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Big Gold Nuggets.

Nuggets are the delight of q miners
heart. Some pretty big fellows have been
found now and then, and there is no
good reason why gold picked up in
chunks weighing one and even two
pounds should not some day turn up in
Jumps and huge powders of fifty pounds
Or more. The largest gold nugget ever
found in the world was discovered in
1853 in the Ballaret diggings, Victoria,
Australia, and we ghed 2,168 ounces
troy. It was very pure gold, and sold
for $43,5S0 This mammoth nugget was
called the 'sWelcome," and for many
gears was reckoned one of the modern
seven wonders of the world.
Since the finding of the "Welcome''
many big nuggets have been picked up
in various parts of the world. Int none
equal to the great wonder of Ballaret.
Two have been found worth $21, 900, one
10000, two $4,000, one $4,000, four
IS, 900, twelve worth from 5000 to
$4,000, and eighteen from $1,000 to
$4,000. California must be credited with
the greatest number of nuggets, the an
nails of gold-mining in that State during
the last thirty years showing numberless
others, besides some of the large ones
above mentioned, worth from $190 to
$500. One nugget was found in Snow
shoe Gulch, in Montana, in 1865, which
weighed 17S ounces, and was sold for
So, $50. Another large lump of simon
pure gold was picked'up in the summer
of 1866, in Nelson Gulch, worth 50, 073.
An Indian boy found another shining fell
low in Scratch Gravel bottom in 1875,
which brought him about one-third its
value-viz., $500.
The frst piece of gold found in Cali
fornia was worth fifty cents and the Sec
ond Eve dollars. This first treasure is
no larger than pea, but it is perhaps
the most remarkable: piece of metal in
the worlds history. 1t is the identical
glittering particle that first caught the
eye of James Marshall in Suffers mill
race, in California, tlirty-nine years ago.
That tiny, glittering particle has added
to the gold Of the world nearly billion
and a half. This historical nugget is
now among the collection of gems in the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
The total production of gold in the
world during the four years ending with
1885, was 10, 396 tons, equal in value to
$7,411, 797, $50. Valuing gold at $1s.69
per ounce, cubic inch of gold is worth
$21O, cubic foot s3G2, ss5, and cubic
yard So, ,797, 1852. A cubic foot Of gold
weighs 1900 pounds avoirdupois, and
81, 900, 900 would, therefore, be a little
less than cube of three feet. At the
commencement of the Christian era there
was in the world only $427, ,000, 900 in
gold. At the time America was dis
covered this had dim nished to $50, OOO,-
900. Then the new world opened up
her vast treasure-vaults and constant
stream of wealth came pouring forth
which has not CEASED yet.
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The Carrying Power Of Water.

The carrying or transporting power OF
water increases as the sixth power of the
velocity-a prodigious rate of increase,
as may be inferred from the fact
that a stream having q velocity six
times as great as another will be able to
transport material weighing As, ,656 times
as much as that carried by the slower
stream. The data from which engineers
commonly calculate the effect of a scour
on o river bottom are about as follows:
A stream flowing with velocity Of three
inches per second barely produced an ef-
feet on fine clay; six inches per second
will raise fine sand; eight inches per sec
ond will raise sand of the coarseness OF
linseed; twelve inches per second will
sweep along fine gravel; twenty-four
inches per second Cor one and one-thlrd
miles per hour) will carry pebbles OF
about one inch diameter; thirty-six
inches per second (Which is about two
miles per hour, or about two-thirds the
rate Of speed of moderate walk) will
sweep along fragments the size OF an
egg.-Boston Budget.
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Church and Saloon.

There are twelve saloons to every
church and twelve bar-keepers to every
minister. The church opens its doors
two or three days in the week. The sa-
loon grinds On and on with its mill OF
destruction oil the. days of every week,
all the months of every year. That we
are out-numbered is not all. We are OUT
generated as we'll. The people OF the
rum shop propose in their hearts not only
to mar and neutralize, but to obllterate
and displace the lessons of church and
Sunday-school. They have studied
carefully the tastes, tendencies and pref
erences of boys and young men, their
natural and innocent taste for variety,
fondness for amusement, preferences for
young company, and they pander to all
these in ways that take hold upon death.
Frances E. Willard.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

