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Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Paris scientists recently discussed
the effect of the electric light on the eye,
and almost unanimously decided that it
is harmless. q" ao.a@ ,59S0
si-The Scientific 41aeaGcan mentions o
recently patented device for extingaish-
ing kerosene lamps, which consists of q
shut-off for the air supply, the action
becoming automatic if the lalap is over
turned.
News from afar reports that Ger
man chemist residing in Russia has dis
covered a method of solidifying petro-
leum 50 that it may be more conven-
iently transported and afterward hque-
fed for USE
Paper has gone into use in some of
the restaurants of Berlin as plates for
dry or semi-dry articles of food. There
is no reason why cheap paper cups
properly glazed should not be employed
at railroad stations, SO that passengers
could take 4 cup Of coffee along with
them instead of hastily drinking it at
lunch counter.-Denrer Tribune.
A chemical analysis of an unpleas-
ant-tasting bread recently made by
German chemist revealed AZ per cent.
of glucose, and 1913 per cent, of dex-
trine. This was accounted for not on
the ground of adulteration, but by
kind Of "malting" of the grain, which
was injured by wet weather during the
season of 1880. s,,-...rs
Recent observations on light con-
Quoted on the summit of Mount Whitney
yield the curious result that the sun is
in reality of a bright blue color, and
would so appear to the eye were it not
for the filtrations of the light rays
through our atmosphere, which by its
different action on various rays finally
blends them into white lightly. Y.
| Post.
1t is stated that a very simple and
neat improvement has been effected in
preparation of the tin cans now so ex-
tensively used for preserved foods. The
body of the can has beveled rim, upon
the slope of which the cover is soldered.
When the cover is smartly tapped around
the edge, it is expanded and the solder
joint broken by the wedge action of the
bevel. The can is thus opened without
injury to the lid, while the present
inconvenient process for cutting open
these air-tight cases is entirely avoided.
The improvement involves no additional
cost, and the soldering is applied exter-
ually.-C Chicago Journal.
The Government method prescribed
for cleaning brass, and in use at all the
United States arsenals, is claimed to be
the best in the world. The plan is to
make a mixture of one part common
nitric acid and one-half part sui phuric
acid in a stone jar, having also. ready
pail of fresh water and box of sawdust.
| The articles to be treated are dipped
into the acid, then removed into the
water, and finally rubbed with. sawdust.
This Immediately changes them to
brilliant color. If the brass has become
greasy, it is first dipped in a strong
solution of potash and soda in warm
water; this cuts the grease, 80 that the
acid has free power to act.-N. 7. SIN.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-.

THE bill for intermediate appellate courts
was proceeded with in the Senate May 10. Mr..
Davis urged the retention of the section linn
fting the appellate jurisdiction of the circuit
courts The bill establishing an assay office
at Deadwood, Oak, passed. 1.-The House
passed-172 to without amendment
the bill creating an Executive Depart
that ti5s Il the department shah be under the con.
troll of a Secretary who is an experienced and
rnracticaI agrfculfurist, and establishes de-
ppartment OF agricultural products. industry,
land and statistics The conference report
on the Indian appropriation was agreed to
and the bill finally passed-yeas, l34 NAYS, 13:
The Geneva award bill was discussed and
went over
THE Madison Day claim for the value OF a
small lot of land in New Orleans, which at
the time purchased by him at judicial sale
under the con6scation act was covered Dy
mortgage. but was bought upon representa-
ton Of the Government that no 1ncumDrance
upon it existed. passed the senate. NAY IL
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20
PITH AND POINT.

