HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-3-19, Page 3THE NIEGIRO AMERICAN.
The Poet O'Reilly on the orand Oppor.
matures of the Race.
The following extract from Nu. O'Reillybi
famous epeech, "The Negro American, '
which holds a high rank among his many
addresses in the oolored man's CUM, is
reprodueed from Roone's "Lite of Jahr;
Boyle O'Reilly," publiehed by the Camel].
.Pabliehing Conmeny :
No men ever came into the world with a
grander opportunity than the American
negro. He is like a new metal dug out of
the mine. He titan& at alio late day on
the timed -mid of Watery, with everything to
learn, and les e ia) unlearn than any civilized
Man in the world. In his heart etill ring
the free nande of the desert, In his mind
he carries the traditions of Africa. The
orange with which he oharnee American eau
are refrains from the tropioal forests, from
the great inland seas and rivers of the dark
...continent.
At wont the 0010Ced American has only
a century or on of degrading civilized tradi-
tion and habit to foreet and unlearn. His
nature hes ouly been injured ou the outside
by the late oiromeastances of his existence.
Inside he is a new elan, fresh from nature
--a COWL' lover, en enthusiast, en believer by
the heart, a philosopher, a cheerful, natural,
-good-natured mem I believe the colored
American to be the kindliest human being
in enistence. All the inhumanitiee of
slavery have not made him cruel or sullen
or revengeful. He has all the qualities that
lit him to he a good citizen of any conntry ;
he don not worry his soul with the fear of
reet week or next yeer. He has feelings
and convietions, and he levee to show them.
He sees no reesen why he should hide
them. He will be a great natural expres-
sion if he dares express the beituty, the
color, the harmony of God'a world as he
-nee it with a negra's eyes. Thitt is the
meaning of ream distinctiou—that it ehould
help us to see God's beauty in the world in
various ways.
Whati this splendid man needs most is
confidence in himself and his race. He
is a dependent man at present. He is not
eure of laieneelf. He underratea his own
>qualities. He mast be a selbrespecting
man. Not all men oan be distinguished,
but ausuredly some distinct expression of
genius will come out of any considerable
community of colored people who believe
in thernsolvee ; who condemn and deepite
the man of their blood who apes white
men and their ways; who is proud to be
a negro ; who will beer himself according
to bis own ideas of a colored man •, who
will enameage hie women to dress them-
selves by their own taste ; to select the
rich colors they love; to follow out their
oven natural hent, and not to adopt other
people's stupid and shop.mate fashions.
The negro woman has the best artietio eye
or color of all the women in America.
The negro is the only greoeful, musical,
color -loving American. Ile is the only
American who has written new songs and
composed new mimic. He is the meet spir-
• itual of Americans, for he worehioa with
• soul and not with narrow mind. For him
religion is to be believed, accepted like the
very voice of God, and not invented, con-
trived, reasoned elsout, shaded and made
f aehionably Incretive and marketable, as it
is made by too many white Americans.
The negro is a new man, a free man, a
spirituel man, a 'mart man; and he oan be
• a great man if he will avoid mode/ling
himself on the whites. No moo ever be•
came illustrious on borrowed ideag or the
imitated qualities of another race. -No
rage or net= is great or illuetrious, except
by one test—the breeding of great men.
Not great merchants or traders, not rich
• men, bankers, insurance mongers or direc-
• tors of gas companies. But great thinkers
—great seers of the world through their
own eyes—great tellers of truths and
beauties and colors and equities, aa they
alone see them. Great poets—ah, great
poets above all—and their brothers, great
peinters and musicians, fsebioners of God's
beeutifni shapes in clay and marble and
harmony. The negro will never take his
fall stand beside the white man till he has
given the world proof of the truth and
• beauty of heroism, 5nd power that are in
his soul. And only by the organs of the
soul are these delivered—by eelf-respeot
and self-refleotion, by philosophy. religion,
looetry, art, love and eacrifin. One great
power will be worth a hundred bankers and
brokers, worth ten Prosidente of the
; United States, to the negro race. One
great musician will speak to the world for
the black men as no thousand editors or
politicians ono.
