ANCIENT MILLING*.
A*le Marvelous Change of Both Method
and Product*
For ages the various cereals used in
breadmaking were ground with very
uncouth contrivances hardly deserving
Hhe name of mill, as we understand it.
They consisted of two portable circular
•tones, the upper being the smaller and
turned upon the lower and concave one
by means of an iron or wooden handle,
the grain being placed between them.
These stones were usually obtained
from a quarry in the vicinity of Babylon,
from which Bullicient were taken to sup
ply all the Eastern countries.
The grinding was usually performed
by two females, who sat oppsite each
other with mill-stones placed between
them, the upper stone being kept in
4 constant motion by the hands of the
• operators. Very often this tedious
work was assigned to prisoners, who
considered it a most degrading task.
This is recorded in Holy Writ, in which
we are told that Samson "did grind in
the prison-nouse of the Philistines;"
and Jeremiah bewails the fact that the
Babyloniaus "took our young men to
grind."
Two famous philosophers—Menede
mus aud Aaclepiades—when pursuing
their studies at Athens, were enabled
to pay for their support and schooling
by aoting as millers after school hours,
receiving the munificent sum of 36
cents (2 drachm®) per night. Happily
their fellow students, upon hearing this,
raised a subscription sufficient to defray
the expenses of these deserving young
men.
While women wore milling they
usually relieved the monotony of their
work by singing songs of a lively aud
cheerful character. Ordinarily they
4 prepared as much meal in the morning
*as would be required for the day. On
this account Hebrew writers associated
the noise of the morning mill with
prosperity and happiness. If, on the
contrary, this work was performed in
the evening, they imagined there was
the sound of adversity and sadness in
the notes of the song.
The Romans, among whom agricul
ture was a highly favored occupation,
were an inventive race, especially in the
matter of labor saving machines. Rec
ognizing the drudgery of hand-mills,
they invented those whose motive power
was imparted by asses, mules and oxen,
and introduced them into all the coun
tries conquered by their victorious
armies. There i 9 no positive record of
the name of tho originator of this im-.
provement in milling.
About the year 70 B. C., Mitliridates,
King of Cappadocia, one of the most
ingenious and able princess of the time,
Y invented tho first mill driven by water.
This triumph of his skill and ingenuity
he caused to be erected iu the immedi
ate vicinity of the royal palace. In the
course of time the Cappadocian bakers
became celebrated, and were in great
demand throughout all parts of the
world as then known.
These mills were usually placed upon
boats on the river, being so elevated
and contrived as to be easily driven by
the water, and the millers were thus
enabled to move from place to place,
distributing the meal to their cus
tomers.
Prior to the introduction of water
power mills, the publio mills in Rome
were operated chiefly by slaves. These
establishments were located in the
vaults of an immense building, known
as the Pistrinum, devoted exclusively
to the uses of the bakers of that city.
Often it happened that this slave labor
was very difficult to obtain, and to sup-
ply the want the mill proprietors re
sorted to violent measures. They en
ticed strangers and ignorant persons
into the building on the plea of inspect
ing it. In some of the rooms ingeni
ously-constructed trap-doors were placed
in the floors. As soon as an unsuspect
ing victim stopped upon the trap he
was precipitated to the vaults and there
imprisoned and condemned to perpetual
labor. No chance of communicating
with his friends was afforded the pris
oner, and thus he was compelled to.
drudge until released by death.
This horriblo state of affairs continued
for many years, until it was Anally un
masked by the merest accident. A
lusty soldier of the guard was enticed
into tho Pistrinum and treated in the
usual manner, but not being rendered
unconscious by the fall through the
trap, ho drew his sword, and after kill
• ing two of his would-be enslavers
forced his way out of the vault. Ho
soon laid bare the entire scheme, tho
emperor immediately ordered the build
ing to be razed to tho ground, and all
who wore proven to have been actively
engaged iu this murderous method of
obtaining workmen were quickly ex
ecuted.
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IN A QUEER OLD PLACE.
Visit to a Second-Hand Marino
Store in New York.
"Where do you gather all this stuff
from?" I asked of the proprietor of a
second-hand marine store on South
street as I looked about to find almost
everything under the sun belonging to
any sort of vessel.
