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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
The PENSION BUREAU.
Some Adea on e1A0 Enormous Busine
III EEaa "a uamVvo

Some idea OF e1Ao Enormous Business
Kt Has to Handle.
Mr.. Bently, the Commissioner of PEN
s1ons, has compiled some information on
the Pension Bureau which illustrates the
magnitude OF the pension system. He
says: son the 30th of June last there
were 245, 900 pensioners. Including the
first payment to pensioners whose cases
were settled during the fiscal year, there
was paid out for pensions $36, 000, 900,
exclusive OF arrears, which amounted to
vi COO, 900 In addition. So there was
paid out for pensions during the fiscal
year $57, 200, 900. The regular pensions
and first payments to the new pensioners
VIII, IN the aggregate, continue to in
crease until they shall have reached
$5O, 900, 900 in amount, and perhaps a
greater sum. Great as the interest of
the pensioners whose cases have already
been settled has grown to be, the inter
ests of those persons who have unsettled
claims represent a still greater sum, and
1t is being daily increased by the new
claims which are continually coming
forward. On the Both of June last there
were before the office, awaiting settle
ment, $50, 900 claims for original army
and navy pensions, involving On average
first payment amounting to 81 100 IN
each case, or total of $308, 900, 900 for
the first payment alone. In addition,
there were 1000 unsettled claims for
the War of 1912 and the Mexican and
Indian wars. The annual average of the
pensions of all classes Is $105 to each
pension. The whole number of persons
decidedly interested In the pensions,
either as the actual recipients or claim
ants, is 532, 00O
These figures represent the condition
of affairs on the Both of June last. Since
then new claims have been filed at an
average rate of 100 per day. The regu-
lar annually accruing pensions OF the
whole $50, 900, counting the claimants
as already pensioners, are $50, DOC, 600.
The annual pensions are sufficient to
pay the interest upon 81 400, 600, 900 of f.
percent bonds. Add to this sum the
$308, 600, 600 arrears, or first payments
upon the pending claims, and we find
the enormous amount of 81, 708, 000, 900
standing as the capital or representative
of the pension interest as it was on the
30th of June last, sum nearly equal to
the whole public debt of the nation,
The $50, 900 directly interested persons
are distributed throughout the country
as nearly as can be calculated about as
follows In the States north of Mary
land and the Ohio and east OF the Mis-
sissippi and Iowa, Minnesota, and Kan
sas on the West, from 1900 to 1000 IN
each Congressional district. In the
States of Maryland, West Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and
tho States on the Pacific coast with the
Territories In proportion to population,
from 900 to |, 500, and from 800 to 500
in the Congressional districts of the
Southern Ststaa
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

Every Turk leads two lives. He may
be In the society of Europeans during
six hours of every day. he is we'll
dressed, viyacious. perhaps intelligent.
But this part OF his life is not the part
which form his motives. 1t Is not then
that the final causes are at work which
govern his acts. His life, when he is in
the busy whirl of the world, is super
iicial and unreal How artificial it is
AN be seen IN the alacrity with which
On his return to his hareR, he lays OF
the bToadcloth clothes of his public ex-
fstence, and dons the white, baggy trOus-
ers, the open-necked vest and the long
gown dear TO his heart He is only
ready to be at ease when he releases his
feet from patent leather and from stock
ings, and thrusts them into unheeled
slippers. Then he Is himself for he IS al
home
The harem is to every Turk his haven
of refuge. To it he may flee from every
care. About the harem cling all the
sweetest associations of his life All his
best feelings find exercise in that sacred
place. His mother, perhaps, is there, or
his sisters There only lie enjoys the
prattle of his children There alone in
all the world can the tired man find the
balm of sympathy. There he has his
books, and can study in peace if he will
There he enjoys the riches of his flower
garden. In the domain of the woman,
with hills, and wales, and moon touched
sea before his eyes, he dreams away his
summer evenings under the subtle spell
of Nature, and here he meets the con-
trolling influences of his life. The wo-
men of the harem-mOthers, sisters, and
wives-wait upon the man coming wear
lily home from his struggle with life.
They are to him humble servants or
merry companions, as his mood is. They
please him with his children, OF leave him
alone with his books, at his behest
Sooner er later, however, they assert
their woman's right of talking on serious
topics, and then they have him at their
mercy. Now these women who make the
home of the Turk are rarely his equals In
mental requirements. No question Of
blood rules the selection of wives among
the Turks. A woman born in mud
hovel often rules in Pasha's palace
.HarpeT's Magazine.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Cremation Of the Dead.

