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THINGS WORTH KNOWING.


One hundred and ten feet wide by 396
long contains one acre.
Two hundred and twenty feet wide by
1875 long contains one acre.
A barrel contains forty gallons or
9,240 cubic inches.
Five yards wide by 968 long contains
one acre.
Ten yards wide by 4S4 long contains
one acre.
Twenty yards wide by 242 long con-
tains one acre.
Forty yards wide by 121 long contains
one acre.
Congou teas have small, short, gray
ish back leaves.
Keep tea in a close chest or canister.
Keep coffee by itself, as its odor
affects other articles.
Keep bread and cake in tin box or
stone jar.
Sixty feet wide by 726 long contains
one acre.
Cranbcrries will keep all winter in a
firllin of water in a cellar.
September and October butter is the
best for winter use.
Oranges andlemons keep best wrapped
IN soft paper, and if possible laid in a
drawer.
Scaled herrings should be fat fish,
free from scales, and when smoked be
Of bright golden color.
No. 1 herrings are generally small
and poor fish.
Gunpowder is heavy tea, of dark
green hue, and the leaves rolled in hard
balls.
Twankays are known by their large,
yellowish, badly-rolled leaves andstrong
odor. The infusion is deep yellow,
and of clear, sharp taste.
Oolong teas are very highly dried, OF
wiry, brittle leaf, and valued according
to degree of strength and pungency,
and freedom from dust.
Imperials are in larger grains than
gunpowders, and in color silvery green.
Hysons have long, straight, heshy,
grayish-green leaves, rolled lengthwise
On themselves, with sweet, aromatic
flavor.
Souchongs are the strongest black
teas. The leaves are large, thin and
often broken. The infusion is clear
golden and aromatic.
| The United States standard gallor
measures 231 cubic inches.
Pork, full-weight, should contain 20(
pounds, but the standard has been re
duced to 100 pounds; picked beef
hams in barrels 306 and 220 pounds
clear sides in bulk, in boxes, 500 pounds
and in hogsheads from 800 to 1,00(
pounds.
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HHEEE DO THE HATS COZ

The question IS asked about this time:
What becomes Of hats? One-half of
|he population, 25,000,O0O of people,
maY change hats at this time. That
!2aTn; 25,G03,0 new old hats to be
aided 20 countless millions Of old old
;sa+; tucked away IN garrets, hung on
Ter mas, thrust into broken windows
10 keep tac rain cut, and sent in charity
holes to the I3at-destitute It has been
o,,eeryej hat when a box or barrel Of
ai0t; ing Is wanted for benevolent pur-
pose, Old hats are not lacking An old
{, l"pidaied hat IN a charity box is like a
plnchel penny Or leather button in
the contribution box-both help to fill
nd mahe show, but neither are of
much value.
at the close of a season or several
seasons h.t-dealers have collection of
cylt-of-style hats that are disposed of at
he buyers price. Large quantities of
old hats, old in style only, are sold to
Southern dealers. If one collection of
pu'-by hats is sold in the same place the
S:reet-promenade must invite the sketch
irS pencil Of the artist in search of the
;y:o'esqne. A tall man with tall felt
h.. with q tapering crown, and short
man in the later saucer-hat, would be
notable sight in an Indian camp, where
tho best man, the boss dignitary, is sat-
i>fioi with q silk hat smoothed the
wrong way, and blanket. Count try
dealers nearer than those in Southern
cities are suspected OF buying hats at
t1e close OF seasons in cities to begin
s@eir oan seasons with the latest in hat
es.
As bo straw hats, their usefulness is
q al cad when the season closes. unless
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!.rhe clergyman lives just across the
green-I had his house pointed out to
me. Let's so there this very, minute
and get married !"
Mary Smith laughed and blushed,
and burst into te2rs, and finally put her
hand into that of the naval officer.
"Have it your own way" said she.
"But 1 don't know what the public will
say"
'Henceforward, said Capt Lacy,
"I am to be your public. And my ver-
dict is entirely in your favor"
So there was no lecture in the Stub
Mountain Lyceum that night. And the
stout man went home, where he found
his wife and mother-ir-law in great
rage, the starched female proceeded to
the nearest camp-meeting, and the curly
ballad-singer composed new song
called cloves Triumph" founded on
the incident from real Life which haG
just transpired.
"After all, % said the bride, "Smith i.
an awkward name. And I'm glad I've
changed it to Lacy"
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THE DE GRASSE FAMILY.

