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, 1879-12-01
Pennsylvania Coal Fields.

The fearful loss of good material
| involved in mining and preparing
anthracite, though greatly to be de
plored. seems to be almost inevitable.
The disposition of the coal in large,
solid beds and highly inclined positions
involves strong supports to keep the
superintendent mass from crushing
and closing the avenues of the mine, and
these supports must consist of heavy
pillars wrought out in the solid coal it.
self. Some of this pillar coal is ulti-
mately removed, but much of it is in
evitably lost, especially in the larger
beds, which are frequently found from
twenty to sixty feet in thickness and
often inclined at an angle of from forty
to seventy degrees. 1t is estimated that
not more than sixty per cent of the coal
is ever taken out of the mines. That
which is brought to the surface is run
through structure very properly
called a" breaker" ingeniously devised
for the destruction of coal. This pro-
cess involves loss of good coal equal
to twenty or twenty five per cent of the
quantity mined. For the amount of
coal wasted in mining (say forty per
cent} and preparing (say twenty five
per cent? no one is paid it is dead
loss to the landowner, miner and ship
per. Plans for utilizing the waste coal
dust or culm of anthracite collieries
have been frequently suggested, but
none have come into general use. The
Anthracite Fuel Company at Port
Even, on the Hudson, in 1877, used
ninety per cent of coal dust and ten per
cent of pitch, and made 300 tons of fuel
per day, consuming 80 900 tons of culm
annually. The Delaware and Hudson
Company also use, at their mines, co.
900 tons per annum. They now ship
all their coal down to pea sizes, and
consume the culm for generating steam.
If all our companies wonld follow this
excellent example it would enable them
to sell over half million tons more
coal and burn the same amount of
refuse, thus earning or saving one half
million dollars per annum. The Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany has recently introduced a method
of burning coal dust in the furnaces of
its engines, and the plan appears to
meet with entire success.-Prcfessor
.Shdfer.
, 1879-12-01

Detroit Currency.

John Smith can go to Scotland from
England for $40. It costs Queen Vic
toria s1o,0QA
Paul Boyton is getting on swim
raingly on his new book of travels-of
swims, rather.
If you want TO go in first-class society
in Cincinnati. you mustn't call it tube
rose, but tu-ba-ro-se."
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
nail political lie. All you've got to
do is to tell bigger one.
And so do the spiders and the flies
and the ants" is the newest way of say
ing something awful funny.
Spotted Tail, the Indian chief, figures
that white man g whisky has killed more
Indians than white mems bullets.
It is said that Blaine never forgets
face, especially the face of Democrat
who breaks him down in one of his
speeches.
English editors meet and jaw and
fight and wipe their bloody noses OF
the nearest picket-fence, the same as
Americans.
Fulness of eye sometimes denotes
language, and again it denotes that the
owner called some one a liar and a
horse-thief.
All the newspapers having now pub
lished Prof. Wises obituary, it is time
for the old gent to swim ashore Or come
out of the woods.
A New Jersey paper says that there
are lots of slivers on the wrong side of
human nature, while the right side is
planed down and sand-papered.
1t is current bard who sings, 1 sat
alone with my conscience" Two to
one, says the Albany Journal, he never
had less fun in all his born days.
Blair Co., Pa, didn't pay for its
graveyard, and the sheriff offers it for
sale. Nice chance for young doctor
to get the foundation for start in life.
The Boston druggist who put up
laudanum for tincture of rhubarb was
busy telling a friend funny story, but
verdict for 900 damages sobered
him up.
Most young men are not satisfied
with chalking their billiard-cues, but
when through with the game are anx-
ious to have the saloon. keeper chalk
down the Indebtedness.
If it takes all the United States to
suppress one tribe of Indians, how
many United States would it take to
break up country dance after all the
fellows begin to feel good?
, 1879-12-01

THE BOYS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
The young Princes of Wales, on
board the Bacchante, will be treated
like other officers of their ages and
standing, except that they will have a
private cabin under the poop. They
will join the gun-room mess, the mem
bers of which will be granted a special
allowance, as was the case when the
Duke of Edinburgh commenced his
naval career When the Britannia
school broke up for the holidays there
were 176 cadets on board. Both Princes
obtained first-class in the examination
in seamanship, which entities them to
three months sea time, and for general
good conduct obtained another three
months. Several OF the officers and in
structors received handsome presents
from the Princes as souvenirs. The
young Princes will be accompanied by
the naval instructor, the Rev. Mr..
Dalton.
, 1879-12-01
Driving a Bargain.

