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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-23
Religious Observances in Algeria.

Fasting is an ordinance strictly cnioin-
ed We have already alluded 10 the fast
ofthe Rhamadan, a word which signifies
publication from sin. This fast, which is
more sacred than any other, occurs in the
ninth month of the Arab year. During
tbs period of penance the gates of Para
ti,e-say the Arab doctors Of divinity
ar, kept constantly open, so that it is a
happy fate to die at this time. None but
the sick are exempt from the rigorous OBJ
sevance of the Rhamadan. and these only
on condition that when they recover from
Illness, they shall fast as many days as
eq1al in number those on which they had
been allowed to take food. During the
thirty days this fast continues Mahometans
are not permitted To visit their wives.
Not only are they forbidden tn eat any
thing from sunrise to sunset, but, what is
worse. they must neither smoke nor drink
coffee now as the Arab, like the Spaniard,
who took the habit from him, has seldom
u cigarette out of his mouth, and drinks
ten or twelve cups of coffee day, this is
no small privation; SO that the hungry
faster, on this exceptional occasion, be-
comes savage and quarrelsome like other
animals when deprived of their food at
this period We see a fight almost every day
in the streets-a fair fight, English fashion
for the Algerines, unlike the Italians
and Spaniards, seldom use knives but in
every instance native peace makers inter
fere to separate the combatants, which is
more than is usually done in Christian
countries. The time for eating is thus
defined. The faithful are allowed to take
nourishment from dusk to dawn, as long
as it is impossible to distinguish by light
of day black thread from a white one
In Algeria, as is the custom in all coun-
tries which profess the Mahometan reli-
gion, a salvo of artillery announces the
beginning of the fast, and throughout the
month cannon fired at sunset gives the
signal that it is over for that day. After
so many hours of total abstinence, it NAV
be imagined how welcome to the ears of
the hungry population is the report of
this gun. The town seems to awake, the
scene changes at once from state of sulky
obedience to animation and Joy. The
minarets are lighted up, while from the
highest gallery the muezzin, in loud and
solemn voice, calls the faithful to evening
prayers.
After hastily reciting verse from the
Koran, every one begins to eat. Many of
the lower classes carry bread, few dates,
or the like about them. At such mo-
ment they become demonstrative, and are
too excited to stand on ceremony We
were one day passing an Arab just as the
cannon fired. "Entendstu," said he,
look" and, quick as hought-substitu-
ting pious ejaculation for praycr-he
took from the hood of his buMous bit
of bread, which he bolted down his throat
with triumphant satisfaction, leaving us
20 admire his self-denial and forethought
at the same time,-Algeria by Geo. GaskeU.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-23
MRS. COLLINS CROQUET SET.
How his Hot biscuit for Tea was Lost
4 x.s>a
was not Unlike Very Many other Fam
fly lars.

Croquet, that eminently fascinating
game, was introduced on the premises
of the Collinses, Friday In the after
noon Podge's boy brought up the set,
and just before tea Mrs. Collins ar
ranged the wickets. Collins had learn
ed to play when visiting in Glover
shire, last summer, and Mrs. Collins
acquired an Indifferent knowledge of
the game from two elderly maiden sis
ters in Paxton street. And so on that
delicious Friday afternoon they took
ont their mallets and balls and COM
menced the game.
Now. Emeline," playfully observed
Mr.. Collins, .sdon't you begin cheat
ing at the start. If you do, the game
will be prostituted to mere gambling,
an well iniure our moral natures in
trying to build up our physical
''People who are so ready to charge
against others may need close watch
ing themselves, young man" said she,
in the same spirit; land | mean to
keep sharp eye on you"
Then they both laughed.
"But it viii be a good thing for you,"
he said, with tinge of tenderness in
his voice; ''you are kept cooped up in
the house so that you hardly get a
breath of air. This will give you ex-
ercise, and keep you out doors, too"
"You are always thinking of me-"
said she, as her eyes grew moist
"You need the outdoor air as much as
| do, but you are too unselfish to think
of Yourself"
And thus exchanging sentiments,
which did credit to both their hearts,
the game progressed.
After passing through the center
wicket, Mr.. Collins used her balls to
help himself through the other wicket
10 the upper stake. Then he left her
near the first wicket and struck for
the stake, which, being about eight
inches distant, made him confident
The ball missed by about an eighth of
an inch.
81 DECLARE" he exclaimed in vexa-
ton.
Then she, having watched his rapid
progress, now struck for him and hit
him, and minute later hA ball was
spinning through the grass to the 9TH
er end of the ground. She was now
in position for her wicket, and passed
through it and the others to the stake,
but missed it. Then he came up by a
well directed blow to within two inch
es of the stake. But she went for him
again, and when she got through she
was three wickets beyond the stake,
and his ball was at the other end of
the ground again, and his brow was
finely corrugated. He stepped nerv-
ously toward it. 1t was quite evident
that he was not unruffied. When his
turn came again he drove back to the
stake but struck wicket, and rebound
ed so close to her that she easily hit
him, and again introduced him thro'
wickets he was not for, and then sent
him flying again. Her success caused
her to laugh, and he heard it.
"You think you are pretty smart,
but I'll get even with you," he said,
without smiling.
"You'll have to play better than you
have done," she pertinently suggested.
81 think | know as much about GRO
quet as you do" he said, still with
straight face. eff you had fairness
about you, you'd letme have that stroke
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-23
Washington's Communion.

