JVclvci'tiKinK TJntOH. The lanreand reliahle circulation fl the ' bia Knti rotnmenaa It to tb lvorl'l consideration of advertlsera )im favurs will l e inserted at the follow inic low rates : 1 men. 8 Mmes I IM 1 Inch, months 2 Ht 1 Inch,, months......... J.H I Inch I year 6 wi S Inches . t mouths...... . V Inches, I year 100 3 Inches. 6 tuonthf 8.0-1 I lorhea. I year 1 no i cola inn, 0 oonthi 10.06 V, column, tt months.. ...... i.uu column I year 3.V00 J column, t month i 40 K 1 column, I year 76.00 Business Items, tlrst Insertion, Kir. er line utcuent Innerllons. 6c. line Administrator's anil jUrem tor's Noticed , iO Auditor's Notices .m stray and similar Notices U 00 arKeolut ions or iir.tcetHllnt'S ol any oorj ra tion or society and conjUJUDI-atlons ueslarn.d to call attention to any matter ol limited or indl vidual Intercut mutt t-e aid !r as advertismenis. Kok and Job Print ln,t of all kinds neatly and eiediousiy executed at tbe lowest rlcet. And don'tjoo lorgct It. .CO" 1,"-'IH) ,ti r.. " ,,,,. --0 - '"' "'' ' i Kiii n. iiMi-ith. I.7.1 ! i in i; months. , ' '" ' 1 " uiiliui llio )e:ir.. Ii."! ,.( ,.,,1-tiie of ir county . r.- trir '", chanced to ' r, n ' . ,,f ,i ,,vo terms he le- " t" -' ''". ii ' .!on cnsul!. netr ;' ' , r I :' "' ., , iu.t not e , ,- 1 itinx as tnoe who '"'.' r ',, , i.'iiv uiMiTstol irons .. ' , ........ r." vim st.i tt. IT stop ,..jM .,, , ,o lierwlse. 1 ' . I,.,. ..Hurt, i JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. "HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.' 81. SO and postage per year In aJvance. VOLUME XXVI. EBENSKURG, PA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER I(. 1S92. NUMBER 40. I..-lWlli: 1 11 Lrrf! , . www OF CAMBRIA COUNTY ! raNSMAN'Sf ALTOONA, PA., n. iIh' largest selot-' ion ami Lest i.ri. .'.."i. . -I 1 1 : jlii III 3. Seeing- is Believing." J? rood lamf . :?t nc simple; when it Is? not simple it is !i pooii. 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Fair I"o, Reat Cix, Jld., mi) : With t) iii..l of Powell's Orrrn Iti; FVrtlllier lor ltilna, oil 1 lu-rf.i f iuimI, ho mix il l.:ai0 IhskIicIi t-mootli, v.ih-, t.i.l iMilutocM. Wlion i:Hiiti!y o rerlilizer ami quality l l:unl is . ..iisl.l. r.-.l, this Is liirv"'"! crop t.f H.t;.i i- r r:ii--.l In tli uorlil. Why iK-t ra. I. ii; i rcp.i of olatH;1 Wc'iiii I'll "i toilo It, and liow to p.- i-. t ICol l lllltilit. tsi.-u . two -it'ii'. t:iiii;' for lloolt Ol l J.-ltJCH. W 5. Powell & Co., Cheri:t ;tl l'crtilier Manufacturers, Baltimore. ld. Policies written at snort nolce In the OLD RELIABLE "ETNA" T.,hW. "DICK, UF.MT FOR THE Of. O HAItTFORO run: 11! I Till IV 11 1 .1 , iiMMKN'KI Hl'SlNfcSS 1704. Ktiensbnrn.Joiy "1.188a. Mountain House SUB SH1VI1E PARLOR! CENTRE STREET, EBENSBURG. ......w ii k ....... nml loni' eM.iMlahed Shaving 1 l'irlir is now locnled en fentre street i.- 1 ..I l.-ll.r-, 1 1:, vis a. I.lllh- HIS well liliown f.'l ini: ",t'"'-"m'"" iltl . . .i.i.tiahl imv inr Hart, lliivls I.H lll.e Ine liverv " . in in. AM must aril, lie manner. -- ' 7- " - .:.,--. I.'H.ICH sn'icii on n JAMIS II. 11 A NT. l'ro,rietor T. 1)ICAiT(KNKY-AT-I.AVV llHKNKUI'KO. I'BWSl A . . .Iran cltln lor I'en- srienai siisbu '" t cut. 'v INSURANCE (Ml T stun Kouuty, etc. IiURI A L PLACE OF (i I ANTS. Skeletons of an Ancient Race Un earthed in Indiana. Many Tradition llrooght ut l.y the 1)U covery Kvl.tenrfs of an Kxtlnct Trll) of Very Large Americana. A rioh archii'olorical find was rtoent ly unt'artlutl two niilt-s west of Cniw fonlsvillo in a jrravl pit along- tu It iurl olulTs of Supar onvk. Thus far twenty-live skeletons of Itmlxliiiimajrian stature have ln-en exhumed, ami the un Imryinir of these mammoth hones is still tfoinp n. This neeroilis of lonj a-ro is tilled with excited hunters of curios and scientific students from Wabash col lejre almost continually, and as soon as removed from the gravel their rattling1 Ixmes are carried away to Itecome part of departments of arch-usIojj-t which are Wing established all over the city. The last skeleton takn from the burial ground was a gigantic one. meas uring seven feet in length. The femur alone would prove that the skeleton was that of a giant, ami tr.e pelvic lxiiies are twice as large as those of an ordinary man. The grinning skull of the giant had a perfect set of teeth, not one cracked or din-ayed. and with an enamel as licautiful as polished marble. The I Mines were perfect in every detail, notwithstanding the fact that they must have liceii interred here for centuries. The entire absence of vegetable matter in. the soil and the perfect drainage would account for the preservation of the liony structure. Of the whole numln'r of skeletons thus far found only two indicate im mature development, the remainder rcjv resenting the framework of a race of men evidently extinct for centuries. This is certainly the first discovery of skeletons in which the characteristic development of giants has been ob served. It is thought by