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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07
me AIa,lnosteen.

During their stay upon the island Of
Java, DR.. Bronson and his young tray
cling companions took a trip on rail
way from Batavia to Buitenzorg, in or
der that they might learn something of
the interior Of the island. While on this
trip the boys observed, among other
things, that the trees in some instances
grew quite close to the track. DR.. Bron-
son explained to them that in the trop-
les it was no small matter to keep a rail
way line clear Of trees and vines, and
sometimes the vines would grow over
the track in single night. 1t was nee
essary to keep men at work along the
track to cut away the vegetation where
it threatened to interfere with the trains,
and in the rainy season the force was
sometimes doubled. "There is one
good effect, I" said he, " q this luxuriant
growth. The roots Of the vines and
trees become interlaced in the embank-
ment on which the road is built, and
prevent its being washed away by heavy
rains. So you see there is, after all, q
saving in keeping the railway in repair. "
At several of the stations the natives
offered fruits Of different kinds, and near
" all new to our young friends. They
had been tol6 tliat they would probably
find the mangosteen for sale along the
road they had inquired for it in Singa-
pore. but it was not in season there, and
now their thoughts were bent upon dis
covering it between Batavia and Buiten-
xorg. Two or three times they were
disappointed when they asked forit; but
finally, at one of the stations, when Fred
pronounced the word "mangosteen," q
native held up bunch of fruit and
nodded. The doctor looked at the
bunch and nodded likewise, and Fred
speedily paid for the prize.
Perhaps we had better let Fred tell the
story of the mangosteen, which he die
in his first letter from Buitenzorg
eve have found the prince of fruits
and its name is mangosteen. 1t is abou
the size of pippin apple, and of pur
pie color-a very dark purple, too. Th
husk. or rind, is about half an incl
thick, and contains bitter juice, whicl
is used in the preparation Of dye
stains the fingers like aniline ink, and
not easy to wash off. Nature.has wisel,
provided this protection for the fruit
it had no more covering than the ord
nary skin of an apple the birds woul
eat it all up as soon as it was ripe. II
were a bird, and had bill that woul
open the nangosteen, / would eat notl
ing else as long as could get at it.
: "You cut this husk with sharp kni
\ right across the center, and then ye
: open it in two parts. Out comes alum
, or pulp as white as snow, about the sii
Of small peach. It is divided into Sc
tions, like the interior Of an orange, al
t there is a sort of star on the outsi'
9 that tells you, before you cut the hus
n exactly how many Of these sectio
J there are. Having got to the pulp, y
d proceed to take the lump into 20
+ mouth and eat it F.; and you will be t
!. busy for the next quarter Of a minute
g say anything.
,, "Hip hip hurrah 1t melts aw
t, in your mouth like an oyerripe peach
t. strawberry it has taste that is Sigh
{ acid--yery slightly, too--but you can
? more describe all the favor Of it tn
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rILK orER WnAr YoU READ.

Nearly forty years experience as Q
teacher has shown me how little L truly
know Of subject until / began to ex-
PLAN it Or teach it. Let any young per
son fly the experiment Of giving in con
versation, briefly and connectedly, and
in the simplest language, the chief
points Of any book or article he has
read, and he will at once see what I
mean. The gaps that are likely to ap-
pear II the knowledge that he felt was
his own will no doubt be very surpris-
ing, know Of no training superior to
this in utilizing ones reading, in
strengthening the memory, and in form
ing habits Of clear, connected statement.
II will doubtless teach other things than
those l have mentioned, which the per-
sons WHO honestly make the experiment
will find out for themselves. Children
who read can be encouraged to give, in a
family way, the interesting parts Of the
books they have read, with great adyan-
tage to all concerned. More than one
youth I know has laid the foundation Of
intellectual tastes in a New England
family, where hearty encouragement
was given to children and adults in their
attempts to sketch the lectures they
have heard the evening previous. The
same thing was done with books
Christian Union.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07

CANADA has definitely offered herself
up to the capitalists. She has definitely
agreed to turn over to syndicate the
new Canada Pacific Company, in per-
petuity, that portion Of the line which
has already been built and all inforna-
ton in its possession, and will grant sub
sides in the form Of $500, 900, 900 Of
Canadian Government bonds and several
million acres Of land along the line Of
road for the sake Of its completion tc
the Pacific coast.
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CURRENT IIlEAIs.

