Mr. O. Meriwether, of South Carolina,
graduate student of John Hopkins Uni
versity, has entered the educational ser
vice of the Japanese Government as in
structor of the English language and
literature in the second higher middle
school of Japan at Sendal, in the northern
part of the main island. The appoint
ment was made through the Japanese
Minister in Washington and the engage
ment lasts for three years.
Th c, Atlanta Constitution says: "Can
dor compels the sorrowful admission that
Georgia leads the procession of illiterates.
In 1880 Georgia returned a greater num
ber of persons 'ten years old and up
ward' as 'unable to write' than any
State in the Union. In a total popula
tion, 'ten years old and upward,' of
1,043,840, there were whites 128,934,
and colored 391,482, total 520,416, whc
could not sign their names. Alabama
shows a total of 433,447 'unable to
write'—whites, 111,767; colored, 321,-
680. In white illiteracy Tennessee leads
with 216,227, with Kentucky close bj
with 214,497."
The longest examination of a witness
on record, so far as known, has at lasl
been concluded at Newark, and the case
of the State against the Morris and Essex
Railroad Company for back taxes amount
ing to a million dollars or thereabouts,
has been placed in condition for argu
ment. Richard F. Stevens, the expert
who examined the railroad company's
books, is the witness who has been so
long on the stand. He began giving his j
testimony two years ago aid has been on
the stand for hours each week ever since.
The testimony, when printed, will fill
three volumes nearly as big as the "Re
vision of New Jersey."
The New York Tribune says: "There
is a queer story told of E. L. Harper, the |
wrecker of the Fidelity Bank of Cin
cinnati. It is to the effect that he has
been doing a profitable iron business to
the tune of $350,000 a year while serving
his sentence in the Ohio penitentiary.
Through the efforts of his faithful wife,
a joint stock company was formed, and,
presumably through the collusion of some
of the prison officials, Harper was al
lowed to direct the movements of this
company by telegraph, thus enabling it
to make money when other men in the
iron business were actually running be
hind. It is a striking illustration of what
a 'smart' man with money can do even
when lie is dead in the eyes of the law.
In the meanwhile the discovery of this
little arrangement will be likely to arrest
the effort to obtain a pardon for this dis
tinguished criminal."
The New York city Board of Health
has introduced into its office, on trial, a
machine which, it is claimed, will do
automatically and by electricity, with
correctness and dispatch, the arduous
work of tabulating a vast amount of sta
tistical information, which has hitherto
been performed by clerks. If it per
forms the work properly, it will be a
permanent fixture in the statistical de
partment of the board. The device is
an exceedingly complex one in its
mechanism, but is simple in its operation,
and when thoroughly understood by
the operator can be worked with great
speed. It is certainly a most ingenuous
contrivance, and was designed by its in
ventor with a special view to its intro
duction at Washington for use in the
compilation of the exhaustive statistics ol
the eleventh census. By only a slight
change it has been adapted to the facts
and figures which goto make up the
records of the Bureau of Vital Statistics
in the New York Health Department.
"It's only about a hundred years since
checks and bills of exchange were first
used in the transaction of business," said
John Jay Knox, formerly Controller ol
the Currency, now President of one of
the biggest New York banks, to a Star
man."The coin of the realm doesn't
play a very important part in the finan
cial operations of the country," he con
tinued. The total coinage of the Govern
ment since its foundation has amounted
to $1,890,000,000. This sum vast as it
may seem, would not last but six days if
paid out by the banks of the country in
their daily transactions. The coinage ol
all the mints of the land fo;- the past
year would not make the payments ol
the banks for an hour and forty-five min
utes on any average day's business. The
total coinage of the United States is esti
mated at $800,000,000, but it would not
last three days if used by the banks in
making their payments. Coin, then,
plays but a small part in the daily com
mercial life of the nation. It is the basis,
but not the vehicle, with which our busi
ness is moved."
The United States is the wealthiest
nation in the world, estimated per capita.
There is $730 of wealth per capita in the
United States, aud $625 per capita ir
France. According to the area, France
is of course much wealthier than th<
United States.
THE COW TREE.
VEGETABLE JUICE THAT CLOSE
IJY RESEMBLES MILK.
