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Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Educated Africans.

A remarkable story is told in recent issue of the Paris Societe de Geographic records. M. Camille Douls recounts the experience he underwent in jour ney in Northwestern Africa. Disguised as a native, it appears he landed on the west coast near Garnet, several hundred miles south of Morocco, pretending to the people of that region that he had been shipwrecked. At first ho was roughly dealt with, but finally he gained the confidence of his captors, and after five months wanderings, by dint of craft he made his way to Morocco. Here his disguise was discovered and he was thrown into prison, to be released pres ently at the instigation of the British minister.
 The adventures recorded arc of inter- est, as they give new version to tho popular story of the great desert. The Oulad De.im, into whose hands M Douls fell, he says are unusually intelligent. They speak pure Arabic, founded upon the constant study of the Koran. They are homogeneous, and treat their wives with the greatest affection and respect as equals of the men. The girls share the education of the boys, learning to read and write with them; hence, the women show an intellectual and moral elevation far beyond that of any other Moslem women.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
A Marvellous Walking Stick.

A walking stick for tourists and bot anists, recently patented in Germany by Herr Herb, of Pulsnitz, is furnished with the following articles: One sido of the handle is signal call, and on the other side can be fixed knife (which is above the ferrule). In the middle of tho handle is compass. The handle itself can be screwed off, and within is a small microscope with six object glass es. In the stick, under the han dle, is vessel containing ether or chloroform. Outside the stick there is inserted on one side thermometer, and on the other side sand or minute glass. Above the ferrule is the knife already referred to, and to the ferrule can be screwed botanist's g spatula, or an ice point for glacier parties. Lastly, a meter measure is adapted to the stick. A small ham, mer and blowpipe are nee led to make it suitable for gcologists as well as natu- ralists. -Ma1 end Express.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
SOaping Geysers.

At recent meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers Dr. Ray mond described the interesting discov- cry made by Chinese laundry-that soap thrown into a dormant geyser caused an eruption in every way similar to its actual working. Tourists with little time at their command have util- ized this fact to accelerate action in tho famous dormant gcysers of the Yellow. stone Park, and have found their at- tempt successful. This process of stim- ulating geyscrs became very popular un- til the park authorities put stop to it and enforced the rule against thro wing objects of any kind into the springs. It was found that concentrated lye put up in half pound cans, was most conve- nient for use, being equivalent to scv- erA bars of soap.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Concerning a National Flower.

The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott wants the Mayfower adopted as our National flower, and so do MT. James Parton, Admiral Porter, Professor John Fisk and MT. Lawrence Godkin. Am ,ng tho partisans of the noble Goldcnrod, which is away ahead of all other com- petitors in the race, arc the Rev. Drs. Phillips Brooks, Howard Crosby and Morgan Dix, the Rev. Brooke Here ford, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, John G. Whittier, Sen ator Hawley, ex-Judgc Noah Davis, and Messrs. Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, T. V. Powdcrly and Joseph Cook. Tho little band of advocates of the Mountain Laurel is headed by Mrs. Margaret De- land and the Rev. Minot J. Savage.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Coating for a Ships Bottom.

What cons titutes a proper coating for a vessels under water lines has long been a mootcd question. The Atlanta was originally given coat of anti-cor- rosive paint next to her plating, and an outside coat supposed to be proof against the attack of barnacles. An examina- tion of the cruisers hull showed that the little fellows had eaten their way even through the anti-corrosive pain and were firmly attached to the ships bottom. It is strongly argued now that sheating of copper should be given the cruiser, for it is known that those lines of steamers plying in the West In- dia trade find no trouble in maintaining speed of from ten to eleven knots an hour with their copper-sheating protec- tion.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Distribution of Seeds.

