HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-10-19, Page 2TEE GREAT STORM.
A TheWand Lines Lost iu Alebanla tuul
Louisiana.
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REPORTS OF DISA.STER COMM IN,
Menses Wrecked by the Wind and Sweat
Away by ritiodenitailways Washed Out
—rho Worst Probably not Known.
Tbe loto of life mend by the sterna will
protably reach 1,000. The Joe Webber ineti
not annul in her trouble, then. MoSweariey,
mood of the Webber, having also moir
with totel demelittere With these two
reteamboons went tbeir entire cameo to a
wetery grave. Besidea them febalibles the
fidlowiner luggere were swept, out of exiet-
once i The Afedele, Voles, Flying Datoin
roan, Princom the Sbephanie and tbe
Grand bland (lest, (ordain and two !sailors)
nanles unknown). This does net begin to
account for the Inggere lob, for more than
is mere were known to be in the vicinity of
Grand Island, The ialands adjecent to
Grand Isle were also inoluded in the hurri-
cane that swept this trountry last Sunday.
Emmert is one of the greup, and, like all
ite neighboro, is meted by people, all of
Whom are clear Speniards by descent. Di
has not more theta a score of inhabitants
who earn their living by fishing. This
place wait eatirely depopulated.
The roadbed of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad frora Pearl River to Waveland is
completely writhed away, and west of Look -
it is nearly as bad.
Alfred Palen an halide tu relating the
story of the storm said he had lost all of
his property, but had fortunately saved Inte
two children on his shoulders. His mother
tried to save a drowning child, but as she
reached for the little one in the mad waters,
the wind Inoreased and the little one was
swept away from her outstretched arms.
In the bearding ileum of John Richard
there were sixty-one persons when the
storm came up, and the house was com-
pletely wreaked. Col. Denton and his wife
were killed by felling timbers, while the
ethers escaped uninjured.
The store of Tom Valenoe was wrecked,
and also his house, and his family, conslan
leg of a wife and six children, a gator and
himself, were killed or drowned. Teeto
Valence's store was also wrecked, and he
and hie wife were killed in the wreck of the
store. Armand Terrebonne was drowned.
Alidore Terrehenne and family were
drowned. Malaita' Terrence, wife, three
daughters and two sons were drowned.
Emma, bis daughter, was killed in the
wreck of the home. Armand Paled, wife
and three children were drowned. Opte
Bouzega, wife and son were drowned. Leon
Terrie and family were drowned, with the
exception of three children. Doulence
Bouzega'his wife and six children were
drowned. Two children, a daughter and
eon were saved. Thomas Alone, his son
Joseph and the latter% family were
drowned, with the exception of his wife.
Robin was floating on a log on the water
from 10 o'olock at night until 5 o'clock in
the morning. He travelled that time four
and a half miles, and at daylight swam
ashore.
LOSS OVER A MILLION
defualte news feem the Gulf Coast reaohed
the elite this merning. The finanoiel loss
along the entire coast will foot tip nob len
than $1,000,000 and fully 1,000 lives were
lost. The news is almost as appalling aa
that from the mast of Louisiana. At Beioxi
nothing escaped the fury of the elements.
On every side could be seen the wrecks of
boats, piers and bath houses, and in many
instances the fronts of houses en the beach
wore totally demolished. The canning in-
dustrieni Wen completely wrecked. Out of
more than 100 boats of the front bay,
only three rode the storm safely. and the
beach is !drawn with wrecks of all desorip-
tons. On the back bay there were only
one or two that weathered the gale. Nat a
single wharf is left standing on either front
or back bay. The damage was not con-
fined alone to tJae water front, but all
through the city, in every direction, the
effects of the etorm own be seen in fallen
trees, formes, and here and there a house
partially unroofed. At Deer Island, just
opposite Beloxi, forty head of cattle were
drowned. When the storm came up, which
was a genuine cyclone, there were mealy
boats in the Louisiana march, oyster fish-
ing, and tt is aimed certain that a number,
if not all of these boats,
WENT DOWN WITH ALL ON BOARD.
Of eight schooners, known to be there
Sunday evening, throe have been picked up
bottom aide up, with maste and rigging all
gone and not a soul on board. It is believed
the lost ef life will not fall short of 100. At
Ship Island, previous to the storm, there
were seven veseels loading for other ports.
The Norwegian bargee Simon, Capt. Gila -
dorsal], 734 tone, for Capetown, to lead for
Bunoes Ayres, lost her mast, rigging, and
iraffered obher damage. The British barque
Roselle, Smith, 509 tone, for Havana, Capt.
Hunterman, was found bottom up driftieg
+outside, and is a total wreck, The mate,
'carpenter and cook were drowned. The
Garman barque Mergeretis, 1,287 tons, from
/dew York, Capt. Hinter'lost twe anthers
and 120 fathoms of chaino, and suffered
other damage. The Austrian barque Annie
E. B., from Santos, is a complete wreck.
Of the crew of thirteen men and two steve-
dores aboard, the captain, three sailors and
the two stevedoers were drowned.