It is Wholesome aud is Used as
an Article of Pood in Some
Places—Where the Cow
Trees Grow.
Several natural orders of the vegetable
kingdom include plants that are charac
terized by the secretion of a fluid closely
resembling milk in appearance and con
sistency, and a familiar example of these
is to be seen in our common milkweed,
which is well known to everybody. In
some plants this milky fluid is of the
most venomous nature; in others, it pos
sesses active medicinal virtue; in others,
it yields a product (such as India rubber
and gutta percha) of the highest impor
tance to the arts and industries; and, in
others still, it proves of value as a human
aliment. Since the same general proper
ties characterize the plants of each nat
ural family, it seems an anomaly that, in
the same order, we should find the species
of one genus producing a lactescent fluid
of a highly poisonous nature, and those of
another yielding one that is entirely in
nocuous. Yet such is often the case, and
we have a striking example of it in the
bread fruit order, which on the one hand,
includes the celebrated upas tree of Java,
which, when pierced, exudes a milky
juice containing an acrid virulent poison
(antiarin), the smallest quantity of which
will kill the largest animal, and, on the
other, the famous Brosimum utili of South
America, which yields a copious supply
of rich, wholesome milk, of as good a
quality as that from the cow.
There are several other instances in the
vegetable kingdom of such an associa
tion, in the same natural order, of plants
that produce a noxious lactescent juice
with others which yield a wholesome one
adapted for man's use, and which may,
therefore, be designated as "vegetable
cows." To speak only of the latter class,
the most remarkable example in the spe
cies of Brosimum just mentioned, which
was discovered and made known by the
celebrated traveler Humboldt. This tree
forms extensive forests on the mountains
near the town of Coriaco, and elsewhere
along the seacoast of Venezuela—grow
ing to upward of 100 feet in height, with
a trunk six or eight feet in diameter, and
branchless for the first sixty or seventy
feet of its height. It is popularly known
as the cow tree, Palo de Vaca, or Arbol
de Leche. Its milk, which is obtained
by making incisions in the trunk, so
closely resembles the milk of the cow,
both in appearance and quality, that it is
commonly used as an article of food by
the inhabitants of the places where the
tree is abundant. Unlike many other
vegetable milks, it is perfectly whole
some and very nourishing, possessing an
agreeable taste, like that of sweet cream,
and a pleasant balsamic odor, its only un
pleasant quality being a slight amount of
stickiness. The chemical anlaysis of this
milk has shown it to possess a composi
tion closely resembling some animal sub
stances, and like animal milk, it quickly
forms a yellow, cheesy scum
upon its surface, and, after a
few days' exposure to the atmos
phere, turns sour and purifies. It con
tains upward of thirty per cent, of a
resinous substance called galactin by
chemists. Speaking of this tree, Hum
boldt says: "They (the natives) profess
to recognize, from the color and thick
ness of the foliage, the trunks that yield
the most juice, as the herdsman dis
tinguishes from external signs of a good
milch cow. Amidst the great number of
curious phe uomena that I have observed
in the course of my travels, I confess there
are few that have made so powerful an
impression on me as the aspect of the cow
tree. A few drops of vegetable juice re
call to our minds all the powerfulness and
fecundity of nature. On the barren flank
of a rock grows a tree with coriaceous
and dry leaves. Its large woody roots
can scarcely penetrate into the stone.
For several months in the year, not a
single shower moistens its foliage. Its
branches appear dead and dried, but
when the trunk is pierced there flows
from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It
is at the rising of the sun that this vege
table fountain is most abundant. The
natives are then seen hastening from all
quarters, fi nishedwith large bowls to re
ceive the milk, which grows yellow and
thickens at the surface. Some empty the
bowls under the tree itself, others carry
the juice home to their children."
In the Dogbane order, the Apocynacha',
which includes plants that are mostly of
a venomous nature and possess an exceed
ingly acrid and drastic juice, we have a
second example of a tree that secretes a
wholesome milk-like fluid. This is the
cow-tree of Demerara. or hya-hya of the
natives. This tree grows in abundance
in the forests of British Guiana, and its
bark, when tapped, yields a copious
supply of thick, sweet milk, resembling
that of the cow in appearance, but rather
sticky from the presence of caoutchouc.
