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, 1888-10-17
A Fortune from a Seeding.

Some years ago a woman living near
Buffalo, whose former home was in Euclid
township, was left a widow in straitened
circumstances. Her only means of liveli-
hood consisted of a small vineyard. Among
the varieties of grapes was a plant that
her husband had but recently set out as
al experiment. The puny vine bore that
season but n single bunch of grapes. 1t
is of purse well known that grapes are
raised from cuttings and roots and not
from seed. This woman, out of curiosity,
planted the seeds from one of the grapes
of this vine. They sprouted out and did
so well that the young vines were trans
planted, m when sufficiently developed
bore handsomely n variety of grape that
differed radically from the original seed.
1t was a luscious table grape.
A neighboring nurseryman had his at
tention Drawn to the new grape, and
made the woman a proposition to take
cuttings from the vines, give the variety
a name and put it IN the market, paying
her a royalty on all roots sold. She ac-
cepted, and in a few years reaped a small
fortune as her share of the profits from
the sale, as the grape became an immedi-
ate favorite. Forty thousand dollars in
royalties was paid to her by this nursery
man. She sold her little vineyard and
retired to live at ease the balance of her
days in her native town in New York
state on the money brought her from the
seeds of a single grape, planted almost by
chance.-Cleveland (O.) Cor. New York
Herald.
, 1888-10-17
The Great Ben of Noseow."

Inside the Kremlin are three cathedrals:
the Cathedral of the AnnunciatiOn, where
all the czars are baptized; the Cathedral
of the Assumption, where all are crowned,
and the Cathedral of the A~rchangel
Michael, where all the emperors were
buried up to the time of Peter the Great.
These are all, as are most of the churches
in Moscow, built in the Moorish style of
archituro and most deliberately decorated.
Recently, in the Church of the Assump-
ton, which was being renovated, several
very ancient pictures were brought to light
on the walls, and these nave been carefully
preserved. One of them represents sew
eral scenes from the life of Jonah, and Is
very unique in its way. On one side the
prophet is being thrown overheard from
an exceedingly rickety looking ship.
Then a creature with big eyes and n big
mouth and a tail (n all about Jonah's
size) is doing his best to take him in"
But the, browning masterpiece of the
whole picture is where Jonah-now safe
on land-is bidding the whale good-by in
the most elaborate and polite Russian
manne
Near by these churches is the tower of
Ivan the Great, very lofty and containing
some fifty-two bells, many of them of
very large size. At the foot of the tower
is the ''Tsar Kolokoi," or the King Bell"
'the great bell of Moscow" of which we
have heard all our lives. 1t is immense,
there is no doubt of that 1t is 20 feet
high and 60 feet in circumference and is
about 2 feet through in the thickest part;
but somehow we are disappointed and
have an idea that we have been imposed
upon because it isn't bigger, and we come
away with a feeling of sadness at having
one of our boyhood's most precious mem
cries whitfield down to such small dimen-
sions.-Henry M. Wright in Detroit Free
Press,
, 1888-10-17
John chinaman in Australia.

On gold fields that have been abandoned
by the whites, either because they ap-
peared to have been worked out or be-
cause the yield of the precious metal was
not sufficiently satisfactory in European
estimation, the Chinese always make a
good living, and sometimes secure valu-
able prizes. They enter into possession
of the abandopdCd workings, resume
operations in tho leisurely, methodic
fashion, and are Ct, 1nally rewarded for
their perseverance by the discovery of a
handsome nugget. But ''fossicking" is
their f~avorite pursuit on these deserted
fields. This consists in slowly and de-
iberately raking over the unsightly heaps
of upturned earth that are the dismal
mementoes of the white mans former
presence.
The vigilant eye of the Chinaman de-
tects in these hurried accommodations many
a minute particle of gold, and sometimes
a piece of quartz studded with the
precious metal that escaped the observa-
ton of his white predecessor; and there
is rarely q day on which he does not re-
turn to his ent in the evening the richer
for this process. In travelling through
the gold regions of Australia, no sight is
more familiar than the abandoned dig
gings, dotted here and there with the pa
tient, plodding Chinese, each bent low
with his handy little rake, Analysing the
contents of the white mans leavings, or
s~crutinizing the a~lluvial deposits in the
bed of the neighboring creek.-Chambers'
journal.
, 1888-10-17
The Army of Drnmmers.