when fashion arrives at dead
stand still, some one comes forward
with new way of putting up the back
hair. t0 9iGuaU huoa I
A lately married deaf man was
asked at the club about his bride, whose
father was rich. ssIs she prettyp"
'sNo, not now, but she will be when her
father dies,'' said the deaf husband.
A Boston conductor cries the name
of the street just as a young fellow from
the country was kissing his girl, "Saw-
yerln "Don't car # you did; we're go
ing to be married next week; SO there !"
-JamesN. Noon is the name of a
chap who offers to fight any man in the
world. He'll find somebody yet who'll
make him wonder why his name stop
ped in the middle of the day.-Detr0it
Free Press. .1'Q7s la3s .i h.aisf
When Secretary Folger ''calls" for
thirty million dollars, he must hold
pretty s'flush hand" (The foregoing
reached this Office on postal card, and
it is all Greek to US. 1t is probably a
quotation from work on Finance. y
No7ristoUn Herald. 7llAA Nt
When a Nebraska paper wishes to
insinuate that prominent citizen is go
ING to the bad through liquor, it says:
ssThe Honorable Mr.. Murphy is making
a valuable collection of snakes" West
ern editors know how to express them
selves POLITICALLY ly.-LooeU citizen.
-" Mother, does God know every
thing that papa does P'rssYes, my child"
ssWell. hope He won'titell.''d "What
do you mean by that?'' she asked, eye
ing him sharply and speaking IN tone
of severity. sI mean that He saw papa
kissing Daisy's nurse in the hall last
night. Brooklyn Eagle.
No, young woman, you can not
study medicine at Harvard College.
It's all the faculty can do now 10 worry
a couple of hundred boys through a
three years. course in seven years, 50
that they can tell salts from arsenic
without testing them on a patient. Give
the boys chance, girls, and don't over
crowd the profession before they get a
start.-Bmdette. anis1 f a8o7t
--"Do you think, Mary, you could
leave father and mother, this pleasant
home, with all its ease and comforts,
and 20 to the Far West, with young
LAWYER who has but little beside his pro-
fession to depend upon, and with him
search out new home, which it should
be your joint duty to beautify and make
delightful and happy ike thfs?" Drop
ping her head softly on his shoulder she
whispered, 81 think + could, iArchy."
!" Well" said he, s'there's Tom Jones,
who's going West, and wants to get
wife. III mention itbtoL him. Sap
Francisco Ne1cs Letter,
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20
Just i'm Time.

1t was also an Ohio man who, when
a terrible storm set in one night, rushed
into the house of a neighbor and cried
out:
STONES, this is the ending up Of
earth!"
"I'm afraid so-I'm afraid SOL" was
the reply.
"And what shall we do?'
"Make our peace with Heavenn
The wind blew still stronger, the
house began to shake, and the excited
man exclaimed:
ssJones, you lost five bushels Of
wheat last fall!''
Yes"
"And you have your suspicions!"
81 have. The man who took my
wheat had better own up.''
ssCan you forgive him?''
g l can."
aiH Well-' hs tin#
Here the wind suddenly dropped,
and after look through the window
the conscience-stricken man turned and
finished: h.5 Eos G .a5.
"Yes, If I ever meet him I'll advise
him to call around !"-DetroH Free
Press. n #rgr a
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

RECENT heavy rains in Arkansas have
caused incaculable damage to crops and
mill property. The cyclone which swept
through. Montgomery County was far more
destructive than at first reported. Several
lives were lost and at least one hundred
families were made homeless.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

a The Egyptian chamber OF notables
nave convened to lay plans to depose the
family of Mehemet Ali, OF which the pres
ent KhediYe is a member. The ministry Is
preparing the forts on the northern coast,
and many Europeans are leaving Cairo. 1t
Is rumored that France has proposed to
England the dispatch of an allied squadron
to Alexandria.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

Dr.. KAYE, Assistant Under Secretary
,,r ireland. has received death warming
Tho Government is in possession OF infor-
nation leading to startling revelations.
Threo important arrests were made Ia Cork
nm the 18th.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

INDICTMENTS have been found at
Washington against William Brockway and
Charles Smith for stealing from the Treas
ury Department the plates and dies from
which were printed the spurious bonds
placed on the market by them.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

The pension appropriation bill has
been completed. 1t sets aside 100000 900
for the next fiscal year, Of which nearly all
is on army account: The bill provides that
the income from the navy pension fund
shall be devoted to the needs Of THAT branch
of the service, 80 far as it goes.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

THE Senate select committee on wo-
..o. outrage have agreed to recommend an
amendment to the Constitution providing
sbat st,s the right to vote shall not be abridged
an account of sex. a
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

Between the acts of s'The Mas
cotte,'' in Richmond, by an opera com
pany, tI.- st1gr manager said to the
audience: sLadies and gentlemen, l
must claim your indulgence for Mr..
Standish, who plays Pippo tonight
The gentleman who was billed for the
part has unfortunately fallen victim to
Virginia hospitality The manager
received an encore.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

Covers we're laid for 400 at the brew
srs, banquet in Washington the other night
Sneeches were made by Senator voorhees,,
Representatives Young and Butterworth,
Count Beust and the Acting Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. B& s.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

a Chicago woman has recovered
$4,000 damages from her landlord be-
cause he misrepresented the sewerage
and plumbing of the house which she
rented from him. 1t astonished hinl--~
snd her, o.-Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events.

