Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-21

family they could not help but imagine that his grief was mixed with gratitude "a lively sense of favors to come. Commissioner Smith-On the train the other day 1 met with Sherley. who travels with James Whitcomb Riley. He said that Riley was introduced to d man that had a hare-lip and lisped badly. In the course of the conversation Riley asked him what his occupation was. He said he taught, elocution.
 E. G. Stevens.-An arc light throws out very little heat although the heat is terrific at the point of contact between the two cartoons. An incandescent light heats one cubic foot of air to sixteen cubic feet heated by an oil lamp. If you want to know how hot an oil lamp is just hold your hand over the top of the chimney. Before long every store and residence in Birmingham will have it's in- candescent lights. We don't know what electricity is, but we know how to use 1t, and we are learning more about 1t all the time. Ben Franklin brought down the electric current from the clouds-he didn't know that there were earth cur rents under his feet When we harness these earth currents there will be won ders worked.
 Judge Arnold-There never has been such a corn crop as will be produced In Al1SSiSSlppl lDlS year. iHe tiAhh they will have to feed it to the hogs.
 Charles Roberts-It is said, that Mex ico has a few wealthy people and many poor people. The same is true of this country in lesser degree. l think there is this difference: The rich men of Mex ico have made their wealth by oppress- ing the poor, while in this country they have become rich by the development of mines and industries and by the use Of machinery. The working men have prospered as we'll as the rich. l see 1t estimated that if the wealth of this country was divided up it would amount to about 5000 per capita. Now, sup pose each person had 5000 and no more there would be no rich people, and many things which the rich alone use would be done away with. The people who produce luxuries would find their em- ployment gone.
 J. l.. MI have just finished reading ''The Yelled Doctor" by Miss Winnie Davis. l think the plot is as sklllIully drawn as possible, and all was made or the material that could be made, but 1t is beneath the ability of the authoress. It is like giant picking up stfaWs. MISS Davis is one of the most intellectual Wom- en of the times. She is fine French ana German scholar and has studied the lit erature of those two nations in the orlg- inal. She spent several years in Europe finishing her education She is at home on any topic. She is the intellectual equal of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Why she wastes her talents on such trivial story as "The Yelled Doctor" l can't inn i agine. It was my pleasure to travel with her from Beauvoir to New York two or three years ago. I found her the most delightful woman in conversation l ever met. She was then en route to Europe on a journey for her. health. She had been depressed to the point of serious ill- ness by the sensational reports published in the newspapers regarding the break ing off of her engagement to MT. Wilkin- son on account of the burning of his an- cestrial home. A kinsman of Miss Davis afterWard told me that she had never engaged herself to Wilkinson at all. All though she has any number of the most desirable offers of marriage she rejects them all to devote herself to her mother, who is a confirmed invalid. Mrs Davis is herself a very brilliant woman. Miss Davis could hardly be otherwise than in- tellectual Her constant association with her mother and distinguished father has enriched an intellect naturally of high order. Mrs. Davis was a Miss Howell of Vicksburg. The rumor that she was a yankee school marm when MT. Davis married her has no foundation in fact, although her family may have moved south from the east several generations ago.