Considerable damage was dene on the
Island, the warehouse, fort, keepers' house
and lazaretto at the quarantine station being
cempletelv washed away and the lighthouse -
keeper's house being badly damaged. Very
little of the Government wharf remains, and
what is left will be of no service. A large
number of cattle were aho drowned.
Pinball the wont damage, the loos of
property, was at Chandelier Island. Here
Vats located the United States Marine Rod.
vital and the quarantine betiding:). At thie
plaint the fullest ktrength of the storm was
developed, resulting sot only in the almost
complete destruction of all the buildings on
bo island, but a
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
The building mad pier 'known as the die-
enfeciting plant, supplied with all the
'modem appliancefoe the thorough
diebi-
footiono of vessels from infected ports, is a
complete lose, everything being watheid
away, While the other buildlitme on the
island are more or lens demaged and unin-
habitable,' The following pennons are miss-
ing; and alreose certain they were droverted.
• debeward Ie Duckett, of New ,Orleane ;
Stereo MeKenzie, of Moble; Searnan
Illeder, Of Amsterdam, and twri patient*,
One named Lezen, ot the ateamehlp Anneal..
dale[wit Qeo, B, SabrAis, boatman of tiae
Ante'etnen beide Rebecca Goecierd. The
lightheuse Is alao Wreoked and the keeper
las eheudened it. Mile of the lehed hem
been wenhed away, and what I1tbe rentable
de liable to be tionipletely enbreetged With a
siltde Mare than erdinaty high tide.
The eurvivorn are f,he pitting nuns in the
*Igoe of Method& Not One If them but
beea tetelhie AMY to teli ; net 6fie brit fe
'badly berthed and injured. They eneaped
nudely on rate or loge, floating for tweney
toninety. houra in the Water, With the evind
...tet 115 milee an hourpie deatlitij SO far ae
reported,Nebiels one 4:gamed, aggre.
gate over two theugand.
At the time the eterm vielta Maw.
Contend* 120ilettieg vessels Were be the
gulf fishing. Noe a werd bum been heard
Irene them or thollr cooDuPanto. .ateeff the
Mississippi the bee ed life Was to some ex-
tent due to hellhole building& in the bay it
was calmed wholyb,ydrowedd9.
A sunlinenede STORE.
Mr. Matthew SOW* of Goldeborough,
just opposite the oily, was one of the sur.
Avers of the Omelet° Camomile sethenity,
wino arrived on the Schooner Good Mother.
He brought el* loem a harrewine inie of
his eepertencee and the ion of Ine
Chentero. Mr. Behunta went to the Jerald
&bout four *weeks ago for the purpeao of
constructleg a echeener. Mr, Scherts, Mr.
Therepson end a Alegre hrlohleMer were in a
hones in which mime fully 25 people, all
huddled together end terror stricken at the
mighty agony menthe Metnente. Saddenly
there wao s feerful entitle of timbers and the
roof caved le, belling nearly aware one of
the party, only Mr. Sober% lead the negro
bricklayer oomph* Mr. dietrurts clung
ID floating debris meta he raw a Hebb
Wielding iu n home not far wiry. He
ewer+ to the hews ned was admitted.
There were offend people in this house.
Mr. Sohurte had bardly entered, however,
when the enuoture went to plum, and oat
of those whe were In the house only Man
Schnabel, a lady awl a child eammed. Mr.
Schurts stleceeded in getting the lady and
baby be e tree, and there the parity stepped
till 4 o'clock in thereon -dint when Ole wind
began to abate. The negro bricklayer
managed be reach the pole to which the
flailing Backe are xemally tied, and clung 'bo
that during tba whole al the awful night,
finally being rescued.
Mr. Sohusts men the magmata la that the
less of life on Grund Tele and Cheniere teed
the Grand and Adams Bay, and tbe Cook,
Chalon and Oyster Bayou eettlernento yid
reach eight hundred to a the/named. When
he lef 1 Cheniere Nand yesterday he coniated
bat five houses attending, ant of a total of
about 300.
And here, there and everywnere wore tbe
ghastly faces of ompses turned upward to
the peaseful thlea, slow Intent and beautilul.
and bearing no trace of the awful porde of
the night. Upon many of them were still
evidences of the teenier's agony they had suf-
fered before death came ta relieve them of
their troublea. Sarno lost their Ilene In
the wreck ef theie beraree, eorao bad been
drowned after melee:nag from the shells
which could not !shelter them fromthe blasts
of the frightful gerim some had prebably
given up their lives In a vain effort ts save
those whom they Lived and who were de-
pendent moon them fox protection. Many
of the poor fellow, many of the women and
children, had lived tbreugh the night, but
mortally wounded, and with motbiog to
quench their flatlet, and no medical meat -
mace at hand, had given lap a smuggle that
very sorely tried reeren souls. There were
broken arms and bseleen lege brnized and
battered baton fames leaded ent of all
human form. Many a pile el debris wait the
temporary grave of a family.