The army of commercial travellers from
New York city alone has been estimated
ut sixty thousand, and, in my opinion,
that is below the number. Boston, Phila-
defPhia and Baltimore are pr~oportionateiy
represented, and there is scarcely o town
or eve a village in the east that has not
its contingent. In no other country has
the drummer such a field to cover as in
this. Many have the whole continent for
n foraging ground. and the experienced
thinks no more of going to San
Francisco or Mexico or st. Paul than he
does of going to Jersey City or Brooklyn.
The boys" as they are called, are known
individually to men in remote country
districts who have never left the shadow
of their native burg. Without them many
a hotel would close up and many n maiden
would sigh in vain for the latest" New
York fashions. They nave nearly super
seeded the picturesque peddler of our
grandfathers' days, for the store is
everywhere and the drummer follows the
store.
Every one who wants to sell anything
at wholesale is obliged to hire n drummer
or be left ehind in the race. The drum
mer's position, then, is always an import
ant one, and if he is a good salesman he
can demand a high salary. There are
some men on the road today getting
higher salaries than judges on the bench,
presidents of mercantile societies, and by
far the larger proportion of literary men.
So exacting, in fact, are its conditions
that to find one thorough in all require
ments is not very easy. There is nc
doubt, therefore, that in spite of occa-
sional an%noyances to tradesmen, the
drummer is n most useful trade institu-
ton. Like death and taxes, he has come
to stay, and never fails to pay us his call.
His mode of life cultivates an amazing
fortitude and check" The drummer
simon pure never ''funks." Good trade,
bad trade or no trade at all, he, like Ho-
ratio, takes with equal thanks. He may
60 for weeks without n sale, and then
atone for all by C grand Coupe. l..
Belts in The Epoch.
, 1888-10-17
A Word of Warming.

If you have any hereditary p~roneness to
consumption take care not to sleep, when
you go to health resorts, say, in Cannes or
Mentone, in rooms from which consump-
tive patients have just cleared out. The
congress of doctors which met recently
has pronounced that disease infectious,
but not from, perhaps, the breath. Dan
ger lies in the sufferer fromkit splitting
about, and, when the saliva dries, the
microbes in it being inhaled in the shape
of dust. Consumptive persons should
have rooms to themselves, make use of
spittoons, and they and all their sur
~roundings should be kept with Dutch
cleanliness and often disinfected. Cows
are also to be mistrusted. An oft MIXED
COW is sure to 20 into q decline, and her
milk and the meat her body furnishes
when she is handed over to the butcher
are equally dangerous. The goat is proof
against pulmonary consumption, and is
warmly recommended by the congress as
a nurse. TO delicate children who i'll
stomach boiled milk.-London Truth.
, 1888-10-17
Southern rusnIture in War Times.

As the years went by and the war went
ON household furniture persisted in the
using and had to be replaced. Worn out
carpets saw themselves renewed in pretty
colors and patters, rs bright and ser
viceable, though not so handsome as Will
ton. They came from the busy loom
rooms with restored capacity to keep out
the cold and deaden the clatter of the lit
tie wooden bottom shoes. Cozy rugs
were made of the most unexpected ma
t~erials, such us old shawls, flannel petit
coats, stockings the heels and toes of
which had forsaken them, and the like.
Curtains of quaint stripes and figures,
woven of stuffs from similar sources, shut
out the winds of winter, and gave comfort
and beauty to the rooms. Broken chairs and
decrepit sofas were replaced with others
constructed of homespun cloth and cotton
stufing upon frames of wood roughly put
together, or fashioned entirely of broom
straw from the old fields, bound together
IN ornamental shapes with hickory withes.
Sometimes interlaced grapevines made q
pretty and not uncomfortable chair or
sofa; and the common wooden frames,
oottomed with twisted shucks or oak
sphnts, abounded everywhere.
Many persons had their glass and china
ware destroyed during the war; and it
was Utmost impossible to replace it, even
at ruinous prices. Such articles were al.
ways eagerly sought for at auction sales,
and he who came determined to purchase
must needs have a plethoric purse. Por-
cel9n 4 e~arthenware of n coarse kind
we're manufactured from kaolin found in
the valley of Virginia and at other points
IN the south.-A. 9. Gordon in The Cen
turv
, 1888-10-17