The young Of the condor, at their home
in the heights of the Andes, remain in
the nest for year, being fed by the pa
rents until they are able to fly.
A gigantic sca-weed, more than 1900
feet long has been found near the equa-
tor by the ship "Clever," Captain John
Stone, portions being taken to Montevi-
deo.
A calculation made of the figures CT q
mile-long railroad train drawn by sim
gle locomotive, establishes that there
were 3,252 tons weight on this train,
which was drawn by single tifty-tve-
ton engine. This would be more than
the weight of many steamships with
their cargoes.
1t has been found by Dr. TAFT that the
ear in women can perceive higher notes,
that is, sounds with greater number OF
vibrations per second, than the ear in
men. The highest limit of human hear
ing is Somewhere between 41,000 and
$4,000 vibrations per second. Few per-
sons have equal sensibility to acute
sounds in both ears, the right ear usually
hearing higher note than the left. The
lowest continuous sounds have about six
teen vibrations per second.
A new French clock contains a novel
application of the magnet. The clock
appears like tamborine with circle of
flowers painted on its parchment head.
Around the circle crawl two bees, the
larger requiring twelve hours to complete
the circuit, while the smaller makes it
every hour. The flowers represent four
divisions, and the bees, which are OF
iron, are moved by two magnets, carried
just under the membrane, by the clock
work inside the tamborine.
According to the calculations made by
a scientific writer lately, it requires a
prodigious amount Of vegetable matter
to form layer of coal, the estimate being
that it would really take million years
to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The
United States has an area of between
300, 900 and 400, 900 square miles of coal
fields. 100000, 000 tons of coal being
mined from these fields in one year, or
enough to rim ring around the earth at
the equator FIVE and one-half feet wide
and five and one-half feet thick; the
quantity being sufficient to supply the
whole world for period Of 1900 to
1000 years.
The four feet of an ordinary OK will
make pint of meats foot oil. Not a
bone of any animal is thrown away.
Many cattle's shin bones are shipped. +. to
England for the making of knife handles,
where they bring $40 per ton. The
thigh bones are the most valuable, being
worth $50 per ton for cutting into tooth
brush handles. The fore-ltg bones are
worth $50 per ton, and are made into
collar buttons, parasol handles and jew
elry, though Sleeps legs are the staple
parasol handles The water in which the
bones are boiled is reduced to glue, and
the dust which comes from saving the
bones is fed to cattle and poultry.
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Labor and LIQUOR.

In Master Workman Powderly's latest
address to the Knights of Labor through
out the country, he used the following
noble, and what we regard, historic
words:
To our drinking members I extend the
hand of kindness. I hate the uses to
which rum has been put, but it is my
duty to reach down and lift up the men
who have fallen viatims to the use of
liquor. Ifthere is such man within the
sound Of the secretary's voice when this
is read, I ask him to stand erect on the
floor of his assembly, raise his hand to
heaven, and repeat with me these words:
II am Knig ght of Labor. I believe
that every man should be free from the
curse of slavery, whether the slavery ap-
pears in the shape of monopoly, usury or
intemperance. The frmest link in the
chain of oppression is the one / forge
when I drown manhood and reason in
drink. What if one moments forgetful-
ness or inattention to duty while drunk
brings defeat to the least of labor's plan,
lifetime of attention to duty alone can
repair the loss. promise never again to
put myself in such position"
Mr.. Powderly wields vast influence
over the laboring people of this country.
If he can direct that influence so as to
measurably decrease the amount OF
drunkenness among the working classes
he will earn the right to be called one of
labor's greatest benefactors. Doubtless
laboring men have suffered indignities at
the hands of monopolies; but there has
been no evil which they have struggled
under which can compare in its malign
effects and devastating influence with the
evil of the alcoholic appetite. In the
general growth of temperance sentiment
that is now observed throughout the
country. it is gratifying to see this new
and powerful adjunct of the labor organ
ization keeping abreast with the ad-
vanced positions of the day. The cause
of temperance is the cause of labor.
Every step of advancement in this direc-
ton marks stage in advance of the
emancipation of the laborer from the
yilest and most abject slavery that has
ever enthralled the race.-Lynn (Nass.,)
Union.
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TEMPERANCE Notes.

A drunkard is defined to be man
who tried to be o moderate drinker and
failed.
General Neal Dow is preparing book
IN the topic of Prohibition.
Judge Fitzgerald, of the police court
of Cincinnati, in an outspoken letter to
the saloon-keepers' Association on the
terrible curse of drunkenness, says: "Out
of the 1000 persons whose cases I have
disposed of since the 1st of last January,
over ninety per cent. of their crimes Is
chargeable to intemperance.
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A Temperance Lecture.

