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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-13
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General Banking, Exchange, and Collection
Business. Savings Department. Interest allowed
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rent
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LOCOMOTIVE iH;K REVERSE

D, Il" Return Tubular Boiler and Engine
j y trction Saw Mil, 2o foot car
a -. 50 cw he All bio, Ks and as inch
ID s-,,.n oaw. SO.
Il asy ftic,Ion. saw Mill, 25 foot
carI.aAc screw Ia I'D blocks and - ncL
5 N Saw, S315.
X ch,t Fe, a., $50 extra
Ou' jet Pump viii raise water out of
= well 80 feet deep.
VII e Tor circular. gjvli < dimensions
and prices.
New Engines and Boilers Of any size
made TO order.
TAPPEN Il STEEL.
Ia 1f-tf. Pet rsbur. Va.
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"The Spectator delights in cat stories.
May I add one to the interesting list
which has from time to time Appeared
in your columns? Picture to yourself
little girl, about two years of age, sitting
on low stool before drawing-roomI
fire. Coiled up on the rug is fayorlte'
domestic cat The child is IN frettul
mood, and has been crying for some
time. The cat endures The annoyance
for some time, though evidently dis
pleased. But even feline patience has
its limits. So pussy uncoiled herself.
walked up to the child, and gave her a
box on the ear with her closed paw, and
then lay down again before the fire. The
child, taken completely aback, cried
louder than ever. Again pussy tried to-
endure it. Again her patience became'
exhausted, and she delivered a second
box on the ear. 1t was now the girls
turn TO be enraged. She rushed at the
cat, and dragged it around the room by
the tail. The story restsNpn the authority
of the child's mother, who was witness
of the scene"
Gas [ am constant reader OF the
Spectator, [ know you take a great IN
terest in domestic animals. and have
long wished to tell you about Dot
She was handsome as to size /; her coat
was beautiful glossy black, and at the,
throat was a pretty white star. Eachl
day, as the different articles were brought
in for dinner and placed on the table,
the charge always was, Now, Dot,
come here and take care of this till [
come back dot mounted guard at
once Oh a chair at the side Of the table,
and was never known to leave her post
till the viands were claimed. Whether
it was beef, mutton, fish, or game, all
was perfectly safe and she was quite
pleased when cooked mOrsal, after din
ner, was given to her as n reward. Her
own dinner, though placed close beside
her. she never touched, but always
waited till it was given to her, however
hungry she was known to be.
"She was obedient to all orders, one
of which was that she was not to come
to my room. q prefer to keep at re-
spectful distance from even domestic;
| pets, however excellent their individual
characters.) But one very cold evening
of very severe winter, Dot, passing
all the other rooms, to which she had
perfect freedom, came to my door, and,
with special petition, to which my at
tention was drawn, as being something
quite unusual In cat language, waited
till she was told she might come in. The
good creature placed herself before the
bright fire. and purred-to her own great
pleasure self-invited and truly happy
guest. She never encroached on this
one little special favor. Could even
the illustrious Jack have excelled her,
when food was the charge ?"-~Letters to
the London Spectator.
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neck Of wavy maple, cut in Pennsyl-
vania fifty years ago. and RATED down
the Ohio to Cincinnati, and carried on
to Dayont for an old cabinetmaker. who
was never able to use it. The figure of
the old instrument was followed exactly,
and when the new one was finished 1t
was an exact facsimile of those built by
Stradivarius. When the bow was drawn
across it the two connoisseurs went into
ecstasies of delight. The glue was bare
~ set, and the varnish was still green,
but there was an absence of the thick,
raw quality that marks a new violin
RiclsnaO1ad Ind. Palladium.
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"As if I could possibly wish to p
Mr.. Trent laughed likewise.
A Violin from Wood That Grew Be-
fore Noah.

