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EXPLOSIONS IN A MISSOURL COAL
MINE. ~—FORTY DEAD BODIES
TAKEN OUT AT LAST AC
COUNTS,
Kansas City, Mo., March 20,
‘The following despatch has just been
ceceived from Rich Hill: About 4
o'clock this afterncon there
rumbling sound in Mine No. 8, at this
place, and a moment afterward a fear.
ful explosion, that entirely wrecked the
mine and buried in the debris over a
nundred miners, who were cut off from
all means of escape.
Up to the hour of sending this des-
patch 40 bodies have beeu taken out
and at least 15 more are expected to
have mét a similar fate, The superin-
tendent of the mine was taken out bad-
ly injured, but will survive. In the
terrible excitement and confusion it is
impossible to give a list of names or
even an estimate as to the extent
over 50 men were killed.
Later.— The mine is situated eight
miles distant from the town. There
total losa of life will reach sixty men,
Rich Hill is located in Da es county
100 miles south of Kansas City, on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad.
centre of a coal mining district,
Before dark
The fire explosion oe-
curred at 12.10 P. M., killing 20 or 39
men. Superintendent Sweeney and his
assistants immediately began the work
up to 4.30 had succeeded in saving 15
en, when a second explosion occurred,
involving Superintendent Sweeney aud
his aids, The fire was terrific, shoot»
ing out from the top of a 270-foot
shalt like a great furnace.
Farther effort to save
hopeless, and as hundreds
women and childrens
the burning shaft, the ecene became
heartrending in the extreme.
At 9 o'clock to-night another ex-
plosion was ‘momentarily expected, as
the flames were almost within reach of
of men,
of powder. The mines belonged to
the Keith & Perry Coal Company, and
were inspected about two months
aro,
—_-
~The funeral services over the re
mains of Chief Justice Waite were
held on the 23th in the Capilol in
Washington presence of a
uished assemblage, including the
resident and Cabinet, both Houses of
Congress, the Judiciary,
Corps and army and navy
in
officers,
service, After the cerem
on a special
fer
commities
and seat to Toledo, Ohio,
train, accompanied by ti
Lhe
of deceased.
—The Leavy rain
vailed in Kansas City, Missouri, on
the 24th and 25th caused a land-shide
on the bluff facing the Union Depot,
For 1500 feet the entire b
storm which
3
i
irresistible agency, hundreds of tons of
rock and earth sliding down the sleep
hillside. Along the face cf the biuff,
about half way from the base to the
top, is a ledge about 30 feet 1n width,
on which are a number of shanlies
This ledge is now seamed wilh
length, and houses are Llilled in every
direction. The residents were com.
pelled to flee for their lives,
yards, the whole face of the bluff may
leading East and North from the city,
effectually stopping railway traffic in
those directions, also blocking Blafi
street, which is the main road from the
Union Depot to Lhe main portion of
the city
~—Ward has been received in Kansas
City, Missouri, of the destruction of
the little town of Ninpescab, Kansas,
on the evening of the 24th, by a tor-
pado, It struck the town from
southwest and left only three houses
standing. Two churches, five stores
and 15 dwellings were torn to pieces,
and the flying timbers killed three per-
sons and maimed 17 others,
tims are: Mra, J, O. Williams with her
infant, killed; George S. Hardesty,
killed: James Williams, both legs bro-
Xen and severely bruised, will probably
Jie; Charles Gordon, injured in the
back, supposed to be fatally. The
others injured have only minor hurts,
~There was a storm of unusual seve-
rity throughout Nebraska, on the 26Lh,
The fruit trees and young timber were
all’ ‘heavily lozded with ice and sleet,
Winter grains nre thought to be In.
fured, and the outlook for fruit in the
State Is poor. A severe sleet storm
prevailed on the 26th in Northern Ilh-
aos and Iowa, covering everything
with jce. At Chicago the storm
changed on the morning of the 26th to
a heavy rain. Great damage to the
wheat and fruit crops is feared. A
wind and hail storm swept over Bolivar
county, Mississippi, on the evening of
the 25th, doing much damage Lo the
planting interests. Trees were up
rooted and many fences destroyed.