"From all points of the compass," he
replied; "or, to speak more truthfully,
from all along the Atlautic coast. Here's
wreckage from Portland and wreckage
from Key West, and I've got some relics
of interest from almost every sea."
"Do you buy abandoned wrecks?"
"Not unless they are close by, but wo
buy of the wreckers. There's au anchor
right there with a history. An American
barge which was anchored in the Straits
of Gibraltar brought that up from the
bottom with her own anchor. It was
lost by a British merchant vessel. Here's
a piece of cable brought up in tho same
way by a craft somewhere on the Mexican
coast."
"There's a curious-looking small an
chor," I said, as I called his attention to
the object.
4 Too curious to sell," he dryly re
plied. "I've had that about ten years.
I got it from a tramp steamer which ran
down a Spanish fishing-boat during a
gale at night. It was the boat's Bpare
anchor and was fast on the bows wlieu
the little craft was run down. Queerly
enough, it was the only relic of the dis
aster, being torn loose by the shocking
and catching one of the fiukes into the
bows of the big ship. See that piece of
figurehead?"
4 4 Yes."
"Well, that was given to me by a cap
tain who got it at Bombay. It belonged
to some native craft which went ashore
in a gale. The same man sold me a lot
of that rallle back there, and there's a
story attached to that. About 300 miles
off the Cape of Good Hope he came
across an abandoned and water-logged
brig—an English craft. Ho didn't get
an ounce of her cargo, but ho stripped
her of sails and rigging and set her on
fire. It fell calm about the time she got
to blazing and he had the greatest diffi
culty in saving his own craft. Indeed,
she was on fire in half a dozen places at
once."
"Those are curious old blocks," I
said, pointing to some very massive ones
hanging from the ceiling.
"Those are old-fashioned man-of-war
blocks, and I've had 'em so long I've
forgotten who I bought them of. They
are French, however, and I have 110
doubt"they saw active service during the
days of linc-of battle ships. There's a
ship's bells which came from the Florida
reefs; there's a fog-horn from a wreck
at Panama; there's some wreckage from
the South Carolina coast, aud so it goes
from garret to cellar."
"And whom do you sell to?"
4 'Mostly to coasters. Now and then
a deep-water vessel wants something,
but the coasting trade brings mo the
most patronage. They'll take most any
thing to get along with until they are
obliged to have a thorough refit. You
have seen plays where they had a sailing
ship 011 the stage?"
4 4 Yes."
44 Well, the chances are that every bit
of the rigging came from this place.
That's a specialty with us, and many's
the one I've rigged out to bring applause
from the audience. It's real rigging and
no deception and everybody will admit
that a ship with real tackle is a great
catch. You've also seen photographs
taken with portions of rigging in the
background?"
44 Yes."
44 I've fitted out fifty photographic |
studios with those things, and seldom a
day goes by without a call for some
thing. Some of these blocks and pul- j
leys and other light stuff have been used
in the most famous dramas of the age,
and after traveling around the country
for several years, or until the play was
laid on the shelf, have found their way
back here again. Yes, the business as a
whole may be called a queer one, with a
chance for lots of sentiment to creep in,
but sentiment won't pay taxes and I
have to hustle for dollars."—[M. Quad,
in New York World.
Delivered by Express.
A matronly looking lady conveying
two children approached the ferry agent
of the Morton Special Delivery ou Sat
urday last, and handed him a check for
one trunk atid a gripsack.
"Please deliver them to Mrs. Howes,
No. 1054 Golden Gate avenue."
The agent gave her a receipt.
"By the way," added the lady, 44 just
take this child along too." She pointed
to a five-year-old infant toddling around.
The agent looked suprised, but being
a man of business, he accepted the
chnrge. and entered 011 his delivery bill:
"One trunk, one grip, one little girl to
1054 Golden Gate avenue. Collect."
When the little tot was delivered to
her mother two hours after being
received at the ferry, that good dame re
marked that, "she thought they'd never
bring that child."
"I'm here, mamma," yelled Miss
Howes. Then the mother receipted for
"one trunk, one grip and one little
girl," and the first baby ever delivered by
express in the city landed.
"She could go across the continent
that kid could," said the driver yester
day. "Smartest I ever saw."—[San
Francisco Chronicle.