The Chinese feel thau utmost repugnance
to any mutilation of the body, not on ac-
coun of the pain or the fSEr of death,
but because of the sentiment that it is q
mans duty to keep intact, as far as he
can, the body which his parents AVE be-
queathed to him. 1t forms part of that
system of flial piety which is the or
thodox religion of China, and has had it's
share in producing She Chinese dislike of
wars and revolutions. Patiently and IN
complainingly rs most Chinese will go
through n surgical operation, # is welt
known that they strongly object to am
putation, and it is often difficult to in
duce them to submit to it. They in
variably ask for the severed limb, which
they either keep in a box, to be buried
with the original owner on his death, or
they eat it. This latter method has the
c-ountenanceof antiquity; what is severed
from the body by accident or necessity is
returned to it.
A work which has beer called the Chi
nese prose "Iiad" records of a certain
hero that, when drawing out a stray
arrow which entered his eye in battle, the
eye came with the weapon, whereupon he
swallowed the former with great sang
froid, observing that fathers flesh and
mothers blood should not be thrown
away. Some commentators on the work
oog MAJ as "a bcHlpoIdly tNptuASilb bilS
was quite allowable, and even commend
able, but the regular course would be to
wrap up the eye and keep it until death.
Teeth are treated in much the same way.
Milk teeth are regarded as a mere make
shift of nature, and, therefore, not pos
sessed of the dignity of adult teeth. The
latter are carefully kept when they come
out, or they are ground to powder and
swallowed in water, for they are part of
the parents bequest. Another phase of
this subject is the practice, so frequently
commended by the emperor, of making
broth for a sick parent out of flesh cut
from the body of the child. The efficacy
of the practice is that it restores to the
parent a portion of his own essence.
Viceroys are constantly begging for spe-
cial rewards to be bestowed on children
who have mutilated themselves for this
purpose.-North China Herald.
, 1888-10-17
The Peach and Nectnrine.

There is a widely prevalent impression
yet a false one-that the peach and the
nectsrine are two distinct fruits. They
both nave one and the same parent,
Amygdalus Persica. and their identity is
proven by the fact that, though the one
has a smooth and the other q downy skin,
both have been frequently produced, not
only from the same tree but the self same
branch, and more than this, a peach has
been known to grow and mature with ono
of its sides smooth, like the nectarine,
and h other covered with the ordinary
fuzz or down. Between the peach and
the nectarine the French make no other
distinction than to call the latter the
smooth and the former the downy peach.
Table Talk.
, 1888-10-17

A few years ago, when the gambling
houses were running wide open, q young
man who held a good position, wiah more
responsibility than salary attached to it.
In q prominent down town Office, fell a
prey to the gambling passion. His salary
quickly exhausted at the fascinating game
of faro, it was but a short step to the cash
drawer of his employers, and he soon
found to his dismay that he was in the
hole to the extent of some hundreds of
dollars. Exposure seemed inevitable and
he visited a friend and solicited a loan of
-$20-Asked why he wanted it he told the
friend all and said he desired to leave town
to avoid arrest and humiliation. The
amount was forthcoming, but like many
others, he sought to win back his losings
with that small stake, and, finding this
impossible, he sought to drown his sorrow
in drink. The friend who loaned him the
money with which to leave town saw him
in a maudlin state in a hell on West Mad
ison street, and gave him up as lost. Here
endeth the first chapter.
The young victim of faro awoke the
next morning with a very large head and
in a fit of desperation. Taking a sudden
resolve, he visited his employers and
made a clean breast of his %follies, tempta-
tions ard crime. They liked the young
man, as he was bright and talented, and
Jney treated MIN Rlndly. Iney agreed
that if he would sign the pledge and alb
stain from gambling they would put him
in a position where he would nave no
temptation and would deduct from his
salary $50 per month until his defalcation
was made good. Well, he accepted the
proposition and held manfully to his
pledges. In a little over two years he had
discharged the debt and was attending
strictly to business in a way that gained
for him the admiration and good will of
the firms senior member. Last year the
junior member drew out and the young
man was given the partnership. A few
months G the head of the firm died, and
now the business is controlled by the
same young man whose whole life was
nearly wrecked by an unfortunate mis-
few who will be able to furnish the char
acters with their proper names.-Chicago
Herald.
, 1888-10-17

