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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
SELECT SIFTINGS.

An English experimenter finds that,
contrary to general opinion, growth OF
ivy over house renders the interior en-
tirely free from moisture.
The Malays, who freqently find an
cient stone axes in the soil, call them
I" thunderstones," believing that they
proceed from thunderbots.
BARRIERS near Mono Lake, California,
whose watcris heavy with salts of sodium
and bora1, use it as natural shampoo
ing water, to the satisfaction of their
customers.
Georgia planters kill good many
crows and the way of doing it is thus de,
scribed: "Catch one of the birds, tic il
to your body, and walk through the
field with your gun cooked and finger on on
the trigger. The cries of the bird will
cause others of its tribe to flock around
you and they can then be easily shot"
The following process of preserving
-four is being carried on near Utrecht,
Holland: The flour is placed in large
vat or chest and heated to certain tenn
perature by the use of steampipes. II
is then subjected to hydraulic pressure,
which reduces it to brick form. In
water-tight packages -four thus prepared
is said to keep fresh for years.
George E. PIN, of West Goshen,
Penn, has a calf that has no eyes moi
the least sign of tail. Where the eyes
should be there are two small round
holes or sockets, but no eye-balls.
Where the tail is usually appended the
skin is as smooth and even as on the
sides of the youthful bovine. It is per
fectly healthy, and appears to enjoy life
as we'll as any of the rest of the calves,
but has to do it in more quiet way.
According to the american Railroader,
it costs a little more than twenty cents
mile to run locomotive, on the aver
age. Nearly eight cents of this is fol
fuel, seven and one quarter cents for pay
of engineer and fireman, one-half cent
for oil and waste and more than four and
half cents for repair. "A ton of coal
will run locomotive twenty-four miles,
! pint OF oil will run eleven miles and q
pound of waste 1913 miles. The locomo'
lives of a railway like the Northwestern
run half-million of miles month.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
What Hundred. Eyed Animals See

If the lobster's eye consists Of more
than a hundred separate eyelets, each
with its own lens, what sort of a picture
- 4,.uoe,.--.u,o-a-a-
4see2 Does he see hundred different
images of the same object2 AS he crawls
along the rocky sea-bottom in congenial
haunts, where the willy fishermen temp
his epicurean appetite with his favorte
food, does he see hundred lobster-pots
where there is only ones Does the single
whelk-bait within look like hundred
tempting morsels? The same question
would apply to the lobster's enemies,
great fishes with fat, pavement-like
teeth, which easily crush through the
armor plates which form his she'll. Sup
posing the lobster to multiply such ene-
mics usually by the hundred: his life
could scarcely be said to be happy
one. The question thus raised is an
interesting one, especially as it applies
not only to Holsters, but also to all in
sects. For instance, does the housefy,
with its 1900 eyelets, see 1000 house
maids dusting the .window-pane when
there is really only one9 Does the
cabbage butterfly with its $1,000 eye.
lets, see every cabbage multiplied
1900 times9 And does the dragon
fly in the same way see $4,000
turquoise -colored companions hawk
ing about Ivy the pond side when
there is only one. The problem has
been fought over by biologists " b
much vigor until quite recently. T c
advocates of the multiple vision theory,
astonishing as that theory may seem,
have not been wanting; but eventually
the advocates of the single vision theory
are now in possession of the well-fought
field. Whitever be the number of eye
lets, or the number Of pictures received
on the cornea, it is the retina which re-
ceives the ultimate impression from cx-
ternal objects. The delicate, subtle and
mysterious nerve ends which we call the
retina are the ultimate sensory apparatus
which determines what shall be seen.
The conclusion arrived at is briefly this.
Apart from the lenses and cones in front,
the lobster's or insects eye is hollow
sphere pierced by numerous close-set
perforations, running down the facets
toward the centre of the sphere. Only
those rays can reach the retina which run
in the axis of the perforation. Other
rays than the axial rays are required to
produce complete picture at the retinal
end of each perforation. 1t follows that
the light-impressions caused by the
axial rays, whose number corresponds
with the separate nerve rods, form SIN
gle picture or "mosaic" of points of sight
on the retina. na.-Leisure Hour.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

The subject and facts of longevity
have been made almost a life's study by
Professor Humphrey, Of London. His
investigations show that in the first year
of life the mortality among males is much
greater than among females-the latter,
therefore, have the start of the former at
the very beginning, in inherent vitality.
The average height of women he has
found to be FIVE feet three inches and of
men FIVE feet six inches; in pulse and
respiration, also, the women have the ad-
vantage, showing eighty-ninc in COM
parison with the mems sevcnty-three,
while the latter's respiration is nineteen
as against twenty-five of the weaker sex.
The bones of men and women which. up
to maturity, increased in weight, alter
that period lost considerably, though
with no decrease in size, but more often
an increase, to which latter fact may be
attributed the bony appearance presented
by many old people. The average num-
Der of teeth in men AMI women above
eighty years of age was six and three
respectfully. The greater proportion or
these old-lived people, Professor Hum
phrey found, came of long-lived families.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

