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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

REMINISCENCE OF Jor JOHNSTON
a ecent issue Of the Victoria fTe.as
Adcocate says: Years ago. long ante
terror 10 the war. when the voung
soldier, Joseph f. Johnston. then
unknown to fortune and To fam,
was q subaitern officer in m.
army stationed at san Antonio
Texas. he was given a leave or
ABSENCE of several months. During
this respite from service he was EN-
ployed 10y the old San Antonio and
Mexican Gulf Railroad Company 10
survey its projected lines from the fort
OF Lavaca to the city Of San Antonio.
This work Capt. Johnston success
fully accomplished with the aid OF
Gus.ay Schlelcher, then a young man
and "a clvli engineer Of Acknowledged
ability. Together the two ran differ.
ent lines from the coast to the chief
city of Bekar and the west, making a
complete typographical survey of the
entire route. The report presented by
Capt. johnson and his assistant was
elaborate and carefully accurate in
every detail. and is still preserved
among the archives of the old com
panv.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23
AFFi.ICTiON.

Pain and grier:
Yet they do leave us.-7oy!or.
The slenderest ba,k may SAT ly fl ,at
In waters still,
But whirlwinds on the stoutest ship
Must work their will.-AnOn.
God does not always smile, lest we
should be careless and presume
-AH0U.
Over u hearts, and into our lives,
Shadows will sometimesfall.
But the sunshine is never wholly dead,
And heaven is shadowless overhead,
And God is over all.-Auon.
There is a deeper grief than that ex-
pressed by words, a sorrow SO f. eezing
that it congea the drops ere they
reach the eve.-Nrs A. S. C.. AlIGrd.
Pears TO me strength is give us
most wonderful to bear trials. if we
only take 'em m"ek.-L. III. 4lcoh.
If you would not have atfliction visit
you twice, Listen at onc9 TO what it
teacheS.-AHoH.
The only way to IN ct afii elton is to
pass through it sOlemnly, slowly, as
the lsraelites passed through the sea.
Then its waves Of misery will divide
and become to us a wall on the right
side and on the left, until the gulf
narrows before our eyes, and we land
safe on the opposI'e shore.-.Ntss
lIul0ch.
A first g lei is very hard to bear
-InOu.
Grief k:.its two hearts in closer
bonds than Joy ver can.-AnOn.
Grief has this that is noble in tit
accepts all sympa ny, come whence it
may.-H like collins.
Grief wisely received always makes
IA tender. patient aud brave -Vn.-
giaio f. Io,cnseud
Ii is net in the tempest hat one
walks the b ach to look for the treas
ures of wrecked ships, but when the
storm Is asst we find pearls and preci-
Gus ston 5 washed a5hore.-4non.
Nothing strikes all value out of the
ordinary affairs of life so soon as sor-
row.-H. ". Bcecher.
As night brings out the st rs. 30
sorrow shows Us truths.-Je0n Puut
Ricber.
We know that now as of old, the
fire and the cloud still lead to the
promised land.--Nartha Russell.
A great sorrow brings together hearts
tha5 have been divided by ~uninter-
rupted iOy.-.lL's. CroIy
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

VALUE OF REAL ESTATE IN CITIES
The value of real estate in some OF our
cities, under the present assessment, is
as follows: Richmond, $2S, 900. 600
Norfolk. So 5000, 900 Petersburg. 30
600, 100. and Lynchburg, s.. 000. 000.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

MONUMENT To LUTHER "A moau-
ment to Martin Luther is to be erected
at Eisleben, his birthplace. on Novem-
Der 10, 1883. tho 400th anniversary of
the date of his death-November III,
14S3
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

No MORE GAMBLING.-A bill was re-
Gently passed by the Legislature OF
Vermont prohibiting gaming OF all
kiuds-even the grab bag at church
fairs. There are some places OUTSIDE
of Vermont that might be embraced
under such a law.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23
AGE.

