The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

plies Of condensed milk in canS and sell
1t by the quart, pint and half pint,
while two or three score wagons de-
liver it to regular customers. Con.
densed milk sold in bulk differs from
that sold in cans in being free from the
sugar usually added to the latter in
the process of preparation.
There is a disposition among naval
officers to put small trust in the auxili-
airy sailing gear of modern American
men-Of-war. Some officers insist that
the sails can save only a few ions of
coal in a cruise, and complain that the
extra rigging is a nuisance. Whenever
sails are hOisted or lowered some dam
age is done to the paint, and this has
TO be repaired at once as no such blem-
ish is permitted to exist for a moment
logger than necessity demands.
The American steamship line from
New York to Southampton, which was
inaugurated with fag-raising and
speech-making on Washingtor's birth
day, is to build six handsome vessels. liz
addition to the two excellent ones OF
the lnman line. -Four of these will be
five hundred and eleven feet long, and,
under the mail-carrying contract, they
Will be compelled to make twenty knots
an hour. The fifth steamer will be five
hundred and fifty feet long, and on a
larger model in every way than the
four.
One of the latest instruments added
to the thief's kit of crooked cOntriv-
ances is a walking cane with a spring
clip at the end in place of a ferrule,
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closing of itself, identical in principle
with the pocket crayon pencils. 1t is
intended principally for use by shop
lifters. With it articles can be lifted
from behind the counter when the
salesman's attention is elsewhere, or
from all sorts of places and in all sorts
Of ways. 1t is known as a lifting
stick"
1t has long been our opinion that if
mankind, the trOuSered half, had an
experimental knowledge of the amount
of brain work as well as the manual
labor necessary to the production of a
good dinner, there would be less fault
finding and real satisfying appre-
citation of the housekeeper's position.
A New Braintree (Mass.) farmers club,
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gressive and admirable organization, it
is evident. 1t sets apart a woman's
day when all the addresses, essays and
music are prepared by women, and the
dinner is cooked and served by men.
No report is at hand of the success of
the undertaking, but the principle is
excellent and worthy of wide adoption.
N. y. Ledger.
The New York passenger agent Of
Il Of the great transcOntinental lines
said recently: "The Swedes are going
west in greater numbers han ever.
You remember that an attempt was
lately made to get them settled on the
abandoned farms of New England. and
a good many of them left their homes
in Dakota to take those farms, but,
Lord. you can't make anything out of
those rocks. They thought it would be
an advantage to be near the large
towns Of the east with their shops and
schools, but they made a mistake and
are going west again. The Canadian
government is giving away land in the
Edmonton district that is good for grain
and root crops, and the climate seems
to just suit the SwedeS. Over 500 fam
lilies of them went up there last year
and they are expecting more this year"
THE art atmosphere that we near
SO much about does not exist in Ameri-
ca says an old traveller. You get Il
little of it in the cities, to be sure, but
it has not affected the people. You
find no art in the carving or weaving
or pottery making of our rural popula-
ton. Now, look at this" and he pro-
duced a delicate little vase of rich red
~clOiSOnne, with a graceful design about
the neck. Imagine an American
farmer turning out such a thing as
that! Yet, l got that of a Japanese IL
a way-back mountain district-a man
who never had been to a city, had seen
little of art of any sort, except his own,
and, in fact, had no communication
with the world. In a mountain village
in our country you would find a saw
mill, or, at most, a chan factory, out
nothing that could pass for an art.
But the Americans are the quickest
people in the world, and they will come
to it, in time"
-'One of the hardest things to real
ize on said a ~pawnbroker to a Chicago
Tribune reporter, lis a violin. l never
make much of an advance on such an
instrument. Not long ago a man
brought in one and asked what l would
give him on it. l told him SIS. He
turned white. He asked me if l knew
what that violin was worth. told him
I did. / knew it was worth about $500.
| told him that it did not look any bet
ter han a violin that was worth SO.
No one but a musician wOul ever
know the difference. told him never
could make anyone but an old musician
believe it was worth any more than a
poor violin. l had rather advance a man
$40 on a SIS overcoat than IS or a 500
violin, unless l happened to know where
! could get a purchaser for the violin.
! might sell the overcoat for what l adj
vanced on it, but l never could get the
money or anything near it on the VIC
lin. A violin in a pawnbroker's shop is
u hoodoo.'