~The United Btates Treasurer has
adopted a new seal for use on U. 8,
notes and certificates. It is similar in
large one used on the old
$20 note, with the addition of a small
lace border, with many points, in geo-
. jathe work. It is light pink in
color, circular in form and nearly two
inches in diameter. Heretofore a sepa-
‘rate seal was used on’ notes and goid
Mrs. John Sessum. Y)octors were sun-
of danger. Mrs, Sessum said she had
not been living with her husband for a
year; that on the morning of the 20th
he came to the house, and, going to the
| kitchen, dropped something into the
coffee, which the children subsequently
drank.
arrested.
-Puring a tight
Texas, on the evening
Davis Green, colored, shot and badly
wounded Arthur MceDow a prominent
white man. Other parties then drew
revolvers and shot Green dead, Dur-
ing the fusilade Dennis Winslow, a re-
| spectable colored man, was accidentally
shot and killed,
at Eagle
of the 26th,
— Bertha Wise, a cook in a restaur-
ant in Pitsburg. was killed on the 27th
by Frank Liddell, employed at the
same place, Liddell was shooling rats
| with a parlor gun, when the woman,
who was fust coming in the room, was
struck bv a ball which entered her
heart. The shooting was accidental.
— The house occupied by Thomas
Bull, storekeeper and postmaster In
Orilla, Ontarto, was burned on the
evening of the 26th. His three child-
| ren, ag perished in the
i lames, s hh Mrs, Peter Der-
| tine, in Dathurst, New
| was burned
2? andl mM
oO BUG Oy,
ouse ol
du
{| two girl
to death.
| Morrill,
Years, were
breaking through
| rimae river, at Salisbury Point, Mas-
gachusetts., The boiler of Luce's saw
| mill, at Cookeville, Tennessee,
{ on the h. killing three men and in
1
aged 13 and 11, were burned
Harry Worthen and Lewis
aged respectively 7 and ©
drowned on the 27th by
]
»
=i Li,
|
dens,
have been sentenced to be banged on
May 18th. The trial of the Christian
county ‘‘Bald Knobbers’” for the
Edensgreen murder was resumed on
the 28th, William Stantey, one of the
indicted men, was taken into court and
withdrew his plea of not guilty and en-
second degree,
— Frederick Markley, a farmer, near
He had a life interest in the
to go to his
financial re-
was
Ile had met with
for
his children.
-—-Mrs Nicholas Fagan, residing, n
a tenement on East Forty-ninth street,
New York, went out for a short
house, During her absence the place
caught fire and Maggie was burned to
It is
ed that her recover is doubtful,
supposed that the litt
lof Cincinnati, was struck
by a train on the Union Pacific
| road, in Omaha, Nebraska, on
Some persons sald he threw
on the track. Hiram
tail
| 27th.
| himself
Fossen,
{and kiuled onthe 27th on the
| sylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, at
| Manayunk. Michael Di
| both Lis bands blown off on the 27th
{ by & premature explosion of a blast in
a quarry at General Wayne, Penna,
-— An explosion Stick-
pey’s powder factory near
{ New York, on the 27th, ‘lwo work-
| men were blown to atoms. At the spot
| where the mills stood there 183 now
hole big enough to bury a house in,
occurred at
ry
4
i
i
in C
{or
hicago
several
—1t I8 reported
Thomas E. Clark,
iperintendent
101 ie LCHIsOn,
Fe
embezzling
YOAr
tion 1
Santa s been arrested
for company’s
He would pocket money, it is sald, and
returned false receipts, showing that it
had been spent in censtruction work,
$5000 are mis and it is
feared that bis thefts will reach a much
larger sum,
NE,
—The Governor of New Jersey on
a respite for four
weeks to George Dunham convicted of
—Willam D. Poole, ex-Chiefl Deputy
U. 8, Marstall at Boston, was on the
20th, indicted on a charge of embezzle-
and rendering false accounts.