Later reports of the lees of life in the
Bayou Cook country will +approximate 200.
Scores of fislabag anuiroks and lugger++ have
been destroyed and the country swept clean
of Its houses.
A 4110A1, Merinnan.
.14.1.10
Britesh hisumfarenerers Diapertilin Coal
from the Malted States,
A London cable says: The shortage ef
coal on account of tbe collleake strike, and
the difficulty of trareportertion, is becoming
worae ID nearly every coal centre ID the
kingdom. In Debbie for instance, the
abooks will be exhamated in e month if im-
portations cease. On the Landon Ceal Ex-
change only trifling supplies are offered,and
the demand is simmer. The face treat the
Durham miners have asked for an advance
in wages complicates the preemie nitration
A meeting of the maniere and mine °tenon
will be field on Monday to diverse the
matter. A remarkable edgn of the times is
the fent that the firm cif Simpson, Spence &
Co., London, hair cbartered a steamer to
bring a cargo of met from Phaladelpbia,
paying 12s. 6d. per ton for freight. Trestle
declared to be an unproiederated ocearrence.
In nanny pits in Derbyshire work brie boon
reauaaed on the terms agreed to on Fridley
last, namely, that the old rate of wags*
should be paid, and that each man Amin
contribute a shilling a day to tho teethe
Fund. These pito am now weaken double
shifts. The night =MI ardis 63. per to ex-
tra. The Derby Cironty Council has voted
£100, with which Mr pay the extra pones
and troops neemeitated by the strike. The
orisie having passed, 240 of theao (mesa Marl
have been withdrawn from the strike die-
Mids.
The False and the Temperature.
If you take a bliummernoter en a het sum-
mer day and watch it until It runs nre under
the influence of the sunshine to 98.4, yon
will see it, when it reaches that; paean at
the exact teneperaturedof your body, 11 you
are in normal health. Your temperature
may fluctuate a &nett= above oir below
98.4, according to the time of tile day or
night, but ib never -varies to any extent
until fever or memo ether kind of dieesse
sate in. Then the tem pentane begios
ID do what the pulse would not de—tell
juin how dangerommly nick the person is.
And one of the strange thirteen about ft)
Is that it dem not vary many degrees
from this normal peint of 98.4, no matter
how bit the patient may became. If there
is a high fever, its may run up to 164 or 105,
and aometimes to 105, Int lb statism stays at
this noint for any length of time. If le goes up
ID 108 the good playeichin whole wasehlreg
at the bedside of the Mak parson tronialudee
that death will pet an end dit the eufneriug.
Somatic:sem an In the crime of cholera, it
may drop several degrees below 98.4, but it
;memo to bo nispeasikdo for it te obaego
many degrees from the earned point. There
are came recorded where theteaniperrsture ran
up te 110 or 112 ea the patient recommer.
The pulses, on tho cemetery, may obtains
many beats, and still the siell porton will
not be in danger of death WI, an a rale, if
the temperature Drachm 108 or 109 death
soon follow& -
A tiny thermometer, called a ellnical
thermometer, in need to taken] tba
temperature. It to rimed under the
tongue, or Mom to taw, MEM under
the axilla, or armpit, and left there fol.
few reinitteS. By an *gemstone arrinage.
ment the mercury ha the elextder glare tuba
IS selfiregistering, so that you may tell
how high lb was any time afeer the tern.
peaky° le bakes s+ the mercury Is not
disturbed.
CIO Work fel litlIAB or reemaince.
The Dowd of Public Worne hats elecidep
to give employment on the streets of the
city to the heeds of families that are tiecede-
ing aid from the Bernd of Charitien. Araeng
them one many DIOR anxious to work, hat
neable to find employment. The Comeattese
On Street) and Sidewalks bee sleet soot'
01 ita appreprietton leffs, ond AM amount
will his expended esb Mr to give dependent
citizens firithediate etelploynterrie—Bridge-
pog Starialarit.
There are eighty-five *Men ID Gnat
Britebl engaged in tier Moupeelon of :Alm -
trey weep&
LOBENGULA AND HIS IMPIS,
asia••••••••••••lina
A Retell of Matabeleland and its
Peculiar People.
A NATION STILL IN SAVAGERY.
wileb Doctors—a Nuch Wedded litug—idis
Dude iirrourt—A War Dance—A Weird
Specteene.
