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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-04

Puff and Teck Scarfs in Light Colors, suitable
for Summer Wear 4Oc to SOC. Cambria Handker-
chiefs, with woven borders, for CSC Jean
Drawers, 25c, SOC and 75c Linen Drawers, $l50
Feather-Weight Drawers, Soc to 75c. Corded
Front Bicycle Shirts Also Pleated and Lace
fronts in all colors, with a full set of studs to
each shirt. The assortment in these good are
very fine and prices low.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-04
STRAW
HATS! HATS! HATS F.!

In Children's Dress Straw Hats, in Mixed
Straw Hats, in Canton and Webster Braids
Mems Straw Hats in Hand Made Mackinaw
Milan, Dunstable and a variety of fancy braids
that our space will not permit us to mention.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
sIed:elno In India a.oOo Year. A;a.

Professor II. Kryn, of the University
Of Leyden. the distinguished author o.
many works on Oriental subjects, has
lately published history of Buddhism
iD India OF this n translation into
German has been published at Leipsic,
from which We extract the following
concise but complete account of the state
OF medical science IN India about 1900
years ago, as gathered from the set of
Buddhist works called the Mahavagga.
''ln sickness the religious orders might
take butter, clarified butter, honey and
sugar, but only as a medicine. Tho
Lord l5uddha also permitted the medi
clnal Use of five fat substances namely,
bears grease fish oil, guinea-pig fat,
PORK suet, and asses fat; also of the diff
fcrent roots which take very important
place in the Hindoo pharma ope a, such
as ginger, tiirneric, c;IlamlIs, and andro-
pogen. The preparation aud use of in
fused herbs and teas, the use of curative
leaves, fruits, and resins, of salt power,
eye -salye. even of raw flesh and blood,
the employment a. remedies
of snuffs and pipes for in
haling the smoke--all these things
were allowed by Buddha. The medical
system even included the following
cures: Salves for rubbing in. three kinds
of cupping glasses, many sorts of vapor
baths, plunge baths, blood letting, the
use of laneets for cutting out sores, cor
rosive fluids, gargles, baniages, means
for cleaning wounds, corro i've alkalies,
purgatiyes, clysters, etc. The catalogue
is sufficient to give one some idea of tho
state of Indian medicine at the time in
which the canonical writings the Mafia-
vagga) from which the details were
taken we're composed -
In another passage DR.. Kern mentions
that the Hin los smoked various sorts
Of herbs in pipes and cigars as we do to-
baceo, and that pipes are described in
the most ancient Indian works on tho
art of medicine.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
MIR. Ouaritch's $4,000 Bible.

Next came the celebrated Mazarn
Bible, described in the catalogue as
follows: biblia Sacra Latina NerSione
ct cum Prsfatione, 5. Hieronymi, two
volumes, the first edition of the Bible.
and the earliest book printed with metal
types, by the inventors of printing,
splendidly bounl in blue morocco. a
magnificent copy folio, Sine Nota Sed
Moguntie, per j. Gutenberg ct ]. Fust,
s.ca, 1450-55. This excessively rare
edition, of which copy sold in the
Perkins sale for 1880 pounds sterling.
has been designated the Mazarin Bible
ever since the discovery by Debure of a
copy in the library of Cardinal Mazarin.
1t is printed in double columns, in large
letters similar to those used by scribes
for church misSals and choral books,
and for firmness of paper, brightness of
ink and exact uniformity of impression
it has never been surpassed by any
other work. This remarks blebool was
started at 500 pounds sterling, and then
brisk competition took place between
Mr. Cuaritch and Mr.. Snowden, the
auct oneor's olerk, for its possession.
AT 3,lO) pounds sterling Mr.. Snowden
dropped out of the bidding and some
one else took it up, but eventually Mr..
t.uaritch secured the treasure for 5000
pounds sterling. amidst cheers.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
How Mime. Nilsson I:sIscd Her Price.
IIDondo1 World