about $35,000,
The Grand Jury ex-
| has been 7.77
| record there
time, The
inches, the heaviest on
for the same period of
Alabama river h
3
{ 30 hours, Trains on the Western and
and the Montgomery and Eufaula
| railroads have been at toned, and
there 18 much interrupll travel on
other roads,
— despalch from Als
| ta, received on the 27th, stated
| had been snowing there incessantly for
| 36 hours, There are two feet of snow
{on alevel., All railway travel is sus-
i pended, The storm is said have
been general in Central Dakola, Word
{ has been received in SL
sota, thah the little town of Reville, 1
Gra county Dakota, is complet
blocked in, and that in some cases
: people are breaking up their furnit
for fuel, Northern Wisc
Minnesota have been visited
severe storm. Over a fool:
of snow fell and drified
St. TVaul and Duluth
road that has managed
through on time,
—A telegram from Mackinaw Cily,
Michigan, reports an ‘‘easterly bliz-
zard,”” with the snow badly drifting,
and a probability that trains will t
layed, From present Indications
n, Dako.
$a
Wi
$
Te
ile
t
is the
VO
we des
the
| before the fire of May.
covers nearly the
the piled ice, which
20 feet high.”
whole strait, 1s from 5 to
| ~The boller of a locomolive attached
{to u train on the New York and New
Snow, A man who
registered as N, J. Wilson, of Orleans,
indiana, took a room in a hotel in
2 He
It
Wilson
county,
day in
34
3
of Scoit
Indiana, for many years, One
had
He
stolen from
WAS never
he
$100,000.
~A telegram from Dirmi
save the great rain storm
bridges have been washed
on the railroads sus-
despateh from Augzusta,
igham,
A
in that section, and the upper Carolina
tributaries of the Savannah river are
The lower part of
flooded and the rives is still
Augusia is Hi
rising.
I'he rapid rise in the Mississippi river
threatens East St. Louis with a 8
For this season of the year the river is
unuspaliy high. An engine and several
fint cars on the Tavior, Dasirog
Houston Rail i
near
W. 8 Tayk
Killed and six
dangerously.
British
went ashore at
and will p
her cargo.
fi HH
25h.
— The
which Nantucket, has
sunk,
with One of
| morning of the 25th at North Manches-
ter, Connecicutl,
Fireman Bogle were killed. The
gine had been condemned, and on
28th was the last day it was to run.
{ Peter Maguire and Wm. Drendinger
were run over and Killed by a passenger
| train at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylva-
nia, on the evening of the 25th, They
were walking on the track. - A Toledo,
Wabash and Western freight train ran
on the Michigan Central Railroad at a
crossing near Burnsides on the evening
of the 27th. The sleeper was de-
railed and smashed up, and several
cars of the freight train were de-
molished, Six persons were taken
from the wreck of the sleeper, five of
whom were injured, though not danger-
ously, A prémature explosion of pow-
der took place on the 28th at James
Findiay’s mine, at Ritlenhousé Gap,
25 miles from TNeading, Penna, A
pumber of men were injured, Louis
Roeder, Patrick Reilly and James Hen-
singer severely.
Gen. Wm. H, Noble, a lawyer
and pension agent, was arrested at
Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the 25th,
on the charge of forwarding to Wash-
ington fraudulent affidavits to secure a
pension for Mrs, Annie Smith, of
Hempstead, Long Island. George
Smith, son of the alleged pensioner,
was also arrested for being a party to
the fraud, More than two years ago
CO. 8. Eaton, of Auburn, Maine, disap-
red, after having raised avout
000 by forged endorsements, He ro-
turned on the 27th to attend his father’s
oo 2 tam ay 28 yon:
. Ww years,
clerk in the wholesale dry goods house
of Burnham, Stoepel & . In De-
troit, was arrested on the 28th for
stealing goods from the firm, He ad-
mits having taken $200 worth, but
thelts to theamount of aver $1000 have
been discovered, and the total is ex-
pected to exceed $3000. He had been
employed by the tirm about a year,
==Taiteick. Dalyy hijod 43 YOATS, WAS
shot dead by H. « Thorman In a
drunken quarrel in Chicago on the
morning of the 28th, The *“‘Bald
"J, Matthews, Wm, Walker
and Wiley Matthews. who were noni.