Major Popham, an officer of the
Revolution, wrote letter, in which
he says:
SIT was my great good fortune to
have attended st. Paul's church in
this city, with the General, during
the whole period of his residence in
New York as President of the United
States. The pew of Chief Justice
Morris was situated next to that of the
President, close to where l constantly
sat in Judge Morris's pew; and I am
as confident as a memory now labor
ing under the pressure of four-score-
years and seven can make me, that the
President had more than once-I be-
lieve j may say often attended at the
sacramental table, at which | had w,
privilege and happiness TO kneeL ~ y,
tions by my eldest daughter, who dis
tinctly recollects her grandmama
(Mrs. Norris often mentioning that
fact with great pleasure. Indeed, |
am further confirmed in my assurances
by the perfect recollection of the Presi-
dents uniform department during
Divine service in church. The steady
seriousness of his manner, the solemn
audible, but subdued tone of voice in
which he read and repeated the re-
sponses, the Christian humility which
overspead and adorned the native dig
nifty of the saviour of his country, at
once exhibited him pattern to all
who had the honor of access to him.
1t was my good fortune, dear madam,
to have frequent intercourse with him.
1t was my pride and boast to have seen
him in various situations the flush
Of victory, in the field and in the tent,
in the church and at the altar al
ways himself, ever the same"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-23
The Colorado Potato Bug.

The Scientific 1n,erican says: The
farmers in our vicinity are just now
having their potato fields invaded by
the celebrated Colorado bug, and the
demand for Paris green has become so
great throughout the country that,
were it not an article obtainable in al
most unlimited quantities, the price
would be greatly enhanced.
Let every user of the article keep
constantly in mind that Paris green
is deadly poison, and great care
should be taken in the handling of it.
Hands from which the skin is abraded,
or on which any sore exists, should be
protected with gloves, and all precau-
tions should be used against inhaling
the poison while mixing it.
The following, from the maryland
Farmer, seems to be practical mode
of applying the poison to the vines.
We would, however, suggest, that, on
small patches, the dipping of a broom
in the liquid and shaking it over the
vines be used as substitute for the
appliance which our contemporary
suggests:
Sweeten a barrel of water with 1
gallon of cheap molasses; then add
and we'll incorporate 1 lb. good Paris
green, and apply the same in one ap-
plieation to acre of potatoes. The
best mode of applying the liquid to
the potato vines is in the use of a can
that will contain or 5 gallons, which
may be lashed on the back of a man,
who may apply the liquid, very uni
formly and rapidly, by having two
short pieces of inch india rubber
hose attached to the bottom of the
can, the other end of the hose termi-
mating in tin rose, similar to that on
watering pots. The liquid should be
well stirred at each filling of the can,
and it should be frequently and vio-
lently shaken during the time Of ap-
plying it. An active man can apply
the poison to four acres of potatoes in
a day with ease, and two applications,
at proper intervals, will save the crop.
The cost is estimated as follows:
Hauling water, mixing, and applying
the liquid, 80 cents per h., two appli-
cations, 60 cents; 2 gallons molasses,
so cents; 2 lbs. Paris green, $1.4O;
total, $500.
t3"I say, Jim, why don't you walk
?n "How in thunder, Tom, can a
feler walk straight after drinking crook
ed whiskey9"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-23
Volume zXXXII.---No. IL.