2) et
T. ihepreaentwornent,
says the Pall lira
Gcszette, when Mu-
ttons between the
British South Africa
Oegaintkpicenity triin of
L
imobaeton
:
beloland, are greatly
strained, and the
aworka. ottfiy datze 7011 octal no tf
the " Chartered
country Is tor the
moment checked by a
laeavy dorm Mend getherisag from the west,
the following account ef Bedarvvayo is of
great interest:
Southern Matabeleltued is a plateau from
2,600 It. to 4,4200 ft. in height—a beautiful
vountry, well weeded, rich in rivers aLd
pretense, rich in soil—which would grow
anything; as has been proved by the few
Rarepeene whe reside near the onpitial. But
the original owned' and tillers of the coil
have 'Mutest entirely disappeared, wept
away by Matinees imp% ; a few still mint,
and may exist+, hidden among the rocky
nfrald to show themselves, their few
goats, or handful of mealles—afraid of the
svanderhig enemy. In all the countries
within reach of the Matabeles a similar state
of things exists. They are almost depopu-
lated ; the men and women have been killed
during the many raids!; the boys made into
slaves and soldier:I; the girls given to the
wee:len as wham or worm khan wives.
BIS PREROGATIVES.
The King Lohougula is abeolute in every
untie of the word, abeolute master of life
said death, and WI everybody and every-
thing in his dominions ; but hew could such
peeple be ruled otherwise Everything
beleaags to biro, and he gives, wben and bow
ID platens food, wives and slaves te hie
subjects; he is supreme rain doctor, gives
them rain erlen he thinks neoesaary ; no
chief witch donor, he " stadia out" any
one endermaing the State—generally a rich
mon—and tell@ hie young soldiers where
roost auccessfuily to raid, to as to bring
back girls and cattle. The country In
divided into military dietricte, each die-
triet containing a regiment, commanded by
Indunae and gerrisoned in a kraal.
The regiments vary in etrength end
in age, tome of the elder ones mustering
enly men of pure Zulu blood, while the
younger ones have been gradually formed
out of the preduce ef marriage and uniois
'with captured women, and of both taken in
the conutrtes raided. Besides soldiers, each
kraal contains
OWE On MORE QUEENS—
Lebanon% bast 68—and female %leves and
children; while cattle graze on the rich
paitturem and millet is grown to make the
matey° beer. Every ox, every cow, belongs
ID the klog ; none can be killed without
his parrelesion, and all beer has to be sent
ID the rowel kraal. The older regiments
wear the Zulu "ring," a mark of distinctim
granted to approved warriore; the younger
Jaime to wait, tiometimos until well advanced
ID lile, but the grant el the "ring " meats
that their king considers them men,
and alro gives them permieteen to marry,
a permission which, until then, had net
been coneldereel raecestary. These young
soldiers eapeotally these compoeing the
"Royal Guard," have been lately and for
mine thole tlae turbulent element in the
Mistabele army; them favored warden
death) te -wash their *earn and become
"mere" wear the "ring," and be allowed to
marry. The raids, and therefore the oppor-
tunity to distinguish tiaemeelvea, have nob
been very frequent lately, and the soldiers
are restless reader tbe oasemand of a king
whe is deeltrene of living -at -peace with the
Europeans, and fret at the protection given
by an Feagliati compway to the wretched
iiimiebonas, of whom they have been bred to
tbiek as their own preverty and their own
Braves. Lebengula has never harmed a
European, tend always treated him well.
He in new an old man, and may not have
tho power to hold his army ha check or to
curb its ardor.
HIS COURT.
The capita, Rels.wayo, Mamas on an
emieerace commanding the country round,
country which has long abice been demand
of all trees and bruebwood. It consiate of
an rezones= kraal, surrounded by a doable
fenceef atrong tree stemr, and °metal= the
royal residence cattle enolosun a, emaller
kraals for witehtnaft ceremonies, for the big
officers of State and Royal ladles. Lebee-
gnia Unwed ocoupiee a hours made of med
end wood, erected for him by some Euro-
peen. Here tbe great man oieepo on a
dirty matron on the ground, watched
ever by his
TAVORITE BEER GIRL,
e. lady whose proportions% like those of her
royal master, show in an enalzemb degree
the fattening properties of the national
beverage. In one corner stands a
number of riga, presents to the
king from various bunters; In another
make of corn and baakets of tobaoco. All
state and other bluntness is transacted ha a
cattle kraal outside, where the king, now a
sufferer from gout and obesity, site in a
wheeled chair. The ground is libtered with
filth and bones of every description; a fire
burns close at hand, wherewith the royal
ohne prepares the choice pieceo of meat
interned for the king and any grata he
wham to diethagnish ; after which the beer -
girl hands to her master hie favorite drbak,
first having tinted it hermit. All reports
from every pate of the kingdom are here
amide, the messengers coming towards the
royal presence on Imelda and knees, and
eiteuting the kingly titles all the while. If
nocetentry mimed le hold, co:misting ef
the regent+, commandevin-chief, ram a end
witch elector., the head indunae, etc. Never
110 Cal3 PAO% the Wing &melt; in a wag-
gon drawn by ten Monk oxen from kraal to
krsml, impeding cattleihe -which he Mho
bbs gmateat prlde, anderansieetirig ionaineers.