Count de Grasse, the commander Of
the French feet at Yorktown, was mar
ried three times and had six children,
al by his first wife. The two sons died
without issue. The four daughters fed
to America to save their lives at the time
Of the French revolution. Two died un-
married at Charleston in the year 1893.
The third sister died in New York in
1914. The youngest of the family,
Sylvie, married in this country NJ. Fran
co.'s Narcisse Depau, by which marriage
there were seven children, all American
citizens. and they and their descendants
are the only ineal representatives of
Admiral Count de Grasse. The eldest
male representative and great grandson
Of Admiral de Grasse is Theodosius A.
Fowler, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, N.
J., his daughter, the eldest great grand
daughter, bearing the name (Sylvie de
Grasse) Of her grandmother.
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ErR. END MES. APACsEE.

He cuts Off the nose and ears OF q
prisoner while yet alive, and,
throwing them Oh the Goals,
will allow them to become half
broied, and then thrust them in the
mouth and down the throat of his vic
tim. He viii heat a piece OF iron, and,
with this, pierce the cheeks Of living
man through and through, and then LET
the instrument serve as q gag between
the jaws Of the Mortified captive. Ter
rible as these tortures may appear, it is
tie squaw who exhibits refinement OF
cruelty, Of helIish depravity, that puts
the male Apache to shame. She it is
who invents new and startling devices
for mutilation of the dead, and, in their
execution. chuckles with feverish glee.-
Chicago Times letter.
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FROM BLACK TO GRAY.

Staff Surgeon Parry, while serving in
India, during the mutiny, saw strange
sight. Among the prisoners taken in a
skirmish at Chamda was a sepoy of the
Bengal army. He was brought before
the authorities and put to question.
Fully alive to his position, the Bengalee
stood almost stupefed with fear, trem-
bling greatly, with horror and despair
plainly depicted on his countenance
While the examination was proceeding
the bystanders were startled by the
sergeant in charge of the prisoner ex-
claiming: "Iie is turning gray" All
eyes were turned on the unfortunate
man, watching with wonderful interest
the change coming upon his splendid,
glossy, iet-blacll locks. In hall an hour
they we're OF n uniform grayish hue
Pnn'l7rr Silence lMont7tlu.
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THE WIND As a MOTIVE POWER.
Turning, now, to sources of energy
derived from sun-heat, let Us take the
wind first. When we look at the regis
ter of British shipping and see 10000
vessels, Of which about 10000 are
steamers and 10000 sailmg-ships, and
when we think how vast an absolute
amount of horsepower is developed by
the engines of those steamers, and how
considerable a proportion it forms of the
whole horsepower taken from coal an
nually in the whole world at the present
time, and when we consider the sailing
ships of other nations, which must be
reckoned in the account, and throw in
the little item of windmills, we find that
even in the present day of steam ascend
ency, old-fashioned wind still supplies a
large part Of all the energy used by
man. But, however much we may re-
gret the time when Hoods young lady,
visiting the fens of Lincolnshire at
Christmas, and writing 20 her dearest
friend in London (both 60 years old now
if they are alive), describes the delight
Of sitting in bower and looking over
the wintry plain not desolate, because
"windmills lend additional animation
to the scene, " we cannot shut our eyes
to the fact of lamentable decadence OF
wind-power. Is this decadence perma-
nent, or may we hope that it is only
temporary?
The subterranean coal-stores of the
world are becoming exhausted surely,
and not slowly, and the price of coal is
upward bound-upward bound on the
whole, though no doubt it will have It's
ups and downs in the future as it has
had in the past, and as must be the case
in respect to every marketable com.
modify. When the coal is all burned,
or long before it is all burned, when
there is so little of it left, and the coal.
mines from which that little is to be ex.
cayated are SO distant and deep and hot
that its price to the consumer is greatly
higher than at present, it is most prob.
able that wind-mills or wind-motors in
some form will again be in the ascendant,
and that wind will do mans mechanical
work, on land at least, in proportion
comparable to its present doing of work
at sea.-PopuJGr Science Monthly.
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rvsTRUCTIyE EXPERIMENTS.