They Like Fat Girls in Tunis.
A Tunisian girl has no chance of mar
ring# unless sho tips tho scale at 200
pounds, and to that end she commences
to fatten when she is fifteen years old.
She takes aperients and eats a great deal
of sweet stuff and leads a sedentary life
to hasten the process. Up to fifteen she
is very handsome, but at twenty what au
immense, unwieldy mass of fat she be
comes. She waddles, or rather undu
lates along the street. Her costume is
very picturesque, especially if she be of
the richer class. They are clothed in
fine silks of resplendent hues of a bright
red, yellow or green, and wear a sort of
conical shaped head dress from which
descends a loose, white drapery. Turk
ish trousers and dainty slippers, the heel
of which barely reaches the middle of
the foot, complete the costume.—[Pitts
burg Dispatch.
A Dog's Love for a Bgll.
Before the Thornton House was burned
a dog, known as Leo, made that hotel
his headquarters, and always appeared
there regularly at meal times to be fed.
Several weeks after the burning of the
hotel the bell which had been used on
the Thornton House was placed on the
Weston House, and the first time this
bell rang after its removal Leo was scon
to run over to the Weston House, where
he showed unmistakable signs of joy at
the familiar sound of the bell. lie had
never shown any fondness for any per
| son at the Weston House, and the fact
that he has deserted his owner and taken
up at the new place since the first day
the bell was put up proves beyond a
doubt that his attachment for the old
bell caused him to change his residence.
—[Talbotton (Ga.) New Era.
THE GRABBING FEAST.
A Curious Russian Custom in Honor
of Elijah.
A strange religious custom is practised
by the Russian peasants of Olouetsk and
in adjoining districts of Southern Arch
angel and other Governments. A few
days before the calendar day of Elijah
the prophet (Aug. 1) the peasants bring
cattle to the courtyard of their churches,
each according to his circumstances. If
they are poor they throw their donations
together and buy one or two heads of
cattle for the whole village. After the
moruiug services of Elijuh'a Day the
priest comes out of the church in his
official vestments and rprinkles holy
water on the cattle. During the noon
services the cattle are killed and boiled
in large kettles kept around the church
from year to year for the purpose. The
priest again comes out and sprinkles
holy water ou the meat. As soon as this
is done all the villagers fall to and try
to grab each as much or the meat as ho
can
Every peasant then distributes the meat
among the members of his family or his
nearest relatives, who consume it on the
spot. Many a sturdy villager gets his
clothes torn or his face scratched in the
general scramble for meat. But they do
not mind this; they consider it a neces
sary auxiliary to the time-honored cele
bration. The celebration is called the
grabbiug feast, "Khvatovstchina."
The clergy have tried to modify this
seini-savngo ceremony. In some places
they have transferred it to the day of the
Ascension of tho Holy Virgin (Aug. 27),
aud cause the cattle offered by the peas
ants to be sold in the interests of the
i Church. In other places they have the
meat distributed in regular order, so as
to avoid the savage scenes that ensue at
the gcueral "grabbing" scramble. But
such changes are not always acceptable;
in many places where they have been
mode the people within a few years
abandoned them and returned to the
original usage of "grabbing." They as
sert that when the ceremony was" not
performed in the right manner on Eli
jah's Day, their cattle were in that year
destroyed by hail storms and lightning
or by wild beasts.
From the stories which the people
tell, nothing can be learned of the origin
of the feast, as there is not a person liv
ing who remembers the time when it
was not celebrated. Students of eth
nography having made diligent inquir
ies about the subject all over the vast
region, were informed by tho oldest
peasants that they had inherited the
traditions of tho feast from their grand
sires. All the popular stories of the
feast tend merely to show the belief pre
vailing that if the feast is not rightly
celebrated calamities are imminent by
storm, thunder and lightning, or the
ravages of wild animals. Tho clergy of
the whole region ascribe those beliefs to
the veneration of the people for 4 'the
holy prophet Elijah," who is esteemed
more highly by the Slavonian people
than any saint iu the Greek calendar. In
connection with this it must be remem
bered that the belief in that prophet pre
vails not only among the Russian Slavs,
but also among the Ruthenian, Bohem
ians, Bulgarians and others. They say
that thuuder ensues when Elijah's char
iot is rolling in heaven, and pray that
the prophet may not drive about so fre
quently.