A 24 -STORY STEEL STRUCTURE.
td;he Tallest of .Tali Rouses in Toplofty'
Chicago.
Chicago already has 12 -story, 16.story
and 19 ;imam buildings; but in the spring
she will go hertelf ocie better and put up a
- 24.story steel offiee on Dearborn street, be.
tween Polk and Harriaon.
This Valli structure will present no.
broken fronts of stone and glees , but its
strength will rest in it maze of steel col-
, umns, shafts, sleepers, aills, eta. The very
lintels will be of steel. It is claimed there
will be scarcely enough wood in the entire
pile to furnish kindling for a eingle fire in a
No. 7 cooking stove.
An Indian Challenge.'
Two Whet' of Indians in the upper part
of California had as boundary between their
distriots, a low ridge where the streams
headed. If you should go to where one of
these &mamma, Potter River, rhea, you
would see atilt ste,nding, a tell pile of etonee
beside a never.failing spring; on one side of
this cairn was the territory of the Pomo
tindiares, and on the other the land of the
Chumaim Then tribee were enemies, and
were often at war. When the Chumaia
wished to challenge the others to battle,
they took three little sticks, out notches
round their ends and in the middle, tied
them at the enda into a faggot, and laid it
on this cairn. If the Pomos accepted the
challenge, they tied a string around the
middle of the three atlas and left them in
their place. Then agents of both Wheel
met on neutral ground and arranged the
time and place of battle, whioh tools place
accordingly.—Ernest Ingersoll, in March St.
Wicholas.
The Rite of a Cat,
"Oat bites," amid Dr. Gibler, cif the Pas.
tenr institute), " are much more common in
Paris than they are here. Since 1 have
been in this country I have treated only
two persons who I had reason to believe
were bitten by mad amts. In Paris mad
eate are almost as mammon as mad doge.
•People are often bitten by them while re.
turning from the theatre. The tante shun
the light and take refuge in the dark hall.
ways. The noise ot the people groping
•their way up the stairs late at night stirs
the animals up, and often they fly at the
fano of their disturbers. Before Pasteur,
many people died in Paris from hydropho-
biet resulting from cat bites. But hydro.
phobia whether lammed by oats or dogs, is
-far more prevalent abroad than it i in thia
country."
•
The Oregon Legislature has passed an
Aot prObibiting profanity. The provitto
ought to be that Sidewalks Obeli be kepi
(dear of foe and anew.
THR RENT 917ESTION.
How the /Popularity of One tilde of a
Street Part tine Landlord.
Owing to the avarice of landlords in many
°Hies and towns the question of rent hoe
become of great importanoe to many mer.
chants. When a desirable loaation has
been eeoured for a store and a profitable
trade built rip—whieh latter has been per-
ceived by the watchful eye of the landlord
before anyone elee has observed the dream-
stenoe—and the etorekeeper is oongratulat.
ing himself that at last hie proopeots of
aO9niring 5 oonapetenoy, if not wealth, tare
enured, down comma the houemowner with
a demand for more rent, the increase some-
tirnea being out of all proportion to the
growth of the dealer's business. In plane
where a real estate "boom " is being
skilfully worked, landlords are oven more
grasping and storekeepers more heavily
burdened, but in the absence of ouch an
artificial stimulant of real estate vetoes,
buildings suitable Inc atone, end dented
upon desirable busineee thoroughlaree, are
in many cities; and towne rented at figures
that form a very oedema item of a mem
°trout's necessary expenditures, To ouch et
pitch has this evil grown that too many
retail store -keepers become literally elavn
to their landlords, who are the only per.
sons to reap decent returns from businesses
whioh require heavy onpited and great skill
to conduct them, to say nothing of the
earn and anxietiee of the proprietors,
While a desirable l000tion is of great as.
sistane in building up a lucrative retail
business, and while the merchant may
therefore be warranted in paying a ;Riff sum
for rent, yet a sadden and big increase there.
