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(Demerarq ArgoSy March 10.

IN the Sugar Caqe for February it is an
announced that Mr.. puncm Stewart, the
well known ei gineer, has patented a CONT
nuous centritus i m chine, which, according
to the statement of the manager Of a large
Refinery in Grecnock, Where the machine IS
in daily use, eff cts a saving Of fully fiji per
cent. in the manual labour required Tor an
ordinary machine. and AZ the new one has
not to be stopt every few minutes to remove
the dry sugar and refill it with wet, but IS
worked without interruption, tie dry sugar
being removed automatically there is IN con
sequence less waste and greater cleanliness.
Mr.. Stewart has done q good deal in his time
to improve the machinery Of the sugar fac
tory, and this, his latest invention, promises
to be another valuable assistant. We may
expect to SEE one Of the "ContinuouS' at work
in the colony soon, for Demerara has Never
been backward in providing itself With me
chanical inventions Of an &c monte type.
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ORDER OF DAY

for the Colonial Councils Ordinary
Meeting, Monday 9th April 1894,
Il o'clock noon.
, 1894-04-07

IN connection with planters question, the
paper read by Mr.. Lewellyn' Jones at, the
Society's meeting last Thursday afternoon,
on Diffusion, is well calculated, when it APP
pears in type, to arouse public attention, once
again, to this process for obtaining the juice
from the cane, For some time past, the Diff
fusion process has not been alluded t. in the
local press and even the generality of plan
tiers nave forgotten the fact that at Pin. Non
'pareil, the ordinary process of crushing the
Juice of the canes by iron rollers is suppressed
ed by a process for slicing the canes and
soaking them in hot bath. The positive
merits of the new system are all set forth in
Mr.. Jones's paper, and planters will be en-
abled from it to form an opinion as to the
relative merits of the old and the new sys-
tens.
, 1894-04-07

Translation.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
FREELAND PIONEERS.
They Have Gone to Find Their Valley of
 Eden IT. the African ygfderness

They Have Gone to Find Their Valley of
 Eden IT the African Wilderness.
 pr. Theodor Hertzka's plan to found an ideal commonwealth ih east Africa Is being carried into effect with fveat ra- pidity. Late in February the English members Of the pioneer expedition to Moant Kenia left London for the conti- nent, and a week ago the pioneer corps sailed for Mombasa, on the east African coast Their ultimate object is tool gan ize colony in which land and capital will be free, and everybody will be we'll clothed, well fed, well sheltered aud well educated. Their immediate object is to explore the land round their so called valley of Eden, on Tana river, and to se- lect and limit exactly the territory which the colony or commonwealth of Free land is to oochpy.
 Dr. Hetizka has been exceptionally successful in obtaining powerful patron age for his yentursome enterprise. Not erly has the British government granted him land and moral support, but the Austrian authorities have also given the little band of reformers much -encour- ment and some money. The Royal Mu- scum of Natural History in Yienaa, for instance, has presented the pioneer ex- petition with the apparatus and instru- ments for procuring information and collections of the fora and fauna of the valley of Eden.
 The Royal and Imperial Military and Geographical institute of Vienna, the eoGth Kensington museum and other so- cieties have also given practical proof of their interest in the explorations. All fresh knowledge will be promptly com- municated to the Royal Geographical and other societies. Among other things the Freelanders have set themselves te do is to institute B regular service of small steamboats from the mouth of the river Tana to the limit of navigation, about 359 miles, and to carry on experi- ments in the domestication of the ele- phant and zebra.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
A STRANGE BREAK.

Under Great Pressure Bar of Iron
 Parts In Two Places.
 At the Scranton shops of the Della. ware, Lackawanna and Western rail road there were recently made some tests of wire rope and fastenings for it. One and half inch steel cables are used in some of their mines, and shese tests Were made to determine whether or net the fastenings were as strong as the cables. Sockets with taper holes, known as rope cones, to receive the rope, and ending in fork to fasten to the cage, are used The rope is passed through tho hole and the ends of the wires turned back, making bushy head. Into this mass of twisted and doubled wire they pour lead or babbit metal.
 The pieces were tested in their regular wheel press. 1t was soon proved that rope was amply strong, sustaining 70 tons with no other effect than reduc- tion of diameter owing to the compress sion of the soft center. Lead proved very soft for fastening the wires-they pulled through it. A composition of three parts lead to one part antimony did far better.
 The forks sustained load enough to pend steel pins ? inches in diameter be- fore breaking, but when they did break a curious thing happeEed-one side of the fork broke in two places, and a piece about an inch long dropped on the floor. This happened wren the load was about 70 tons
 The cross section of the metal was the same where each break occurred-but why should two Locomotive En- gineering.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
wba, a First Glass Fare Means,