The old colored mans illustration.
would not stand the test of rhetoric, since
it was evidently invented for the occa-
sion, but if the Pitts5ury Chronicle has
reported the story correctly the moral
was of the right sort. Said the old man;
".Mind me, my bredern an my sissern,
of annecote wonce heerd when was
nigh. about pickanniny. Oar was a
shot ho'n kali a rambling ob'hisseif down
a shady lane, when wot should he see but
Mr.. snaik lying on de- ground with
big rock on his he'd. Says Mr. Kalf,
Watts de matter of youp Says Mr..
Snaik: please, Mr.. KALI, to, take dis
stone often my he'd Dunno says Mr..
Kali. "Spec' you'll bite me- 'Deed,
no. says Mr.. Snaik; you take de stone
off, an fo' de Lo'd I'll nebber bite YOU
So Mr.. KALI he Knocked de, stone often
Mr.. Snaik's head. (which way you
gwine, Mr.. Kalf7' says Mr.: Snaik. Down
dis way said Mr.. KALI. So dey started
off togedder. Bime-by Mr.. Snaik say:
Mr.. KALI, guess I'll bite YOU Why
said Mr.: KALI, you said you wouldn't
bite me; Z turned you loose 4 know
dat, says Mr.. Snaik, but T KANT help it; ;
it's my nature WELL says Nh. Kali,
'we'll leave dat queschum to de fust pus-
son we meet Well, de fust pusson dey
met was a fox. Mr.. Fox says Mr.: Kali,
I TUX stone often Mr.. Snaik's he'd
while back an he promised he wouldn't
bite me. An now he wants to bite any.
how WELL says Mr.. Fox, de only
way dat can arborate the matter is to
see de 'rig'nal persishuns of de parties
So dey went back an Mr.. snsik laid his
self down, and Mr.. KALI put de stone on
his he'd. Now says Mr.. Fox, dat am
de 'rig'nal persishuns oh de 'sputants, am
ita' Dey bof said it was. 'Well,' sed
Mr.: Fox, Mr.. KALI, you just 60 bout
yo' bis'ness an MIR. Snaik won't bite you.'
Dessit, my bredern, dessit. You mus
put de- stone on de he'd an gwine about
yo' bis'ness, an the snaik won't bite
yon."
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RELIGIOUS READING.

A Prayer.
God Of the mountain.
God OF the storm,
God of the flowers,
God Of the worm,
God Of the sun,
God of the beautiful,
God Of each one,
Breathe on our spirits thy love and thy heal
ing,
Teach us content with thy fatherly dealing;
Teach us to love thee,
To love one another, brother his brother;
And make us all free
Free from the bondage Of old superstition,
Free from contempt Of our comrades and
neighbor,
Help u, each one to fulfil his true mission;
And teach Us It's noble, it's godlike to Ia.
b1r
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save the conduct Of Him who came
from his home on high to physician our
wounds and weep our griefs and die our
deaths and turn this Leper's Isle Of world
into a aparadisaical garden. Whether,employer
or employe may we acknowledge that spirit!
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In Springfield, Mass, on q recent sun
day, ten clergymen called on their par
ishioners for an expression of opinion IN
regard to restricting the liquor traffic.
Slips of paper were distributed In the
news with the words: "The undersigned
desires to sustain the aldermen IN the
utmost restriction of license" and re.
ceived many hundred signatures.
The Hon. B. Fl. Hill, of Atlanta, Ga,
saws that of the 700 criminals he has con.
victed, 600 committed their crimes while
under the influence of whisky.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT..