local scien tists that these ltones In-long to a tribe of alnirigines. but this theory cannot Ik' fully established by the material structure of the skeleton. Although no implements or orna ments were found buried with the Ixtnes, yet in close proximity many in struments of warfare and domestic utensils were found. They are mostly composed of stone, though some are composed of copper ami a few of shell and Ixme. The stone implements art" Hint spears and arrow heads, and appear to 1k wrought with exceeding great skill, l'otlcry is found in great abun dance. For many years specimens of these pots have been unearthed in this region, especial 13' along me ouiiks oi the creek. None of these skeletons was found in a separate grave, they lieuig for the most part piled together 111 one conglom erate mass. Ten were found in one place in close contact, facing the set ting sun, and arranged in a sitting posture. Many of the lxmes found farther down the hank, and in a soil in whii'li t here was more vegetable matter, crumbled to dust as s.xui as exposed to the atmosphere, and the symmetry of a single bone could not be distinguished. Many traditions have been brought out since this discovery One old set tler has called to mind the fact that fif ty vcars ago a tree was uprooted on this same spot, exjxising three skeletons of gigantic dimensions, anil as they were beneath the tree.it must have sprung up long after the bodies ere buried. lieu. Lew Wallace says he rememlx'rs the actions of a stranger who several years ago spent many months digging along the banks of Sugar creek in search of a gold spoon supjiosi-d to have lx'cn buried long ago when this part of the count rv was inhabited by savage trilx s, ami the owner of the land on which these remains were found calls to mind a tradition often related by his grand father that a Spanish treasure had Ix-en buried here in the long, long ago, when the country was a wilderness and Chi cago a barren waste of impenetrable swamps. The excavations are lieing continued, and it is thought that rich developments are in prosneet. for there is not a f.xitof the soil removed that does not contain some relic or grinning skull. FROM A llanklna; FATHER TO SON. not It in loll Where 1'tx.ltlona Are Here.lltitry. A queer east of family succession in & well-known financial institution of the city is told by the New York Daily Stockholder. Josiah Kisterltock. Jr., who is now the president of the City national bank, is the son of the former vice president, who was for many years an active spirit as a director also. The present ni-esideiit entered the bank asalxiy and he has filled every position. Joel Ctxik, the vice president, is a son also of a former director, says the l'hiladelphia li coord. William Potter, one of the active directors, is a son of Thomas I 'otter, who was for years, until his death, the president of the bank. Collins W. Wal ton, another director, is a son of Samuel S. Walton, who was connected with the institution for many years. Henry S. tirove, another dirts-tor. is a son of Con rat I S. I! rove, who, until his death, was also for many years a mt-mlx-r of the lxianl of directors. John Kisterlxx-k, another director, is the brother of the present president. William Henry Lex, another director, succeeded his father, Charles K. Lex, who was for a long ix-riixl solicitor for the bank, as well as a director. F. Oden Horstmann; another director, is the son of William 11. Horstmann, who was also identified with the institution fur a loug time. Italu (amlillnoj. "Uain gambling" is the latest vice to develop in India, and the police of Horn bay and Calcutta are just now vigorous ly at work prosecutitirr rain gamblers in the hx-al courts in an endeavor to show that the law includes this form of gambling. In Calcutta the "outfit" of the rain gamblers is in a street in the lturra ba.ar. Here into a small tank, four feet square and six inches deep, an ordinary spout discharges rain water from the r.xif of a three-story building. In gambling with this apparatus Ix-ts are made at the lx-ginning of the rainy season as to whether or not the tank will overflow at a given shower, to the extent the rain will overflow it when J the water sheets come tlown in proper Ironical style. It is alleged that on busy days in the bazar several lakhs of ruiH-es change hands. This is surely vice made easy for the lazy mau. I WHAT STUMP SPEECHES COST. CuifMilajn Orator I'altl from One Man ured, to One Thuuiand llollare a Week. These are the palmy days of the cam paign orator, and to the number of over two thousand he is now being heard throughout the laud. Many of these speakers, according to the In dianapolis News, are under the direc tion of the several state committees, but the movements of a large numlx-r are controlled directly by the national lxxlies. The memlcrs of the latter class are nearly all men of national re pute, and their efforts are confined in the main to the close and doubtful