of may jeopardiza hie proopects or °arm
him to remove to a cheaper store to enema
the intolerable exactions which arouse hie
einger,even though he may be hinter as to the
consequences to his trade. Provided he aoes
not move far away from his former store,
there is no reason why an enterprieing mer-
chant of good reputation should dans lose
any custom worth grunabling over. Of
inure° if the removal is to e, different quar-
ter of the city or town it will be good-bye,
so far as the msjority of the old customers
are concerned. It is this fear of loss of
trade that helps the landlords in their
emotions of enormous rents. In some cities
certain business streets have become one-
sided, as it were, in regard to their suitabil-
ity for stores; at least, storm) on one side
of these streets will bring much higher
rents than them on the other eide, beoane
the tide of pedestrian ermine flows on one
side more strongly then on the other. In
consequence, the apparently more eligible
side of then thourouglifares becomes
crowded with stores, the rents of
which continually mount upwarde,
the tenant a being afraid to move
to the cheaper side of their streets
because of an apprehension that their
baeinese will suffer. It is the man more
than the location who is at fault if trade
slackens materielly in consequence of a
removal to a short distanoe, such es aortas
the street or a block or t wo away. We
have seen one enterprising retail merchant
who had growed tired of retying a rent out
of proportion to hie profits, remove his
business to what may be termed the
"wrong "side of a business thoroughfare,
and we have eeen the foot &raffle drawn
after him, and as a result the rents of the
stores on both sides of the street have been
equalized on a more reasonable basis. We
also have seen merchants remove eeverel
blocks away from original location and
lose no trede to speak of, If the retailer
is able and enterprising he needn't be a
slave to the landlords, for what the men
just mentioned have actomplished men be
done by other merchants of nerve and
brains.—Merchants' _Review.
EGGS DT WEIGHT.
opinion of a Dealer, With Some Informa-
tion Concerning the Fruit.
Whitmehelled eggs are, as e rale, smaller
and lighter than the redshelled, and if sold
by weight, s dozen ot the latter would, on
ten average, weigh about two ounceo more
than the former, said a produoe dealer to
the Grand Rapids Democrat. They contain
more albumen and are richer than the
white -shelled. If I had two lots offered me
at the same time, one whitemhelled and
the other red, I should purchase tin, latter,
for in buying by the dozen it svotild be a
point in trade and elso getting the beet for
customers. Eggs shoulcl, properly speak-
ing, be bought and ,00ld by weight, Inc
It would be fairer to the fetrnier
and the oonsumer. At Treveroe
City eggs are bought and sold by 'Weight,
but it would be impoesible to do -it in this
city. The Plymouth rock end black
Spanieh fowls are good types of red end
white shelled prodncers, but whilethe
former will not produce so many eggs ima
anon as the latter, when weighed, it will
be found that the Plymouth rock has
yielded moet in weight by a fair per cent.
Another thing, the then la generally
thicker and tougher, making it lets liable
to breakage end adding to ito keeping
qualities. '-Eggs are sumeptible to taking
odors. Let a farmer peek his eggs for
market in oats a little musty and if the
tam remain packed they will have a musty
flavor. again, if he pack them in
pine sawdust, as la often done, in
twenty-four home they will have a
flavor of turpentine. The shells are more
or less porous, and e,beord odors of
what they come in contend. Thete are
variona methods Inc testing the freshness
of eggs. Dealers commonly no the glass,
but a pretty Imre Met is touching tho
tongne to the smell end of the egg, if it ie
cold it ie considered freeb, but if WftYln,
like the big end, I would not warrant it as
a fresh laid egg. An egg °en be kept com-
paratively fresh for some time by turning
them over onee a week, but if allowed to
remain in one position a long period they
will deteriorate in quality and become
addled. Late hatched pullets make the
best layers Inc winter, and by proper hous-
ing, light and food, a certain amount, of
forced laying can be produced."
A NOVitlf. WE BOAT.
It Saws Through the Ice and Clem% the
Channel. ,1
A couple of Norwegian engineers have
invented an ice boat that hi oonstruoted
upon a different plan from those ordinarily
in use The in is not broken by ramming,
as at present, but it is sawn through by
circular saws then are placed below the ice.
