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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

About three thousand tons of boraS
are annually produced in California.
Tho Swiss railroad companies now
cover n portion Of their carriages with Il
phosphorescent preparation, which
makes them visible at night
An indianapolis inventor is nj work
upon a new electric headlight for loco
motives, which, il is claimed, win light
the track for mile brilliantly. m
diandpoiS Johrnai.
Artificial Ice, which is produced bv
yaporized ammonia, is turned out in
slabs eight inches thick by twenty-five
inches wide and six feet long, weighing
$50 pounds. II is made at cost OF less
than 81 ton. AZ Q. Picaynne.
The Scientific american mentions
the decline in the price Of copper as
likely to lead to the increased use Of
that metal in building. At present the
material for copper roof costs at the
outset only about twice as much as tin.
and, rs the latter must be replaced and
painted about once in three years, and
in fifteen or twenty years must be re-.
ncwed altogether. the copper which
never needs painting, and is practically
indestruetible, is much the cheaper ma
terial in the end.
"A Boston engineer has been turning
his attention To the power going TO
waste in the Niagara River. He esti-
mates that motor could be submerged
in the river which would furnish half a
million horsepower sufficient 10 run
all the machinery in Buffalo and pump
all the city's water. His plan il to place
giant iron wheel in the river perpen-
dicularly, so that IL shall be turned by
the current. The power would be taken
from the shaft Of the wheel By either
belts or gearings, or would be sent
through electric cables. N u Sun.
1t is reported that firm in Paris
has patented an engine for the instan-
taneous formation Of steam, so that il
can be used at once in the cylinder Of
the engine. A pump sends the required
quantity Of water between two plate
surfaces, which are heated, and between
which there is only capillary space. The
liquid, spreading into athin layer, evap-
CRATES Instantly without going into the
so-called spheroidal state, and thesteam
acts in the cylinder as fresh formed
steam. The speed Of the pump is regu-
lated by the engine.
For the treatment Of both hard and
soft corns DR.. Trail Green speaks high
~ Of the use Of salicylic acid. He has
adopted formula recommended by DIR.
Gezon, which Is as follows Salicylic
acid, thirty parts extract Cdt,dbts in
dicd, five parts collodion, two hundred
parts. The collodion fixes the aeid on
The diseased part and gives speedy re-
lief by protecting II from friction. The
Cdnabis tndicd acts ns an anodyne. The
acid loosens the corn so that ii comes
off in four or five days, adiering TO the
col.odion. II any portion Of the corn
remains, the acid should be applied
again, and the treatment continued un-
til the whole Of the corn has disap-
peared. San francisco Chronicle.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04
Concerning Earthquakes.

The recent calamity in the Island Of
Ischia has naturally given new impetus
TO the study of earthquake phenomena.
Considering that there is hardly a mo-
ment when the earth is not quaking
somewhere, though we are not always
cognizant of il, because it occurs at the
bottom OF the sea or in some uninhabit-
ed districts, and that, according TO Prof.
Alexis PerreTs catalogue Of earth
quakes. they average 575 per annum, il
is astonishing that their phenomena
have not been carefully studied until
within comparatively recent years.
The advance in this study has been
slow During an earthquake even the
most scientific mind is hardly IN con-
ditIon to make minute observations.
Scientific men generally prefer to in
vestigate earthquakes after they are
over. They wait until they hear that
an earthquake has occurred somewhere,
and then pack up their scismometers
and go to work with enthusiasm 70 find
the foeuaand the epicentrum.
In studying earthquake phenomena
investigators have arrived at various
conclusions 1t has been shown that
earthquakes are more frequent when the
moon is on the horizon than when Il Il
on the meridian. They are also more
frequent when the moon is nearest the
earth than when il is furthest OF. These
positions correspond to the times Of or
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04
A Funny Eyesight.