over when was up to the stake. You
knewI slipped as well as I did," he
said, growing red in the face.
'No, | didn't know anything about
it," she replied, taking on a little col
or.
81 say you did,"
'And say I didn't. But if you are
going to play this game, why don't
You 90 ahead?"
ssIsll play when get ready" he an
swered, turning white about the mouth.
eff you amt going to play, you'd
better go into the house and shut up"
she suggested, raising her voice.
sDon't You talk, to me that way," he
cried, cor I'll make you sorry for it,
soH brazen- faced hussy.
"Hussy! h,lssy! she screamed. =
Amt you ashamed Of yourself, John
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23

six hair-pins In her mouth has always been
a mystery, aud always will be.
"A candidate for County Clerk In
Texas offered TO register marriages for
nothing. His opponent. undismayed,
promised To 90 the same, and throw a
cradle in"
"A handkerchief OF William Penn is to
be on exhibition at the Centennial. and a
curious correspondent writes to ask ii il Is
the original Penn wiper.
=" That clock, stranger" said Mchi-
gan farmer. ''was the best kind OF A clock
up 10 six months ago. when my daughter
began 10 have bcaux. and now the blamed
thing is always two hours To slow"
Its no use for stranger TO try and
get off pun in Detroit. Yesterday, when
New Yorker. detained M one of the
depots for while, got into conversation
with an old fat woman known as Amy"
and asked her If she had ever be,n con-
victed of the crime If big Amy. she took
out memorandum book and showed him
the names OF twenty-eignt persons who
had got ahead OF him on the same pun
Free Press.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23
A Scene ON the Cars.

A San Francisco paper says Last week
loving couple were Joined In the holy
bonds of wedlock at Salinas City. Califor-
MIA. They we're married in the morning,
and Immediately stepped aboard the cars
for bridal tour TO San Francisco. They
attracted considerable attention on the
way by their honeymoon ways, and Gre
ated good deal of quiet fun among the
goodly number of ladies and gentlemen
who we're passengers. In due time the cars
entered tunnel, and all for few mo-
ments were enveloped in darkness. All
too soon the cars emerged into the broad
glare of the noouday sun, and our loving
bride and groom were discovered locked in
each others arms and exchanging kisses
at rate seldom seen in public. The pas
sengers took In the situation in about a
second. and shout went up that nearly
threw the train from the track, and brought
the conductor To the scene on the double
quick. "Pass IL around.n yelled big
man who was on his way East to get his
wife. go back 10 the tunnel said an
other man to the conductor; and as the
newly-made husband settled back in his
seat he was heard TO say: " Sarah. I
thought tunnels were longer. Darn rail-
road company, any way"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23

Personal and Literary.

Bancroft Is seyenty-four years of age,
and Is now AT work on the eleventh vol
ume of his history Of the United States.
Malcolm Reade, nephew of Charles
Reade. the novelist, was recently murder
en- by his servant, In India.
-Twenty-nine years ago there were
fourteen daily papers published In Bos-
ton, but Of that number only six survive.
is Is reported that the Marquis of
Lorne and his wife, the Princess Louise,
contemplate visiting the United States
during the ensuing summer.
Baron DE Waldeck, a Partisan artist,
Is 100. and his latest pictures are his best.
BY the end of the century he will be pretty
generally known. His youngest son will
then be 80.
Ex-senator Revels. of Mississippi, the
first colored citizen admitted 10 the United
States Senate. has become a doctor Of
divinity, and Is an active preacher in the
Methodist Episcopal Church of that State.
Lady Talfourd. the widow of the late
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd. author of
Ion, died recently in England at the age
of eighty-three. In early life Lady Tai
fourd was an accomplished artist in water
colors.
M. c. Felu. the armless painter of
Antwerp. Is now copying some pictures in
the South kensington Museum, London.
The facility with which he manages his
brush with his right foot while holding his
palette with the jeff is pronounced mar
velous.
The Rev. DIR. Williams, missionary TO
China. is soon 10 return 10 this country
10 spend the rest of his days. He has lived
there forty-one years as missionary of
the American Board of Missions, during
which time he accepted the position OF
Secretary OF Legation TO the United States
Government.
The late serious illness of President
Chadbourne.. of Williams College, was
caused by the neglect of railway officers.
The train upon which Mr.. Chadbourne
was travelling was left standing all night
on side track. No station could be reach
ed without walk of three .or four miles.
so the passengers were left to the shelter
afforded by fircless car. during one of the
coolest nights In October.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23
A Mysterious Phenomenon.

