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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
q, MAKING CLAY PIPES.
How and Where They Are Manufactured
. sse. An Interesting Process.

How and Where They Are Manufactured
. asr An Interesting Process.
Charles w. Maxwell of Strawbridge,
Miss, in conversation with st. Louis
Star-Sayings reporter said
'It is popularity believed that al clay
pipes are either made in EuroPt %. g., a
clay brought from the other heni......
but such is not the case, as y2r' g.
share of the clay pipes made il Ma.
are from clay found at and ncJr |,o' II
bridge, N. j. The clay comes ~ ;.v'
carload and the first step toward ..e
pairing it for molding is to su!i,:~a''J
dampen it with water to mako IL -
bic. This is done by placing it IN a
tank, where it soaks for about twenty
four hours. 1t is then hammered With
iron bars, thus Kidding it of any Jumps
or dry chunks. Then the mOlding be-
gins. The workman takes a lump OF
clay in each hand and by squeezing and
rolling it molds the pieces into a rough
stem about three times as large as the
finished pipe stem, having a rough ball
at its end. These rolls, as they are
called, are piled on wooden trays, six
teen to each tray, after which they are
dried, either by the sun or by artificial
means, according to the weather. After
having been dried, not to hardness but
sufficiently to dispose of all supertluous
dampness, the rolls are ready to have
the stem drilled and the bowl formed.
To drill the stem the workman holds a
small iron rod the size of the stem holes,
and with his left hand pulls the clay
roll over the rod instead of showing the
rod through the stem. To do this the
workman is guided solely by the sense
of touch in his finger tips, and that
sense is so accurate that the hole is in
variably made correctly. The ball at
the end of the roll is turned up, and
then roll and rod are placed in an iron
matriX which presses the pliable clay
into the desired outside pattern. The
matrix and it's contents are placed in a
hand press, and the workman, by pull
ing lever, forms the hole of the pipe
bowl. The nodded pipe, still soft and
pliable, then passes to the hands of the
trimmer girls, who scrape off the super
fuous clay, making the joints of the
matriX. Then the pipes are placed in
fre-proof clay sagger and the loaded
saggers are placed in large furnace.
This furnace has eight flues at the bot
tom, and the six sheets of fame at the
bottom concentrate at the top, thus
making the heat even throughout.
Until the pipes go into the furnace they
are blue in color, but when they come
out they are pure white"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
Not to BE Blumed.

a merchant in Syracuse offered a
young woman twenty yards of silk for
q dress if she would saw half a cord of
wood in front of his store. She Dor
rowed a saw, spit on her hands, and
went through that woodpile in just
three hours, and the admiring crowd
bought her a twelve-dollar hat to go
with the dress.
"WHY do they call them fountain
pens?'" "Oh! | suppose because they
are forever overlooking"
For troublesome weeds and for grass
in sidewalks, drivcways, etc, apply a
dressing of coarse salt; this win kill all
growth. Be careful not to put it on any
thing that should not be destroyed,
however.
CHARLES KING. of Danvers, Mass,
claims to be one hundred and ten wears
old, and when he is seated on a SOAP
box in the corner grocery he defes all
the boys to prove that he isn't genu
inc antique.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
SOMETHING ABOUT BLONDES.
An Observing Gotham Conductor Says
They Are Careless About Their Hair.

An Observing Gotham Conductor Says
They Are Careless About Their Hair.
She was big, tall blonde, with
square shoulders, a narrow waist, pat
ent leather shoes and a swagger air that
would have taken the train along by it
self She got in the car at Twenty
eighth street, got off at Fourteenth
street, and between the two stations
she picked up four hairpins from the
cross seats of the car and hid them in
her taffy-colored back hair. The big
brakeman in charge of the car said to a
New York Telegram Reporter while he
stood near the platform: did you see
the big blonde pick up the hairpins?
Well, there are great many women
who do that same thing every day, and
there are some of them that we know
simply because they seem to find pleas
ure in taking odd hairpins and using
them"
Are there so many hairpins TO be
found on the elevated cars?" asked the
reporter.
"Why, their name is legion" said
Ned, land most of them are to be found
either early in the morning or late in
the afternoon. 1t is peculiar how many
of these same hairpins, which are found
all over the car seats, are the gilt ones
used by blondes, 1t is generally sup
posed that there are three brunettes to
one blonde, yet it is peculiar fact that
we pick up more hairpins for the use of
blondes in the elevated cars than we do
black ones, and that is the reason that
the lady who just got out of the car
found so many hairpins that she could
use"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

