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The examiner., 1882-03-18
Knowledge in 8 Nutshell.

A cub1t IS two feet.
 Aspace is three feet.
 A fathom is six feet.
 A span is ten and one-haIf inches. A palm is three inches. -e A league is three miles.
 A great cubit is eleven feet.
 There are 2, 759 languages. Oats, thirty-fve pounds per bushel. Bran, thirty-fve pounds per bushel. Barley forty-eight pounds per bushel.
 A days's journey is thirty-two and one half miles.
 Two persons die every second.
 Sound moves 743 miles per hour. A square mile contains $40 acres. ' A storm blows thirty-six miles per hour.
 Coarse salt, eighty-fve pounds per bushel.
 Backwheat, ifty-two pounds per bushel.
 The average of human life is thirty one years. A barrel'ot rice weighs 500 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 300 pounds. An acre contains 4,840 square yards. A barrel of flour weighs 300 pounds. Slow rivers flow five miles per hour. r. 4 firkin of butter weighs ffty-si pounds. Timothy seed. forty-five pounds per bushel. ... -t A hand (horse measure) is fcur inches.
 A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. --- = A rife ball moves 1000 miles per hour.
 Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour.
 The first luciter match was made in 1929.
 Gold was discovered in California in 1SfS.
 Electricity moves 22s,OOO miles per hour. The first horse railroad was built in 1926. ....... --.. .-.......-. A moderate wind blows seven miles per hour.
 The first stealnpoat piled the Hudson in 1897. -
 A mile is 5, ,28O feet, or 1,76O yards in length.
The examiner., 1882-03-18
A Frontier HumOrist.

Away on the extreme western fron- tier, in the foot hills along Green river, General Forsythe, of Sheridan's staff, found humorist during a tour of in- spection Lz 2 ~
 He came upon 8 solitary station keeper who lived in hut containing four stalls for animals and 8 combina- a. tion parlor, kitchen and sleeping apart ment six by ten feet in size. Over the door, outside, were in huge letters {: "Hotel de Starvation 1000 miles from hay and grain, seventy miles from wood and fifteen miles from water"
 The walls of the room were deco rated with pictures cut from police pub lications. Over the door, inside, in charcoal letters foot in length, were the words. "God bless our home," and in another place the notice ''Wanted "a nice young girl for general house work. Apply within"
The examiner., 1882-03-18
South and w est

JOHN O. MASSEY and his wife, an old couple living near Charlottesville, Va, were killed and their money was taken from their house the other night
 THE Illinois State board of agriculture re- ports that the seeding for the next wheat crop amounts to 2,676, 800 acres, 275, 900 less than last year. ~Ehe present condition, however, is most favorable.
 Two Indians were hanged the other day at Lakeport, Cal, for murdering white man.
 THE Michigan legislature has passed bill appropriating s265, 900 for the further relief of the sufferers by forest fires
 A CHICAGO dispatch says that MT. Scoville declares that as soon as the bill of exceptions in Guiteau's case is ready he will retire from the defense. He says that there will be no diff ficulty in getting eminent counsel, but he does not know that General Butler will manage the case
 THE Ohio river steamer Sidney, while making trip from Cincinnati to Wheeling, W. Va., burst her main steam pipe. Mrs.. Little and her grandson and MT. King were instantly killed, Mrs. Stephenson, wife of the boats pilot, was fatally scslded, and five other per sons were injured.
 THE Baltimore conference of the Methodist church has been in session in that city. THE number of deaths by the bursting of steam pipe on the Ohio river steamer Sidney has increased to eight INFORMATION has been received at Raleigh, N. C., that the Mormons have made 8 lodg- ment near Kings Mountain, that State. Num- bers of the country people focked to hear them and they made about fifty converts at that point.
 LATER dispatches estimate that over 80, 600 square miles of territory has been inundated by the floods in the Mississippi valley, and the total number of sufferers is placed at 60, 900 persons. In Bolivar county, Miss, no less than thirty lives have been lost by drowning, and the whole county containing about Il, 900 per- sons, has been under water.
 P. H. MCCRAcKEN, formerly member of tho board of supervisors of Bradford. Mich. charged with the embezziement of s1 1000 of the public funds Of that township, arrested at his home in Chesterfield county, Va., and taken back to Michigan.
 NINE companies of Nebraska State troops and three companies of United States regulars were sent hastily to Omaha in anticipat of trouble with body of strikers. The strikers held mass meeting. at which speeches were made exhorting the labor union to stand firm and denouncing the authorities for calling out the military.
 IN charge made by the military upon a crowd at Omaha one workman was killed.
 A WOMAN who hl1 reached the extraordinary age of 106 years was burned to death in Indiana.
 Ar Jacksonville, Or, deputy sheriff was shot and killed while protecting prisoner from would-be lynchers.
 CAPTAIN JAMES M. DAVIS, deputy United States revenue collector, and celebrated raider of illicit distilleries, was waylaid by concealed parties and shot to death, about three miles from McMinnville, Tenn. Captain Davis was Ole of the most successful and daring men en- ployed in the service of capturing moonshiners.
The examiner., 1882-03-18
WISE WORDS.
Character is the diamond thGt scratches every other stone.

