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Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
COrals and Coral Reefs.

Prof. Joseph lie Conte, in recent
lecture on corals, corrected q wide
spread misunderstanding respecting
corals and coral reefs. The popular
idea is, says M. LIE Conte, that these
animals are little insects; that they
build like ants and bees do, and when
they are alarmed they disappear into
their little burrows, and these reefs are
accumulations of millions of these little
insects in generation after generation.
The fact is the coral animal is polyp,
belonging to the group of radiatia; that
it consists of limestone deposits in the
shape of hollow cylinder with top and
bottom disks, surmounted with tenta-
cles, containing stomach and envel-
oped with gelatinous organic matter.
The tentacles or arms are provided each
with mouth for the absorption of food.
The coral is coraline limestone after the
gelatinous organic envelope is decayed
reefs are not much larger than pin
heads.
Reef building corals will not grow at
q depth of over 100 to 120 feet. There
have been reef-building corals found at
depth of 1000 feet, but they were
dead-drowned by being carried below
their depth. This confines them to
coast lines and submarine banks. Corals
will not grow where the temperature is
lower than sixty-eight degrees at any
time-that is, the ocean, not the air.
Therefore they are confined to the trop-
ical regions. They will not grow except
in clear salt water; hence there is al
ways break in reefs opposite the mouth
of a river. Finally, they demand free
exposure to the beating of the waves.
The more violently the waves beat, the
more rapidly the corals grow, because
the agitation gives them ventilation.
Corals will grow in the face Of waves
whose beatings would gradually wear
away wall Of granite. The four kinds
Of coral reefs found in the Pacific ocean
are fringe reefs, barrier reefs, circular
reefs, inclosing lagoons in the ocean,
and small lagoonless coral Stands
Christian Adrocate.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate, Feb. IA, Mr.. Slater
spoke upon the importance to the COM
merce Of the Northwest Of the improve
ment OF the Columbia River. Mr..
Vance then made speech on the
tariff, in which he deplored
the burdens Of high protective policy,
which fell with the greatest weight on the
agricultural class and did more to retard the
growth and impair the wealth OF the South
than any other cause. The House consid-
cred several points of order.
JOHN G. New, of Indiana, has been
nominated for Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
JAMES WYMAN, law student Of
Earlville, ILL.,, committed suicide, Feb. 14th,
by taking morphine. Some weeks ago he
was disappointed in love affair, which so
proved upon his mind that he declared to his
friends he had no desire to live.
COLORADO has been shocked by an
earthquake.
In recent battle between the Aus
trians and Herzegovinians, near Tirnova,
which lasted from daybreak till afternoon,
luc ldtltI lclb tNcbty uCdu Oh ChO hSia' \ AN
Austrians had five killed.
THE citizens of Greenwood, Steuben
County, N. Y, having resisted the sale OF
town property levied on under Judgment
obtained for interests on town bonds issued
in aid of railroad never built, the Governor
has issued proclamation declaring the
place in state of insurrection, and warning
people to desst from opposition to the exc
cuion of lawful process.
THREE boys were arrested in Kansas
City, Feb. IA, charged with planning to
wreck a Missouri Pacific train, at Rock
Creek, five miles from the city. They were
not over IS years of age, were all heavily
armed, and evidently meant business.
PETER GREENwALT, of Bloomington,
the Penitentiary and Normal School build
ings, killed himself with revolver the
other day, on account OF domestic difficult
ties.
FIVE white men were recently killed
by Indians near San Carlos Reservation,
Arizona.
CHARLES BOWERS, German black
smith, Fred Douglass, cook, and a SUBJ
contractor Of the Sunset Railway, named
Allen Murdock, were murdered for money
while asleep near Lampasas, Texas, a few
nights ago. iAll three were shot in the back
OF he head.
TIE body of William johnson was
found on the Marietta & Cincinnati Rail-
road, near Cincinnati, Feb. 13, with the
upper portion of the head shot off. Cir
cums'ances pointed to murder rather than
suicide. Johnson was % years OF age,
without occupation, and of dissipated hab-
ifs, His mother is wealthy woman.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Poplar wood in considerable guam
titles is being shipped from Rockbridge
County, Yirgipia, to Philadelphia, at
80 per cord, to be converted into pa
per.
Experiments now make it appear
that not only do iron and silver possess
the property of retaining large amounts
of gas for an indefinite period, but that
this is also the case with aluminium and
magnesium.
In seeking for a substance which
would destroy the microscopic animals
in water without injuring it for drinking
purposes, DR.. Langfeldt found that
citric acid (one-half gramme to every
litre of the water) killed all the living
organisms, except cyclops and those
with thick epidermis, within two min
uteS.
MIR. Underhill, 81 well-known New
York stenographer of inventive genius,
has contrived a theater seat that, with
the aid of simple mechanism, will fold
up, fall down and become part of the
floor. They can be instantly folded in
case of fire, or TO clear the floor for
dancing, by one man and lever.
The most durable article of belt
lacing, it appears, may be made as fol-
lows: A dry, untanned horsehide is
soaked in water until soft enough to cut,
and then cut into strings; these are
made soft and pliable for sewing by
s'sawing" them over square -cornered
iron, and the belt is then seWed with
the hair side inward the first time across,
and outward on the finish, 50 that the
hair takes ali the wear. After the string
has dried it is as solid as any hooks.
The Scientific american says that
the prejudice against American hem
lock-tanned leather has disappeared,
and English tanners now appreciate its
excellent qualities. Its capabilities for
resisting water and withstanding wear
by attrition in the soles of boots and
shoes are said to be quite equal to those
of the best English sole-leather, and
greatly superior to the leather Of En-
glish ''mixed" tannages or the gener-
ally poor sole leather made on the Con-
tinent of Europe.
"A German named Schmidt has
patented a school slate which consists
essentially of a stiff piece of white
cardboard covered with artificial or pa
per parchment prepared by the action
Of sulphuric acid upon unsized paper.
They are set in the ordinary wooden
frame, and furnish cheap and inde-
structible slate. The ordinary size sells
for 80 pfennings e 1-2c.) He also
makes a peculiar kind of ink for use
with these states, called "children's
inkn (Kindertinte) 1t is made of harm
less mineral colors and a solution of
dextrine, and has an advantage over
common ink, that the blots which chill
dren are sure to make can be easily
washed out with cold water. The same
slate can also be used to write on with
ordinary ink or lead-pencil, and both
washed off with an ordinary sponge.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
A Tableau Yiyant.