Here is story constructed on the
same principle as the one that told OF
how a man got the three youngest
turkeys in a group of six by telling the
market man he was b-b-boarding
house k-keeper and wanted three of his
t-t-toughest turkeys, and when they
ware selected the stutterer walked of
with the other three. The following
yarn is from French paper:
NJ. c., having broken an indispensa-
BILE article of porcelain, goes to the
dealer from whom he had purchased
the set to endeavor to replace it.
Have you any objections to break
ing up set?' he says. 81 bought
one from you last week, and one piece
is smashed. It was like this. How
muchll you take for that sugar-bowl
there, without the cover ?"
"Well, the price is fifteen francs with
the cover, but I'll let you have the bowl
by itself for fourteen. You see, the
cover doesn't amount to much-in point
of fact may say it is worthless-but il
would look absurd not to make some de.
duction, so I'll knock off one franc for
tho cover"
What-one franc only? Surely the
cover must be worth more than one
franc"
"No, sir in reality it isn't worth
more than half franc, but seeing it's
you I'll call it franc and let you have
the bowl for fourteen"
Why, by Jove, what an ass I've
been 1t wasn't the bowl that nv wife
told me was broken-it was the cover
How funny of mellow stupid! Il
isn't the bowl 1 want-it's the cover
Here is your one franc-don't mind
wrapping it up"
(Vanishes into the infinite azure o1
the street.
Wood, of the New York Sun, got the
title of the "Great American Con.
denser by knocking one of the ps ou,
of pepper. No newspaper man will
ever knock 'em out of coffee.
, 1879-12-01

BUTTERMILK PUDDING.-Two eggs,
two cups of sugar, one-half cup of but
ter, one teaspoonful Of soda, three cups
of buttermilk; stir the flour in lightly,
and pour into creased tin. Bake one
hour.
CoRNsTARcH CAKE.-One cup of su-
gar, the whites of three eggs. one-half
cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of
cornstarch, one cup of -four. one-half
cup of butter, one half teaspoonful of
soda, two-thirds teaspoonful of cream
of tartar.
, 1879-12-01
Another Child Marriage.

Miss Jennie Hartman, of Santa Bar
bara, aged II years, was married last
week to William Den, the brides par
ents consenting to the union"
The above item was handed us by a
friendly NJ. d., who smiled as he did it,
knowing full we'll that the little Journal
had sensitive nerve that would thrill
with quick pain at the thought of one
so young being so cruelty sacrificed
one who might be so fair, if allowed to
grow to womanly grace and perfection,
being robbed of all life's loveliness, and
that. too, by the consent of her parents.
Society sanctions the crime; the law
binds the fetters religion makes no
wall, and the medical profession, whose
ignorance has beguiled the people into
this sin of early marriages of girls, are
as silent as the entombed dead. If
girls completed their growth few years
sooner than boys, they would every one
of them die sooner, and it does not re-
quire much scientific quibbling to prove
this fact, nor fathomless depth of
wisdom either. Any fool might learn
it in an hour, though but ten years old,
and had not the misfortune to have
brain was like soft wax that it could not
receive or hold an impression amoment.
He would see that the animals about
his feet, and the birds above his head,
have their allotted time to live, and that
there is no sex distinction marking the
time of their demise.
Why don't some one of the profession,
from out the giddy elevation of high
authority, speak in thunder-tones to the
women below; their mothers - the
mothers of men. Say to them, that it
takes as many years to bring your
daughters to full-rounded womanhood
as it does your sons to perfect physical
symmetry and manly strength; and for
either to marry before their complete
maturity is to ruin themselves and de-
stroy the race. Physicians might do
this with perfect assurance that the
thunder-tones falling SO great distance
upon the tympanum could not possibly
cause any disastrous results.-S. F.
JHedico- Literary Journal:
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes protests
forcibly against any movement tending
to break up the ancient Kings Chapel
Burying- Ground in Boston. He writes
to the special committee of the City
Council: My maternal ancestors of
two generations and many of my family
connections have rested, hitherto undis-
turbed, in the tomb marked No. Kings
Chapel Cemetery. say my ancestors
Il mean their bodies, which is all we
can cover with our tonlbstones. And
yet not all for affections and remem-
brances universally held sacred follow
them to what we fondly suppose is to
be their last resting place, and make its
dust holy for those who loved them.
These are sentiments, but they are SEN
timents which the poor savages whom
our ancestors displaced, were human
enough to cherish. When did a North
American Indian ever fail to respect the
bones of his ancestors? ask the same
for these of mine, and that no step may
be taken which is likely to lead to their
| election"
, 1879-12-01
Intelligence Items.