Some fifteen or sixteen years aye, when
soirees werc fiourishing, when the anna
teurs had not yet learned to do " thout
the artists, when during the summer
season, some hundred private concerts
were given, Nine. Nilsson was in the
zenith of her first success at her ina es-
.y's, and was, of course, much invited
to such parties. One day she asked
could not give her an advice how to
get paid better without offending Nine
1iet ems, who was then the female chief
OF the troupe and took the now ridicul-
Gus price to which yet hope we will
return of 2j pounds sterling.
| sad: ~ Ou can not nSk more than
Nine. Tiet ems, anyhow; but what you
can do is to refuse ali these soirees when
ever you are asked, and say that the re-
hearsalS, etc fatigue you to such an
extent that you can not go to those late
parties and then get up early for the
rehearSals. And how will that help
me-" shJ asked. ''In this way You
say that you don't want to 20, and that
in order to be left alone you demand 50
pounds sterling; that you know very
well nobody will pay it, but that that is
luSJ NlldI you WANT. IDclleNe me, LIltTc
are a number of people who vii take
you Just because you ask so pounds
sterling, and you can then pose as a
victim who did all you could to get out
of it, but the people woul not LET 20 !. I"
Not a week passed, and she was engaged
for a party in Grosvenor square, and
played the whole scene just as arranged,
and, just as expected, the. people paid
her.
The funniest part of the story is, that
when she did slny, fri'nd of mine,
Jules lie ort, who sang in the same
party, came home AMI told me the whole
story Ct the 10 20 nds sterling, and the
reluctance of Nilsson, who was too weak
to stand the fatigue. etc. But the evil
consequence was that the moment she
went up with her price the others did
the same, and there was the end of big
party with great MANS except Tor thos
rich enough and willing to spend an
enormous sum. And that Is what
brought the amateurs forward to sing
for nothing: then they came from the
drawingroom to the concert-room; then
they toand that royalties were very
agreeable things TO ocket, and they be-
gan writingpolkas and valses and songs
and now there is no saying what they
will not do.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
Illinois Central Railroad.
GOING NORTH.

GOING NORTH.
No . EXPREsss--Leaves n. o.. .9:15 O. m
Arrives BroOkhaven, 2:5S .. III
Arrives atJackson, $40 p. nj
No. A ExPREss--Leaves MO, 700 n. m
Arrives BroOkhaven, 1l:40 u. m
Arrives at Jackson, LAC a. M
No. 9 MAiL-Leaves N. o.. $50 p. M
Arrives BrookhaveI, 10:27 p. III
Arrives at Jackson, 1890 a. IN
GOING SOUTH.
No. ExPR.-L'ves. jackson 1925 y. m
Leaves Brookhaven, ,12:57 a. M
Arrives at n. o., 200 a. m
No. 5. EXPR.-Leaves Jackson. lib y. III
Leaves Brookhaven, 3:27 D. m
Arrives at n. Orleans, S:45 u. M
No. 3 MAu-Leaves jackson. .1-47 a. m.
Leaves BrOOkhaven, $3.50 u. M
Arrives New Orleans, 900 a. m
Mas 3 and q make stops only at Canton
jackson, Crystal Springs, Hazlehurst,
Brock haven. McComb City, Tangipahoa,
Amite and Hammond.
No. q will not stop at flag stations.
Nos. 1, = and 5 do the local travel.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
No 8 mixed going north leaves Brook
haven at 9:05 A. NJ.
No. mixed going south leaves Brook
haven at 2:5S p NJ
70 Mixed Freights do not run on Sun
day and none goes south on Monday.
J.C. CLARKE, Grn. Manager.
w. COLEMAN. A. G. p. Ass-t.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Wales Personal Appeara nee.

The prince is always dressed to per-
fectiOn. In the evening, even at the
theatre, he is gloyed, and invariably
wears white waistcoat with his dress
suit. On leaving, he puts ON a cape
coat known as "the Inverness. In the
summer, when ''the season" Is at its
full, ne is fond of wearing suit of
pearl-gra cloth, made with frock
coat. He is always gloved, has a flower
in his buttOnhole, and wear, a tall
gray felt hat. T.. X. ii. would be calle 1
a handsome mau of a somewhat over
ripe type. The premature badness
although he still tries to part the we'll
nigh lmperccptible loc&s-only makes
him the more distinguished. The care
fully-trimmed golden brown beard veil.
full lips the eyes bulge out and arc
somewhat too prominent-the left eve
lid has nervous trick of contracting
which is not wink. but a mannerism:
and the nose, while shapely, is perhaps
trifle too long for regularity. The ex-
preston Gf the countenance is very
genial, but conveys an expression of
ShrewdncsS.
When the prince speaks, German an
cent betrays itself-the result of his
early education. Altogether, although
II. r. II. has been grossly hbeled in
that cleverly- written, Lut somewhat ex-
travag.lt French novel, Son AlteSse."
his portrait, physically, has been well
sketched by its accomplished and auda-
eious author. Men who arc thought to
look like the prince are Sir Charles
Dixie and Mr.. John Clayton, and Mr..
Henry James
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
THE REVOLVER NOT MODERN.
The Earliest Specimen-So Ingenius
Weapons Danger.

