PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Judge William T. Crow, of Carnes
ville, Uiu, lias nil his nix children un.l
forty-seven grandchildren living wiih.u
a ni' of the old homestead.
Harry McCarthy, known 1m the Ar
kansas comedian, was an upholsterer
before lie wont on the stage. He is the
author of tlio "llonnio llliiu Flag."
Joe Murphy in said to bo tho richest
man on the s'.ai'o. H is worth a cool
half million. He was a poor Irirh boy,
and started as a variety singer. A", t'.
Tribune.
Mr. Victoria Clallin WoodhuU
now holds a h'gh place In English so
ciety. Her husband, Mr. Joln Hd
dulidi Martin, is the wealthy banker of
Lombard street .V. Y. Herald.
Horace Porter In Harper's Monthly
ays: An oath never passed Grant" s
lips. His neare t approach to an im-
irecaliou was "Confound it." Ho
ilmself said: "I never learned to
swear."
The new United States Government
agent for tho Cherokee Indians is of
Cherokee blood, a great-grandson of
Whito 1'lumc, the pr.-at chief sla n in
the battle with the whites many years
ago. Chicago Herald.
In the matter of tho English Cabi
net the Premier alone is tho direct
choice of tho Crown, tho other mem
bers of the Cabinet being selected by
the l'rcm er. They and they alone aio
" the tioverninent ' or tlio country.
A Swedish, missionary, who ha
been laboring for many years in equit
torial Africa, has ro ntly translate.
the (iospel of t-t John inio the Congo
Janguag and has had it printed for tho
use of the natives. Sweden thus gain
tho honor of printing tlio lir-t book in
Congo.
Mr. Waldo Thompson, of Lynn
Mass., in his "Historical Sketches
the Town of Swumpseott" traces tlio
lineage of John ltrown, of Ossawatomit
to Lieiiieimnt (iovenior John Hum
phrey, who settled on the shore between
Jilack Will's CI ill' uud Forest ltiver two
and a half centuries nio. Huston Jour
nal.
A Hussian frend of mine who was
In frequent alteudaiiee on the Emperor
.Nicholas told me that tins savage mon
arch was so thoroughly imbued witii
tho Idea of personal power that
peaking of llusin lie u-ed to say: "My
climate, mij snow, vuj thunder-storm
of liiHt nut unit). " One mornlii" as lie
was looking out of tho window he i-a d
"My clonus luing very low this mora
Jng. Aureiun i-nio t.
Itev. 0. (ireiifcll, of tho English.
llnptis: Missionary Society, ami con
Doctod with the Congo .Mission, lias
made some important explorations In
tho steamer l cacc. lie has estubllshi
the fact that tue Molmngi liiver, which
enters tho Congo near tno Equator Sta
tion, is probably the largest tributary
or that iri'cat stream. At a point litly
miles from its mouth it was a third of a
niilo wide and this was its narrowest
point. Its main depth is twenty-live
feet. He thinks it is tho lower part of
the n alio Kivcr, as to which geogra
pher are so much pu..led. A. Y. Inde
pendent.
m a m
HUMOROUS.
A liltlo girl litly described nervous
ness as "just being in a hurry all over.'
firocer-IIalf a pound of tea?
Which will you have, black or green'
Servant -Miuru nytuur will do. It's
foruuould woman that's nearly bloiud.
lU'ifro 'tunes.
ew took An please, ma am
how shall I conk the ciiuns? Mitn
Why, how have you cooked them n
Other traces r ev t ook Niro. I ill
lers made iystcr soup wid 'em. I'hicu jo
lnbitne.
ai NHia: Jt vour communication
Is a chess problem, wo don t want it.
If it is a crochet pattern, wo don t
want It, either. If :t is anything else,
we don't want it Wo don't want it,
nn way. Puck.
No sooner did a recent Huston girl
rcnio to Chicago than sho dated her
letters from '('hiraxo-hy-thu-l.nko."
Chicago girl went to the Hub and
wrote from " Hoston-by-tlio-beiiiis.''
A. 1. Independent.
, lu au Egg-shell.
Jim eiiir. IdiiiiiI in I ho cities
Aie tur swiiy Irnin Iiiiiiki.
Hiey mind mc of lliiuto tlittlrs.
