Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 35, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 November 1884 — Page 7

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A British youth named Leithbridge was arrested in Paris the other day for -wantonly pricking to death with a sword cane a rare specimen of an owl in the Zoo gardens. He was liberated by the Commissary of police on the promise of his parents, .who are eminently respectable and wealthy, that he would stand triaL There lives in Forsyth, Georgia, an old gentleman who is now in his seventy-ninth year. H$ was converted in 1833, licensed to preach in 1840, and has been preaching ever since. He never served on a jury, never was sued, never, saw a horse race nor a theater, never f' saw a game of cards, never saw a dance, not even at a corn shnckingr nor was he ever drunk He has twelve children and lives a happy, peaceful life. A new kind of entertainment has just sprang np in New York society which promises to afford considerable amusement and pleasure to those who take part in it It is phrenology. Some people I know of, says a writer, intend the coming winter to give phrenological" parties; that is, to have a phrenologist come to their houses and amuse their friends by feeling of the protuberances on the craniums of those who will submit to it An interesting fact in natural history is announced by Cavalier Moerath, an Italian civil engineer. While engaged in prospecting for water in Italy, M. Moerath tapped a spring with a drivewell, and to his surprise pumped out of ita tiny living fish. The fish has passed from the spring through perforations in the pump of one-eighth inch diameter. It was found to be destitute of eyes, showing that it belonged to a subterranean species. The etiquette of funerals in Mexico does not permit the female relations of deceased to attend. Only men attend the departed to the church and the tomb. Funerals are so expensive that they often ruin business men. All female relatives, even to cousins and children, must wear deep mourning for two years. During the mourning none of the ladies of the household must be seen in public Bodiea are buried incased in laces and decked with precious stones. In eight years the four-hundredth anniversary of America's discovery will be celebrated The people of Genoa, Italy, are already discussing the contribution they shall, make. Some are in favor of sending over twelve Genoese sea captains, as typical both of Columbus and Garibaldi, to debark on the same spot that Columbus first trod. Others favor the shipping over, for temporary exhibition in the new world, the fine statue of the great navigator that stands on the Piazza di Colombo. Fboudx, who is on a tour in Norway, has interpolated into an article on that now threadbare country some remarks on the rejection of the Gladstone franchise bill "The English sovereign," he writes, "is in a position not altogether befitting a human being with an immortal souL" He approves of the action of the Peers of a House of Lords, which he describes as an excellent institution, political and social, but, he adds : "One must draw the line somewhere, and I draw one at Dukes. I think," he says, "we could do without dukes.1 One of the most curious incidents in the history of African slavery in America is the life of Charles Stewart, a slave owned by the Johnsons of Virginia, and afterward by the Porters of Louisiana, both of them noted as possessors of re markable racing horses. He was a born trainer and rider of horses, and during his long lifetime has ridden the winning horse at many of the great races down South. He could not write, and knew nothing about figures, but was, nevertheless, trusted by his owners with the care and transportation of their stock and the custody of bets and stakes and . he seems always to have come out right. Dibector of the Mint Burchard anticipates that the forthcoming annual reports of the mint superintendent and assay officers will show that there has been a considerable falling off in the silver product for the last year, since , most of the richer territory has been mined, and the ore now brought to the surface is not so rich as has been the case in previous years. The falling off in silver production last year was about '1600,000 from the product for 1882; and while nothing is definitely known as yet, it is estimated that the falling off this year will be still greater. That the price of silver, both in England and America, fluctuates but little, may be taken as an indication .that the silver men do not anticipate any extensive diminution in the product for some years to come. The Internal Bevenue Department reports that the amount of beer which paid taxes in this country last year was 588,000,000 gallons. Adding to this the amont exported and evading the tax brings the total up to 600,000,000 gallons. This makes the United States the third in the list of beer producing