CYCLONE which swept over the re-
.;on ~ Shreveport, La. the other day,
5nIad three persons and damaged much
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

Tus wife Of sergt. Mason has made a
..rong anueal TO President Arthur. The
nros;dent 1eo said he had great sympathy for
.or and the petitions for the pardon OF her
~ hrshaud would be laid before the Cabinet.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

iHE fifteenth reunion of the Society
NJ. sne Army of the Tennessee at st. Louis.
M. ~ was called to order by General Sher-
Gu Gu alter which floral tribute sent by
lira' was uncovered, Bishop Fellows de-
.'lins ~ an address and ex Governor Fletch-
80 ooo oooSpondlng. The Secretary reported
p, 80 on hand. Letters were read from
.paci'neht pss,ueht Arthur, General Grant, General
Tba,'' Tbe,ellan' Samuel j. Tilden, and others.
~ veterans We're then escorted to the Mer-
Sau, E and Cotton Exchanges, and to
wero parden. In the evening they
.e welcomed by Governor Crittenden and
60, VI living, and Gen. James A. lWilliam-
On ON, ;, oi Iowa, delivered the annual address.
ean.. .ne second day there was parade, re-
tba p'lon ION az the Armory, and banquet at
~ -'nueu Hotel. 1t was decided to hold
b.s aext reunion at Cleveland, Ohio, Octo-
lertss ahd 4, 1888. Bishop Fallows was se-
sIs1. Itp as orator. General Sherman was re-
,as..H eu resident and Colonel Dayton Sec.
FF'~' ga 10 AtlaF#s fl-tE
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

Mrs. LUCAS and Mrs. Simpson, Pres
ident and Vice President of the American
Silk-Growers' Association, have on exhibi-
tiOn in Washington piece of black silk, in
tended for Mrs. Garfield, which was made
from cocoons sent from fourteen States Of
the Union. The ladies have also samples of
silk ribbons made from cocoons by feeding
the worms upon other than mulberry leaves,
one Of the handsomest being from worms
fed on the leaves Of the Usage orange.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

In connection with the statement that
agents of Faure, the Partisan electrician,
have come to this country with the Faure
batteries for the storage of electricity, a
New York paper informs capitalists that
Faure' sstorage patent is in interference in
the patent office with one of Charles f.
Brush's numerous patents of similar char
acter, and that Brush, ina case recently, de-
cided in that office, proved priority of his
invention back of the earliest date claimed
by Faure for his French patent.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
What Railroad Trains are
Worth.

But few persons as they see one of the
fast express trains go by are aware of the
value of such train. What is known
as the Royal Limited Express over the
Pennsylvania road, as the train is ordina.
rlly made up, represents over $4,000,
as follows: Engine, $4,000; baggage
car, 81 200; smoking car SIS, 900; dining.
room car, $4,000; five elegant Pullman
cars, $4,000 each, 100000 While this
may seem to be an exception the ordinary
express train represents $50, 900 to 1885,
600. The engine and tender, which are
considered together, valued at $IO,5OO;
the baggage car $1,000; the postal car,
$4,000; the smoking car, $4,000; the
two ordinary passenger cars $4,000
each f; and three palace cars $4,000 each
total, $4,000. This is a low rather
than an excessive estimate of one of the
fast expresses. The palace cars put down
at Sl5,O 900 are in many cases worth $18,-
600, and some Pullman cars are now run
that cost in the neighborhood of $4,000
1t is stated that the average value Of a
freight train is still greater than passen-
ger train when the rolling stock and val
ue of property are included. Sometimes
the freight on one of these through trains
aggregates in value $250,000 to 100000,
and what is little singular is the fact
that the trains moving westward are
more valuable than these moving east
ward "a large per cent. of the west-bound
business is merchandise of valuable ma
chinery, while nearly seventy-fve per
cent. of the east-bound business is grain.
which is carried in a car costing $3.50,
and the property carried will average
S4OO per car, so that the entire train Of
twenty-five cars, engine included, are not
worth over $40 to $4,000, while
frequently one carload of merchandise
coming west will represent that value,
and these palaces on wheels, carrying
thousands of passengers and the thou
sands of freight cars carrying millions of
valuable property, are dependent for
safety upon one mantle engineer.
There are other men--the conductor.
baggage-master, fireman and three or four
brakemen-but the hand upon the lever
and the brain directing it have an i'm
mense responsibility We8tche8ter Re
cord.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