To the Rtudent9 of ethnology, on the
other hand, it appears that the prefer
ence which the Slavs had for tho Hebrew
prophet shows that to them he represents
a divinity worshiped before they ac
cepted Christianity.—[New York Sun.
An Astronomical Clock.
A handsome new astronomical clock
has just been constructed in New York
city for the Union League Club of
Philadelphia. Every year the Art Asso
ciation of the club is accustomed to
make a gift to the club, either of a work
of art or some decorative work for the
club-house. This year it was decided to
present a clock and one that would be a
credit to the club. Tho committee has
gained its wish and a finer clock will bo
hard to find. It stands about nine feet
high. The case is of white mahogany,
richly carved and finished in the Italian
Renaissance style. The entire face of
the clock is of silver and decorated with
fine etchings. In tho main dial there is
a picture of tho Old Independence Hall
of Philadelphia, and around this are
groups in the four corners, representa
tions of the Old Liberty Bell, cannon,
muskets, drums and implements of war,
inclosed with laurel and oak leaves.
Just below the main dial in the centre
is the inscription, etched ou silver:
"Union League, Philadelphia. Pre
sented by the Art Association."
The face of tho clock has seven dials, j
indicating the hour of the day, with a
large second hand. There is a perpetual I
almanac, showing the day of the week,
mouth and year, and sun rising and
setting by correct time, and the phases
of the moon. One dial shows the time
at any hour of the day at the different
meredians of the globe and twenty-seven
of the principal ports of the world, in
cluding the seventy-fifth mcrcdian, at
Philadelphia (the Eastern time of the
United States); the ninetieth meridian
(Central time), at Chicago; the one hun
dred and fifth meridian i Mountain time),
at Denver, and the one hundred and
twentieth meridian (Pacific time). The
foreign ports on the dial include Lon
don, Berliu, Vienna, St. Petersburg,
Bombay, Calcutta, Hongkong, Sydney
and Melbourne. Australia, and St. John's,
Newfoundland.
Tho clock is a perfect regulator, with
compensation pendulum, and has West
minster chimes, striking quarterly, with
the full chimes on the hour.—[New
Y'ork Times.
—
A Practical Judge.
A case in a justice court at Douglas
ville, Ga., was settled in a peculiar but
satisfactory manner the other day. A
merchant who had bought a lot of to
bacco from nn Atlanta house resisted
payment on the ground that tho goods
were damaged. The justice presiding
chewed some of tho tobacco ami decided
that it was damaged to the amount of
thirteen cents on tho pound and gave
judgment accordingly.—[Chicago News.
A Vain Little Humming Bird.
A little humming bird in said to be
making himself unaccountably familiar
at the home of Dick Smith, near Thom
son, Ga. Regularly every Sunday,
when the family go to the dining-room
for dinner, the bird Hies into the family
room and brings up before the family
mirror, where he bows to himself and
lluttcrs and capers around extensively.
—[Detroit Free Press.
ONE SHOT THAT COUNTED.
The Hope of a Family When At
tacked by a Huge Panther.
"No," said one ot the guests at a
Dallas (Texas) hotel to a group of gen
tlemen in the corridor, "I am uo hunter
and have never pretended to be one, but
I did a pretty bit of shooting once, not
very far from where we are talking now,
that just about saved my life and possi
bly other lives, too."
The gentleman, who is old, but never
prosy, immediately had an interested
audience.
"1 am a pretty quiet citizen now," he
went on, "but about forty years ago I
was lively enough. People had to be
lively that lived in this country then.
I hunted and fished all up and down the
Trinity for a good many miles, and never
came back from oue of my trips without
gume.
"But on one of these trips I came
mighty near being game myself when I
came home. Dallas wasn't anytliiugbut
a little scattering hamlet then. I lived
on a farm out here about ten miles, on
the other side of the river, and I used to
come here to mill, leave my wagons over
on the other side, where Oak Cliff now
is, and bring my corn over in a boat.
Sometimes it took us a week, for so
many would be ahead of us, and wo
would have to wait till our turn came.