countries in the world. The number of breweries in thi country does not compare with that of other countries, the breweries here doing their -w ork on a larger scale. And, while they make two-thirds as much beer as the brewers of England, their number is one-tenth i as many. England makes more beer than any other country in the world, her 27,000 breweries turning out 990,000,000 gallons yearly, while Germany, with 25,000 breweries, makes 900,000, 000 gallons yearly. Next comes the United States with about 3,000 breweries, making about 600,000,000 gallons per annum. Apropos of runaway matches, the New Journal of Commerce remarks : "Parents who have acquired large wealth and high social position are often disappointed in the disposition ol their daughters because of the ideal they insist upon and by which they measure all applicants for the alliance. The daughter who recently married the coachman, it is said, was denied by her father the attentions of worthier men because they were not possessed of the fortune and social rank he had fixed as the standard. We know an only daughter, now over two-score years of age, and unmarried because hex father, possessed of considerable means, has driven away all suitbrs lest they should come wooing for his wealth. The difficulty increased as the years went on, for the girl became less attract, and an ardent lover might well have his motives suspected.1 The New Orleans papers deny that the large buildings of that city, especially, the custom-house are slowly sink ; ing into the soft earnh, as has been recently reported. In regard to the custom-house it is stated that prior to 1860 it settled two feet, which was bttt a few inches in excess of what the engineer had calculated upon . For the succeeding ten years the settling amounted to only two-tenths of a foot, which is a remarkably small depression when the ponderous proportions of the structure, with its thick walls and weighty, groined arches, are considered. Since 1870 there has been no appreciable settling, and CoL Glenn, the Superintendent, is of the opinion that the custom-house can now be loaded with its granite cornice and permanent roof without any risk of further sinking. It is further said that the ablest engineers have declared that buildings of large dimensions can be erected, in New Orleans without the possibility of undue depression. The Piegan Indians of Northwestern Montana, whose suffering by starvation has been reported, have been on the road to destruction ever since the advance of civilization reached them in 1865. They were called the Sakitifax Nation or People of the Plains, twenty years ago, numbered 12,000 souls, were brave and warlike, but generally well behaved, and had one of the most perfect systems of government ever known among North American red men. The nation was composed of several tribes, all subject to one council, and all speaking the same language, and each tribe was subdivided into bands, with a somewhat elaborate system, of chiefs and medicine men. They worshiped the sun, and had a custom of sacrificing a young girl to it every year. When the white men came, however, the red ones adopted their vices sad committed so many outrages that u military expedition went to punish them, and did its work so effectually as to cripple the tribe for all time. The will of John A. McLelland, formerly of Portland, was admitted to probate at San Francisco, and is a singularly pathetic document. His estate is valued at $1,377, with a life insurance policy, the value of which is unknown. Deceased left an olegraphic will, by which he bequeathed his estate to his nephews and nieces, assigning to each his keepsakes and trinkets. The will is addressed to John McLelland Polk, his nephew, and is is. the form of a let ter. After making the bequests he says: "My greatest desire is to have you all become Christians. Attach yourselves to some church and prepare to meet your mother, and, I trust, myself, in heaven. Do as good a part by Ouchie as you think best Oh, how my heart goes out to him ! I need not tell you all how I have loved you. I presume you know it. Lackie, take good care of your sister.. When I die I wish to be burried by your grandma. Watch after the lot the best you can. You will have your hands full when I am gone. The executor, John McLelland Polk, created in this novel way, is 22 years old and resides in Oakland. The other heirs are Ebon 0. Polk, or i Ouchie, aged 24; Lee Orr Polk, aged 19; and Annie V. Polk, aged 14. The two last named resido in Oregon. A Druggist's Blunder. Doctor "Well, how is your ague now?" Patient "Worse and worse. Pve had the shakes awfully every day." "I can't understand thatJDid you take the medicine I prescr dd ?" "Yes, but it did no goud. Do you know, Doctor, I think that medicine might do good if I took it before the shake come on instead of after." "Why, of course. That is what I directed." "It did not say so oq this bottle. n "Corsarn that drug gist What was on the bottle?" " 'Well shaken before taken,' "Phil adelphia Call

HAD SEEN THE GAME OUT WEST. Why the GuUelesg,Jun? Man was not Inclined to Bet on His Own Hand. A young man arrived in New York with letters of introduction from one or two well-known Gothamites who own ranches in the far West. He was well received on the strength of his letters. His acquaintance was eagerly sought when it became known that he had "struck it rich in a Nevada mine, and had come East to enjoy life. He was a youth of, what is called here, a West ern appearance, and his countenance was singularly guileless and innocent. Me spent his money freely with his new friends, and was always ready to go forth in quest of the elephant. Through the kindness of one of the men to whom he brought the letter, he was "put up" at a well-know club of Anglo-American tendencies, where he was fortunate enough to meet several Englishmen of a class only too common here. Indeed they, or their prototypes of other nationalities, are known throughout the world. They are always connected with the army or nobility. With the