineness, which takes a long time to subside. In fact, when the sun approaches the northernmost limit of his course, as the snows of Abyssinia begin to melt, and the heavy intertropical rains set in, a prodigious volume of water is poured into the White and Blue Niles, and drives before it the accumulated living and dead particles of organic matter which have sweltered in the half stagnant pools and marshes of the Soudan during the preceding six months. Hence, apparently the preliminary flow of green water. The Blue Nile and the Atbara must sweep down a vast quantity of . river gravel from the Abyssinian uplands, but it may be doubted whether any of this gets beyond the middle cataract, except in the condition of fine sand. And I suspect that the chief part, if not the whole, of the coarse sediment of the waters of the high Nile must be derived from Nubia, from the weathering of the rocks, and the action of the winds in blowing the sand thus produced into the stream. The Nile continues to rise for three months until the autumnal equinox, by which time the level of its surface at Assouan is usually forty feet, at Thebes, thirty-six feet, at Cairo, twenty-four or twenty-five feet, and at Kosetta, four feet higher than it is in May ; and before reaching the Delta it flows at the rate of three or four niil.es an hour. Under these circumstances the river overflows its banks on all sides. When it does so "the movement of the water is retarded or even arrested, and the suspended solid matters sooner or later fall to the bottom, and forms a thin layer of sandy mud. When the Nile waters spread out over the great surface of the Delta the retardation is, of course, very marked. The coarse sediment is soon deposited, and only the very finest particles remain in suspension at the outflow into the Mediterranean. As the sun goes southward, his action on the Abyssinian snows diminishes, the dry season sets in over the catchment basin of the White Nile, and the water supply of the Nile diminishes to its maximum. Hence, after the autumnal equinox, the Nile begins to fall, and its flow to slacken as rapidly as it rose. By the middle of November it is half way back to its summer level, and it continues to fall until the following May. In the dry air of Nubia and of Egypt evaporation is incredibly rapid, and the Nile falls a prey to the "sun. As the old Egyptian myth has it, Osiris is dismembered by Typhon. Professor Huxley, Queer Discriminations. The discrimination made by society as to who shall or shall not enter within its circles is often very strangely drawn. A young man at a friends spending an evening recently remarKecl : "X was employed in a store and stood behind the counter near a young man who was in every way my inferior, even to the unusual degree of working upon a smaller salary. The young man was well and fastidiously dressed, but was uneducated, fast and profligate. He openly boasted, in fact, of his immorality, seeming to take a pride in it. And yet, the positions in society of myeelf and that young man were vastly different. Wealthy and proud mothers, who wouldn't tolerate my stepping inside of their parlors, Avould introduce their daughters to this young man, invite him to call and to their social gatherings. I don't know why he should be worthy and myself unworthy ot courtesies from an association with these people." That young man's experience is no new one. Others before him have had the same and it is more than likely others who will come onto the stage of life iu the future will have the same experience and ponder over the same unanswerable question. Why a young man or woman who earns his or her own living, and assists yet allows all the acting faculties to sleep on and take their rest. Heal society requires the observer to be also a participator ; the society of a novel he may enjoy in absolute mental repose. Then, again, a good novel serves as a teacher. The wisest of novel writers work for a purpose, and generally succeed in teaching some moral lesson. No uninspired book is a better protection to a youug man just 'entering life, than "Pendennis ;" no excoriation of the falsity of society surpasses that of "Vanity Fair." "Oliver Twist" has done more to expose the abuse of the poor-house system, than tons of blue books, and more to counteract, the falsehood of "Dick Turpin," the "Beggar's Opera," than a century of preaching. A gcod novel, then, is to be recommended one that gives us a higher conception of life and its duties. Exchange. Somebody who has been counting says that the article "the" is used about 16,000 times in every copy of the London Times. John McCarthy has lived for ninety years in Muucy, Pa., where he was born.

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