states. Committeeman William M. llahn, of Ohio, directs the movements of the speakers who lalxir under the auspices of the republican national committee, and Committeeman Hradley It. Smalley. of Vermont, those if the democratic seakers. Their txsk is neither an easy nor a pleasant one. Some orators decline to speak in small towns, and others of less extended fame insist upon In-ing scheduled for sjceches in Xew York and other large cities. Itut Ixith llahn ami Smalley are very successful in smoothing over these difficulties, in impressing; the different orators with the fields in which they can do the most g,xxl, and in persuad ing them to accept the assignment for which they have Ix-en scheduled. Formerly the cost of stump speeches was the largest itciu in a bill of cam paign expenses, but it is very different now. The great majority of campaign speakers, aside from their necessary ex Ieiises, receive no recompense for their services; those of the first class never do. Mr. Klainc has never Ix-en paid for his speeches, and the late Senator Conk ling not only refused pay for his services in a campaign, but always in sisted upon paying his own expenses, and was careful to take receipts there for. Still there are quite anumlx-rof attractive speakers who are not only paid, but well paid, for their speeches. Some receive one hundred dollars a week anil expenses, and a very few as high as one thousand dollars a week. There are not wanting those who make a business of campaign speaking and have no other regular means of sup jxirt. One speaker, a well-known ex congressiuan, has lx'cn employed for several years by the national commit tee of his party at a handsome annual salary. STILL HUNTING FOR GOLD. Ijuefr Life of an Argonaut Witt Contluuea to ll. 1'laeer Minim;. Along the strip of sealx-ach south of the -Ocean house, near San Francisco, there have recently sprung up several placer mining camps of primitive pat tern. One of the most unique charac ters alxuit the place is Abraham Wel lington I .trough, an original Argonaut, who has made and six-nt several for tunes in California, through has Wen styled the mayor of the beach com Iters, ami every possible title of authority in connection with the camp has Ix-en at tributed to him, despite the fact that he itt now said to !x "cradling" sand for the munificent stipend of fifty cents a day and "found." through is a queer sort of a genius. His hair has never tx-en outraged by the wanton snip of the scissors .luring the past half century. As a conse quence, the old man appears to lx- sev eral inches taller than he really is. lit is no dwarf, however, as without his hirsute crown he stands more than six feet high. Somehow or other through seems to have Ix-en conceded to lx- the bad man of the camp. Hi is an original forty -tuner, and since he first struck California he has Ix-en engaged exclu sively in gulch and gravel mining. through litis had many tips and tlowns in his career. His first mining e.x--rienee was at Yankee ISar on the middle fork of the American river. He was ex ceptionally fortunate with his claim and is said to have got more than one hundred thousand dollars" worth of the precious metal. This sxin slipped through his lingers and he once more shouldered his priN'x-ctiiig outfit and Ix-gan to search for another rich mine, which he found in due tune in Flacer county A second fortune came quick ly and went the same way. Since then llirough has never lxs-n able to "strike it rich." but even now, when he is work ing for fifty cents a day and Itoard, his "sjxirting blixxl" is as warm as of yore, and whenever pay day comes around In takes a trip to the city and returns to the camp "dead broke." A PRISON ROMANCE. Iiltemrri of a V l.l:iir llrt.ther Annul .l.til I iifi.ttt.. "I'm going to join the army and will be gone three years." Thus wrote a coiiiig man t- his dear old mother and .i.lt r. at home. The lx, says the 'alein Statesman, was under sentence . slate prison when he wrote the letter ;hat he sup.-scd would quiet all in oiiry as to his v. h.-realtouts. lie had x-. ii found guilty of forgery, and the judge in pronouncing" sentence upon .'nil gave him three years at hard lalx.r. This w as several months ago, and the ouiig man is by this time well ac-juui.-itcd with the monotonous routine f life in the Oregon state penitentiary. u a recent Sunday aftcnuxui a couple of young ladies, sisters, new arrivals in Salem, visited the prison. They arrived t late to lx admitted t the services, but were given seats in : he waiting room. At the first sound I'roni the choir they were interested, but as the music of the song tilled the hapel and resounded throughout the orii.lors, they recognitsl a familiar oun.l in the sweet-toned voice that arried the air. They advanced nearer to the chapel, impelled by they knew not what and glancing through the barrel do -.-; ree g!ii.'.e.t am nig the iii;.'