twill be news to most people that Or
tlinary gas will pass through stone work,
and that the human breath can be sent
through asbrick wall SO strongly as to
defect candle on the other side. At
the New York Academy of Sciences
lately Prof. Doremus demonstrated the
truth of these things. He had before
him piece Of sandstone, rectar gular
and four and three-quarters inches in
thickness. Placing against this tube,
re passed gas from one of the street
,,i,,es against the brick. After waiting
few minutes he put light against the
,'fer face Of the sandstone and imme-
iietrly small fame sprang up, show
ig t!lat the gas had gone through the
,rbstance. lie then took q mass of
hrics work, made of best Philadelphia
rick. Against one face of this he put
ne tuba, and ct the back of it q candle.
Ae f.e blew through the tube the light
ws- plainly DETECTED. Very little press
ne, he said, was enough to send the air
es Gss through. Sewage gas penetrates
ant,etantes with jrst as much or greater
"sea. A water trap is perfectly useless,
an!ess there be ventilating pipe with
It; then the water will check the gas,
&n.l the latter will naturally seek its
Aasiess way out. The walls of hospitals,
Or. Doyemus says, become saturated
with disease, and the only way to cure
then, IS 10 adopt ihe Hearaic plan and
leave not oue stone standing upon an
oth,,r lie had found chlorine gas the
hest Gisinfectant for such purposes. He
| bad once generated three tons of this
gas iii ward OF Bellevue Hospital,
zherA pyeapia was constantly occurring
tI.l, ugh the saturat.on of the walls with
,rt,iknn. nnd there had been marked
| impr0y ement since. The chlorine treat
n,ent, lie says, should be resorted to
every few months in such places.
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TIE CANDIDATE FOE PROBATE
JUDGE,

TIE C46D1D4IE FUN 9hOOaA6
JUDGE.
1t was election day in Huron. The
people of the county had been engaged
in exercising their dearest privilege as
American citizens. The election was
over, and the judges were engaged In
ascertaining the result. The bitter
contention of the day had ceased; the
wary maneuvering Of politicians, the
shrewd combination Of opposing inter
ests to defeat a common enemy had been
had; and all the excitement of the strug-
gle was now concentrated in the sus-
pense as to the result.
Crowding aroung the polling place
was vast multitude. The whole
voting population of the county seemed
to be gathered there awaiting the an
nouncement of the result with breath
less interest. There was apparent Gu
rious feeling of mutual enmity among
those composing the crowd. They re-
garded each other with scowling faces,
and each seemed to regard every other
his bitter rival. While all were abb
sorbed in one interest, and all awaited
the result of the vose, as if depended
upon it all their hopes of happiness,
there seemed to be no sympathy be-
tween them. Each regarded the other
with look as if he saw in him the most
abandoned of villains, and each seemed
to see in his neighbor wretch who was
attempting to rob him of his dearest
rights and honors, and whom to murder
would be q Christian duty.
At length the clerk Of election arose
end prepared TO read the result of the
vote. A solemn stiffness fell upon the
vast assembly, and every voice was
hushed and every ear was strained to
catch his words.
"For County Commissioner, @. Fred
Zimmerman has received"
Bother the County Commissioner!
We don't care anything about that. Go
on to the next"
"For Register of Deeds, I. J. Mouser
has received"
Discordant voices drowned the fig
nres.
"For Sheriff"
"No matter about the Sheriff. Go
on to Probate Judge! Probate Judgei
Probate Judge!" cried score of voices
from the crowd.
The voice of the clerk became husky.
| He seemed to tremble with some strange
emotion, and almost to fear to announce
to the desperate-looking crowd the re-
suit asked for.
Gentlemen" he said at length,
aravely and deliberately, Il am sorry to
he obliged to announce that the vote
for Probate Judge is tie, and that
| therefore there is no election to that
office"
Fierce cries of fraud and treachery
arose from the crowd, and the figures
were demanded.
Gentlemen" said the clerk, "there
were 2,376 votes cast. There were 2,37S
candidates. Each received one vote
To an impartial looker-on in Vienna, il
might appear that every man voted fol
himself"
With a wild, weird, despairing cry
2,37S men fell senseless to the ground
Huron (Dak.) Times.
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co ,TLY CARPETS.