|
Silk factories in Italy employ 12O. .42e
women,
They are about to erect in Edinburgh
magnificent statue of John Knox.
Singing at colored camp-meeting in
Abbeville, s. c., was heard five miles.
OF tho rs ,66S Free-Will Baptists
more than half are in New England
States.
A girl has been arraigned in Cleve-
and, Tenn, for carrying q pistol con-
ceaied.
An early and severe winter is threat
ened in Europe. Hard times and high
prices are ahead.
Over $100, 900 worth of slate mantels
have been ordered by London, Eng,
house from Newburg, N. Y. firm.
A memorial chapel to the Prince I'm
perial is to be built in Paris, about S12. :
600 having been subscribed for the
purpose.
For eight years the large rolling mill
at Spuyten Duyvil has been closed. 1t
now has an order for $40O, 900 worth OF
steel rails, and work will be resumed at
once.
While the late DR.. Joseph P Thomp-
son was pastor of the Broadway Taber-
nacle, that church contributed $50, 900
in single day to equip regiment for
the war.
The British army contains 62, 300
members of the Church of England,
0,S72 Roman Catholics, Z, 125 Presby-
terians, and 1856 Protestants Of un-
classified denominations.
The original order of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, announcing the death of Stone
wall Jackson, has been purchased by a
resident of Richmond as present for a
friend in Europe. An attempt will be
made to secure it for the State of Vir.
ginia.
The orators will have to drop "a ma.
ton of forty millions of inhabitants ~
for new phrase. The best estimates
of the census to be taken next June now
are that the returns will show popula
tion for all the States and Territories oi
4S. 500, 900.
Before leaving Japan, Gen. Grant
and Mrs. Grant each planted tree
near the Toshgu Temple, in Toxic.
The Japs have placed monumental
stones by the side of the trees, respect
lively inscribed "Grant's Hinoki u
and" Mrs. Grants Giyokuran."
There are coal mines in Germany in
which the phenomenon of subterranean
waters having egular ebb and flow has
been observed. The scientific academies
of Vienna and Berlin are studying it, and
look for valuable additions to our
knowledge of the earth's interior.
Forney's Progress says there are wom-
en- who make business of going from
watering place to watering place, at the
close of the season, and buying at less
than half cost the cast-off clothing of
the bellies of society. This they take
to the great cities and easily sell at a
good profit.
A German medical writer, in work
published in 1877, says that there are
but two authentic cases known of five
children being born at one birth. A
third case is now reported from Kett-
wig on the Rhine. The children were
we'll formed, though very small; but
they lived only one hour.
In the course of few years the old
expression mot worth red cent" will
have lost its force, for specimen of
the antique copper coin alluded to will
be likely to be valued at good many
dollars. 1t was very common piece
of money for upwards of sixty years,
having made its first appearance from
the mint in 1892, but it is now fast dis
appearing from circulation.
, 1879-12-01
The Good Old Deacon.