An Adage From the Orient.
At the punch-bowl's brink,
Let the thirsty think
What they say in Japan:
"First the man takes drink,
Then the drink takes drink,
Then the drink takes the man!n
e R. Sll.in IadeDendant
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Christ is the key to the history of the
world. Not only does all harmonize with
the mission of Christ; all is subordinated
to it. When saw this it was to me as
wonderful and surprising as the light
which Paul saw on his way to Damascus
-Von Muller.
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demonstrated Many of these employers re
member their own early struggles. They re
1nemter when the first yard Of nankeen wa!
measured by their hands, and the first pount
of tea weighed, and the first baluster turned
and the first roof shingled. They know a
sixty or seventy years Of age just how bo,
feels between ten and fifteen. They know
sixty or seventy or eighty years of age JUS
how q young man feels between twenty an
thirty. All those employers were not
originally let down out of heaven on pulleys
Of silk in a wicker basket satin linel, fann.d
by cherubic wings. No, no. They started in
the rcughest cradle, on the rocker Of which
them into the cold world. Ittakes an old
man who has been through the struggles Of
life to sympathize with q boy. Oh, my
friends, not only be kind and sympathetic to
those who are in your employ, but see that
your boss workmen, your head clerks, do not
abuse and maltreat those under them. There
are things going on in the cellars and lofts or
our great manufacturing and commercial
establishments that are simply outrageou' =
There are some men who get little
brief authority in store or factory, and the
strut about as though the world belonged 10
them, and they maltreat those under them.
1t is your business, oh employer, to know
what goes on in your store. These poor TEL
lows cannot fight their own battles, their
arms are weak now. After while they can
take care of themselves. You look after
them now. Let no one, however significant,
in your employ be imposed upon. And as
YOU look into the faces Of your clerks remerl-
ber that some of them have a history.
the world. He is an orphan. He
has been struggling for himself. He was
thrown into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
a plank was thrown after him and he was
told to swim ashore. That young man has a
history-that other young man. He is worse
off than the orphan. His father was a
drunkard. He remembers his father
coming homeland that is about his
first remembrance Of him-insoxicated
and many a time has that boy stood b."
tween bis father and mother keeping
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ment securities, are they keeping their ac-
counts right with God9 The credit account
of mercies received and the debit account OF
sins pardoned. Oh, ye drygood merchants,
out fabrics Of apparel for the foot,
the hand, the back-are they to
20 unclothed into eternityi Oh, grocery
merchants, shall your young men who are
dealing out the fabrics, dealing out the food,
the food for the body and the food for the
community, shall they at last starve to
deatha Oh. manufacturers, with SO many
pulling, and so many new patterns
turned out, and so many goods shipped,
what are the car men, what are the spinner5,
what are the draymen to do? What will be
their destiny in the eternal world? I put
this morning upon the brow and upon the
shoulder and the heart Of every manufac-
turer in this assembly the solemn obligation
of looking after the present and the eternal
welfare OF your employees. You cannot escape
from it. God puts it upon you Oh, let
US live less for ourselves and live more for
others. I think it was three or four years
ago was in San Francisco and man had
Just arrived from the Sandwich Islands, and
he said one Of the Sandwich Islands is
called the Isle OF the Lepers, and all
islands are sent to that island, and
all who die there die Of leprosy. He said
physician on one OF the other islands always
had glove on his hand, and people won.
dered why be alwa IS wore that glove. None
had seen him without that glove. One day,
this physiciaa came to the city authorities
and withdrew his glove, and said: There
is the spot of the leprosy. I am doomed 10
die. I could hide this longer, but am a
physician. 1t is selfish for me to hide this
any longer. Let me go to the Isle of Lepers,
and while my life lasts let me take care OF
those who are worse off than | am: Send
me to the Isle Of the Lepers." The city
authorities seeing this, Of course were
bound to take charge of him, land
the physician bade goodbye to his
family. 1t was sad goodbye
He knew he would never see them again. He
went to the Is,e Of Lepers and there toiled in
the alleviation OF suffering until God took
him to the eternal rest. All, it was magnif-
cent, was it not for that physician to live and
die for others Nothing ever surpassed Is
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
nssf for Hesre,E Consua.er,.