HuMoRs of the day--Small-pox, snK.
rheum, etc.
DAMMIT is q postoflice namo in SEWER
county, Tenn.
A NEwLy-wrDpEp husband says u
should be called matrimoney." I"
SOME Phladolphians named their
Colorado SILVER mine tho "scooper,"
aud tho name proved prophetic. They
have been seooped.
No WONDER tlle miser desires to taks
his gold with him beyond the grave
when oven "doath loves shining
mare. ~ Tauers faits Reporter.
rueRu are in Philadelphia 4S4
churches; III New York city, 354, and
III Brooklyn, $40, Il 40 other Ameri
can city nre there moro than 200.
FAaunRs ii Dallas county, Texas, se-
curo artesion wells, flowing six foct
above Tie ground, BY boring to q depth
of between sixty and seventy feet
Il CALIFORNIA woman, seven feet taH
and weighing 200 pounds, broke ha
hcart for love of d little runt Of map
wearing No. boots and leading poo
ale ly chain. -Dotoit free Press.
INSANE by oyer.study q the Bible,
young man named Pierce, Of Theresa,
Jefferson county, N. VI. imagining that
Ills left hand had offended, deliberately
cRt olt every finger.
SNAIL 10y Crushing in front d young
lady wearing large poke bonnet, and
starring her full in the face) ~" You've
lost yaur let, Charlie; ! told yer u
wa1n't an old woman.
Docs chased the murderer Of their
master IL Nayasota, Tex, but only held
him fast when they caught him. The
human pusuers were less mcreiftil, for
they hanged him 70 q tree. S@y
TnE medical student Of MAJ must
dissect before he can become an M. D.,
but the law provides that no bodies shall
be disseeted except those of executed
criminals, and another law abolishea
capital punishment.
Ar Exeter, England, q young farmor
has been sent % jail for month for
shooting rabbit on farm Of his own
occupation, while man brought before
the same bench for britally ill-treating
his wife was fined 5 shillings.
The Philadelphia Hcraid says that
tho women Of that city are busily en-
gagged il getting up political clubs,
They are about two feet long, and only
appear on parade when the husbands Of
tie women came home late at night.
AN old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as a rubbish
gatherer, and lived and died IL squalor,
has bequeathed 100000 between tho
Royal Free Hospital, London, and the
National Lifeboat Institution, leaving
his relations penniless.
SOME philosophical paragrapher has
been struck with wonder at the persist
snce Of mothers in teaching their chill
dren 70 talk, and TIE equal persistence
with which they endeavor, few years
later, to keep them from exercising theil
talents in that line.
The word "welcome on the door
mat, or worked in silk floss and framed
to hang on the wall, does not alwnyf
mean that tile relatives, even unto tht
third or fourth generation, may come il
at all times and make themselves per
fectIy ut home. --Bostop Globe.
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nRA1Ns ANp BUSINESS.

Men Of practical talent are now
sought for in country and city. They
are wanted everywhere and will be
called for hereafter more. than ever.
Where are these men to come from,
these thousands of Major Generals in
commerce. Now is the time to train
young men for business pursuits, for
the great avenues to wealth, and dis
tinetion and power which wealth con
fers
We are preparing young men for the
army at West Point, for the navy at
Newport, for the learned professions at
various universities. This is well. But
where one is wanted as a graduate Of
these institutions a thousand are
wanted in the great army of bust
ness. Parents, as you value the happi'
ness Of your sons, give this matter {
careful consideration, thorough bust
ness education will ever be blessing t.
Your children. Burlington Hai0k-Eye
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07

ting into Bayou Lafourche about twenty
miles above its mouth, and extending
nearly three miles farther west, into The
back waters Of Timbolicr hay. This
gives safe and easy inland navigation 70
Bayou Torrebonne at point abouttwen-
ty miles from the gulf.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07
BRO FARMING.