RECENT explorations in New Guinea
show that additional species ofanimals,
not marsupial only, but also insects, are
common to that island, and to northern
Australia.
THE termination olani in Hawaiian
names means ''of the heavens" Thus,
Luliuokolani means Lilly of the Heav-
ems" The new queen of the islands
possesses great executive ability and is
courageous, truthful and honest. She
is woman of handsome presence and
is skillful musician.
THE natives of the Philippines are
sociable to an extraordinary degree.
Whenever one of them finds himself
without a companion to partale of his
meal he runs till he meets with one;
and it is said that however keen his
own appetite may be he will not ven
ture to satisfy it without companion.
A MOVABLE banking Office proves a
profitable adjunct to a bank in Pal
merston, New Zealand. 1t is carriage
which travels along the railway line,
and halts at the way stations in the
Manawatu district. The occupant is a
bank clerk, who is authorized to re-
ceive money, pay IL out, cash checks,
etc. He carries his cash in a satchel
swung round his neck, and is well armed.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
SEEN IN PRINT.

A NEW YORK auctioneer advertises;
''For Sale--a large quantity of ola
paintings by some of the most ancient
masters of the day"
IT is said that the spring bonnet thiG
year will eclipse that of all previoue
seasons. 1t generally does go to the
head.
A TRAVELLING company of actors is
said to have posted the following no.
tice: son account of the want of q
handkerchief The Robber' will be
given tonight instead of 'Othello.'"
WHAT is considered a good joke on q
banker of Washington county, Kan, is
a chattel mortgage on file in the regis,
ters Office drawn by him, which reads
as follows: Two bay mules and all
their increase"
ONE of the daily publications in Mad'
isonville, KY, gives this good counsel:
Every man, woman and child should
read our paper, and by that means will
be exempt from jury service especially
if it should be q murder case. No man
who reads this country paper and keeps
posted, is ever permitted to serve on
cases of this kind"
THE trustees of a schoolhouse near
Monticello, Ga, the other day adopted
resolutions to the effect that that big
hickory near the left hand of Ben Hill
academy is dead, and that if it should
fall on any of the children between
their 18th and 18th year, and near the
small of the back, they would surely
die; therefore that we hire an un'
bleached American to raze the aforesaid
hickory tree to the ground"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
Inhabitants of n Drop of Water Described
by Red-NOsed Man.

by n Red-Nosed Man.
"You asked me the other day why
entertained such a prejudice against
water" said gentleman with toddy-
blossom on the end of his nose to a
Washington Star reporter. "If you will
kindly gaze through this microscope I
shall be able to explain without having
recourse to wordy argument. will
take drop of water from the tap here
at the washstand. There! You observe
l let it fall upon this little piece Of
glass. 1t is ready now for examination
under the instrument, which I adjust to
high power. Let us see if, in swal-
lowing this pure Potomac fluid which
the people of Washington are obliged to
consume, they do not imbibe very many
extraordinary and uninviting creatures.
Let us turn the reflector little. Now
there is cheerful specimen right in the
field Of vision Apply your eye to the
microscope and drink him in in mag
ination. Isn't he lovely?
THAT, my dear sir, is beast known
scientifically as the 'bosmina longiros-
iris The latter part of its name sig
nifies long-beaked Observe the coquet-
fish pose of its hind leg You drink
lots Of those fellows every day at meals.
Let me move the glass trifie, 50 as
to bring into view another part of the
drop There are two rather unpleasant
looking fellows for you.
That wormlike one, which you see
squirming around in transparent sac
as if anxious to get out is called an
'auguilua.' 'Cyclops' is the name of the
other, which resembles young six
legged baby somewhat, think. 1t is
young, too, being newly Matched; but it
will grow much bigger, which is COM
fort You yourself consume ever SO
many such.
But look here! Now that l Have
moved the glass trife tre other way, 1
have brought into view still another
part of the drop, in which you may see
cavorting the 'cyclops quadricornui' So
called because it is a one-eyed monster,
with four horns and ten legs. Take a
look at him.
81 won't bore you with any more Just
now, but could show you more than
two hundred species of microscopic
creatures in the water, each of them
with scientific name of its own.
might mention, for example, the WORTH
celia of formidable jaws; the clostori-
UNI, precisely the shape Of pair Of
cows horns; several species Of hydra,
with waving tentacles; and the ampho-
ra gigas' in the shape Of an ornamental
letter o. There are no end of things
which these creatures initiate in form.
One looks like fish, but is not. An
other resem bles a broom, still another a
coal scoop, and so on ad infnitum.
'Now, it is all very well for persons
who are not acquainted with these
things to drink water, but micro
scopist like myself ought to know bet
ter. And when you consider the disease
germs, like those Of typhoid, which are
so apt to haunt this fluid, you cannot
but realize the desirability of avoiding
it as do"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08