former, perhaps, as sutlers; with the latter, by the bar sinister. Their French prototype is the chevalier Tindustre. Here they aje called "beats." Well, our guileless young friend was heartily welcomed by the members of this club, or at least by such as regarded him as a pigeon ready to be plucked, and one night, after a particularly hilarious dinner, somebody suggested a game of poker "just for fun." Tho guileless young man offered no objection, and admitted that he had "seen the game played somewhere out West." Fortune favored him at the start he had been taught the game in his cradle by a wise parent and just as he was beginning to get interested, somebody scorched the back of the ace of spades with a lighted cigar, apologized for his carelessness, and told the waiter to bring another pack. The new cards were dealt and the Western man had a full hand, and a look of placid serenity. But no one seemed anxious to raise his bet. While the second hand was being dealt, his eye chanced to fall upon the heap before him. The pattern traced in intricate lines on the backs seemed strangely familiar, and for a moment he was in danger of losing the look of calm hope and trust which a fond father had taught him to assume at the poker table. "Can it be," he said to himself, sadly, "that I have summered in Nevada and wintered in Colorado and then come East to find this weary, playedout old triok waiting for me?" He held a fairly good hand this time, but he was not inclined to bet. Then it was his turn to deal. He shuffled them carefully and expeditiously, and then dealt them. Looks of astonishment and alarm appeared on the faces of the players and those who had been watching the game. "Hold on !" cried one. "What are you about?" gasped another, as the cards fell, with their faces up, on the green cloth. "What's the matter?" asked the young man from the Weat, picking up his hand and gazing at his adversaries, with the same look of guileless trust which he had worn since the begining of the gam "We generally deal the card with the faces down." "Oh!" said the young man. "I didn't think it would make much difference, as they are marked on both sides." There was a moment of silence, during which the young man from Nevadia gathered the cards together and put them in his pocket. "I just want to put them in my private museum,19 he explained, as he rose from his chair and quietly walked away. Exchange.

Women's Work on the Farm. To the charge that we consider our own convenience and ease to the ex-y elusion of the ease of the female mem- j bers of our families, many of us must plead guilty; and the number of selfconfessed culprits will steadily increase proportionally, as we go westward. On many farms and about many barns we will find all labor-saving appliances and machines, but when we go to the house and yard we find wor done in the old way, with primitive utensils. Water is drawn from the well by the old sweep, and carried a considerable distance through mud or dust, as the case may be to the kitchen, reached by one or more trying steps; there is no cistern, woodshed or summer kitchen ; nd screens at the windows and doors; the washing is done on the old zincboard, and the clothes are wrung dry by "elbow grease," tho cellar is reached only by an outside door, if there is a cellar at all ; in short, there is a lack of conveniences everywhere. Here woman's work is clearly harder than man's. The young couple had begun life together with limited means, but resolved to make a home for their old age at the expense of labor and selfdenial while young and strong. Both worked hard. There were few laborsaving appliances about the farm and barn, and fewer yet about the house. The debt each year was lessened, and better tools and implements were bought for the farm, but someway none for the house. A new pump was put in the well at the barn, but none in the well at the house; better plows and harrows were bought, but there was no money to buy a clothes wringer; the farmer rejoiced in a new grain drill, but yet the chief implement his wife had to use in the garden was a rusty hoe that no one on the farm would use; the reaper was bought before the sewing machine. Thus the years have passed ; the wife has toiled on without complaint; it would have been better if she had complained; ior in nine cases out of ten the indifference of the husband, apparently heartless, is selfish blindness, that a sharp request from the wife whom he has not ceased to love would dispel, and bring hiih back to the helpful, kindlier disposition of earlier days. If this should fall beneath the eye of such a husband and father, I "would urge him in the name of all that is most sacred of earthly ties and affections to provide those household conveniences which cost but little money, and would bring back the old light to the eye and the old color to the cheek. It will not cost much to put an easy pump in the well, and to

