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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-11-08

Florida oranges will be scarce,
but the short crop there will be
more than made up by shipments
from Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico and
California.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
No SUICIDE FOR HIM.
World Was ss Full of Luck ns Could Be in
 Ills Estimation.

World Was ss Full of Luoh ns Could Be in
 Ills Estimation.
 He was a disconsolate looking man, says the Detroit Free Press, and he had been hanging about the wharf of the Cleveland lines 50 long that police man finally accostcd him with:
 You don't want to attempt any monkey business around here, sir
 What do you Inean2" asked the man.
 Don't take no header into the river"
 Who's going to take header2 guess there's no law to prevent | man looking at the water"
 That's all right" muttercd the off. cer, but fl you contemplate suicide--r
 What do want to suicide for?n de- mRnded the stranger.
 II dunno. You seem 10 be hard up and full of trouble"
 1T do, eb9 That shows all you know about it. Here's how hard up ana roll figuring up three hundred and fifty dollars. Here's how full of trouble I ana letter from widow worth iif- teen thousand dollars saying she'll marry me on the 18th of next month I'm feeling so blamed good that l can hardly keep from yelling, and yet you talk about suicide! You'd better go of and chew a ragg
 The officer drew his club and looked at him in longing way, but finally de- eided to spare him till another time.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
HIGHLY MAGNeTlzEo.
What Happened to Family from Drink
 ing ImpreEnated Water.

What Happened to Family from Drink
 Ing Imprsgnated Water.
 A remarkable story comes from the upper Yakima country, Washington. Two years ago Peter Stromshadt lo- cated on piece of land near what is now known as Borax Springs, his fami- ly consisting of his wife and two chil- dren. A few days after his settlement Stromshadt discovered q spring close to the shack he had built. the water of which was strongly impregnated with iron, but not unpalatabble. Stromstadt dug and deepcned the spring, and since July, 1898, the family has used the water for all domestic purposes.
 One night recently heavy electric storm passed over the cascades. ac- companied by vivid displays of light ming. The following day Mrs Strom- stadt, while kindlinga fire in the stove, found it almost impossible to separate the stove liter from her hand, Her husband, hearing her scream, ran to her assistance, when, to his surprise, he found that he. too, experienced great difficulty in detachiug any article of iron with which his hands came in con tact.
 Breakfast was finally prepared and the family sat down to the meal The children, girls of five or seven years, respectively, drank their milk from tin cups, and upon raising the cups to their mouths found themselves unable to detach the cups from their lips. Strom- stadt, who is au intelligent immigrant from Sweden, was nonpluSscd, and, while unable to account for the won derful occurrence, nevertheless laughed at his wife's excited declarations that the family was bewitched.
 A member of the Portland, Ore, academy of science, to whom the cir cumstanee was related, says that the Stromstadt family has become satu. rated with iron, which was rendered magnetic by the passage of electricity from the clouds to the earth during the recent electric storm. Stromstadt him self takes the matter philosophically, and aside from the inconvenience of having his head decorated with fringe of knives, forks and teaspoons. which are attached to him, is inclined toregard the occurrence lightly.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
A MOUSE THAT FLIES.
Discovery of New Mammal in the Cam
 eroon Country.

Discovery of New Mammal In the Cam.
 eroon Country.
 A new mammal, previously unknown to natural science, has been discovered by George Zenker, a German colonist in the country back of the Cameroon coast in equatorial Africa. It has been named the IdiuruS ZenSeri by the Der lin museum of natural history, in honor of the diScoverer, and in English would probably best be described as a flying mouse While somewhat re- Sembling a bat, 1t certainly belongs to an entirely different species. The animal is the size of a mouse, its fur Is heavy, gray and soft and it has a wing membrane extending from the neck all around the body. This mem branc is covered with fine hair, lying closely against it. Two peculiarly shaped bones, extending out from be. hind the forward extremities, lend ad- ditional support to the membrane, which is strong enough to support the flying mouse in short downward flut- tering. The membrane acts more like a parachute than wing, and the animal is unable to raise itself from the ground by means of it's flying apparatus. A curiously developed tail, longer than the animal itself gives it peculiar aspect. This tail IS covered by tiny horny scales, between which long, wimper-like hairs are growing out, and 1t ends in q brush. Little is known about the mode of life of the idiurus, but it feeds mostly on vegetable mat Ter
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
Opium in Prison.