Exactly how to dispose of the ashes Of
the dead in the most satisfactory manner,
after cremation is accomplished, is still a
question. The ancient practice was to
deposit the ashes in funeral urn, to be
preserved in a tomb or other sacred
place. This is also the modern custom.
But if tombs are to be required then there
is not much need for cremation, as the
corpse may as well be buried in the tomb
without cremation.
A recent American patent consists in
providing parlor bust of the deceased,
cut in marble, and in making hole in
the back of the bust, wherein the ashes
are to be deposited after cremation of the
body.
A further improvement, suggested by
one of our lady correspondents, is to pre-
pare wet mixture of cements for arti-
fetal stone OF marble, and sprinkle the
ashes of the deceased into the mixture,
which is then to be cast or pressed into
the form of busts, statuettes, or other OBJ
jects. In this way various members of
family might possess enduring portions
of the ashes of the departed one.-Scien.
tifc american.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Cracking Wheat into Flour.

Minnesota millers no longer ''grind"
wheat into -four They "crack' it. and
the people of the Northwest claim that
the new process makes their hitherto in
ferior wheat the most valuable in the
world Burr stones are things of the
past and Hungarian steel rollers have
taken their place These rollers are
about thirty inches long and eight inches
in diameter. it takes five sets of steel
rollers to finish the -four. Each set of
rollers run closer than the preceding.
After the wheat passes each set of rollers
it is bolted on siftsd through course. cloth.
This cloth lets the disintergrated par
hcles of wheat through and passes off
the bulky and larger pieces, which are
run through another and a closer set
of rollers and cracked again. The last
rollers have little else but wheat hulls
and waxy germs of wheat, which do not
crack up, but smash down like piece
of wax. The germ of kernel of wheat
is not good food It makes -four black.
By the old milestone process this waxy
germ was ground up with the starchy
portion and bolted through with the
-four. BY the new system of cracking
the kernel instead of grinding it this
germ is not ground, but fattened out
and sifted OF bOlted out, while the starchy
portions of the wheat are crushed into
powdered wheat or -four. All the big
mills of Minneapolis now manufacture by
the new process.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
The Utilizing Of the Tide.


A Philadelphia engineer has invented,
1t is claimed, machine by which the
power of the tides can be utilized. Num-
erous plans have been proposed for the
accomplishment of this most desirable
end, but only under exceptional condi-
tons have they been practical or econom-
zeal. If the new device can harness the
tide in an open channel, so as to convert
any considerable portion of the vast
power into working force, the inventor
will rank among the great benfactors of
humanity. Emerson says somewhere:
Hitch your wagon 10 star A device
for utilizing mechanically the fresh tides,
as they sweep along our shores, would
come next to that, since it would enable
US, through converters and carriers of
electricity, to hitch our wagons to the
sun and moon.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Weeds.

Prof. Prentiss reports the experiments
performed by his pupils to determine
the number of seeds usually existing in
cultivated soils. Small portions of the
soil were measured in bulk, and the
number of weeds obtained from these
portions in pots counted. From these
results, after a number of trials, it was
determined that from 5000, 600 to 40
600, 600 seeds usually exist in cultivated
soils-enough to supply any number
found In farm crops without resorting to
the notion of transmutation. The only
soils in which the seeds of weeds were
not found were peat from bog after
the top was removed, and sand from an
area recently grided.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Novel Use Of tie TeIenhone.

1t is well known that if long, dry
table, open at both ends, be held over
jet of burning hydrogen musical sound
is produced, the pitch and quality OF
which vary with the length, thickness
and diameter of the tube. 1t has been
proposed, says the Electrician, to adapt
such tube to. safety lamp under
ground IN mines, and to place it near
telephone IN communication with an
other III the managers Office ON the sur
face. The alteration of the sound due
to n greater or less admixture of gases
with the air of the minewould warn the
manager of the state of the atmosphere
in the workings.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
STEEL ENGRAVINGS !


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r'Hrntaiilu Of tilr nativity uf uHr saviour
ever Published.
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'eipt % 20 eeuts in postage siarrs Addrra
PHILADELPHIA rUuLsuisa CO.,.
mch 23-am Us saus,m street,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
African Exploration.

A scheme of African exploration is said
to be under consideration in Portugal,
which, if carried into execution, will
probably result in the achievement of
most important geographical work. It
is proposed that two expeditions should
start simultaneously from the Portu-
guese possessions on the east and west
coasts of Africa, and, after founding a
series of scientific and commercial sta
tons along their route, meet at some
point in the interior.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

WoRKMEN are now replacing with iron
the vast wooden span of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad
bridge over the Susquehanna river at
Havre de Grace, and when this is COM
pleted the whole bridge will be of iron.
The change from wood to iron has been
going ON for six years. The bridge is
one of the greatest structures in the
country. With It's approaches it is
mile aud a quarter long, and thewate in
the channel is seventy-five feet deep.
The total cost of the bridge has been
81, 600, 600.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

GAMBLING has been and still is very
greatly on the increase in London. Two
new baccarat clubs have been formed,
where individual losses have been counted
by thOusands-in one case by fifteen
thousand-and the prohibited game has
found its way into clubs where by the
rules it is prohibited Difficulties about
the settlement of accounts have already
resulted from this, and if it continues,
lots of scandals similar to tie Paget one
may be expected
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Love.