Henry P. Cain, violinist of some
note in Indiana, has recently come into
possession of violin made of wood that
grew before the food Some forty years
ago workmen engaged in digging a mill
race through the farm owned by Daniel
B. Dulla discovered at the depth of SIX
or eight feet beneath the surface the
trunk of a tree in good state of preser-
walton. Biologists say that the wood is
many thousand years old. Recently the
wood was taken to A. B. Clark, who
was engaged in preparing Cremoxn
that was captured in the siege of Near
co. Clark made models of the old Gle
mona, and In .he course of three months
had given the finishing touches to the
new violin. The belly was of the old
anteailuvian wood, and the back and
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BITS on IMPORTATION.

The largest national cemetery is at
1ynchburg, Va.
THE name Of God in the Hindoostanee
language is Rain. In the Persian, Sire.
G1BBox began to write his decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire in Lon
don in 1772.
In Moscow the plague introduced by
the Turkish army carried off 70, 900 VIC
inns In month.
DURING the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries in France guilty animals sufs-
fered death ON the gallows.
PEAcooRs we're carefully reared in the
island of Samos, and sold at such high
prices that Varo says they fetched yearly
1900.
THE Franklin Arctic expedition sailed
from Greenhithe, England, May "A,
1916. The last heard from them were
dispatches sent from the Whaletlsh
islands dated July II, 1S45.
The English language has a greater:
number OF words than the French.
There are also In English a greater
number of ways to express thoughts
than in French.
The expression commencement ex-
ercises" is applied to the concluding
exercises of college term, from the
fact that they mark the "coWlmence-
ment" Of the graduates independent
life.
THE invention of glass is commonly
attributed to the Phenicians. Very an
Gent discoveries of glass In Egypt have
somewhat shoken this attribution, and
it will remain uncertain until further
discoveries settle the question.
THE phrase " sgnted to T is said to
be derived from the so-called T-square,
an instrument used by architects and
mechanical draughtsncen ~ drawing
plans As the T-square IS often used to
test the accuracy with whitA lines ana
angles have been drawn, it is Altogether
probable that the expression on&lnA'teo
in this fact.
THE word "vendetta (vengeanc61
originated, it is said, in Corsica, where,
the practice was formerly general, andl
| still prevails in remote parts of the
| island. The custom, one writer re-
marks grimly, fourishes among the
Bedouins. Traces of it are found some
times among the Montenegrins, Alban-
ians, Druses and Circassians; and, IN
deed, it may be said that the custom
prevailed at one time or another among
every tribe and nation. WheneVer a
person was Murdered, the prackce
among those holding to this custom VA
to avenge the death aid that duty WAS
imposed upon the son, brother or near
est kinsman, who forthwith sought pri--
vate vengeance upon him who shed thel
blood of the relative. As the admins
tration of justice became a moro and
more settled social institution, the GUS
tom disappeared, although Corsica still
clings to it in its most cruel form, and
on that island it plays a most important
part in O social life.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
COFFEE grows wild in Liberia.

COFFEE grows wild In Liberia.
THE word alderman is derived from
| the Saxon californian.
BUTTER was used by the early Romans
as medicine, never as food.
The cachalot, or sperm whale, has
an enormous head and no sense of smell.
AFTER man, the whales worst enemy
is the grampus, which attacks it saw
agely.
TWELVE million five hundred thousand
acres are devoted to cotton In the South
ern States
SOME five billion feet of lumber are
annually taken away from the pine region
of Michigan.
TIE brain cavity of the elephant is
very small in proportion to the size OF
the skull itself.
The value of waste paper collected
from various offices in England and sold
for the public benefit averages $50, 900 a
year.
An old Saxon catechism explains the
fact of the sun turning so red just as il
sets by saying that it is then looking into
hell.
ACCORDING to Darwin, there is a
species of monkey which can sing q
complete and correct octave of musical
notes.
In SIAM there is a race of cats with
tails only half the ordinary length and
often contorted into o kind of knot
which cannot be Strengthened.
ONE tribe of Indians never will cut Q
stick that has been on fire. They say
that the fire has spirit which has en-.
tered the wood and will get cut.
ANAxAGoRAs, the Rhodian, held that
earthquakes were nothing but sort Of
cosmic Hatuletce winds which had
strayed into caverns where they could
not find an outlet.
| Two large war-vessels, with their guns.
powder and shot and $3.50, 900 in money
were once refused for the largest known
diamond belonging to the Raiah Of
Barned.
| No FEWER than seven different Ian.
guages are spoken on ore side of Lake
Nyassa in Africa, which is only 81
AAACo IL ACHSblI) Huu uaU1V0S from the
Southern end cannot understand those
at the Northern.
A SERIOUS plagde among ostriches has
been spreading over South Africa for tn.
past few years. A post 9,aorte1a examin
alton disclosed the fact that the disease
was caused by myriads of minute worm.
adhering to the coat of the stomach. The
Importance of the discovery may be es
timated by considering the fact tha
ostriches are worth from $3.50 to 5000 {
pair.
In A Southern seaboard district o.
China, wild silk worms are found. which
feed on the camphor tree, and their sill
is utilized in a singular manner. Wher
the caterpillar has attained it's full size
and is about to enter the pupa state, h
is cut open and the silk extracted in /,
form much resembling catgut. Thi.
substance, having undergone process.
hardening, makes excellent fish line and
IS generally used for that purpose in tht
Pakhoi District.
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Picture of Still Life