The Earliest Specimcn-Some Ingenius
Weapons Danger.
1.-THE Gun and It's Development"1
There is common notion that the
revolver is very modern weapon, but
this is far from true, since among the
first arms made, revolving cannons are
found, and the revolver principle was,
soon after the invention of portable
guns, applied to them also. One of the
earliest known was an arquebus with
four chambers, in the Tower collection,
and once the property Of Henry VIII.
The barrel is over two feet long and the
bore about half an inch, with a sepa-
rate flash pan for each chamber Gov
cred with Siding lid, and moved in
succession under the lock. The Paris
museum has three barreled Thecl-lock
gun, the chambers being moved by the
hand, while in the same institution
there is a sixchambered pistol, the
mechanism being similar to that of the
gun, and 10th dating from the early
part of the seventeenth century.
The Birmingham museum has an
Italian three -chambe-ed pistol of the
same century. 1t is Of ingenious mana-
facture, one cock serving for all three
barrels, and the barrels being brought
into position by the hand and retained
there by spring catch. Revolving
carbines on the same principle were
quite common during the eighteenth
century, and several are preserved
which are provided with six or seven
short chambers, each in turn connecting
with long barrel, as in the case of tn,
ordinary revolver now in use. The ef
fort at repeating arms was also early
made, and many guns are preserved in
whiea provision was made for ha.f
dozen charges, being placed one on top
of the other and fired successively by
different locks.
There are also many kinds of maya
zine guns showing wonderful ingenuity
in their construction, since in some of
them, by the single operation of cock
ing the piece, the gun is loaded, primed
and made ready for firing Others con
tain a magazine in the breech having
the powder, and another in the barrel
holding the balls, the movement of a
crank loa ling the piece. None of these
can be said to have been successful, the
difficulties to be encountered being to-
great, since there were three charges to
be provided for, the powder, the pruning
and the ball, whilo the modern magazine
guns have all these contained in single
air-tight cartridge. The insuperable o5-
lection to the old fashioned maga .ine
gun was the danger of wholesale ex-
plosion which so frequently happened
that they fell into dsrepute and finally
diSuse.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Gum and Ma;henaticS.
Macon tGaD Telegraph


The question of whether or no tle
chewing of gum in schools and colleges
affects the pupil as to his studies has
been mooted ono since gum chewing
became so popular. 1t was left tor
Macon school teacher to put the matter
to a test and determine the question.
friday afternoon, as certain school
was being dismissed, she gave out that
the class in arithmetic, composed of
twelve bright pupils of both sexes, would
be divided on the following Monday.
tx of the pupils'were to provide them
selves with moderate allowance of
frst-class chewing gum; the other six
were to be gumlesS.
Accordingly, on Monday morning
there were six bright scholars armed to
the teeth with chewing gum. Their
jaws were working like so many steaW
triphammers, and they were eager for
the fray. From the arithmetic the
teacher selected twenty nine problems
and then the class buckied. down to bus
iness. The other ,hOlars stopped nudg-
ing each other and looked over their
biographies and grammars at the do en-
youngsters who We're to decide q very
important educational question. The
teacher began to throw the mathemat-
ical problems into the class like so many
javelinS. The tolu- mashers warded off
the blows and held their ground Before
half the problems were given out it was
evident to the school that the tolu-
trOublers had more gum in them than
they had been given credit for Finally
the. twenty nine problems were given.
and on counting up the score it was
found that the chewers of gum had cor
rectly answered twenty-one, while tho
gumless six had only eight ply
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
GEORGE AUGUSTUS sALA
A p5an of Varied Career and E1traord1n-
AIRY Versatility.