Another apparatus thruste the in thus cut
from the channel, so that it will no longer
obstruct the paesage or endanger the safety
of vessels.
Sadie McMullen, a girl of 17, Wee plaoed
upon trial Inc murder in Buffalo yesterday,
charged with having in October last thrown
two young ohildren from a high railway
bridge, ono of whom wee killed. She
pleaded, not guilty and her trial commencee
to.day.
Inl 'spite of his troubles arising from the
disturbed state of Ireland, the lord -lieuten-
ant of that country bas many pleasurea.
One of these it the right to kiss every
pretty Airl who rooked her debut at his
levees In Dublin castle. The prebent lord.
lieutenant, the earl of Zetland, is said to
olaim hitt rights in this reaped without the
fear of the countess before hie oyes.
TEA TABLE OSSIP
A Immune neon,
once foetid a preacher to auit me ;
/le was eloquent—eound as it
But the feature that tickled my fancy
Was the way he roamed Ins nook.
eluen a ono was nisbonest as blazes,
Such and SUCh.Utipreserving the name—
Of course no addressss were given, '
But tintaw 'enl, you bet, just the same.
I bad thought to unite on probation,
But before I could bring it to pass
This ideal preaohee got on to my trail,
And sketched me ea full wan ate
—Housekeepers begin to talk of cleaning
timo.
—Shell heirpine amain dieplem thon 01
metal,
—Collo is the greeteet canee of equine
mortality.
---" Way up " in his beelines —the tele-
graph lineman.
--Cleopatra gowns patterned after those
on the stage are the mire.
—There are about 1,600 eleotric meters
he ASO itt London, and one.third of them
are of American pattern.
---Yeaeult Dudley, who tried to shoot
O'Donovan Roam, has gone to England
and will be placed in to neylum there.
—Twentymix people nemed Mahoney
are employed in tension capsoities by the
city and county government of Chicago.
--Prineees. Loaiae ot Schlewig•Holetein,
a grauddaughter of Qaeen Viotorie, will
be married iu July to Prince Aribert of
Anhalt.
—The statue to be erected by the print-
ers of the Unitet 5 totes in honor of Horace
Greeley will be remay for unveiling on
Dein:amnion day.
—Au Easter tetra is of rough white paper
painted with blorsoming roses. ln one
corner is a ;spider's web, where rest two
pink petals tipped with dewdrops.
—Prof. john Tyndall, the fa moue British
nientist, did not marry until he was 63,
when he wedded Lord Hamilton's eldest
daughter. Ile is maw in his 80th year.
—Chicago has underground and emcees -
ally working 404 miles of electric light
eable, 650 males of telegraph wires and
6,080 nuileaof telepbonmwires and cables.
— Mr. Gladstone don not smolt° and dis-
likes tobacco in every form. ale has also
e, profound contempt Inc smart attire and
a deep-rooted dislike for new clothee.
— The telephone service in Berlin is
operated entirely with ground circuits, and
the telephones are unless beyond ehort
as they are filled with a confusion
ot sounds.
—Little Wallace Chapman, a 4 -year-old
/Canna City bey, has a most wonderful
memory. He recently repeated, verbatim,
a nineteen StatlZA poem after hearing it
reed aloud throe times.
A WOMAN'S TEfOUGIIT.
The women have many faults,
The men have only two.
There's nothing right they say,
There's nothing right they do;
But if the men do nothing right,
Say nothing that is true,
What precious fools we women are
To love them as we do
—The fashion in lady clerks has
changed. Heretofore, says the World, she
wee offenelvely talkative, but there is an
insolence about the silence that is positively
audible and makes enemies for the firm.
But when you corm to think about it, a 510
manner oennot be expeoted from a $2.50
maid.
—A. St. Mary's lady, who ia a teacher of
o pablio school in Tomato, had a funny ex.
perience the other day. Three children
presented themselvea for enrollment as
pupils. The first on being seked his name
and ase answered, "John Thompson, age
13," the eecend, "Richard Thompson, age
13." Oh, then, yen are twine ? " Imagine
the teacher's astonishment when the
%newer was given, "No, sir, pleese ma'am,
we are triplets, and there's the other
fellow."