. rs v. curing the stripes the absent brother whor.i they stip;osed to lx ..r iiiLf his country in the army. The re 'o;fuiti. .n v. as mutual and it was pit iful. Th-' t-h-K-k was more than the delicate nerves of the young women could 1 tear. Itut it is only ..lie incident of the many. The prison is full of sad romances and exix-ctations that are never realized. I ninety Color In China. x ..v Chinese superstition alxmt lucky and unlucky colors is one that foreign merchants must oltserve when they at tempt to m-11 their wares in China. The use of biack paxr as a wrapping for needles has militated against their sale in China. Illue must be esjiecially avoided on wrappers of gtxxls intended for the Chinese market, while red is auspicioua. - - HARASSED BY A NAME. Me;lnty Thinks of UUpoalna; of Ilia Fat. ronyutlc Very Cheaply. "I am sorely annoyed and harassed by a name," said a dapper little man with keen gray eyes and tierce mustache to a St. Louis Republic reporter. "I bear a name that for centuries has Ix-en borne with pride and that to my positive knowledge has never been disgraced. It is an honorable name and is associated with many of man's greatest achieve ments. And yet in these degenerate days of the comic-song writer and his arch-ot inspirator, the wandering min strel, my name is weighing tlown my ambitions and my hopes of prosperity and pttsterity. My name is Mctiinty Michael J. Metiiuty but not one man in fifty to whom I am introduced lte .ieves either my introducer or myself when with the most dignified solemnity we assure him that that is my real cog nomen. "I ha-e surrendered all hope of ever utilizing the telephone, for as soon as the man at the other end of the line asks me who it is that has rung him up and I tell him Metiinty he rails at me for disturbing him with my jokes and snappishly rings me off. I never at tempt to intrixluce myself to anyone as other men do, for I would only lx- con-" sidcred an iinjxtstor who was trying to disguise his identity for sonic sinister motives or a person entirely tto fresh. Alxuit the queerest experience that my naine has tx-casiotu-d me occurred last summer on one of those magnificent steaiiilxiuts that ply the Hudson. I joined a party of friends for an excur sion up the river. In the party was one of the most Ix-autiful young women I ever saw. I at once sought an introduc tion to her, and imagine my heartburns antl chagrin when I was intnxluced to Miss Itooney. 1 tried to relieve the em barrassment we lxth felt by my mak ing some jix-ular remark alxiut the sin gular coincidence, but Miss Itooney wouldn't have it. Her great, liquid eyes tilled with tears and she turned her back on me. All this may seem funny to you and other people, but I tell you the thing has gone so far that there is no fun in it to me." NEGRO WEALTH IN LOUISIANA. It la I .r.Mt Where- the NfnM Outnum ber the Wliltea anal Kun I'olitlca. A recent act of the legislature re quires that in making the assessment of the state the proix-rty of the whites and ncgnx-s shall lx; assessed separate ly, so as to determine the progress made by the latter and how much they contribute towards the negro schools; and with the design, possibly, that under certain circumstances the taxes paid by the negnx-s shall lx set aside for the public schools, and that paid by tlie whites for the white soh.xds. The assessments are not favorable to the negrtx-s. They show a total for the country parishes of only ,7'J:'."J.:7, to lx divided among half a million negnx-s, which gives 13.00 as the per capita wealth of each negro. The sehool tax on the pnqx-rty is only O'.iT, so that if the taxes should lx ap jxirtiontsl, as has Iteen proposed in sev eral stales, there would be barely t'M) in each parish for colored schools. Some of the parishes make an even worse showing. In Lafourche the av erage propx-rty tx-r negro is only $ in Assumption, also a rich sugar parish, the assessment is only -!.S7, the lowest in the state. In St. John it is IS. 1U, and St. Charles S-J.25. The last three parishes are all rich sugar parishes and have a large ma jority of negrxs, who control political affairs and elect all the hx-al officers, yet it seems that the negrtes are jtoorcr there than anywhere else in the state. In St. Tammany parish, however, where they are in a minority, they average fir2.-U apiece and own i5 per cent, of all the property in the parish, and in Cam eron, where the w hites are in an over whelming majority, the negrttes average f.:i.'ii k r capita. The assessments clearly prove that where the negnx-s are congregated in large lxxlies and are in a majority, no matter how rich the soil and whether or not they are in political control, they are comparatively jxxtr, antl that they are lx-st off where the whites outnum lxr them, although the soil is poorer. DRESSMAKERS' CHIN. If a Tailor Talked So to a Customer He Would .et Knocked I town. "I am not particularly vain. said a New York Itelle. "but when I leave the average dressmaker I am a mere abject smudge of myself. I know many a woman will lift up her voice with me over the way we are treated by the average dressmaker. We protest faint ly alxiut a wrinkle antuntt the shoulder. Well, j-ou see. madam, your left shoul der is so much higher than your right it is almost impos We flush antl say never mind. 