Not long ago an Indian chief, who
lives on one Of the Western reserya-
tions, sent to the Government at Wash
ington for glass eye. The circum-
stance brings TO mind an incident that
this country. At the battle Of Stone
River, or Murfreesboro, as some histo.
rians name it, Lieutenant Halleck, OF
the Union army, had the misfortune 10
lose one OF his eyes. In 1866 he was
promoted to be a First-Bieutcnant in
the regular army, and was stationed at
one of the Indian posts on the plains.
He had a small blue eye Of glass, but
thinking he could not obtain Artificial
eyes so far away from the large cities he
bought two other glass eyes for use
should his regular false eye be broken.
On a certain occasion Lieutenant Hal
leck was visited by one-eyed Indian
warrior, who wished 10 see the "white
mans funny eye" The brave was
much pleased with the sight, and after
a while he besought the officer to lend
him one Of the extra bits Of glass. "But
your sound eyeis as black as coal and
as big as saucer.'s protested the Lieu
tenant. and these glass eyes are little
and blue. The Indian insisted, how
ever, and at last prevailed on the Lieu
tenant to lend him one Of his eyes. The
Lieutenant says that he never saw an
Indian 50 delighted Clad in long
shirt and an old plug hat the brave
walked around the camp as proud as
Lucifer. His big black eve and his lit
tie blue eye were in amusing contrast.
He succeeded in making the other In
dians believe that he could see through
the blue eye as well as through the
black one, and no happier warrior than
he eever strntted before admiring squaws.
Golden Dasfs. sA ~
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04
The Pathetic Story Told by Detroit
Car-DriVer.


II used TO think il was my duty to cut
'em with the whip, and / took satisfac-
ton in striking hard, but | wouldn't
strike a boy now for the best thousand
dollars ever coined.
He was a car-driver, and his atten-
ton had been called to three or four
boys stealing a ride on the rear plat
form.
Eyes, was sort o terror on this
route to the boys" he continued after
time. Not one of the crowd would put
his foot on the step and get away with
out cut from the whip. Big OF little,
rough or gentle, / served all alike, and
if the passengers scowled at me for
lashing q little kid of seven or eight,
! solaced myself with the reflection that
it was my duty.
A passenger was dropped at the
corner, and as the car started up again
the driver went on
"Well, one day when the boys had
bothered me more than usual, lodged
through the car and found little bit
Of chap, not over seven years old,
seated on the lower step. He was
all bumped over and softly CRYING
about something or other. At another
time | might have felt pity, but the
boys had got my mad up and what did
do but give the little chap a cut
with the lash and call ont with such a
voice that of he tumbled into the dust.
| saw him rise up and limp away, and
there was something in the look he
gave me that shan't forget in hurry.
Whoa! now"
The car stopped TO take on two ladies,
and presently the driver resumed:
ado you know that felt so conscious
stricken that ! kept looking for that
boy on every trip, calculating to make
up with him and secure his forgiveness
for my brutality. did not see, him
again until the afternoon Of the second
day"
''And what did he say2n was asked
as the driver hesitated.
..He was in his coffin, was the reply.
'.It was his funeral procession which
stopped my car for two or three min
utes. That child was i'll when he tried
to steal his way home with me, and
death was not twenty-four hours away
when / lashed him and chuckled over
the way he rolled into the street, tell
Won, sir, when saw his coffin in the
hearse nand Caught look from the
mother, which seemed TO charge me
with being his murderer. got stab at
my heart that pains me yet, and /
wouldn't t strike another boy If the re-
ward was 10 be the whole line and its
outfit. '--Desrou Free Press.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04
She Went Back Home.

The other day an officer patrolhng
Monroe Avenue noticed a middle-aged
woman standing in hallway, and as
she continued TO remain there for the
next hour he finally asked her if she was
looking for anybody.
''Waiting for the doctor, = she replied,
as she pointed over her shoulder up
stairs.
"Anything serious p"
Look a-here she replied, as she
walked up to him, ''my old man and the
boys and gals have got the idea that
I'm going into consumption. That's my
hoss and buggy out there, and I'm wait
ing to have my lungs sounded. DO l
look like a woman with consumption Pr
"Well, mo-
"Whoop Hoop-la7whoopee ! = she
yelled at the top of her voice "does
that air voice sound as if my right lung
was gone and the left badly affected 7
NO, ma'am, your voice indicates
strong lungs.
That's what / say. The old man
can hear me a mile and half, but he's
afraid I've got consumption. Could a
consumptive do this ?"
And she jumped from the floor,
cracked her heels together, and in
dulged in shuttle which made the Off
GERS knees ache.
Anything. graye-yardish in that ?a
she asked, as she stood painting with
arms akimbo,
mo, ma'am. I'd give $40 if could
hoe it down after that fashion,
''And could consumptiye take man
your heft and prance him around like
this ?" she asked, as she seized the oili-
Ger and slammed him against the wall
until his eye-balls Jared.
''Great snakes! Mo-
tAnd see here she continued, az
she made a hop and step and kicked
the wall as high as his hat, .'anything
there that looks like funeral process
sion2 Come out doors and show me the
hitching-post | can't pull up by the
rootsm
madam, | have witnessed enough.
You haven't got consumption any more
than have got riches. Don't you fool
away your time looking for DOCTORS
'Gimme fair hold and ! believe
can lay you on your backp' she said as
she spit on her hands.
ION lnlIlk Oh ~ 0O nome! LII
you don't live to be 100 years old I'll pay
the cost of your funeralr'
And you don't think I'm ailing?n
'.Not a bit =
"Lungs all right, ehp''
'Sound as grindstone.
''Think Ill scrape along for len or
fifteen years, ,eh?n
Eyes, for forty
Well, I'll 60 back, and try and
make the family believe it, Dom want
to try side-hold wrassle with me, ehp Z
Heavens, no! =
I'm purity certain / should flop you,
but if You won't I'll jog along. Com
sumption Whoop! Whoopcei After
you think I've had time TO get.two miles
out Just listen and hear me yell few
tilnes! - Detroit Free Press.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04