BIS SWITCY SHIP'S A SAILER.
Flow liTenry George is Getting- Back His
Lost Mental Elasticity.
This will give you a fair idea of Henry
George's present :
Ads° at 7 ; bicycle spin till 8 ; break-
fast, sail, or row till 11 •, bicycle ride again
till noon ; lunch at 1 o'clock; fiehing,
visiting caves and points of intend by boat
till 5; another bioye,le ride till 5 30; dinner
from 6,30 to 7-30; it quiet smoke and ohne
on the poroh till 9 ; bed.
No wonder that Mr. George sleeps like a
log; that he eats the biggest meal in the
dining.roona ; that his face has the glow of
perfect physical health, and that he is
olwoys thinking up new places to go by
laud and water.—Bermuda letter in this
week's Standard.
AN IMMENSE ENGINE.
It Will Tara the Rolls in Carnegie's Big
Works.
A large Corlise engine has recently been
erected at the Homestead Steel Works,
near Pittsburg, which hos a cylinder 54
inches in 'diameter and the stroke 72 inches,
end is calculated to develop a horse.power
of 3,500. The engine will be used to drive
e. large train of rolls for making struc-
tural hapes, and some idea of the work
it will have to do may be gained from
the fact that the main steam pipe is 18
inches in diameter and the exhaust pipe 20
in ohm.
The Scotch Ft ome Rule movement.
In connection with the movement for
obteining Home Rale for Scotland, Mr.
Waddie, of Edinburgh, has compiled a
pamphlet, "How Scotland Lost her Par-
liament and what came of it," in which he
gives it brief and pithy account of the
events that led up to the Union, and after
quoting the Treaty of Union in full, shows
that ite turn have not been observed in
regard to taxation, the law courts, and a
variety of other pointe. The great advance
that has taken place in the material wealth
of Scotland, Mr. Waddle contends, is doe
more to her mineral resources and the
mechanical and organizing genius of her
eons than to any political cause. The
Union, he bolds, has entailed a financial
Ion on Scotland.
Pleading for Domes.
Four thoueand unemployed workmen
who attended it recent meeting in Hamburg
adopted it resolution which will be pre-
eented to the Senate, coking for the promul.
piton of a temporary lave, forbidding
hone owners, at the end of the. present
quarter, to expel tenants who have been
without work lout weeks. They also ask
the city for a loan of 50 mark e eaoh
and that the children of suffering families
be fad once daily with warm victuale in the
public) sthoole,—Neto York Tribune.
—An economical bartender aim make
Iwo lanonades with one lemon, but its' a
tight SqueeZe.
--First man—Your wife and My wife
don't nem to get on Very well together.
Second man—Well, it's undoubtedly my
wifee fault. First man—It's nothing of
tihe sett, sir. lIdy wife is entirely it blame.
And after e few more angry words they
came to blows.
UWE'S IMAM%
A Young Girl Pewee Her sweetheart and
shoot* Him Zow-5ey e 17".311.
Fidelity and Gaye Her the Pistol as a
leledge.
People who were busily paseing along
Spring street near Croeby and others who
stood around the doors of the big tenements
mar by saw a dremaltio ehooting affray thie
morning, says the New York World. At
about 8 30 o °look a young Italian, well
built and swarthy, and who looked a little
better off than the ordinary laborer, came
along on the eastern sidewalk from down.
town. When opposite No. 70 Spring street
a woman appeared nbout ten feet in front
of him, so suddenly that it was not known
whether she had sprang upon him
from a neighboring tenement hall.
way or had been following him. She
was very young, little more than a girl
1.21 appearance, and wee good looking. She
swept morose his path like it women nerved
by fierce paseion. Her eyes fairly blazed
upon him. Some weirdo pissed, hot with
meaning, but not clearly heard by any one.
TM man shrank back and tried to escape.
For it moment he turned hie back as if to
fly. At that :moment, bowever, the young
woman drew a revolver and tired. Again,
again, and a fourth time, without lowering
her weapon, she pulled the trigger. The
man fell to the sidewalk, wounded and
gapping. The crowd preesed around, and
some one knocked the weapon from the
woman's hand. Others seized her and
held her till a policeman came. She atm-
gled until exhausted, shrieking out male.
diction upon the victim of her wrath.