I ho "i.H.mif Ancient Koine,"
What is the dill'crcnco between the
ancient Humans and modern Ameri
cans:1 (iive it up? Why, the Humans
Used to urn their dead, while the
Amercans have to earn their living.
poor lAH'iiii) Journal.
Au agricultural exehango savs that
horse collars should be washed with
carbolic acid. Very little starch should
boused, however, m doing them tip.
it annoys the horse to have his collars
too still'. The Judije.
The people of Portland, O.e., must
ho highly pleased with a de caption of
there given by the leading newspaper,
which says; "Our people are divided
into two classes. One class is too tired
to do anything, and the other class
hasn't time."
They had come in from way-back,
in a wagon. He was tall and agricult
ural. She was idiort and rural. He
had been buying sumo cloves at retail,
and at the depot made sumo remarks
while his meek wife prevented tho chil
dren from getting mixed up with Immi
grant. "I ain't nfeerd of tho biggest
man that walks," he remarked. This
seutence seemed to please him, and he
repeated it. At last the wife arose and
(aid: "Pete!" "Eh?" "You know
ineP" "You bet." ' Squat and shut
up." And ho li--VitUburgh Chron
tele. She Took One.
"Are the fall styles of wall paper
in yet?" sho anxiously Inquired.
"Yes'm."
That was at ten o'clock in the morn
ing. At one o'clock in the afternoou,
after having 284 samples displayed be
fore her on the rack, she tenderly in
quired: " Have you any more?"
"No'iu
" Aro you sure thcoe are the Terr lat
est fall styles?"
" Yee'ni."
"Then then I guess I'll take a roll
one for two (hillings. I want to pa
per a trunk!" iWnt JYet
FUN IN THE MARKET.
An Eel That Couldn't lis IIII Kren as
Well a an Ordinary Kvl.
" Any one who lift that eel out of
tho tank mav have it," said Eugene
Hlackford yesterday to a crowd of per
sons who stood in Hilton Market be
fore an open aquarium watching a largo
eel moving gracefully about in
water. It attracted attention becauso
it was not a common-looking eel, such
as may lie bobbed for any day at low
tide In Newtown ureck. A naruv-ioov
ing fisherman, who had probably caught
many eels In Ms time, nsked Air. iuu'-k
ford if ho was in earnest, and being us
surod that the offer was made in good
faith he tucked up tho sleeves of his
pilot-jacket and alter briolly explaining
to tho crowu fie precise manner
which an eel should be grasped to pro
vent it gliding through the lingers he
plunged his hands into the water to
practically illustrate how the thing was
dono. He seized the eel very nrtisucai
lv. but. with a sharp expl sion of bias
phemy, he let it go again b lore he had
bronchi It to the suriuco. ine eei
swum nround Indifferently. It hadevi
dently grown accustomed to such ex
porence. The fisherman followed it
with his cvO''. "It stung mo bad," was
tho only explanation he cared to o'I'er
to the wondering spectators. Justtiion
a whistling boy came up, and lo;ked
at the eel boc.uiso tho others woie look
ing at it
" I don't see anything uncommon in
him." ho said, contempiuouxlv. "I've
ketched bigger ones than that."
"Say.Hob," sal I the lisherman, struck
witii an idea, "pick that eel out of the
tank and follow mo down to South
street with it, and I'll givo you a quar
tcr."
Without stopping to make anv in
quiries as to the legitimacy of the offer,
the Inilepeiiilunt lad grasped tho e ;l
He liberated it immediately and uttered
a veil that brought In the policeman
who twirls lils (dul) just outside tho lish
market to see what tho matter was.
Later In the day many persons
touched tho eel and tested its curious
powers. After the contact son.e
shrieked, some laughed and some
looked frightened, but none essayed to
meddle with it a second time. New
comers continued to touch it, until Mr.
Hlackford, fearful that its vitality might
he exhausted, put it into a high closed
tank, and pasted this legend upon the
glass: "dymnotus, or hlectrio hoi.
i'he tank contained several "hell
benders," and tlio eel shocked them
very much and caused them to spring
around In tho liveliest niiinn T. It was
given to Fish Commiss oner Hlackford
by Mr. Ilooald Hums, who received it
early yesterday morning from Iho Ama
zon ltiver. Captain Hears brought it
with hi in In the steamship Finance Ho
Is rather a handsome, creature, nnd a
groat point in its favor is that it keeps
Its mouth always shut, except at meal
times, nnd seems to breathe through
two rows of holes on its head and neck.