"A Philadelphia physician told a lady
patient that one of two things must in
evitably result from her Illness; she
would either lose her reason or her eye
sight. The poor woman committed sui.
eide. --Phitadelpbia Press,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-10-04

Poor people who buy coal by the
pail pay at the rate of twenty dollars
ton for it.-Cttcdqo linlss.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-05
NEI8uHoRuOUD NEWS

Events near and across tho County Liues.
Hartford county, Md, complains of a
short corn crop.
Tue public schools Of Norristown opened
with |, pupils in attendance.
Gilbert Maxwell OF Fulton township,
this cOunty, hal yield Cc - bushels o /
heat per acre from Is acres.
Col. A X. Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Times, will deliver an address at oxford
fair at l a. m. on Friday, 2Sth inst.
The tiremen's parade expected TO take
place at Harrisburg the latter part OF
this month has been abandoned
Over two hundred millions Of feet OF
lumber have thus far been RATED out of
the Willamsport boom this season, aud
Mr.. James A. Dinehart, the boom boss,
thinks that are oue hundred millions in
the boom yet. .|..
A charter was issued at the state dc
partment yesterday To tho German build
ing and loan association, of Philadelphia
with a capital stock OF 81 900 O00 and
another was issued FOR the Eberholtz aud
Ober brewing company, of Pittsburg
with capital OF 500, GOO.
The name OF CHI istau Temperance
union has been adopted by tho temperance
organization which meets every other
Sunday at Rock Springs school house.
Tue meeting on last Sunday was well at
tended and the exercises were interest
ing. ....
John Gable, aged eighty five, residing
| near the Lehigh church, Lower Macungle
township, Lehigh county, got out Of bed,
| and while walking around, fell, breaking
his thigh bone. At last accounts he was
sinking last. Gable is eli known through.
oit Lehigh county.
Joseph ii. Brosus, of Octoraro, drove
four horses TO large wagon load Of mar
keting TO Lincoln station and was unload
| ing II when the animals scared at an on
gine and ran of. Ia their flight one Of tho
horses belougiug To Judson King, was
thrown down and dragged for "a distance
unit! it's back was broken, aud it had TO be
| killed. t..n
| Rev. Solomon Neitz, pastor Of Ebenczer
Evangelical church, Reading, was struck
with apoplexy yesterday morning at one
| o'clock. and has been unconscious ever
since. Rev. Mr.. Neitz has beon in the
ministry A years, and has bcon one of the
most eloquent preachers connected with
| the Evangelical association. He is father
| OF Rev. Harry Neitz who has largo con.
| gregatiou at Germantown, Philadelphia.
| Some farmers in Chester county report
the discovery Of a new enemy OF the pOta.
to in the shape Of n white worm, looking
much like chestnut worm, but not quite
so thick. 1t attacks the vino near tho
root aud ascends ia the centre of the stalk
| of the vine to die prematurely. Unless a
remedy is discovered, it is feared it will
DO troublesome next season,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-05
PERSONAL

