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The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

President Carnot leads a very busy life, and his long day, from 9 till a. m., is crowded with work. Immediately after rising he takes a cup of tea, after which he receives his ministers, reads his dispatches and sees visitors; he then break lasts. The afternoon is taken up with various duties and such exer- else as he can find time to take. At ) he again receives visitors and ex- amines and signs decrees. He dimes with his wife and son at 7 o'clock. which is the only part of the day which he feels at liberty to devote to his family. At 9 o'clock he goes to his study, where he reads or writes till 1. He is fond of both the opera and drama, and is fair painter, delighting to go down to the Forest of Fontainbleau and sketch for an hour or so. His sons have been brought up to callings in which they can support themselves. He dislikes cats, birds and dogs,
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30
Pictures in the "RecOrd."

The speech on the wool tariff:
 which Senator Vest delivered in the
 Senate on Monday. appears in the Congressional Record of to day. The speech, 1t will be remembered 7, was a brilliant one, and was listen ed to with the closest attention. It was great speech, and what is more, in the Record it is illustrated. In speaking of the articles known as shoddy, Mir. Vest said that all of us are wearing it. It is old rags and old woolen garments that are worn out and are picked up by the ragpickers after they are thro En in- to the streets and are sold to the junk shops. They are turned over to the shoddy men. The tariff puts it out of the power of the wool man. ufacturer to buy foreign wool, and, as a matter of course he is bound to have something to supply the Amer ican market. He buys the cotton and shoddy because it is so much cheap CT, and clothes the farmer on shod- dy goods and pays him the small est possible price for his wool. Right here in Mir. Vests speech is where the illustrations come in. They consist of fac-similes of twen- ty-one advertisements printed in New England papers by the people who want to buy shoddy, wool waste, old yarn and everything of that kind. These people in turn, of course, sold this stuff to the manu- facturer There is nothing startling in Mir. Vests illustrations, but they had no little effect in increasing the force of his point.-St. Louis Re public.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Pre-Columbian discoveries of America are claimed by several na- tions. Chinese Buddhist monks are said to have landed in Mexico in the fifth century of our era. St. Brendan, who is said to have four. ished in Ireland in the sixth cen tury, is said to have landed at some unidentified place on this continent, but Jeff Ericssen, in the year ,000 actually made landing in what is now Mount Hope Bay, Rhode Is- land, and called the country Vim land. The settlement was broken up by internal dissensions in 1912. Madoc, Prince of Wales, is said to have visited this country in 1170. -Ex.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

The Baldwin Locomotive Works recently shipped a train consisting entirely of compound locomotives. twenty in number The power was furnished by a ten wheel locomo- tive, which has become somewhat famous for various remarkable per, formances. This engine, No 83 has a total weight of 0O,OO0pounds The total weight of the train, exclu- slve of the engine furnishing the power, was 100000 pounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30
Poor Stock does not Pay.

The questions is an old one, but two much attention cannot be given 1 to it.
 One thing we cannot understand is why some men who are so par ticular about the crops they grow, buying the best implements, with all the latest improvements, fol their cultivation, growing the largest est and best crops possible and Investing them in the best manner, pay no attention at all to the sort of stock to which they feed them. It is an anomaly in our farm practice, something that can- not be explained on any reasonable or sensible basis, and yet we see it done every day. Men who would laugh at the idea of following so old method as to cut their hay with a scythe, who would hardly use mower except, of the most ap- proved pattern, will keep cattle that are twenty years behind the times to eat their hay. There has been just as much improvement during late years in our farm stock as in the implements with which we cul- tivate our land, and it will pay the farmer even better to keep up with the modern progress in this line than any other. Some say they do not believe in thoroughbred stock :; then they should not believe in inn proved machinery, in drainage, in the silo. in the early maturity of cattle, in growing of sheep both for mutton and wool, in any of the things that are helping to make our agriculture to-day better than that of a generation ago. Some say they cannot afford any expenditure that tends towards better farming, for stock, and good stock, too, is the beginning and end of agricul- tural progress.-Phenix Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Both Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey have democratic governors and attorney generals. In both states legal proceedings have been com menced to break up the Reading Railroad company's combination to monopolize the principal transpor- tation lines leading to the anthra- cite coal regions. Attorney Gener- al Stockton of New Jersey, under direction of Gov. Abbett, both emi- nent lawyers, will hasten matters by a preliminary injunction. and thus bring the conspirators face to face with the court. Gov. Pattison and Attorney General Hensel have a cases we'll in hand in court to test the legality of the combination in Pennsylvania.-Tusson Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