It is about two nnd one-half feet long,
nnd rather disproportionately thick. It
has a heavy tin, like the keel of a boat,
running along the belly tho entire
length of the body. The throat is of
orange color, ami the head, though
short and clunis.-. Is ornamented with
two little Taps that look I ke cars. It
can administer an elo.'trie shock as
powerful as that of a Miiall battery.
man yesterday touched it with a steel
lish. knife, and lit! felt fie shock as for
cibly as if he had touched it with his
bare lingers. A'. I', ttuii.
BILL NYE.
An AiiiiihIiik liii'lili-iit Wlili'll Orrnrrxi
Winn IIh V.ts Wearing I r Krinliir.
I was oneo a Justice of tho Peace
nnd it good many funny little incidents
occurred while I held that ollice. I do
not til' into to my official life here in ol
der to call attention to my glowing ca
reer, for thousands of others uo doubt
could have administered the affairs of the
office as well as 1 did, but rather to speak
of one incident which took place whil
1 was a J. P.
One night after I had retired and
gone to s eep, a milkman ca led Hill
Illuming rang the bell and got mo out
of bo l. Then ho told mo that a man
who owed him a milk hill of thirty-live
dollars was all loaded up and prepared
to slip across the Hue overland into Col
orado, there to grow up witU tho co.iu
try and acquire, other indebtedness, no
doubt. Hill desired an attachment for
the whole wagon-load of goods, aud said
lie had an officer nl hand U serve the
writ.
"Hut," said I, as I wrapped a "wel
come husk door-mat around my gl r
ions proportions, "how do vou know
while we conver.se together ho is not
winging his way down the valley of the
1'nrucuf"
'Never mind that, filjw," savs
William; "you just lix the dockyment.s
and I'll tend to the defendant."
In mi hour Hill returned with thirty-
live dollars in cash for himself aud the
entire costs of the court, nnd as we set
tled up and lixed tho (locket 1 asked
Hill Dunning how ho detained the de
fendant while we made out tho affidavit
bond and writ of attachment
"You rockolloet, Jedge," savs Will
iam, "that tho waggin-wheel is held
onto the nxlo w ith a big nut. No wag
gin kin go any length of time without
that there nut onto the axle. Well,
when 1 d skivered that what's his name
was packed up and the waggiu loaded,
I took the liberty to borrow one o' them
there uuts fur a klud of memento, as it
wert and 1 kept that in my pocket till
we served the writ and he paid my bill
and canie to his milk, if you 11 allow me
that expression, aud then 1 said to him:
fanner, savs l, vou are going far.
far away, where 1 may never see you
again. Take this here nut.' says I, and
put it onto the axle of the oft hind
wheel of your waggin, nnd whenever
you look nt it hereatier, think of poor
old Hill Dunning, tho milkmau.' "
Y. Mercury.
Minnie Hauk, has a castle In Switz
erland, and she never lets a day pass,
raiu or shine, without the stars aud
stripes above her doors. That is the
kind of an American girl Minnie is. A'.
j. urapntc
Should Governor Rusk orGorernot
Dunn take the cak? Leave it to Gov
ernor Eaton? Chicago Current.
CALIFORNIA OSTRICHES.
Chiracterlstle of tit HlriU-IIow Titer
Ar Corraled and Plucked.
The sight of a dog Is sufficient to
frighten an ostrich badly. At such
vision, if permitted so to do, the ostriches
in the corrals would immediately be
speeding over the sandy plain, through
a waste of tall wild sunflowers, at a gait
which would astonish a horse-trainer.
Dr. Sketchley has three dogs on his
farm, but tiiey are all kept behind the
buildings out of sight of the os
triches. When a keeper ap
proaches them to annoy them
they emit a hissing noise like a goose,
and try to bite the intruder. They have
no strength in their bills, however, arid
are harmless unless they get a chance to
kick. Unlike the emu, which is exhib
ited ofton as an African ostrich, they
have but one toe on each foot. This is
a terrible weapon. The bird kick for
ward. The force Is shown by the ex
ploit of one bird, which kicked a stout
board on the side of its corral and broke
it in two at one blow. The toe is point
ed and will cut like a knife. Tlio
bird which was killed with one kick
had its breast laid open with an ngly
wound. .Of the young birds all are per
fectly shaped, except one which has a
club foot and which walks on the back
of the clubbed foot, the toe turning up.