The extravaganza of former times in
tie matter of carpets and coverings was
something unknown even among the
most reckless in these days. a million
>tc.ling was paid by a Culcowar Of Ba-
ro,!l for cover FOR the Prophets tomb,
and OF this about $l50,000 went to the
,sots1;tl fabric, tie balance being jewels.
I.van now very heavy prices ~ paid.
i visitor saw at Herman a carpet which
>,.4s 10 cost SO the square yard.
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it be a costly Manila or Panama.
Some are repressed and whitened, but
this process makes them brittle, and
they seem to soil sooner and easier than
when new. Such hat is an eyesore to
man. It IS too good to put in broken
window, but not good enough to wear,
and becomes in time O. eats cradle or an
herb basket. Strange as it may seem,
straw hats were sold as late as two weeks
ago. They are not all put to flight till
snow f'es.-Pr0Uidence Journal.
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ASTRONOMICAL.

"Pa, how long has Venus been asleep,
AMI why doesn't she lie down for a
chanee?" So d a classical youth. The
old gentleman looked at his son with a
honelassly dazed expression for fully
tiye minutes, then sternly asked !:
"Cy.pls, what have you been drinking?"
Nothing, sir; only I've heard so much
os tie trance-sit of Venus that would
Ike to know something of the nature
o. her >omnolency," replied the learned
vouth.-New York Commercial AdUer
LiSrr
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FRUITS AND FLOWERS.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.


Oh, Painter of the fruits and flowers,
We own Thy wise design,
Whereby these human hands Of ours
May share the work of Thinei
Apart from Thee we plant in vain
The root and SOW the seed;
Thy early and Thy later rain,
Thy sun and dew we need. -,
Our toll is sweet with thankfulness, -
Our burden is our boon;
The curse Of earth's gray morning is
The blessing of its noon.
Why search the wide world everywhere
For Eden's unknown ground?
That garden of the primal pair
May never more be found.
But, blest by Thee, our patient toll
May right the ancient wrong,
And give to every cline and soil
The beauty lost go long.
Our homestead flowers and fruited trees
May Eden's orchard shame;
We taste the tempting sweets Of these
Like Eve, without her blame.
And, north and south and east and west,
The pride of every zone,
The fairest, rarest and the best
May all be made our own.
Its earliest shrines the young world sons ht
In hil-groves and in bowers;
The ittest offerings thither brought
Were thy own fruits and flowers.
And still with reverent hands we Gull
Thy gifts each year renewed;
The good is always beautiful
The beautiful Is good
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HOW ENGLISH BANK NOTES IRE
MADE.