A correspondent Of the ST. Louis Re
publican tells Of the wonderful farming
operations Of DR.. Hugh J. Glenn, OF
Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists
Of 65, 900 acres, $4,000 of which are In
wheat. and has ITS miles Of fence. The
acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable
seasons, and this is considered tavora-
BILE one. OF this years crop DR.. Glenn
says, although he has on hand 50,OOO
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he
thinks they will not hold his wheat
He has his own machine and blacksmith
shops; boring, turning and planning
machines buzz saws, etc. He manu-
features his own wagons, separators,
headers, harrows and nearly all the ma
chinery and implements used. He has
employed so men in seeding and $50 in
harvest, 200 head of horses and mules,
So grain-headers and other wagons, $50
sets Of harness, - twelve-foot headers,
| 5 sulky hay-rakes, 70 eignt-mule culti-
vators. 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, forty-eight-inch sep
arator, 36 feet long and 134 high, with
capacity Of 10 bushels per minute ]
forty-inch separator, SO feet long; z
forty-feet elevators for self-feeder,
steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty
horsepower engines. The working
force to run the separator is 6e men,
headers, % header wagons, 100 horses
and mules. The average run of th'
machine is 1900 sacks, containing 2
bushels each, per day. The utmost ca
pacity Of the machine is 5000 sacks o
! 1000 bushels per day. The harvesting
force cut and thrash simultaneously
and in fifteen minutes from the time tn
header begins in the grain the wheat
in the sacks.
THE Pennsylvania Railway Compan
I is adding the artificial decoration to Il
/ grandeur Of nature by beautifying Il
) famous Horseshoe curve, near Altoonl
, :41 ao,,.ayo anil foliage lllauts
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07

WASHINGTON has had building boom
this year. So far 625 new buildings have
been erected, against 511 for the same
period last year. A large number Of
public men are building handsome resi-
dences at the capital.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07

A YOUNG man in Georgia has taught
the public lesson in respect to the
danger Of hasty generalization. When
Tanner triumphantly tasted for forty
days the conclusion was jumped
to that the limit OF life under priya-
ton has been very much understated.
Acting upon. this assumption, the
Georgia man, Tuck jackson by name,
tefused food. expecting, no doubt,
be would live forty days, at least.
But alas for the force of Tanners ex-
ample. he died on the Seventeenth day.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07

THE Pennsylvania Railway Company
is adding the artificial decoration to the
grandeur Of nature by beautifying the
famous Horseshoe curve, near Altoona,
with flowers and foliage plants.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01
A Long Journey for q Boy.

A little boy about eight years of age
got on Niagara street car Thursday
evening, but as he spoke foreign Ian
guage It could not be ascertained where
his destination was. He had through
ticket to Sioux City. Dakota Territory,
sachel full of food. and a big 60 ee-
rot. Not knowing what to do with the
young traveller, he was handed over to
Sergeant Kemp. OF the Fifth precinct,
who kept him at the station-house for
the night. Yesterday morning he was
taken to the Postmaster's Office, when
it was learned through an interpreter
that the lad name was Christian Lar
sen, and that his parents resided at
Hjorning, Denmark. He is on his way
to his uncle, Christian Larsen, who re.
sides at Danville, Dakota. He said that
he had been we'll treated on his journey,
and had had plenty to eat. Besides
food. he had So in money. It seems
that on reaching this city he got astrayy,
and, seeing street-car, got on it. think
ing it would take him to his destination.
He was put on Lake Shore u Mich
igan Southern train yesterday alter
noon, and no doubt the conductor will
see that he gets to his journeys end
safe and sound.-Bufalo IN. ~ Er-
a,rcSS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Strasburg University Catalogue
Tor. 1880 enumera' es twenty students
from the United States.
When the Baptist Church at Wo-
burn. Mass, recently celebrated its one
hundredth anniversary, seven of its
eight former pastors we're present.
There are but few Baptists in Utah;
yet a church has been organized at Og-
den, which gives promise of success.
Rev. Dwight Spencer is the pastor.
Only five of the 1875 young men
graduated this year at Yale propose to
enter the ministry. Facts like this are
the cause of much sorrow in the depom-
national educational boards.
The Friends of England recently
held, in Great A, ton, general meet
ing in tent, the service be ng con-
Quoted much after the Moody and
Sankey style. Large audiences were
present.
1t is now over three months since
Moody and Sankey left San Francisco,
yet the Gospel meetings and the noon
day prayer meetings are kept up with
undated interest. At each service the
hall is well filled, and mig htly there are
many men remaining as lnquirers.
The Baptist church of Little Falls,
N. Y. recently held what they called a
"public jubilation." The ground for
rejoicing was that the mortgages and
other debts amounting to $500 had
been paid. The cancelled evidence of
Indebtedness were publicly burned by
Pastor Bellamy.
AT the funeral of a Christian China
man in Boston the other Sunday about
fifty Cinnamon were present, and the
singing Of Congregational h.. INNS in the
Chinese language was peculiar and
touching phase OF the ceremony. The
remains are to be sent to China after
three years.
The salaries of women teachers in
Germany is decidedly meager. The
lowest is 5000 and the highest not over
$3.50. They. however, receive pen
sions. Retirement at the end of ten
years. active service entities them to a
pension of one. fourth of Their annual
salary, and for every additional ear
of service one-eighteenth is given.
The slender resources of the
Methodist Protestant Church, although
it has membership of nearly 12O. 900,
have not permitted it to provide proper
facilities for the theological education
of its young ministers. A proposition
to establish a theological professorship
in two of its colleges, at an annual ex-
pense of $1,000 each, is now being
considered.
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Extract. from q Late Novel.