People who were interested in the tea recently given by Helen Keller, of the Perkins Institute for the Blind at South Boston, will be pleased to hear of it's great success, both social and financial. The guests were received at the house of Mir. Maholn D. Spaulding by MT. Anagnos, Miss Sullivan and the wonderful little blind girl who had thought of this method of raising money for the kindergarten for the Blind. Many distinguished people were present, and as one of the newspaper reports expressed it, "All Boston was at Helen Keller's feet" The net proceeds of the entertain ment amounted to $1,135, a check for which was sent by Helen to Mir. Jackson, the treasurer of the insti- tuition, in a letter filled with love for the little blind children who will profit by it, and gratitude to those whose kindness and generosity help ed to make the tea a success.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

A City Improvement Society has been organized in New York City for the purpose of beautifying and improving the city by the following methods: First. To sustain and stimulate the authorities in enforc- ing the laws. Second. To report cases of failure to clean the streets, to relay and repair pavements, or to remove garbage promptly; also ob- structions of highways by builders refuse neglect to provide frees capes on buildings; to encourage tree-planting, the laying out of small parks and play grounds pro- yiding public baths and modello ing-houses ; to secure better lighting of the streets and of vehicles; to prevent reckless driving and extor- ton among drivers of public con- veyances. Any citizen of New ' ork is eligible.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Tom Dorn and Jack Bell, the dar- ing miners, who started out about ten weeks ago to find the celebrated but mysterious Pegleg mine on the desert, have returned to San Diago. They realized very shortly after reaching the desert the impossibili- ty of prospecting for any length of time upon the desert at this season of the year, owing to the extreme heat. They spent some time in prospecting. Their experiences on the desert were interesting and to a large extent dangerous. From Campo the prospectors went into the Cocopah country where they located fifteen or twenty silvermines. They expect to return in the fall to resume their search for the Pegleg. Yuma Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

eny ob 'em get away, and guess dey won't git fur" he added, with a significant grin, as he patted the stock of his rifle. This guard was kept up as long as the foreman re- mained in camp.
 In the course of a few days some of the men succumbed to the terri ble treatment to which they were subjected and fell i'll with the fever. There was deserted log cabin at the camp to which the sick men were removed. They were told that sick men did not need any food and were locked in to live or die, as fate willed it. The place was alive with vermin and as cold and damp as the bare ground.
 Notwithstanding the fact that armed guards watched the men al- most constantly, there were constant desertions and many of the men m ade good their escape. Some of them got back to civilization; the bones of the others have been found in the gullies and by-ways since the advent of spring, where they starved or froze or were shot down. Deaths have been constant in the camp, but the outside world knows little of them. The men who desert have as rule been working from thirty days to three months. They of course forfeit all their wages-if in- deed they have any wages coming to them. The contract store sys- tenn is in full swing, and those who desire can draw against their wages by paying from 500 to 1000 per cent profit for such luxuries as to- bacco and blankets.-St Louis Re- public.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Several parties are in from Wick enburg this week. One old miner said yesterday that everyone in that district was feeling good over the prospect of a prosperous season. The mining men in that section are preparing to go after the yellow metal and considerable active work. will be donei in the next few months -Phenix Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