Tho gait of even this bird is elastic. All
the birds walk precisely after thefaifiAun
adopted by many young ladies in San
r raiiciseo of late, whose gait may there
Sore, perhaps, be correctly described in
tho future as the "ostrich walk." It is
as if tho birds stepped on hot gridirons.
Tho feet are taken briskly up and raised
high and the body and head oscillate.
This stylo was learned in South Africa
and not in San Francisco, and is as old
as the race of desert birds.
Silly fear and ferocity are the charac
teristics of ostriches everywhere. Some
are more ill-tempered, hut all are dan
gerous if not approached with care. No
method has been discovered by which
they can be plucked except that of draw
ing a stocking over tho head, leaving a
hole that the bird may breathe. To ac
complish this tho bird is lured closo to
the fence of tho corral by a delicacy like
corn, and is then seized by the neck.
Just as soon as it is hooded in this way
it is comparatively helpless, for it will
not kick unless it can see what it is
kicking at. Ono way to pluck thcin
is to have a small corral the back
of which is movable. Hy pushing this
up they could bo pinioned. Tho leath
ers are taken from the breast, wings and
tail, all abovo the dreaded kicking appa
ratus. At present the ostrich keepers
firess upon tlio bird from behind, nnd as
ong as they keep behind they are safe.
The man who plucks proceeds with dis
patch. An adult bird is plucked every
seven months, and fields about twenty
livo long feathers and several "tips.".
Tho tips are taken from tlio wings. Tlio
feathers on tlio back are left for tho pro
tection of the bird. During this pluck
ing operation mon havo leen kicked
by the birds, but not to bo
hurt Had tho birds had a fair
forward kick, tho result could
hardly have been other than fatal to tho
person kicked. The young ostrich
which for some time went about on one
wooden nnd ono natural leg was injured
through fear. Tho boards on the corral
wore outside of tho posts. Tho bird was
frightened at something nnd ran against
a post, something which could not have
been foreseen, nnd ono leg was broken.
A wooden leg was made, or a sort of a
stilt, to take the place of this, but after
a little tho bird died. It was an object
of interest to all visitors. San Fran
ciseo Uiillctin.
TO DRESS CHICKENS.
How Fowls Mlimild He Killed anil l'ltked
ViiIiiiiIiIk Hints.
Kill by bleeding in tlio mouth or
opening tho veins of the neck; hang by
tho feet until properly bled. Leave
head and feet on and do not removo in
testines or crop. Scalded chickens sell
best to homo trade, and dry-picked best
to shippers, so that either manner of
dressing will do, if properly executed
For scalding chickens, tho water should
he as near the boiling point as possible
without boiling; pick the legs dry bo
fore scalding; hold by tho head anil legs
and immerse, nnd lift up nnd down
three times; if tho head is immersed it
turns tho color of the comb and gives
tlio eves a shrinking appearance,
which leads buyers to think tho fowl
has been sick; tho feathers and pin
feathers should then bo removed imme
diately, very cleanly, nnd without
breaking the skin; then "plump," by
lipping ten seconds in water nearly or
inito boiling hot, and then immediately
into cold water; hang in a cool place
until the animal heat is entirely out. To
try-pick chickens properly, tho work
diould bo dono while tho chickens are
bleeding; do not wait nnd let tho bod
es get cold. Dry picking is much more
easily dono while tho bodies nro' warm.
Ho careful, and do not break and tear
the skin. iV. IF. Christian Advocate.
A NINE-MILLION BOOK.
Book AfenU Who Earn from Ten to Twenty
Thouund Dollar a Year.
By this sketch I see that the Applctons
have made niue million dollars out of
their Cyclopedia alone; nine millions in
gross, of course, this means; but there
is a good margin for profit Out of
tlioir "Picturesque America" they have
made four million dollars. So if they
only published those two books, they
would do well. "Webster's Primer,"
which they still publish, sells at the rate
of one million a year regularly, some
times a few more but never less. 1 said
to Mr. Appleton one day that the pub
lisher of three such books ought to be
satisticsi Yes, he said, but unfortunate
ly they publish other books, the success
of which, or the non-success of which.
make an inroad into the profits
of the other publications. However, the
house of Appleton is rich enough and
the most of its wealth comes through
its subscription department. You can
imagine that the subscription depart
ment does a big business when some of
its agents make from ten thousand dol
lars to twenty thousand dollars a rear
out of it. This is a good inccroe for a
book agent Philadelphia Press.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Cautel of It KiUlcnee and Methods of Ills
lemlnatlon. The causation of typhoid or enterio
fever is involved in great obscurity.