Twenty per cent. of the inmates of the state prison at Charlestown, Mass, are habitual opium-eaters, and Warden Bridges says that it is next to impossible toprevent the smuggling of this drug into the prison. For one man found in his cell under the influence of liquor, twenty are found stupefed with opium. The warden showed visitor the other day little paper package, not larger than the unsharpcned end of lead pencil, which contained n fine powder. There is enough opium there, said he, "to satisfy several men, and yet how are we going to detect it when baked in the center of a cake?" The prisoners are allowed to receive presents of fruit and cake. One of the confirmed opium eaters is always we'll supplied with the drug, but how he obtains it has hitherto mystified the officials. His only visitor is an old woman, but watchers say they have never seen her close enough to the man to pass him anything. During her calls he invariably sits with his head hung down and his hands be- tween his knees, apparently in deep de- jection. The only conclusion possible is that one of the keepers, and not the old woman, brings him opium It is said that comparatively few of the con Victs have the habit when they arrive Once within the walls they soon learn the trick of getting the opium, and use it as means of becoming obliyious of their surroundings, or at least indiffer- ent to them.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
wEpoEo BY ELECTRICITY.
Prom Alpha to Omega the AnAir ws,
 Run by Chained Lightning.

Prom Alpha to Omega the AfrAir Was
 Run by Chained Lightning.
 At wedding in one of the mideast cities, just before the entrance of the bride, the room burst into 8 food of light from the numerous multi-colored electric lamps hidden among the dec orations. The entrance of the bridal couple was signalized by the auto matic ringing of electrical bells and playing of electrical musical instru- ments. During the wedding breakfast, after the first course, the light faded, and then suddenly there glowed illumi. nations from swarm of electric lamps. Hidden among the masses of flowers, glowing from the hearts of jellies and from translucent vases it seemed as if the genii of the lower world were every where at work.
 In this magical entertainment 1t fol- lowed that the bride herself must not be left out. In her hair gleamed an untwinkling star, and, at the first toast, two serpents slowly uncoiled them selves altogether too suggestingly- from the bottle standing before the happy couple. Coffee was prepared in view of the company by m electric heater, and congratulatory speeches were applauded rapturously by an cleo tric kettle-drum placed under the ta- ble, Upon the dispersion of the com pany the electric current set off Q novel pyrotechnic display.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
colNINo aoLo IN OREGON.
Establishment af a hiint Noariy Half
 Cantury Aga

Establishment af Mint Noariy Half a
 Century Ago.
 Probably 1t is known only to a small number now living in Oregon that in early times Oregon made her own money, The first efforts to create q currency under the provisional govern. ment of the territory fifty years ago gave results that many now would think strange and amusing. In 1s45 B law was passed to regulate the cur rency which made gold, silver, treasury warrants, approved orders on solvent merchants, and wheat delivered at places where the people were accus- toned to receive wheat legal tender for taxes and satisfaction of judg- ments. An act was also passed by the Legislative committee" declaring that in cases where no special contract had been made between the parties avail able orders, wheat, hides, tallow, beef, pork, butter, lard, peas, lumber, or other articles of export of this terri. tory" should be 'lawful tender at their current value.'
 This mint was to coin ten and five dollar gold pieces. Thomas Powell, a blacksmith, did the forge work, Will liam II. Rector the lathe work and Hamilton Campbell the engraving on dies. A full description of the con struction and organization of this mint, with fac-simile illustrations of this product, may be seen near the end of the first volume of J. Henry Browns Political History of Oregon" It is curious illustration of the easy methods of doing business in those times that no record was kept of the amounts coined or number of pieces, but it Is supposed that the total coinage of this mint was about sixty thousand dollars. pretty equally divided in amount be. tween the tens and fves. The mint seems to have shut down at last be- cause the man in charge found it didn't pay The dies were long supposed lost, but one day they were found among the rubbish of an old shed at Oregon City by D. P. Thompson and sent to the office of the secretary of state at Salem where they are pre-. served as curious relics. Only few pieces of the gold coined at this mint are known to have been preserved. Most of them were soon melted mp, for they were without alloy, and contained more gold than the coins of standard value. The product of this mint was known as beaver money from the principal figure on the coins, which was q beaver mounted on log But it was a long time after the disappearance of this money from circulation until coin of the United States came much into use here. Down to 1860, or even later, most of the money in use in Ore gon and Washington was coin of pri- vate mintage made in San Francisco.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
A nMARs.s QUEER Russ.
Had Himself Skipped in Box in Ordsr i'd
 Beat tho Railway.