'Then, of course, that style of sleeve needs a full arm. I should not have chosen that sleeve for you myself, and a person with round shoulders can't expect her back to set n-al straight, or "the present style is trying to a person of long neck, like yours. She admits the general effect of the gown is 'dumpy, but then you do incline to that build, and. of course, it can't be blamed on the dressmaker. "If your chest was fuller your dress would button more even. If the hips were regular the skirt wouldn't sag. You walk home wondering how you can tret along without crutches and thinking what a bad job nature made of you anyhow. WITH THE SPORTS. Two-ham. billiards is a game fast coining into favor w ith the experts. To count, a player must hit the object ball twice with the cue hall at each shot. A IIaptist church in England, in or order to induce cyclists to visit it, has pnivi.lod a safe shelter for bi'ycles. tit hers have set apart a "cyclists' pew. The French Kowing club, whose crew lately fo'at the crew of the Lon don Rowing club on the Seine, has only afoiut two hundred memlx-rs against the two thousand Iindoners. The polf championship this year, conducted by the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Oolfers, was won by an auateur, Mr. Hilton, another amateur, Mr. Itall, lxing second. All proruineut professionals but one played. It hack, the great cricketer, has joined the committee for the promotion of the athletic section of the new scheme for a periixlical l'an-l.ritannie gathering and ! Anirlo-Saxon Olympiad, when the ath- j letes of England, America and the English colonies will comite. AN ODD EXHIBIT. A Vessel Loaded with Curiosities from the Interior. Some Kara Old Kellea from lllxtorle ltattlefleltla antl Vegetable and Mineral I'rotlueta or Va rious State. The handsome schooner-rigged ves sel. City of Clinton, has arrived in Chi cago, after sailing tlown the Tennessee and up the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. laden with a fine exhibit of curiosities and stx-cimens f. ir the world's fair. The Ixtat was built at Clinton, Anderson county, up among the moun tains, and floated tlown the Clinton river to the Tennessee. The work of collecting' the cargo was a ditlicult one. Many curious and interesting war relics and mineral and wtxxl products were to lx- found, but the jx-ople wen loath to part with them. One piece of au old tree, on w hich Daniel !S tone cut his name in 1T."4. was only obtained aftera one thousand dollar fount h:ul Iteen signed for its safe return after the fair. The pnxlucts brought include specimens of granite. polished and rough, onyx, inm tire, corals, stalactite and stalagmite formations, and s une choice sjtecimens of southern wtxxls. These include black oak. maple, curly poplar, sassafras, curly chestnut, bla-.-k walnut, satinwixxl. mahogany and gopher wixxl, such as built Noah's ark. There are also some rare old relics from the battlefield of Chiekamauga whittle trces.old bits and exploded shells. There is the pistol and hat of .hx Will iams, the notorious moonshiner, with thirteen holes in it a hole for every man he shot. TheCityof Clinton is a graceful sailing craft, sixty feet ten inches in length, by seventeen feet four inches lx-am. with masts ami sails that can lx lowered on deck when not required. The interior is elegantly fitted up and paneled in choice w-iNtds. Capt. Kettes and a foiy named .Ix Coyle sailed the vessel alone and kept up canvas for one thousand nine hundred miles of the voyage. The other three hundred miles were made by towing. PRISONS FROM ALL NATIONS. They Will He I llut rxte.1 In the Itureau t.f Charltiei ai.tl Correction. Not the least interesting study at the world's fair will lx the exhibit in the lilx-ral arts department under the di rection of Superintendent liosenau. of the bureau of charities and corrections. To the great majority of mankind it can lx' happily said that the convict's cage and the dark prison walls of so called houses of corre-'tion arc like bad dreams antl vague nightmares. The life of the French galley slave as seen through the lines of Victor Hugo's "Los M iserables" is a picture that can never lx- effaced from the mind of a sympathetic reader. The very name bridewell. Tombs or penitentiary carries with it a feeling of dread and the thought of punishment rather than that of correction or charity. Man is advancing, however, and his ideals, if not his actions, are approa hing nearer to the time of universal brotherhood. In developing the exhibit of penology it is the aim of Mr. liosenau to show the advancement made with the growth of civilization from the days of early history down to the present