Once a year takes place
TWO GREAT WAS nAnce,
wben all regiments available are gathered
round the royal kraal. Smell perigee from
every Milittery,station arrive some dart in
advance to build lurtu for their regiments,
and an enormous) teummary toner springb
up stud covert the whole plate. Seen after
the troves march im very orderly ander
their tannin, aed take up their maartees,
the women following tarrying imps&
Menta. The fostielting Oettenteoce with a
" 001tt I.° denote a thanksgielng for the har-
Meet na to the king, to tehmei ell le dun.
The deem militias; of a slow mOverrient
AO bay, etatriping the feet, and weving of
*Meld, tio the stock Whigh niatkallet toll
is 06'44604. The ineaying te end fro of thie
mumble:a at a distance the waving of eau
of germ Bat the great event, and one
once seen never to he forgotten, ie the blg
dance, par excellence, when ell the troops
;assemble in the trnmense royal kraal, Ittach
regiment marches in and takes ite poettion
without sound, almost, and certainly without
confusion, tbe whole oeury eventually form"
Ing the Wawa Zulu half-meon—its bete%
array. Every soldier te vow
Z1 rum wen miss,
and meet picturesque these ;outgo warriors
look. A heavy cape of black ostrich Mallee
lies over the ehouidere and covers; the head
all but the face, a long plume of the blue
mane eurmeenting all turd waving nrendly
above. The shoulders are tipped with a
white ostrich feather, giving extra breadbh
to the oheab ; a band of the long-haired blue
flunkey ekin soneurde the, atm IMMO di.
ately above the elbow, while a heavy kilt
supplied by the oame animal or by wild
AO or leopard, hangs down to the knee.
Bram or iron necklets captured in war are
Suspended from the neck and perhaps a
gaily -colored hendkerchtef is wound round
the wattle. An oval 'shield of cowhide, three
aasegeis and Meek comp/ate the deem, and
a Matabele warrior., tall as he is, thus am
centred, is worth going a great many miles
to see. When men te the number of 1,100
ID 1,200 are thus drawn up en parade—the
intim:me, more magnificent; in their stature
and dram, standing introit of their teepee-
tive regiments—it is
A SPECTACLE NOT EASY TO EXCEL.
The hing is busy in the holy kraal with
witchcraft, but presently appears in his
chair, aetegat in hand. Until he became
ailing, he himself was dreseed as a klatabele
king should be, but when we caw him his
drew+ ordinarily conehted only of a band of
monkey skin around the lotus,
and he did
JIM throw the spear by whichhe formerly
indicated the direction in which the impie
were to go on their raiding expeditions.
The appearance of the king was the signal
for the enormous horseshoe to rush forward,
clapping their shields and shouting the
king's praline. The army afterwards again
tea up its termer position, °banner; a
monotonous aeng, stamping its feet,
while every now and then a warrior ran
oub of the ranks, stabbing the air to show
what deadly work his assegai had already
done §
A magnificent but savege anny when
spirit can only be curbed in ordinary times
by an absolute, despotic) will. Is even
Lobengula powerful enough to do so, now
that the blood of some of hie soldiers has
been shed by Europeans—in defence, though
it be, of the Mashona committed to the
lattern safe keeping, a people whom the
Matabele has always been taught to consider
as eaves and fit objeote of murder and
rapine 7 The king's hand will probably be
forced by his unruly warriors; and when
the storm cloud has rolled away, hie present
nation will be sent broken up, flying to
fresh countries beyond the Zambezi—for
what can it de against rifle's and machine
guns 7—and the light of European civiliza-
tion will shine with increased brightnees
over the countries where until lately the
assegai reigned supreme. The quarrel liee
with them ; sooner or later the result will
be the same.
TO CLEAN TABLE LINEN.
--
Siaggestions for Laundering Flue Napkins
and Doylies.
Embroidered table linen thould be ironed
over mit, heavy flannel wavered with
muslin. It should be %id with the right
side down and ironed almost dry wlth
very hot iron. Then it should be folded
back and the embroidered part lightly
pressed while the plain is heavily ironed
with a polishing iron. Roll ib ever a stick
instead of folding.
Stretch all imbleolothr, damask napkins
and heavy linens diagonally before ironing
them. Red cloths must not be starched.
Delicately -tinted melt sheuld be sos,ked
in sugar of lead water before washing.
Fine doylies should be plowed in a white
dish, covered with naphtha and stirred.
Several days' airbag will be necessary to rid
them of the odor. It they aro not much
!lolled they may be pinned securely to a
sheet and covered with powdered corn-
starch, This should be well rubbed im
allowed to remain for half an hour at d then
brushed and alaaken.
When Ton Furnish.
Don't have teo much of one kind of
decoration in the berm ; two reorne upon
the same general pattern are quite enough—
an Individual scheme for each span merit is
better.
Don't put as brightcolored carpet into a
room where the furniture Is dull, old, or of
neutral tints.