BUTLER will give Lord Coleridge 4
yacht ride.
WLKIE COLLINS is in high spirits after
a yachting trip, and is writing another
novel.
JUDGE OLIVER wendell HOLMES JR.,
is mentioned" as possible Republican
candidate for governor of Massachusetts,.
JouN Roach, who now employs | 800
men ut Al average of 90 10 a day wages,
was once tramp on the Illinois prairies,
without dollar in his pocket.
JAMES NUTT's trial has been postponed
until December on account of the illness
Of +. c. Breckenridge, one Of the leading
witnesses.
SENATOR CHASDLER's widow has given
81, 900 towards q scholarship in the Chica-
go women's medical college, for women
who intend becoming missionaries.
MISS LYDIA POET having gone through
q regular examination, has been admitted
as lawyer to the bar Of Torino, Italy.
After her admission to the bar two mem
bers resigned.
Mrs. LANGTRY told an English inter
viewer that she was nearly worried to
death by American journalists, but she
felt bound, as matter of business, to
show them some kind of courtesy.
SoJOURSER TRUTH is one hundred and
eight years old, is lively and gay, and full
of reminlscences Of the past. and takes an
interest in all public questions She re
sides with her daughter at Battle Creek
Mich.
GEORGE 5. PURDY carried the Wayne
county convention for Judge Of the Twenty.
second judicial district composed OF
Wayne and Pike. Hon. D. VI. Van Auken,
ex congressman. received the nomination
from Pike. Purdy will likely be nominated
in joint convention. His leading opponent
from Wayne was Hon. VIM. II. Dimmick.
Mrs. GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs died Of
paralysis at Gainesville, Ga, her summer
residence, on Tuesday morning. She had
been prominent in society in Washington,
d. c., and Richmond, Va, while her hus.
band was United States senator and while
no was in the confederate cabinet. She
had accompanied her husband through
European countries and through the East.
Dir. JANE KIMMELL CARVER was at a
late meeting of the trustees of the state
lunatic asylum at Harrisburg, elected
chief female physician of that institution
for the term of three years. Mrs. Carver
has for the last three years served as as
sistant physician, and discharged her
duties with so much satisfaction that she
was promoted by a unanimous vote.
BRET HARTE resides at ST. Johns Wool,
London, with the chancellor Of the Belgian
legation. Mr.. Vanderveldt, cultivated
man, whose wife seriously set herself to
work to regulate Mr.. Harte, of whose
genius she had high idea, Mrs Harte lives
in this country upon her husbands cousu
lar salary. Mrs. Vanderveldt has ten
children, is herself Of literary inclination
| and is fire at repartee.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-05
NEWS BREVITIES.
CLIPPED FROM rnE MORNING MAILS
The Path OF Urine and Caismity-A Mis-
ceiiancous Collection OF Items
From MANY

Upon application of Gorham L. Pomc-
roy, assignee, the supreme court VT Proyi.
denco yesterday issued an order temper.
arily cnioining Evan Randolph from
disposing of any Quidnick company stock
OF property, and ordering personal
citation upon him to appear on Saturday
next, to which time the hearing was ad-
journed.
Benjamin Burgess n Sons, dealers In
sugar, of Boston, failed yesterday. The
liabilities are supposed to be heavy
Butterworth & Co., boot and shoe manu-
facturers and dealers, of Cincinnati, made
an assignment yesterday. The liabilities
are about 100000 the assets nominally
300, 900.
1t is reported that train on the St.
Louis and Evansville railroad was thrown
from the track by some cattle, between
Carmi and GRANVILLE, Illinois, last evening,
and that car occupied by company A. of
the North Illinois infantry, was overturned,
killing o persons and iuiuriug 10.
Mobile, Pensacola Junction and Bir-
minSham have established Quarantinos
against Pensacola, although it is asserted
that the latter place is free from yellow
fever.
The Shenango " Allegheny railroad,
running from Greenvilo TO Butler, Pa, u
distance of % miles, was formally opened
yesterday. The road opens up coal
region needed to supply the iron Industries
of western Pennsylvania aud eastern
Ohio.
Steamboat communication between vii.
mington, North Carolina, and Baltimore,
has been established aud the first steamer
of the line will leave Baltimore on the Sth
instant.
The coal miners along the Shenaugo and
Allegheny railroad, in this state, are on
strike, excepting those at Coal Town and
Harrisville, against q reduction Of 10 cents
per ton. The Harrisvile miners have &c
cepted the reduction.
The wheat crop in Kansas is turning out
heavier than was expected and is now
estimated at 35, 600 600 bushels The corn
is estimated at 200, 900, 90 bushels, tho
largest ever produced in that state.
y large immigration 10 Kansas has be-
gun and 1t is expected to increase this
fall and next spring.
The First national bank OF Admission,
Alabama has been authorized to begin
| business with capital Of SlOO, 900.
The receipts of the patent office during
the last eight month were 1856, $50 against
sGSj, Al during the corresponding period
| of 1888
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-05
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS,