The Schenectady (N. W Union Of
March 30 tells this extraordinary story
A few days ago phenomenon ola very
singular nature occurred at the residence
Of a Mr.. Veeder. at No. 81 Albany Street.
Mrs. Needer at the time was engaged In
her household duties, and all of a sudden
she was astonished and COMPOUNDED, ac-
cording 10 her statement. by what seemed
to be flash OF light that filled the room
for moment with abrilliant illumination.
She was so overcome by the strange oc-
currence that she screamed at first, but the
light having disappeared. she regained her
composuse, and, 10 her still greater aston
ishment. happening To cast her eyes
toward the ceiling OF the Kitchen, where
she was at the time, she saw the mark oil
child's foot on the wall overhead. She
stood a moment contemplating the object
on the ceiling, when she saw another
mark, precisely like the first, begin to de-
velop itself on the ceiling, which soon ap-
peared in full, being the print of child
foot, corresponding exactly TO the other
one. She became alarmed and rushed
from the room. Proceeding To- neigh
boris she called i'm another woman ana
both watched the curious affair. Soon
after other footprints developed them
selves on the wall, when another lady was
called in, but the footprints continued TO
multiply. This curious deyelopemen
went on until the ceiling of the kitchen
was almost covered with these tracks,
crossing the wall in different lines OF di-
rection, and soon after similar marks
were seen in quite a number on the CELL
ing of an adjoining bedroom. The marks
In both rooms were all Of child's foot,
and were all OF the same size, and precise
lv alike in all respects. The ceiling. like
all others this time of the year, Is more or
less colored, and the marks on the wall
look like white spots, of the foot shape.
The marks are still on the wall, although
some of them have been rubbed of.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23

Each ward school in Milwaukee has a
teacher in German.
The Southern Methodist Book Con-
Germ has just issued the Spanish hymn
book for the use of the mission in Mexico.
The two largest mixed colleges in the
country are Oberlin and Michigan Uni
versity. OF IN. / $50 students at Oberlin
63S are women; of the 1.l9l at Michigan
University 100 are women.
The Established Church in England is
to have a new bishopric-St. Adams
formed Of Essex and Hertfordshire.
The grand old abbey. a church of st. Al
bans, will be the cathedral Of the diocese,
and Or. Claughton. the present Bishop of
Rochester. will probably be the first in
csmbent of the new See.
AT the recent dinner of the Harvard
graduates in Chicago. Robert K. Lincoln,
n member of the class of 1864, and son of
President Lincoln, responded to the toast
college Days. He spoke of some pc
culiarities of his father, President Lincoln,
showing his devotion 10 the affairs of State,
to the exclusion of all matters pertaining
10 his own family and particularly his
sons education.
There are in Delaware twenty-eight
schools wherein between LOO and l.2OO
colored children are instructed. These
schools receive no funds from the State,
and yet are said 10 be conducted with adj
mirable discipline and uniform system
such as Is not possessed by the public
schools wherein the white children are ed
ucated. All of them under the manage
ment of colored teachers, some of whom
are even accomplished. The colorcd
schools are maintained chiefly by revenue
which i raised among the colored people
themselves.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23
Odds and Ends.

"A Christmas Disappointment" It's
lovely doll, dear grandpa and grandma /;
but-but-Td been hoping it would be
twins"
"There! that explains where my clothes
line went to ~ exclaimed an Iowa woman
as she found her husband hanging In the
stable.
=" call that base surrender" said q
laughing Brooklyn girl to the bass OF a
church choir, who offered his hand In mar
rage.
An exchange has an article on How
nails are made" The subject Is one
which every man should have NJ his fin
gers ends.-Ne,o York Commercial Adrer-
tiser.
How on earth woman can keep her
CAB going while holding back-comb and
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-04-23