consists OF about two thousand volumes,
of which fifteen hundred are chained.
There are five bookcases, and the re-
mains of two others. ..
The catalogue, which is also chaincd,l
classifes the books, many of which are
in manuscript, in eight divisions Each
chain is from three to four feet long,
according to its position, so that every
volume can be placed on the reading
desk. In the center of these chains are
swivels, which are useful in preventing
their ENHANCEMENT.
Hereford possesses the latest, as well
as the Oldest collection of chained books
in the kingdom, the library of two hun
dred and eighty-fve volumes, which
was bequeathed to All Saints church.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
FETTkRED VOLUMES,
Libraries Wherein the Books Are Secured
by Chains.


by Chains.
In Europe, long before the days of
printing, books were fastened to shelves
or desks in libraries and churches, to
guard against their being stolen, and
also to prevent one student gaining an
unfair advantage over another by secur-
ing the loan of book from a too ami
able librarian.
The libraries of the English univer-
sites were chained until the latter part
of the eighteenth century, when, on ac-
count of the Inconvenience of using
them, the chains were removed. 1t is
recorded that at Kings college man
was paid one pound and seven shillings,
in 1777 for nine days labor in taking
the letters off the college books. Ac-
cording to the Antiquarian, there are,
however, few chained libraries still
remaining in England. The largest of
these is at the cathedral church of
Hereford, and is the one genuine sur
vival of an old monastic library. it
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08

their songs and lullabies in both French
and English, and the mellow accent of
the negro tongue yet clings to every
melody, in either language.
The south may change as the years
pass by; the negro may be blended
with the white, and lost from view in
the millions who will yet people that
lovely southern land, but the songs of
slavery, the wondrous expressions of
all the music of hapless race, will live
forever and be sung in future ages by
men and women who can claim no trace
of African lineage, and who will re-
member nothing of the sable composers,
save the song.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
Russian Landed indebtedness,

The latest report of the Agricultural
Bank of Kew gives a good idea of the
indebtedness of Russian landed propri-
etors. In Volhynia alone .thirty-one
manors, with an aggregate area of 1OO,-
900 acres, are about to come under the
hammer. In the department of Kew
the number of manors to be sold lis
eighteen, and the total acreage $4,000.
In all European Russia 1900 land-own-
ers are now bankrupt and their prop
critics are to be sold at auction withinz
few months.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
Sleeping on the Stove.

Beds are still strange pieces of furni-
ture in Russia and many well to do
houses are still unprovided with them.
Peasants sleep on the top of their ovens;
middle-class people and servants roll
themselves up in sheepsllins and lie
down near stoves; soldiers rest upon
wooden cots without bedding and it is
only within the last few years that stu
dents in state schools have been allowed
beds
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
THE BIGGEST OF FLYING BIRDS.
The Wandering Albatross and the South
American Condor Are the Ones.

The Wandering AlbatrOss and the South
American Condor Are the Ones.
The biggest of all really powerful fly
ing birds are, believe, the wandering
albatross and the South American con-
dor-for the roc | reject outright as
worthy only of the most restricted Ara
bian and nocturnal ornithology. Seen
on the wing, says writer in the Chica-
go Globe, or even with the wings eX-
banded merely, both these great exist
ing birds have most majestic and
colossal appearance. But feathers in
such cases are very deceptive; they
make fine birds out of very small bodies.
For example, our well-kpown little Eng
lish swift, which looks so imposing in
flight as it passes overhead with pinions
poised, is hardly as big when plucked as
a mans top thumb joint and weighs
only half an ounce. So too, the alba
tross, though its eXpanse of wing is said
to exceed that of any other known bird,
amounting sometimes to nearly ten feet
from tip to tip, does not average in
weight more than fifteen pounds, which
is just exactly the poulterer's statement
for my last family Christmas turkey.
AS for the condor, while he spans from
wing to wing some eight feet, his length
from beal1 to tail is only three and a
half, and doubt if he would pluck into
anything corresponding to his magnif-
cent outer show-though | am bound to
admit that have never personally tried
4ba ,,nn1aocop+ avpariDnant
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
BASHFul BRIDEGRooMs.
Brides Are More Self Possessed Than Theiz
Partners In Facing the Minlster.