Mr. Darwin found that the small portions of earth attaching to the feet of migrating birds contained seed. Nine grains of earth on the leg of a woodcock contained a seed nf the toad rush. From six and half ounces of earth rolled into ball and adhering to the leg of wounded partridge has raised eighty-tw separate plants of five species. Migra- ting birds often frequent the edges of ponds ere their departure, and in six and three quarter ounces of such mud he raised, under glass 537 plants. Seeds furnished with crowns, hooks, or prickles readily stick to the plumage of birds, which all such birds, and es- pecially such wanderers as the albatross, might carry long distances. Applying these facts to the case of the Azores, MT. Wallace found that most of the plants of the Azorean foro are we'll adapted to be carried by the methods just suggested-45 of the 439 Towering plants belonging to genera that have either papus or winged seeds, 65 to such as have minute seeds, 30 to those with feshy fruits which are grcedily eaten by birds, some have hispid seeds, and S4 are glumaceous plants we'll suited to con- veyance by winds and currents. Tho only trees and shrubs of this isolated group are bearers of small berries, such as the Portugal laurel, myrtle, laurus- tinus, and elder, while those with heavy berries, which could not be conveyed by the means uggested-oaks, chestnuts, hazels, apples, beechcs, alders, firs-are absent, common as they are in Euro pc. The character of the flora is that of the southwestern peninsula of Europe, and, if we assume that one half of it's species is indigenous, the other introduced by European settlers, there is still Q rich and varied flora which Mir. Wallace thinks has been recently carried over 900 miles of ocean by the means just indicated. There is probably no better example of ocean migration than that offered by the Azores, and it is believed that the phenomena in question arc still in progress, and that 900 miles do not form the limit of the distance to which this same ocean carriage of plants ex. tends. Edinburgh RevieU.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
CLARA BARTON.
Founder of the American Red
 Cross Association.
Her Noble Illustrations to the Sick, Wounded and Afflicted.

''Relief in war, famine, pestilence and other national calamities. Such, says the New York Press, is the motto of the American Red Cross Association, whose president is Miss Clara Barton, who hast ened to Johnstown among the first to afford personal relief to the afflicted val ley of the Conemaugh.
 The story of Clara Barton and the Red Cross is familiar in outline to all. It was she who, on the morning after the equalization of Strasburg, in the Franco Prussian war, entered the conquered city and-her sole password the scarlet cross on her sleeve-began that noble ministra tion to the sick, the wounded and the afflicted which has made her name famous.
 From Strasburg Clara Bart on hastened to Paris to continue her ministrations amid the horrors of the Commune.
 Clara Barton next appeared upon the scene in the midst of the Mississippi floods of 1884. The terrors of that time are readily recalled, when thou. sands upon thousands of once thriving inhabitants were left without homes, food or money, and there was DO means for them to purchase even the seed for the spring sowing. Then it was that the founder of Red Cross appeared upon steamer loaded with food and susten- ance and money for the seed time.
 The ministrations of Clara Barton in our own great war are we'll known. Her philanthropic spirit ultimately found vent in the Order of the Red Cross. The organization is an associa- tion of relief societies in various coun- tries. Its prime m is ministration to wounded sol diers.
 The idea of the order is said to have been conceived by Henri Durant, a Swiss gentleman, who at Solfe1ino was impressed with the swift and sudden suffering borne in upon the wounded soldiers and with the need of more rapid and effective relief. M. Durant pre- sented his thought to the Society o1 Public Utility, which corresponds to the Society of Social Science in this coun. try, and on October 26, 1864, conven tion was held at Geneva, composed o delegates from various countries-ou1 own Minister to Switzerland, MT. Fogg, taking an active part-and resolutions were adopted providing that the ambu. lance and military hospitals in battle should be held as neutral, and relie1 service likewise, even after the field had been carried and occupied.
 Twelve nations at once agreed to tho adoption of this international measure and all civilized nations now recogniz. it.
 Miss Barton is native of Maine. II early life she was teacher, and sh' founded several free schools in New Jer sey. In 1857 she became clerk in the government service at Washington. Re- signing at the outbreak of the war, sh' entered the hospital service, and he: tender ministrations are still told of b, those who suffered on the field of bait and were prisoners at Libby prison, An dersonville and elsewhere.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Snuf.Taking Not Obsolete.