Rev. Mr.. Lansdell, whose book On
Siberia has attracted much attention,
was recently arrested by the police in
that country and brought to St Peters
burg, where he succeeded in getting re-
leased. He has started on missionary
tour, and was distributing Bibles among
the people. These the police mistook
for incendiary Nihilistic propagandas,
and it is said that the Chief of Police,
under whose supervision the arrest was
made, plumed himself on the achieve
ment, and sent to the Gar bombs
dispatch, announcing the capture of the
head-cenre of the Nihilist organization,
with volumes of bylaws, roll-books, and
the like, In his possession.
"A recent lady traveller in the East
tells of her visit to the Girls Orphanage
In Nazareth, the early home of Jesus, an
Institution established many years ago
by Christian society in London. There
she heard the children singing sweetly
the well-known hymn, Jesus Of Nazareth
passeth by" and she says that they were
sure the words were all meant for
them" This is another illustration of
the far-reaching power of popular
hymn. The hymn in question was first
published in The Sunday School Times,
eighteen years ago. Since then it has
encircled the world with its strains of
plaintive pleading, and it is new power
to day in the earthly home of Him whom
1T sings.
The largest State in the civilized
world is Texas, which boasts an area of
274, 1856 square miles the German EN-
pire, 2120O1; France, 2O4,O91; Spain,
l77,78l; Sweden, 168,O42; California,
1870 Dakota, 150,932; Territory of
Montana, 143,776; Norway, 1880;
New Mexico, l21 POI Great Britain and
Ireland, 120,879; Italy, 114,296 Arizo-
ma, 113 ,916; Nevada, $1,000.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
What Shall Thew Do?

An editorial in the Alliance bears the
caption, 1.-THE Children of Agnostics,
and the question is raised, What kind o.
religious training are these children tc
have? And the writer imsgines mother
whose heart is sorely disquieted by the
question, which she cannot blink and
cannot satisfactorily answer "She has
abandoned prayer herself" says the
writer, but her children she hesitates
to let grow up without something which
will serve as substitute for prayer
She has turned her back perhaps upon
the vain imaginings of the Sunday
School, but with reluctance, if at all, re.
solves to hold her child aloof from the
erroneous teachings there dispensed
What shall she do2"
The question is one of the saddest ever
asked. 1t returns upon us as a melan-
choly refrain of song, "What shall she
do?" But the Alliance continues, and
with pitiless persistence holds the
mother to the dark faith she has ac-
cepted.
No matter what the agnostic mother
does teach her child there are certain
things she must not teach it. She dare
not direct the prattlings of her child to-
wards sky long since untenanted of a
prayer-hearing God. She dare not re-
peat as true, in its hearing, the fables she
has long since abandoned. She ought
not to continue the use of the old ter
minology in her children's ears"
She must not teach their infant lips the
lines which, in all Christian lands; have
belonged to infancy-its first prayer,
Now | lay me down to sleep" She
must not ask Gods benediction upon
them as they sink into slumber. She
must not seek the guidance of the Good
Shepherd for them. She must never
read to them how Jesus welcomed little
children and folded them in his arms.
She must keep them in the unblessed
Loneliness into which she has gone her
self. Nothing so sad has been uttered
since the confession of Professor Clifford
as he went down to grave on which
there was no light. cit cannot be
doubted, said he, that the theistic be-
lief is comfort and a solace to those who
hold it, and that the loss of it is a very
painful loss. 1t cannot be doubted, at
least by many of us in this generation,
who either profess it now or have re-
ceived it in our childhood, and have
parted from it since with such searching
trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause.
We have seen the spring sun shine out
OF an empty heaven to light up soul
less earth we have felt with utter lone.
illness that the Great Companion is dead. &"
This IS the GOODNESS and solitude into
which Agnosticism invites the human
heart. PreSbHerinn.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
The Signed Article.