There Is . great dedI Of meat killed here
for the consumption Of the Jewish popu-
hilton. and the method OF killing Is very
different from that adopted by the Gen
tiles The cattle are uaAeu from tie
stalls. tied by tho hind legs, ropes a-e
fastened sround their heads, and their
noses thrown up so that their threats are
exposed, and then their throats are cut
This operation is always performed by an
o-lE-r Of the Jewish church. who alone
handles the meat and Pre-9res il for tie
market. He must be g skilIful man, not
q say q courageous one, for il IS no small
matter TO handle these big cattle and cut
their tlroats This throat c1sti1g Is a
revolving ight. and the animal expires II
great agony, falling IN a pool Of brood
The Instrument Used is q long knne,
with the very keeIest possible edge. It
IS drawn once across IN animals throat,
sinking deep into the neck. which Il some
times nearly sewers from the body. The
killing must be done Ut one stroke Two
would be regarded as mutlaston, and
mutilated beasts viii not be eaten by the
Jews.
After the killing. the knit. is cleaned
until It is absolutely spotIess. and IT Is
then wrapped IN several layers Of cloth
and put away where no Gentle hands
may touch It. AL this killing and dress
ing IS done according 70 the laws OF the
Jewish church established and adhered to
from time inInemorial. The person who
performs the Office is vested with the eu-
tho-ity ot the jewish church. and it IS for
him 10 see that the beast. "A every part,
internal and external. Is IL perfect ccndi-
ton. else the carcass must be rejected
The Caeat. when cleaned and dressed, IS
hung up in the ordinary way. but each
separate and distinct piece must have the
seal Of the synagogue affixed 10 Il This
ceremonial Is performed by the slaugh-
terer lighting a stick Of sealing WAX with
d candle. aad then iE.Pcessing it with his
seal. which is then tied through slit in
the meat made by another kntfe. Thus
evc7y Identical Parcel % flesh intended for
Jewish consumption is dressed ind sealei.
and 1t nay be interesting 10 note here
that the Jews only use the forequarter,
rejecting the hi1dqusrter altogesher.-
Boston Herald.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
nSiGns-s Lea:hery Sandwiches.

Railway Refreshments il England are
pgoveroially dear and bad, BIZ. they are
certainly getting verse. The SIT down
neal is respectable. and the plases OF eggs
and ccld meats aHs ea-s5le. but the buns
and sandwiches and there IS, or would bs,
az immense bun and sandwich p1bliel are
simply atrociccs. As . rule, everything
under glass cover is stale, Is Il posi-
bic th2t the great firm wttch contracts
t0r SO many CT our railway stations csa be
aware of the disgTsoef1i way "A which the
hand TO mouth refreshments are thrown
OF the public: Why do lot they appoint
periodical inspectors. Charged 10 taste ths
v=syside buns, etc: Perhaps 10 che can
Be got 10 co the tasting II the present
stsSe OF affairs + lSoyld be 20 Hzh:
ordeal Anyhow, the sandwich market Is
simply being ruined fer want Of little
butter. mustard and flesh bread Tie
two penny sandwich is fazd-d-y and
t2steIess-wLile the bun Is alsosy-lez
.2-tssS-Rsl Nal G-zs.se.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
Office and Yards on Mosley street. between
Dougiss avenue and kirss street
The Accumulation of Manuscripts.

NOW. il VII hardly Re said tEat there
are net zlore than two hundred and fifty
people il tLiS country VINO earn their hv-
ing by tl1cir pens. 10 not know the e1-
act figures; nobody does; but should not
be surprised TO learn that there were at
least twenty times as many. and what
beeo1.cs Of al the work that these people
produce? ) great deal is taken up by the
cheap and obscure magazines, by the
weekly story papers, and By the daily
papers which are reached by the cornpsra-
lively new syndicate system But all
these are not enough. arm yet these are
al there are There Still remain thou
sands of writer's who have no vehicle foI
Their productions, even when these are
such as the editors CT tie magazines and
papers would Ike to print.
Every editor viii tell you land tell you
truly, in spite of the slseyticis-n Of many
Of the rejected that Whit is offered would
te gladly accepted. we're not the number
OF accepted and paid for contributions
ALREADY IA excess Of what the nsEazine
can ever hGpe TO use. TIE Century and
Earper's, for e-anple, have IN their draw
ers MSS. enough 10 Ell at least two years
issue: many OF these MSS. have been Kept
FIVE years; some longer yet; occasionally
they viii return & paid for contribution
70 the author IF r, with permission &c
sell it again It might even occur that q
magazine would accept FIRST rate article,
scarcely expecting 70 Dc able 20 usei il. but
IN order 10 preTeIlt rival from p1oltsh-
inc it. Cannot assert that this has been
dane; but II is by 10 means impossible
What is true Of the great r,sgaziaes Is
true il proportion of tao lesser ones The
supply exceeds the demand; ard II nc
ezahcr were 70 write line from new
Until 1891. the periodicals would Still have
barely exhausted their over a5u1ian5 sur
pfx--Jriaa hawthorne II Bekord's-