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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
AT THE POST-OFFlCE
Experience of q Man Who Can't Under.
stand Uncle Sans Mays.


A middle aged, long-whiskercd,
wild-eyed individual came rushing INTO
the post-ottice the other day, like a
man running for the bridge when a
steam tug is coming. There was fire
in his eye and bit of fire water on his
breath as he came painting UP the
steps He turned neither to the right
or the lett, but made straight dive
for the money-ordcr department.
II got money order here the other
day." he exclaimed cXcitcdly, rs the
clerk came to the window.
"Yes9' asked the clerk, in the
mildest kind OF manner.
"A money order for seven dollars
and twenty cents, for man in Laus-
sing, Michigan.
"Ycs?"
Twas to pay for a setting Of white
Bramah eggs, and it was three weeks
ago paid for that order"
"Yes?" mechanically repeated the
clerk, busilv engaged in filling out
some postal notes for people at the
other window.
.And tho. was thrco weeks aco como
Mondavn
.Yespr
"And here's letter from the man,
saving he never got the money!"
"Yeso"
"And he saws If don't pay for these
eggs they are still his"
well, send thom back" chuckcd
the clerk.
II cant send the eggs back; they're
chickens now. Besides | paid for thcm
once. Now. | want to know why he
didn't Get that money!
"Don't know, I'm sure, If Won scnt
it to him he must have received"
"How'm to tell. He says he didn't"
"Wben did YOU buy the money Or.
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| :. . ojl. na.,la,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
ELEVATORS FOR CANALS.
New Invention Which Will Do Away
with Locks,

A canal has just been constructed in
Belgium in which, instead of locks, the
boats are hoisted by elevators from
one level to another. The canal ex.
tends from the coal region in the in
terror Of Belgium to Brussels, cross
ing several other canals at the same
grade, so that Belgian coal can be
brought directly by boats to Paris, as
we'll as to all the principal towns in
Belgium and Holland. As the line
passes over rather hilly country, vari-
GUS ascents and descents must be
made, and, to save the long delays in
cidcntal to passing locks, the change
of grade is made by means of hydraulic
elevators.
The boats, which measure about
seventy tons, are towed at the low
level into an immense tank with gates
which is submerged in the canal. Tho
gates are then closed and the tank,
which rests on the pistons of huge
hydraulic elevator, is raised to the
upper level, when connection is made
with the next section of the canal by
means OF double gates, and the boat
proceeds on its way.
The lift of the elevator No. l, at
Houdeng-Goegnies, which is carefully
described and illustrated in lie Genie
Civil, is about fifty feet. The hy-
draulic apparatus is calculated to raise
a weight of 1,000.4S metric tons. or
considerably more than tho same
| number of our tons, and power is OBJ
tained by means OF steam pumps,
which force water from the canal into
pressure tanks. The apparatus is
double, so that two boats can be
handled at once, and the ascent and
descent including all the operations
Of opening and shutting the gates and
receiving and discharging the boats,
occupies fifteen minutes. The cost OF
the apparatus. exclusive Of earthwork
and masonry, patents, engineering and
purchase OF land, was about $1,000
American Architect.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
How Wire Is Manufactured.

Wire is now being manufactured
whether iron, copper, or brass--by a
new and greatly improved process, and
at a considerable reduced cost The
machine devised for this purpose con-
sists of a series of rolls in continu-
Gus train, geared with a common
driver, each pair of rolls having a
greater speed than the pair preceding
it. with an intervening friction clutch
adapted to graduate the speed OF the
rolls to the speed Of the wire in proc
ess of rolling. Tho entire operation
of producing the smallest sized wires
from rods OF one-half inch is done
cold. 1t is alleged that this method
obviates the danger of unequal anneal-
ing and of burning in the furnace-ln
addition to this the wire being more
flexible and homogeneous than that
made by any ordinary method, and
capable OF sustaining greater longi-
tudinal strain; in the case of copper
wire there is said to be a greatly in
creased electrical conductivity. N. Y.
Sun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20