Some of the best authorities believe it
may originate de novo ; in other words,
as the great exponent of this theory,
Dr. Murchison, states it : "Tho poi
son of enterio fever is contained in the
emanations from certain forms of putre
fying organic matter," and "is often
generated by fucsl fermentation."
Other authorities, equally good, hold
that the appearance of typhoid fever
cases necessarily presupposes tiie ex
istence of a case which stands to the
later ones in the relation of cause to
effect, and that, if this case is not dis
covered, it is simply because the evi
dence is obscure, or the investigator in
experienced. Unfortunately the iden
tification of the typhoid germ has not
yet been satisfactorily determined, and
until it is we can hardly expect the
mystery now surrounding the produc
tion of tho disease to be cleared away.
In regard to the means by which the
fever spreads, there is more unanimity
of opinion. The water of wells which
has become impure from the leaking of
vtiults and cesspools has been shown
over and over ngain to have caused ty
phoid epidemics. Notable instances of
this havo occurred in our country, as
in Syracuse in 1876, and the more re
cent epidemic at Plymouth, Pa. '
Milk has also many times been the
medium through which the typhoid
poison has been disseminated. Impure
water has been used to wash out the
milk cans, if, indeed, it has not served
other purposes, and the milk has thus
become infected. A striking example
of this medium of contagion was the
outbreak of typhoid at Marylebone,
London. Within a few weeks one hun
dred nnd twenty-three families were
attacked. Mr. Kadcliffo traced the
cause of this to milk which came from
a particular farm on which "water used
for daily purposes contained excre
mcntal matters from a patient suffer
ing from enteric fever immediately
before and at tho time of tho outbreak.
Epidemics occurring at Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Bristol and Dublin have
also been traced to milk. These
facts should stir up all health officials
to the vital importance of the most
rigid scrutiny of the milk supplied to
the people under their charge, nnd
should lead our judges to inflict the
severest penalties upon those detected
in the adulteration of this most essen
tial food. That this disease may be
contracted by those who nurse the sick
is possible, but If this ever occurs it is
extremely rare. The discharges from
the intestines are believed to contain
the infective material; and in the pres
ent state of our knowledge, to miry
these discharges in tho ground or to
cast them into tho sewer without pre
vious disinfection, must be looked up
on as criminal. It is not difficult to
understand that the infective material
of such undisinfected discharges may
cling to the interior of drain tiles and
sewers, and through defective plumb
ing find admission to the dwelling and
sleeping rooms of the well. This is
doubtless the explanation of the origin
of those cases which nre ascribed to
sewer gas. i
Typhoid fever is eminently n disease
of the autumn, and its greater preva
lence at this season of the year is at
tributed by some to the decay of vege
tation; others have found its prevalence
to depend upon the rise and fall of the
ground water. Just how far these con
ditions affect the prevalence of the
fever is a matter of conjecture, and as
they are entirely beyond our control
we must in our endeavor toward pre
vention and restriction pay strict at
tention to cleanliness in all its forms,
and especially to the thorough disin
fection of discharges from patients.
For this purpose the committee on dis
infectants of the American Public
Health Association recommend solu
tions of chloride of lime, of chlorinated
soda, or of bi-chloride of mercury.
In our cities the typhoid patients nre
largely recruited from the ranks of those
of ample means, who during tlio sum
mer spend their time in the country,
and often at tho most fashionable
watering places. It is notorious that
these resorts are, as a rule, unsanitary
in their appointments. The crowding
of human beings in such places, wjth
the consequent accumulation of human
waste, would, it would seem, help to
account for the large representation of
typhoid fever victims in the ranks of
their patrons. A study of typhoid cases
with reference to tins point would be
interesting and doubtless instructive
Science. How to Prevent Rusting of Plows.
