TOPICS OP THE DAY.
The total number of children in the
United States of "school age," which
"varies in each state from four to six
teen, is estimated at 16,052,283; the
schools roll3 for 1882 show a member
ship of 9,781,521, however, and a daily
average attendance of 5,705,342.
The Worshipful Company of Gro
cers, of London, have issued an an
nouncement, offering a prize of $5000
lor the best original essay on Sanitary
Science. This prize is awarded every
lour years, and is open to universal
competition, British and foreign.
Somebody traveling in New South
"Wales writes that the famous catar
acts of this country are mere spigot
exhibitions beside the waterfalls to be
seen there. At the Wentworth Falls,
"for instance, the river drops down
1500 feet, "with but a single break
about midway, and the beholder above
is fairly unable to see the bottom be
cause of the spray. And then "the
valley below the falls spreads out into
a great amphitheater fifty miles
across, and hemmed in on every side
but one with perpendicular walls on
the mountain."
Over the door of a small frame
building in which a colored family is
living, in Greenville, Tenn., is a pine
board on which is the legend, now al
most erased by rain and storm, "A.
Johnson, Tailor." A little beyond the
western border of the town is a mar
ble monument that marks the last
home of "Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States." This little pair
of facts would provide a full meal for
the pessimist, and suggests the incom
nrehensible space between human
r
greatness and nil.
It is a fact worthy of note that, of
all the classic Venuses known to us
in modern times, the Venus of Llilo is
certainly the most popular. It is cal
culated that every year some fifty-five
thousand reproductions of it in mar
ble, plaster and terra cotta are sold in
Europe, while for its photographs it
an claim a greater sale than even
Mrs. Langtry or Miss Mary Anderson
in the zenith of their fame, in the
jecent inventory of state property
made bv the French government, this
: matchless statue was computed to be
worth a great fortune.
The business of the manufacture
and sale of beer has reached enormous
proportions in America. The Brewers'
Journal shows that the ale and beer
sold last year, in six states alone
amounted to the following: New York
5,843,254 barrels; Pennsylvania, 1,706,
646 barrels; Ohio, 1,585,852 barrels;
Wisconsin, 1.298,183 barrels; Illinois,
1,071,403 barrels, and Missouri, 1,022,
659 barrels. New York city alone
shows sales of 3,239,908 barrels; Phila
delphia, 1,023,514 barrels. It is evi
dent that the consumption of beer and
ale in America is by no means confined
to Germans and Englishmen.
The well-known Italian economist,
Signor Cirio, has come to the conclu
sion that Italy ought to raise her own
potatoes and that now is the time and
Sardinia the place for the experiment.
He has selected some of the best
varieties,will follow the most approved
methods of cultivation, and will care
fully note the results for the purpose
of ascertaining the kind best adapted
to the requirements of the Italian far
mer. Signor Cirio, however, has al
ready been reminded that he will have
to persuade his countrymen to become
a potato-eating people before he can
hope to make potato-planting general
and popular.
In Dakota there are great numbers
of Norwegians, who have been at
tracted to the country by the flaming
circulars of the railroad and land com
panies, and still more by letters from
friends already on the ground. They
are riot disappointed, ior tney are
content to begin very humbly. At
iirst a house of sods of one room is
satisfactory, though the pig is a fellow
occupant. The first improvement is a
sty close by the front door, and the pig
only enters the house occasionally as a
visitor. Next, the house-made sod
stove must make way for an iron one
and the sod house itself is deserted for
a dwelling all wood, and costing per
haps as much as- $200. When this
house, with its windows and its
shingled roof, is finally painted white,
the climax is reached. Imagination
in its wildest flight can picture nothing
more luxurious or beautiful.
