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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-11

The natural gas is injurious to meters
and. unless purified, cannot be run through
them. Other arrangements for price are
thus made necessary and how cheap the
gas is will be seen below. "Our scale Of
prices, said Mr.. Barclay, 'iS given on this
card handing card with the following
scale:
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
The Evil Eve.

The belief in the malign influence of
the mal-occhio, or evil eye, is, says DR..
Felix L. Oswald, in the Popular
Science Monthly, not confined to the
Latin races, but prevails in Persia and
China, as well as among the South
China Malays and their East Indian
neighbors. In Southern Italy the
superstition is almost universal. Ac-
cording to the popular theory, the pos
SCISSOR Of an evil eye can stare his
victims into all sorts of Affections,
palsy, ricketts,, goitra, etc. Nay, his
power for evil has hardly any limits
whatever, for by the same optical
process he can produce death and
Observation-Disclosures infantllm, for in
stance. And, moreover, such persons
are generally conscious of their dread
full talent, and can fcrbcar its cx-
crcisc for they manage to conniye
at their fayorites. Evil eye wizards
can be known by their peculiar
way of squirting, or by their
bushy eyebrows, that conceal the
piercing steadness of their gaze, and
orthodox trones lament the decadence
of the good old times when such Of
Tenders could be brought to justice.
according to the myth of the Pura-
mas, the god silva can blight whole
town with his whitening look; and the
Indian gods, who often visit earth in
the gllisc of mortals, are sometimes
recognized by the rigdness of their
gaze; they never wink to their sleep
less eyes space and time are units.
IIrcate and Medu>a had such optics,
and the basis Of the superstition may
possibly lie the primitive mans dread
of mental superiority, the power of
mind over matter. ascribed to the eye,
as the mirror of the soul. Captain
Burton noticed that the negroes Of
Soodan are almost unable to meet a
white mans gaze, though they quail
still more before the lre-eyes of their
Semitic neighbors. The Veddahs of
Ceylon, too, seem to dread a silva in
every foreigner.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Curious Processes

Mr.. Christopher Dresser writes {:
The Whole of the manufacturing pro-
cesses of Japan are conducted with
out the aid Of any mechanical con-
trivances whatever; and with the
simplest of tools. I do not think that
the country boasts saw Of sufficient
length to cut through large log of
wood. The saw has the form of a
butchers chopper, and when it has
cut well into the angle at the end Of a
log, the log is turned, and work begun
on the opposite side. BY repeated
turnings plank is cut. The plane
cuts pulling toward the workman, and
so does the saw. I never saw lathe
with continuous rotary motion, save
in the royal arsenal, which is nothing
more than a European workshop and
never but once saw 4 labor saving
contrivance of any kind in the coun-
try. Rice is husked hy being placed
in a sort of mortar into which pestle
falls. The pestle is attached to Il
horizontal piece of wood supported by
a fulcrum in the center. On the end
opposite to the pestle man stands.
thus the pestle is raised but by his
jumping off the pestle falls. BY this
repeated stepping on the end and
jumping off the process of husking the
rice is accomplished. In a corner of a
field I once saw one of these mills
with kind of bucket placed on the
end of the beam where the man would
stand. A small waterspout coming
from the hillside filled this bucket
with water, when it raised the pestle;
but the act of raising upset the water,
and thus let the pestle fall.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A Short.Sighted Nation.

Mr.. D. Forest, who says he has
much experience of the Egyptian
fellahin, writes an extraordinary letter
to the Times. He declares that it is
useless to try to make Egyptians
sharp-shooters, for the people are uni
versally short-sighted. They cannot
see the bulls eye in a target at 100
yards, or the target itself at 300. This
is the explanation Of their bad practice
in action. That Egyptians are liable
to ophthalmia is certain, but this is
the first time we have heard of a
short sighted nation. The statement
strikes us as prima facie absurd, and
vet it is quite possible that eyesight,
in the dim light of the north and the
bright light of the south, should be-
come different. The strain to see
clearly would, in the former case, be
perpetual and hereditary. The diff
Guilty is to believe that sunlight would
not affect all eyes in all places, and
certainly natives Of India, living in a
light as keen as that of Egypt, show
no inclination to short sight. Their
huntsnen can see like red Indians.
There may, however, be a difference
which has escaped notice and is worth
inquiry, the unusual keenness of
sight possessed by Scandinavians being
long-noticed fact. Any difference in
length of sight, if universal or very
usual, would account for very great
difference in plastic art and in the use
of color. London Spectator.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