A plowman says there nre several
easy ways to prevent rusting of plows
and cultivators nnd to keep the teeth
bright. One is to give them a cont of
thick limewash as soon as they are
brought in from the field. Another is
to dissolve an ounce of resin in four
ounces of linseed oil, and while hot
mix this with a quart of kerosene and
stir well. This is laid on the smooth
iron with a paint brush. Another way
is to dissolve an ounce of camphor in
some turpentine and add to this four
ounces of lard and one ounce of pul
verized black lead or stove polish and
mix well. This may bo rubbed on
with a rag. To remove rust from tools
or plows nothing is better than a mix
ture of half a pint of oil of vitriol
poured slowly into a quart of water,
and apply this to the rusted metal.
Wash off with water. Cincinnati
Times.
A singular accident occurred to
Mrs. Wallace, daughter of Mr. JohnL.
Carncross, a few davs ago. During
the summer she resided atArdmore,
where the lady and her daughter were
afflicted with the whooping cough.
They returned to the city. Recently
Mrs. Wallace was seized with a severe
coughing fit, during which she frac
tured a limb. Philadelphia Record,
m i
A Nevada lady recently took un
fair advantage of her husband's indul
gence in a bath to elope with another
man. The bereaved one expressed the
conviction that she had been waiting
for the opportunity for months. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
HOW TYPE IS MADE.
What a llepnrler Haw In Vlk Through
a Type Knunrtry.
Jt may not be generally known,"
said the type-foun lor, "that the first
quarto Hiblo printed in America was
the work of Christopher Saner, ot Gor
mantown who there, in 1735, estab
lished a type foundry; but it Is to see
how type is mado that yon corue.
"Let us begin with the metal room."
Ab .ut I he place whore the amalgam of
which typ't is male were piled run
dredsof bars of the metal. At the
curtherend of tho room, a master
workman threw into the great kettle
fertain proportions of copper, anti
mony, lead an I tin. This is the amal
gam, the exact proportions of which
produce the useful metal that must bo
hard without being brittle, duo i!e nnd
tough, Bowing freely and hardening
rapidly. A bar was broken in two, and
the beautiful, sparkling grain of the
metal shown. About the apartment
were casks of glittering antimony,
bars of yellow copper, dull bricks
of lead and blocks of tin. As
tho composition melted, tho man
at tin kettle stirred tne molten mass
nnd when the proper degree of heat was
re iched, l idled it out on tho moulds
that lay on tho brick tloor at his feet.
Above the metal room the bars were
htted for the printer's use. Before a
machine known as a punch cutter sat a
man surrounded by a bowildering array
of delicate tools and gauges. "There
are very few men of nolo for this part
of the work in tho United States," whis
pered tho reporter's companion. "It
requires a delicacy of touch and per
ception that is not oesily acquired."
On the end of a piece of steel tho work
man at the punch-cutter was forming a
letter. Ho worked rapidly, yet with
caution, frequently testing with bis
gauges until the loiter was complete.
Then other letters of tho alphabet were
formed, finishing the series. One
by one t lie dies wore placed in
a stamping machine, an oblong pice
of copper put under them, nnd then
the great lever was brought down. The
imm'cs ion was left deep in tlio copper.
This oblong bit of copper Is termed the
matrix. From the puueh-cuttor the
matrices wero carried to an adjoining
room, where tho greatest care s eyc
cisud in their titling in tho mould. The
slightest variation or irregularity was
said to bo fatal to tho appearance, of
the typo east in thorn, i'erh ips tlio
most interesting things about the foun
dry are tho tiny casting machines that
pour out an endless stream of typo as
long as they aro at work. "These nug
little felloAs," said the type-founder,
pa'ting with his hand tho odd little
mass of machinery boforo which he
stood, "can throw out more type n one
day than a man, working ten hours a
dav, can count in a month. Tne metal
is kept tluid by a littin furnace under
neath tho machine, aud is projected into
the mold by a pump. The mold is mov
able ami at every revolution of the crank
is brought to ihe spout, where it re
ceives a fresh charge of the metal.