Character is the diamond thGt scratches every other stone.
 Pride is the consciousness of what one is without contempt for others.
 Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom.
 When respiration ceases our educa- tion is finished, and not 8 moment sooner.
 More than half of all the thanks that have been thought of and planned for since the world began have been lost forever by being left over night. -
 As mans life. so are his studies. I think it is the most beautiful and hu- mape thing in the world so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy nor the other rise up into wantonness.
 To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the naughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put bridle in the lions mouth and lead him forth as domestic cur; these are the tri- umphs of all-powerful beauty.
 The everyday cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights aud counterpoises of the clock of time. giving it's pendulum true vibration and it's hands 8 regular motion, and when they cease to hang upon the wh eels the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
 If your character indicates @ flaw, that is, if you find what at first seemed innocent desire, under indulgence is fast developing into habit which may seriously affect your character and life, eradicate it at once; for nothing is so hard to uproot as bad habit, and noth- ing is so essential to advancement or serves us so faithfully as a good char acter.
The examiner., 1882-03-18
From Washington

FROM figures presented to the war depart ment it appears that the n umber of persons left destitute by the Mississippi river floods is nearly 50,000.
 IN & communication to the secretary of the navy, Captain Meade, commanding the Van dalia, reports the results of his personal obser- vations the Isthmus of Panama. He says the canal company has been quietly at work preparing for the igantic task before it. and has accomplished large amount of preliminary work. Several of the best officers of the con- pany have died from local fever and want of l suitable attention. Some deaths among the | inferior employees have occurred, but the number has been greatly ex- aggerated in the American newspapers. The entire line has been cleared of trees and underbrush for width of, say 300 yards This is work of no small magnitude in itself. Fifty miles of undergrowth cleared off in this region represents a deal of work. All along the line the company has constructed stations and villages for it's iaboEe.-A-
 THE bill regulating Chinese emigration passed the Senate by vote of twenty-nine yeas to if teen nays seven Republicans voting for and cne Democrat against it.
 IN the Senate amendments to the bill for 8 commission to investigate the liquor traffic were adopted that not more than three of the five commissioners shall be of the same politi- cal party and that not more than three shall be prohibitionists.
 THE Senate confirmed the nomination of Colonel Rufus Ingalls, to be quartermaster- general.
 NEWS has been received that the Rev. Dr. Highland Garnet (colored), United States min ister to Liberia, Africa, is dead in his sixty eighth year.
 THE finding and sentence of the court-mar- tial in the case of Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau, have been issued by order of Major General Hancock. Mason is sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the army and to be imprisoned for eight years.
The examiner., 1882-03-18