A reporter for an Eastern paper hap
penod into an exchange Office, where
the bookkeeper was handling some for
eign bank notes. Among them was
new Bank OF England note for e10. It
was a beautiful specimen of paper
making and printing, and inquiries as
to the way in which it was made
brought out the following explanation
of the process:
Said the money-changer: @The Bank
of England notes are the most uncoun-
terfeitable of any securities in the
world. It is simple matter to learn
their peculiarities, and once learned it
is impossible to pass a counterfeit upon
a man knowing those peculiarities.
They are in both the paper and the
plate and type printing Of the note.
First, notice the paper! It is distin-
guisheG byits peculiar pink color. Such
paper IS never seen, and is made and
used for 70 other purpose. See how
thin and transparent it is! Those quail
tiles are made specially to prevent any
portion of the printing being erased by
the knife or acid-washing, the two
specialties of American counterfeiters
and forgers. Take the note in your
hands! It is peculiarly tough and
crisp. Those qualities are brought out
by the paper being made entirely from
new linen and cotton, and not from
rags.
DO you see the peculiar water-mark,
or wire-mark as it is called? That is
produced by special mold used when
the paper is in pulp. Do you see that
rough edge on the ends? That is called
the deck!e, and is also produced when
tie paper is in pulp. Two notes are
placed in mold when they are in pulp
and divided lengthways. Hence the
top and bottom, or long edges, are al
ways rough. This decIle cannot be
inflated by cutting. The paper is also
exceedingly strong. tt is said that q
bank note evenly adjusted will lift a
hundred-pounds weight without tearing.
Do sou see the difficulties forger
must overcome before he can even
produce the paper on which the note is
printed?
Every process described requires the
skill of an artisan, whose high remuner-
alton keeps him from any, necessity of
dishonesty, and necessity makes the ma
iority Of thieves. Look at the printing
| Beside the water or wire work, which is
beautifully regular and intricate, a plate
print is lithographel over the face of
the note. Then the type printing is
done. The paper is moistened first
by atmospheric pressure, $4,000 double
notes being dampened in an hour.
"The printing ink IS also made az the
Bank OF England, from linseed oil and
the charred hnsk and vines of Rhen-
isa grapes, which produces Impressions
OF peculiarly velvety black, especially
in tie heavier figures. Afcer printing.
the notes arc numbered by machine,
which, unlike man, cannot err, and
tasty are indoIsed by the Secretary.
Tho bank-l ote.s are printed in type on
tie side Of t5e paper that receives the
vutet mark, and even il the event OF
The note being sl.d', another Of the
foigers fayo-ile tricks, the imprinted
surface woul.l oaly retain = slight tfaee
Of tie type AID w-,ter marks.
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and describe an arc of circle an inch
and half greater than he could before.
Since the operation the finger has been
rapidly gaining strength, and now at ex-
ercise it does yeoman service as COM
pared with its twin of the other hand
Pki|ddelt3hi1 Record.
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1MPoRTANT TO PIANLSTS.

The success of a surgical operation
performed some time ago by Dr.. Will
Jam S. Forbes, Professor Of Anatomy at
the Jefferson Medical College, demon
strates way in which musicians may
overcome the necessity of years of con-
stant practice to destroy the rigidity
which naturally exists in the third CT
ring finger. The normal infrmity has
always been the great drawback Of stu
dents. To obtain thorough knowledge
Of the theory of music, fexibility and
ease in the movement of the third finger
IS absolutely required.
The subject was brought to the at
tention of DR.. Forbes by Prof. Zack-
wer, a music teacher. The physician
gave the assurance that if a subject were
procured he would demonstrate that
with not-very- painful surgical opera
tion the finger could be brought under
control. A young colored man in the
employ of Prof. Zeckwer, who had some
musical ability, consented to subject
himself to the surgeons scalpel. In the
case Of the third finger, unlike its neigh
ho-s, the upper or extensor tendon is
Joined with the tendons Of the fingers on
each side of it by two similar or acces-
sorry tendons. This acts like martin.
gale, and holds the finger down so com.
lsietely that nothing but constant strain
viii loosen the pressure.
Dr. Forbes, when the subject was
thought to him, simply made two small
o"enings in the back of the left hand on
onsa side of the extenscr tendon, and
divided the troublesome accessories.
Tiao finger was at once released, and
immediately after the operation the
; yang man Was able 10 raise the finger
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-11
A Big Blaze.

New York, July % The five upper floors
of the Mnnroe building, II to q Vande-
water street were Quilted by fire this after
noon. The floors below were flooded with
water n every tenant suffered more or
less. The total loss is about $500, 900. There
were many narrow escapes, but no ives
Were lost. No one was seriously injured.
The building is eight stories high and the
iremen worked at n great disadvantage.
Thirteen firemen We're CUTOFF by fire and
smoke on the eighth floor. They were res
cued by means of a rope Nine other fire.
men, imprisoned OF the same floor, were
also rescued in a similar way. The firemen
on the roof were ordered off about a minute
before it fell. The cause of the fire was
spontaneous combustion. About 1000 per-
sons were employed in the building, but
few will be thrown out of employment.