make a cistern at the kitchen door; to build a wood-house and fill it; to buy a washer and wringer; to put screens in the doors and windows ; to build a summer kitchen, and buy an oil stove for it, and the dimes thus spent will return as dollars; they will save doctor's bills, prescriptions, shrouds and coffins. , Cor., New England Farmer 9 A Pair of Small Stories. "Ah, good morning," said the polite stranger. "I hope I do not interrupt you, but I would like to call your attention for just a mo " "Haven't time to look at you a minute, said the young architect, snappishly; "this is my busy day. Good morning' "But I just want you to" "Haven't time; haven't a dollar; haven't a cent in the office ; don't want any book, pencil-holder, knife-sharpener, penwiper don't want nothing wouldn't buy it if you talked to me for a week. Get out!" 'But," persisted the stranger, pleasantly, "I don't want you to buy it; I don't want to sell it; I "Tell you I won't look at it," roarad the architect, "and I won't be bothered; I'm carrying all the insurance I can, and want to get rid of that I don't want a chance in the Blackleg Equitable Distribution, and I don't want you around here any longer. Slide off!" "But you see," said the stranger smiling, "I only want a moment of your time to show you " "Don't want to see it and I won't see it," shrieked the exasperated architect. "I don't want any perpetual calender, for I don't expect to live more than a thousand years; don't want any ready interest reckoner, because the other man reckons the interest and I pay it; don't want any patent sleeve buttons, necktie fasteners, blotting pads, letter books, bill files, binders, and eyelet punches. You fly down them stairs or I'll punch your head !" Then the stranger got mad. "Look here," he said "I've had enough of your lip. I've got a little capias on you right here that I want to show you Misfit & Wrinkle, fashionable tailors, $119.25 now you come right over here to 'Squire Holdfast's office and look at it, or youll get into trouble." The busy architect said he could spare him about an hour and a half if he had such a useful novelty as that to show him. Why didn't he say so before? And so they went over to look at it. "Edith!" It was a woman's voice that called, soft, low, musical. "Edith," she called again, and I could not but stop and listen. Sweet Saxon "Edith." It should be the name of the voice, so full of tender music were they both. "Edith." Blue eyes and fair hair, a faultless complexion of pearl and pink, an oval face, a figure tail and willowy -Edith!" "Yeth'm, yeth'm, yeth'm ! I gwanten quick's I kin git my hands outen de soap-suds! Fore goodness, I jes wisht I could done drop down so deep I couldn' nevah hear my name agin in dish yer livin' wol Wha you wan't Miss Tabitha?" And a sweet young girl, fair as a dream of June, petite and graceful, came to the door and gave an order to a coal-black woman five feet eight inches high, with arms like John Sullivan's, and a red-and-yellow turban on her head. Robert J. Burclette, in SU Paul Herald. . Natural Uas as Fuel. Shortly after petroleum was discovered it was found that some of the driven wells gave out a gas which, when ignited, illuminated the country around, and gave out an intense heat For many years this means of illumination and heat was regarded as a nuisance, as it was oil the exployers were after, not gas. This natural gas has now been discovered throughout 8. very wide region, extending from the south shore of Lakes Ontario and Erie down into Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Eastern Ohio. It may be found in time further south and west The surprising thing about this gas is that no one seems, until recently, to have utilized it. Now it is found that it will last from seven to ten years that the ga3 can be controlled so as to be a far cheaper means of illumination than coal gas; while the further discovery has been made during the past year that with this gas as a fuel, iron and steel can be manufactured cheaper than anywhere else on earth. In the city of Pittsburgh numerous gas wells have been opened, and the heat got from them made use of to dispense with coal altogether. A wonderful revolution in the iron industry is predicted, because of the cheapness of the new fueL The cost of driving and tubing a gas well is a mere trifle compared with the expense of mining and carrying coal and coke to where it is needed, and then there is a very great saving in labor, for, as every one knows, coal is co3tly to handle. A "short time since it seemed as if Alabama was destined to take the iron industry away from Pennsylvania; but by means of this natural gas fuel, Western Pennsylvania at least will be enabled to maintain its supremacy, not only for producing the cheapest iron in this country, but it may be enabled to undersell England's iron, tariff or no tariff.--Demorest's Monthly. Economy U Wealth. They were reading tho old farmer's will, and his nephew, the principal inheritor, was paying the closest attention to its provisions. Presently the notary came to the clause, "I bequeath to the servant that shall close my eyes 100 francs." "Hi! Hello, there !" says the heir; "just read that again, will you?" The notary complies. "That's 100 francs saved, anyhow," says the heir; "uncle only had one eye! Got the faithful domestic that time, did'tl?" Farts Figaro. The every-day cares and duties which men cali drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion. Longfellow. "Does prohibition prohibit?" can be bes$ answered in the affirmative by the man whose wife has locked up the decanter before going out

CUUIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC A gargle made of strong black tea, and used cold, night and morning, is now the fashionable prevention in London against falling a victim to sore throat during the cold winds of spring, and similar "cold spell'" at other times of the year. Struve upholds Dr. Bfedent's suggestion that only cream should be used lor the earliest nourishment of young children brought up by hand, as the digestibility of any milk is inversely as the quantity of caseins which remains in the skim milk. Not one out of a thousand lightning rods at present upon our buildings is of any use says Professor Trowbridge in Science, for the simple reason that the rods are not led into moist ground and therefore offer great resistance to the passage of an electric discharge. Mr. Maxwejul Hall, of the Royal Astronomical Society gives the following remarkable sequence of color in the plannets from the earth outward. Mars, reddish ; Jupiter, a delicate orange ; Saturn, greenish-yellow ; Uranus, light green, and Neptune, slightly blue. The microscope reveals that there are more than 4,000 muscles in the caterpiller and that the eye of a drone contains 1,000 mirrors. There are spiders as small as a grain of sand, and they spin a thread so fine that it would require 400 of them to equal the size of a single hair. According to Protestor Young the central portion of the sun is probably for the most part a mass of heated gasses, the photsophere is a shell of luminous clouds, the chromosphere is composed mainly of incondensible gasses, and what constitutes the corona is entirely unknown. The mellowness of old wine, it is found by experiments in Germany, is due to an increase in the proportion of glycerine contained in it more than to a decrease in the proportion of tannin which it holds. The Orthodox Church' man says returning missionaries declare that unfermented wine was never known in Syria. Ax aeronaut says in his voyage acrods the English Channel the land lay behind like a map, and the bottom of the sea could be clearly seen. It may be assumed that by instantaneous photography the time will come when charts of the sea may be made with perfect exactness, thus greatly diminishing the dangers of navigation. An increase of the proportions of oxygen in air may be effected, according to German authority, by aspirating a current of air through several layers of taffeta which have been plunged in alcohol or carbon bisulphide and then coated with a thin layer of caoutchoue. The passage of air through four such layers is said to reduce its proportion of nitrogen very considerably. The Popular Science News says that the agreeable beverage known as champagne is, according to a French receipt, made as follows : Take sixty gallons of water; add forty pounds of ginger cut in small pieces, and gently boil for half an hour, carefully removing any froth that may arise. Cool the liquor as quickly as possible, and when at a blood-heat (100 degress F.) add nine pounds of raisins chopped fine and the juice of six dozen oranges and six dozen lemons. Allow the liquid to ferment, and after standing a month it mav be bottled in the usual manner. If ddsired. the ginger may be omitted and the number of oranges increased to eighteen dozen. Acorn Bread. The Indians scattered along the foothills of the Sierra are a quiet, inoffensive people. They do not appear to be governed by any tribal laws, yet adhere to many of their old traditions One or two men of superior ability and industry form a nucleus around which others less ambitious gather. Here they fence with brush and logs a tract sufficient for their requirements of haymaking, pasture, && Although they often indulge in the food of civilized nations, the acorn is still a favorite article of diet in every well-regulated wigwam. The process of converting this bitter nut into bread is curious. IJnder the branches of a grand old pine, I found them at work. They had chucked and ground in the usual manner a large mass of the acorn meats. A tnumber of circular vats had been hollowed out of the black soil, muoh in the shape of a punch bowL Into these was put the acorn pulp. At hand stocd several large clothes' baskets filled with water ; and into these they dropped hot btones, thus heating the water to the required temperature. Upon the mass of crushed bitterness they carefully ladled the hot water, making it into the color and consistency of cream. Not a speck appeared to mix. A buxom muhala stood by each vat, and with a small fir bcugh stirred the mass, skillfully removing any speck that floated on the surface. The soil gradually absorbed the bitter waters, leaving a firm, white substance of which they make bread. I asked to taste it, at which they said something in their own language, and all laughed. I asked again; and after more laughter, I was iianded a small particle on a flag leaf, and found it sweet and palatable. They began to remove it, and so adroitly was this done that but a small portion adhered to the soil. They knead it upon the rocks, and in a short time it is fit for use. This, I am told, they mix with water, put it into thin cakes and bake before the fire. They Baptized Each Other. An old colored man and an equally old colored woman walked down to the river atlong bridge, and to the astonishment of the fishernen who saw the per formahce, walked in and began ducking each other. When both were thorough ly wet, they offered a short prayer and waded ashore. To a gentlemen who inquired the meaning of this strange proceeding, the old man said: 44 Ye see, we's Christians; leastways we believe in the Bible, but not in de church, because dere's more sin inside de church dan out. But we reads be Bible, and we concluded to baptize ourselves as subscribed by J ohn. w Washington Republic The Cant of politics is scarcely less reprehensible tfian its corruptions.

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