An ambulance from St. Vincent's Hospital
took the wounded man to that inetitution
The surgeon said two of the bullet) had
entered his body. One had lodged near the
heart. The woman's remaining shot.] had
flown wide of the mark, and were found
flattened upon ale sidewalk. At the Mul-
berry street station house the woman
oelmed down and coolly admitted that she
was glad she had not missed her aim. She
field she was Paecetteline Robertelli, by
tradeo tailoress, and that her home was
15 Mott street.
" The MEM whom I shot," she said, " ia
Nicole, Piero."
" He is my betrayer," sbe continued,
"and it serves him right."
" He lives in Sullivan street, near Hous-
ton street. The number ie 145, I think."
" I had a right to kill him.
"About four months ago this man took
advantage of me. We were engaged to be
married, and he broke his promise.
"When I reproached him he told me he
would surely make me his wife.
" He gave me his revolver then, and told
me that if he failed to fulfil hie promise I
might shoot him dead whenever I SSW him.
"1 only did what he gave me leave to do
and they cannot harm me for it. A woman
has some rights."
At 10 o'clock Pasqualine was taken to
the Tombs court by Policeman Haggerty,
who arrested her.
A crowd thronged the court room to see
the girl, whose beauty made a great impres-
aion upon ell. She is really pretty,
with blank eyes, fine hair and
rosy cheeks and lips. She told
her story to Justice Taintor, stating
little in addition to what appears above.
She said, however, that she was told yes-
terday that Piero was on the eve of sailing
for Europe. She believed he was going to-
day, and waited all night Inc him in front
of his home, 145 Sullivan street. He did
not come home at all, but she met him on
Spting street. as he weed through on his
warto brealtfast. She was remanded to
await the remelt of Piero's injuries, and
was teken back to the station house. The
revolver with which the deed was done
was produced in court. It is a new end
rather fancifully ornamented weapon of 28
calibre. A witness of the shooting, Pas-
quale Verrone, of 68 Spring street, was
committed to the House of Detention.
Paequale is only twelve years old and lives
next door to the house opposite which the
Beene occurred.
The Treatment of Wrinkles.
How many icquiries are read in the
mere concerning the prevention and Imre
of wrinkles. Some of the suggestions are
simple, and a trial could do no possible
harm, bat ix is eafest to beware of those
methods which suggest any very radical
mode of treatment, that is, melees you have
the advice of a reliable physicir.n. A
famous beauty of the last generation pre.
vented wrinkles by closing her eyea, and
keeping her features perfectly composed for
the space of ten minutes several times
during the day. A remedy which a friend
of mine has iuvented, for her own cage, she
having bed wrinkles on her forehead, is to
nee the massage treatment night and morn-
ing, and at bedtime, after robbing the
wrinkles out, to out narrow strips of °mut
plaster which she stioka morose them. For
the sake of my friend I hope this method
will Drove as successful as the court plester
treatment did in the case of it young
mother, who plastered baok her infant's
turnover ears until they grew into place.
A Marseilles distillery company has been
obliged to suspend operations owing to the
inability to stand the duty of three francs
on maize. The closing of the distilleriee
will rain the pork breeders in that vicinity,
who use the maize refuse in feeding their
hogs.
Here is something frotn Mr.Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost a
father and several brothers and sis-
ters from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
H ered itary often cong,hs enough
to make him sick at
Con s tan 13ti 0 nhis stomach. When-
ever he has taken a
cold of this kind he uses Boschee's
(.Terman Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full clanger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Listen! "1
.ise nothing but Boschee's German
yrup, and have advised, I pregutne,
niore than a hundrecl different per-
sons tee 'take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
in the market." ' 0
WILL 4 0414114)1K JUMP HAWAII
Two Port Hope Brothers in the Late King
Iietiaireenaes Kingdom.