Boston Globe.l
A most versatile and attractive writer,
Mr.. Sala is fortunate in having at his
command so many resources, for every
article in the collection is turned 10 ac-
count, and serves its purpose. There is
no better read man England. and it is
largely due to his untiring spirit of work
that he is alle to do so much, and to
have such remarkable knowledge on
so many of the great subjects which in
tcrest ma. and.
between the ages Of 8 and o." says
The London World in its mention of
Sala among the celebrities of the ii ne
"he was ab, ,olutely blind by reason of a
severe in.lammatOry attack; and at y he
couil neither read nor write. This was
the time when a dear sister read to MIN
by the hour, and when his wonderful
memory had its early training. Fairy
stories, novels, history, travels, scores
of books supposed to be beyond the
comprehension of children, were read
and listened to greeIily. 30 that when
the child of 10 was sent with eyesight
restored to the ollege Bourbon at
Paris he went ignorant, it is true, of
some things most young people know,
but verSed in the ways of a particularly
bright and cheerful world, AMI with his
head stored with the ia is,
fancics and images he had
made his own from hearing
and memmonic faculties were his chief
resource AMI solac,. At the college he
stayed two years, having as fou1 fel-
lows two sons of Casimir Delavigne and
Alexandra Dumas, the younger, when
he carried away the first prize in
history and the first in mathematics. At
Bolton house, a ! estalo .zian school to
whi h young Sala next went, he was
equally successful At the public ex-
animation in 1872 he demonstrated sew
eral problems in mathematics, played
upon the fiddle, recited an anacreonbic
ode, played the ptrts of Brutus in
Julius & esar, OF william Tell in Ger
man, of Sganarclle in Moliere's 81"
Medicin Aalgre i.ui,' beside taking
subordinate parts in 'OedipuS Tyran-
nus, AID the "Adelphi of TGren {.
After his schoo ing years ala became
our pupil, AMI, at ncccsSity's call, be
was even when youth a carl aturist, a
% dlI'l
graver Lyen TIE theatre claimed hi
services for hile-nominally as as
s.Stant TO Il scene painter at the Princess,
London, but really as general utility
man. 1t was not till 1850, that Sala
entered the great literary field witt
much success. From the day tina
Charles Dickens published, in House,
hold Words, his story, THE Key of tn,
World, a new era began for the young
man. 1t was Dickens vino encouraged
him and especially urged his entrance
ino the LIFTS of journalism; and tn,
great novelist was always his warm
friend.
Everybody Knows how varied has
been Sala's work. as au esSayist not less
than as journalist. He has touched
a multitude OF topics, and touched them
all well. As a lecturer Sala's success
has been extraordinary. He is as enter
tanning on the platform az in converse
tion, and no man in ingiand better
knows how to tall, and to talk we'll
His ser ices are in great demand IN Eng
land. Whether it he literature or ad
venture Sala has always something
say worth h airing.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Minute Screws.
tPhrenologica Journal. ]

IFhTthOIOgIca JOufnaII
A newspaper correspondent describes
the American watch manufactory at
Waltham, Mass. and in speaking OF the
astonishing minuteness of some very
essential parts of the watch, says; "A
small heap of grain was shown to us,
looking like iron filings; or grains of
pepper from pepper-caster-apparently
the mere dust of the machine which
turned them eut-and these. when ex-
amined with microscope, were seen to
he perfect screws, each to be driven to
its place with a erew-driver. 1t is one
of the statistics of Waltham worth re-
membering, that single pound Of
steel, costing but so cents, is thus man
ufacturtd into 10000 screws. which
are worth $l1. s- fseeH ers sstaw
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Growth of the Hom"ly "Guber."
O,,iO n

The rcanut grows very much like q
sweet potato, and the vine resembles the
red clover. Whenever a new Leaf starts
out a tcndril is formed, which extends
into the ground The avesayo yield is
from thirty to seventy bushels to the
acre, and there are about 100 peanuts
on each vine. The arti le is good one
for speculation, and money can be made
by Judicious investments. because pea,
nuts do not deterioratc with age and
keep their taste for years. The expensc
of raising them is twice that of corn
The reason of this is that the fruit must
be picked by hand, which is slow
and labOriOus The average annual
consumption is over 2,000,O 900 bushels
The experiment of cultivating peanuts
In California was re emily attempted
with signal success, and the Golden state
will PROBABLY become a rival of Virginia
as a apeanut-proluclny locality A few
are raised in North Carolina, Missouri,
and Arkansas, Lut the two states re-
ferrcd to grow nine tenths of all the
peanuts used in the world. A good
deal of skill is required in haliuling
gIber>. They are shipped in the rough,
and the process of cleaning and grading
is done by the wholesale purchaser The
peanuts are emptied from sacks in a
large bin and are run through a fan
which separates the chat. Passing
down through another fan, the light
nuts are thrown aside and the meaty
ones run along a groove, when the
black and inferior stock is picked up by
girls, andwhenl the nuts reach the pack
ing room there are two grades. bur
ing the various processes through which
they are sent the nuts beeome clean and
polished. Of course they must be
roasted before people will eat them.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16