A young lady has Sunday-school
class of rather bright boys, averaging
between 7 and years. Recently she re-
quested each pupil to come on the fol-
lowing Sunday with some passage of
Scripture bearing on love-. The lads
needed the reqdest, and in turn recited
their verses bearing upon that popular
topic-sueh as Love your enemies,
"Little children, love one another"
etc. The. teacher said to the boy whose
turn canls Inst, g Well, Robbie, what is
your verse;" Rising. he responded,
" Song of Solomon, ii. 5-'Stay me
with hagons, comfort me with apples
for am sick Of love- -. ,.a .... :. !.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

'Is rRIGHT $50 long as any per-
son seriously asks this question of him
self, III regard TO all his acts, the danger
OF ANY great departure from the path of
ractitudc must be small and we wish
that syst,m of education might make
it as common and controlling among our
people III after years as now appears to
be III youth.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
The Possibilities of American Wheat.

Speaking of our gigantic crops of
wheat, the american Miller remarks
that fewpeople, even i'll our own country,
realize how inexhaustible our resources
are for wheat growing. The total area
of lands available for Win at culture in
the United States is not less than 49,
0O0, 900 acres. Our entire wheat crop of
the past year would not supply seed
enough to SOW SO vast an area of lsnd
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Our PostOffiees Compared with the En-
gliSh DenArtment.


Following the example of the English
Postofice Department, the department
at Washington has made an attempt by
counting the mail matter for one week
to get a rude guess of the number of
pieces annually mailed by the United
States The first seven days in NoYem-
Der was the week selected, and the re-
turn then made, multiplied by 90, gives
the totid mail of the country for one
year at 2,2IZ, 068, 129 pieces. The En-
glish postal system is simpler than ours.
afforJing only three varieties of postal
matter; a comparison between the re-
turn now made for the 'foriginal' post
Office business IN this country and that
In England, for the year ending March
81, 1879, is as follows:
United States. Great Britain
Letters ...,......... s6s, ASIA 1907 100000
Postalcards. -: g.. 276,44s,7I n1OOo'Ooo
ed matter i, 90 4s8, $50 sos OOO, 900
The last item In this country, besides
newspapers and magazines, includes,
under "books, circulars and miscellane-
Gus printed matter, 300, 845, $50 pieces,
of which much the largest share are cir
culGrs, recz0ned in the English return
AS letters so that the number of letters
is about the same in the two countries.
The return of mail matter for the United
States includes, in addition to tho items
given above, articles of merchandise "
to the amount of %, 634, 456. The ten
States in which the largest amount of
mail matter originated are as follows
New York, 538, $50, 724 /; Pennsylvania,
207, 196, 0S0; Ohio, 168, 565, 800; Illinois,
l67. 944, 1858 Massachusetts,, 145. 973, 1854;
81, 057, $50; Michigan, GA, 753,-
8G4 Iowa, 81, 297, $50; Indiana. 81, 922,
POS; and Wisconsin, AZ, 943, 064. Near !
ly 80 per cent. of the mail matter report
ed g originated I" in the fifty principal /
cities of the country.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

IT is claimed for the organ now being
placed in the Stewart cathedral at Gar
den City, L. /, that it will be the most
perfect, the most expensive, and, in
many respects, the most wonderful in
sirllment in the world 1t is the largest
III ,xistence, and has 1l5 stops and
7,035 pipes.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

EXCEPT a living man there is nothing
more wonderful than a book message
b. us from the dead-frOm human souls
We never saw, who lived, perhaps, thou
s.g1:,ls of miles away And yet these, in
those little sheets of paper, speak to us,
rouse us, terrify us, teach US, open their
hearts to us Us brothers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

THE wise ones say there is nothing SO
hard to bear as prosperity; but most
men would like to engage in some hard
work of that description just to have
practical illustration of the aGage.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland have e56O,-
0l0,010 employed i'll railway undertake
iu-s America has 81, 200, 600, 900 en-
played Germany, E200, 600; and
Franca G24O, 600, 900.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

THERE is some pleasure in superstition
when one can have gilded horseshoe as
IN ornament and at the same time keep
all bad spirits away And when bride
IS about to Leave her home it does no
harm certainly to throw an old shoe after
her. As Tennyson sings:
F.r this thou shalt from al Ihings seek
MnroW Vi nsath and iatis htar;
Aud WheTeaab,sl thou nieg.t, q I'D Luck
~ Shall throw her old shoe after.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

