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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-11-23

In the report Of Sir Edward Thornton,
lately Minister at Washington, and now
ambassador at St. Petersburg, attention
is drawn to certain mysterious fires both
in warehouses and aboard ship, which,
after careful inquiry by a police com
mittee and board of underwriters in
New York, have been traced to consign-
ments Of black silk. The immediate
cause of danger is, it appears, the chemi-
cal materials now used 20 give weight as
well as improved color to the silks. The
art says the report, has reached such
perfection, that the weight of the natural
silk can be increased four fold without
apparent adulteration but the minerals,
vegetables, acids and alkalies thus used
combined with animal substances and the
natural germ Of the silk, constitute
fermentable compound which generates
carbonization or combustion under pres
sure, confinement, and heat. That the
black silk goods have ignited spontane-
ously from these causes and caused seri-
Gus fires is considered to be abundantly
proved by the evidence.-Londo1 Ne,cs,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-11-23
,NTRAL PRESBYTERIAN .--Novembe1. %.

feet" and at Tim. vi s, the revisers
contend for the translation, Having
food and raiment zoe shall be Herewith
content" instead of let as be Herewith
content"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-11-23

DR.. Lindseys Blood searcher' cured my
son Of erysipelas." Mrs. J.. Shelter Larimer,
Pa. 1t cures all blood diseases.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
The Feminine Bang.

The latest and most attractive of the
decorative forms in which lovely woman
has chosen to arrange her hair is known
as the bang. The bang is one of the
most attractive embellishments ever ex-
hibited on the feminine head, even if it
be not the most elegant. It is worn
both by young ladies and elderly ones,
without regard to size, weight or style
of physique, and is supposed by the
wearers to be alike becoming to every
variety of countenance and forehead.
The bang is Ct many different style.
Sometimes it is of short and straight
hair, which hangs over the forehead
like that of the old-fashioned little
schoolboy, on whose head q bowl was
placed when his hair was about to be
cut, to form the guiding line for the
clip OF the scissors. There are bangs
whick look like the frayed-out selvedge
of q "acse door-mat. These are said
to 81 esteemed particularly elegant.
There are others which seem to be
made of twisted wicker-work. As the
lady who wears this kind approaches
from distance sheAppears as If carry
ing willow basket on her head, the
scolloped border of which descends
nearly to her eyes. Some ladies must
use mucilage or glue, or othor adhesive
substances, in orderto keep their bangs
from frisking and wandering away
from where they are put. Perhaps this
i. one of the secrets of the toilet con-
corning which men ought to dwell in
ignorance. Yet here is where part Of
mans wonder comes in. If some s0f
these bangs are not thus made to adj
here to the forehead, how do they
maintain their positionP There is q
style Of adhesive bang which is said to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

look IKE the sad sea MShes. md 3t
would indeed resemble thBm Il tie
waves were gummed to any hing. Tie
statenients that this sort1f baHg WIS
sold in the stores by the yard, and put
on like SO much sticking plaster s .
base libel on the art of professional dec
Grafton. As to the origin of the name
bang, it is shfouaea n mystery. With
banging the door it evidently has no
CONNECTION, ~ the name ~refees-te
hair and not the door. And yet it is
possible that the originator Of the bang
did on q certain occasion bang the door
and found her front hair suddenly cut
off on an even line, by being accident
ally caught at the door thus banged
shut. It is said by some young ladies,
who are addicted to slang, that the
name is a contraction of "you be
hanged" Yet it is difficult to see what
being hanged has to do with hair which
is hardly two inches long. If ladies
want to be hanged they should use the
back hair, which by its length is better
adapted for the purpose. Absalom was
hanged by his hair in an oak tree. He
wore his hair long and not banged
Philadelphia Times. ~.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
A Terrible Explosion.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, ia