\ simple, juvenile soul, ~disporting
itself III a crazy battered old body. is
at great q sadvantage.-Nrs. II. Il.
Store.
1t is fitting that the apple tree which
has NJ fruit IN the October time should
win ne upward g'ances.- Lucy ".
Godfrty.
1t is not until the flower has fallen
off that the fruit begins to ripen. So
in life. it is when the romance is past
that the practical usefulness begins =
1HOH.
The May of life blooms only once =
Schiller.
SO few women know h W to grow
old gracefully .-4non.
The heart that is truly happy eve
crows ld.-ROdense.
have seen fifty>ysar-o'd faces. on
which the impress Of mind and heart
made a light like the glow of an au-
tumn sunset. not to be ~quenched.-
AnOH.
The wisdom which. if a man is ever
to be wise, comes Il him after he has
crossed the line of thirty years. Hiss
Nul0ch.
As in a printed book at either end
are bound up many blank leaves with
out printing er VT ting upon them, SO
is human life, at either end, begun
and ended with blank leaves, pr's7rv-
ing no record, leaving no mark.-H.
". Beecher.
Like the fms of a poor book,
the last words of Il mans life are
sometimes his best words.-.Irs CfOiy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

10 its feet but cannot bind 20 its allie
Siance a single real frieud.-Nrs Ems.
There $ a beauty too spiritual to be
chained n a string Of tens huriex
Redde.
n p-nance a mar viii III der1o
tor a pretty woman who cares MOI ing
about HIM N II. Wills.
Happiness is the prince Of coo4
fairies in the at # beautif, ing.
May DuJee.
A beautiful form Is better thar a
beautiful face. \ beautiful behavior
Is better than a beautiful form. II is
more 70 be admired than the beauties
OF nature or of painting. 1t is the
nne>t Of tire fine .rts.-R. ". Emerson.
As some good, loving. self-sacrihcing
decd Will transform the homel'est face
into beauty and sarctitv.-T. +. Toua>
send.
We should do our utmost to
age the beautiful for the us-fui en-
cOurages itself Goethe.
Nev lose on opportunity OF seeing
anything beautiful. Beauty Is Coos
handwriting. a wayside sacrament !;
welcome it in every fair face, every
fair sky, every fair flower, and thank
Him for it. the fountain of loveliness,
and drink it in. simply and earnestly.
with your eyes 1t is a charmed
draught. a cup of blessing iu0n.
BOOKS.
There is infinite patlos in unsuc-
cesSful authorship. The book that
perishes unread is the deaf mute of
lterature.-O. ". U0}mes.
What pleasure so great as giving to
the world a cook it accepts: 1t is a
delight SO keen that few indeed, of all
who have ever tasted it, have been
content to enjoy it but once.-.J"mes
Parton.
A book is "A letter TO the unknown
friends one has in the world.-iHOn.
Any book, put before US at different
periods of life, Will unfold to us new
meanings, wheels within wheels. deli
cate springs of purpose, to which. at
the last reading, we were stone blind.
( 5 Phelps.
How much in the way of a maxim
or al apothegm, there is sometimes IN
a single line, from a supplemented,
honest thinker Anon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

\ Plea FOR OATMEAL 10 say
nothing of experience, Llebig, the
great chemist, and greatest authority
on such subjects, shows oatmeal to be
almost Is nutritious as the very best
English beef, and that it contains a
larger proportion than whea ten bread
of the elements tn It go to form bone
and muscle. This was proved by a
course of experiments carried on for
a series of years by Forbes. an emf
nent philosopher and the ~diScoverer
Of the glacier theo'y. at that time
Professor of Natural Philosophy in
the f. inburgh University. and after
ward Principal OF the University of
ST. Andrews. For twen'y years or 50
he measured the breadth and height
and also tested the 5 rength both of
the arms and loins OF his students.
a very class, consisting of
different mathematics. drawn 10 Edin-
burgh by his fame. These Were the
results In respect Of height. breadth
of chest and shoulders and strength
both Of the arms and lOins, the bottom
of the scale was occupied BY BelgianS !:
above them, and but a little higher,
stood the F,ench very much above
them stood the English while the
top OF the scale was occupied by the
SEQ cii and the Scotch Irish from
| Ster. who. like the native Of Scot
| nd. are fed in their early wears with
at east one meal a day of good milk
and good porridge.-Dr. GHthYie.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23
BEAUTY.