Ever einoe the death of King Kulakana
and the ameesion of the Princess Lilokau-
lard there have been manors of impending
revolution in the little Kingdom of Hamm.
The affaire appear to be in a somewhat
chaotio condition, and the queetion has
been raised whether it will not be necessary
to establish an American protectorate for
the aecurity of American internat. But
Clans Spreckels, the auger king, who has
enormous inveetnaente in the Ireland and is
probably better peaked on the situation than
any other Amerioan, him eteadily aimed.
ited these reports.
The latest rumor, which Spreokles pro.
nounaes to be "a bundle of nonsense,"
refers to the possibility of "General "
Volney Ashford being at the head of it
conapiraoy to seize the Government and
becoming King Volney I. of Hawaii. The
sugar king claims that Ashford has no
military forms that he could control if he
desired to, and that he was a quiet attorney
who never was it member of King lisle.
karta's cabinet. His brother, Lawrence
Aehford, was Attorney•General in the so-
called revolutionary cabinet. Whether
Volney Ashford is engaged in any such
soherne or not, his past miner
mekeit one doubt his being such it
quiet fellow as Spreokles repreeents.
It may not be generally known,
but he and his younger brother
Clarence, are natives of the little town of
Port Hope, in Ontario, and were edunted
at the High School there. Volney, who
was a handsome, imposing looking man,
the very ideal in appearance of it beau
sabreur, benme captain of it troop of Cana-
dian cavalry under Col. Arthur Stewart.
In the rebellion he enlisted in the Northern
army and, if we mistake not, served for it I
time on the staff of General ltteClellan. I
Whether he regularly gained the title or I
nob he became known as "Colonel"
Ashford. He must have gone to Hswaii
something like fifteen years ago, and we
have understood that he was commander of
the military forces under Kalakaua. Is
it poesible that we are to hey° a Canticle -
American King 2—Buyalo News.
The Household Prize.
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PIERDON, with Johnson de Brown.
Paper Wheels.
Persons who have never had any business
with it railroad except to ride on its oare
ocoesionally, have an idea thst paper oar
wheels are entirely made of that substance.
Thin is a miataken ides, as the only portion
mode of paper is the inside or filling of the
wheel. This paper is held in place by
steel plates which are bolted together
through the paper. The tire is then put
on and the wheel is finished. Of course
there is a good deal of work included
in the making, but this is the sum and
substance of a paper wheel. There
are several sizes of paper wheels
made, for instance, 42-inah wheels, 33 -
inch, 30 -inch, 28-inoh and 26 -inch. The
last two sizes are locomotive truck wheels.
Some roads use paper wheels exclusively
under their psesenger equipment and cast
iron ones under their freight equipment.
These paper wheels are made by a Chicago
company. Tires Inc paper wheels are
made in Europe and in this country also.
The weight of it 42.1noh paper wheel is
1,150 pounds, and an Elsie 350 pounds, so
that the weight of it pair mounted on an
axle is 2,650 pounds. There are two pairs
on each truck and two trucks under a oar,
so that the combined weight of the wheela
and axles pleoed under each oar is 10,600
pounde. The value of a pair of 42.inoh
paper wheels is in the neighborhood of
$150, the tires alone being veined at about
556. The wheel centre is worth about 10.7
itself.
Douglas Jerrold,.
His countenace was open and bright
(when sober 1) and showed nothing of that
satirical bitterness for which he was so
eminent. Leigh Hunt, in propoeing his
health on one occasion, called him "the
bitter Jerrold, with honey under him," I
011Ce ventured to tell him that several of
the members of the olub were afraid of him
and his bitter tongue, and shunned conver-
sation with him on that amount, when he
said to me, with great energy: " Sidney, I
have never in my life said or written it
bitter thing of any one who did not deserve
it," And I must Bay that I have frequently
heard him speak of persona and things in
the most courteous and beautiful and even
feeling I/menage—metaphor following
metaphor, quaint conceits, graceful images,
besutifal Wass and thoughts, all expressed
in one continue' flow of eloquence from a *
fountain inexhaustible. * In the
winter jerrold always took it chair elm to
the fireside, where he sat with his cigar,
and whence be leaned his witticisms in his
dry and amusing manner, keeping us all in
a continuous state of uproarious leughter.