1t Is stated on what seems to be re-
sponsible authority that the brilliancy
of our Florida blood oranges is due to
The artificial introduction Of colUring
matter into them while growing. That
is suggestion that opens up wide and
long vistas to the imagination. II
oranges can be made red. why not
blue. or terra Gotta, Or Nile g.eon2 ?
And if these things can be accom-
plished the orange will become a feat
ure of decoration that will be calcu-
lated to cut out the rose and the lily,
and even the chrysanthemum, More
over, If oranges can be colored they
can surely be favored at will. Might
it not as progress is made in modify
ing the plain, original orange, be pos
sible to alcoholic the orange? The
very suggestion Is enough to start a
boom in Florida. II it could be car
ricd outlet us optimistically say
when it is carried out-the orange
will become the rcval of the apple
of the Garden OF Eden in its seduc-
tions. N. Y. Graphic.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
How to Remove Stumps

We had 10 stumps that would aver
age about two feet in diameter. They
have been cut but six years, being for
the most part white oak and hickory,
and being situated on high, light soil,
have rotted very little, being to all ap-
pearances as firm as the day they were
cut. We got some Hercules powder,
went at them, and as they are now
piled up ready to burn, we will count
the cost: 1t took three Of us little
over day, and we used As! pounds OF
powder, costing 1895; caps that
cost 81. 10. and fuse 81. This was
total outlay Of $l6.o5, or little
less than 14l cents per stump.
Added to this would be the slight
cost Of labor, and we have
tho sum total. This plan has many
advantages over any other. We have
tried digging. twisting and burning.
BY the time log 80 feet long and
Is inches in diameter, and chain
that weighs not far from 800 pounds,
are handled all day, a man would wish
to be excused from the next days
work. Digging is out Of the question,
as it is too slow and expensive, and aft
or you get them out you have SC
many elephants on your hands thai
YOU can neither handle nor burn; but
If blown out they are all split into
sticks that ono man can handle ant
soon dry out ready to burn. To an!
who have stumps that are a nuisance
and an eye-sore, our friendly advice Is
'Go thou and do likewise. VI. Min
zey, In Ohio Farmer.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
UNHAPPY POLAND.
How She Ia Being Denationallzed bv Rus
sia and Prussia.

STA ana Prussla'
The woes Of Poland are not so en-
tirely matter Of ancient history as
people are apt to imagine. Pcrsecu-
tion, OF a certain modern kind, still
goes on in that unhappy country, the
more cruel tnat it is not Of the sort
that can be met as general issue. In
Russian Poland people of all ella. scs
are forbidden to speak Polish. Serv-
ants, coachmen and artisans are
urged by the Russian officials to watch
for and report any case in which their
employers use the forbidden tongue,
even In private; and in every case the
offender is fined and the infurmCr Is re-
warded SO rigid is the rule that q
poor old woman who knelt on the
pavement before chapel in wilma
and said her PRAYERS aloud in
Polish was run in to the guard
house and only discharged after a
severe reprimand Old mcn who are
in the habit of saying ,hcir prayers
daily in the churches have been or
dered to say their prayers in Russian
in the future. A boy has been expelled
from school .for writing lis name in
Polish in one OF his books.
This sounds almost incredible, but ii
is hardly worse than the persecution
carried on over the border under the
rule of Prussia-that country which
processes to monopolize most OF the
libcraIity, enlightenment and progress
OF the present day. An inu-kcep"r.
Stanislaus Flaum, was fined seven
pounds because he would not spell his
for trying to 'Polish' a German name.
The sentence was so absurd that it was
afterward reversed. Another man, q
bookseller in Gneiscn. who had to
give evidence in local court declined
to testify in German, on the ground
that he did not understand the language
well enough, For this h" Was sen.
fenced to a days Imprisonment,
with the threat Of longer term.
Th4eupon he tried to testify IN DER
man, but with such ill-succ",s that the
counsel begged that he might be al
lowed to rcpca} it all IN POLISH But
he had to DO his twcuty-foW hours in
prison just the same. Praycr-5oot>
in Polish have been suppressed T.
"hostiie to the empire, and aD,i-Gvr-
man, and fayoring the Polish PrOpa-
ganda."
This sort Of persecution docs not
seem SO shocking and horrible us the
old-tashiOned kind b. which 50 many
thousands of Poles have been. at yari-
Gus times, put to the sword, Shot,
hanged and Imprisoned. but il is liIsrLr :
to be far more effective in securing the
| end aimed at When the national IAN
guage is silenced on the tongues Of a
| people and forbidden in tAtir .lt.rI-
ture, national unity, traditions and as
piratiOns can hardly long >uryiyo. PO-
lands cOnQucrOrs are not less deter
mined or cruel than beforc-thcy are
wiser and more cunning, and they viii
denationalizc Poland. Boston Courier.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
Delicately Tinted Gloves.