; Fos
of the 28h.
cargo of sugar,
Standard Refinery, of Boston, and in-
sured at city. The steamer Saale,
from York for Bremen, which
in the lower bay at New
York on the 28th, was floated on the
morning of the 20th. The steamer De
loyter, from Antwerp via Boston,
on Homer Shoal, in New
York Bay on the morning of the 200h,
but was floated without damage. A
The Canonbury had a
consigned
.
AEW
the steamer Tity of Cleveland opened
navigation there on the 20th by makiog
a tripto Cleveland. She arrived at the
ce.
~The floods in Dakota are inecreas-
The flat near Jackson is over
flowed to a depth of several feet, and
some stock has been lost, Near Jeffer-
gon the settlers have been driven from
the lowlands, A great gorge is form-
ing near Yankton, and serious trouble
is feared when the weather grows
warmer. ‘The people living opposite
the mouth of the Big Rioux river,
above Sioux City, Towa, are leaving
their homes because of a flood. A
great gorge al Cottonwood Hill causes
the rouble. A tremendous rainfall
and heavy floods are reported through.
out Alabama. The Coosa, Warrior
and Tennessed nivers are especially
high, and the overflow of the last.
named river has caused $100,000 damage
to the Mussel Shoals Canal near
Florence, A train, which left Mout-
gomery for New Oileans, on the even:
ing of the 27th, was compelled to re-
turn. The only railroad open from Mont
gomery was the Louisvilleand Nashville,
northward, A despatch from Atlanta,
Georgia, says reports from all parts of
the State show that the enormous rain-
fall %of the past week has resulted in
damage to railroads and farming
interests, At Anniston, Alabama, on
the 28th, all the raidroads had aban.
doned their trains, and trafic was en-
tirely stopped. Many bridges had been
washed away, and two children were
drowned a short distance from the ety,
The rain is still falilog in torrents
A despatch from Tin, Ohio, says con-
tinuous rains for 48 hours have caused
the Bandusky river and its tributaries
to overflow their banks and thousands
of acres are su . Mechantesburg,
a portion of Tiffin, is flooded, and the
are using boats for communicat-
portions,
— -
~Harry Painter, of
of Sullivan, Maine, were found dead
in bed in a room at the Keystone
Hotel at Reading, Penna.,, on the
morning of the 30th, they having
blown out the gas. They were about
80 years of age, and Wilkinson had
been working at Monocacy for some
time in a granite quarry operated by
Painter. The bodies of two men,
supposed to be victims of the recent
blizzard, were reported washed ashore
on the 50th on the river bank at Wil
mington, Delaware. Three little child-
ren perished by the burning of a house
near Macon, Missouri, the 350th,
during the temporary absence of their
parents, Harry Lovell, a
on
electric
in
30th, by an
experimenting
on the
while
works of an
Mrs, . Maria Boshoski, aged 45 vears,
was killed by a railroad train at Kings
oth, while her to church.
John .
torr In
on way
Joston, accidentally shot
on the 30th,
the head of a steer which
Crray
and striking O'Harra In the head.
the
Life drunk on morn
§ $ oe
Christ i i
ing
hot and probably fatally wounded Mis
Downey, his Ww, :
York, His wife had tak
I ther on account of his
Her md
A south bou
‘
mother-in- in NM
negiect
and cruelty, In
train on the Delaware [ail
morning of the 30th ran the
track at Woodside, fifty-two miles
low Wilmington; and crashed
car Joaded with pig iron, which stood
on a siding. The engine and four cars
were wrecked, but no person was injure.
ed, An examination showed that the
switch lock had been broken and 1
signal light extinguished, al
parent intention being to wreck the
south bound Norfolk Express, A 1
iving the name of 5)
Id, was arresled
,
uiity.
vad
Of
main
ie
3
116
Hone
2
-- AL Chicago on the y
Helzke, recently sentenced to be
for haviog wlipped hisson to
with a strap, was grante new
on condition that he ple
plea of guilty was entered, and
WAS AL Once & imprison
for life,
-Workmen, in
stone dwelling at Piqua,
JUL scovered the bon
ildren, evideutly from
f age at the time of deat
nurder mystery, and tradi
hildren, who were hells t
fortune, disappeared
wuse and all trace was
Years ago.”
oy
1 a
ad guilty.