hA1 hAAhNtil DhspptN tu V lfDA bl SNuof tu
 Beat tho Railway.
 Four or five years ago one of the most celebrated of European prodigies was the Polish dwarf, Hermann Zeitung, at one time one of the chief attractions at the Folies Bergero, says the New York world. Latterly zeitung has been lit tic in the public eye, or rather was un- til the other day, when he started in to carry ont m interesting exploit whi,h very nearly succeeded.
 He had himself fastened up in box addressed to large importing house at Madrid and labeled: Fragile. With care. Top" Holes had been made in this box for breathing purposes and one of it's sides was so constructed that 1t could be opened from within to give the little dwarf q way of getting out unnoticed when he reached his destina- ton. The box was fitted up with a cushion seat and an abundant supply of provisions was placed within it.
 The start was made at Vienna, where Zeitung had been living for some time, and after the dwarf had placed him. self inside and fastened himself in two lusty porters carried him off to the sta tion, having been paid beforehand fee of sixty cents each. They gave the box in charge to the stationmaster to be shipped to Madrid by express
 According to Zeitung, the journey was an uninterestiug one and with out incident, but when he got to the Spanish capital his troubles began. The Madrid stationmaster evidently had poor knowledge as to the fragil- ity of glass, for he turned the box over and over, and at last came to the con clusion that its contents ought to be in- vestigated. His aids, therefore, opened it and dragged out the dwarf more dead than alive from the shaking he had re. ceived It would have puzzled man less full of expedients how to further punish Zeitung but the sJationmaster solved the problem by having him ar rested for trying to swindle the rail road companies out of their fares.
 The dwarf's defense was that he was travelling in this manner on . bet of three thousand francs, the terms of the wager being that he was to get Co Madrid without cent in his pocket Three hundred francs, however, were found concealed in his shoes. The real reason for his travelling in this remark able manner was that he might save railroad fare and also get good adver- tisement for the engagement in Madrid, for which he was billed.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
TWO STORIES.
Chsuneey Depew Took an Ovation Which
 Did Not Belong to Him.

Chsaneey Depew Took an Ovation Which
 Did Not Belong to Him.
 The other day Chauncey NJ. Depew was riding along in a sleeper, when the train came to q stop at Cornell uni- yerSity. There was a big crowd out side and the station platform was lined with yelling college boys Speech! speech! speech!" they yelled.
 Chauncey smiled. He was used to great ovations but this was more than he expected. He waited modestly for Q few minutes for the cries to subside. The yells grew louder. Chauncey got up, put on his best smile and buttoned up his coat. He strode out with all the dignity of . great man. He did not know that one of the faculty of Cornell was going off on the train and was be- ing given a rousing send-of by the col lege.
 Depew appeared upon the platform lowing and smiling in every direction. Young men of Cornell,n he began, in his best voice, you do me the distin- guished honor-' A great cheer went up. Some of the boys recognized him. They yelled louder.
 Depew continued his speech and gained the attention of the crowd. He thanked them profusely for their re- ception, gave them some advice and re. tired. Just at this juncture the train drew out. The departing college pro lessor walked inside and glared at De- pew. He is now writing Q treatise on Nerve"
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHS.
The Largest Ever Obtained Were Take
 nt fhc Paris tlhanrNnfnrr