Tbis milk mixes freely with water, is oi
a pleasant flavor, and the natives employ
it as a refreshing beverage.
Two ' 'cow-trees" are employed in the
order Sapotaceae, which embraces numer
ous plants valuable for their suculent
fruits, such as the marmalade, star apple,
etc. One of these is called by the natives
massarandaba or aprain, and which Pro
fessor Orton, in the "Andes and the
Amazons, " describes as one
of the noblest trees cf the
forests of Para. It stands from XBO to
200 feet in height, is 20 feet in circum
ference, and is crowned with a vsst dome
of foliage. The milk yielded by the bark
has the consistency of cream, and is usod
for tea, coffee and custards. It hardem
by exposure, so as to resemble gutti
percha, which, indeed, is the product o)
a Malaisian tree belonging to the saim
natural order. The other tree is the bull;
tree of English, French, and Dutch Gul
ana. The milk of this species is some
times employed with tea or coffee, in
stead of cow's milk, but has the disad
vantage of hardening very rapidly upoi
exposure to air.
The natural order Asclepiadacte consist!
of plants that are almost always milky,
and the milk is usually acrid and bitter,
and always to be suspected, yet one ol
the plants of the family, Gymnerna lacti
ferum, the cow plant of Ceylon, called
by the natives kiriaghuna, yields a milk
which the Cingalese make use of as food.
Another example of a "cow tree" be
longing to a dangerous natural order, the
Euphorbiacea-, which embraces plants
having acrid and purgative juices, is the
Euphorbia balsamifera, or Tabayba dolce,
of the Canaries. Notwithstanding the
fact that the plants of this genus have
juices that possess very active medicinal
qualities, aud are in some cases so ven
omous that they are used as arrow poi
sons, the juice of the species under con
sideration is innocuous, and according to
Leopold von Buch, is similar to sweet
milk, and is eaten as a delicacy after be
ing thickened into a jelly.
Still another "cow tree" is found
which embraces plants that secrete an
acrid, purgative, yellow gum resin, such
as gamboge. This tree is a native of
Venezuela, where it is known as Palo de
Vaca. It has a thick bark, coveied with
rough tubercles, and its internal tissue
becomes red when exposed to the light.
In extracting the milk, the inhabitants
make incisions through the bark till the
wood is reached. These cuts are said to
be made only before full moon, it being
imagined that the milk flows more freely
then than at any other time. One tree
will yield a quart in an hour. The milk
is freely used by all, especially the chil
dren, although it has a somewhat ustrin
gent taste.
In the order Moraeeoe, which includes
the mulberry and fig, there are several
species of licus that arc known us cow
trees, and the milky fluid of which is
bland and used as a beverage, although in
most of the species of the genus the juice
is exceedingly acrid.— Brooklyn Citize.
_ Capers of Cannon Balls.
Captain Meredith, John Ritchie and
George Shields, known as "old hosses"
and "old-timers," sat around in the Press
club one afternoou recently and talked
about the times of the war and told of the
funny capers that cannon balls and
musket balls cut. Captain Meredith
said he once found a dead Confederate
behind a big tree. The dead man wai
resting on one knee, iu a position t<
shoot. His musket was in his hands, tin
butt, of the guu was against his shoulder,
and one eye was open, squinting ulong
the gun-barrel. There wasn't a mark or
the body, but the man was stone dead.
There was a ten-pound cannon ball buriee
in the tree. The man had been killed
by the concussion. Mr. Shields said that
he saw a cannon ball go into the grounc
about 200 yards in front of where he was
standing. He thought that was the end
of the matter, but. in about three second!
the ball came out of the ground fifty
yards beyond the place it struck. It
then in its flight struck a stump, car
romed off, broke a soldier's leg, and
rolling on a few yards further, upset !
camp kettle and scalded a man's hands.
John Ritchie said he saw a man hit
with a "spent" cannon ball. He walked
over to where the man lay to see what he
could do for him—give him a drink out
of his canteen, or a chew of tobacco, oi
something—but all that was visible was
a mass of about IGO pounds of flesh and
blue cloth, mixed up like sausage, with
an eye and two teeth sticking out on
top.