Brides Are More Self Possessed Than Theia
Partners In Facing the Minister.
Ministers declare that in nine cases
out of ten brides are much more self
possessed than are bridegrooms when
the marriage ceremony is being per
formed
A shy, modest looking lirtle creature
robed in white will stand perfectly
erect, looking the minister calmly and
squarely in the eye without foI an in
slant losing her self poise, while the
pig, blunt six-footer Of a bridegroom
by her side is pale and nervous and
trembling. His fingers are likely to
witch nervously and he may even
hitch at his trouser legs or twist q cor
,ner of his coat skirt
was once "best man. to a stafwart,
rmiddle-aged bridegroom, noted for his
courage and feats of daring, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Call, and
when the time came for us to go down
stairs to meet the bride and her attend
ants he nearly had a fit, and he looked
like a walking corpse all through the
ceremony. had to keep saying: Brace
up, old boy" and Come, come, you've
got to go down, ''to get him started at
all, and at the door he was idiotic
enough to clutch at me and say:
"Say, Fred, how would it do to have
Mary and the preacher slip in here and
have it all over with before we go down
at all? l can't go through it before all
that crowd"
'Idiot!" l said briefly and pointedly
enough to leave no doubt as to my
meaning. MARY won't come in here
and you will go down this instant"
He got through at last without doing
or saying anything ridiculous, in which
respect he was luckier than another
stalwart bridegroom of my acquaint-
ance, who was so dazed and overcome
that he held out one of his own fingers
for the ring when the minister said
with this ring / thee we'd"
Another bridegroom know lost his
head to such a degree that when it
came time for him to say: 81, Horace,
take thee, Annie TO be my lawful welded
wife," he said, in an unnaturally loud
tone: Il, Annie, take thee, Horace, to
be my lawful welded wife" and when
the time came for him to introduce his
bride to some of his friends who had
not yet seen her he did it by saying,
awkwardly: "Ah, er-Miss Carter, this
is my wife, Miss Barton" calling her by
her maiden name.
Few men say my wife" easily and
naturally the first time they use the
words in public.
A funny case was that of badly
ratified bridegroom who stared blankly
at the minister until asked if he took
''this woman to be his lawful welded
wife" when he started suddenly and
hastily, and said, in the blandest man
ner:
"Ah! beg pardon, were you speaking
80 me?'
A village preacher says that he once:
married rural couple at the home of
the brides parents in the presence of a
large company of invited guests. The
bridegroom was big, bony, red-faced
young fellow who looked as though he
could have felled an OK with his fsts
but he shivered and turned pale at the
beginning of the ceremony, and at its
close he fell down in dead faint, to the
manifest annoyance of his bride, who
had been as cool as cucumber through
cOut the ceremony.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-09