One chief experiment which the Fort
nightly Re0ieaO was established to try
was that of signed articles. When Mr..
Lewis wrote his Farewell Causerie." as
as | am doing now, he said: "That we
have been enabled to bring together
men SO various in opinion and SO dis
tinguished in power has been mainly
owing to the principle adopted of allow
ing each writer perfect freedom; which
could only have been allowed under the
condition OF personal responsibility. The
question of signing articles had long been
debated; it has now been tested. The
arguments In favor of it were mainly of
moral order the arguments against it,
while admitting the morality, mainly as
serted its inexpediency. The question of
expedlency has, | venture to say, been
materially enlightened by the success of
the Review. The success of other
periodicals, conducted still more rigor-
ously on the principle that every article
ought to bear its writer's signature,
leaves no further doubt on the subject !:
80 that it is now almost impossible to
realize that only Is or Is years ago
scarcely anybody of the class called
practical could believe that the sacred
principle Of the anonymous was doomed.
One OF the shrewdest publishers in Edin-
burgh, and also himself the editor of a
famous magazine (the color of whose
Toryism, by the way, is almost of itself
enough to explain why sensible coun.
try like Scotland is so intensely Liberal, )
once said to me while Mr.. Lewes was
still editor of this review, that he had
always thought highly of our friend s
judgment until he had taken up the
senseless notion of magazine with
signed articles and open to both sides of
every question" Nobody will call the
notion senseless any longer. The cues.
ton is rather how long the exclusively
anonymous periodicals will resist the in
novation. Personally l have attached
less stern Importance to signature as an
unvarying rule than did my predecessor
though even he was compelled by OBJ
vious considerations of convenience TO
make his chronique of current affairs
anonymous. Our practice has been sig
nature as the standing order, occasionally
suspended in favor Of anonymity when
there seemed TO be sufficient reason. On
the whole it may be said that the change
from anonymous to signed articles has
followed the course of most changes. 1t
has not led to one-half either of the evils
or of the advantages that it's advocates
and its opponents feretold. That it has
produced some charlatanry, can hardly
be denied. Readers are tempted to post
pone serious and persistent interest in
subjects to semi-personal curiosity
about the casual and unconnected de-
iverances Of the literary or social star"
of tie hour. That this conception has
been worked out with signal ability in
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
MIR Sturgeon on Prayer Meet
ings.

At conference held last month
under the auspices of the London
Baptist Association, at the Metropolitan
Tabernacle, DR.. Stanford read paper
on prayer meetings. Mr.. Spurgeon said
that in the Tabernacle they did not I'M
derstand what dull prayer meeting
was. They always prayed for something
definite. He never let a prayer meeting
go its own way, but held it tight in his
hands, for fear any fool came in and
spoiled it, for the sake of talking to God
lot Of nonsense. He believed in a
prayer meeting being a sort of family
gathering, whore people, who might do
lot of damage in the pulpit if they got
there, could say something to the pur.
pose. That was the success of the Sal
vatlon Army, Notwithstanding all its
faults, the turning of the prayer meeting
into an experience one. AS to excuses
for non-attendance at prayer meetings,
they could not possibly expect the city
man to 60 who began work at ten, left
OFT at three, with an hour for sherry and
biscuit in the middle. Pastors should
not hold one service a week let them
have two full ones, and always be them
selves present.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

The CURSE OF CHLoRAL-Under the
head of " The Curse of Choral II" the Lam
Get observes: "a sad glimpse into the
life Of the late Dante Rosetti, over whose
newly-closed grave the lovers OF the two.
arts are mourning, is afforded by the.
brief memoir of Theodore Watts The
curse of choral upon any life is disas.
trous enough, but its features are brought
into terrible salience when it falls upon
the gifts of genius. No man ever lived
who was so generous as he in sympathiz-
ing with other mems work, save only
when the cruel fumes of chloral turned
him against everything. The depend
ence on its influence which chloral habit
ually taken inevitably causes, the nerv.
Gus prostration which it gradually in.
duces, the irritability which follows
chloral sleep, and follows equally the
sleePless nights of abstinence, the slowly
sapping Of the nervous energy-all these
are only too familiar, and over and over
again during the past ten years we have
pointed out their moral"