Don't have chandeliers or banging lamps
with rooms of law ceding; use side brackets
in such Oafiaa.
Don% hang a heavy portiere over a nar-
row door. Generally speaking, hanginge
are cub of place in a small house or with
small rooms.
Don't furnish a north room in blue or any
other cold color ; something of a warm tint
alaould be chosen.
Don't overload the room with furniture
—or anything elae.
Don't fill the centre of the room unless
there is plenty of space on all sides. Noth-
ing effendi] good taste so =lonely as the
mese of being "cluttered up."
Dot* hang pictures with their tops pro-
jecting into the apartment; the ontlinee of
the roam are injured, and the effeot of the
picture is spoiled, except frem a single
point) of view.
Detection of Diseases.
With the ophthalmoscope and opbthal-
!Demeter there aro very few' proletarian with
regard to the imams and dheasee of the
human eye that cannot be determined by
an expert in a very few moments of time.
It may safely be annerted that there in no
department of knowledge of the functions
and diseases of the human body that is no
far advanced tut that; of ophthalmology, and
this has been the work of ehe olvtlization ef
the nineteenth century. With the ophthal.
mon:tope the circular opening of the iris,
which we oall the pupil, ia made a window
looking in upon a Ronda picture, in the
centre ef which Is a beautiful white moon-
like disk, over which radiate vesnele pulset-
bog with the blood constantly pumped in by
the heart. (The darker returning ourrent in
the veins le also men, while the varying
and almeee numberlese Mango made by
dimmest are noted by the practical eye, and
toll a tale of warning and often of woe.
Kerosene oil has now become popular in
China, ether° nearly 50,000,000 gallons ef
1891.
Ib
used for illumnating purposen in
89
It is no longer en regle to get married in
maw clothes, se its lends a conscious air of
stiffaent to the enterer.
A river towboat, of the kind in um on
the ildienierippl, can tow grain to the
amount of 10,000 tone enough to load 500
0
freight oars.
Many ef the royEd pert:Merles of Ettrope
are noted for their gluttony, end thee:Isar of
Boole is liaid to have the gronteet eppetito
for food, of thenr all
A FIEND'S MERITED DOOM.
The Ravisher and Strangler of Little
Aggie ‘iright Must Haug,
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
Wire Villein's Conresssion—Dad. elothinn to
Say—Deceives Sentence lerimoved—Jus'
lies moved Swann,
ILABIIISBUEO, Pa.
o R TU NAT' ELY
swift punislunent
has been dealt to
tbab fiendliele mar.
darer, Benjamin F.
Tennis, who re-
cently assaulted
and strangled
A g nee Cooper
WrIghtespretby lit-
tle girl, whosehome
Is near Iltunmele-
ve town. Ho was
taken inte the
Court room thia
morning and sentenced to be hanged. The
orime ensurntd three weeks ago, and layered
dams later Mennen was capnired, He ;ma-
imed, and the same day was indicted for
murder. He at once pleaded guilty, but
It Was deckled by the court to hear the
evidence against; him before imposing gen-
tame.
Tennis looked entirely different from
when he made hie previona appearance in
oourn He was dressed in a new dark uit,
were a dark blue shirt, and curled himrelf
hgeenreetradereted.
lywiexthhibiajeuntier air than he has
When he !stood up, Judge McPherson
said that, after censidering the teetimony,
the court had determined his crime guilty
of murder in the first degree, "Have
you anything to say," tithed the court
to the stolid mein in front of him, "why
sentence of death should not be passed upon
you 7"
" Nothing to say," said the prisoner,
aeonically.
Judge McPhercon then pasted the usual
death sentence upon the prisoner. As he
finiehed with the words "bo hanged by the
neck until you are dead," the pritsoner raised
his eyes in an indifferent way and then
sank into his chair. He was soon back In
his cell.
The crime for which Tennis will forfeit
bid life was committed on September 19th.
He is a widower, 43 yeare old, sand has
several children. He resided near the
Wright home, two miles from Hummels-
tema. He had frequently toid Agnea that
he loved her, notwithstandiug .the was only
ctild of 11 years. Tennis had aeked her
to go away with him, bur she was timid,
and always (escaped from his primula°.
Little Agnes, who was an exceedingly
pretty girl and tell for her yeara, on the
fatal morning treated for soboolat 7 o'clock,
she having two miles to walk. Near her
home is a dense wood, through which the
highway leads. It was in this wood
and within sight of the Wright home-
stead that Tennis lay in wait that rimm-
ing for hie innocent victim. When ehe bad
retched a dense clump of Mem, the fiend
stepped sub in the road and again asked tho
child to go away with him. She refused, and
he seized her and carried her a few yards
from the highway into the woods. Tannin
himself then Mils what occurred, He most
brutally ravished the little girl, and in an
agony of fear and pain she cried out that
;Me would thll her father. Her ansailant
then mid he would murder her to silence
her tongue forever. The cella begged
for her life. Tennis tore from her body a
portion of her underelothing and tied it
around her neck. She struggled, but he was
toe strong for her weak efforts.