There is an impression that the habit of snuff taking has practically died out, but a visit to glass factory the other day dispelled any such notion. Piled up in the delivery room were cases on cases of the wide-mouth bottles used to put up snuff. "Whcre do you find a market for these2" was asked. "Oh, all over the country; we make hundreds of thousands of them every year, and tho business is on the increase steadily ' The fact of tho matter is that hundreds of people take snuff who are not sus- pected of it.-Phitodezphio P'ess.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Does Anyone Know2

Does Anyone KnoW3 Does anyone know what's in your heart and mine,
 Thesorrow and song, The demon of sin and the angel divine
 The right and the wrong, The dread of the darkness the love of the day, .---....
 The ebb and the flow Of hope and doubt forever and aye,
 Does anyone know? Does anyone dream of the lovo that is yours,
 The heart that is mine; The depth and the width of the cup that each pours
 or rich red wine; Of hate that is dark as the midnight of grief
 The anguish and woe, The dark clouds ot halting and blind unbe- lief,
 Does anyone knowa Does any one see what we have in the heart
 To love and to hate; Of Gfes every motive an intricate part
 Of chance and of fate; The mem'ry of kisses of starlight of songs,
 Of roses and snow, Of women's sweet eyes of prayers and wrongs
 Does anyone know! Does anyone hearken to music of bells.
 And the sigh of the sea, And the whisper of woodlands that murmurs and swells
 For you and for me; The sound of fond voices that ever respond,
 In tones soft and low, To the prayer we are breathing into the be- yond,
 Does anyone knowi
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

A work of engineering begun by the Romans under Nero, in the second cen tury, will be finished this year; that is, it has been in process of construction for over 170O years. The work to which we refer is the cutting of canal through the lsthmus of Ccrinth. The canal, when done, will be only four miles long, and will have depth of eight meters, wbich will allow the passage of the largest vessels used in Greek traffic. It is not so great matter from an interna- tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua projects, but it will do much to further the rapid progress made by modern Greece in the arts of civilization and commerce.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
HUMOROUS.
To remove paint-Slt on it.

To remove paint-Slt on it.
 Usually ''up in arms"-New babies.
 Not the ''ocean grayhounds"-"Old sea dogs"
 Some men never foot bill without kicking.
 The church contribution box should be nickel plate.
 Regular blockheads =. Ornamental figures on the steamships bow.
 Secretary Rusk should have his forth coming book on cattle bound in calf.
 An Ohio chemist who has invented now fly paper calls it ''The Faith Cure,' because it means sure death.
 Father-"Well, did you get your A. B.a" Son Gust graduated)-"Yes, and made a base hit every time."
 A man never knows what he can do until ho tries, and then, afterward, he is often very sorry that he found out.
 Two heads are better than one. The two headed freak in the dime museum earns larger salary than the one headed college professor.
 Joncs--Why don't you lay by some thing for rainy days Brown-I havc done so. I'm keeping the umbrella Smith loaned mo week ago.
 We believed it was member of the Chicago Literary Aggregation who, on being asked if he could read Greek, modestly replied: 'I don't know. l never tried"
 Sophronia-''Ycs, an agnostic is one that never af1irms nor denies, asyou say. That is to say, ho doesn't affirm that you know anything and doesn't deny that he knows everything"
 Madeline" "Georgc, you arc not actu- ally going to kiss me" Gcorge-"By Jupiter, I amp "Thcn Pll tell you one thing" .sWhat's is that7" 
 M.-ssIf you do I'll retaliate.
 Food, fuel and light arc the great ne- cessities of the people, says political economist. He is right, but the working classes, while admitting the necessity of food and fuel, make light of oil.
 She-'George, why do they call Philadelphia the City of Brothcrly Love2" He-"Bccause whenever girl promises to be sister to fellow he buys ticket to Philadelphia so as to have quiet place to think the whole affair ovcr."
 Ayoung business man has asked for four weeks vacation this year. He says ho will spend two weeks In the country getting rest and recreation, and two weeks ill the city recovering from the effects of tho rest and recreation that he won't get.
 ''What IS an orphan?" asked the teacher. None of the children seemed to know. s'Well, I'm an orphan," said the teacher, as not too plain a clcw. A hand popped up and the owner ex- claimed: "An orphan is a woman that wants to get married and can't"
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The objection of electricians to the new method of execution by electricity is said to Ee purely one of sentiment.
 They do not wish to see the science de- graded. As well, they say, put a man to death by music or poetry as by cleo tricity. '.All of which is true," ad- mits tho New York Commercial Adrer- tissr, '.put these practical poets, the electricians, must remember that the protests of the civilized world itself has not been able to blot out that instru- meat of torture, the hand organ. Doubtless the spinners of hemp were encs much sea ,dalized by the ignoble nso to which their handiwork was put, 61 ze1o-naking seems to have survived
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Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
CANAAN, CONN.,. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 1889
And she burst into sobs and tears o1 her mother's shoulder.