There are some people who imagirc that wealth entities them to privileges not accorded to the general public and exempts them from obligations and rules that others are disposed to obey. An incl dent which occurred on one of our ocean steamers conveys wholesome lesson to the purse proud contemners of the rights of the majority. A family of unlimited wealth had secured the best accommo- dation the steamer afforded.
 The gentleman and his wife kept them, selves secluded most of the time. but the children were allowed to run wild over the steamer until they became such in tolerable nuisances that the captain was spoken to, and he gave the youngsters q severe reprimand, This reused the in- dignation of the mother, who remarked to the captain that as she paid first class fare she thought she was entitled to first class privileges.
 Madam, said the captain, first class fare means first class conduct" There was no further protest. London Tit Bits.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
The Sling of the Nettle.

The leaf and stem of nettle are lit. orally clothed with erect hollow hairs. If one of these hairs is viewed under a microscope, it will he seen that it's free end, afte< taperng to very fine degree of sfiIhhess, finishes as 8 little knob, while in the other direction. after grad. ualIy becoming more robust, it suddenly expands intoa large bulb, corresponding with the poison gland uf the adder
 The point of the hair is very brittle, and cohtnet with our stin causes the end to snap off, leaving 3 hollow needle point which readily plerces our cuticle, and pressing upon the bulb at the other end the poison is forced through the central channel and inhames our blood. The tender handed who stroke the nettle are stung for their pains, because their gem tleness has only served to break the brit tie points and rendering them fit for piercing but the rough handed break the hhifs at their thiekest parts, where they ars too stout to prick. Good Words,
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
"BoIl Down" Everything

The taste for short stories, in place of the ancient three volume novel, has been cultivated even in conservative England and has become go widespread in the United States that very few periodicals which deal in fiction at all are without their stories begun and finished in a sin gle issue. The talent required to pro duce fascinating and successful fiction in this narrow compass is peculiar one, and while there are numerous failures there are also surprising number of successes. Well written, descriptive ar ticles, t66, arc in dStnand, and special cravings for personal gossip and lively sketches of notable living characters are manifest. That perennial interest which mankind and womankind eyince in ev- cry individual whose name, for whatev- er reason, has become familiar supplies basis for an inexhaustible series of light paragrapsiic articles.--New York Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
HE HONEST NUN.
He Broke the Law of the Land. but wouI'
 N.,h I.li | il.

 He Broke the Law of the Land, but Would
 Not Teli Lie.
 It would be interesting to know what the enemies of the red man have to say about the case of Nathaniel Jamison. Nathaniel comes from down Lawton's way, and Tuesday he was selling the dark brown sassafras on the streets of the city. Now Jamison is thrifty red man. Having disposed of many goodly bundles of sassafras, he went to dealer in frewater and bought 8 demijohn of rare whisky. This he took with him to the reservation at night, and to his red brethren of the forest he disposed of it at retail prices, So he made two profits on his sassafras. The red man knew that it was contrary to law for him to sell whisky to his people, but in his own heart he felt no sense of guilt.
 Day before yesterday he went to the firewater man again, and while he was buying of him United States marshal arrested him and took him before the commissioner. Contrary to Christian custom, he pleaded guilty. The commis- sioner, knowing him to be pagan and believing him to be drunk, thought it best not to enter that plea. But the In- dian cried out: I'm guilty! Any man who pleads not guilty when he's guilty is a d--d liarp Of course there was no answer to make to this, and the honest njun had his way for once.-Buffalo Courier
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
Crcsts.

"You will not find one woman in hundred who is familiar with the rules of heraldry," said fashionable stationer. "Ladies insist on having crests embossed on their writing paper, even when tell them that they are permitted by the usages of centuries to use only the arms, A handsome woman came in the store one day and said MT. B., l wish you would put crest and arms on my paper. l knew it would be useless to argue about the crest, and so l asked her, Have you any crest with youS 'Oh, no! 1 haven't any she answered. You can make nice one, cant your l learned that her husband was grain dealer, so for crest designed sheaf of wheat. For the arms l designed some hawk heads on a shield, and she was delighted" 1"
 Women who are interested ill these things should observe the regulations set down for the use of spinsters, married women and widows. A specified frame for the arms should be used by each. The spinster is required to put her fam fly arms into diamond frame, with very simple adornment, When a woin- an marries, the arins of her family must be put on the same shield with the arms of her husband The shield Is impalcd, the wifos arms occupying one position aud the husbands the other. If she be- comes widow, the frame for her arms again assumes the form of diamond, symbohzing her unmarried state, while her arms and the arms of her deceased husband remain impaled az formerly Chicago Inter Ocean.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
CIRCULATING ART
Why should Pictures Not Ne Passed
 Arouna Jr.t | ste Rocks Are?