After again assaultiug the girl Tennis
cruelly strangled her with the clothing he
bad tied abent ber throat. Then, letting
the prey of his villaineue pension lie upen
the ground, Tennis went to a neighboring
farm, where he worked all day, and within
sight of the spot where the murder had
taken place.
When Agnes did not return honae that
evening, her parents become alarmed and
began a search. Several neighbor); were
notified, at d, with lanterne, they began to
Incur the wooda along the road. Tennis
jollied in this 'Jeanie At 10 o'clock the
little body was found. Evidences of the
crime wore apparent.
A few done afterward Tennis quietly
moved to mother house. This ooaasioned
stupicion, and he was P300a in the clutches
of the law. His doom hes been swift and
in exact keeping with his black crime.
The Deadly Tcoth•Brush.
An operation for appeudicitio upon a
patient living in the town of Hadley, Sara-
toga county, revealed the fact that the
dirorder was due to the presence ef tooth -
bra& bristles. "Cheap tooth -brushes" re-
meriked the Albany surgeon who had charge
of the case, "ase respeneible fer many
obscure throat, stomach and intestinal ell -
mento, The bristles are only glued an, end
came offby the half dozen when wet and
breught into contact wish the teeth." To
people who never clean their teeth this has
no Interests, but to others it carries a warn-
ing. This badly made tootinbrursh is evi-
dently as dangerous as the wooden tooth.
piok, whit* is famed as a throat irritator.
A Very old Carpet.
The South Kensington Muoeum has sni
quired a great oriental treasure in the
femme Fenian carpet] from the Mosque at
Ardebil. As the museum could not afford
ehe whole prim, a few genthreen made up
the below& The carpet is a roost exquieite
opecimen alike in coloring, design and fine-
ness of texture. An inscription woven
into the carpet stem that it is "The work
of the Slave of the Holy Place'Makeettel of
Kashan, in the year 942 (1535A. l))"
Mho Nash and thenelood.
It is popularly eupposed that the sudden
downpour which usually redeem a bright
flash of lightning is ha acme way canted by
the flash. Meteorologists have proven that
thie ie hot the case, and thee, exactly to the
couteary, it is not only pootible hue highly
probable than the 'hidden increased recipe,
onion le the real came of the bob.
A itwiendiy Minn
Poatoffice Clerk—See here, boy I No
liv-
lrgssoetal can read the addrens on thia en-
vetepe you Oat headed in.
Boy—Welt. if the) "ore postoffice depart-
ment want a fine hendwrittne Why don't you
keep better peers at thee deske, say
'Palmer Mrimeneee, the dietinguished
Mithet, who .seae76 mien eld yeaterdity, ie
vigorous boddy, and Mentally Mete. He
has just celebrated the tareheentennini of his
taking the degree ofIrha B. et KUL He
hen had 16 ohildren WM to hiM,,11,ef
whom rtre iivisg
Settee Maim ef the lane Meer brartelt out.
len1WED STATES DAilionetle ACC10114114,
Casualties on the Itatt as Deported by the,
latenetkaie Commission.
The ambit, of realm employee° killod!
durleg the year ending ilea° 3(rthi 1892
we 2,004; tieing lent thee the number
killed during the previews yeee. The MM.*
of employees lejurrld, however, was in ox,
Me Of the number Mined deehin the pre-
vious year, being 28,267iiihe number of
poseengero killed was larpty in excess of
the number killed dud eir CAO prevlone year,
being 376 in 1892 as ageenet 293 be 1891 ;
while the number of peeseingere Injured wee
3,227 in 1892, me ;spinet 2,972
in 1891. An aseigemenb of casuals
dm to the opportunii,y effered for soot*
dents Acme 1 emplente :neve been killed
for every 322 employee tete 1 employee to
have been iejuree ter reran e9 awe in the
employ of the railways. A einailar tamper -
Ism above 1 yammer killed for each
1,491,910 paesengere tarried, or for mob
35,542,282 passenger tnileer ruin 1 passenger
injured for each 173,833 peremegers carried,
or emelt 4,140,966 peseireger miles. The
lareese numbs of ewers to employees
resulted from couelling end unempling care,
378 employees he;ing been kilload aud 10,-
319 injured while reederring this service. Of
the total number Wile./ ire oeupling and un-
coupling care 253, am/ el the total num-
ber injured 7,766, were einimaren. The aeon
dents clamed as " foe tem riani oar" were
in this year as in prevemo weirs reeponsible
for the largest number id &Ora among ems
ployees, the number killed isa this meaner
being 611. Of this number 485 were train.
men. Collielona arid derailments; wore re-
sponsible for the death of 431 employee&
Of this number 336 ware trainmen. This
oleos of accidents is Wpm:ale alto for the
largest number of casualties to passenger&
Thus 177 passengers were killed arid 1,539
were injured by collieioran And derailments
during the year. Collie:wee eIone were re-
sponsible for the death el? 286 employees
Foul 136 passengers.