Men follow the f~airest, for good
looks wear a spell.
One of the forces of this world
which no middle-aged woman is capi-
BILE of estimating at its full value,
when it sets against her. is the force
of beauty in a woman younger tina
herself. W iMie Collins.
The lot assigned to beauty i'll this
world - hat pleasant-seeming lot
which ever brings "a host of champions
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
THE NEXT AMENDMENT.

The house, on the last day of the last
session, passed a joint resolution to pro-
hibit payment OF rebel war claims, and
the senate judiciary committee consid-
ering this resolution as insufficient, has
introduced the following as proposed
amendment to the constitution:
ARTICLE XVI. No CLAIMS against the
United States shall ever hereafter be sus-
tanned or allowed by congress, or any
department officer or court of the United
States, or money paid by the United
States, or from their funds, whether as
damages, compensation or otherwise, for,
or on account of any property, real, per-
sOnal or mixed, taken, used, injured or
destroyed by the United States troops, or
by or through any officer, civil or mill
tary, or other person acting, or profess
ing to act under, or by authority of the
United States, of their enemies; or Ia
ken, used, injured or destroyed from any
other cause whatever, during the Xist-
ence of the late instruction or rebellion
against the government of the United
States, unless the owner thereof, and in
case of any corporation its governing au-
thOrity and management, was, during all
the time of such instruction or rebel
lion, loyal in fact to the government of
the United States, and gave neither aid
nor encouragement to the enemy; no
pension, bounty, grant, pecuniary indem-
nifty, or pecuniary benefit, shall ever be
given or provided for by or under author
ity of congress, or any state, for or on &C
count of any military or other service
performed or injury suffered in hostility
to the government of the United States
no pardon or amnesty, past or future,
Ill AnIr 70
article
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
HUMORS OF THE DAY.

Which is better to die eating, or diet
We are most paradoxical creatures.
We use blotting paper to keep from blot
ting paper.
Some of the most conspicuous charms
of young men nowadays are those on
their watch chains.
a Syracuse man calls his wife Poor
Rule" because she won't work more than
one way, and usually not that.
Take away woman" asks writer,
land what would follOw!" We would.
Give us something hard next time.
Editors like brevity; but man who
WAS recently hanged in Indiana suited
Them too well. He made no remarks
about heaven, but nodded to the preacher
and said, "Ill see you later" and then
the drop fell.
A French paper reports a murder trial
in which witness testified that he heard
two pistol-shOts on the staircase and sent
his wife to see what was the matter
You did not go up stairs yOurself?"
mo, sir; | was afraid of the revolver"
An appreciative mind can throw n
world Of pathos into a very ordinary
statement. yes" said she, leaning over
the fence, in communion with neigh
Dor, ''she is dead. She died just as She
had got torn up TO clean house. 1t is
terrible"
Find out your child's specially" is
the urgent advice of a phrenOlogist. A
| Boston man says: 1--WE have trid this,
and find it not so easy. Sometimes rock
candy seems to be the favorite, and then
again there is marked tendency to taE
| fV ~
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31

ing the first man of his race that ever
received an appointment of the kind in
that State The Norton Iron works
miners at Ashland, KY, have resumed
work, but the Princes Furnace mines
near there have struck, and blood shed
is feared
BOsToN, Jan. 2S.-The WOODBURY.
planning machine patent case, which has
been in litigation over thirty years, was
concluded to-day, Judge Lowell decid-
ing that the patent could not be sustain
ed. The patent covered nearly all the
planning machines in the United States,
valued at from thirty To forty millions
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-The Mint
closed to day IN respect to the memory
of Linderman
DUBUQUE, Iowa, January 27.-The
building occupied by Wagner furniture
dealer, and Herancourt & Bel, r. under
takers, burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Largely insured.
PITTSBURGH, January GA special
from Turkey City, Clarion county, says
that fire broke out there early this
morning, and the water-wOrks being
frozen up, the fire spread rapidly in all
directions, and in an hour and a half the
best portion of the town was in ruins.
The loss is about $4,000.
NEwBURYPoRT. January 27.-The will
Of Caleb Cushing directs his property to
be divided into two equal parts, one for
the children of John n. Gushing, and
the other for the children of the late
William Cushing. The will was made
in Madrid, in 1874.
ST. PAUL, January 2S.-News from
Fit. Lincoln says runners from Sitting
Bull have arrived at Standing Rock
agency, bringing a distinct proposition
from the chief to return and surrender
his guns and ponies. He says his peO
pie are hungry and cold, and his spirit
broken.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Jan. 28.-Owing to
the plague the fair of Simbirsk may MOI
be held. Usually five million roubles
tchange hands. Considerable excitement
was caused in Moscow by the arrival
there from the plague district of recruit.
for the Imperial Guards. They were
isolated, disinfected and clothing burned
ROME, Jan. 28.-RigorOus inspection
and distinction of vessels from souti
Russian ports is ordered.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2S.-The ice has bro
ken up in the harbor here, with LITTLE
damage.
LONDON, Jan. 2S.-Seven Thousand
mIrers are idle IN Durham county. TIL,
distress is unequalled since the strike il
1874. The store ship Supply" iron
Haver Jan. 2, for the U. s. arrived Il
Madeira yesterday. She brought tn
crew of the bark "Diadem," abandoned
after being In collision with the Sup
ply" The latter is uninjured. STANLEY
is announced for another African explO
ration. There is a serious famine il
Upper Egypt. Relief has been forward
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
DAILY PAPERS