A clear example of the ease with which
some writers may be misled by perfectly
sound statistics is shown in the follow
ing: Dr. Guy, the English statistician,
calculated with reason that the actual
mean age at death, which is twenty
nine years in England, is only twenty
years in America. A careless writer
at once made up his mind that America
was a very unhealthy place to live in,
as compared with England, and it was
necessary to inform him that the mean
age at death depends upon the pro
portion of old and young in a popula
tion, and that this varies in different
places and in the'same place at differ
ent times. It was also explained that
the mean age of death is useless as a
test of the healthf ulness of trades and
professions unless the age distribution
of the living persons engaged in them
is known.
In the report of the medical officer
of. the Woking (England) Prison for
Females for last year a number of in
teresting cases are detailed. After in
stancing the case of a woman who
who was over and over again convicted
and sent to prison, whose passion for
destroying prison furniture and her
own clothing never ceased, and who
died at fifty years of age whispering a
regret that her strength would not
permit her to indulge as formerly in
acts of violence, the medical officer
goes on to say, in connection with the
subject of wrong-doing and the con
dition of the brain, that he was led
during a series of examinations to the
discovery that a very notable number
of convict women have had their skulls
fractured. It is not uncommon to
hear a woman say, "I knew I was in
a temper, but I could not help it; I
was mad." This irascibility and loss
of self-control are, he adds, not un-
frequently associated with a damaged
skull and presumably an injured
brain.
Mr. Bookwalter, of Ohio, who dur
ing his recent tour around the world
made a valuable collection of indus
trial information as well as of natural
curiosities, is much impressed with the
actual and prospective competition
between the wheat growers of Ameri
ca and those of India. "The fact is a
significant one." he says, "that although
the India farmer ploughs his ground
with a forked stick and employs in al
respects the crudest methods of tillage,
he succeeds in these conditions in
raisin? an average of a little over
Q V-
eleven bushels of wheat per acre,
varying but slightly from the average
yield in America, where we have all
the appliances of science and skilful
methods of farming. This would
seem to be sufficient evidence that the
climate and soil of India are even
more favorable to the growth of wheat
than our own, and we are justified in
inferring that if the same methods
and appliances were employed in India,
and with the same intelligence as here,
the out-turn per acre would be much
increased over that of America."
ing to a writer in the Baltimore Manu
facturers' Record the manufacture at
the South of iron, steel and of agri
cultural implements acquired in the
decade 1871-80 great . proportions.
Thus from 345,570 tons of iron in
1870, the production in ten Southern
States, not including Virginia, in
creased to 614,971 tons in 1880. More
remarkable still have been the changes
In the last three years. Here are a
few examples, the figures representing
tons of iron and steel:
1870. 1880.
Alabama, 7,060 62,986
Georgia, 9,634 35,152
Tennessee, 34,305 77,100
In 1880 there were in twelve South
ern States 296. establishments for the
manufacture of agricultural imple
ments, almost all of which,- excepting
those in Kentucky and Virginia, had
been created since 1870. These em
ployed 2,633 hands, and $3,509,881
capital, paid $798,012 wages, consumed
material valued at 1,646,750, and pro
duced wares valued at $3,557,604.
A HUNTER'S STORY.
1883.
125,000
80,000
105,000
Some years ago the United States
government bought in Asia Minor
seventy-six camels, and sent them as
beasts of burden for army use in New
Mexico and Arizona. For some time
they were used between Fort Tejon
and Albuquerque, each carrying some
times 100 gallons of water, and going
without a drink for themselves for
nine days at a time. For some rea
son, however, the government con
demned and sold .the camels at Beni-
cia, CaL, to two Frenchmen, who used
them in carrying salt to Virginia City,
Nevada. Their next experience was
in "packing" ore in Southern Arizona,
but at the end of it their owners
turned them loose upon the desert,
where they have been roaming wild
and multiplying, fattening upon bushes
of sage and greasewood and the thorny
herbage of the desert. With herds of
wild camel3 in Arizona, ostriches in
Southern California, Moorish architec-
tnrft wherever Indians" have settled
and pearl and sponge fishing in its ad
jacent seas, our remote Southwest can
offer the tourist pretty much all there
is in Northern Africa. .