A vagrant scorpion strolled leisurely
down plank leaning against fence on
RHsk street. On that plank pensively
reclined negro, whose contemplation
was profound and most musically
eyinced by a sound emitted from his
open mouth that recalled to the minds
of passers the days of the pit saw. When
the scorpion and the African made the
conjunction, to say that the African
awoke is not an exaggeration. As he
tore the reptile from his swarthE neck
and pulverized it in the mud beneath
the heel Of q No. 10 brogan, he got off
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-31

There was man named Ferguson,
He lived on Market street:
He had a speckled Thomas cat,
That couldn't wen be beat;
He'd catch more rats and mice and SIGH
Than forty cats could eat
This cat would come into the room
And climb upon cheer,
And there he'd sit and lick hisselk
And pdrr SO awful queer
That Ferguson would yell ct him
But still he'd purr severe.
And then he'd climb the moonlit fenco,
And loaf around and howl,
And spit and claw another cat
Alongside Of the jowl;
And then they both would stroke their tails,
And jump around and howl.
And all the mothers in the street,
Walked by the horrid din,
Would rise right up and search their babes
To find some worryin' pin;
And still this vigorous cat would keep
A hollerin' like sin.
And az for Mr.. Ferguson,
Twas more than he could bear,
And so he hurled the bootjack OUT
Into the midnight air;
But THIS YOc11erOuS lnOu1ab CAt,
Not one cent did he care;
For stln he yowIed and kept his fur
standtn' up on end,
And his old spine doublin' up
As far as 1t would bend,
AB if his hopes Of happiness
Did on his lungs depend.
But while q curvin' Of his spine,
And waitin' TO attack
A cat upon the other fence,
There came an awful crack
And this ERE speckled Thomas eat
Got busted in the back.
When Ferguson came down next day
There lay bis old feline,
And not q life was left Of him,
Although be had had nine;
=" All this has come" said FurguSon,
"of ourVin' Of his spine"
MORAL:
Now all Of you whose tender hearts
This painful tale does rack,
Don't ever go like this Ter cat,
To gettin' up your back.
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A "Postil" of Martin Luther's Time