A ACKNOWLEDGMENT matron sat in
the rear cabin of a Fulton ferryboat.
She was accompanied by athin-legged,
restless-eyed little girl of four or
thereabouts. 4 few seats away was
man with q wooden leg. With un'
erring instinct the child's eye had
lighted upon this man. That eye at
once became fixed, dilating with con-
oentrated interest. The child crawled
down from her seat, upon which she
had been kne cling, in order to afford
that eye better facilities for observa-
tion. The object Of scrunity squirmed
uneasily in his scat. Turning to the
mother the child exclaimed in por-
tentous whisper:
ooh, ma! Look at that man."
"Iush, my dear. You must not be
rude"
but ma" (ina a very audible whis-
peri, "do look at his leg"
BE quiet, Ethel, tell you," franti-
cally urged the matron in agitated
tones. The poor man has lost his
leg. It's very rude to notice it,
"What's that one made of?'
"Hush of wood, my dear. Look
at that pretty little boy over there.
See how good he is"
"Did you ever have leg like that,
ma"
"No, my dear. Look over there at
that"
"Will pa or Uncle John or I ever
have one, MAJ"
"No, dear"
"Could he kick a ball with that tleg?'
"Hush, do J.
"But, ma.
At this juncture the man with the
wooden leg sought, in turn, to create a
diversion. He drew from his pocket a
pretty little bonbon box and offered the
child some sweetmeats. The child ac-
cepted them with some hesitation and
mistrust. An instant later the boat
reached the slip. The mother rose,
and smiling gracfously, said:
"Thank the gentleman, Ethel, and
say goodbye. !" .:s.;3
Ethel advanced, he reyes still firmly
Rxed upon the object of interest. She
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Wolf Bats.

One use of the whalebone to which
the Esquimaux put it, and one case
of which came under my personal OBJ
servation, ! must not allow to pass
unnoticed. Whenever wolves have
been unusually predatory, have de-
stroyed a favorite dog or so, or dug up
Il cache Of reindeer meat just when it
was needed. or in any way have
aroused the ire of the Innuit hunter,
he takes a strip of whalebone about
the size of those used in corsets, wraps
it up into compact helical mass like
a watch spring, having previously
sharpened botlA ends. then ties it to-
gether with reindeer sinew, and plas-
ters it with a compound of blood and
grease, which is allowed to freeze and
forms binding cement sufficiently
strong to hold the sinew string at
every second or third turn. This,
with a lot of similar-looking baits|ef
meat and blubber, is scattered [oYer
the snow or ground, and the hungry
wolf devours it along with the Others.
and-when it lis thawed Iout by the
warmth Of his stomach, it elongates
and has the we!l-known effect of whale
bone 1.-THE system, but having the
military advantage Of interior
lines its effects are moresragid. killing
the poor wolf, with the most
agonies, in a couple Of days. siett-
tenant SchtCatkG.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
nirIn,r Seem PosEibLe.

A citizen of Detroit who had been
to Lansing on business was returning
the other day when an old farmer,
going East with his wife, took the
next seat back and opened a conversa-
tion which lasted almost into the city.
Then he happened to mention some
thing about Europe which the farmer
doubted, and the citizen protested:
"Bit 1 have been there and. know. "
"What You bin to Yurup?"
eyes"
"Bin in England and France?"
"I have" -,
"Bin to Rome and seen the ruins?'
eyes"
"Bin right in Paris?"
"I was there two months"
"By cracky, Maria ?; said the old
man, as he turned to his wife, "here IS
a feller who's bin all over Yurup and
rides with us hull half day before he
lets on a word! Why, the BlxDys
didn't 90 no further than Boston, and
the fust night they got home they kept
the hull town up till 2 o'clock in the
morning to tell about pavements and
pictur' halls and opera houses and
Street cars and door bells which would
ring by pressing on a button! WALL
wall Bin to Yurup and not Dragging
over it r'-Free Press.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
The Southern "'t.at0r.1,