A very remarkable increase of manu
facturing facilities in the South has
been noted since the latest census was
taken. The gain has been so large
that it has excited attention from in-
terpsted nersons evervwhere. Accord-
c
A Story of the War.
In that desperate battle of Muif rees-
boro, or, as some may call it, Stone riv
er, on the 31st of December, 1862, a
gallant and daring charge was made
by Breckinridge's brigade on the
masked batteries of Gen. Bosecrans,
so placed as to do fearful work. The
charge was on of the most desperate
of the war, and among the foremost in
it was the First Louisiana regiment.
In this regiment a brave soldier and
intrepid officer was Lieut. J. B. Trist,
of this city. Manfully he went forth
to the terrible ordeal, and while leading
his men was struck down, mortally
wounded, It was impossible to with
stand such a rain-storm of missiles,and,
decimated and torn, Breckinridge's
brigade was forced back. The Feder
als swept over - the field, which wa3
covered with the dead and dying, and,
while the bloody work was still going
on, one of their number, Sergt. George
W. Kent, who was afterward first
lieutenant of company B, 88th Illinois
volunteers, saw poor Trist, fast sink
ins from his wounds, lying on the
field.-
Sergt. Kent went to the side of the
dying southern lieutenant and gave
his parched throat a refreshing
draught of water from his canteen, and
then, to protect him from the cold,
carefully wraDued him up in some
blankets packed up on the battlefield
In such a bloody hour, such brotherly
attention met with a grateful response
in the heart of the dying man, and
taking off his sword he presented it in
almost his last words to the succoring
Kent. The war went on, and Sergt
Kent became lieutenant. He treasur
ed the sword dearly, and when the
contest ended he had Lieutenant
Trist's name, date of battle, etc, en
graved on the scabbard, intending to
preserve it as a souvenir of the war
Some months ago, thinking that rela
tives of the dead lieutenant might de
sire to recover the sacred relic, Lieut.
Kent wrote to the association of the
army of the Tennessee, and the fami
ly was put in communication with
him.' A few days ago the sword reach
ed this city, and the brother of the gal
lant dead officer, N. B. Trist, received
it, 21 years after the battle. Lieut.
Kent, of Gridley, .McLean county, I1L,
will ever be remembered here with
sentiments of the warmest regard.
Ilovr Ho Was Overcome and tbe Way by
YVliicu lie was Finally tSaved.
(Corresponueace Spirit of Che Timet. )
An unusual adventure which recently oc
curred to your correspondent while hunting
at Brookmere, in this State, is so timely and
contains so much that can be made valuable
to all readers, that I venture to reproduce it
entire:
The day -was a most inclement one and the
snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks were plenti
ful, but they principally led i x the direction
of a large swamp, in which the rabbits
could run without difficulty, but where the
hunter constantly broke through the thin
ice, sinking into the half-frozen mire to his
knees. Notwithstanding these difficulties,
the writer Lad persevered, although
a very small bag of game was
the result. While tramping about through
a particularly malarial portion of the
swamp, a middle-aged man suddenly came
Into view, carrying a muzzle-loading shotgun
and completely loaded down with game of
the finest description. Natural curiosity,
aside from the involuntary envy that in
stinctively arose, prompted the writer to en
ter into conversation with the man, with the
following result: ,
. "You've had fine success, where did you
get all that game?
Right here, in the swamp."
"It's pretty rough hunting in these parts,
especially when a man goes up to his waiit
every other step."
"Yes, it's not very pleasant, Dut i am usea
to it and don't mind it."
How lonr have vou hunted hereabouts."
"Why, bless you, I have lived here most of
my life and hunted up to ten years ago ever
year." '
"liow does it happen vou omittea me iass
ten'yearsP'
.Because 1 was scarcely aDie to move,mucn
less hunt."