i'll a wet cloth. An hour before dinher
put in cold water. then clean and arrange
on Il celery dish.
STOCKINGS should never be left to SOAK
but washed Immediately i'll clean water,
and not in the boiling suds tIat ~ IeII
from the other clothes and which always
\ has plenty of lint in it. They should be
/ pinned in pairs and hung up by the toes.
| MooIlen hose should not be ironed, but
dried nicely and pulled into shape.
Bad breath may be removed ny taxing
a -t~easp3ontul of the following mixture
after each meal:-Oue ounce ltqnor OF
| potassa, one ounce chloride of soda, one
ard a half ounces phosphate OF soda Ii
Three ounces OF water. :
One of the simplest and most effective
cures of that often serious afftiction to Il
traveller. a cinder in the eye, Is that OF a
may be placed in the eye without INJURY.
They shortly begin TO swell and exude a
glutinous substance that covers the pail
of the eye, e~nveloping any foreign SUB
stance that may be ill it; then seed ana
~irritant may be washed out. Keep II
dozen of these seeds in a compartment OF
your purse, and they may prove an inval-
uaole accessory.
FRIED POTATOES. The fried potato has
had much opprobrium to bear, much, In
deed, that it has not deserved, says
Octave Thanet. A properly fried potato
Is uOb greasy, Is uOU luulEcSUiulC. 10 hoo
unhealthy. Potatoes should be fried ex-
actly like c%roquettes. in boiling fat. that is,
sweet white lard melted, aud should be
drained in the same name as the GRO
quette. They may be cut into balls and
fried; then they are Partisan potatoes and
esteemed elegant and 60 to club dinners
and swell Iuncheons. They may be sliced
in quarters; then they are French 3tatoes
and a hotel dainty; they may be sliced in
the most wafer like of slices, becoming
the Saratoga potato, known to COM
merce, not elegant because so asso
ciated with barrels in the grocer
les, but properly prepared in a
private family, very delicious; they may
be sliced into ribbons and be more gen.
teel; they may be sliced into small long
pieces, very like their name and be called
shoestring potatoes: then they are really
the most perfect form of fried potato,
crisp and tender; or combined in their de-
lightsome shapes; or they may be sliced
in thicker rounds and sauteed-but that
is not fryingi Potatoes for frying should
be cut into a bow of ice water, sailed,
and allowed to remain for a half an hour,
-three-Quarters of an hour will not spoil
them, and twenty minutes will do if one
has not the half hour. They should be
dried on a clean towel before frying and
the fat should smoke before they are put
in. 1t is best to try a piece before putting
the potatoes into the lard. They should
be served as soon as drained after frying.
They should Lot be crowded while
frying.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-09
PRACTICAL HINTS.
Fried Potatoes Made a Dainty-Reoipe
and Remedies.

Fried Potatoes Made a Dainty-Reoipes
and Remedies.
There is a window in the basement of a
little house on the Heights which always
attracts passersby. 1t is the cellar win
dow. and the owner of it seems deter
mined to make even that part of her
house beautiful. She has made it a gar
den spot of flowers of all sorts, creeping
and hanging plants adding much to the
general effect, =
CELERY-Celery is seldom cooked; yet
cooked in cream. or Il thin cream sauce, it
is a very pleasant dish. 1t stews until
tender in milk and then the sauce is made
by heating the milk to boiling and adding
it to the usual proportions of butter and
-four.
Two artistic couch-rugs lately finished
fit perfectly into the color scheme of the
rooms for which they were designed.
One of them, intended for a sitting room
furnished III olive shades and oak, is Of
alternate squares of tobacco brown and
green that shades from Nile to dark
green. This rug, which is of single
zephyr, is crorheted in shell stitch nnd
| he squares are about nine inches. The
other rug. which is of double zephyr and,
as heavy and soft as a pair of rose blank
cts. has alternate squares of rich cardinal
and golden brown. IL is to be used in u
room where the same warm tones pre-
dominate.
Five or six. quarts of biscuit -four can
spoonful of soda and two of cream of tar
tar, or three of baking powder, TO every
quart Of flour, sitting it thoroughly three
times, and put away for use.
When celery is brought home, If not
wanted Immediately. it should be wrapped
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-09
WEST BERGEN DOINGS.

Ground will be broken for the new
South Bergen Reformed Church on
April l. The coffee will cost $40. 600.
The class meeting i'll the NJ. E. Church
this evening will be conducted by Mr..
w. Ii. Beach.
The cutters ON Hatch md Mallory ave-
nues are reeking with filth.
The members OF Glass No. IA of the
South Bergen Reformed Church have
organized a minstrel club.
The engineers of the Central Railroad
Company yesterday afternoon completed
their survey of Mallory venue at the
railroad bridge. They will forward the
plans to Chief Engineer Ruggies in a few
days.
The Aroma Athletic Association, at the
meeting last evening. decided to rent the
w. b. A. A. hall. The club also de-
cided to purchase the gymnastic appa-
,ratus.
The Rev. D. j.. Ellison. of the Bergen
Baptist Church, will, tomorrow evening
complete his course of lectures on the
Holy Land. The subject for tomorrow
evening will be Palestine"
The rotten plank walk on Virginia ave-
nue. grows more dangerous to pc ,estrians.
It's condition is something frightful. Sew
eral children have been injured by trip
ming Oh the rotten planking