"One time I came with one wagon and
brought my wife and the two babies with
me. We camped over there, just about
where the dummy line strikes the hills,
and after the first day my wife got tired
of town and stayed at camp with the
children. She never was much of a hand
for town, anyway.
"I waited around the mill all the first
day, and the second and third. On the
evening of the third day I was pretty
late getting off from town, and I could
scarcely see my way to the camp, after I
got across the river. The moon had
just risen, and it made everything
vague and indistinct. I was getting
along, though, the best I could, and was
about a hundred yards from the camp, I
should judge, when I heard oue loug,
wild scream in the direction of the
camp, and I knew that it was my wife.
I had my gun with me, an old-fashioned, i
muzzle-loading, double-barrel shot-gun
—and I lit out as though the old Nick |
were after me, shouting to her that I
was coming. My only thought was that
some ruffian had stolen into the camp
and frightened her, and I cocked the
gun as I ran. After her scream there
was silence, and then directly I heard
the loud, frightened cry of the baby.
My, how I did run! My foot caught un
der a root, and I fell fully ten feet, dis
charging ono barrel of tho gun, but I
was up again like a flash, with one bar
rel still left to fight with. And there
was tho camp, with its fire smoking
away, and everything was quiet iu the
wagon, where the family were sleeping,
and off in a clump of bushes the baby
was crying in a pitiful, frightened way.
Of course, I ran iu that direction first.
It was a tangle of undergrowth, and I
had to go half bent. Stumbling blindly
ahead, almost in total darkness, merely
guided by the child's cries, I came sud
denly upon something that stopped me
as though I were shot. The largest pan
ther I ever saw had the child. It had
dragged the poor baby out into the
busnes and had faced around to meet
me, holding the child by its dress. It
stood for an instant with its head
lowered and its tail waving wickedly,
and then, before I knew that I had seen
it almost, it dropped the baby and
sprang over its body upon me.
"The attack was so sudden that I was
wholly unprepared for it. I had my gun
in my hands, but there had not been
time to use it. I wns thrown down with
great violence, and I can feel yet the
creature's teeth crunching into my shoul
ders. That's tho sober truth, boys.
That old wound has been my barometer
for many a year.
"The panther had landed square on
my breast when I fell, but his impetus
was so great that it threw his body off to
one side, though his teeth were fastened
in my shoulder. With a mighty effort I
rolled away from him and struggled up.
A less activo man could never have done
it. lie bounded away through the
bushes a few feet, but without pausing
an instant he turned and leaped again.
This time my gun was ready for liim.
Only one shot! and if that failed there
was no chance of escape for any of us.
But I fired that shot and it caught the
animal in mid-air. The shot went
straight through his heart. His body
struck me and almost knocked mc down
again, but ho fell dead at my feet.
"The baby had been screaming all
this time, but I give you iny word I was
afraid to go and look at him. When I
did go to him, I found not so much as a
bruise on his pretty white skin. Tho
panther had held him by his dress and
had lifted him clear of obstacles, even
when ho leaped from tho wagon with
him.
"As for my wife, I found her in a
dead faint, and it was the longest time
before I could bring her out of it. She
had been awakened from the doze by a
feeling of weight and oppression, and
had found tho panther standing over
her with his two fore paws upon her
breast. She screamed and fainted, and
the panther took the baby away from its
place beside her. It was a providence
about that shot, boys. I couldn't do it
again if I were to try a thousand times.
But it was a providence that came just
when it was needed."—[Globe-Democrat.
A Lucky Accident.
"The small size of the steamer's
screw," says a boilermuker, "is not due
to the perception of any inventor of its
greater effect as compared with a larger
one, but purely to accident. When I
first engaged in the machinery business
screws for steamers were made as large
as possible, it being the theory that the
greater the diameter the higher the
speed. A vessel was placed on Lake
Erie with a screw so large that it was
deemed best to cast each blade iu two
parts and then weld them together.
During a storm all these blades of the
propeller broke at the welding, reducing
the diameter by more than two-thirds.
To the surprise of the captain the vessel
shot forward at a speed such as had never
been attained before. Engineers then
experimented with small propellers, and
discovered that they were much more
effective than large ones. Had it not
been for that accident wo might have
gone on using large-bladed screws to
the present day."