The gloves this season both in
dressed and undressed kid, show more
delicate and lovely tints than have
ever yet been displayed. The street
shades match every conceivable color
OF costume, even to the many dyes in
green. For evening wear there is a
delicious exhibition OF artistic and
beautiful things. Primrose yellow.
Parma violet anemone pink. tea rose.
pale mushroom, daffodil yellow, golden
tan, and pearl gray are the choices
and NEST popular Of these. which ar
also imported in silk gloves OF the
most exquisltely fine and firm quail.
ties. Tho shades in Suede kid are
many OF them pretticr than the dressed
French gloves, showing attractive
tones In dove. tan. olive, moss. sage.
tlcelle, fawn, golden brown and mouse
color. IN. Y. Post
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
STRAWB BERRIES.


strawberries! strawberriesi Not the sort
That city people know
Laid on cake that's truly abort
lust seven 70 a row.
strawberries! Strawberries! Not tho kind
They peddle on the street,
And need washing, that you fnd,
Destroys their dayor swces
Strawberries, Strar berriesl Ripe rnl rcd
Plucked by rustic belle
Fresh from their cool and dcwy bed
Down In fairy dell.
Where wild birds praise her beauty rare
And daisies to her nod, ~ -
where clover blossoms scent tho air
And fiowrets deck the sod.
s,rawberriosi strawberesl Those N!
queen r.r
With simple rustic grace
briggs " me with a Joy serene
Lightning her rosy face.
Then, while she smothers them in cream
And bids me eat my I'LL.
TASTE the berrcs--bnt dream
OF something sweeter still.
Red strawberries-red as her lips
And swect--almost-as she,
p!ucktd by her dainty finger tips
And given straight to me-
All! those are strawberries. I sing
or them as we'll may,
They're not the kind the railroads bring
From forms far, far away.
H. C. Dodge, In Goodnll's Sun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20

During the peanut harvest in the
South every body, from pigs to people,
gets fat They are not known there as
peanuts but as goober peas, and raid
into a goober patch has about it all the
delight OF a watermelon raid. II is
related that a Southern gentleman,
catching two small black children
among his goober vines called them
5y way OF punishment Goober Dan and
ioober John. The boys, however.
living to be proud Of it, adopted it as
their family surname, and to this day
he descendants are known as the
Goobora
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
"E PIuribus Unum" on Coins.

"Did you know that the legend Z
Pluribus Unum. which has appeared
on different United States coins, was
never authorized to be so placed by
law?" said a numismatist. ut was
first used in that way in 1856. There
was no United States Mint then, but
there was private one at Newburgh,
N. Y, and the motto OF the United
States was first placed on a copper
coin struck at that mint. Very few
collections have specimens OF this coin.
They are very valuable. In 1881 a
goldsmith named Brasher coined a
piece which was known as the sixteen
dollar gold-piece, and the motto,
placed in this form, 'Unum E Pluri-
bus was stamped upon it. The coin
is worth to-day $1,000. and only four
are known to be in existence. In 1887
the motto also appeared on various
copper coins of the State of New Jer-
sey. The State Of Kentucky had some
peculiar copper coins which were
minted in England in 1871 and bore
the national motto. The United States
Mint was established in 1892, but the
use Of the motto on coins was not ar-
thorized or directed by any of the pro.
visions OF the act establishing 1t. The
motto had not appeared on any OF our
coins since 1887 until the present silver
dollar was coined. 1t remained on our
early gold aud silver coins until 1884,
when it was omitted from the gold
coins. In 1886 it was dropped from
the silver twenty-five-cent piece, and
the following year from all silver
coins. Philadelphia Press. .
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20

Amber beads for Group is one OF
The remedies" held in honor by cred.
ulous mammas and superstitious nurses
from time immemorlal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
A Lead Watch for q Rich Man.