Most OF the meat preserved in tins is
in the course OF that process exposed to
a higher degree of temperature, or is so
exposed for longer period, than is
usual with fresh meat cooked in the or
dinary way. The result is an ''over-
cooked" condition of the Wand, shown
by the peculiar diSintegrated and sodIen
state of its tissues points whi h ara
practically re ,liled, by the way, IN tho
preparation of animal infusions intended
to the artificial cultivation of micro
organisms in the laboratory; and, when
expos d to the air, it thus presents a soil
specially favorable for the implantation
of putrefactiye germs, and for their
rapid extension throughout its mass.
In common parlance, it "goes bad"
more readily and more quickly than is
the case with ordinary cooked butchers
meat subjected to similar exposure; and
slight degree of taint apparent in such
canned food is a more serious matter
than the same thing occurring in re-
Gently cooked ioint This is distinc-
tion probably not always insisted on, by
those me nbers of the poorer classes of
the community who are accustomed to
eating scraps of meat bought cheaply
late Saturday night in the state de-
scribed as being little off" Nor can
it be imagined that prolonged storage
is entirely without its effect. Although
perfectly sound when canned and her
meticallv sealed, the lapse of time is
almost certainly attended with gradual
molecular changes; and though under
the conditions supposed these cannot be
of putrefactiye nature, they are of a
kind which favor the rapid onset and
extension of decomposition when once
the necessary exposure to the air has
taken place,
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16

q
To the eastern man China town is a
matter of most novel interest. Out of
Dupont and Kearny streets, so like Chi
cago or New York, in one minute we
turned a sharp corner, left the dull
shops behind and plunged into by
street Of, say Hong Kong, Canton,
Pekin. 1t was noon of Saturday, a
market day, and an hour when all the
heather of Chinadom. released from
labor, were tral ersing the street. Only,
except the face of or companion, the
tide of humanity, ebbying and furry
ing along the narrow sidewalk, was
Monaghan. The air was resonant with
vocal hieroglyphics. Every figure ever
seen on fan, panel, folding book,
tea caddy, fire paper, seemed
to have been released, and
in flesh and blood, walking
about in blu, blouse and pig tail.
Never did an indefatigable nation so
perpetuate faithful facsimilies of itself,
its people, customs and fashions as the
Chinese do in the grotesque, high
colored paper with which they cover
and wrap every article of their mer-
chandise." The streets were narrow,
the shops small; indeed, most of the
shops on jackson street were part side
walk, part cellar stair, part cellar and
part back bed room.
Descriptions of the joss houses and
the theatre have grown familiar to
everyone, and in, the seeing of them
there is much disappointment. I advise
anyone, rather, to read Helen Hunt
delightful pen,picture of the Chinese
theatre than to undergo the disgusting
reality. AS for underground China
town at night, trust also to degradation,
the dirt, the. stencil. the deformity,
seen in the opium. .oint and the leper
den.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Punishment in the French Army.

II dIIh OUf. NtWdTk AuVtTlIseFI
II is asserted that the ''crapaudine'
20 called frsl the victims resemblance
70 a toad-is still praeticed in the for
eign legion of the French army. The
French view the cat-o'-nine tails to be
an institution that could only exist in
England. In the erapaudine the un-
fortunate is trussed; fingers and toes are
tied; then he is slung from tree and
receives the bastinado in full Chinese or
Turkish fosm Next, he is left exposed
TO the burning sun.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1855.
oe MhssA OBJ be sHesPFcL,.
lDetroit Free Press. |

Detroit Free Press.
De mas-a oh de sheepfor
Dat guards de shespfoP bin.
Look out in de gloomerin' msadDws
Whar de long nigitrain be gin
10 he call to de hirelin' shepa'd
Is my sheep-is dey all come inf
o den says de hirelin' shepad,
Dey's some; dey's black and thin,
AMI some, dey's po' oil wsddI's,
But lie rest, dey's all brung in,
But de rest, deys all brung in.
Den de ma sa OBJ de sheepfor
Dat guards de sheepfor bin,
Cos down to de gloomerin' meadows
Whar de long night-rain bagin;
He le' down de bars OBJ de she5pfoP,
Calm sof-"come in, com, in"
Calm sof-"come in, come in!'
Den up t'ro' de gloomerin' meadows
T'ro' de de col night-rain aa4 win
Ami up t'ro' de gloomerin' rain-pur,
Wild de slent-fR D e'cin' thin.
D. ro' los sheap ob dc she ptoP
Day all COM gadderin' in,
De pO los sheep OBJ de sheepfop
Dey all COM gadderin' in.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
Citation Notice.

To all persons having or claiming any legal or
equitable interest in the following described
lands sold for taxes on the 7th day of March,
1881, viz: Northeast quarter and east half OF
nOrthwes. quarter and northwest quarter OF
northwest quarter OF section u, township s.
range east, in Lincoln county, Mississippi
You are commanded to appear before
the Chancery Court of the county of Lin
coin in said State ON 3. -.fs.
the 4th Monday in June. 1885.
to defend the suit therein OF L. p. Dong
las against you to confirm his tax title to
said lands.
March I8, 1885. .....-,i .-s.-.
7. NJ. MARTIN, Chancery Clerk.
w. X. SPENCER, Compl. Solicitor.