Captain Meredith said that, speaking
of cannon balls, one of the most novel
sights he witnessed during the war was a
cannon ball about, as big as a flour barrel
going through a horse lengthwise—that
is, lengthwise of the horse. There was
left of the horse its head, its four feet
and the lower six inches of its tail. The
Captain said he could always tell the
body of a Confederate soldier from a
Northern man on a battle Held, because
whenever a Confederate was wounded
corn-bread oozed out. Chicago Mail.
Cornell University has a Japanese noble,
man amou<; its students.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Kentucky has a mail carrier ninety years
old.
In Chile the street-car conductors are
all women.
The word "and" occurrs 46,227 times
in the Bible.
Philadelphia is to have a new church
for colored Catholics.
Toddy is from the Hindostanee tari,
tadi, the juice of the palmyra tree.
A Vienna criminal recently made his
escape from justice by means of a balloon.
An Illinois man who bet that the world
was round and failed to prove it had to
pay over $25.
The largest ruby known is among the
crown jewels of Russia; its size is that of
a pigeon's egg.
The age of Sato Yukichi, the Japanese
dwarf, is about fifty years. Ilis height
is fifteen inches.
A pair of elephant's tusks of average
length weigh about 200 pounds, and are
worth about SSOO.
The three Presidents who died on
July 4 are Johu Adams, Thomas Jeffer
son and James Monroe.
The American mosquito has appeared
in England, and the people are vastly ex
cited by the discovery.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse,
who was hanged as a witch in 1G22, had
a reunion in Danvers, Mass., recently.
British people drink annually five
pounds of tea per head per annum. The
French average is only half an ounce.
It is against the city ordinance in
Castile, N. Y., for a donkey to appeal
on the streets unless accompanied by n
man.
A cloud-burst in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two
miles square to form a lake of ten acres
in extent and ten feet deep.
John Moore, of Indiana, declared him
self guilty of robbery, paid a constable 62
to arrest him, and then hired a carriage
for 83 to take them to the county jail.
Punch is from the Hindostanee pancli,
Sanskrit panchan, meaning five, because
the drink was originally composed of five
ingredients, viz.: Sugar, arrack, tea,
water and lemon juice.
Italian excavators at Adulio, near
Zula, Africa, have come upon public
buildings and coins. In the sixth century
a marble slab was found there giving the
conquests of Ptolemy Evergetes.
A number of strange fish, formed like
the white fish of Lake Erie, have just
been caught at the dam near Meadville,
N. Y. Some think they are ciscoes.
They arc in color regular strawberry
blondes, with reddish gills and tails, and,
so far as reported, entirely new to those
waters. How they got there is a mys
tery.
Business Blacked by Bees.
A swarm of bees took possession of
Main street in Meriden, Conn., a few
days ago and blocked traffic on that bus
tling city's busiest thoroughfare for over
an hour. A few venturesome drivers sent
their horses through the buzzing mass,
but those that made the trip paid the
penalty of the folly of their owners.
People in the neighborhood were com
pelled to shut down their windows, for
the day was hot and the bees were angry.
The bees banged themselves against the
windows in attempts to get inside. Staid
business men threw handkerchiefs over
their heads and ran skipping away like
school boys. The bees were a stray
swarm just let loose, and although at one
time they occupied a space as large as a
load of hay, they finally became com
pressed into a half bushel wad aud lit on
one of the low branches of an evergreen
tree in the Baptist church lot. At sun
down the church janitor spread a white
cloth on the ground under them and
placed a large keg at an angle on the
cloth. The lower head of the clock had
been knocked out, and the inside of the
keg was smeared with molasses. Then
the limb was sawed off and the bees
dumped on the cloth. The queen bee
made for the keg, and in an hour a royal
swarm was housed.— Chicago Journal.
Richest of American Chinamen.
I had the pleasure of meeting Sam
Lock, recently. Mr. Lock is probably
the richest Chinaman in California, and is
possessed of an ncutenesi which would
do credit to a Sam Slick. He is one of
the very few Mongolians who have be
come citizens of this country, and has
cut loose in every way from his native
land, and as far as possible from his peo
ple. He wears "store" clothes and
keeps his shirt inside of his trowsers. He
has a large ranch in this country, and pos
sesses a number of mines in Montana.