Six thousand baby alligators are solo
in Florida every year, and the amount
of ivory ,number of skins, and guam
tity of oil obtained from the older
members of the Saurian family are
sufficient to entitle them to higls
place among the products of the State.
The hunters sci! young "gators" at
twenty-five dollars per hundred, and
the dealer from sevcnty-fve cents to
one dollar. Live alligators two years
old represent to the captor fifty cents
each, and to the dealer from two to
five dollars, as the season Of travel is
at it's height or far advanced. A. ten
foot alligator is worth ten dollars. and
one fourteen feet long twenty-five dol
lars to the hunter, while the dealer
charges twice or three times that
price. The eggs are worth to the
hunter fifty cents per dozen, and to the
dealer twenty-five cents each.
The dead alligator is quite as valu-
able as the live one, for a specimen
nine feet long and reasonably fat will
net both branches Of the trade as fol-
Jopyc
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A Row With an Alligator Skin.

DR.. Hamilton has discovered the
greatest living curiosity of the age.
Those who have examined testify that
it beats anything they ever saw. The
curiosityis in shape natural human
being. a colored boy, eighteen years Of
age, who was born Of slave parents
near Grenada, on the Mississippi-river,
in the State of Mississippi. from his
shoulders down his skin is just like
that of an alligator,~is th:ckly covered
with black scales and the whole is s
plable, though thick and tough, as the
hide on one Of these animals. In the
summer time these scales drop off,
leaving an indenture in the skin, where
new ones form and grow on again.
His name is Moses Eskridge and ne
came here durinA the exodus times
with his father AID stepmother.-To-
neka (Kansas) SPITE Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A Theory Unset.

The theory that photographs cannot
be taken at night was upset the other
dav when thief was marched up to
the bar in Il Justices court.
Judge-"What is the charge"
Officer" Stealing"
Stealing what?"
Officer" Stealing photographs"
Judge" When did he steal them"
Oficer-"Last night, yer honor"
Judge-"I will discharge the pris-
oner, for I know that thousands of dol
lars have been wasted in the attempt to
discover a process whereby pictures
could be taken at night. The prisoner
may go.-Car7 Pfstzels Weekly.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
AUMoROUs SKETCHES.
Snubbed Him.

Young Pease was "sweeS" on
Clara, but he didn't have the courage
to tell his love man fashion, so he went
to work in roundabout way.
"Do you know, Miss Pink" ne said,
"that Charley Green is terribly in love
with you?" ,
"How do you know that, Mr.
Pease ?" demanded Clara.
"Oh," replied Pease, II judge him
by myse:f." j.
"You Judge him by yourself, do
YOU :" said Clara; "well, then, please
Judge him only when you are BY your
self"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
JOB PRLNT,ITNG Or
DONE NEW1THNEA.TNEss AND DIsPA AToR
TEENS CASH. q! 8!
TOMORROW.

2 3 Z S Z
# we lie glad or sad, or grave or gay,
# sobs or laughter fill our throats today,
What will it matter when light fades to gray
Tomorrow
II we have now or love or bitter hate, aS
If s orn or pity on our pleadings wait,
The world will be the same whate FER our tate
Tomorrow.
Fret we to-day with hearts hot to the core
With keenst angus sh for what comes no ON more.
idle as drst the triHe we dsplore
Tomorrow. Ss5ss
The daises NOD ato7e our head, IS
Insensate s.eop we in our churchyard bee, y.
Twill nothing count how We o-day have ebled
To-mouoT. -
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
THE TIMES.
What are theys They're the mirror of ou

What are they They're the mirror of our
days.
Th' embodied spirit of nations life.
a hundred million beings manners, ways
: OF loving, hating, governing; of strife,
! OF hoping, fearing, sorrow, pleasure, pain.
The daily round Of things that come again.
They change and quickly, too, and still We
say
Those of today are not of yesterday.
THE old prefer the ones they knew when
young.
Women were fairer. swester songs were
sung.
Theyoung are satisfied with what they know,
4 And think those "tgood old''' ones were vary
slow.
Sothought and action ever onward range;
And, like our answer, yield to laws of
changes
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
A Lost Skull.