Another fracas in the Jones family!
This time it is a little out of the usual
routine and looks rather serious.
Bridget, the one faithful servitor and
general facJotum of the house, has Just
taken her va ion of two weeks-semi-
annual-and gone to visit her sister,
Mrs. Mulkooney, and her last words on
leaving seemed almost prophetic viewed
by the light of subsequent events, as the
historians say. "Yese II be in hape of
thruble afore git back to yese; feel
it in my bones,' was her valedictory
remark. A successor was installed at
once, however, and things seemed to
jog along about as usual until one un-
lucky day, when Jones took it into his
head to remark to his wife at table as
the dining-room door closed on the new
girl:
"Quite treasure-not bad-looking
girl either, Maria!"
81 don't know what you see good
looking about her, snapped Mrs
Jones. eff you admire red hair and
freckles and a snub-nose, why then I
suppose she is to your TASTE"
81 didn't say she was good-looking,
did l." asked Mr.. J. with dignity, while
secretly quaking in his boots. 81 re-
marked that she was not bad looking,
by which [ meant evil, vicious, etc.
couldn't have told you whether her hair
was red or blue!''
He looked so injured that Mrs Jones
fastened to pacify him, and they parted
the best of friends, and when he had
came home at night he had little sur
prise for his wife, though it wasn't just
what he had planned, as it turned out.
1t was Mrs. Us wifely habit to run
down and open the front door when she
saw him coming in the evening, so that
he wouldn't have to sand in the dark
vestibule and tumble for his latch-key.
Jones was in quite a festive mood this
evening, owing to "snackSh with a po-
tation after business closed, and as his
wife held the door open he skipped in
and gave her a rousing smack that
might have been heard in the next block.
sKitchee-kitchee! he said, playfully,
with one arm around her waist-''put u
title hand in my overcoat pocket and
find title present there"
But the screams that sounded through
the Jones mansion took all the playful
ness out of the unhappy man, and as he
asked, hollowly; 'Maria, what does this
mean?" Maria herself appeared in a
glare of light at the top of the stairs and
saw the wretched Jones and the new
girl, and, not realizing that it was all a
dreadful mistake, tainted dead away.
We are not good at diagnosing the
weather in general, but if this domestic
squall doesn't result in an elegant new
spring wardrobe for Mrs. j., then the
world is all hollow and our doll filled
with sawdust.-DetrOt Post and Ifib-
at7ae.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

ticing second train coming in the same di.
rection they were walking.
THE revolt in Herzegovina is increas-
ing, and provisional government has been
established.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