do mare ,y you gOing to give me that two
Arthur Ainsleigh turned quickly but
quietly from the landscape on which
his eyes were fixed "A bit of green
meadow fringed with lis, on whose
tops the rays of the setting sun were
just resting, bringing out the bright
tints of the heather. and giving to the
whole scene a rich, warm coloring such
as one sees in the works of the old
masters that gem the galleries of Eu-
rope-and looked tenderly but hrmly
at the beautiful girl who stood by his
side.
mo. my darling" he said. taking
her small hand gently in his, II cannot
stake you so high as that. Let it be
dollar, sweetheart, and the money is
yours -
The girl started back as if stung by a
serpent. the sudden movement reveal
ing each graceful outline of her 1.-the
figure and showing the perfect mme-
try of her ashes-of-roses polonaise,
which had two rows of plating down
the front and was shirred up the back
stretch and pretty we'll around the lower
turn.
Looking at the young man steadily
for a moment, she said, in low, tremu-
lous tones that showed far more pla MY
than the CHASTITY paleness of her face
the terrible emotions that were racking
her soul: ''You are a mean, hateful
thing" and, bursting suddenly into
fit of wild. hysterical weeping, she left
the room.
They had been married but four
months, Arthur AinsIeigh and Ethel
Qu.rk, and already the black clouds of
domestic discord were showing their
forb dding outlines on the edge of the
erstwhile rosy horizon, while the jagged
bolts of jealousy were lighting up with
lurid glare the empyrean SO recently
unlocked by cloud, and the hoarse
mutterings of scontent and waning
love reverberated in hollow and mourn
full tones throu .hout the dome of the
ideal palace of love viii h these two
young hearts had so short time since
built for themselves.
It was q simple matter that had
brought about this discord. Ethel want
ed five pairs of stockings at fifty cents
per pair, while Arthur had decided that
two was all she needed.
For nearly an hour not sound broke
the silence that reigned in the boudoir
from which Ethel had departed in an
ger, save the soft ticking of a marble
clock. Arthur still sat moodily on the
tauteaa, absorbed in thought. The
door was softly opened and Ethel came
in. Arthur did not hear her. Stepping
softly across the room she knelt beside
him, and. throwing her soft, warm arms
around his neck, said, in voice broken
with emotion: 81 will take the dollar,
darling" %
Arthur looked up suddenly and saw
that Ethers eyes were suffused with
tears. Kissing them gently away, and
splitting the salt water out Of his mouth
while her head was again resting trust
fully on his shirt front, he said: II
knew you would see was right" and
handed her the dollar.
This happened on the 14th of Deem
ber. On the 18th Arthur spent Sl6.4O
to paw bill for billiards and drinks
that he had "sawed-off'' for.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01
GLEANINGS,