In ITS, at a service held in old Christ Church, Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith referred to Wash ington as the 'Cincinnatus of Amer ica.' This remark is supposed to be the germ of the Society of the Cincinnati" which was organized in 17S3 on suggestion made by Major General Henry Knox at West Point.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Adam Reese, the Father of Arith- metic," was born in Bavaria, but afterwards lived in Annaberg, Sax ony, where he set up a school, and where he published the first series of German arithmetics. His four sons continued this work after their fathers death, which occurred in 1859. The Annaberg Town Coun- cil ispreparing to raise monument to the memory of the distinguished arithmetic1an.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

The working girls of Chicago have a model lodging-house called the Jane Club" after the lady who helped secure the building for them. The girls are their own board Of directors; they manage their own affairs, and consequently can have anything they desire by giving the order for it. They have all the com forts of a home and at a much low CT rate than that of even cheap boarding-ho
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

A bevy of kids Saturday secured by some means box of giant caps and with youthful innocence and ingenousness pried into them with hairpins, needles, and pen knives. A son of Mrs. Stone, however, be- came restless at this slow mode and placing the cap on a rock dealt heavy blow. It exploded of course, and he is perforated in forty differ ent places, not fatally, but he will take his 4th of July celebration in bed this year and leave giant caps alone hereafter.-PrescotG Journal Miner.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

The old Danish Vikings had the pleasing custom of stabbing an ene- my in the throat when he was drinking his mead, From this arose the custom of a mans invit- ing all the members of a company to drink his health" as, while thus occupied, they could not use their weapons.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

A Atwenty-two-year-old girl, Louise B. Francis, who began with very little money, is very successfully conducting the Castroyille Enter prise. She does all the work con- nected with the paper, both literary and financial, and has even set type, helped run the press and mailed the papers,
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

NJ. Pasteur acknowledges that he received inspiration in his studies on hydropbobia from Madame Gre ville's description of the Muscovite treatment of that dreadful disease.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

It is claimed that in less than a year from now. buildings will be erected in Wilcox of home made brick. This would relegate dobes to things gone by and would be Q most desirable change. Let the good work go on.-StockmaH.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

It is said that ex-Chief Justice William Lindsay was first elected Sheriff, then State Senator, next Sopreme Court Judge, and finally Chief Justice, and all in such rapid succession that he had never had an opportunity to practice his pro- fession.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

A number of Moqui Indians were in town Monday after lumber for building on their reservation. The lumber is furnished by the Arizona Lumber Co.,, and ten wagon loads were taken out on this trip.-Co- conino Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

MT. T. Jefferson Coolidge, the new Minister to France. has given $40,000 for a public library in Man chester by-the-sea, and $l15,060 for the Jefferson physical laboratory at Harvard.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

The late Alfred Grevin, one of the most distinguished caricaturists of Paris, began his career as a clerk in a French railroad office, where he made comic sketches for the com- pany to use in it's advertisements for the local newspapers.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

The Hermosa mill in Harshaw, having completed its run on what ore was on the dumps has closed down, and will stay closed, so we are told, until at least several hun- dred tons of ore is extracted.-No- gales Advertiser.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

A United States Commissioner says that more than 60 per cent of the European immigrants travel on tickets purchased for them by re- latiyes II America.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30

Two Americans have recently been expelled from Russia.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

Lord Winmarleigh, whose death at q
patriarchal age was announced recently,
was but a name to the present gen.
Grafton. When he was sent to the house
of lords he virtually retired from public
life, and devoted himself almost entire
ly to the care of his large estates.
Colonel Wilson-Patten, to call him by
the name by which he was known in
parliament for more than forty years,
was an excellent type Of Conservative.
His first speech in the house of commons
was q condemnation of the truck sys-
tenn, and he it was who first called at
tention to the hardships inflicted upon
the working classes of Lancashire by the
tax on printed cottons.
In the interests Of manufacturing
Lancashire, Colonel Wilson-Patton al
ways took q serious interest, and such
was his popularity among all classes
that he held a seat for the coun-
ty for forty-three years with only one
contest. The bitter domestic sorrows
which fell upon his later years-the
deaths of both his sons and his only
grandson-aroused deep sympathy even
In those who knew him only by name
and reputation. James Budget.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13
Edi.on.s French Riral.