The squibs uttered against New Eng
land deacons have little or no justifica-
ton. If tub of butter or barrel of
apples is made up of alternate layers Of
good and bad, it is said to be idea
coned." The epithet does not refer 10
the character of deacons, but an old
practice of deaconing" hymn.
Fifty or sixty years ago hymn-books
we're not SO common as they now are.
Some churches owned only two books.
It was then the custom for one of the
deacons to read two lines Of hymn.
which the congregation sung. Other
lines were read and sung in the same
way, until the hymn was sung through.
As class, deacons have been the most
trusted and influential men of New
England villages. If a man died leav-
ing property and family, the deacon
was made one of the executors, and the
guardian of the widow and the father
less. If the neighbors had dispute
about property, they left it out to
the deacon. Was son wayward. the
good deacon was as frequently as the
good pastor asked to talk" with him.
In the "Recollections of an old
gentleman, an anecdote is told which
illustrates the character of ut least one
of the New England deacons of the
olden time.
Elisha Hawley, of Ridgefeld, Conn.,,
was q soldier of the Revolution and q
deacon. He was good man of busi-
ness, but he never charged purchase
one cent more than the article wa
worth. The Golden Rule was his rule
Of life.
One day he learned that widow had
been reduced from q competency to
poverty. He visited her. Fearing lest
he might wound her feelings if he
should offer money or charity, he
said:
Madam. I think I owed your late
husband fifty dollars, and I've come to
pay it to you as his legal representa-
tive"
"How was that?" asked the lady,
somewhat startled.
81 will tell you. About twenty five
years ago, soon after you were married,
1 made furniture for your husband to
the amount of two hundred dollars. I
have been looking over the account,
and find that I rather overcharged him
in the price of some chairs that is, l
could have afforded them at somewhat
less. 1 have added up the interest, and
here, madam, is the money"
The tears came in the widows eyes ;
she half suspected the deacon had con-
structed the debt by willing that he had
made an overcharge. What was she to
do?-the money was on the table. and
the deacon had left the house.
Professionalism seems to be making
substantial progress in Italy. The new
| est indication of it is report that a
number of Catholic churches are being
converted into places of evangelical
worship. The Free church has, it is
said, transformed into chapels the ora
tory of the convent of San Jacobe at
Florence, and that of San Simone at
Milan. The Waldensians will change
in the same manner, three Catholic
churches at Naples, Verona, Milan.
, 1879-12-01

In Rome was recently ordained a
colored priest who was formerly a
slave. He hal suffered many indig-
mites, and an Italian lady learning his
condition and character, purchased
him and gave him his freedom. He
was then sent to the propaganda and
his ordination is the result His field
of work is Abyssinia, where he has
been sent to labor among his own peo-
pie.
, 1879-12-01

Even the Christian virtues do not
weigh in all scales alike.
, 1879-12-01

When is wave like an army doctor
it's surgin'.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22

GENERAL THOMAS EWING hav>
ing, in a recent interview. declared
that it would DO futile for the Dem
ocratic arty to attempt to outlaw
the greenback, and that the masses
of the Democratic party everywhere
,sFe in hearty accord with the Mas
tiOnals on their two great ideas
the unlimited coinage of the old
silver dollar. and the substitution of
legal-tenders for bank notes, the
New York World says that; eff
General Ewing is correctly report
ed, and if, being correctly reported,
he reports correctly the opinions
and wishes Of the Democratic mas
ses' of tho West, nothing but the
conservative interposition of the
. Solid South can prevent the dis
rnption of the Democratic party as
\ National organ .zatiOn."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22
AIOesl,erntrG nr,fe-