"A single grape vine at Cajon, CAL.
bears five tons of fruit, the weight OF
which has broken down the sturdy oak
tree on which the vine climbs.
Six ladies who went to a seaside
resort near Boston the other day and
engaged a hotel room in which to leave
their shawls and other light baggage,
were dumbfounded few hours later to
find themselves charged $12 for its
use.
Emigration always results in leav.
ing the women in the country whence
it takes place considerably exceedin g
the men in number. This is notably
the case in Ireland, and still more SO in
England, where women are always un-
willing to abandon their home.
w lille in some parts of Europe in.
tense heat has been experienced this
summer, in others severe cold has &C.
Cured. In Switzerland, during June,
vegetables froze in the fields and grass
in the meadows. In the north of Scot.
land potatoes and turnips were badly
damaged.
After an immense deal of trouble
and expense, the brothers and sisters
of Philip Donagher, who died in San
Francisco in 1878, leaving fortune es.
timated at 81, 500, 600, have made good
their claim, and even when all expenses
are paid will be rich. They have hith-
erto been quite poor.
"A bunch of wheat grown on the
farm of Jerry Despair, near Pendleton,
Ore, apparently from single seed.
consists Of 1872 stalks, each bearing q
full head of wheat. What was taken
to be an average head shelled out sixty
three well-developed kernels. Hence
that mother grain has yielded 1916
fold.
The New York Times says that
'the scales for weighing gold in the
ASSAY Office at New York areso delicate
that when brought to q balance with
two pieces of paper of equal size in the
pans, the mere writing of name with
q lead pencil on one of the pieces Of
paper will add enough weight in the
paper to turn the scales in its favor"
Colonel Benjamin F. Weymouth,
who has just died in New York, bore q
striking resemblance to President Lin.
coin, both in features and figure, and
is said to have been several times mis-.
taken fop him in the street. After Lin
coins assassination Colonel Weymouth
SGT several times for pictures and stat
uettes Of the President.
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Railroad Accidents.

The Rni no I'd Gazetts of recent date has q
record of the railroad accidents occurring
during last July. There were in all lO2 &C.
cjdents, whereby 80 persons were killed and
122 injured. Twenty accidents caused death;
"a injury, but not death, while in So acci-
dents, or $3.50 per cent. of the whole num-
Der, no serious injury to persons is record.
ed. AS compared with July, 1869, there
was an increase of 81 accidents, II in the
number of killed and % in the number OF
injured. For the year ending with July the
record is as follows.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

An old man, over the elbows and
knees OF whose corduroy suit sixty
summers had faded, landed from New
Jersey ferryboat the other morning and
sa'd to q policeman: "My house in the
country is filed with summer guests,
and we are bound to make money. As
we are little flush just now, tn ught
l would run down to New York and try
some of these fresh vegetables and fruits
that hear the papers talking Of"
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Debts Ct Cities and Towns.
WASHINGTON, August 18.

WASHINGTON, August IL.
Mr.. Robert p. Por.er, of the Census
Bureau, issued TO- day his first report relat-
ing to the Indebtedness aud analysis of the
outstanding bonded debt Of the cities and
towns of the United States containing a
population of $500 and upward. In this
report is shown not only the bonded and
floating debt, but also the amount of the
sinking fund and other credits set aside for
the payment OF the debts, and the gross and
net debt. He also shows the purpose for
which this debt was created, the rate of in.
terest that it draws, the date of issue and
the date of maturity. From this report it
appears that there are 81 cities and towns
in the United States that came under this
clause. The total population of these cities
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

-"I see." said Fogg to q manufac-
turer, "that your baking powder is
sold by all respectable grOcers. Now,
who are the respectable grocers?"
1.-THE grocers who sell my baking pow
der, of course" replied the manufac-
turer. Boston Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

The averages per month for the year were
12O accidents, "a killed and 139 injured,
against similar averages of p accidents, II
killed and 81 injured in 1S79-SO, and 20 acci-
dents, Is killed and 81 injured in 1S7S-79.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

Wimberly; Attorney General, w. F. Fitz.
xeraid; superintendent Of Education, w.
D. House. At . joint mass-meeting in
jackson on the evening Of the 18th, pre-.
sided over by John r. Lynch (colored), the
nominees made addresses.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

A negro in Bullock County, Ala,
while raising crop last year, slept in
one end of hollow log and kept his
cooking utensils in the other end.