A Black River train, after passing
Glendale, Lewis County, N. T., few
evenings since, ran into horse. The
horse was carried some distance and
dropped into a sluice, and the train
stopped. On examination a pair OF
thills was found attach he'd to the horse.
The train was backed to the crossing,
and a cutter was discovered standing
beside the track with man in it-drunk.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has
decided the funding act Of 1881 to be uncon-
stitutional, upon the sole ground that the
LEGISLATURE could not make valid contract
that the coupons upon the compromise
bonds should be receivable for taxes for 80
years. In all respects the act was regarded
as constitutional, and majority Of the court
held that the charges OF bribery and corrup-
ton against the Legislature could not be
entertained by the judicial department.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

The evildoer is sure to meet his fate
at last. This is like the Irishman who
covered himself up with the sheets to
escape the mosquitoes, but who ex-
planned when a lightning-bug entered
the room, stThere's no use; here is one
of 'em come wild lantern. It's all
over wild me, sure"
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent spe-
ci,l message to Congress transmitting letters
from Secretary kirkwood and the acting
Governor of Arizona in regard to lawless-
ness in that territory, and urges the amend
ment Of the posse comitatus act to permit
the use of troops in assisting the civil au-
thOrities.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

EASTERN Texas has hundred-mile
s+rin covered with water, the railway tracks
.aina I.ssoed to trees on either side. A
bridge on the Texas & Pacific, near Dallas,
was washed away the other day.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

THOMAS NAIRN, Mayor of Adrian,
Mich. has fed to parts unknown, after
drawing s79.5O5 from New York house ~
account Of sl5OoOO water bonds recently is
snad Ralph J. Jewell, formerly City Treas
urer has been arrested for completely In the
fraud
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

There are no pumps where the Cos
eoanut grows, which, perhaps, accounts
for the milk in it.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

SENATOR LAMAR was severely injured
in Washington, on the 9th. He was Knocked
sepseless j BY team on Pennsylvania avenue.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

Mr.. HOWE has sent the following
letter to the postmasters of the United
States: "The Society of the Army Of the
Cumberland appeals to you for aid to pro-
cure contributions to fund for the erection
Of monument at the National Capital to the
memory OF James A. Garfield. I am sure
no word from me is needed to enlist your
oest efforts in behalf Of such a cause. BY
noble aspirations and by tireless endeayors
TO promote the public welfare. President
1arheld had achieved the highest honors of
the Republic when he had but little passed
lhe noon Of life. He fell victim to malice
80 wan'on as to be demonac. A monument
" MIN Will attest the nation's love for his
virtues and the nations abhorance for that
mScru'able depravity which slew him. Such
"suucture should not be stlnted for lack of
heans' The nation is very rich. Let art
EXHAUST Itself on invention; let money leap
u execute her designs. 1 have but lately
a., assumed Official relations with your corps.
nn's Is my lrst communication with YOU.
lou are numerous, widespread, influential:
YOU VIII respond to the appeal of the Soci-
e'l OF the Army of the Cumberland. and
!our response will show, trust, that those
VINO administer the postal service of tho
United States are not the least patriotic nor
lue least capable of those who work for tbe
Republic"
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

SENATOR SHERMAN publishes the fol-
lowing card, dated Feb. 11th: 81 have seen
ateegram Of the leading papers of Ohio of
Friday morning, purporting to give the tes-
timony of Pitney before the Treasury inves
tigat on committee. have read the testi-
mony given by him, and there is not one
word of truth in the telegram. No such
testimony was given, no such scene occur
red and no letters of Mrs. Sherman were
produced as alluded to. I am authorized
by Senator Hale, who was mentioned, and
to whom l showed The dispatch, to make
this denial. The telegram is wholesale lie,
as the testimony when printed will show"
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