The World's Most Prolific Novelist.
The most prolific novelist the world has
ever seen was Lope do Yoga (1502-1035).
It is calculated that 21,300,000 of his
lines were actually printed, and no less
than 1,800 plays of his composition were
acted upon the stage. Montalvan re
cords the fact of his having written fif
t teen acts in fifteen days, making five
plays in a fortnight. If not remembered
for quality of work, Vega holds a high
. place in literary annals for quantity.—
| [Public Opinion,
Tlin Tunnel Fenmml Lnnf.
A thrilling experieuce, although not
t ending fatally, was had by a railway
mailclork who acted as distributor on a
local train, says tbe Washington Star.
He had a car to himself, and at one
station up in the Alleghany Mountains
had left his car for a minute or two to
run forward to the engine, which was
taking water. The water tank was
directly west of the great tunnel, and
when the tender was tilled and the train
started the clerk sprang for his car.
The entrance to the car was on the side
and a solitary handle was grasped,
whereby the clerk pulled himself up to
the door. To his horror he found the
door had been jarred shut and could not
be opened from the out Hide, and the
second that he discovered this fact the
train shot into the tunnel. With a
desperation bora of a terrible death
staring him in the face the clerk ham
mered and kicked on the door and
shrieked aloud for help, but the noise
of the train drowned his cries, and with
both hands grasping the handle his feet
on the iron step and his body glued to
the side of the car, for fear of being
dashed off by the jagged sides, he was
carried through the tunnel.
As the tunnel is a mile long and the
atmosphere therein is almost stifling
this luckless mail clerk's experience
can be better imagined than described.
When the train shot into daylight again
the engineer looked back, as is the
custom, to see if his train was following
all right, and discovered the clerk in his
harrowing position. Quickly stopping
his engine the engineer ran back, and
witfe the assistance of the conductor,
helped the almost demented man to the
ground, where he utterly collapsed, the
strain upon his nerves being too great.
For six months he was under a physi
cian's care, and after he had become a
well man again, he said: "I thought
that tunnel was ton miles long, and my
head, I imagined, was hollow, with the
dense smoke rushing in my mouth and
nostrils and coming out of my ears liko
steam pipes.
M. Thiers, the late eminent states
man, would never have been so great if
he had not been so small, for it was his
being one of the smallest men in France
that saved his life. When he was about
twenty years old, and studying in the
town of Aix, the future historian fell
deeply in love with a young lady be
longing to a family of considerable lo
cal importance, proposed to the object
of his affections, and was accepted.
Marriage was, however, out of the
question at the time, on account of
Thiers'narrow linances; so ho started
for Paris. At first Thiers wrote fre
quently, with all the ardor of a lover;
then his passion for the beautiful girl
began to cool, and he wrote only at in
tervals; and, finally, not at all. This
terribly enraged her father, who started
for Paris to bring the false Lothario to
book. Having, at length, discovered
Thiers' lodgings, the father demanded
that he should either fulfill his promise
to his daughter or else give him (the
father) satisfaction in the usual way,
with pistols. Theirs, though no fighter,
though* it better to "spend five minutes
with a weapon which he did not under
stand than a life with a woinau whom
he understood only too well." So he
elected to tako his chance in the duel,
rather than in the hymeneal lottery.
The duel came off, and Thiers fired in
the air; bat the father did not look on
the proceedings as a joke at all, and he
did his best to avenge his daughter's
wrongs. So good an aim did he make
that his bullet went through M. Thiers*
hat. Had the latter been a trifle taller,
the future President of the French He
public would have there and then fin
ished his career.
The ships of the Chinese fleet are
divided into four squadrons—the Squad
ron of the North Coast, the Fow-Chow
Squadron, the Shanghai Squadron, and
finally that of Canton. The first (that
of the north), with its liendquarters at
Port Arthur, is the strongest, and is
composed of the most important ships
—a barbette cruiser of nearly 10.000
tons, two of more than 7,000 tons, aud
one of 2,300, besides a turret sliip of
2,320 tons, two cruisers, as well as
twenty-three first-class torpedo boats,
four small torpedo boats, and eleven
small gunboats from 300 to 400 tons.