A man whose deep disgust has been
stirred by his daily reading says: DAILY
journalism is a deep mystery, and the
more we study II, the more we don't CON-
prehend it, Why should every pit of
nastiness ami den at crime be ransacked
and spread ont from day to day before
all classes al ipcsl!'le? An average daily
paper leaves other impression than
that everything, in morals and in bust
ness is growing worse and worse, and
that the sooner the final conflagration
comes the better. But while all this car
riOn gathering and peddling are going
on, the suppressed fact is that there never
was so much Intelligence, morality and
piety in the world as there are to-day Al
no previous time, since Cain murdered
Abel, were there so many fearing
men and women on earth-so many in
corruptible men in business, OF so much
human happiness. The best things in
the world are everywhere the quietest
things. A dozen deeds of rowdyism and
rascality make more noise in Monday
paperes than million of people WHO
give their Sunday 10 worship and deeds
of love.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
BUSINESS ITEMS.

A vacuum automatic brake lately test
ed in England will stop in three hundred
yards trim running at sixty miles an
hour.
The annual value of silk ribbons ex-
ported by Switzerland to the United
States has fallen in the last five years
from over 81 200, 900 to about 81 600, 900.
Indiana's school fund amounts to So
DOC, 900 and 100000 are given every
year by the people to keep up the schools,
while the school property is valued at
$12, 100000.
1t Is reported by Prof L. S. Arnold
that of sixteen oleomargarine factories
in this country known to him, thirteen
have gone to the wall, though backed
with an aggregate of 81 $4,000 capital
stock to start with, and the remainder
are evidently running on a small margin
of profit, if indeed there be any at all.
BY the last census it appears there
were in this country 500, 533 persons of
German birth, and scattered through
every state and territory, in numbers
varying from 35S in Utah, to 316,902 in
New York, 203, 1853 in Illinois, 49,, 697
in Ohio, 1914 in Wisconsin, 100, 146
in Pennsylvania, and 113, 1913 in Missouri.
The Irish number 1855. 1927; the Eng
fish 550,924; the Scotch lac, 1885; the
Chinese 66,042.
Seventeen specimens of common table
sirups were recently examined by r. C..
KedZie, A. NJ, Professor of Chemistry
in the Michigan State Agricultural Col
legc. Fifteen of these proved to be
made of glucose; one of the fifteen con-
tanned 141 grains of sulphuric acid (oil of
vitroD and 724 grains of lime to the
gallon; and another, which had caused
serious sickness in a whole family, con-
tanned 70 grains of sulphuric acid, %
grains of sulphate of iron (copperas, }
and 1853 grains of lime to the gallon.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
THE PEDOMOTOR.