THE House banking committee has
made favorable report on the bill to ex-
tend the charters of national banks. The
charter of one institution has already ex-
pired, and next year the corporate exist
ence of 393 others will terminate. 1t is be-
lieyed that the discontinuance of the system
would be disastrous to the country, and
there are trust funds in large amounts in
vested in bank shares which could not be
carried to new organizations. The bill is
said to give full protection to dissenting
minority stockholders, and to enable the
Government to determine the amount of
bank notes destroyed as speedily as would
be possible were the banks to be placed in
liquidation. In the absence of authority to
continue business, 1893 banks must close up
next year, causing the withdrawal of 500, :
100000 Of circulating notes.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18

LIE editorial sanctum of the National
.''paoNcan, Washington, D. c., was the
SVeae OF tragedy on the night of the stb.
NJ oo'eldo, committee clerk and news
p4peI man who had a grievance, called M
~ Olafence NJ. Barton, the managing edi-
@ ,na tot redress Pistols We're resorted to.
esoar9 r so'eioo was fatally injured, the editor
Conrs with two slight wounds. Frank
A. = BUSINESS manager OF the paper, and
er ba 'V'eiuo, who accompanied his broth
int.-' NJ -"'e made conflicting statements. In an
said. .,, al the police station the latter
mon, MY brother handed Barton state
The p,".nc "uicn he wished to have published in
eyc;,o5 P"o'.cdn. Barton became very much
sravol, "nu put his hand in his pocket, drew
CAM 4,'er +' ana began shooting. Barton then
saw ~, to"ard me pistol in hand. When 1
Bar,nn Az" pun out his revolver 1 drew mine.
scpala {, anu l then clinched, and in the
sbot h: MS pistol went off and / believe he
foor, 4.llSei'' We then wrestled out of the
dorn ""afd the stairway and both fell
separot"S' barton on top of me. Then we
nent ntA'eu' and when we reached the pave
down . number of employees came
Aandoa 1u struck me several times and
aobin' me 10 the police. My brother had
bot him' = 10 with the shooting. Barton
tI Al ,i,self Nh llrst and then pointed his pis-
dsten,n' '.'e' l then pulled my revolver in self
iurv b.. "nu hred one shot," The Coroner's
kana Ut IN verdict that A. NJ. Soteldo
,p1vo, " III. MS death from wound inflicted by
sgslaa III 'ne hands of his brother, A. C.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
How He Was Cured of Swearing.

How He Was Cured Of Swearing.
John came in and inquired whether
not.
''Well, why in the devil isn't itP' said
he.
Because" she coolly replied, .'the
wood was so-wet that the fire wouldn't
burn.''
'.Why, Mary, what is the matter with
you? Are you crazy, or have you been
drinking?''
Neither" she replied, and quietly
proceeded to put on the dinner.
The beef didn't melt like butter be-
tween the teeth-it rather resisted all at
tempts at mastication, like so much
1ndia-rubber; and John, finally dropping
his knife, blurted OUT
''What makes this-beef 50 internal
tough?''
Mary looked up archly and replied, -
We'll, John, I suppose you went
down to the butcher and without know
ing the difference, picked out piece of
some-old stag that hadn't been fed
for month";
John jumped up, looked at his wife
in dismsg, and wanted to know what
such language from her lips meant.
ut means just this, John: you are the
head OF the family, and just as long as
you think it manly to swear in my pres
ence intend to do the same! If you
don't like to hear it you know now how
to prevent it.
The cure was radical, and to this date
aMary has never been eonspelled to ad-
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
Driving Away Red Ants.