A young French chemist, NJ. Henri
Courtonne, is credited with a new dis
covery. Sound being transmissible by
telephone, M. Courtonne argued by a
rigorous analogy that light might be
transmitted too. As the telephone con-
sists of transmitter, wire and a re-
ceiver, there was reason to believe that
these three organs might be adapted for
transmitting light vibrations, and for
this purpose the transmitter and re-
ceiver should be prepared chemically
for receiving and giving out light in
stead of sound vibrations. This was
done by substituting sensitized photo
graphic plates for the ordinary tele-
phone plate.
One of the plates was placed in front
of an aperature, through which an image
was cast, and this image has been for
warded by wire and has been seen at
the other end. The first apparatus was
very imperfect, and M. Courtonne, hav-
ing heard that Mr.. Edison was on the
track of a similar discovery, resolved to
publish his experiments, description of
which he, however, sent In a sealed let
ter to the Academy In 1889. This letter
is only to be opened at the sender's re-
quest. The consequences of the tele-
photography cannot be overestimated.
Tomorrow you will see in Paris the
image of man smoking in st. Peters
burg. Paris Figaro.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

Sunday /. Hough, laborer at Castle
Rock, was driving pin in the ground
with a hatchet when a bolt of light
ming descended from a clear sky and
struck him. The top was taken off his
hat and consumed and the rim Of the
hat was split. His hair was singed all
over his head, and upon the crown IL is
burned in precisely the shape Of ton
sure, spot about the size of a quarter
being left wholly bare. A hvid mark
Is left across his breast from shoulder
to shoulder, and directly above his heart
hole was burned in his shirt Around
the body, below the waist, extends. q
belt of flesh about four inches wide,
black and blue and dotted with numer-
GUS small holes. Down his back and
legs are streaks, and the inside of his
legs are burned. Hough remained un-
conscious till 10 o'clock, when he recov-
cred his senses and Is still alive.-Den-
yer Cor. San Francisco Examiner.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

The sarnpling instrument is q brass
tube, shaped exactly like pen. When
the point is pushed into a sack of coffee
the berries run down through the tube.
and after a handful has been distracted
the instrument is withdrawn and its
point turned over like a crochet hook,
thus closing the opening. The operation
occupies only few seconds, and the
samples" taken out amount to many
tons in the course of year. They, to-
gether with all samples of exported sug-
ars, are presented to the lepers' hospital.
The gangs of cargadores employed In
"toting" the coffee away from the Gus
tom house and loading it upon waiting
vessels are feature of Santos. Naked,
except from waist to knees, their choco-
late colored hides glisten in the sun and
their well cultivated muscles stand out
like whipcords. Each gang has itslead-
er, generally the tallest and most pow
erful negro among them, who carries a
rattle. to the music Of which his follow
ers keep step In rapid jog trot, singing
a low, monotonous song meanwhile In
words to lis unintelligible. Sometimes
the rattle gives place to q small flag
Cor. Providence Journal
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

A large snake of unknown species was
killed by A. G. Reichelderfer, superin-
tendent of the Lima Natural Gas COM
pany, on s. w. Doty's farm, in st. Mary's.
Mr.. Reichelderfer, in company with Mr..
Spear, prominent oil man, was walk
ing over the farm when the reptile at
tackled him. It made several vicious
attempts to bite him, but was unsue-
cessful, and after few vain trials Mr..
Reichelderfer finally procured q club
and dispatched his snakeship. The mon
ster measured six feet long and its back
was covered with scales. It's skin Is on
exhibition in this city and has attracted
great attention. Thus far no one has
been able to name it.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13
strange Applications.