LORD GEORGE F. MoNTAGU, secretary of the British legation at Washington, died few days ago, aged twenty-seyen years.
 TIE congressional temperance society is holding meetings every week. Addresses Ina 70 been made by Messrs. Vance, of North Caro- lima, Hepburne, of Iowa, Price, Indian con- missioners, and others.
 TIE Smithsonian institution has received from Professor Foerster of Berlin, the an nouncement of the discovery by Palisa, at Ber- lin. of 8 new planet of the thirteenth magni- tude:
 A CENSUS report shows the..aggregate national debts of the principal nations of the world to have been, in 1880, s23 286, 414,755, an increase over 1870 of s6, 16s, 744, 525. In 1880 France headed the list with national debt of $3, 829 ; 9S2, ,399, followed by Great B,itain with $3,766 671, ,OO0 Russia, s3, 316, ,953, ,000; Spain, s2, 579 245, GOO Italy. s2,54O, ,313, ,0O0; and tho Unite States comes fifth with $2, 120, 415, ,371. Denmark has the least debt, $48, ,665, 900.
 JUDGE SAMUEL BLATcHFoRD, of New York judge of the United States circuit court, was nominated by the President as associate justice of the United States supreme court. On the same day the President also nominated John Russell Young-the well-known journalist who accompanied General Grant in his tour around the word, writing up the trip for the New York Herald-as United States minister to China. -.-
 LETTERS from ex-Senator Conkling and Sen ator Edmunls declining the appointment of United States supreme court justice have been made public MT. Conkling says that for req sons which the President would not fail to az preciate, ho is compelled to decline. MT. Ed munds declines for reasons which, as he states in his letter to the President, he had expressed to Secretary Frelinghuysen.
 THE Senate confirmed the nomination o1 William H. Scruggs, of Georgia, to be United States consul at Panama.
 The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the total valles of the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States in February, 1882, were s11, 173. 239, and in February, 1881, $13,919, O46; for the eight months ended Feb ruary 28, s135, ,294, CTS, and for the same period the preceding year, $1S2, ,428, ,626.
The examiner., 1882-03-18
Recipes.

KENTUCKY PoTAToEs.-Slice the po- tato thin as for frying, and allow them to remain in cold water for half an hour, then put the slices into pudding dish, with salt, pepper and some milk about half pint to-an ordinary pud- ding dish. Put in an oven, bake n hour. Take out and cut lump of but ter the size of an egg into small bits and scatter over the top.
 SPICE CAKE.-Two cups of flour, one- half cup of butter, one and half of sugar, half cup of naolasses, half cup of sour milk, half teaspoonful of saleratus, yolks of four eggs and one whole one, cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmeg to taste. Then place layer of the white cake and layer of the spice cake alternately, until the bat ter is used up, and bake slowly.
 BUN LoAF.-Half pound of butter, two pounds of four, one pound of brown sugar, one pound of sultana raisins, one pound of entrants, one pint of milk, one ounce of GATEWAY seeds, of soda, one ounce oi tartaric acid. Rub the four and butter together and the soda. Warm the milk and add to the other Ingredients. The tartaric acid must be added the last thing, and the cakes must be instantly put in the oven.
 TAPIooA PUDDNG.-Soak one cup of tapioca all night in water in the morn ing mash with 8 spoon every undissolved particle; put in quart of milk, with little salt added let it boil until the tapioca is soft, then stir in the yoIk of five or six eggs, and cup of sugar l; flavor with lemon when cold spread over the top thin layer of jelly or raspberry jam, and on this put merlin que Of the whites of three eggs. Let it brown in the oven for two or three minutes.
 BEEF PR.-Cold roast beef, one onion, one tomato, pepper and salt, one dozen boiled potatoes, Cut the cold beef in thin slices, and put a layer on the bottom of your dish. Shake in a little flour, pepper and salt, cut up and add tomato If in season., or onion finely chopped, then add another layer of beef and seasoning till your dish is full if you have any gravy put it in have ready a dozen potatoes, boiled and mashed, with butter and salt. spread. over the pie an inch thick; bake twenty minutes or little more.
The examiner., 1882-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

nAaSLerh aAO ANAAOOAS E0GH@COSe
 RICHARD H. CORNWALL, an old and trusted clerk of the Fourth National bank, of New York, has been caught stealing securities val ued at more than $80,O00.
 AT & sale of imported stock in Philadelphia there were twenty-six head of Jerseys sold, or which twenty COWS averaged s334.25 per head, five calves $95 head, and one bull brought $21O. Nineteen Guernsey COWS brought S3O0.7 a head, nine calves $113.89, and one bull sold for $16O. Fifty head of Hampshire Down sheep were disposed of for s1. .733.5O, and twenty head of Shetland ponies. imported from the Shetland Islands, for s2, 7125O. The total receipts of the sale were s18,716. The highest price paid for Jersey COW was s63O, for Cretonne, two and half years old. The highest priced Guernsey was & two-and-a-half- -year-old COW named La Grande, which was purchased for S51O.
 COMMODORE JOHN J. GLAssoN, on the retired list of the United States navy, died the other day in New York, aged seventy-seven years.
 IT is now definitely settled that an interna- tional rifle match between American and Brit ish teams will take place this year at the Creed moor Hong Island) range, and 8 return match in England in 1888.
 MRS. SARAH B. HOWE, who was convicted at Boston of swindling the depositors in the Woman's Bank of that city, was sentenced to three years in the House of Correction.
 Ar sale of old coins in New York a Con- federate half-dollar of 1861 sold for S87O.
 IN order to refute the charges that he was selling certain railroad stocks known as the 's 'sGould stocks," and to allay tho feeling that
 Uon invited number of the heaviest New York stock operators to his office and exhibited to them the little of $53, ,OOO, GOO in the securi- ties in question, which he claimed he held solely as investments.
The examiner., 1882-03-18