Professor Deidy states that when he
purchased his present resident, while it
was undergoing repairs, he noticed .
fragment Of bread left by the workmen
in one of the second-story rooms swarm
ing with little red ants. Apprehending
that the house was seriously infested, to
piece of sweet cake in every room from
the cellar to the attic. At noon every
piece was found covered with ants.
Having provided cup of turpentine
oil, each piece was picked up with
forceps and the ants tapped into tho
oil. The cake was replaced and in
the evening was found covered with
ants. The same process was gone through
the following two days-morning. noon
and night.
The third day the number of ants had
greatly diminished and on tho fourth
there were none. He at once concluded
the ants had all been destroyed, but in
the attics he found afew feeding on dead
house-hies, which led him to suppose
that the remainder had become suspi-
cious of sweet cake.
He accordingly distributed through
the house pieces of bacon. which were
afterwards found swarming with ants.
This was repeated with the same result
for several days, when in like manner
with the cake, the ants finally ceased to
visit the bacon.
Pieces of cheese were next tried with
the same results and multitudes of ants.
When the cheese proved no longer at.
tractive, recollecting the feast on dead
flies in the attic, dead grasshoppers were
supplied from the garden.
These again proved too much for the
ants, and after few days trial neither
grasshoppers nor anything else attracted
them. They appear to have been thor
oughly exterminated, nor has the house
since been infested with them.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
A Scene at Castle Garden.

Scene Castle Garden; enter r. POM
meret, leading huge bear, followed by
seven comrades, each leading bear.
Both bears and men were storage pas
sengers on the steamship Chateau Lilo
vile, from Bordeaux.
Custom-house officer shouts: ''Hold
on, you'll have to pay duty on those
bears.'
Antoine-Me no got ze monte. So
you take re bears.
Officer-No, no. Don't leave the
creatures here; they will eat us up.
Antoine-Ah, oui, zay will not eatike
re cannibal; re animals are perfect
amente, tame. See, put my hand in
re mouth.
Officer-No, no; you can not leave
them here. We have noplace for them.
Take them away.
The eight Frenchmen, with their eight
bears, then filed out of Castle Garden
up Broadway. Pedestrians seemed on
ly too anxious to give them right of way.
Pommeret said it was absurd that any
body should be frightened at the ami
mails, as they were perfectl y tame. They
would be employed in the westfor draw
ing small carts, as they had been trained
to do that work.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
Folly of Hardening,

A young man was an earnest advocate
of the theory that the human body can
accommodate itself to any temperature
in which it may be placed. One winter,
he determined to harden himself by
wearing no covering for his ears; they
were badly frozen on a very cold day,
and were tender for several years after.
He grew wise and abandoned the hard
ening process.
A young lady heard an eloquent lee
ture on the Importance of fresh air in
chambers at night. The lecturer said
there was no danger from window
slightly opened; the body would soon
harden itself so as to resist the effect Of
the exposure, She tried the experiment
one cold night, and caught severe cold,
which lasted the entire winter: She lost
faith in hardening against cold.
A young mother maintained that
children ought not to be brought up too
tenderly. Arms and legs ought to be
hardened by exposure in early years,
and not be made tender by warm cover
ings in winter. She lost her two oldest
children by Group and pneumonia, in
duced, as the physician said, by insult
ficient clothing. She gave up the at
tempt to harden the others.
The best way to harden the body is to
protect it well from extremes both of
cold and heat, and build up q strong
constitution by good food, good sleep
and good exercise. The Scotch High
landers, with their bare legs, are victims
to rheumatism.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
The Tottering Empress Eugenie.

AAAS ~SsSSANS ~~Af>o~~ ~~~o~~>
To-day saw that former beauty, tho
former Empress of France, entering her
temporary London residence. The tall,
erect and stately figure is bent and droop.
ing; the queenly air is akin to that of
the mendicant; the fair locks, in their
luxuriant wealth of tresses, are white as
the driven snow, and thin and scanty in
appearance; the large, expressive and
animated eyes, half violet and half blue
in recurrent tints, are gray, watery and
leaden-looking; the oval face is wrinkied
and worn by cruel care, and tho blush
of beauty is supplanted by sepulchral
whiteness. It has been my lot to SEQ
other Queens in exile, other magnates
dethroned, but no ono so strongly arous-
es sympathetic sorrow a. does this wid-
owed, childless, parentless isolated ex-
Empress. But one consoling comfort IL
hers. 1t is in feeding the hungry, CLOTH
ing the naked and comforting the af1ict-
ed. Where the poor wear not their wants
on their sleeves, there you will find tho
prematurely aged and tottering lady,
rescuing social wreck and holding out
a hopeful beacon.-Bufal~ Courier.