SOY pest
sentenced WO
5111s
remodelling
d
|
LALY
-The latest reports of
plosi mn at Rich Hi ba
that not more than 4
mine al Lhe Lime,
taken ont alive,
jured,
ted, and nine
.
of the in)
expected 10 recover.
A wells
}
oer
iressed
who gave name
lared
’
wining of the Lh,
murder her sister Lizzie
New York, |
1 wound Hobinson
tel, A report from
ouri, says that J. V.
cked themselves in a room after
“th
S145 chad
Foungesi ’
flan!
WAS
Chil
(21d
LH ea
i
and
WT licothe,
sbably [atal
thre 13
throal «
resaiis,
Gillespie being shot
wife having ber:
from ear 10 ear.
ty
bs
almost
Tie Comptroller of the Currency
on the 30th authorizel the Nationa
Bank of Commerce, of Iluteh
Kansas, to begin business with a capi-
tal of $100,000, The Nort
Railroader, ¢f Minneapolis, estimnates
the loss to the railroad companies
through the Western rate war
ended, at $15,000,000,
neon
eslera
~The sudden melting of the snow
and heavy rains during the past week
have caused floods In the country
around Detroit, Michigan. About 700
acres of lind have been overflowed, and
sixty brid ges washed away. The flood
in the Sioax river, lowa, caused by the
great ize gorge at ils mouth, continues,
and Zoe submergence of the Jowlands is
imereasing. The Missouri river has
fallen about a foot. The lower portions
of Columbus, Mississippi, are flooded
by the rise in the Tombigbee river, and
have been abandoned by the inhabi-
tanta, The floods in Alabama are sub-
siding and it is thought all the rail
roads will be in full running order by
the 1st. The Atlantic and the Great
Southern road was the only railroad at
Birmingham not blocked on the 20h.
A loss of four lives in different parts of
the State is reported.
50th CONGRESS.—~First Session.
CL ————————. ——
BENATE,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 26th, bills
were reported to perfect the guaran-
tine system of the United States, and
for the admission of Montana into the
Union. Mr, Cullom from the Come
mittee on Territories, reported (unaui-
mously) resolutions dec it the
sense of the Senate that the
of Utah ought not to be admitted into
the Umon as a State until the practice
gamy has been entirely aband-
its inhabitants, and until it is
that the civil affairs
ver bullion and the issuing of colin cers
tifigates therefor,
Senate went into executive session and
when the doors were reopened and-
journed,
In the U. B, Senate on the 27th, a
bill was reported to aid State homes
for soldiers, The Bond Yurchase bill
came up a8 unfinished business, the
pending question being on Mr. Stew.
art’'samendiment authorizing the deposit
of gold or silver bullion and the issue
of coin certificates therefor. Notlees
of further amendments were given by
Messrs, Reagan and Beck, and the bill
went over. It was agreed that for the
remainder of the week bills on the cai-
endar should be considered, After an
executive session the Senate ad-
lourned.
In U. 8S. Senate on the 20th, Mr.
| Dawes introduced a bill, which was re-
1
the
reservations, A
of bills were taken from the
| dians on the various
| number
bill
303s f
§ L301 OF
il
ABS0C1a~
Adjourned,
aid of the Centennial
Valley Forge.
HOUBE,
from
approprialing
of
iicuse on the 26th a bill
was passed
e funeral expenses
A number
and referred
A bill was
t of lie
In the
Lhe
$5000 for tl
| late Chief
tof bills were
under the call of
Nenate
the
Justice Waite,
ntroduced
slates,
i reported for the
I'erritory of Alaska, an
Committee of the W
{| consideration of District
Organization
hole,
of «
. h
38. the House adjourned.
oiuml
bnsioe
In the House, on the 27th, the
report of the Election Commitiee In
the case of Worthington va, Yost, from
#
It confirms Post's right to hi
seat. The bill to prevent the dumping
{ of rubbish New York harbor and
adjacent waters was reported and placed
the calendar, Jills were also re-
for an additional life-saving
m Nantucket Island; to pro-
ascertaining the propriety and
r of a gulf aad lake water
public building at York
War cCiailns
of 1.
in
i af
i States: for the election
{ tors by popular vole
Civil Service act.
| Railroad Fun
| The Military
| bill
Land
Pacific
ing was discussed,
Academy
5 The
bill was ¢
he House adjourned.