Wonders in invention never cease One
of the latest, which some sanguine peo-
pie claim will revolutionlze the walking
world, is thus described by the Philadel
phia Record:
The newspaper carrier who serves pa
pers to the attendants in the permanent
exhibition building, goes all his rounds
at the rate of twelve miles an hour. He
travels on machinery not unlike roller
skates. which are called pedOmOtors. Ac-
cording to the inventor, Mr.. j. H. Hobbs,
an ARCHITECT, on Walnut street, above
Fifth, the day is not far distant when the
whole city will be ON wheels, when pc
destrians will be skimming through the
streets at the rate of ten miles an hour,
without any more effort than is now put
forth in perambulating half that distance.
The pedOmotOT consists of four tough,
light wooden wheels, supplied with an
outer rim of tough India rubber. These
wheels are secured to frame the shape
of the foot, which is strapped to the pc
dial eXtremities in the usual manner. I'm
like roller skates, the wheels of these lit
tie vehicles are not under but are placed
on each side of the foot, thus giving the
wearer a good standing, as well as solid
footing. The rear wheels are three in
CHCS III IllOSC
are but 90 inches. This gives the foot a
slight incline, and when in motion has
much to do in impelling the pedestrian
forward. Extending from the toe, with u
slight curl toward the ground, is a piece
of casting termed the pusher, which is
simply used in mounting an elevation
or steep incline. From the center of the
heel a small brass wheel extends back
ward, serving as guide as well as a
brake. The whole scarcely turns the
scale at pound weight. In using them
no more effort is required than in or.
binary walking. The wearer steps with
his regular strides, and Is amazed to
find himself skimming over the ground
so rapidly with so little muscular effort
MIR. Hobbs explains the mystery of the
rapid movement in this manner: A
man whose stride is thirty-two inches
will traverse forty eight inches, or one
half farther with the pedomofor. This
is because the body is in constant mo-
ton. For instance, says he, the traveller
starts, and while he raises one foot to
step, he continues rapidly onward until
that foot is set down and the other raised
to make another step. This gives him
more momentum, and away he goes over
two miles in the same time it would
take him to accomplish one with the
feet. No effort of the body is required
for their use, as in skates. The traveller
simply plants one foot before the other
and finds himself whiZzed along at a
| lively rate.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
INSURANCE.

As long as doors and windows can be
kept closed there is no more efficient
means Of eNtinguishing fire ina building
than the introduction of steam,
The statement or proof of loss made by
the insured under the terms of the poll
cy, must be specific as to the character
and extent of the loss sustained, and as
much in detail as the nature If the case
will permit. General declarations or az
gregate statements will not suffice; the
loss must he particulariZed as far as it
can be done, and the quantity, quality
and loss of property be specifically stated.
Only three fires have been recorded
since the commencement OF the christian
era, in each of which the value of the
property destroyed amounted to one hun
dred millions of dollars. Those three
are the Chicago fire of October 9, 1871,
5000, 600, 600; the Paris fire of May l,
1871, $140,000,000; and the Boston fire of
November9, 1872, 100000, 000-all these
within the last eight years, and two of
them in this country of steam fire en-
gines, fire eXunguishers, paid fire depart
ments and all the modern improvements.
The loss by the great London fire of 1866
was only $50, 600, 000; by the New York
fire of December IL, 1885, $4,000, 900,
and by the Portland fire of July 4, 1866,
| $10,000,000. The largest fire that ever
visited Cincinnati was that of March %
| 1866, and known as the Pixies opera
house fire, at which the loss was eStimat-
ed at 81, 100000.
A most interesting case was tried re-
Gently in the United States court at St.
| Louis, Judge Treat presiding, when the
amount upon the life policy of person
named Landfelder was claimed by both
his children and his creditors. 1t APP
peared that Landfelder had insured his
lite for the benefit of his wife and chill
dren for sum the premium on which
was $50 per annum, and when Landfel
der died the insurance money was paid
promptly. But two or three creditors
disputed the children's claim, on the
ground that the insured having been in
solvent for many years, the $50 per an
mum paid as premiums was taken from
funds that properly belonged to his cred
itors. The judge, however, IN delivering
his decision said that the law provided
an insolvent man might apply $500 an
nually towards policy on his life fol-
the benefit of his wife; but the statute
said nothing as to the children. That
however, did not effect the case, as the
to would be the premiums that had beer
paid from year to year. Even that coulC
not be done by a single creditor. NJ
less than all those having valid claims
could hope to have them allowed. Ih'
rule of diligence did not apply. The pc
tition for division was not allowed.