Dissipation is apt to engender a dizzy
rate. Like produces hke.-Pittsburg
Bulletin.
, 1888-10-17

The fishing for the Washington terri
tory canneries is lone with nets, and is
carried IN more extensively than any
where else on this continent. In the
fisheries and canneries fully 1000 men are
employed. The netting is mostly done at
night, and an idea Of the immensely of
the catch can be had when it is known that
over $3,0 600, 900 worth of the fish was sent
from the Columbia river district last year.
Net fishing is also carried on extensively
on b st. Lawrence and other Canadian
rivers.-Globe Democrat.
, 1888-10-17

The tailors of London are devoting their
attention to artistic tailoring and, Incl.
dentally, to art criticism from a profes.
sional point of view. They conclude that
few artists know how to properly portray
a Atter's clothes, and that in only one or
two of the pictures at the Royal academy
can the materials be recognized. They
praise Burne Jones' paintings without
stint, but Poynter is criticised because his
portrait of the earl Of Hardwood shows Ian
outside breast pocket on the right side of
mis- lordship's coat" and Halls picture of
Earl Spencer is "a miserable failure" as
the coat clocks more like moreen than
fur" The structures on the style, fit and
f~ashioling' OF the clothes seen in the por-
traits are no less severe.-Chicago News.
, 1888-10-17

Paper is now manufactured from sea
weed, according to a process recently in-
vented in Japan. The article made in
this way is said to be SO strong as to be
almost untearable, Is sufficiently transpa-
reat to admit of its being used as window
glass, and takes ell colors about equally
well
, 1888-10-17
Dr.. Nagasr&c,.
sPmCHAIIsTs.

We offer no apology for d~evoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class of
diseases, believing that no condition of human
ity is too wretched toeneritt the sympathy and
best services of the profession to which we be
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less a
philanthrophist anda benefactor to his race
tIHH the surgeon-eFPhysieiaR wholly close APP
plication eXcels IN any other b anch of his pro-
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
is dawning when the false philanthrophy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
for, has passed away.
YOUNG ME.N
Whomay be su ffering from the effects of youth.
ful follies or indiscretions will do well to avail
themselves of this the greatest boon ever laid
at the alter of suffering humanity. DIR. WAC
NER Will guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal weakness or pri-
waite disease of any kind or character which he
Undertakes and fails TO cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men of the age OF 30 to 60 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarIng or burning sensation and a weaker
ing of the system in n manner the patient cam
not account for. On examining the urinary de
posits a ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will ap-
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
hue, again changing to a dark and turbid APP
pearance. There are many men who die of
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
Wagner will guarantee a cure in all such
cases and a healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Repuhli-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DR.. WAGNER & co.
I4l4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27S3, Den
yer, Colorado.
Gu this out and take along
, 1888-10-17

Coal is worked in Kilkenny within ten
to twenty miles of three railways. but
there is no branch railway to the mines.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2 1888.