"I don't understand you?"
"Well, vou see. about ten rears aeo. after
I had been tramping around all day iu the
same swamp, I felt quit a pain in my ankle.
I didn't mind it very much, but it kept
troubling me for a day or two, and I could
see that it kept increasing. The next thing I
Knew, l ielt tne same kind or. a pain in my
shoulder and I found it pained me to move
mv arm. This thme kept going on and in
creasing, and though I tried to skake off the
feeling and make myself think it was only a
little temporary trouble, 1 found ttiat it did
not eo. Shortly atter this my joints began
to ache at the knees and I finally became so
bad that I had to remain in the bouse most of
the time."
And did you trace all this to the fact that
vou had hunted so nucn in tnis swamp: '
iso, l didn't Know wnat to lay it to, dus
I knew that I was in misery. My joints
swelled until it seemed as thoutrh all the flesh
1 had left was bunched at the joints: my
ingers crooked in every way, and some of
them became double-iointed. In fact, every
joint in my body seemed to vie with the
otners to see wnicn could Decome tne largest
and cause me the greatest suffering. In this
way several years passed on, dining which
time l was pretty nearly noipiess. i Became
so nervous and sensitive tnat I wowd sit
bolstered up in the chair and call to people
that entered the room not to come near me,
or even touch my chair. While all this was
going on, I felt an awful burning heat and
fever, wita occasional cnuu runmug an over
my body, but especially along my back and
through my shoulders. Then aain my blood
seemed to be boiling and my brain to be on
are."
"Didn't vcu try to prevent all this arony?"
"Try! i should think 1 did try. 1 tried
every doctor that came within my reach and
all the proprietary medicines I could hear of
I used washes an 1 liniments enough to last
me for all time, but the only relief I received
wa3 by injections of morphine."
"Well, you tain in a ver strange manner
for a man who has tramped around on a day
like this and in a swamp like this. How in
the world do you dare to do It?"
.Because l am completely wen and as
sound as a dollar. It may seem strange,
but it is true, tbat I was entirely cured; the
rheumatism all driven out of my blood; my
joints reduced to their natural tize, and my
strength made as great as ever before, by
means of that great and simple remedy, w ar
ner's Safe Rheumatic Cure, which I believe
saved my life."
" And so you now have no fear or rneuma-
tism?"
" Why. ha Even if it should come on, I
can easily get rid of it by using the same
remedy."
The writer turned to leave, aa it was grow
ing dark, but before I had reached the city
precisely she same symptoms I had just heard
described came upon me with great violence.
Impressed with the hunter's story, 1 tried the
same remedy, and within twenty-four hours
all pain and inflammation nan disappeared.
If any reader is suffering from any manner
of rheumatic or neuralgic troubles and de
sires relief let him by all means try this same
great remedy. And if any readers doubt tho
truth of the above incident or its statements,
let them write to A. A. Coates, Ui ookmere,
N. x., who wa. the man with whom the
writer conversed, and convince themselves of
Its truth or falsity, J. R. C.
The Bite of an Epileptic.
In England recently a vounsr man wa
bitten in the hand by a woman who had
fallen in an epileptic fit Three days after-'
ward he died, and the neighborhood be-
came greatly excited over the occurrence.'
This case only tends to add aditional tes
timony to the fact that the public love
sensations. This death may have been
merely a coincidence, or then a bite from
any person or any animal will occasionally,
or we should rather say, might occasion
ally, set up a degree of inflamation in an
aireaay aepravea or weajteneu constitu
tion that might prove fatal. But to sup
pose that the bite of an epileptic, is any
i - - : a : -1
more serious, simpiy uecausu ii is iimicicu
by an epileptic, than would a similar
wound received from any otner person is
certainly unreasonable, and not to be en
tertained in the pathological light of
to-day. Surgical and Medical Reporter.