Why should Pictures Not Re Passed
 Around JGst Like Books Are?
 The other day heard an excellent no ton pfopounded with regard Co works of arf,. It was the establishment of cir picture gallery, which should occupy the same relation with regard to paintings as Mudie does in respect of books. Of course the subscription %onid be higher, as the number of sub scribers would be limited. But the pictures would be changed eveSy month, so that man need aeSHr be bored by the eternal saNaeness 0f the walls.
 X story is told of man who dined op- posite to fine work by Sir Joshua Rey' holds foT so many years that it at last had to be moved, for it irritated him to such an extent that he threatened to hurl decanter of port wine at it. The new society would efeectually obviate any such annoyance. AR the works would be for sale, so any subscriber taking a fancy to particular picture might ob- tain the price from the secretary and on payment thereof could become it's pos sessef.
 The advantage of this system, especial ly in the present depressed state of the fine art market, is obvious, and it would also be benefit to the buyers, because they would discover after the trial of q month whether they really liked pic. ture or not.
 Tl,e terms of the subscription would of course be in proportion to the style of pictures supplied. Of course if you ex- pected to have works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and Sir John Everett Millais the payment would be very much more costly than if you only required series of prints. But the sub scriptieps should be so regulated that it would bring the circulating picture gal lery within the reach of all. l.--London Graphic.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
AN EFFECTIVE MAIDSTONE.
Nov It Adhercs to the Body and SuclOi
 Out All tho Poison,


 Aow It Adheros to the Body and Suck,
 Out All tho Poison,
 Nearly every one has heard more or less about madstones and the wonderful cures with which they are credited in saving life where person had been bit ten by mad dog. Many regard these stones as mere supeTshtton but statis- tics go to preve. that they really do con tain mapy wonderful properties Mad stones ale seldom heard of anywhere ex- eept in the southern states, where they gre quite common, and most of the peo- pie of that section place great faith in them Mrs. J. NJ. Parks, a lady resid- ing in this city, is the possessor of one of these remarkable stolsvs, and report CT called of her tc ieafn something about them.
 ''Yes," she said when questioned on the subject, 'I have a maidstone and have had it many years, My husband found it near MagneSia Springs, Fla. have only had occasion to use it three or four times since it has been in my pos session, and each time the best results followed. The reason that have not used it often is that never hear of aease where a person has been bitten by mad dog until l see 1t in the paper, and then 1t has always been stated that the pa- tent has been taken with conyulsions. 1t is too late to use the maidstone then. Spasms do not generally appear until about nine days after the person is bit ten, aud if the stone Is applied any time previous to the convulsions the poison will be entirely drawn out by it,
 "The worst case ever cured with my maidstone happened when policeman here In she city, named Price, was bit ten on the hand by a mad dog. His arm had swollen up to three or four times it's natural size and had turned black. The man was suffering the most excruciat- ing agony, and his physicians had de. spaired of his life. accidentally heard of his case and at once hurried to the house with my maidstone, The doctor consented to give it a trial, and the re- suit was that the man recovered and is now walking around the streets as we'll as ever.'
 Upon the reporters asking if he might see the stone Mrs. Parks immediately produced it, remarking as she did SC, Tt does not look nearly as powerful az it really is,n
 It Is a little, porous, ehalklike sub stance about an inch long, half an inch wide and quarter of an inch thick and appeared tp be sort of vegetable compound.
 The process of applying the mad. stone, continued Mrs. Parks, is very simple and somewhat similar to vaccina. ton. You select some part of the body Between the bite and the heart and with sharp knife scrape the skin till the blood comes, then apriy the stone to tho raw spot The stone will adhere i1nins, diately, and it's dr.Nwing qualities are SC great that it will almost bury itself in the flesh, sucking out she poison until all the pores of lse stone are filled with the deadly virus The stone then drops of of its own accord, and after being thor, oughly cleansed with milk, warm water and soap is applied again. This is kept up till the stone refrses to stick, thereby showing that all the poison has been drawn out. "-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
The Young nfoon.