CERES FOR OSORSIEE.
Ineories of the various emerge in the Bet
dnction of iiill.Makt Flesh.
The theory of Hippocrates was that
corpulence could be crated by inciting
vitality. His presoription was mueh exer-
cise, fasting, no hot bathe, and life in the
open air. Galen fevered the same treat-
menb, with a diet of vegetshie adds, aperle
ents and frequent bathe, combined with
exeroise and frequent rubbing of the body
with coarse towing. After this school mane
the pimeicians of a few centuries ago, who
believed in bleeding. Their theory was
that abstraction or the bleed would free .the
heart and work off the ter. This theory did
not work, as leas of bleed weakened the
circulation, and a feeble eimulation is one
cause of obesity. Atnimg remedies for toe
much fat ie that of Berelie who advised the
chewing ef tobano • Frierieg, who pre-
scribed a ;nightly .4ore of soap in four
ounces of water ; Darwit who suggested
the use of salt; Brown, who advised the
exclusive use of anima! toed ; and of
Regneller, who preserieed Melon and the
ruebing in of ether aud ieuelanum ever the
stomach. The modern school of phystoians
to cure corpulence begen with Booting,
about thirty years age. He reduced the
diet, restricted it, and insisted on the
patients taking a great deal of exercise. -
There waa no doubt that this metjewrer...
achieved results, for if a men would Mee
eating and take enough exudes he would
either die from exhauetien or lose all his
surplue weight. Bagatingn system worked
pretty well with people or eluggieh tem-
peraments who were not subject to
nervous disorderm bub for nervous people •
the treatment was too radkan—lifedtcat
Record.
EP IN A MINARET.
-.—
Climbing Spiral alai rvayr. Till at Lead to the
Top or a Siendeerower.
Entrance to the mosque° it rarely refued
Ceristlane except on feetivele, end It is to
the top of higheet minerals in the town
that we aro bound. Wise redrew spiral
stairosse afforde no more than head -and -
shoulder room ; the etemi are full of sum-
mer brown duet, with bene brought in by
owls and kitee'besidso other venerable
rubbish, and aftier whet teems interminable
gyratien, we emerge upoe the airy gallery
which enciroli s the trap a the Wender tower,
says a writer in " Binokwoodn Magazine."
It is a crazy pereke fee the whole struc-
ture sways sensibly in the sarong wind, and
it ammo as if a moderns hiok would send
the frail parapet clattering deem an the tile
roof far below, but, „if yore' heed is steady,
the view vvoll roma the labor of the amend
Beneath your feat (limner the flat -roofed
houses; here and there a chimney rises,
crowned with an immense stork's nest,
makiug ono wonder how the dementia scone
emy of the bipeds entitle the house can be
reconciled wish thee at be bipeds without.
From the dusky labyrinth of street&
spring twentyesix minarets+, like silvery
bodkins, besides the one to which we are
clinging. Then let )4,1310 eye travel over
the splendid prospect lying beyond the
town. Full forty miles the flat plain is
spreed east and west, and five -and -twenty
orth and south with lewdly a tree to
breek the level, save where the peerante
cots °lister round the forgfled granges of
the land -owners. The northern horizon lo
closed by the manner rampant of mountains
which marks the hated+ alinnkage of Otto-
man rule.
lielp Wanted.
Bank Oehler—I have ventured te car
on you, eir, to state theb you have a very
email balance in the kauk, seul in tho hope.
then you may be able to make a, rousing,
deposit).
Senior Partner—Well. what if we have.
The account is not overdrawn, is it ?
Cashier—Oh, no. Bub I am going on my
summer vacation to -morrow, '
No, Anxious Inquirer, although your error
Is a natural one, the novel called "The
Opening of a Chestnut Burr" does not deal)
with life in a minstrel ahem
emeneememenetwenesesonetemereanonaatomme
DON 'T RE FOOLED,
by the dealer who .
brings out weenie*
thing else, 'X that
pays him bedew
and says that it is •
"just as good.",'
Doctor Pierceire•
Golden Medie4
Diecovery ie guar.1
arzteed. 11 11 Meek. •
0 ere benefit or euro, in
-- every ease, you,
have your money back. No other medln
eine of its kind is tro certain mid effectivo
that it can be sold ne. le any otherl
likely to be "just as good k
As a blood-eleansen flesh -builder, atter
strength -restorer, nothing con equal the -
"Diecovery." It's not like the sant:Mae
rillas, or ordinary "spring Medicine:Leh'
At all seasons, and in all eases, it puri.
tics, invigorates, and builds up the who10%.
system. For every hlood-taintt and.
disorder, from a corertion blotch or crup.-
bon, to the worst scrofula, it le a period,
permanent, gidardniged remedy., '