California carries on large business
in sea shells, which are gathered on its
coast and shipped to Europe. One firm
has contract to ship forty tons of shells
every sixty days. They arc worth from
500 to $1,000 per ton. They are used
in all kinds of decorative industries, re-
turning to the United States from France
vastly increased in price, when trans
formed into pearl buttons, brooches,
shawl clasps, knife handles, or inlaid
work. .Tahita shells, large fat mother
of-pcarl shells, are worth from s1,50 to
81 each, and the finest selected pairs arc
sometimes sold for as much as $50.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
The Waste Of Life.

An English naturalist remarks that 1t
is q sad reflection that while the turbot
lays 1000, 900 eggs, not more than one,
on an average, ever lives to reach matur-
ity. In fish generally it takes yearly at
least hundred thousand eggs for each
individual, to keep up the average of the
species. In frogs and amphibians few
hundred are amply sufficient. Reptiles
often lay only much smaller number:
In birds which hatch their own eggs and
feed their young, from ten to two eggs
per annum are quite sufficient to re-
plenish the earth. Among mammals,
three or four at birth is rare number,
and many of the larger sorts produce one
calf or foal at time only. In the human
race at large, a total of five or six chill
dren for each married couple during a
whole life time makes up sufficiently for
infant mortality and all other sources OF
loss, though among savages far higher
rate is usually necessary. In England
an average of four and half children per
family suffices to keep the population
stationary.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

In the opinion of NJ. Gambler, Chief
Roadmaster of the French Government
railways, the lest plan yet discovered
for consolidating, by the interlacing of
its roots, the loose soil of newly made
embankment is the double poppy. Ten
years trial has enabled NJ. Gambler, as
he says, to guarantee that the poppy will
be found far more efficient for this pur-
pose than any of the grasses or clovers
usually employed; and while these re-
quire several months for the develop
ment of their comparatively feeble roots,
the double poppy terminates in a few
days, and in two weeks grows enough to
give some protection to the slope, while
at the end of three or four months the
roots, which are ten or twelve inches
long, are found to have interlaced so as
to retain the earth far more firmly than
those of any grass or grain. Although
the plant is an annual, it sows itself
after the first year, and with little care
the bank is always in good condition.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
HALF OF MY LIFE.

"Half of my life is gone, and have let
The years slip from me, and have not full
filed
The aspiration Of my youth to build
Some tower Of song with lofty parapet.
Not incidence, or pleasure, nor the fret
Of restless passions that would not be
stilled;
Butsorrow and care that almost killed,
Kept me from what may accomplish yet,
Though halfway up the hill, see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and
sights;
A city in the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleam-
ing lights,
And hear above me, on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far laundering from
the heights"
-Lonafello,c, from his Biography.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
WISE WORDS.

The purest treasure mortal times af-
ford is spotless reputation.
If any one says ill of you, let your. life
be so that none will believe him.
Life is quarry, out Of which we are
to mold and chisel and complete char
acter.
Faith is letting down our nets into un-
transparent deeps, not knowing what we
shall take.
Some peoples hearts are shrunk in
them like dried nuts. You can hear
them rattle as they walk.
For want of determination many
are like travellers skilled in other coun-
tries but ignorant of their own.
Pain itself is not without its allevia-
tions. It may be violent and frequent,
but it is seldom both violent and long
continued, and its pauses and intermis,
sions become positive pleasures. 1t has
the power Of shedding satisfaction over
intervals of ease, which, I believe, few
enjoyments exceed.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Hints and Recipes.
Wash the hair in cold sage tea.