Horace c.. Wilcox, President of the
Meriden Britannia Company, is one OF
the richest men in Connecticut. Like the
late Jim Fisk, he began life as tin ped
dler. The other day MIR. Wilcox tried
to perpetrate a little joke on Nathan Fem,
q Yankee matchmaker of the old-fashioned
sort. Calling in at Matchmaker Fenn's
shop, MIR. Wilcox pulled out brass
plated lead paper weight, cast in imita-
ton of q watch.
"There, Citizen Fenn," said he, as he
laid it on the counter, ''is a watch think
good deal of. If you will make it run
I'll give you $40" And with that left
the shop, chuckling gleefully.
The matchmaker was not to be easily
stumped. He Immediately set to work,
followed out the lump of lead, inserted
set of old works, attached pair of
leather hinges to the case, made crystal
of dark lantern lens, and attached to
the whole business chain, the links of
which were ingeniously constructed OF
peach stones. Thus armed he broke into
the office of the Britannia factory the
next morning and laid the wonderful
watch on Mr.. Wilcox's desk. The latter
didn't say a word, but drew his check for
$40, while the score OF clerks, led by
Robert NJ. Wilcox, husband of the
poetess of passion, who happened to be
present, giggled outright.-NsW York
Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
The Great KOhinOOr Diamond.

The famous Kohinoor diamond, or
"Mountain of Light" which, according
to dispatch, Queen Victoria has been
asked to restore to its 1ightful owner,
Prince Dhuleep Singh, who was recently
married to an English lady in Paris, is
one of the great jewels of the world.
During hundreds Of years it has been
looked upon with superstitious reverence
by the Hindoos, who believed that its
possession carries with it the sovereignty
of India. On the other hand, it has been
regarded an omen of ruin and disaster,
and its history shows that every sovereign
owning it up to Victoria lost either his
life or his empire. It belonged to the
Mogul dynasty of rulers, but there is
tradition that, before it shone in the Pea
cock throne, it was owned, countless ages
before, by the NEUROLOGICAL Pandoos. At
all events, sovereign has been stealing it
from sovereign for nearly thousand
years. The court circles of London
would, of course, be shocked at the ap-
plication of this term to the method by
which Her Majesty acquired the gem, but
it is the very plain language of Prince
Dhuleep Singh to the Empress of India.
"It will be useless for me-" he writes,
ssto demand the restoration of my king
dom, swindlcd from me by your Govern
ment, but which I hope shortly, by the
aid of Providence, to retake from my
robbers. But my diamond, the Kohl
moor, understand, is entirely at your
own disposal. Therefore, believing your
Majesty to be the most religious body
that your subjects pray for every Sunday,
I do not hesitate to ask that this gem be
restored to me or else that fair price be
paid for it to me out of your privy
purse" Queen Victoria has not yet re-
piled to this polite request for restitution,
but even should Dhuleep be successful in
getting his kingdom back there is not
much probability that he will ever see his
diamond again unless he receives an in
vitation to Windsor Castle. The mag
nifcent gem is, it is needless to say, part
of the spoils of India. 1t was brought to
England about 1850 in the Medea, sloop-
of-war. r.-Neao York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
The Uniform of the West Point Cadets.

tits said that the main reason for the
movement to change the uniform of the
men in the first class at West Point is that
they damage their systems with the pres
ent gray jackets. These jackets are cut
almost to a corset tightness in the first
place, and since they don't wear out as
fast as the cadets grow they naturally get
tighter and tighter each few months. The
women have taught the boys to be very
proud of the slim waists that distinguish
the corps, so that each fellow hangs on
to his jacket as long as he can. 1t is said
that one day when a cadet fell into the
water his commanding officer ordered him
to take off his jacket and wiring it. An
investigation followed, and showed that
whereas most of the bigger boys had been
obliged to discard their shirts, there were
even some who had had to cut away the
lower halves of their undershirts in order
to button their jackets around their waists.
This will not surprise soldiers. In every
country there are swell regiments that
achieve good looks more or less in the
same way. There are even tales of the
sort about some of the dandies in our own
Seveuth,-NtD York Sun. |
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
The Dust tAyalanche.