ALLENTOWN, Pa, january Z.
PARTICULARS of the boiler explosion at this
place late last night show it to have been one
Of the most terrible accidents that has ever
occurred in this section Of Pennsylvania. Up
to this time, ten persons have lost their lives,
with the probability that four more will not
live through the night. The explosion oc.
CURED in the big puddle-mill of the
Allentown Rolling-Mill Company. WheE
1t became known that many lives
had been lost, the utmost anxiety
was displayed by the more fortunate workers,
who did Ill in their power to alleviate the suf-
ferings Of their fellow-workmen, whose cries
for help were resounding through the mill.
Many of those who had been terribly burned
by escaping steam, and whose sunerings were
terrible to witness, called ON their comrades to
put them out Of their misery. H.5pH-
About fifteen minutes before the explosion,
John SAUL who had charge OF the boiler,
noticed that it had sprung q slight leak near
the center. He at first tried to stop it,
but failing in this gave orders for his
helpers to draw the fires from under
the boiler and to pull out the
bars. Previous to this he had placed 1 q
ladder against the boiler and had ascended
this to discover the extent of the leak. While
standing on the ladder converting with an
employee who was on the ground, the ex-
plosion occurred. Saul and the ladder were
blown up toward the roof. In falGng he land
Cd ON pile of rubbish, and, strange to say,
escaped with slight injuries, the greatest of
which was . slight scalding on the face from
escapiug Steam. His eecape from instant
death was miraculous. The scene 1t this time
bafles description. Flying missiles consisting
OF brick, sp1pe,s S.pieoes. Of iron, ETC.,
moved down the workmen in great
numbers. and their cries for help were
ofthe most piteous chasaceer. Az soon o. II
could be done the men were taken from among
Tie debris. "A large iron stack in its descent
had caught several OF the men, and held them
ormly bound under It's immense weight. the
boiler exploded nearly in the center, The
smallest portion was blown through the roof,
took IN 'eastsriy direstion, and landed IN 4
rear lot nearly nve hundred feet distant, tear
Ing down fn ito sAyiny course telegraph nolas.
wires and fences. The other and larger part
went crashing through the roof, took IN east
erly course. and landed three hundred feet
from the mill. Several parties who were pass
ing the mill narrowly escaped death from this
piece Of the dying boiler.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
Photographs in Natural Colors.

The announcement IS again made that
q process has been discovered for TAX
ing photographs possessing all the
brilliancy and delicacy of the natural
colors, and an exhibition of pictures
thus naturally colored has just been held
in London. According to the reports,
the colors are produced by the action OF
light alone in the camera, and owe no.
thing whatever to the artists brush. IN
the photographs exhibited. the coloring
appeared to be quite true to nature, and
delicate tones and shades were clear tC
the view. The tiesh;tint was exact to
life, and full justice was done to gor.
geous sregfmentalsn. The protruded
tongue of q dog in one of the photo
graphs possessed the exact color OF
nature. Some of the guests, says the
English Mechasic, inspecting this col
lection, and not fully acquainted with
the character Of the --latest invention.
took it for granted that the work was
done BY skillful,s artistic hands on ivory
and other material, md could scarcely
believe their eyes Nhen ainf6Gmed that
the color, as much as the form and out
line, was produced by the light of day.
NWG01Ul Ak&U A4lAulQ 14vNOei&SSAOAs INV"
ever, would then show that human
handicraft was not in it; for there were
touches and effects which natures
pencil of light could alone accomplish.
The contention is that photographs
colored BY artists. however clever, must
be more or less . monot00ous, hard,
untrue to Nature and to the originals
- The process was discovers. it is said.
BY aSFFsncks SIientisEs 6u3 has since
undergone improvement by the pro-
prietor of the patent for England. II
the new system prove an unqualified
spaCeaqs the xaward viii not have been
1ea4M Withqnk me- 16or in the past;
NEnSnmereuA sttempt4 have been made
to induce The sun-pencil to fix colors in
the pictures it draws in the camera: but
'ohe1aical ard meehaAi0h difficulties
have stood In the way. In the new
process colors are said not only to be
faithfully produced, but protected from
the action Of light by being passed
sthroui1s J. boil14 SplHioa / Of which
es s';; t ssm las g,s%'s9 st.
treated have been exposed for months
to the sun without being, in any wise.
affected by the ordeal. Unfortunately
the process IL as vet unknown, g it il
likely to be for some time to come.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
A Singular Expl0slon.