Wash the hair in cold sage tea.
To remove INK stains soak in sour milk
over night.
To brighten and clean old alapaca
wash in coffee.
To brighten carpets sprinkle with 1t
before sweeping.
When cooking beans add one-half tea
spoon of saleratusr ,
To polish stove rub with newspaper
instead OF brush.
Mix stove polish with vinegar and a
teaspoonful of sugar.
To remove tea stains from cups and
saucers scour with ashes.
Soft waffles-One quart of milk, four
eggs, one-quarteE of a pound of butter,
yeast; to be made as thin as pan cakes.
To remove grease from wall paper lay
several folds of .blotting paper on the
spot and hold a hot iron near it until the
grease is absorbed,
Crackers that a4aRot fresh can be made
to appear so by lifting them into hot
aEi9 taS sAaE ,Sag Mstsstl sRtll hlfssEil ssze
brown and spoil them.
Agood potato, when cut, will show a
light cream color, and white froth will
be the result produced by rubbing the
cut surface together. Reject that variety
where drops of water appear. Another
test IS to put potatoes into solution of
salts; the good will sink, the poor float.
Bishops bread-Beat fourteen ounces
of sugar with the yolks of six eggs and
the whites of three for half an hour.
The add slowly eight ounces of flour,
six ounces of blanched almonds cut in
thin strips, six ounces of raisins and
three ounces of citron cut in fine pieces.
Pour in wcll-gressed pan and bake
slowly.
To bleach sponge, soak it well in
dilute muriatic acid twelve hours. Wash
we'll with water to remove the lime, then
immcrse it in solution of hyposulphitc
of soda, to which dilute muriatic acid
has been added aNmoment before. After
it i, bleached sufficiently remove it,
wash it again and dry it. 1t may thus
be blcached almost. snow white.
Birds ne:t pudding-Peel and core
eight tart apples; in each hollow stuff
sugar and little cinnamon; make bat
ter of pint of -four, spoonful of corn
starch, large teaspoonful of baking
powder and a spoonful of melted butter.
Mix with milk TO the consistency of
drop. cake, pour over the applies and
bake three-quarters of an hour. Eat
with sauce.
Petroleum jelly serves to clean and
take away all traces of dirt from the
hands after work in the shop or labo-
ratory. For that purpose, you need only
rub the hands with small amount of the
jelly, which, penetrating into the pores
of the skin, Incorporates itself with the
greasy matters which are there. Wash
them with warm water and CASTLE soap,
and the hands become cleansed and soft
cned.
A palatable supper dish-Line veg
etable dish with well-seasoned mashed
potatoes; leave large space in the
centre, wet it over with the white of an
egg, or with milk sweetened with very
little sugar, and put it in the oven to
brown delicately; take about two dozen
oysters, and little milk, with butter,
pepper and salt, and let it come to
boil on the top of the stove. Put in
with the oysters few thin slices of cold
roast beef; when this is sufficiently
heated and the oysters cooked, pour it
into the space left in the otato-lined
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
shhib-woarms.

There are several species OF WI
popularity called iship-worms, whRs
ordinarily included under the n; ]
teredo. Although they have wore
appearance, they are not wormsu
shell-bearing mollusks as much z z
common long-necked clam" of t !
lantic coast of the United States. le
The teredo is not particular ass
kind of timber into which it bore
always goes with the grain, unla,
meets with some obstacle, such asI
or very hard knot. tits not believedi
the wood it perforates furnishes any n
ment to the animal, but that its sn,
ance is derived entirely from the I
which is constantly passing through
body.
Upon the water fronts of San
cisco, I have known (says q writerJ
of Oregon pine and fir, over a fd
diameter, rendered worthless in eigv
months, and have heard of even q
rapid destruction of wharf piles
harbor of the city. In the case
came under my notice as above, the
of the pile had not lost its original
ness when it had to be removed froI
wharf, and new one put in its pla
One case occurred of the destr,
of the supports of a small pair OF p
six weeks. The money loss cntai
these little mollusks upon private
and business corporations cngag
commercial marine enterprises, o
tie naval equipment and appurten
is enormous, and has led to q mum
experiments by governments and
ors, for the protection of woodwor
in marine structures; but from the
of experiments, it is believed Il
constitution of the ship-worm is 4
proof.
The palmetto tree of the So
States is said to be never bored
ship-worm, and some Australian.
have similar i'm hunity.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

DR.. Carver, the crack shot, says that
an orange hit in the exact centre by a
rife ball will vanish at once from sight.
''Such is the fact" he writes, land that
is my way of making an orange disap-
pear" Another way that takes less
practice is to buy, beg or convey an
orange, peel it carefully, separate the
compartments and put them into the
mouth one at time, holding napkin
under the chin.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
An Armor Plate That No Shot Can
Pierce,