The dust avalanche descends when
snow is loose and has recently fallen. It
is attended with .whirlwind, which lifts
the snow from whole mountain side and
drives it onward through the air. It ad-
vances in a straight line, overwhelming
every obstacle, moving forests down like
sedge, leaping (as an old peasant once ex-
pressed it in my hearing from hull to hill,
burying men, beasts, and dwellings, and
settling down at last into O formidable,
compact mass without color and Wlthout
outline. The snow which forms these
Istaub-Lawinen is dry and finely pow
'dered. When it comes to rest upon the
earth it Immediately hardens into some
thing very like the consistency OF ice,
Wrapping the objects which have been
borne onward by its blast tightly round
in firm, implacable clasp. A man or
horse seized by Staub-Lawine, If the
breath has not been blown out OF his
body in the air, has it squeezed out by the
even, clinging pressure of consolidating
particles. A human victim Of the dread
full thing, who was so lucky as to be
saved from its clutch, once described to
me the sensations he experienced. He
was caught at the edge of the avalanche
Just when it was settling down to rest,
carried off bis feet, and rendered help
less by the swathing snow, which tied
his legs, pinned his arms to his ribs, and
crawled upward to his throat. There it
stopped. His head emerged, and he could
breathe; but as the mass set he felt the
impossibility of expanding his lungs, and
knew that he must die of suffocation. at
the point of losing consciousness he be-
came aware of comrades running to his
rescue. They hacked the snow away
around his thorax, and then rushed on to
dig for another man who had been buried
in the same disaster, leaving him able to
breathe, but wholly powerless to STIR
hand or foot. This narrative reminded
me of an anecdote told by Hayden, the
painter, who nearly sacrificed negros
life by attempting to take an entire cast
of the mans body at one moment from
the feet to the chin. When the plaster
of paris began to set the negro could not
breathe, and he was only saved from as
phyxiation by Haydon's tearing down the
mold of brick in which he had been
placed. CornhM Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
They had reached Indian hill, and the

They had reached Indian hill, and the
rivers angry roar came up from below,
vieing with the northern blast for suprc'
macy of sound.
Suddenly, midway in the cut, the
horses stopped. AS Horris attempted tc
urge them on, weak voice came from
the blackness beyond their heads.
"There's somebody there!" exclalms
the passenger, and in moment he is
cropping his way to the heads of the horses,
and then lifting from the drift little,
girlish form which, while being carried
to the wagon, dropped into insensibility
and was like dead thing in the mans
arms.
When, an hour later, the storm beaten
company drew up to the hotel and the
light of the office lamp streamed full
upon the girls face, the by-standcrs, who
were watching for signs of returning life,
were surprised to see the stranger kiss her
lips and cheeks passionately.
"See hyar," blurted out Horris, "no
insults, young man, in these parts. We
huOW 11tfSh WV "SAA'
"Insults?" repeated the youth for he
was scarcely more), as he relinquished his
charge to the hands of the landlady,
"she is my sister"
And so it proved; for when he signed
his name upon the register, it read:
civilian Morris Haven, Portland, Ore"
An hour later, Ben Haven came to the
village to organize searching party. His
relief when he found his child safe,
though chilled and still insensible, at the
hotel, cannot be told in words.
The shock and the agony of that night
made a new man of him, and his tender
ness toward the daughter who shared
with him the secret of his remorse,
though they never spoke of it to each
other, was remarked by all who knew
them.
So effectual and lasting was his reform
that the Daily Calliops was able to give,
few weeks later, on the same day that it
told of Miss Madge's first appearance
upon the street, this item:
Mr.. Ben Haven has accepted his oldposition
on the Red Gulch stage line, his successor,
Joe Horris, having resigned to so to the
mines
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
MRS. CLEVELAND MET Mrs. HAYES.

There was an incident at the Centen-
NAL ball which was as embarrassing to
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Hayes rs it was
amusing to the bystanders. Mrs. Cleve-
land had expressed desire to be intro
duced to Mrs. Hayes, so was led to her
box by one of the Four Hundred who
was dancing attendance upon her. Mrs.
Hayes being eng1ossed in conversation
at the time and not Immediately recogni-
zing her visitor, simply acknowledged
the introduction and went on with her
conversation. Mrs. Cleveland stood slight
ly embarrassed for moment, and then
turned and walked out of the box feeling
decidedly chagrined. In the meantime
Mrs. Hayes, who had supposed all along
that her visitor was one of the numerous
class of people who seek introductions on
such occasions, looked up and discovered
that the lady who had just been introduced
to her had gone, inquired casually what
her name was, and was much amazed as
we'll as chagrined when a gentleman
standing by replied: "AIrs. Cleveland
Mrs. Grover Cleveland-Mrs. ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland" And Mrs. Hayes fran
tically shouted for the General. "Call
the General; bring him to me, and when
the General arrived Mrs. Hayes was at
once led to Mrs. Cleveland's box and was
introduced over again to the ex-Presi-
dents wife, where she apologized for and
fully explained the reason for her lack of
cordiality.-.NeU York Herald.