time: ad vancement in the manner of handling truant memlters of seicty. Visitors to the fair can take their choice Ix twi-en burning at the stake, which seems since the discovery of fire to have Ix-en the favorite method of capital punish ment up to the time ('hula I'kke made the first nipe. or fo-ing elect n touted after the manner if Kemmler. It's all the same thing in the end. Illustrations f prison cells in Silx-ria will lx placed side by side with those of Jolict and Sing Sing. JAPANESE ATTRACT ATTENTION Curious Crowd Watrhiue the Workmen from the I.aiid of the Mlkad.t. The Japanese workmen who are building the Japanese village tin the north end of the island within the world's fair grounds attract a great ileal of attention fmm the visitors. There are eighteen mechanics from the land of the mikado and a civil engineer. They have the framework for the vil lage all in place. Right in the center of the projvtsotl village is a short pole with a bunch tif rice patter strips float ing from it. When the men Ix-gan to work they wont through a cere mony to drive awav the evil spirit from their lafoirs. Thermic with the papers is intend. si to divert his attention from the mechanics in case he should wander a rou ii. 1 then. The Japs evidently saw an American level for the first time : the fair grounds. They have not Vet tired of admiring the way in which the imple ment intlieates whether a surface is level or plumb. The head carpenter got hold of it and placed it under a fox. Then he ordered one of the men to put ohijts underneath the ends of the Ixtx until the level indicated that the foix presented a level uptx-r surface. Then he carefully scrutinized the result anil stniled all over to see how easily the level did the work. For nearly an hour he kept testing it on everything at hand. Some A or tent Industrie. Wiokerwork. demanding strength of muscle, skill in construction and marked touches of lx-auty in the details of finishing, was a business of great m ment ifi the past ages in I'.ritain; to it the artisans t if the period gave earnest thought. The dwellings of their 111 -11-archs, their so-called palaces, were planned and ab"- completed by the wiokerwork builders, and to them was given the fashioning of warriors' shields and the construction of war foiat-s and eanites; and here another industry was brought into requisition the prepara tion of the skins of animals essential for the covering of these small ships, for everything must lx taut and trim, ready to battle with tx-ean's waves. The Way They Wash in Japan. Washing was and is still done in Jap an by getting into a foat ami letting the garment drag after the foiat by a long string. It is an economical habit of traveling Japs to get a large amount of washing thus aooomplished by a steamboat excursion, and has given rise to the story that they travel to wash up oni-e a year. They have no instinct for laundry work, like the Chinese, and think it complete when the soap is in the garment, and will not. wring- it out. Salt water washes to their taste just as well as fresh. AN OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. The I'laee- In New York Where the Kelles of I'nknowu -Men Are Kept. When a person who hasn't a known legal heir dies in this city his clTects are handed over to the public adminis trator under the law and are retained by thatoflicial until the city's right to disjtost of them is made olear, says the New York Advertiser. The storehouse is a three-story brick building directly opposite the site of the old sugar house that played such an important part in the early history if the 1'liited States. One part t.f the building is used as a depot by the lire department. If there is an old curios ity shop anywhere in New York city it isin 5 I luane street. The two ti.x'rs of the building are jammed full of person al effects. Some t if the things arc prac tically without value and some an strange articles that might have "mil lions in them." A nutntx-r of poverty stricken inventors have died in New York in the last few years. In nearly every instance they were men well ad vanceil in years who had iived alone and won unknown outside an exceed ingly limited circle. Their relatives, if tlu-j had any. were distant cousins, whose wherealxMits were unknown and w hose existence was tx-rhaps in doubt. Nearly all of these men left scanty wanlrotx's. a small amount of money, a few- lxtoks and usually a model of some thing which they had hotx-d would as tonish the world and secure fcrthem unlimited means and great lion. .r. With their death died the idea. The nnxlels in every instance proved to lx unique mechanical devices, but of no value lx-yond that which the wheels and springs and other contrivances were worth if retiioveiL If some of the old-fashioned clx-ks or quaint pictures that have Ix-en stored in the Duatie st reet building could but speak they might tell some interesting talcs of long-lost brothers and men w ho were the last