He spoke quite casually of building a
canal seventeen miles long to take water
to a mine which has not been profitable
heretofore because of the lack of that
article— New York Tribune.
The honor of inventing the steam fire
engine is claimed by the late Captain
John Ericsson, of New York. The date
of his invention is 1838.
A Harpoon In a Whale's Blubber.
There has just been received at the
National Museum, in Washington, to be
placed in the fisheries section, an interest
ing souvenir of the Arctic whale fishery
which Captain J. W. Collins, the superin
tendent of that department, greatly
prizes. It is an old-fashioned, hand
molded swivel liarponn, which has quite
a story, as gleaned from the papers ac
companying it.
While in the Okhotsk Sea last summer,
the ship Cape Horn Pigeon, commanded
by Captain L. Nathan Rogers, captured
a whale, in the blubber of which was im
bedded a foreign substance. On investi
gation this proved to be a harpoon, broken
off at the junction with the lance, which
ha>:l been in the whale over thirty years.
On the hinge of the harpoon was stamped
in plain letters "8. T. D."—ship Thomas
Dickerson—and the name of the maker,
not so plain, could also be made out.
This was the first and only messenger
from the good ship Dickerson, which
sailed from New Bedford, Muss., in 1860
and was lost the next year in the very
waters where the crew of the Cape Horn
Pigeon secured the harpoon thirty-two
years later.— New York Herald.
Birds and the Insects They Destroy.
The following birds are to be classed
among the most helpful kinds in the gen
eral warfare against insects: Robins (cut,
and other earth worms), swallows, night
hawks, purple martins (moth catchers);
pewees (striped cucumber bugs), wood
thrushes and wrens (cut worms), cat birds
(tent caterpillar), meadow larks, wood
peckers, crows (wire worms); blue
throated buntings (canker worms), black,
red-winged birds, jays, doves, pigeons
and chippies (strawberry pests); quails
(chinch bugs, locusts), whip-poor-wills
(moths); hawks, all night birds, owls,
etc., tanagers and black winged summer
red birds (curculios); nut crackers, fly
catchers, chimney swifts, indigo birds,
chipping and song sparrows, blackbirds,
mocking birds, titmouses, vireas, orchard
orioles.
The Moods of a River.
Flint River, Ga., like a human being,
appears to have its moods. Now it will
be all brightness and sunshine, its placid
waters scarce seem to be moving, but in
its quiet, crystal depths the lordly mag
nolias along its banks are reflected, and
the wild fowl plume their feathers over
its mirror like surface. Again, it looks
dark and angry. The water, of a yel
lowish red color, resembles the complex
ion of a choleric man with his bile all
stirred up. On it dashes, resistlessly bear
ing along great waves of foam, where it
has fretted over the rocks, or the limbs
of forest monarchs which it has angrily
uprooted and torn away, as worried by j
up-country rains it has overflowed its
banks and swept all before it.— Atlanta
Constitution.
Our Girls.
Kittty is witty,
Nettie is pretty,
Lutie is cute and small;
Irene is a queen,
Annette is a pet.
Nell is the belie ot tee ball;
IMantha is Wi-althy,
Bertha is uealthy.
And health is the best of all.
Perfect health keeps her rosy and radiant,
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ANNIE DAVIS, of Mansfield, Ohio, committed !
suicide because she didn't take a prize at
Bchooi.
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Ladles.
Ingham University, Le Roy, N. Y., estab
lished over fiity years, offers superior advan
tages in its Literary, Music and Art Depart
ments. Excellent home. Attention given to
social culture. Kates moderate. Send for
catalogue. Address Miss R. M. Webster,
Principal.
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the Missouri River to the Pacific coast.
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Large-size packase. .'0 cents. At all drug
gists'.
THE Bible Society lias issued, up to date, a
total oi nearly SO.OOO.OU) Bibles.
Five cents saved on soap; live dollars lost on
rotteil clothes. Is that economy! Tuere is not
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the poorest soap made and the Ixxt. which is as
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THE Auditorium Building at Chicago is sev
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What in the world is the use of sitting
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