A spring in front of tlio mould holds
close to it a copper matrix, nnd the
stamp of the letter on tho matrK is
diroetly opposite tho npoxturo in tho
mould which meets the spout of tho
pump. In boxes, the now-mado type
is carried to tho dressing-room, wlioiM
around largo stones boys nro kept
busy ruuo ng away the rough edges ou
the'lype. The lads wear glovo'-linjers
for protection. As the types aro rubbed
smooth, each letter is set up in long
lines, ironi the nnublo-iingered boys
the lines of type pass into the hands of
the dresser, who lias beside him 1 a
powerful magnifyinggliiss. The dresser
deftly slips a lino of typo into a long
stick, similar in slitipo to that used by
printers, face downward, screws them
up tight, and with two rapid
movements of a planing tool,
cuts the groove in tlio bottom
of the type. This operation is
kno vu as giving the typo legs. "They
must have something to stand on,
said the good-natured looking dresser.
After that, with tho magnifying '.'lass,
tho face of .he type linn is critically in
spected, and imperfect ones thrown
aside, to be relumed to the melting
pot. "This operation practically ends
the making of the type," catd the
foundor. "Afterwa d iho dill'orcnt
letters are put up in whac wo call
'page,' and are all ready to be sent
out." The matrice and moulds, of
which the foundry has a collection
numbering many thousands, are
kept, when not in use, in a tire-proof
vault. They aro very valuable, rep
resenting as tuey uo, tne collection of
many years . of
limes.
.labor. Philadelphia
CONCERNING FLOUR.
Difference In the Composition of Varluui
Uunlille.
Flour from wheat of different quali
ties will bo found to differ widely in
composition. While the mineral ele
ments, such as lime, potash, phosphoric
aoid, etc., are quite uniform, the proxi
mate elements, gluten, starch and albu
men, vary largely in their proportions.
Gluten and vegetable albumen will b
found more abundant in wheat grown
on a rich soil. The hard llinty wheats
are also rich in these elements, which
measure the nutritive qunlity of the
flour. The large-grained, soft wh ats,
such as are produced in climates where
the summers are cool and moist, or are
grown on poor soils, abound in starch
and sugar. These wheats make a fairer
lour, but not so nutrit ous as that
from hard wheat. The powe
to absorb water is a quality of
wheat seldom taken into the account
in the grad . Wheat that ap
pears to be perfectly dry will lose from
eight to twelve per cent, on being sub
jected to a temperature ot 212 degrees
for twelve hours. The softer the wheat,
he greater the absorbent power. When
reduced to flour the absorbed mois ure is
generally estimated at fifteen per cent.
But if the wheat be very hard, it will
scarcely reach that amounL In con
vening flour into bread there isachem
ical change as de from the fermentation,
by which about thirty per cent of water
is chemically combined with the gluten
and starch, so that no mechanical pro
cess can ever convert bread into flour
again. This is independent of the mois
ture absorbed, which is chiefly lost
when the bread becomes stale. In this
combined moisture lies the chief profit
of the baker. Indiana Farmer.
A CHARGE AND COUNTER CHARGt,
A Btata With Law for Ilia Mule and Mlghtj
Llttlo fur tlia Darkey.
Opto P. fc-ad.
Old Trotline Dave came to town the other
day, driving- a little blue-looking mule, Thg
animal was so poor, and the balr had been
rubbed oft bun in so many places that Dav
was arrested for cruelty to animals and waj
arraigned before a justice of the peace.
"Old man," said the magistrate, "do you
belong to the church!"
"Yes, tali."
"Did you ever preachf'
"No, sah, neber preacht d ; but I bab sorted
wid er mighty loud mouf."
"Your church tr aches kindness in all
thines. does It notf
"Who yer 'ludin' torf"
"I am retorring to you."
"What's I done"
"You have been ciuol to your mule."
"How so, sahT
"By rubbing the hair off him and by not
feeding him."
"Is dat de cause why da hab fetch me up
hoali!"
"Yes."
"Wbut yer gwlno ter do wid mef
"We are going to try you. and If wo find
ycu guilty, we are going to punish you."
"Do de law gin yer dat right?"
"Yea."
"Wall, go er head an' try me."
"What have you to say in your defensor1
"Oh, I ain't pleadin. Go cn wid de trial."
"When did you feed that mulel'
"Dis mawuiu'."
"What did you give hiuiP
"Er straw hat."
"Did he eat itf ,
"Who, hliut"
"Yes."
"I reckons he did, fur when I went back
shortly arterwards de bat wan't dar."
"How did he lose so much of his halrl"
"He didu't lose it De gear wore it off."
"Well, old niau, you are guilty of a
crime."