The Largest Ever Obtained Were Taken
 Rt the Paris Observatory.
 The Observatory of Paris possesses e telescope by means of which photo. graphs of celestial bodies of remark able size and clearness can be taken. By the aid of this great instrument the astronomers or the observatory have just taken a series of photographs of the moons surface which are said to be the largest ever obtained
 The value of lunar photographs, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, is very great to astronomers, Formerly they went to infinite trouble in slietching aspects of the moon, and two persons seldom produced drawings of the same thing which were not contradictory. The in cessant changes in the moons surface caused by the rays of the sun colnpli- cated the draughtsman's task. The most detailed chart of the moon ever obtained was of diameter of six feet, ]. Schmidt, of the Observatory of Athens, passed the years from lS4O to 1871 in completing 1t.
 The photographic method alone gives indisputablc results. No details escape. and proofs obtained agree absolutely. The subsequent enlargement gives a photograph of about the same size as the largest charts of the moon made by hand. The portion of the moons sur. face photographed is remarkable for great series of cratcrs which pass from the center to the south of the carth's satellite. Al the bottom of the photo graph i5 the great circle of Ptolemaeus, of which the actual diameter on the moon's surface is estimated to be l24 miles. The height of its circular ram part is said to be II, TOO feet.
 Immediately above is Alphonsus B miles in diameter, with central peak S,6OO feet high. To the left is Albategnius, with diameter of 67 miles and peak toward the northeast 13,5O0 feet high. A mar row crater, called Alpetragius, to the southeast of Alphonsus, has depth of i0,95O feet. Thcbut is o,0OO feet deep and Purbach G,9OO feet The photo graphs will form part of new com plete map of the moons surface which it is proposed to make.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
Uor... nnd Eartbounhe..

It is well-lnown fact, says the Mas. cot, that horses can hear sounds that are not perceptibie to the human car For days previous to the great earth quake in the Riviera the horses of that locality showed every symptom of fear, which continued without change of character, unless it was in the di- rection of greater frenzy, till the fury of the great conyulsion broke forth Not until few seconds, however, be- fore the earth began to tremble did human beings hear thc subterranean rumblings. One writer from the scene says that in his opinion the horses knew that the quake was on the way from seventy-two to one hundred hours before their masters heard or felt the first lar
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
METAL PRODUCTION LAST YEAR
stAtistiSs Compiled By tho Engineering
 aud hiining Journal

RtztiatIoa Compiled By tho EngiDearing
 and hiining Journsi
 Tho statistics of the mineral and metal production of the United States in 1894, compared with the output in 1893, have been compiled with care and were published recently by the En- gineering and Mining Journal.
 The total value of the mineral and metal production of the United States in 1894 and 1893 was as follows: 1895, s615, SAG, SOC; 1894, s553, ,272 ,902; decline, e62, ,57S, ,9O4, or per cent. This great falling off was, however, due far more to lower prices than to lessened quanti- ty of the product. Thus the value Of our coal production declined last year SIS, ,7SS, ,S2S, or per cent, while in quantity it fell of only O,220, o7O short tons, or 3H per cent. This compara- lively small decline in the volume of coal produced is substantially a meas ure of the whole mineral output of the country.
 The copper output increased 8 per cent, from 327, ,955, ,7ss pounds in 1898 to S5s, ,5O4,9l4 pounds in 1894, though in value it declined no less than sl ,039, ,50S, or 4}S per cent.
 The production of gold increased from sS5, ,955, 900 in 1893 to s39, ,76l, ,205 in 1894, but the commercial value of the silver produced declined from S47, ,Sll, 450 in 1898 to S31 ,403, ,5Sl in 1894, a fall of Sl5, ,9O7 ,92q, or 34 per cent This was partly due to Q reduced production, 66,- soc, ,O00 ounces in 1893 and only 49,S4e,- s75 ounces in is94, but the price also declined from 7s.2 cents per ounce in 1898 to 6S cents in 1894.
 Pig iron showed heavy decline in quantity. from T,O47, ,Ss4 long tons in 1893 to e,657, 3ss tons in 1894, but the value declined much more than the quantity, or from sos, ,sss, 1909 in 1898 to s7t, ,96G ,36S in 1894, . falling off in values of 28]5 per cent, and in quantity only 5}5 per cent.
 The value of spelter declined q, O00,- 900. though the quantity produced fell of but 2,250 tons.
 On the whole the mineral industry of the United States has made a highly satisfactory record in 1894 in the quan- tity produced over such an enormous shrinkage of values. With prices lower than ever before thought possible, and in the majority of cases lower than sim liar articles are produced anywhere else in the world, the output has de- clined but little. The low prices no doubt maintained large consumption, and now, with reviving prosperity and prices, the producers will reap the harvest for which they planted in the hard times
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
THIS ATOM MAKES TROUBLE.
Microscopic ThingumOOb Driving the In
 hRbItants to Hard Drink.