Giveadam Jones then arose to make
a few inquiries in the Watson case.
Some eight weeks ago Brother Watson
was left in charge of tho museum for
brief half hour while the regular
Official went out to work off a fifty
cent p'e ece with hole in it. During
this interval person representing
himself as the president of a new
medical college called and asked for
the loan of one of Plato's skulls to eN-
hibit before his class. .Rhe Lime-Kiln
has been at great pains and expense
to secure three of the genuine skulls
of this great philosopher, and had the
regular keeper Of the museum been IN
his place bribe of $4,000 would
not have tempted him to let one of
the sacred relics cu5 of his sight.
But Brother Watson allowed the stran-
ger to take one Of the skulls away
without a thought of, deceit, and no
trace Of e has inees beeirssfosif
Brother Watson was fined $1,000 and
a reward of $500 was offered for the
skull, and now Brother Jones arose to-
suggest a compromise. There were
only four copies Of Benjamin Frank
Inns favorite spelling book in existence,
and he had one Of them. He would
turn it in to take the place of the miss.
ing skull, and in case Brother Watson's
fine was Cancelled he would do his best
to secure for the museum the first cor
set ever worn in America. After
some argument the compromise was
effecte |. and such a burden was lifted
from the derelict brothers. shoulders
that he cried for joy.--Lime-Kiln Club.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

An exchange says the railroad of
the future will be run by electricity.
Then there'n be no more boiler ex-
plosioDs, but shocking accidents
wUl be more liable to occur than ever.
-PhiladstphiG Herald
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

Life is made up not of great sacri-
fees or duties, but of little things, of
which smiles and kindness and smau
obligations, given bahitnally, are what
win and preserve the heart.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

held out the tips other little fingers.
Goodbye she SAID, in voice full
of emotion; agoodsgye, you poor, poor
man." l ;issss rs.
The mother seized the child by the
hand and, hurrying through the boat,
gained the bridge. eW York Herald.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Mark Twain in Black und White.

New York Life gives brilliant pen
portrait of Mark Twain. His many
acquaintances will recognize the faith
fuiness of the picture in all its details:
Mark Twain, the renowned archeol-
ogist, poet and astronomer, is a lineal
descendant of the celebrated Twain
who were made one flesh. He was
born on Plymouth Rock, April l, l12o,
on remarkably cold morning, and the
administrators of the camphor and red
flannel department afterward stated
that he was the most remarkable baby
she had ever seen. At the early age
Of seven, Mark-for so he was
cruelty christened-Was already ad-
dicted to science, and his discovery,
made one year later, that a spring
cluthespin artistically applied to the
continuation of a cat would create in
that somnolent animal desire for
vigorous foreign travel, is still used by
the aborigines of Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts. When he was nineteen
Mark went through college. He en-
tered the front door, turpentlned the
rector's favorite cat, and graduated
the same evening over the fence. He
then started for California, Milwaukee
and other remote confines of the earth.
and began those remarkable series of
truthful anecdotes for which he is now
so Justly famed.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

GreatB is reducing her national
debt each year about as much as the
United States reduces it pr month. It.
is still about twice in amount that Of &
Che United States.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
THE DEALER.
SIG so

The value Of the head is ascertained
by the number and size of the teeth.
Dealers mount especially fine speci.
mems Of ths skull, but the greater
number have no othersYalue than that
Of the ivory they contain. he eoati-
a,snt.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

The bridge by which the Harrisburg
and Western railroad will enter Har-.
risburg will be- nearl two miles in
l,ngthe { and will cost ssS!O O0eo oea8
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Qbe Ginles allS gfut0f
SPECIAL. REoUEsTsl

/. All changes in advertisements
reach us on Friday. n. 4
2.-In writing to this office on 6nssn o.
always give your name and postolInllcse' &c
dress. .
3. Articles for publication should pe VI
ten in clear, legible hand, and on only Oh
side of Che page. "
4. Business letters and communlcatlons'
to be published should be written on separase
sheets, and the object OF eacn cieariy m m
dicated by necessary note when required.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Timely TOPICS.