We accidentally discovered In this
city, not long since, ''postil'' of Martin
Luther-that is, series of sermons
written by him to be read to congrega-
tions by ministers who wefB not com
petent to prepare sermons for them
selves. It was published in 1882 by
Louis Lufft, of Wittenberg, who, by the
way, was the printer of all Luther's
works during the lifetime of that re-
former The book is composed of three
volumes bound in one, the binding being
full calf with fancy brass corners and
brass clasps. The binding, either from
age or stain, has very dark brown ma
hogany color; and, although $50 years
old, carries its age lightly, being well
preserved through all its changes and
mlshaps. 1t is printed from old German
text in wooden type, and profusely illus
trated with highly illuminated woodcuts,
the illumination being done by hand
with very bright colors and gold and sill
yer leaf. To us the most astonishing
feature about the book is the fact that
these colors seem to have retained all the
brightness which they had when put on
not faded in the least. The same is
true, too, of the large fancy initial let
tiers at the beginning of each sermon.
The gold leaf was used principally in
forming the halo about the head of the
Savior, or on the urns and other vessels
used about the temple It was also en-
ployed In decorating the garments of the
high priests and of the weather. classes
represented. These garments are said to
be OF styles worn by Germans in Luther's
time, and make a very curious display.
Viewing the engraving as work Of
art, simply, it is amusing to note how
literal the artist has been in his interpre-
tation and illustration of passages of
scriptures. For instance, the illustra-
ton OF the passage which speaks of cast
ing the beam out of our own eye before
attempting to pluck the mote from our
brothers. The Savior is represented as
directing the attention of his disciples to
a man at some distance who is about to
pick from the eye of another something
which looks like very small pin; while
from his own eye o great stick of timber
projected diagonally toward heaven.
The devil, when cast out in one in
stance, is shown as a sort of flying non
descript with bats wings, vulture's
beak, and mammoth claws, these last
two appendages being painted black,
while the body of the thing is green.
This ''postil" came into the hands of
John Hartman, an old German who lives
in Amelith, this county. He purchased
it in Bavaria, Germany, of Tyrolese
family for the insignificant sum of ten
cents in 1850. He himself is perfect
book-worE, and we are told that in his
log cabin at Amelith he has old books of
great value, they all being of religious
and moral character. Bay City Press.
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Monkey MOOnshine.

Monkey MOOnshines
Little monkey moonshine,
When the stars are bright
Swinging on the cornstatks
ID the dead Of night,
Dancing o'sr the meadows,
:, Floating down the stream.
Peeping Though the windows
To make tie Childish dTear1
Falling through the tree-tops,
Tumbfng DER the lawn,
Chasing bats and owlets
Til the break Of morn.
Then little monkey moonshine,
:, With tbs nSorHing star,
Rides away 10 e4oudaRd;
In q silver est.
HdrpeT's Young Folks
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A HOsnital for Animals.

The most curious of all the institutions
of Bombay is the hospital which the
Hindoos have established for animals,
Within the inclosure of several acres.
located in one of the densest quarters of
the city, the sick and manned of all do
nestle species are collected in sheds and
stables for treatment or rest Every morn
ing early wagons are sent throughout
the city to gather the waits and outcasts,
that nothing with life may be destroyed,
in violation of the Vedic law Birds, as
well as beasts, are afforded shelter not
excluding repulsive vultures and the
scavenger crows. Dogs in every stage
of scurvy, full of loathsome sores, barked
and howled in distracting chorus as we
passed their crowded cages. Cows and
buffaloes of all sizes, old or diseased,
and dilapidated, bony horses, stood or
lay in melancholy silence, as if patiently
awaiting the relief of death These.
with helpless, deserted kittens, that must
not be drowned chickens with spots
bare of feathers monkeys scratching
and tearing at then lroubled hides, and
perfumes not to be described. Will afford
some conception of this strange asylum.
From Bombay Letter.
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some such expression as the following !:
g Dat scarapinlizard must think I got
my neck half-soled wild leather apron,
mad dog him l"-Teras paper.
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ApOtheOsis of the Worm.