And she burst into soDs ana tears 01 her mothers shoulder.
 "Hushv' said Mrs. Belton-s s'hush, my darling! Some one is coming up the walk. It is woman, with a red shawl and green parasol, and an ecru dres, trimmed with garnet bands. Why, Carry, it is Mrs. Pell, our old land. ladyp
 "Yes, it's me-" said the landlady o1 Judith Street tenement-house. s'Hov de doa Surprised to see me, ain't yet We'll, if this 'ere ain't pretty place! But sort O felt as if I had to como. Tuller's shop walker, he was to the house yesterday. The firm sent him. They're short O hands, and they want Carry to come back to the lace counter again. And the lace handkerchief that made all the trouble is found. The dressmaker found it down in the folds of the young lady's apron overskirt, when she ripped it apart, last week. It had slipped down into the linin', and there it lay. The young lady's dread full sorry about it, tool"
 Carry's face had grown bright.
 ''Found, IS ita" said she. "And l am exonerated from all blame2 Mother, give Mrs. Pell cup of tea. Don't you see how tired she looks9 And I will go back to where Frank is waiting for me. IT think this will be good news for him!'
 Mrs. Pell stayed all night and went back to the city with monster bunch of pinks and roses next day.
 But Miss Belton did not go back to the lace counter at Muller 6 Go. s.
 Mrs. Pell drily informed the shop walker that she believed the young lady had accepted another engagement.
 Happy Garry! The cloud had rolled away from her life. The sunshine lay before her now.-Suturday Night.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The state railroads of Prussia make special concessions to invalids of the lower classes who are obliged to travel for the sake of their health. The blind, deaf, insane or diseased of any klnd are transported with their attendants for the exceedingly low rate of one-sixth of cent a mile. Poor children sent to the country on summer vacations and the officers of all benevolent institutions of whatever nature are also given the same privilege
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
A Healthful Fruit.