Tho brotherhood of locomotive en
gineers now number over 13,000 members.
My daughter was troubled with Ileart Dis
ease for five years, given up by physicians,
tai sinking spe Is, constant pain, great swell
ing over her heart extending to left arm, and
severe spells oC neuralgia extending over en
tire body, doctors could not help her. Dr.
Graves' Heart Regulator cured her within
three months. James Tiiton, Concord, N. U.
SI per bottle at druggists.
Ths supply of oranges is short of the de
mand in Florida.
A Splendid Dairy '
Is one that yields its owner a good profit
through the whole season. But he must sup
ply the cows with what they need in order for
them to be able to keep up their product.
When their butter gets light in color he must
make it "gilt edged' by using Wells, Richard
son & Co's., Improved Butter Color. It give!
the golden color of June, and adds five cent!
per pound to the value of the butter.
Fob dy bjepsia, indigestion, depression of spu
its and general debility in their various forms,
also as & prt entive against fever and ague ana
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor-ftted
Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Eazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug-
eats, is the best tonic ; and for patients recover,
g from fever or other sickness it hag no equal.
The Doctor's Indorsement.
Dr. W. D. Wright, Cincinnati, O., send
the subjoined professional indorsement: "1
have prescribed Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam fol
the Lungs in a great number of cases and
always with success. One case in particular
was given up by several physicians who had
been called in for consultation with myself.
The patient had all the symptoms of con
firmed consumption cold night sweats, heo
tic fever, harassing coughs, etc. He com
menced immediately to get better, and wai
soon restored to his usual health. I also
found Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungf
the most valuable expectorant for breaking
up distressirg coughs and colds."
For twenty-five years I have been afflicted
with Catarrh so that I have been confined to
my room lor two months at a time. I have
tried all the humbugs in hopes of relief but
with no Micc3ss until I met with an old mend
who had used Ely's Cream Balm and advised
me to try it. 1 procured a bottle to please him,
and from the first application I found relief.
It is the best remedy I ever tried. W. C.
Mathews. Justice of Peace, Shenandoah, la.
The medical profession are slow (and right
ly so) to indorse every new medicine that is
advertised and sold; but honest merit con
vinces the fair-minded after a reasonaDie
time. Physicians in good standing often
prescribe Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for the cure oi lemaie weaknesses.
Thousands Upon Thousands.
The'proprietors of the world-renowned Car-
boline the natural Hair Restorer never put
up less mail i.vaj guuuusai a kiiuo. iuuii
but an idea of its immense demand.
Virus of all diseases arises from the blood
Samaritan Nervine cures all blood disorders-
Dr. J. A. Patmore, of Riley, Ind., truly re
marks: Samaritan Nervine cures epilepsy
Phoenix Pectoral qures cold and cough. 25.
Camphor Milk cures aches and paJna. 25.
You would use St. Patrick's Salve if you
knew the good it would do you.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is not only
pleasant to take, but it is sure to cure.
Educated by tho Newspapers.
A member of a manufacturing firm,
that employs 500 men, told a commit
tee of the United States senate tbat
the knowledge he possessed he got by
reading the newspapers, and not from
books, and that by reading the papers
he kept himself informed on the liter
ature and current events of the day.
Thousands of other prominent busi
ness men would make the same ac'
knowledgement if questioned on the
subject The tendency of all litera
ture is toward expansion, so the most
industrious reader of books can scarce
ly in a lifetime become well informed;
newspapers, on the contrary, condense
nearly everything into as few words
as possible. Were a student to attempt
to give the political, social, religious
and literary history of the world for
a day he might do it in far more ele
gant style than the newspapers, but
his history would occupy the reader's
time for at least a week. The news
paper is the true American university
The Grand Army of the Republic
has now on its rolls a quarter of a
million members in good standing.
The Governor Kissed Patti.