The latest victory in the long drawn
match between the gun and the armor
plate has been scored in favor of armor.
At Spezzia a German chilled steel
armor plate, five feet nine inches in
thickness, weighing 100 tons, was fixed
against the face of the cliff, and battered
with chilled shot from the 1O0-ton gun.
A thunderbolt weighing almost exactly a
ton was hurled against the face of the
plate by the explosion of y cwt. of
powder without producing more than a
Slight indentdtion and some tritling
cracks. Three shots failed to make any
serious impression on the plate, which
has thus come off victor in the struggle.
1t would seem that no shot yet invented
will 60 through six feet of chilled steel.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Always ready to strike-In
man.
The interests of the butchers a
at steak.
If the night air is unwholeso
do owls live SO long.-Nati0nat
Before marriage q girl speaks
lover with her eyes; after maria
her tongue.-Lye.
A man must look up and be
particularly when he is trying
from jug.-Pieayatne.
They have fogs so dense in
that the citizens use them to stun
and mattresses with. Washtn9toj
Somebody has written q book 4
''What Shall my Son be2" Has
as a baseball player2 II not, !
still ope.-CaU.
Glove is blind" True, true1
Young man never discovers the az
it is too late to escape in q
manner.-PMladelphia Item.
tits boldly asserted that; the AZ
hen is notaping her duty. She
around doing nothing, and exp
patent incubators to carry the he'
of the contract. .-Phiadelphio Ca
"Now, miss" concluded q p
young Pittsburger, I've gwen
bird's-eye view of the whole
Have I not!' "You have" was
wildering response; "a goose's.,%' :
burg Bulletin. I. Vi .
A man in Lawrence, Kan. has
rested for burglary. He attem
prove an alibi by declaring that
been out fishing, but he couldn't
any fish and was held for trial :. !.
a state of things. IA string OF n
lutely necessary to prove that q,
been fishing! This is agai2611l|
dent.-Kaasas City Jo,1
He called at six,
- Until the midnig
And iSwas two
Was angry at tn
At length she salt
a--tats-as "a . 80 Y t.Sttsta ~!
S =; How solp his eyes She oeene IS
twas then the Attle maid reps&
cat least you're open to inn
I see you're in the eight
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
Anatomical.

The members of class that had been
studying the rudiments of physiology
were asked to give their Impressions on
paper of what they had learned, ard one
of them gravely wrote: Our coliar. bones
are situated under our chins." This idea
is certainly capable of very liberal appll'
cation. All of us have seen Buys in posi-
tions where their knees were directly
under their chins. Another bright pupil
put pen to paper to say: "If we did not
have any backbones we could not SIT
down" True enough Who ever heard
of an oyster sitting downS-Ros'o" B"d
get.
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The Clearly Japs.

The Japanese are very cleanly
habits, and the bath tub is in d
1t is large and high, with a char
mace in one side which heats tl
A lid sometimes encloses the
the top excepting a space jy
enough for the head of the
emerge through.
Before visiting Japan mysel
read that the natives sometin1
these tubs with the water bubbl
them at boiling heat, but this
case. They certainly use water
higher temperature than wou
sistent with our ideas of con
they do not boil themselves
Companion.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

At a recent Mexican bull fight just
across the Rio Grandc from Brownsville,
Texas, Que of the bulls broke through
the enclosure and began climbing up the
benches. Women screamed and tainted,
men scrambled to get out of the way,
and general fusillade began, every man
near enough popping away at the bull,
who succumbed with thirty bullets in his
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

The temperance hospital just estab-
lished ia Chicago under the lead OF Miss
Frances Willard is the second Of its kind
in the world, the first one having been
founded in London in 1878. Alcohol
can only be administered in cases where
q council of physicians decides that moth
ing else can avail.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08
periments have recently been mad

SperlmentS nave recently Oeen madc
!. Younger, of San Francisco, on the
SUBJECT of the transportation of teeth,
with view to their growth in the new
position. 1t would appear that, if proper
precautions be taken to secure perfect
opposition and cleanliness, the operation
is often attended with success, and pos
sesses many advantages over the use of
false teeth. The Inflammation of the
gums, however, is somewhat persistent,
aud constitutes drawback, from the in
convenience which results therefrom.
Recourse to this method is more particu-
larly indicated when the teeth to be re-
placed are front teeth, and essential both
for appearances sake, and for perfect ar
ticulation.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

One of the forest curiosities OF the
Isthmus of Darien and lower Central
America is the tree killer (matapaloy,
This starts in life as q climber upon the
trunks of large forest trees, and, owing
to its marvelously rapid growth, soon
reaches the lower branches. 1t then be-
gins to throw out many shoots, which en-
twine themselves all around the trunk
and branches, and also aerial tendrils,
Sh, as soon as they reach the ground
root. In few years this gigantic
Eite will completely envelop the trunk
tree which has upheld it, and kill
-, whole of the inner dead tree
----.-~s,, ,,'sEseavIng rffe hollow
anding alone and flourish
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The Pen.

Every graceful shaded lin.
Strength and beauty does 1
IT'S the penman's pride toI
Each fair curve without q
Records of all deeds and [
Boosters brag and poets
Rude or artful, still must 3
Only writ, bright pen, by
Oh! what power for goo1
Kept in hands that show; =
Surely for such power a
Swift to act and strong
Tempered like Damascu
Even, true and perfect
Th' pen! the unrivaled
Leads the roll with livif
And exalts the race
By tracing deeds of liv
Not for foul purpose vi
Stained with sin or evi
-Penn,an's
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

John Wright, noted tKief-catcher in
the mountains of East Tennessee, has
killed thirty-three men in the last twenty
years. All of them were killed in self.
defense.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-08

Chicago handled 1000, 900 hogs, more
than 2, 900, 900 cattle, and 132, 600, 600
bushels of grain last year.