—My Life—T. Sidney Cooper.
A Fast -Talking Parson,
Two hundred and forty words it minute,
four words every seamed, is it rate of speed
whittle seems almost beyond the power of
articulation, yet was the measure of the
torrent of eloquent exposition and appeal
poured forth in St. Pantie Church last
Monday by the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks.
Try to equal it reading from it printed
page in it conversational tone, and then
imagine the immensely increased difficulty
of the task in a large church, before it
great congregation, and withont the guid-
ance oven of a written note. The business
men, for whom the service was especially
designed, had been assured that the dia.
course would be short, and so it was in
time, for it was finished in 25 minutes, but
the report made by two stenographic
reporters, of the Journal's regular staff,
covered 6,000 words, and gave the extraor-
dinary averages with which this paragraph
opens.—Booton Journal.
—Tommy—What sort of preachere are
called " doctors," pa ? Pa—The kind
who practice what they preach, my son
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The Treatment a Japaneee Diseeyeryee
How It Is Effected,
The Berlin correspondent of it syndieate
et peovinoiel pipers has had an interview
with Dr. Ramat°, of Tokio, a Jeri/MHO
doctor now studying at the hygiene() enuti.
tute there, who profeesee to Wore discovered
a method for the cure of loelslew, nig
pure is timed on a principle somewhat
similar to that of Dlr. Hankin's euro for
anthrax. Yet it es different in some im-
portfent partionlars. Dr. Kitaeato fin*
mooing; an animal impervieue to tetalhatie
aud then injects tile blood serum of tied'
moimal into animals eoffering from the die.
ewe?. In order to render an maims' inswa
eeptiblo, he first injeoto the gerrne or
baoilli of tetanus, and follows thls.
injection with injections of triohloride
of iodine, which he repeats at intervala
of twelve houre. After four days the
animal, whioh under ordinary oiroum-
atance would have died from lockjaw, is not
only oured, but rendered impervious to the
disease. Ties Wood aerum of sauna an ani-
mal feta been found in smaessive experi-
ments on rake to act as a complete cure.
Hankin's method for the cure of anthrax ia
to obtain from rats directly the peculiar
chemical product whieli enures Inc them
immunity from particular diseases, and,
etfter cultivating and preparing it, inject-
ing the extraot obtained into aufferhag
animals. Both dienveries are based, how-
ever, upon the law of antagonism postu-
lated by Sir William Robert Grove in a
Inture at the Royal Institution, end
illustrated as far as bacteriology is con-
cerned in it paper by Mr. Hankin, con-
tributed to the British Medical journal,
entitled "The Oonfliot between the Organ.
ism and the Microbs."—Pan Mall Gazette.
Reciprocity Under Foot.
A story juat started will give Congreas-
man-elect Jere Simpson, of Ronne, a wide
reputation for repartee. While he woe at
the Capital at Washington Monday a pretty
woman thus addressed him: " Is it true
that you don't wear spoke, Mr. Simpaon?
Won't you let me see, please ? " " Madsen,"
replied Mr. Simpson, gravely," I'm a be-
liever in reciprocity. Do you wear socks?
If you'll show me yortra I'll show you mine I"
—New York Standard.
A boiler in the dye house of James Ma–
(jambe, on South Pearl street, Albany,
N. Y., exploded at noon yesterday. The
boiler went through the upper floor and
roof and over housetops and landed in a.
yard fifteen feet square three hundred feel
distant. James McCombe and his sona
were in the second story and were buried
in the wreck, which caught fire. Jamea
MoCombe, George McCombe and Samuel
MoCombe were terribly injured.
A woman who figured as a pauper died
recently in San Francisco, leaving 06,192,
which she had acoumulated by begging.
Three benevolent snieties that had
befriended her to the nmonnt of $840,
0895 and 0905 respectively, have began
suits to recover the SIMS nainell fronx
her estate.
Cubbage—You ought to have scan the
eggs flying when Chinner began his leo.
tare. Rubbego—Were they as ripe as that
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