Governor Crittenden, of Mississippi,
has improved his reputation according
to a story told by Patti to a St. Louis
Post-Dispatch reporter. She was at the
time describing the favorable reception
of her singing of "Home, Sweet Home."
She said: "Now, every one seemed so
pleased when I sang it that it made me
feel good to see them. "Were they not
pleased? Such a funny thing happened
in connection with I'll tell you your
Governor Crittenden, I think his name
was yes, Governor cnttenaen came to
see me after that night, and what do you
think he did? "Well, he kissed me. He
said : 'jlme. Patti, I may never see you
again, and I cannot help it,' and before I
knew it he threw his arms around me
and was kissing me." The diva laughed
heartily and merrily at the recollection
of the incident.
"Is that , the privilege of governors-
only, madame?" asked the susceptible
reporter.
"Now, it wouldn't do, you know, to
have everybody washing my face, but an
nld P-entleman. and a nice-lookinr old
o '
gentleman I think he was nice look
ng but the truth is he kissed me so
quick I didn't have time to see, and
especially when they do not give me
time to object, what can I do?"
Photographing on linen will never
wash out. Henry Irvine's portrait was
on each napkin used at the London ban
quet given him ere he left for America,
the napkins being intended as souvenirs
for the guests to iake away.
IN THE SPRING
Many of the ham an family are afflicted with a weariness
and debility which it ia impossible to throw off without
aome reliable invigorant. It sesras imp sit)le to d
hard work, and eTen repore in disagreeable from thai
terrible tired feeling which it ia impossible to describe.
To rent ore the blood to active motion, to clesnse U
of foul humors, to give new- life to all the function
of the body, to make you work with life and energy,
you moat take Mood's Barsapajnua.
Purify Your Blood
"I had been much troubled by general debility,
caused in part by catarrh and h nraors. Latit spring l
friend recommended that I try Hood a Saraaparilla. )
to k three bottles, and it proved juBt the thing needed.
I derired an immense amount of benefit. 1 never fell
better." H. Fred Millet, Boston.
"I can aay with great pleasure that I have used
Hood's Sarsaparilla and think there is none equal to it
as a blood purifier. I cheerfully recommend it to all."
E. S. Pbzlps, Rochester, N. Y.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by druggists. One dollar; six for $S. Prepared
only byU. I. HOOD k (JO. .Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
IOO Doses One Dollar.
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KUJLli Hit XT XiJ.Jii.Xis
IX
To Consumptive. Many have keen bnppv
to give their teaumony in favor of the ne of H ib,r'i
Purs Cod-Liver Oil and Lime." Experience has
Droved it to be a valuable remedy for Consumption.
Asthma, Diphtheria, and all d sses of the Throat and
Lunga. Manufactured only by A. B.Wiuiob, Chemist,
Boston. Sold by all druggists.
W-NTED-LADIES TO TAKE OUR NEW
TT Fancy work at their homes, in city or country,
and earn SB to S 1 2 per week, making goods for out
Spring and Summer trade. Send lot: for sample an-t
particulars. Hudson Mfg. Co., 26a Sixth Av-., N. Y.
A BLESSING TO WOMEN ! f;ndf
formation to D., Box 10 1, Buffalo, New York.
A Leading London Fbysr
seism establishes an
Office in. New Yor!&
for tho Core cS
EP1LEPTSO FiTC:
rromAmJourr.clcfllalkinei
Dr. Ab. Heserole (late of London), who makes a ape.
Clalty of Epilepsy, has without doubt treated and cured
more cases than any other living physician. II is anccess
has simply been astonishing; we nave beard of cases of
over SO years' standing; successfully enred by him. Be
baa pobllshed a work on this disease, which bo sends
with a large bottle of bis wonderful cure free to any snf.
ferer wbo may send their express and P. O. Address. M
gUT1 any one wishing a cure to address
' nr,A&,XjOUlKo.Me,oUaSt.,NswYorc