The editor of The Popular Science Monthly takes certain imaginative writ CTS to task for their unscientifc and ab- surd statements regarding "the young moon' and "the crescent moon" and ad- Vises them to leave it alone, because they so often coptrive to get t in the wrong place. In story which has come under his notice he finds two friends described as sitting out one summer evening look ing over the Thames, and tho writer goes on to say, By this time the young moon had arisen, and its cold light shimmered over the misty river" Such writers are reminded that the young moon goes to bed early and can never be seen m the process of rising
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
In nuplirate.

Gus de Smith came down Harlem av- enue with his chin cut in several places, Ho that it looked as if drunken barber had been practicing on it.
 "Merciful heaven, Gusr exclaimed Pete Amsterdam. What did you do to the barber You ought to have murdered him. That was the least you could have done"
 II didn't do anything of the kind. Aft, CT he was through shaving 1 invited him across the street and treated him to a cocktail and cigar
 Well, you are q fool"
 No. ain't such fool, after all, re- sponded Gus, for you see shave my self"
 "Oh. that's different thing You are a kind of double barreled fool. Texas Sifungs.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
LIP LANGUAGE.

New Fad Which Is Now Under Discus
 sion In Eugiahd's Upper rendom.
 Lip language" is understood to be the latest craze which will occupy the spare time of society in the place of banjo playing and skirt dancing. Somebody once sang something about!
 When meek gray eyes droop still moro meek And dlnples play at hide and seek,
 There's but one language lips can speak
 Iris brief, but rather pleasant
 Perchance we have all of us had some experience of this kind in our time, but it is quite different kind Of lip language that am now alluding to. Itis reading and understanding words shaped by the lips without articulation.
 That this is possible is well known by the efficient manner in which deaf actors have been able to take their part on the stage, and if people become proficient in the art 1t will be surprising how quiet society will become. Doubtless life will be somewhat dull, but at any rate we shall be spared that perpetual babble and cacllle which ofttimes makes a dinner party so wearisome, and we shall get rid of the roar and buzz of oyercrowded as- semblies.
 If perfection is attained in the art, with couple of good opera glasses peo- pie will be able to converse when con siderable distance apart. The male prac- ticers of the art will undoubtedly have tc shave, and it will be a nice point of law to find whether islander or libel con yeyed by this silent system will be ac- tionable or not
 Probably tue only people who will elr ject to tue new pastip'e Sili be those perpetual iabksfs, those incessant jaw exercisers, to whom nothing is so sweet as the sound of their own voices. Lon don Graphic.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
KISSING IN COURT.

Polish Women show Their Gratitude to
 Lawyer, Judge and Jury.
 Men running from women wishing to kiss them agitated the county court at Long Islaud City the other day, Judge Garretson was on the bench, A jury had just announced verdict of mot guilty in the case of Anna Wonzowlas- ka, a pretty Polish girl l6 years old, charged with criminal offense.
 Theverdict caused commotion among a number of Polish wolden in the rear of the courtroom. They rushed into the open space reserved for lawyers and fell upon Counselor Merrill, who defended the girl, and assailed him with fervent kisses. Each kiss was loud, and the counselor became red in the face.
 The jurymen smiled, but their turn was coming. Before they realized what was going to happen, the women made an assault upon the jury box and grab bed the members of the jury around their necks and imprinted kisses on their cheeks and hands. The men struggled, but the chairs prevented their escape un- til all but ths foreman had received an affectionats embrace. Foreman Arm strong ran for the door. It was a short, sharp race, but the foreman won.
 Judge Garretson drowned from the bench. He was too surprised to act un- til 1t was nearly all over. He was re covering his composure when the women started for him. The judge was saved by the interference of the court officer, who succeeded in getting the women to leave the courtroom. The eafnestness of the women had such an effect on the spectators present that they made up a purse of so for the girl. She left the court light of heart.--New York Times.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
Anri,i.,, Cabinet sarrAt.

A London correspondent says that the rehewed agitation on the subject of the navy has led to the disclosure of another cabinet secret. It is now known that Gladstone stood absolutely alone among his ministers in opposing the large in- crease in the naval expenditure. He was unyielding to the end, and this was one of his principal reasons for his decision to resign, decision which he did not communicate to any one of his official advisers, and which they first learned through the Pail Mall Gazette's prema- ture publication.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-11
Dean Ie Breton.

Mrs. Langtry's father, Dean To Ere. ton, was the leading dignitary of his church in Jersey, presiding especially over the picturesque church at St. Say lour's. He was D man of superb phy- sique and strikiugly handsome His beauty descended to more members of his family than to his fainohs daughter, for the brothers, of whom there were several, an were splendid looking, Apol- loiike fellows, notably Mrs. Langtry's youngest and favorite brother. who was killed ina tiger hunt in lhdia.--New York Times