There has been in existence for some
time In Spain an lnter-Continental Rail-
way Company, whose object is TO connect
Europe and Africa by tunnel underneath
the Straits Of Gibraltar, the maximum
depth of which is $40 meters.
DIR. Petri. of Berlin, has perfected pro-
cess for producing odorless blocks of fuel
from excrements, which also burn with
out odor, with a heating effect equal TO
brown coal. and affording an ash excellent
as phosphate fertilizer.
AT Carrara in Italy there are now $50
marble quarries in full working order.
The most valuable kind of marble, which
Is pure white. is reserved for statues !:
the second quality Is used for architecture
al purposes. There are lis establishments.
employing altogether 1000 men, where
the marble Is cut and polished.
improvements in rifles have led to i'm
provements in fowling pieces in respect of
range, velocity, and what sportsmen call
pattern" An eminent firm of gunmak-
ers Of London and Glasgow have an i'm
proved breach loading fowling piece which
they say approaches the rifle In swiftness
and range and In accuracy of aim.
BY boring an augur-hole in the middle
of a stump OF a tree that has been felled,
or diagonally beneath II. and exploding
therein small charge of dynamite, the
stump Is so ehectually shattered and split
up as to render its subsequent removal
easy. Also small cartridge of dynamite
exploded on the surface of bowlder will
effectually break II up into small frag-
ments, easy Of removal.
Leather scraps are now converted, in a
suitable machine, into a sort OF leather
wool, whichis then mixed with caoutchouc
and different chemical reagents, kneaded
by machinery into thick, pasty mass,
and then formed In metal molds, and
dried and subjected to a gradually increas-
ing pressure until II Is finished, under
'6,000 to 10000 pounds to the square inch.
The appearance Of leather Is impaired to
IL by light coating. Articles manufac-
tured from this material are said to be fif-
ty per cent. cheaper than those made from
leather, and can be made In the same
manner, while at the same they are per-
fectly waterproof.
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There is an elm tree still growing in
Paris which was planted in 1905.
On the 18th of January il showed for
two hours at Bel,ianeh. in Upper Egypt
something that IL is supposed never
happened there before.
Count Malvaria. Of Italy, has invented
an earthquake indicator 10 give warning
of coming shocks. The instant that
trembling of the earth occurs the mechan-
ism fires of gun.
Rio de Janeiro is going to.have a fire
alarm telegraph and paid department of
400 men. in eighteen companies, organi-
zed in the same manner as the force in
New York.
AT Zinnwald. in Germany, fresh
widow one hundred and three years old
passed in second wedlock with widower
of seventy. The first born of the discon-
ISOLATE widow. young chap about eighty,
was present at the nuptials.
Every year pastry cook in Dresden
cooks up a lot of pancakes in one of which
a ducat Is placed. and advertises the same,
whereupon all the good people of that city
rush to invest five pfennigs in one of the
cakes. In the hope of being the lucky win
ner of the prize.
The Parisians devour 100000. 900 Of
apples every winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of dys-
pepsia and bilious affections In Paris is
owing to the increased consumption of
this fruit. which he maintains is an admir-
able prophylactic and tonic. as well as a
very nourishing and easily digested article
of food.
An inch on mans nose Is proverbi-
ally Of some account, and NJ. Derrisart. Of
Paris, is likely TO know of ex' city what
account. His nose has taken 90 growing
lately, and grew half an inch in eight
days. He is at the Hotel Dieu, in Paris.
and all the surgeons in France are rush.
ing thither TO see him.
Mr.. Henry Varley, an English lay
man, who has been preaching on Sunday
evenings at the Hippodrome. was origin
ally butcher in London, and conducted
his business on religious principles. His
customers were mostly poor people, whom
he began to admonish, and with such good
results that finally he went out from his
shop and preached from the top Of n.y.
drants, blacksmiths' blocks, and carpen-
ters' benches. meeting with such encour-
agement that he soen found his way to
Exeter Hall, which he was successful In
filling. Thence he went into theaters and
other large rooms, and subsequently to
Noting Hill, where tabernacle large
enough to seat 5000 people was built for
him, to whom he breaches gratis. Mr..
Varley's manner Is peculiar. He walks
up and down the platform with rapid
strides. then sits down. jumps up again,
resumes his quick march. speaking all the
while in the most beautiful and earnest
manner. He expresses himself graceful
ly, and altogether he Is very attractive
speaker.