of their race. CHURCH FOLK OF THIS LAND. Catholic Most Numt-rou, Iilseop'tlian Wealthiest. Illtk Mot lint liuM-otic. Charles S. Knell, chief of the sixth division tit" the l'nit-d States census, is h Hiking up delinquent churches w h' ise statistics arc cither incomplete or mi satisfactory, lie slated that the oi"!icial bulletin of the verified count of church memtx-rship has not yet ix-en published. I'lMin then- points he made the follow ing statement: Twenty millions of people in this country art mmunieants and l.OiKMHitl are in religious foxlios but not commu nicants. The Catholic denomination heads the list, wi'h a memfo-rship of (I, 'J "n. m i in the ten foxlies of the church in tin- I'nitod States. The Methixlist-.. with eight branches or foxlios. four of which are colored, follow with a mem bership of 4.IM0.U.HI in round riumix-r-. Then conic the Kaptisls. with eleven branches and :'.,.iini.dui. indu-ivo of the colored people. The remaining IV. de nominations arc of varying strength in memfo-r.-hip and wealth, 'i hero are thirteen I 'reslc, terian foxlios. with an aggregate memfo-rship of l. JTs.-The Episcopalians arc in the nc ighfoirhtMid of ",;),). itiio. but. as these figures arc un ofiicial. I cannot give them as correct. The Episcopalians arc the wealthiest by far. per capita, as they have prop erty of the value of s7::.lM)Uiit: the Catholic denomination. ?! sT.o-i(t.(i:M); the M.-tlnxlists, .'".. mm. (miii; the l'resbv-tt-rians. '..-.(imi.i(m. Not one of the I'nitod I'rosbvtorian churches had a debt upon it. Rt ii' ion lias a string hold upon the Ci.iKKl.ll.iO ei il. ire.l x-- iple in this country: over a million are in foith the Methodist and Kaptist chui hos." HOW After ai TO MAKE WOOD PULP. K.xha.ut.1 1 e I'leklltitr Proees a Cohoite Jl.in I 1'roilut'i-il. The utilization of w.xxl pulp has lately taken some new and interesting forms, especially in the lino of orna mentation, says the New York Sun. The pulp is taken as it comes from the mill, and after fo-ing first fully dried, or not. as circumstances may require, it is immersed in an indurating pick'..-, so called, w it h c 1 -ring if desir.il. This pickle is composed of any com pound or solution capable of indurating the mass, and, after the mat. -rial is taken out of the pickle and thoroughly tlriod. it is run through a mill and ground sufficiently tine to insure a mix ture of the particles which have not alt-sorlx-d the indurating substance with the particles which are fully hardened. The jvow.lercd pulp is then compressed, with the application of heat, in a mold or die. with the result of producing an article of manufacture composed of a homogeneous and cohesive mass of thoroughly indurated particles, and the objects prixluced in this manner may lxi polished or otherwise improved in their appearance, aeoording us may lx desired. OF ROYAL BIRTH. Dt'CHKsS pa Mioti-kssikh, sister of Queou Isabella, is a groat grand-mother at .Vi. CJrKEN YTctokia's new dining-room at Osfoirue cost IIOO.IMKJ. She paid for it herself. Ant- Ht KAit, the sultan of Johore, who will visit the world's fair next sea son, is afomt '' years of age, a man of progressive views and worth about CJ(1,(KX),(KH. MaKiii is (Ii iccioi.i. the new Italian ambassador at Kerlin, is a grand nephew of the Ix-autiful Countess (iuiecioli. the friend of Ityron. The marquis was formerly mayor of Rome. Tiik t-7-.ir is said, on what Iondon papers quote as the authority of his English physician at St. IVtersburg, to have lately grown thin and nervous. There is nothing bracing a..d fatten ing alxiut fo-ing the czar of Russia. THE FIRST. Tiik Kabylonians first divided the hour and minute into sixty parts. The first foxik imported from Europe was brought over by John Sabiu, of l'hiladelphia. Aueziki Ai.iiamdai.i saj-s coff.e was first made known as a beverage in S70 of the Hegira. AniiAllAM presented his son's wife with a pair of earrings, the first of which then is historic mention. The first rail road to use the steam locomotive regularly in this country was the South Carolina railro:id in Tin: first French newspaper, the tJazottede France, was started in K:U by Thcophrastc Rciiaudot. He also established the first Mont de I'icte. IN FAR-AWAY LANDS. The public executioner of Paris, M. Diebler, has guillotined -J ix-rsons. Le Yoi.Kru (the thief) is the name of a now popular weekly pajx-r started in l'aris. Houses an so plentiful in Kneiios Ay res that evoryfoxly owns at least one. It is said that even the fo-ggars fo-g tin horseback. l'Altis has s7.r..'i.'i trees in its streets, and each tree represents a cost to t In city of thirty-five dollars. This makes, in round numtxTs. throe million dollars worth of trees in the streets. Tiikkk is a curious snake (Hydraci ycti) in South Africa that lives wholly upon birds' eggs. It has no teeth or sighs tif tooth in its mouth, the whole dental arraj- fo'inr hx-atcd in the st imai-h. The first icecream venders in Eng land were Neapolitan 