DIR. Charles Darwin has written a work
which is creating a profound sensation
IN scientific circles. He has been study
ing the common eafth-wofm for over
thirty years, and has come to the conclu-
sion that mankind is more indebted to
that loathsome, wriggling little creature
than to any other race of the inferior
orders of creation. The earth, according
to Darwin, would be desert if it were
not for the worm. It's value is that it
eats dirt and turns 1t into vegetable
mold. There are on an average, on every
acre OF ground, over $1,000 worms
These eat and digest from eight to six
teen tons OF soil per acre in the course
Of the year. Whatever passes through
the intestinal canal of the worm becomes
vegetable mold, and without this mold
there would be no crops and no increase
of grain or the animals which feed upon
the products of the soil. Nor is this all.
The worm is the preserver of the mem
orials of the past Its mission is to
cover naked surfaces with vegetable
mold. The deserted cities and memorials
of the past are first hidden from sight by
uAAO CJCSud VI CAlC WILL LnCIl COili6S bll0
dust and the sand-storm and the accre-
tons from outside of our atmosphere.
Troy is two hundred feet under ground,
and it took three thousand years to cover
it with so much soil, but the earth-worm
is the great sexton who buries the mon
uments of the past out of sight. Yet this
wriggling, loathsome creature is one of
the most degraded and imperfect organ
isms known to naturalists. It has no
brain, no organs of vision, cannot hear,
and has no sense of smell. It has
certain amount of intelligence, and
knows enough to get out of the sunlight.
But notwithstanding its deficiencies, it is
the greatest benefactor not only to man
but to the other superior animals. It
may comfort fishermen to know that the
worm they use in angling has but little
nervous sensibility, and cannot be said
to suffer pain when impaled on the fish
hook. It will not do hereafter to despise
the worm, for, as a London paper we'll
says, sit, from this time forth, will wear
the blue ribbon Of science"
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IT WAS the saying of an old acquaint-
ance of ours, when his attention was
called to anything that had a smacking
of scandal in it, 6 / have SO much to do
that cannot hear it. One-half of nv
time is taken up with letting alone the
affairs of lay neighbors. How many
excellent opportunities of letting alone
other peoples business are sighted, and
the world is troubled with the interfer-
ence of people with what does not con-
Germ them. Neighborhoods are driven
crazy by the reports of idle or mischiey-
GUS people, who watch for occasions of
scandal and lose no opportunity of max
ing them public, regardless of truth, or
of the injury inflicted upon the feelings
of others. Gossip passes for facts, and
surmise for history; and the nimble lie
runs many league while truth is putting
on its boots
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THERE were 5,912,046 cattle in Great
Britain in 1880, and 5,911, 642 in 1881.
There has been a decline In the number
Of sheep of IS per cent since 1874
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Mrs. frances HoDGsoN BURNETT is
more fond of her boys than Of her
books
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23
POLITICAL POINTS.

Senator Hoar," says the Sprinfeld Mass J
Republican, "has hurried 10 Maine to get a
last hook into the trout streams before the
government dredge comes along"
Judge Bennett, the Democratic candidate
for congressman-at-large in North Carolina,
is thorough revenue reformer and de-
nouDces protective tariffiu all his speeches.
The official call for the State convention
OF the New York anti-monopolists at Sara
toga, September 18th, declares that the con-
vention will decide whether or not a State
ticket shall be nominated at once.
Green B. Raum, commissioner of internal
revenue, will make his first speech in the
coming political campaign of Illinois, at
Freeport on the 31st instant. Mr.. Raum will
make canvass OF the entire State with the
senatorial fight in view.
The expenses of the North Carolina State
government during 1859 and 1870, two years
of Radical rule, were respectively 1887 ,04S
and $349 406. In the two last years, 1880
and 1881, the Democrats having control,
they were $97, 597 and $14S,217.
Ex-Congressman Thomas Kineella, the
editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and strong
anti-monopolist, is reported TO have said the
other day that he would rather lead 100000
men IN revolt for a principle than to lead
the Democratic party without an issue.
washington special 10 Inc Boston Her
aid says that it is rumored that HubbelPs
committee have issued another assessment
circular, inviting further contributions,
amounting to an additional two per cent.
This is said 70 have been rendered necessary
by he almost unprecedented demands upon
the committee.
J. B. McCullagh, editor of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, talks entertainingly when in
teryiewed. In Denver the other day re-
porter of the Neies seized Mr.. McCullagh by
the buttonhole. "Wnat about Arthur for
1892" asked the reporter. mo show" said
the editor. "Those internal half-breeds and
civil-service reformers are bound to destroy
the Republican party il they can't get every
thing in sight and they will have something
10 say in the convention 'Is Grant out of
the racer" "Yes, Tor good" SHOW will
Pennsylvania go in November" ''I'm afraid
the State is past praying for"