Mr.. WILLIAM H. LEvERGOOD. Principal Of
the Boys Secondary School, this city, had
singular experience on Saturday morning
last, at his home in Wrightsville. He was
sitting with certain members of his family,
when loud report-as of the discharge Of
a heavily-loaded gun-was heard in the
sleeping apartment occupied by his moth
er, and he rushed there to ascertain the
cause. Imagine his surprise to find that the
pitcher had exploded, and, with the bowl, had
been broken into fifty pieces BY actual count,
some of the pieces having been hurled across
the room. The most singular part Of the af-
fair was that the apartment was heated by a
register. and that the pitcher contained only
about pint of water, and that was not frozen.
Had the pitcher been filled with ice, the crack
ing Of it would not have been remarkable. but
there was no such cause, and the vessels were
not merely cracked, but seemed to have been
blown to pieces by an explOsi0n.-Lancaste,
(Pa.) Nep Era.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

-&Ih Nth Carolina there are 767
toha0es factories.
n gravestone at Salem, N. c., is
marked 1856.
Fine specimens of pure plumbago
have been found in Cherokee County,
The American cosn.ul at Cork saws
that what IRELAND &ssiss
ond coal-burning stoves from the United
States. ~ 'if'I'i7
Tho Safe Deposit Company Of San
Francisco has laid down an iron vault
weighing 800, 900 pounds. 7 It is be.
lieved to be the lar gest in the world. !
The expected yield Of the Ames-
Millaudon plantation in Louisiana is
100000 of pure white sugar. The
Sharpe crevasse has cut short the weld
500, 900 pounds. af,.sa,.'.
According to recent figures the
average value an acre for cleared land
In Maine is $l2.87; in New Hampshire,
@l5; in Vermont. S16. %; in Massa-
chusetts, $85; in Connecticut, $29.
/. Some genius with q mathematical
bent of mind figures out that our Ma
tional debt, in silver dollars, could be
removed by rail only with the aid of
$3.50 cars. carrying ten tons each.
1t is said that the 1880 "crop'' Of
turkeys in Clark County, KY, amount
ed to 5000, and brought about &c.
600 cash. 1t is claimed, too, that the
Kentucky-raised birds OF this breed ton
the market in New York and Boston.
A Madeira County Texan gathered
over 1000 bushels of pecan nuts from
his farm and sold them in San Antonio
for $40 per bushel. His net profit
was 81. 400 on the crop. the entire cost
Of gathering and marketing being just
The expectation of American live
hogs to Germany, tried as an expert
ment in the early part of this year, has
been found profitable, and has largely
increased. About q per cent. of the
hogs die on the voyage. Butchers
in Berlin are said to be very eager to be
supplied with these free-born swine.
During the last five years no less an
amount than $75, 900, 900 has been ex-
pended in works of sanitary nature
by the various urban sanitary authori-
ties of England and Wales. The stead
lily decreasing death rate of the period
implies that the large sum has been,
on tho whole. judiciously laid out.
The sales of oysters in New York
City amounted last year to 1850, 900.
The shuckers open from six hundred to
nine hundred oysters an hour. This
winter there will be an expectation of
one hundred, thousand barrels of New
York oysters. The seed oysters, which
are brought from the Chesapeake, cost
81 bushel. and lie in our waters four
years before they are raked up.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who gets bit twice by the
same dog is better adapted for that
kind of business than any other.-Josh
Billings.
There's an impression abroad
said the irate parent. as he kicked his
daughters young man out of the house.
m Y. Nevs. ....
Maiden lady's quotation slightly
altered from an old aphorism-''When
singleness is bliss its folly to be wives.
Rome Sentinel.
The girl who was courted bv
spruce young lawyer said she liked to
be protected by the strong arm of the
law.-1urners rails Reporter.
Don't swear when you step on the
icy sidewalk. Think of q little PRAYER
instead. Nov I lame me-" for in
stance. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
"A Baltimore clergyman recently
preached on the subject, "Why was
Lazarus beggar?' We suppose be-
he didn't advertise. HaUk-
eye. 20 sos .-@.,.s Is
TO the query of Danbury dentist
to an applicant for new set as to what
sort of teeth she wanted, she sail.
Something that won't show dirt. -
Danbury Nevs.
There is d great deal of religion in
this world that is like a life preserver-
only put on at the moment of immediate
danger, and then half the time put OH
hind side before.-Josh Billings.
When Greece was in her glory
tramps were unknown. If man start
ed out to be one he was recognized as Il
philosopher and given fat position in
the Government. Detroit Tribune.
Sentiment for the Young Ladies
Society for Improvement in Broonstick
and Washtub Etiquette: - There's Il.
time we must laugh and time we mus
sweep Yonkers Statesman.
The Methodist Church in New Jer-
sey has set it's foot down against kissing
atchurehs fairs and . heap Of old bach
'elors will have to rub fhubarb on their
lips as q substitute.--Dety0I Free Press.
Five years ago six million croquet
sets were sold in this country. This
accounts for the number of old maids
and bachelors left to mourn alone.
Croquet will raise a rumpus quicker'n
q political discussion. Gate
rS:s., - 6" ~ - y & ut
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The movement to raise $1S, 900 fot
= house of worship in Paris for Pere
nyacinth Loyson dragS slowly along.
Boston has completed its High
school building, at a cost of 81, O36, 900.
ana considers It the finest IN the United
0taSes. f,fN}f rs ey.tl f.r,s-,.a-.s ~,
The San Francisco School Board
~. oaadss a. xula. declaring vacant the
position OF all lady teachers who nisrrivi
while employed in the schools. -
1t is reported that the statistics Of
the Reformed Episcopal Church show
greater addition to its membership
during the past year than in any pre-.
ceding one. not excepting the first year
OF its organization. ~
DIR. John Mcintosh, Of Ireland, has
. call to the Second Presbyterian
Church. in Philadelphia, at q salary of
y6.O 600, another to the Second Church,
Chicago. at a salary of $1,000. and still
another to . church in Scotland.
1T is said that the Rev. j. p. Craw-
ford, missionary Of the Southern Bap-
fist Board at Tung Chow, China. has
recently discovered there two genealog-
ical tables which he identities with the
generations of ADAM" Genesis, ",
and the generations of the sons OF
Noah" Genesis, x.
m. Chesnelong, French Senator,
told his brother Senators few days 70
that If God was banished from the pro-
gramme of studies in French academies
the collegiate young ladies would grow
up materialists and atheists. 'sThe no.
blest work of Christianity is the Chris.
tian woman"
Superintendent Smart. of Indiana,
has been studying the public schools in
the South. and has found a surprising
growth of the system, especially in
Georgia and Tennessee. The colored
people take great interest in the educa-
ton of their children, and the new gen.
GRAFTON can, as rule. read and write.
AT Harvard the old recitation
system in mathematics has given place
to lectures. except in the prescribed
coursesin algebra, geometry, and trigo.
nOmetry, which form q continuation OF
the common academical instruction. In
analytical geometry, advanced ana.
lytics, the calculus of intinitesimals,
quaternions, and mechanics, textbooks
are used only as works of reference or
as texts for the lectures.
At q recent meeting Of the London
School Board. Editor Grove OF the School,
master asserted that the system of
government in the French schools was
one of constant espionage, the effect
being to destroy frank intercourse among
the children and to make them sly and
deceitful. This assertion having been
brought TO the notice of Ambassador
Challemel-Lacour, he writes to the
Times that Editor Grove doesn't know
what he istalking about. IF there is
a fault from which French schoolboys
are exempt says the indignant Am
bassador, sit is precisely the odious
one of which MIR. Grove SO flippantly
accuses them ...
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
The Trials Of Chinese School Children.

