The Press., 1889-07-18

AFRICA ?-I have directly learned, from the best of authority that distillery firm within three miles of the Massachusetts state house has contract to furnish 1000 gallons of rum daily to the African trade for the next seven years. This would be equivalent to almost one million gallons annually. It will be surprise to many to learn that almost all the rum manufactur- ed in the United States is made within five miles of our state house. During the last six years the total quantity manufactured and deposited in the distillery warehouses of the country was II, 133, ,704 gallons, an average of 1,o55,617 gallons yearly, of which total the distilleries around the Hub made 10, ,460, 120 gallons, or 94 per cent. of all made ill this country. Almost all the liquor sent from the United States to curse Africa is sent from Boston. No other h- quor than that most accursed of all liquors, Boston rum, is sent from America to the "Dark Continent" Rev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester 5a the Coaagregationalist.
 "How does it feel to let go of the balloon when you you are two or three thousand feet in the air ?" said Thomas F. Grinley, the parachute jumper. "Pm sure can not tell. One comes down so rapidly he has hardly time to analyze his feelings. Macclain, my partner, compares the sensa- tion to that of being upset in the river. We cut loose from the balloon almost me- chanically, and before we realize we are loose we have shot down 8 couple of hun dred feet, and thereafter the remainder of the descent is easy It does not jar you until when you strike the ground, if you strike on your feet. In fact, there is less jarring to the system than if you jumped off of six foot high fence. Neither is there any appreciable difference in the air to the height which we attain. It is great deal purer, though, but not as rare- fled as you would suppose. "- Washington | Post.
 In the train. -Georgie, Georgie mind, your hat will be blown off if you lean so far out of the carriage.
 Paterfamilias Quickly snatching the hat from the head of refractory youngster, and hiding it behind his back)-There now, the hat has gone
 Georgie sets upa howl. After a while, his father remarks "Come, be quiet if I whistle your hat will come back again." Whistles and replaces hat on boys head) "There, it's back again, you see P
 versation, Georgie throws his hat out of the window, and says: s'Pa, whistle again !'-Soaa Francisco Argonaut.
 Few commodities offered to the public have come out of the crucial test of criticism in as good shape as has Brussels soap.
 Sanitary World: An extraordinary fal- can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul air from within. Most people prefer the latter-an unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one- half of all the dis eases we suffer from are occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one. In great cities night air is often the best and purest to be had in "A hours. One could better under stand shutting the windows in town during the day than during the night for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make the night the best time for airing the patient. One of our highest medical authorities on consump- tion and climate has told me that the air of London is never so good as after 10 o'clock at night Always air your room, then, from the outside air if possible. Windows are made to open, doors are made to shut | "a truth which seems extremely difficult | of apprehension. Every room must be aired from without, every passage from within.
 "Well, sir" said the old gentleman, ln- dignantly, "what are you doing around here again 1 thought the delicate hint I gave you just as you left the front door last night would give you to understand that don't like you very we'll" And the speaker looked at his boot in reminis- cent way. ~
 'It did," said the young man, as look of mingled pain and admiration came over his face. "But l thought would come and ask you"
 'Ask me what ?"
 eff you wouldn't like to join our foot ball association ?"
 l Twin boys having been born in Uncle Rastuss house, the serious question rose what names should be given them. A council was called.
 "Dar's one ting" sain Aunt Lizzie, ''dats got ter be tended to. Dem boys mus hab diff'runt initials, lessen deir handkerchiefs gets mixed up."
 "Dats so," said Uncle Rastus, reflect ively. Then, after pause, he added, "Well, I'll tell ye. We'll call 'em Edward and 'Ugene." ...~.
 A Dayton, Ohio, doctor recently ofici- ated at joyful event in the family of man, who, though excellent in many re- spects, is little slow in settling his med ical bills. The event had happily con- cluded, when the father nervously asked: I