How can it be otherwise under the present
| system, by which the woman Is no longer
the heipmeet 20 the manl Well-to-do Amer
ican parents. although they are often
recklessly oxtravagant and indulge It TO
! their daughters, do not do t6eIr duty by
| them, AID that is why in SO macy eases
trey are left on their hands. In this re-
| spect t1ey might well take lesson from
some European nations, especially tile
French. In the umbleot.circlessin France,
as among the wealthiest, parents deem
1t their duty to give their daughters a
dowry, OF, as it is called, dot. 1t is per-
Iecuy true TINT most unions IN that
country are the results Of arrangement
between the families of both parties, but
thee is no reason to believe that there Is
a larger proportion of unhappy marriages
than with US. Indeed, tine French claim
that The perfection of welded bliss exists
among them in a greater degree. Mar
rage IN France is not therefore a burden
70 the man as it is in most instances in
America. The entire responsibility of
keeping his wife does not fall upon the
young Ffenchnan She has also some
thIng to contribute. It is an alliance for
mutual benefit from material point of
view. The husband has his income from
his business, the wife hers from her dowry.
and a common fund is formed, the alliance
thus being OF a thoroughly equitable basis.
Now there is nothing OF the sort in this
country. Numbers OF young women with
fortunes are sought for by impecuYious
men, who have made up their minds
to marry money but the average
American girl, the daughter of
well-to-do father, is psnniless bride To
the husband who has married her for
love only, it means additional cxpense-to
the wife, the shifting of the respons. bility for
her support from her father to that of her
husband. Now young man of refinement,
with an income Of say 81 900 year, would
not dream of asking a girl of social equality
with bim to marry, no matter how much he
might be in love with her. A union under
But suppose the girl, too, had
dot OF $1,000 a year, or even so ne
thing less, then the young couple could go
into housekeeping ami begin life under most
favorable auspices, conscious chat Ich is a
help to the other instead of burden 1t is
about time that American fathers realized
the responsibility Of having daughters,
aud instead Of frittering money
away on themselves should endeavor
to save money for them, either
by endowment insurance ror otherwise, so
that they may DO assured that eir
female offspring may become happy wives
Instead of sour old maids, who in most in
stances, have to wait for their parents
death to get any income at all The neces-
slty for the adoption of some such plan by
American fathers and mothers OF families
grows daily more apparent. Wnen this is
done there will BE- no more complaints {
the scarcity of young men at summer re-
sorts. B. b. VALENTINE.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02
A Druken Pocketbook.
From the Greensboro Ca Sun.

The following sign has been seen on the
bulletin board at the court house for soma
weeks past; ''Lost-a pickett ook was on a
big drunk. Finder will be literally re,
warded." We have watched the streets
closely for the past week in the hope OF
seeing a drunken pOcKetbook come webbing
up, when we would pounce upon it aud claim
the reward. 1t is pitiful to think of decent
pocketbook giving itself up to the abandon
ment OF the enticlng wine cup and getting
on "big drunk" 1t would be a sight,
indeed, 10 see full" pocketbook at this
season, and we are inclined to believe that
If it is on tear" it must have got drunk
ON ali empty stomach" and it will take it
some time to get over it. When it does it
viii come struggling up looking for SO e
bromide or such like to ''settle its nerves. u
Poor. misguided pochetbook.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02
BURGLARS AT AUGUSTA.
Three Arrests Madeleine Once WORK
ed in Savannah.

Three Arrests Madeleine Once Work
ed in Savannah.
AUGUSTA, GA, Sept. Three suspicious
arrests were made tonight by the police.
Augusta is infested already by hard look
ing set of fakirs and sharps, drawn here by
the exposition, and burglaries occur nightly.
John Lafarge and Lee Wheeler,
both young white men, were
arrested on suspicioa of cheating and
swindling an old shoemaker out of the price
of pair of shoes, and among the effects OF
one was complete set Of burglar tools,
with braces and bits for boring into iron.
They are reticent and refuse to say any
thing about confederate who the police
want for job.
Another case is that of a 13-year-old
white lad, giving the name of Willie
Roberts He says he came to Savannah
from New York a year ago and worked in
Alunayer's. He stole the keys of the jaui-
tor of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton and tonight at 11:30 o'clock was
arrested, after letting himself in with the
stolen keys. He says he only wanted to
sleep there, as he had no money and no
riends. Several punches CT keys found on
his person lead to belief that Willie, if not
connected with the burglar gang, was going
into the business on his own hook. The
chief of police will wire in the morning for
his record at Savannah