A class of thirty Chinese Sunday
school scholars which has been formed
in Cincinnati held Christmas
festival. One of the features of the
evening was an address by Chan Pom
Tip, scholar, in which he thus point
ed out how hard thing going to school
is in China: 1--WE have more letters in
the alphabet in our language than you
could count, but only use from 5000 to
$500, that is all. We do not commence
to learn the alphabet first, but learn
it as we go along in our reading. The
first thing We study is to read Confu-
cius, our religion. The children who
first start to school take but very few
lessons from Confucius. They are in
structed by their teachers how to be-
have and what they ought to do for
their parents, and how to pay good
respect to strangers. They must bow
and call a stranger teacher; for the
name of teacher is held with great re-
spect. The school-teacher has full
charge of the children, and the parents
have very little to do with them after
they commence to attend the school.
The teacher sees the children more and
SO understands them better, and sees
them in the wrong. so they can correct
them better than their parents. After
the first six months they begin to study
Confucius, and they study until they
get through the four Kings. Perhaps
the children can get through Confucius
and the four Kings in three or four
years. Then they 90 to college if they
can afford it. The four Kings are writ
ten by the disciples of Confucius; he
had seventy-two, where Christ had
twelve. You can never get through
college until you become an officer. If
you do not want to become an officer
you have to leave college.
cit is much harder for us to 90 to
school when we are little. We have to
be in school in the morning as soon as
we can see to read, and when the teach
er comes we have to recite our lesson,
and if we do not know it we cannot go
home for breakfast. After breakfast
we practice writing two hours. Then
the writing books are taken up to the
teacher. We are not allowed to play
or talk to any one in the school. We
all study out loud at the same time
and on different lessons. The teachers
are very strict, and when it gets late
and one cannos see to read, then school
is out. We are not allowed to stop on
the way home, and if we do not do as
the teacher says. then we get q good
thrashing with q number of small
switches tied together. You will no
tice that the Chinese, when they pass
along the street. go quietly and mind
their own business. It is because they
were brought up in that way"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
A. Fable.