Several interesting archaeological otasat a 0spa so1 sfe se4eps tsp9ae0 have been found, which are evidently burial places dating from the period when the ancient Sicilians had already been busted by the Italian tribes. but before the Greek colonization had be- gun. At Nordup, Denmark. the re- mains of seven human bodies have been found under few feet of pumice stone, numerous bronze objects, gold rings, Roman glasses, mosaics, glass beads, etc., being also discovered among the remains. G@3
The examiner., 1882-03-18

Keep a firm grip on good temper, and don't lose your hold unless it pays. Many 8 man has lost his place and friend, many a lover his sweetheart, many house is broken up, hearts that loved divided, children scattered and lives wrecked, crimes committed even to the extent of murder, just by losing the grip discretion bids us keep on this best of all good companions good temper. ..te
The examiner., 1882-03-18

The total number of blast furnace and rolling mill establishments and steel works in the United States was sos in 1870, and 1.005 in 1890 The value of materials used was $135, 526, 132 in 1870 and $191, ,271, 15O in 1S9O-an increase of Al per cent.
The examiner., 1882-03-18

"There!" triumphantly exclaimed 8 Deadwood editor, as bullet came through the window and shattered the inkstand, (" knew. that new Personal column would be success. ."-San FIancisco Post 8 ss7tzss t-% ssffax4s5
The examiner., 1882-03-18

Goodness, on whatever way we look at it, never sleeps It is holy life, beat ing march with the heavenly tunes singing always the divine psalm of love.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21

1t will be seen that the work of railway eX-
tension has been carried on in forty-two States
and Territories, the only State in which no
new track is reported laid being Connecticut
and Delaware, and the only Territories thus
distinguished being Idaho, Indian Territory
and Utah, although it is probable that few
miles were laid in the latter. The remote pos
session of Alaska, of course, does not come into
this category. Texas leads the country in re-
spcct of railway building, having added last
year. by our table, 1,411 miles, which final re-
turns viii probably increase to ], 800, or more.
Colorado appears to come next, with about 500
miles, of which no less than 80 are officially
reported to US as laid by that enterprising
narrow gauge railway company, the Denver q
Rio Grande. This company built during the
wear no less than ten different lines or por-
lions of lines. Iowa comes next, with nearly
500 miles, and Dakota and Ohio also show
thus far between 400 and 500 miles Indiana,
Illinois, New Mexico and New York appear to
have added between 300 and 400 miles.
The narrow-gauge makes no insignificant
showing in the list Of railway mileage con-
structed in 1881 OF the 25S dif erent lines
thus far reported to be built during the year,
not less than forty-three, or over Il per cent.
were of three-feet gauge; and OF the s'24o
miles of new track which we already repor,
.,49O miles, or about IA per cent, were OF that
pauoe
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21
coz, used KILOGRAMS.