A lazy dyspeptic was bewaillng his own misfortunes, and speaking with a friend on the latter's healthy appear ance.
 "What do you do to make you SO strong and healthya" inquired the dys- peptic.
 ''Live on fruit alone," answered his friend.
 "What kind of fruit2''
 "The fruit of industry; and l am never troubled with indigestion"
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The Churchman, speaking of the death of Damien, the leper priest of the Sandwich Islands, says that outside of the walls of Jerus ilcm is a leper hospital tended by deaconesses from the German religious houses. "Year after year these heroic women, without pretentiousness, without any trumpeting of their work, almost unknown to the world, have waited upon lepcrs, while themselves literally dying by inches. Their courage has only come to light by the chance notice of travellers"
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The blackberries on the hedge were ripening; the roses had blown away; drifts of pink and the early apples were beginning to gleam like spheres of gold through the lcaves--when Carry came into the wing room, one evening, with pale face.
 '.Mcther,' said she, ''the hour has come! must go away from here. You must go with me!'
 "Carry!"
 "Frank Jessup has asked me to be his wifel"
 'I thought he would, Garry. Ikneu' that he loved you," said Mrs. Belton, with inn ocent pride. "And no wonder P
 "I told him about the silk handS CT chief, mothcr-the handkerchief that they accused mo of stcalingr' whispered the girl.
 "What did he say, Carrya"
 "He said he did not carc-hc wanted me to be his wife all the samc."
 "And you?' ....- ....
 Mother, told him that could never be. never could let the cloud which has darkened my own life overshad ow his.'
 "But, Carry, if he loves you"
 ''All the more reason that I should save him this humiliation," said the girl.
 Aud when Mrs. Belton looked at her set face, she know that all remonstrance was in vain.
 We must go away" said Carry. 'I' will be like tearing the heart out of my breast; but thero is only the one thing to do. :"
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

Robert P. Porter, chief of the census bureau assures the public that the re- turns of population will be made out be- fore Christmas of next year, or within six months from the time the count is begun. If this is done the Fifty first Congress can make the figures the basis of representation in Congress for ten years, beginning in 1892
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

A Kentucky swain has just been welded after courtship that lasted fifty years. Just think of it! exclaims the New York Mercury. Half century of moonlight walks, seaside strolls, picnIc junketing, tireside hugging, ten- der tones, Summer drives, Winter sleighrides, and whispers of devotion. That Kentuckian was certainly a phi losopher, and deserved the prolonged bliss which all the world must envy.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

Chicago will probably have one of the finest libraries in the world in the course of few years. Mir. W. L. New berry, ono of the earliest residents, left the sum of $25O, 900 for the purpose, :nS temporary building has been used for some time. It is now intended to erect a magnificent edifce, capable of holding 300, 900 volumes.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
A Delicate Distinction.

Agnes Gin deeply injured tone)-1 don't think you need call your sisters best friend bold, even if you don't want to marry her.
 Harry-I didn't call her bold; l merely said her chin was the only retir- ing thing about her r!-1imae.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

There is certainly something perpet- ual about the perpetual motion delusion. The Washington Patent Office, in the course O. the last year has been favored with not less than twenty eight new D ojects for the construction of the il- lusive contrivance
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Connecticut Western News.
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Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The New York Herald wants the vio- let adopted as our national flower, be- cause it stands for modesty and is, therefore, true representative of Amer
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The New Orleans Times Democrat says that there is great deal of unoccupied land in the United States, and immi grants of good class are welcome.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

R. Fl. Vickers, V.cksburg CMiss.) lawyer, has written pamphlet to prove that large coins breed high prices, and that pennies make low prices.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

There appears every reason to believe that the present year will prove the most fourishing ever known in the con- merc:al history of the United King
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
Tho Only Solution.

ssrm 90 indignant that cannot prop erly express myselfl'' cried the speaker.
 ''Then put stamp on yourself and go by mail, was the unsympathetic re-
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

Since 1872 France and Germany have been making inroads into England's Spanish h-American trade.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
He Was Prepared.

Jones--Why don't you lay by some thing for rainy day9
 Brown-I havc done so. I'm keeping the umbrella Smith loaned me week .
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

Japan proposes to expend 50, 900, 900 yen GA, $50, OOO on her navy during the next five years.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The Utah Supreme Court has decided that Sand wich Islanders cannot become American citizens.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

The month of May in England, in 1889, will probably take rank as the wettest on record.
Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03
A More Pressing Debt.

'I owe you an apology, old boy" said Giles.
 ''Ncvcr mind the apology," rcpliod Merritt; ssjust lot mo have tho V."- Lifs.