"Uli. huh. De law say so, do it?
"Yes."
"Law ')ears tcr be on de mule side. Nig
ger doan 'pear to bab uo show."
"Law ';)rar fo be on rf nwh side."
"None that I see. I am compelled to fine
you $o."
"All right, sah; heah's yer money. Now,
tab," he continued when he had paid the
money, "I wants yer ter make out er war
rant fur de arrest o' er party."
"What is the namef
"I colls him Dan."
"Whito or coloredf
"Colored."
"What is the charger
' 'Sault wid 'tent ter kill."
"Where is the man?"
"WLut maul"
"The man you want arrested."
"I donu' Hunt no man arrested." .
"What's this warrant for, tlieuf'
"Fur de crrest o' d) mule."
"Oh, go on, old man."
"No, tali, de mule hab sued me, now Tss
gwine ter sue du mule."
"Well," said the justice, who bad con
reived tho idea of humoring the old man,
'consider the defendant arraigned and pro
ceed to state your case."
"Wall, snh, erbout er week ergo, I went
down ter de stable 'foro daylight. I bad gin
de mule eruuir hay ter keep him cliawiu' all
night; but, snh, when I weut in an' 'gunter
put be gear n him ho wheeled erroi'.a',
backed me up in do corner o' de stall an'
'gunter shove his hoofs ergin me in erscan'l
ous manner. Talk erbout de breakbone
fever, w'y it wa'n't er carcumstance. I wus
all hemmed up an' could u' do nothin' else,
60 i 'gunter 'sposterlate wid de daim
icoun'rel "
"No swetring in court"
" 'Bcuse mp, sab. I 'gunter reason wid
him. 'Look heah, Dan,' s'l, 'dar ouhtenter
bene diit'rence o' erpiuiou twixt us, 'case
we'se been good frieu's. I could turn heah
now an' kick de litter outen yer but I doan't
wnuter hurt yer. Yer know mighty well dat
ef it hadu't been for me yer woulder starved
ter death laungergo, so let us not git fraek
shus arter so 'stendod erquaintance. Now,
lemtue git cut, like er good feller.' I tried
ter ass him, but bim, bim, he let me bab it
Wall, jeJge, I couldu't do nothin' but stau'
right dar au' take de sicherwations ez da
como, while he chawed his hay jes' like
do man what gin it ter him wa'n't
in awful misery. He kep' me iu dar all
day, sah, 'case be didn' want to go out in de
hot sun an' work fur his libin'. I hollered
an' whooped but nobody come. At las'
erbout night he let me out. It wuz all I
coul' do ter hobble erlaung, I wuz so badly
used up. Now, Jedge, dis am de reason why,
since dat time, I aiu' been so koreful o' dat
rascal's feeliu's."
"Well, old man, I will refund your money.
Take the mule, go borne and treat him
kindly. If he assaults you again, I will
have him put in jail"
"Thankee, jedge, thankee, sah. Oh, dar'l
some little law fur de nigger, but it takes
erndgbty heop o' pleadiu' ter git it out
Good day, buss."
Tha Flrt Snake Story of the Seuon.
IHawkinsTiUe Dispateh.1
The first snake story of the season comet
to us from Henderson. It was a race be
tween a fleet-footed dog and a black snake.
The dog chased the snake three-quarters of
a tllilft dnirn a lAnA "ff la a lino that
- v .a fU .u
never turns," and the snake appeared in
gooa apinig. aiust at me end ol the lane
the snake made a sudden turn, and found its
hole under the bottom rail. The snake went
down the hole bead first, when the dog
fia.im1 It. hv Itll tall Tha m.1.. aa nM.
-'.7 " - auo uu una I"
pared for the emergency, and gave up it
.....: J- .. ... . . . &
vuuuus covering or situ), wiuen peeiea ou
as easily as the skin of a roasted potato.
No Tlnia to Soothe Her Own Habr.
Chicago Tribune.
Nurse (to fashionable mother) The baby
b vary restless, ma'am. I can't do anything
with her.
F. M. She's teething, I suppose.
N. Yes'ru. I think if you was to take
her iu your arms a little while it might
soothe her.
F. 11 I! Impossible. I haven't time to
spare. I'm just making ready to attend
meeting ot the Society for the Prevention ot
Cruelty to Children. Give baby some pars
gone.