The Fow-Chow Squadron only consists
of nine cruisers of 1,300 to 2,400 tons,
three gunboats, and three small watch
cruisers. The Shanghai Squadron is
of less importance, only comprising an
armor-clad frigate of 2,000 tons, a gun
boat, six floating batteries, and three
transports. The Canton Squadron con
sists of thirteen gunboats, exclusively
set apart for river service. In reality it
is only the squadron of the north which
is of any importance; it constitutes the
really effective portion of the Chinese
fleet, and the Prince Chum and Li Hung,
Chang aro specially interested in this
squadron. The Ting Yuen and the
Chen Yuen, two ships of more than
7,000 tons, which are considered the two
most important war vessels of tho
Chinese Empire, are comprised in this
H'innil ron.
Every one suffers
from Catarrh in tho Iload. Those
who don't have it suffer from those
who do. It's a disease you can't
keep to yourself.
Here are some of the symptoms:
Headache, obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid,
at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid, and offen
sive ; eyes weak, ringing in cars,
deafness; offensive breath; smell
and taste impaired, and general de
bility. But only a few of these
likely to be present at once.
The cure for it —-for Catarrh it
self, and all tho troubles that come
from it a perfect and permanent
cure, is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The worst cases yield to its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
Eroperties. A record of 25 years
as proved that to its proprietors
and they're willing to prove it
to you.
1 hey do it in this way: If they
can't cure your Catarrh, no matter
how had your case, or of how long
standing, they'll pay you SSOO in
cash. Can you have better proof of
tho healing power of a medicine ?
TTIP Cutting of Diamond*.
Tbe fluent diamond cutting in the
whole civilized world is done in Boston,
writes a correspondent. Amsterdam
has been for centuries the great dia
mond center, and nearly all the dia
monds famous in history have been cut
there, but to-day stones cut in Amster
dam are sent to Boston to be recut.
Originally diamonds were cut by hand.
The Pitt diamond was cut that way. It
took nearly two years and a tedious job
it must have been. It was a Boston
man who invented the diamond-cuttiug
machine and the gauge to determine
the angles giving the greatest refractive
power. It is the use of this guage that
brings about the vast superiority of the
American-cut diamond. You may not
think it, but for centuries these Amster
dam Dutchmen have done all their
work entirely by their eye--dependent
entirely on their judgment for the size
and angle of every facet. A diamond
in the rough looks like any little piece
of pebble, but a diamond cut, however
poorly, will sparkle, of course, but to j
cut a diamond so that it will sparkle
"for all that it is worth" requires not
only the finest of mechanical work, but
a thorough knowledge of the laws of
light and accurate measurements of the
facets. For the sparkle of a diamond
is nothing but the light reflected from
the facets. In a perfectly cut brilliant
there aro liftv-oight distinct facets, each
with a different grain, and a facet can
be polished only with the grain. But
the diamond is a useful stone as well as
an ornamental, and is used in glazier's
tools, dentists' drills, granite-cutters'
saws and other such things. Most of
the stones used for these purposes are
of the grade known as "bortz." They
are brown, rusty little stones, and are
actually harder than tho white dia
mond. For use in stone-cutters' saws
are set in the saw teeth, one at the
point of each tooth, and they will cut
tho hardest granite. Hock drills are
pointed in the same way with three or
four stones. Some people might think ;
it extravagant to use diamonds in a I
granite saw or rock drill, but they j
should realize it is another sort of dia
monds from that which sparkles in j
beauty's ear. Most of the diamond cut- i
ters of Boston are comparatively young
men, and the occupation is a fascinat- !
ing one. You see the dull, pebbly
looking stone gradually becoming a I
glittering gem, and feel that over your !
work time has no power; that the jewel
will be as brilliant a thousand years
hence as when it first leaves your hands.
Time's tooth touches every one's work
but the diamond.
£jVE was tne nrst person in tne news
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solicitor when she wanted the old man
to try the apple
Confirmed.
The favorable impression prodnced on the
first appearanoe of tho agreeable liquid fruit
remedy Syrup of Fins a few years ago has boon
more than confirmed by tho oleaaant experi
ence of ali who have used it, and the success
of the proprietors and manufacturers, the Cal
ifornia Fig Syrup Company.
Chicugo is promised gas at fifteen cents a
1000.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
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