The following sensational tele-
gram, from Waship gton, appeared
in the New Orleans I'staes of the
18th inst.
Prominent Democrats are serious
" alarmad at the discovery of facts
indicating The determination OF Re
publicaus to control the orginiZ;l-
ton of the next House.
The reliable majority III the next
Congress is eight.
California elects in the Spring.
The plan determined upon i to
carly all four California districts, by
aid of corruption, funu and election
law ; irpoSslbIr, to buy or bride with
ChaIrmauships and Executive
patronage all independents, Nation
ais and GreenbackeTs elected to the
next House, and finally to indict,
convict and impri ca under the
election law seven Democratic mem
beTS.
The Post, in double loaded e.ii-
torial this morning, says: The
mcn selected tor this treatment are
King, of Louisiana Hull, OF FiOri
ia, already under Indictment; E!an,
of Louisiana Shelley, of Alabama ;
Common, of South Carolina Chat
mers, of Mississippi, aud one other
to be chosen out Of three or four
names now under consideration by
The Chief Project of The National
Police under our present Imperial
form OF Government, Devena."
The Democrats are generally OF
the opinion tina unless the election
law is repealed, the next House will
not be organized as Il Democratic
body.
The Southern members are unani-
nous in the determination to vote
soiidly against all appropriations
until tie election laws are repeal ed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22
The Lexington Advertiser,

The Lexington Advertiser, in
speaking of the coming fall cleo
tions. says: 1t may be said by
some that no nominations are neceS
saIy, but nominations are as neces-
sary to IA party triumph as organiza-
tion is to victory in military
affairs. TO run sweep stake race,
every man for himself, as appears
to be the desire OF Il few persons of
whom we have heard, is to divide
among ourselves and to invite the
political enemy to come III between
and achieve an easy victory. AL
ready the tCcsin Of war is being
sounded, and the enemy insiduosiy
working for the disruption of the
Democratic Conservative party and
an easy triumph. In unity is
strength, and the best way to
strengthen the party, is to organize
fully, nominate Il full ticket of the
best men We have among us and
then march on, in solid column, to
the splendid victory that we must
and can achieve.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22

CONGRESS has been paying so
much attention to party politics
that the appropriation bills are in
danger OF failure to pass before the
4th of March, aud many think that
an extra session will then have to
be called. Only three appropria
ton bills have become laws-the
pension, the military academy and
the diplomatic and consular. The
fertilization bill, which passed the
FIRST week OF the session, is still in
conference. The naval bill is hang
ing between the two Houses. The
Legislative and judicial bill has
been reported, but the sundry civil,
which is the largest bill, has not
even been prepared, nor has the
general deficiency bill. The postal
appropriation bill is in the Senate,
and the House has barely begun
work on the army bill.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22
The Rlnoue in RuSSin.

u
The g black death i'll Russia has
assumed immense proportions, and
the Government is taking every
sanitary aud other measures posi-
BILE To restrain it's further progress
Its deadly character has not only
terrified the Russian people bat also
all the neighboring natio.iS Germ
any, Austria aud other countries
have established quarantine against
Russia. The story of The origin OF
the pestilence is as follows =
\ Cossack returning from the
war to Wrtlinka brought his sweet
heart IA shawl, which WAS problhly
part of his spOils. The girl wore
it two days and sickened, with all
The symptoms OF the plague, and
died. During the following four
DAYS the other members OF her
family sickentd and died. The
disease spread rapidly, but the local
authorities did not pay any atten>
ton tn it till half the inhabitants OF
the village had died, aud those re-
naming alive were unable to bury
the victims. The epidemic had as
sumed serious dlmentiunS by the
18Th of November, but the Govern
ment was only informed of 1t OF
ticially on the 1lth day Of Decem
Der. Ten days elaSped before any
systematic or energetic me ms were
taken for preventing IL spreading
further.
The disease is the same That des-
olated the earth i'll the 18th century
and gets its name from black spots,
symptumatic of a putrid deeomposi
tion, that show themselves at one
of the stages on the skin of the suf-
ferer. 1t first broke out in China in
1888, and in Europe ID years later
raging for % years. The devasta>
lion WIS terrible and some writer's
say that the impure air was actually
visible as it approached with it's
burden of death. The plague owes
its extension to infrc. ion, cuntagion,
fear aud the terrible misery OF the
people in those ieutlal times. 1t is
estimated that in China alone 49,
600, 900 died. 24,O00,000 in the re.
mainder of the East, while in
Europe 25,000,0oO persisted. AL
though there is little danger Of the
spread of the pest to Western Eu
rope, as it has been confined for
many generations to the East, it is
not strange that the Russians
should be startled by the ravages
already made.