A SERIOUS accident secured at Spuy-
ten Duyvel, on the Huson, River N. T.,
The express which left Albany at 2:4O p.
M, containing large number of State Sem
ators and Assemblymen,E vas run into by
Tarrytown special. The rear cars of the
Albany train were telessoped by the other
train. Senator Wagner was killed, and
probably dozen Others. Many OF the in
juxed can not survive.
THADDEUs BABER lad William Ward
were hanged in st. Louis Jan. 10. Moreau,
the French Canadian Who killed his wife
last September, was executed at Rimouski,
Ontario, on the same day. His head was
nearly severed from lis body. Joe Hay,
Eldiidee Scales. AMI hatilda Carter were
hanged at Wentworth N. G., for the MUIR
der of Nash Carter. AL colored.
FIRE originating il the cotton-rooms
| of Moody a. Jemson Galveston, Texas,
| caused a loss esiimatedlt 500, 900.
]. VAN ALsTEIN, 4 Princeton, Mimi,
resisting arrest, was killed by Policeman
Turner, who was obi adsto fire three shots,
| two of which took, efct. Alstein was in
liquor and attacked th officer with hay
fork. p
MAJOR HICKS, mder sentence of
death in the Coyington( Ky) Jail, has small.
pox.
JOHN HAMER, Bugrus, O., and Mike
Riley. Waterloo. low, were killed while
coupling cars. Themangled remains of
/ Sol. Davis, OF Catlettsklrg, ky., were found
on the track, where hshad fallen asleep.
MIscREANTs near New Paris, O., re-
moved rail for the pfpose oil wrecking a
| DAYTON & Western express train. The
mail and express car Fas badly damaged.
The fireman was seridsly injured, but the
passengers were unhlH.
VIM. MASON, Wupa, and Joseph
Spain, Portage City, VS., were both killed
by runaway teams.
| Mrs. NrNN1ss did in dentists chair
at Grass Valley, Cal. while under the in
/ fuence of chloroformsE verything was done
to resuscitate her, bul without avail. The
Coroner's Jury in thaase rendered ver-
dict that the woman dme to her death from
syncope, induced by 4loroform, and exon
rated DR.. Jones.
THOMAS ALEXADER, highly re-
paeted citizen of Motgomsry County, KY.
living in Stepstone on the Big Sandy
Railroad, was run oys and killed by pas.
,enger train. He wahboutT0 years old.
BATES. GALLAGHER WAS. killed and
Thomas Wade seridsly Injured by being
thrown from Clevyand lSPittsburg trair
near Steubenville, Oh 4 track became de.
tached from the car.
!. NEARLY the whle buiness portion
Of the village of orwA Ont was consumed
| by fire the other nigh
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEN. j. E. JOHNSTON publishes the

following explanatory card:
When the article headed "Gen. Johnston's
Narrative appeared In the Philadelphia
z Press of December Is, wrote TO the editor
that the conversation on which II was EVIL
IDENTIFY founded was not an interview" and
undertake to correct it. This was
published by him promptly. As that
article appears to he treated in the South
as accurate. and ! am charged with hay.
ing accused Mr.. Davis of appropriating the
Confederate funds carried through North
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21
Railroad Construction in 1881.
during last year:

The Railcay Age of a recent date gives tie
following statistics of railway construction
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21

Carolina, wish to deny the charge. dld
not use the language imputed to me. What
did saw was that the President ought to have
known practice in this and all other c>1ilized
countries that those having the disposal OF
public funds shall account for them. what
said on that occasion was IN an acGidem n,,
cidered much above the class of interviewers:
Therefore had no fear of the publication OF
what I might say, and said GOOD deal that
nothing would induce me to say for publica-
ton, especially on the subject OF the funds at
Greensboro That part of the conversation
was in connection with the subject OF the ap,
nlication twice made by me that part OF
lat money should be paid to the army then
Commanded in North Carolina, which had re-
ceived no real pay for many months.
The possibility of duel between Rep
resentative Blackburn and Gen. Burbridge
is remote.
THE first official act of Postmaster
General Howe was the appointment OF his
son as Chief Clerk.
D1sAFFECTED New York Tammany-
ties have organized an Anti-Kelly General
Committee.
DEGREES, the Public Printer, recently
sent communication to Senator Plumb, Of
Kansas. asking if certain newspaper ac-
count OF an alleSeu lutelFle" oo1"ooh WV
two was true. Plumb replied that he de-
clined to be dragged into newspaper con-
troversy. Defrees then wrote Plumb an
open letter in which he is reported to have
said:
"No one asked you to engage in news
paper controversy; you were simply re,
| uuested to say yes or no to question had
a right to ask. Your refusal to answer 1t IS
confession of your guilt. No one reading
your notes can doubt the fact that you
prompted the publication OF the paragraph.
You thus stand before all honorable men
| self. convicted Of having falsely boosted that
YOU had grossly insulted, without cause ana
! in a manner becoming the lowest black
guard, man almost thirty years older than
| Yourself. am very sure those acquainted
with me will regard the paragraph as lie
| on it's face, as they know that do not crlnge
| to any one, and that such an insult would
have been resented by me on the spot"
THE Senate confirmed Joseph Bell,
| New York, Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court of New Mexico; Samuel c. Parks,
New Mexico, Associate Justice OF the SUI
preme Court OF Wyoming; Jack Wharton,
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict of Louisiana.