{i In the House
| Enloe, Tennes
| versely the resolut
wa reneral
fered,
pr ansed,
Public
es ¥ o
Mis ing
{ $1 py
on We JW
h, Mr.
reported ad-
calling upon lhe
information i
ord relating to
of American bulbs and
After a long discus.
Was tabled by o
The District of
tion bill was re
to the Commitlies
Indian Appropria-
bi was considered in the Com-
of the Who! Mr. Nelson,
spoke in favor of a re-
of the tariff. When
Tose
of =e
*
{
his recent
walling
nt
i
LAE
) |
| seeds i anada,
rescial
125
{sion Lhe
i vote of
{ Columb
i ix ried
of
§
an
¢ Whole. The
+
i
' '
| Inillee @, ant
-
finished, the Committee and the
{ House adjourned.
In the U
lives on the.
1:
rr
enresents
pr
amends
the Presi-
f
¥
iis
House of
4%
5
de:
i pur on
{ Commerc!
i to conference
reciprocal
Letween he
arrange a the
of encouraging
relations
{ United States and UU Republic of
| Mexico, Central and South America
and the Empire of Brazil, were nor-con-
i curred un, and a conference was
ordered, A resolution was reported
and passed appropriating $25,000 to en-
{ able the United States to participate in
arce-
bill
tl
@
i
s International Exhibition at
, Spain, in April. The House
ting a pension of §
widow of General Logan, and
| the Senate bill increasing to $2000a year
Francis 1, Blau
former by a vole
bva vote of 149 to
were passed--the
154 to 95; the latter
91. An evening
yi was held for the consideration
of private pension bills. Adjourned.
coisas AAI AAI
GINSENG.
SpRa]
iil —
A Worthless Root That is a Chinese
Care-All-
One of the mysteries in the world of
commerce 1s ginseng, If you speak to
an ordinary man about ginseng, he will
ask you what jou mean.
him ginseng is an article
merce
jeans, he will stare at you.
him that it has been in certain places
of the world worth its weight in gold,
he will probably stare harder. If In
addition to this you tell him that it is
a vast humbug, and that it is a very
ordinary root of an American shrub,
almost without a particle of any but
imaginary value, he will concede that
it is a strange article for traffic. Fino.
ally, when he learns that the populace
of a vast nation, high and low, con-
sider it a cure-all, and that it enters
into every medicine for every ailment
in that nation, he will only understand
the matter when be learns that it is
the eccentric Chinese to whom this in
reality unimportant root is valuable.
In China, if a man has a headache,
ginseng is the prescription. If his
trouble is toothache, ginseng is the
same remedy again. For ail ills, from
depression of spirits to a sore toe, gin.
seng is the universal remedy.
yuicians and authorities of the
civilized world give the assurance that
in medicinal properties the root Is al
most inert-—at the most, contains to a
very mild extent tonic properties.
None but the singular and ride-eating
Celestial can feel any effects from the
use of it; but the Chinamen of
this country there is almost no con-
sumption, The root is brought here
by resident Chinamen for home e200.
They do not use it themselves, -
ever, and inquiry from these Celestial
worthies has seldom brought out suy
satisfactory statements as to what gin.
sing is good for.
my San Jo AB
fetich, its re supposed to be
occult, of the nature of
powers are
a benef 1a atih molto.