A Venetian merchant who was 1olling
in the lap Of luxury was accosted on the
Rialto by . friend who had not seen
him for many months - How is this?''
cried the latter; ''when last saw = gu
your gabcrdine was out at elbows. and
now you sail iii your own gondola. "
/" True" replied the merchant; "but.
since then | have met with serious,
losses and been obliged to compound
with my creditors for ten cents on tho
dollar" ,f@
Moral-Composition is the Lifa Of
Trade. IN Y. N0TM. 80 - %
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

Lieutenant Schwatka, Commander
Of the Franklin search party. who sue
cessfully overcame the difficulties of ice
and snow travel in the Arctic for two
winters, has broken his ankle by q fall
on an icy pavement in New York.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

j. w. Brownson. Of Pike, N. s.,
helped an elderly man out of the way
Of an omnibus on Broadway, Nefffrk
last September, and the other A{yiI III
,oeived S25, 900 in accordance With sthe
provisions Of the old man win.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
The East.

A RECENT explosion of a kerosene lamp in
the residence Of w. B. Moser. at Reading,
Pa, caused the death of two persons and the
fatal burning of two others.
Anew days ago three-year-old colored boy
living in Philadelphia killed baby BY thrust
ing red-hot poker down its throat
The General Assembly of New Jersey met
on the 18th.
On the 18th the Republican members Of the
Connecticut Legislature nominated General
J. r Hawley as their candidate for United
States Senator.
AN expl osion in celluloid factory at New
buryport Mass, . few days ago caused the
death of two men and the serious injury Of
third. The works had been recently re-
moved from New Jersey, where an explosion
had previously occurred.
JUSTICE SETH AMEs, of the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court, has recently resigned, owing
to advancing years.
THE Western Union and the American
Union Telegraph Companies have pooled
their issues. The capital Of the new organi-
zation is CSC, LOCO. 00C, of which 1000 600 ia
apportioned to the Western Union, $4,000
OOOto the American Union and 81, 00O, 900 TO
the Atlantic aud Pacific.
In the Maine Legislature on the 18th re-
port of the Joint Committee on Gubernatorial
Votes. declaring Harris n Plaisted, the Flu
son candidate, elected Governor Of that
State, was concurred in. The vote - finally
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

-Ayingular curiosity on exhibition
ct the Post-o1ace 1t Franklin, N. T.,
WA lifty-pound pumpkin. grown be-
tween the f0ur posts Of . common chair,
completely filing the space SO that it
cannot be removed without breaking
thu chair f9fyf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20
From Washington.

AN order has been recently issued by the
War Department abolishing dress caps for
officers, and directing that hereafter helmets
be worn with trimmings to designate the diff
ferent branches of the service. The color for
infantry will be white, cavalry yellow, artillery
red and Signal Service orange.
The President sent the new Chinese treaty
to the Senate, in Executive session. on the
10th, and it was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, and Mrs.
Josephine E. Barnard were married in Wash
ington ON the 18th.
ACCORDING to a recent announcement by
United States Treasurer Gilfillan holders of
notes may forward tn EN- in even thousands
for redemption, free Of express charges.
JUSTICE SwAYNE, of the United States Su-
preme Court, has resigned, his resignation to
take effect on the 23d of January.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

"A carpenter while repairing house
in St. Johns, N. B.. discovered beneath
. partly decayed window sill 5000 in
bank notes. 4 &i @As t4 ~ Te!lf4 gtiigos