The Germantown Telegraph says Levy
the coruet player is greatly ovorrated.
The NORTH american thinks it neither
notable nor creditable that Judge Black
eft tho cabinet Ia debt.
Tho Wilkesbarre Record asks that
building lots in that city be sold cheaply
in order to encourage building.
Tho Chambersburg Register, which Is
easy to satisfy, complains that Wolfe is
hard to please.
The Pitt sburg EVeRiRg Telegraph re
minds the epicures that Oyster enters with
the "r " in September.
THE Philadelphia CAroRicle Hsrald sees
resemblance between the Legislature
and the poor, because We seem to have
both with Us always.
The Reformed Chursh Messenger Is sure
that tho future hopes of the church in TO
gard to the increase OF gospel ministers
depend largely upon tho mothers.
The Philadelphia Bulletm thinks the
death Of Ivan Tourguenefr brings to close
the foremost literary career that Russia
has ever witnessed.
The Lebanon Advertiser chronicles the
TACT that tho German Republicans Of that
county are getting unanimous on the OK.
preston ; For der Liysey stoim ich
amol ned, un my fader dud all ned"
There Is no surei qualification for sue.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-05
GROSS oFrIUIAL NEGLECT.
she Yellow rsysr In the Navy Xard

NellD" ftNor IN inc Navy
A letter from tho Pensacola navy yard in
regard TO the ycllew fever has been received
In Washington which says complaint is
made that the navy department has been
utterly indifferent 70 the welfare Of the
command aud that no amount of argu-
ment on the part of any one would have
served to modify in any particular the
policy OF the department toward the Pen
sacoia yard. The writer says:
We are here TO stay as long as our
services are required, and one and all stand
ready to face the situation with strong
hearts and cheerful courage. We are dc.
teTmined to make the best of everything
and trust in Providence to carry US safely
through the season of sickness. l must
admit, as the summer advanced and no
disease of a contagious character mado its
appearance, | felt encouraged and believed
we wore going To escape visit of the ter
rible scourge. We all felt confident that
for once yellow fever could not come
among the force stationed hero. Every
attention had been given To the sanitary
condition Of the yard, DR.. Owen making
personal inspection, and he pronounced
the quarters in most excellent sanitary
condition. We believed the yard to be
entirely free of fever germs and the COM
mand IN perfect health, but we were de
ceiyed.
Tho first Case
Less than two weeks aftor our inspec.
tion % suspicious case OF fever made its
appearance in the garrison. 1t was on the
morning OF August 12 that private in
the marine corps, named FlaheIty, went
to tue office of his command and said he
was sick. He was ordered by the doctor
to go to bed At that time the nature of
the complaint was not apparent and the
sick man went to tho barracks until the
symptoms became moro pronounced. 1t
was to our horror, yellow fever. Tho
bedding was destroyed and every precau-
tion taken at once TO kill the germs. Tho
case proved fatal three days after. Corporal
Benson was the next man taken sick and
then Private Barger. who lived only four
days. Barger aud Flaherty were, / am
told, very abstemious men, aud were OK
ceptional ia their conduct IA we'll as caro-
fui about their health. Where or how
Flaherty got the disease is q mystery to
every one hero. The case of Blrger is
even greater mystery. After various
theories had been advanced 1t was found
that the quarters occupied by the marines
we're infected, aud that in 1875 here were
somo cases of fever in these quarters.
Notwithstanding the care taken to avoid
the infection tho removal OF tho command
from the marine barracks was followed by
two cases of fever. There was no incon.
siderable anxiety on the paIt Of the resi-
dents of the yard when they found that
yellow fever had made its appearance
among the marines. The marine guard
was promptly quarrantined and duty Of
all kinds was suspended and IL was with
haf IL M
were awaited.
Dr. owens Sickness aud Death.
"Dr. Owen was taken sick Thursday,