®
that
the
reosives all
America can supply, which is
average 425,000 pounds a year,
| The American wholesales price
{now $2.25 a pound, The article is
| pent mostly in a crude state, but care-
fully cleaned, A process of heat ciu
ifles it to a hard substance, with
| pithy-like, petrified jelly, It 18 used
| there as a table delicacy by the ric
{ Ginseng in China is a Government
monopoly, and Professor lockbart, of
| London, is the authority for the state-
| ment that it is sold to privileged
| dealers by the Imperial Government
{ of China, at its weight In gold. This
is denled by some American dealers,
| But the value is still high. The root
| is very light and the $2.20 a pound,
| its wholesale price here, 1s enormous,
| There are certain single rools, espe
| cially of certain shapes, very rare
which bring from $25 to £400, and
are only possessed by the wealthy
class—mandarios and others,
{ And yet the wholesale price lLere is
! slowly but always steadily rising, ar
{the nidiculous fact is belore us that
| the price of this futile drug, used by
| nobody in this country, will in time
become greater than that of opium
itself, as the gradual bul sure |
of its extermination im America «
tinues. The amount is handed by
fact ob be
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What, then, is gir
{ the root of a shrub whic
for ages China, it
| botany, aralia quinguefolium, qu
| folinm meaning five-leaved,
| ive-leaved twigs branch ofl,
| pumber of three, from a
| round stem about a foot high,
It happened that in 1708 a
{one Father FF, Vastoux, was diigent
| employed in making a map of Tartary.
| During this labor he saw {tl
growing In this mystic land,
leagues away from the ku
Corea, in the spol were
lay .
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a Tartar
Tartars were full of the praise
fabulous ginseng and iis wor
derful powers, Father Fasleux becor
ng an enthusiast also. He had
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if al
ume came
Was weil
in Cus
hat the rane 3
the { 3 priests and Ju
the The Awer.-
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at
Bi
naians,
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of the root, bul il pos
s external atirfbutes of the
t variety. Ine gluseng Was
sent at that time Europe, and was
then frst troduced 0 the civillaed
} Even at that date, in the iast
European savanus rudely shal
lusion as to the root, ang
it almost inert as a drug
grows about the will lands and
farms of the Northwest and Northeast,
As cultivation ruins i flavor, it can
{ not be made a regular industry, eithe
in growih or collection in 1860 iS
price was al ts per pound, 18
865 it had risen to 60 cents a pound,
s export now is 375,000 pounds. The
biggest yield of ail was in 1861, wher
the export almost doubled J1560 had seas
a ginseng-collecting craze, like a go
fever, in the lake States, whess the pec
| ple left their homes, camped {or
in the hills, raised the expost of gin
seng 633.000 pounds, the Lik:hesi ex
port ever made, and rooled oul Ube
plant so that it has been searce ever
| since. At present the best regions for
| it are New York, Pennsylvania and
| Ohio, the prime article coming from
{ New York, the poorest from Minnes-
{ota, North and South Careliva. Iu
| short, all parts of the United States
{ where the sugar maple grows were
{ originally its habitat.
The root, the only
the ginseng, is four er
jong, and forked, The Indian name
i for it, “‘garent oguen,.’’ means legs
| apart, “Ginseng means abou the same.
its flavor is bitter and sikghi, and
neither pleasant nor delectabin
| Ginseng grows along the greal wal
lin Chinese Tartary and Corea, The
American is the only other supply, ex-
i cept Japanese, The Chinese think
| this poor, and will not receive it,
The Chinese ginseng mountains are
{fenced in by Government, and pa-
| trolled by guards
are five or
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valuable part of
five inches
i ——
i How Alligators Eat,
It is a southern wnler who compares
an alligators throat to an animated
| sewer. Everything, says this corres-
i pondent, which lodges in the oper
i month goes down, He is alazy dog,
and instead of hunting for semething
to eat he lets his victuals hunt for hm.
That is, he les with his greal mouth
open, apparently dead, Wks the ’pos-
sum. Moon a beetle crawls im if, then
a fly, then several gnats and a colony
of mosquitoes, The alligator doesn’:
close his mouth yet. He is waking for
a whole drove of things, Ilo does his
eating by wholesale. A little later »
lizard will cool himself under the shade
of the upper jaw. Then a few frogs
will hop up to catch the mosquitoes.
Then more mosquitoes and will
alight on the frogs. Fi a whole
of insects and mettle
down for an afternoon picnic. Then
all at once there is an earthquske. The
jaw falls; the alligator blinks one eye,
gulps down the entire menagerie, and
opens his great front door again for
more visitors,
Pharaoh's Tomb.
When the tomb of the Ramoses 110.
the ‘Pharaoh’ of the Bible, was dis
covered and its contents made known
to the world, among the many carious
and valuable articles it contained were
found SOI fuses of poroelain, called