The Salvation Army has in London q
bureau of information, where ladies
may obtain servants and those In need
of employment find work. 1t has been
extraordinarily successful. During the
first year 1900 employers found serv-
ants, and thousand girls applied for
work.
Strange applications come to the Office.
One lady recommended her departing
servant as "clean, tidy, honest, sober,
truthful and good worker" Wonder
ing why maid and mistress should part
under these conditions, the bureau found
that terribly bad temper was the cause
of separation.
"But, strangely enough" said the
chief, lit happened that lady had just
applied to us for servant with bad
temper, believing that such girls make
the cleanest hnrdmaids. SO that we are
able to meet every requirement.
Youths Companion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13
why Msersehaum "color... ;.

Meerschaum would not color at all
but for the fact that it is boiled in wax.
If used in its natural state 1t would
quickly become soiled, the material be-
ing so porous that it absorbs the slight
est moisture from the hand or anything
it comes in contact with. But the wax
fills up the pores and gives the meer-
schaum sort of enamel, A pipe that
has been spoiled by ovefheating, so that
it will not color, can be reboiled In wax
and restored to some extent. This kind
of work is done in the trade by experts,
for it requires great skill.-Interview in
Washington Star.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

Many persons are unable to sleep on
their left side. The cause has long been
. puzzle to physicians. Metropolitan pa
pers speak with great interest of DR..
Franklin Miles, the eminent Indiana
specialist In nervous and heart diseases,
who has proven thar this habit arises
from diseased heart. He has examin-
ed and kept on record thousands of
cases: HIS New Heart Cure, q wonder
full remedy, is sold at VIM. L. Marcy q
Co. Thousands testify to its value as Ia
cure for Heart Diseases. Mrs. Chas.
Benoy, Loveland, Colo, says its effect
on her were marvellous. Elegant Book on
Heart Disease free.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13
PRICE ONE CENT



must confess that l have always
blindly supposed (when Thought of it
at all) that the curran of the plum pud-
ding was the same fruit as the currant
of our gardens-that slightly acrid red
berry which grows ON bushes that follow
the lines Of back fenccS-bushes that
have patches of weely ground under
them where hens congregate. fancied
that by some process unknown TO me, at
the hands of persons equally unknown
(perhaps those who bring fiattened raisins
from grapesl, these berries We're dried,
and that they then became the we'll
known ornament of the Christmas cake.
It was at Zante that my shameful ig-
norance was made clear to me. Here I
learned that the dried fruit of commerce
is dwarf grape, which has nothing in
common with currant jelly. Its English
name, currant, is taken from the French
s'raisin de Corinthe," or Corinth grape,
a title bestowed because the fruit was
first brought into notice at Corinth. We
have stolen this name in the most un-
reasonable way for our red berry. Then,
to make the confusion worse, as soon as
we have put the genuine currants into
our puddings and cakes we turn around
and call them "plumsp
The real currant, the dwarf grape OF
Corinth, is about as large as a gooseberry
when ripe, and its color is deep violet
black; the vintage takes place in August.
1t is not hardy vine. It attains lux
uriance, was told, only in Greece; and
even there it is restricted TO the northern
Peloponnesus, the shores of the Gulf of
Corinth, and the Ionian islands.--Con-
stance Fenimore Woolson in Harper's.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

One instance in which a lady has
changed her name three times in one
day is on record. Mr.. Croft, son Of Sir
A. D. Croft, was married at Weigh Hill,
Hants, to the eldest daughter of Mr..
Marsh, at one time M. P. for Salisbury.
The same day the old baronet died sud
denly and his son succeeded him. Thus
the lady was in the morning Miss Marsh,
in the afternoon Mrs. Croft and at night
Lady Croft. t.-London Tit-Bits.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13
HOW n WIN Soon Bo.

Within few more years the Repub-
licans will have succeeded in weakening
the people until they are unable to offer
any resistance to the tariff robbers. The
average pauper voter win turn both
pockets inside out and take off his hat in
meek humility when he is permitted to
Galveston News.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-13

There may be something in the cheap
meanness of Chairman Carter's career as
q book agent which will be offensive to
President Harrison, but the chances are
thas the president will hold his nose
with one hand and his chairman with
the other.-Laramie (Wy.) Boomerang.