Microscopic ThingumOob Driving the In-
 hRbItants to Hard Drink.
 A microscopic thingumbob iE the reservoir of the Middletown Conn water works is making more trouble than some persons very many thousand times its size. Its present occupation appears to be driving the inhabitants of Middletown to drink, and although scientists are after it hot hooks it goes right on thriving.
 Some of these same scientists, says the New York World, gave this dimin- utive beast the name of uroglena vol vox. But this mouthful of dead language didn't exactly fill the bill, so some male person of Middletown tackled on the adjective "odorous" Now all folks who live in Middletown call the intruding organism the 'odorous urog- glena volvox,' and try, as far as possi- ble, to keep it out of their midst.
 The odorous whadiecallem's partic. ular forte is dying along all the water mains in the Connecticut borough. Scientists who have pried into its family affairs say that before it gets into the water mains it has no effect upon the fluid. But in the hurly y-burly of jostling through the pipes with unaccountable millions of it's kind it gets all broken up, disintegrates and gives to the water the taste of fish long dead, but un- buried.
 Scientists who have brought it be- heath the cold, interruptions eye of miseroscope say that it is minute mass of jelly. The Middletown people say that it may be jelly but that it leaves a taste a darn sight larger than minute'-some hours long, in fact. And the whole town waits to see what learned biologist can do to clean the uroglena volvox out of the reservoir He says, just at present, that the atom is washed down into the reservoir from the hills above and that it looks as if it has come to stay. Meanwhile the Mid dletownian associates with the thing umbob externally, and the price of hard cider has gone up
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
THE FASHIONS.

BLAcE and white are certainly in fashion, but in stripes and pelins and not in checks.
 EcRU lace is popular, and with net and insertion will form exquisite col lars, yokes, berthas and skirt trim mings.
 THE plaited and rosetted collars of chiffon are still to be seen; in fact, the lavish use of this material bids fair to last all through the summer.
 TIE fullness m sigot sleeves is dis posed in gathers or plaits at the shoul- ders, the distended effect being at. tained equally well by both modes of adjustment.
 SLEEVES for plain day dresses are all ways worn long, sometimes too long. Some end in the form of the mouth of blunderbuss or of flute, and are most unbecoming.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-14
MADE UP A CONFINED CORPSE.
GhastIy Joh an Artist Un--s~took to Please
 an Undertaken Friend.

GhRStIy Job an Artist Un--S~took to Please
 an Undertaken Friend
 well-known artist of Syracuse, N. Y., amuses his friends with an expert ence he had some time ago that has tinge of the uncanny. It seems, says the Washington Star, that the artist has friend who is an undertaken, and who at that time was badly in need of assistance. It seems that the under taker had accidentally spilled fluid upon the face of body he was prepar- ing for burial, and on account of his carelessness the fluid had acted upon the skin and turned it black in many places. The undertaken realized that something must be done, and that very soon. It would be out of the question for the family to learn of the accident. For moment he was nonplused, but his mind shortly turned to his artist friend, and he thought that he could relieve him.
 "It was at night when he called" said the artist, in narrating the story, ''and had retired At first it seemed impossible for me to attempt such job as he laid before me, but his sad plight touched me, and finally consented to do the best in my power. Iwent to the house with my box of paints. The un- dertaker entered the front door, but he feared that suspicion would be aroused if was seen. According to arrange ments, I waited outside until he had reached the death chamber Then he silently raised the window, and crawled stealthily in. For moro than sn hour l labored silently upon the spotted face, carefully painting over the black places, and finishing the whole with that effect which bctokens death.
 Tt was a ghastly job, and never want another like it. After it was all over the body looked as lifelike as pos sible, and no one ever knew that tho face was entirely made up"
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