There are, according to French
statistics, 48,487 sailing vessels in the
world, with a tonnage Of nearly A.
100000. England heads the list, and
then come in their order America,
Norway, Germany, Italy, Russia and
France. Great Britain has 4,3l7
steamers, carrying 5,50O,OOO tons.
Next comes America, with 5O4; then
France, with Ala.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

The attention lately devoted to
carrier or homing pigeons in this coun-
try, observes the New York SIM. may
seem to many a trivial pursuit, having
no good end in view beyond that 0! the
personal amusement of the tancler.
In reality, however, Il wide fiel Of use
fulness is opened to these birds on tn.
frontiers as courierS. They might be
nf great value in Indian warfare for
communicating between an expedlt on
and the fort from which it has hctn
sent out. In a country where there
are detached hills, and which is suli-
GENTLY far south to have few or no
snowstorms to change the appearance
of landmarks. these little messengers
would he specially efficient, since they
would never lie deceived in the land
scape. Where the telegraph is pros
trated by Storms, or is cut by IN enemy,
pigeons can swiftly carry back intclli-
gence to the permanent camp. They
are limited, of course, to travel by day
light, and unless the weather is clear
they may lose their way. Hence it is
unwisc to rely wholly or chiefly unon
them; but as an adjunct IN ssnling
messages back from a command in the
field to a military post, or from on" mill
tary post to another, they may be of
great importance. When men cannot
lie Immediately spared, or when
streams and roads are flooded, and or
dinary travel greatly delayed, these
little voyagers in the air may carry in
a day a message which would other
wise require ten. The experiments
tried with them at frontier posts dur
ing the past four years have been fay
orable, and the time devoted to their
training by the soldiers having them
in charge could hardly be better spent.
Should a timely cry for help, in Indian
hostilitie', ever be brought by pig
con, when no other messenger could
have proved adequate, the flight of
the little courier would be immortal
lied in poesy, like the famous rides of
history.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
Women are rigidly excluded from

Women are rlgldIy excluded Irom
St. Malo, place fifty miles from New
Orleans, inhabited by about half hum
dred Alalays. They have lived there
forty years, having originally deserted
from French ships, while little more
than boys. They are described as low,
ignorant and ferocious, with mixed
Chinese and Japanese features. They
live by fishing, and gambling among
themselves is about their only diver
sion. Their first leader had a wife,
and the story goes that in consequence
of the jealousies which her presence
aroused she was deliberately put out of
the way, and VOW taken never to
permit another of her sex in the
colony.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

The coal industries of the United
States now represent an annual pro-
duction of about 80,000,000 tons.
About three-fifths of this is anthra-
cite and fve-elgnths Dituminous. A
very small quantity of anthracite
comes from Rhode Island; otherwise
it is found exclusively in Pennsylva-
mia. Pennsylvania also produces
enough of the bituminous product to
entitle her to the reputation of fur
nishing three-fifths of all the coal used
in this country. Ohio follows next,
with 100000 tons or so. Illinois
ranks third and Maryland fourth.
When the southern and eastern parts
of Ohio are honeycombed with rail-
roads, state of things which is fast
being brought about, the showing of
the Buckeye State will be even better.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

It's Virtues as n nIedicine-Said to be euro
for Consumption, Dyspepsia and Other
Diaurdera Of tho Stomach.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

William P. Ross, the present chief
of the Cherokee indians, is graduate
of an Eastern college, remarkable for
intelligence and culture, and a fine
orator. The tribe occupies reserva-
ton of 100000 acres, bounded on
the north and east by Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. The Cherokees
of pure and mixed blood number TO-
336, about one-half of whom speak
the English language, which is the
cnly one taught in the schools.
In the entire male population
there are but sixteen whose
occupation is given in the last census
as hunters, and five fishermen, the great
majority being farmers. There are lO7
schools supported by the nation, a
male and female seminary for ad-
vanced pupils, and an orphan asylum.
There is regularly constituted gov
ernment and an adequate administra-
tion Of Justice. In short, the Cherokee
nation ;s pot Co :,e distinguished from
a frontier s,..se. except in the charac-
t..r u 4, :ltal. s, their relations to
the g"aer, government and tfreeitrr Sys--
ten Of nalJ!ng the land in common,
which affords an interesting example
of practical communism.