THE Detroit Free Press, which is
good authority ON such things, says:
/" Corkscrews can now be made and sold
for O cent.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08

EVERY Prince of the Royal family in
Germany is taught when young some
useful trade for the purpose of SOLDERING
the mind and bringing it face to face
with the material world and the realities
of life, and among the profusion of curl
osities and artistic relics which crowd
the Emperor Williams private cabinet
may be seen specimens of book binding,
carving, carpentering and other handi-
work performed by his sons and grand
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
Practical Treatise On Midwifery.
BY Horton Howard. ND

Giving elaborate iustruaiInts boz 90 tbaf f.affsIUs
90 ihr o. urihrrt uurtluua. aUI Isfa ODD HI fHF T.r
male Organs 90 ofIHf aflan. aIf trfsfIHH I.T|r 81
Conception, hulfa ZOE thf rrfirUtI.r I'd I.H.lI.s
tlnu, Development. fnianr. Nufn.nr. uH.a.#a Hf
the Aoulh, d a. lrnfFdirH. rfr Thf uhHIr f4IHH
rendered o. 90 ltiain ~ many fFUsaI.rrIf IH.a
pnrtnui ILLUS iHANfuNH IarrU H#fH.H. .#I#Ih
bound WI Do afuf ~ n go urHH fH#H.f.f af fI.
PHILADELPHIA IUuTIauTNa rU
rurh 1I-luI 80 s.r....-.. .f....f
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
A Result of the Mississippi Jetties.

As a direct result of the success of
Captain Eads' jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi River, is noted the present
remarkable demand for huge grain carry
ing barges for the transportation of
wheat from st. Louis to the ean-going
vessels at New Orleans This demand
for barges is supplemented by the recent
purchase of several Of the most powerful
towbOats ever built at Pittsburg, and
which were originally designed for the
coal trade. With 20 feet of water as
sured at the South Pass, where the jet
ties are located, the river transportation
of grain to ocean bulls bids fair to assume
proportions that may jeOpardize the over
land carrying of grain between the Up
per Mississippi and the seabOard. Within
the past few weeks the st. Louis and
New Orleans Transportation Company
and the Mississippi Valley Transports
ton Company have been in the market
as purchasers for steamers and barges.
The latter are of the variety known In
Western waters as the model" barge,
in cOntradistinctiOn to the coal or square
barge These craft are built to a model,
and those recently contracted for are of
the following dimensions: Length 225
feet, width 36 feet, hold 9 feet. The
"cargo box" or receptacle for grain has
capacity for so, 900 bushels or about
800 tons. At present forty such barges
are being built at different yards along
the Ohio River, and the total number of
barges that will soon find employment in
the grain-caTying trade between the
points named is placed by good author
ity at 12O. A ''tOw" of such barges
consists, under favorable circumstances,
of five, loaded barge drawing about
eight feet. To make the round trip be-
tween ST. Louis and New Orleans re-
quires twenty days, and the freight on
wheat averages eight cents per bushel
The lack of return cargoes prevents this
rate from being as great bonanza" as
would appear from an income of $24, 900
for three weeks job. Nevertheless it
is good thing for those engaged in this
wholesale way of sending grain down the
g Father of Waters. "-Scientifc Anaey-j-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-07-06
rwo SEVERE STORMS.
rirrsBuRG VISITED BY A SEVERE GALE.
DAMAGE AT BEAVER
TALLs. ~.

PrrrsBuRGH, June IA severe
storm swept over this city shortly
before noon. The greatest damage
is reported from Gazzam's hill, on
the side of which are located some
fifty shantics. Here the family OF
John Parker, colorcd, had scarcely
left their house when it came down
with crash, destroying its contents.
Mrs. Parker had large piece torn
out of her arm by u fragment OF fly
ing timber and three of her children
were severely bruised. A horse and
wagon were raised from the ground
on Soho street and dashed against a
stone wall, the driver Matt Byerly)
being seriously injured. a portion
of Hussey, Howe & Co.'S mill was
unroofed.
At Beaver Falls, the Penn Bridge
Works were partly blown down,
and Brady's brass foundry and
novelty works were damaged to the
amount Of 81 600. The roof OF the
steel works is damaged.
CHICAGO, June 29.-The damages
within the city by the storm last
night arc reported to be slight, but
to the east, especially in some sec
tions of Indiana and as far as
Elkhart, along the line of the Lake
Shore railroad, the loss is believed
to be extensive. The conductor on
& Like Shore tram brought a rumor
that large boarding house in Elk
hart was blown down with great
loss of life, but he knew nothing DEF
mate. 1t is reported that the Epls-
copal church in Austin, just outside
the city, on the Northwestern Rail
road, was blown down this MORN
inp.