'x-asantry of the piH.rest I.V1H-, but the venders now come from all parts of Italy, many fo-ing na tives of the most remote country dist ricts. The native Australians have a weapon which is called a "wuhinera." It is a straight stick, hollow at the end, in which is placed the handle of a dart. The dart is thrown, but the stick re mains in the thrower's hand. Is. une of the ancient temples of Egypt, known to fo more than four thousand years old. the stones win dow clod together with hour glass shaped ties of the Timarish or Shittim wixxl, the dowel sinks fo-ing only afomt one inch deep. LONDON NOTES. Cioais stults bring afomt a shil.ing a pound in London. The streets of London arc oh-ani-d tx'tween eight in the evening and nine in the morning. Many of the carriage ways are washed daily by moans tif a hose, and the courts and alloys inhab ited by the in Hirer classes are cleaned once a day. A l.lc.HT breakfast in London means, to an Englishman, n cup tif eoffee, a foiiled egg and throe slices of toast. The breakfast sul-stantial is a small chop, one egg, a x-nny-loaf of bread, a buttered muffin and a cup tif eoffee. Tin: London Daily Telegraph is the most valuable new.spaix-r property in London, and is said to net its proprie tors a profit of over half a million dol lars a year. And yet when it was first started every other paper said it would Ite a dismal failure. Is the Kritish patent office, where of all places in the world one would ex pect to find things ordinarily widl "up to date." the steel pen is unknow n, and the antedeluvian gHise-quill absolute and supreme. Verily, the ways of gov ernment officials arc not as other men's! A Loxixix woman we'd known in so ciety opened a curiosity shop. One day a friend came in and left an umbrella which had cost fifty shillings. He re turned to find the handle of it in the window lafo-led: "Antique Venetian silver umbrella mounting, 10 guineas." BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Wim.iam I). IIowei.i.s. the novelist, is afomt to take up a residence in Italy, it is stated. John Jh.eexi.eaf Wiiittier was a shoemaker in his youth, and one, as re sults show, who was t-xt smart to fol low the advice of an antiquated adage. Sivce Dickens' death the firm of Chapman A Hall have sold ill.'i.lioo copies of "I'ickwick." The profits on Dickons' works still amount to afoiut i lo.ootJa year. M. Zola has just received the highest price ever paid in France for the serial rights of a novel. The sum is ufoiut thirty-otic cents a line, a total amount tif ?7,(K, and is paid for Zola's new story, "Dr. rascal." "Al'XT Avne." the peculiarly clever novel by Mrs. W. K. Clifford, afomt which all London is talking, is w hat may lx- called emphatically u woman's foxik. It is the sort of bright realistic story which makes people laugh and cry as they read it, and which sets the ball of conversation rolling briskly. A Fiu.K library of ten thousand vol umes has lx-cn recently opened at Kanxla. India, by Shrimant Sampatrao Uaikwar, the brother of the Maharajah t.aikwar. Seven thousand of thefoxiks are in English, the rot-t in Sanscrit, Merathi and Ouzcrati. and it is the first free library in any native state in India. FREAKS OF INVENTORS. An ingenious Indianianhas invented a plow in which an auger or screw mold Ixiard is operated by means tif a drive w heel in the rear. Ax automatic match igniter is n re cent novelty. You pull a lever, a match travels along a roughened surface and is then thrust out of an opening already ignited. A 1'ASsAtc inventor has devised a novel projectile, which is rilled to corn-six md to the foire tif the gun. The gnxives are provided with Ix-aring pii-ces to diminish friction. A Koston inventor has invented a strainer for mixed drinks, consisting of a circular plate, around the circum ference of which is a spiral spring. The coil forms the strainer, w hich is remova ble at w ill. lieneraptileal Name. Silteria signifies "thirsty." Sicily is "the country of grapes." Caledonia moans "a high hill." Asia signifies "in the middle," from the fact that an cient geographers thought it fo-twecn Europe and Africa. Italy signifies "a country of pitch." from its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Hifo-r-nia is "utmost" or "last habitation," for fo-yond this to the westward the l'hicnicians never extended their voy ages. I'.ritain is "the country of tin," great quantities fo-ing found in it. The Creeks called it Albion, which signifies cither white" nr. high," from the whiteness of its shores or the high nx-ks tm the western coast. Kostou C. 1. dte. The Value ot Word. First Customer Have you any flow-er-jxits? Dealer Here are some Royal Dusen-fo-ry, only fifty cents each. (Exit cus tomer. ) Second Customer Have you any jar dinieres? 1 Valor W'e have a fine line of Royal Dusenltery from thirty-seven dollars up. St'eond Customer Show a fifty-dollar one. The Jewelers' Circular. in
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