Daily South Kentuckian, 1885-10-03

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. David Gamble, of Enimlttsburg, Md., has slept in a coffin for forty years and died in it tho other night. Baltimore Sun, The first prizo for violin playing at the Vienna Conservatoriura this year has been awarded to a lad of ton years, Friedrieh Kreislur. Prof. Huxley's idea of a well- iroportioned man is ono weighing one itindred and fifty-four pounds, threo pounds of which are brains. William (ilynno Charles Gladstone is the full name of tho hoir of lluwar lluwar-den, - den, lluwar-den, tho ex-Premier's grundson, chris christened - tened christened in London a few days ago. A collector of the 'curious an announces - nounces announces that Mnry continues tho fa favorite - vorite favorite name for girls Anna comes soc soc-ond, - ond, soc-ond, F.lizaboth is third, Laura is fourth. N. y. Nun. A colored woman only thirty-seven inches high, though twenty-seven years old, lives on a Florida plantation. She claims never to havo been sick. Louis Louisville - ville Louisville Courier-Journal. Rev. William Paltcrson celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Poundridgo, Mass., tho other day. Ho became pas pastor - tor pastor of the Church July 7, 1835. Victor Hugo, who survived to such an old age, was, when born, such a tinv, frail and gro'esquely hideous bit of humanity that the doctors declared ho could not possibly live to grow up. Miss Ella F. Kidd, of Kcene, Ky., has completed a crazy quilt which con contains - tains contains ono hundred thousand pieces nnd nine hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty-eight stitches. Tho most vnlunblo wedding prosont which the Princess licntrice received was a magnificent tea nnd coffee servico of sol ill gold, each piece being richly chased, which was scut by the ex-Empress Kugoniu. Two New Knglnnd pastors ex exchanged - changed exchanged pulpits, nnd ono delivered a sermon which the congregation had within a month heard from tho mouth of the other. Tho Baptist Weekly vouches for this story, and would liko to know tho real author of the dis discourse. - course. discourse. Kli.a McCarthy, who has been an inmnto of the insane department of tho Baltimore Almshouse for thirty years, died at Hnyview recently. Tho poor creature never had anything to say ex except - cept except to repeat the words "doll babies" and "Fourth of July." Baltimore American. In answer to an advertisement for a first-class clerk in tho Chambers of Justice Pearson, in London, rendered vacant by death, over live hundred ap applications - plications applications havo been sent in, among tho candidates being both barristers and solicitors. The salary of this ap appointment - pointment appointment commences at live hundred pounds u year aud rises to six hundred pounds. a "A LITTLE NONSENSE." "(Hobo trotters" Is ono of tho terms for tho tourists who take tho beaten track round tho world. Boston Budget. A cyclone resembles a woman, bo bo-cause - cause bo-cause when it mako its mind to go somewhere all earth can't stop it. Oft City Derrick. "Pa, what do they always have a handkerchief over Justice's eyes for?" "Because, my son, the lawyers have talked her blind." The Judge. Old gentleman "Ah! Mrs. B.. did you keep a diary during your visit to the country?" "Mrs. 13. (indignantly) "No. sir; I didn't. The family bought milk from the neighbors!" A'orrixtown Herald. It has been decided that a naval cadet who throws kisses nt a girl is guilty of tingenllemanly conduct. Quite right. He should carry them to her ami place them gently on her lips. Philadelphia Call. Jones (at tho circus) "Hello, Smith, you here?" Smith: "Yes, I had to coruo to tnko caro of my littlo boy." Jones: "Where is tho boy?" Smith: "He wns taken sick at the last moment ami couldn't come." Auburnian. Ho slipped in quietly at tho door, but catching sight of an inquiring face over the stair-rail, said: "Sorry so lato, my dear; couldn't get a car be before." - fore." before." ' "So the cars were full, too," said the lady, and further remarks wcro unnecessary. Georgia Major. Said an exasperated Texas fnthei at (he dinner-table: "You children turn up your noses at everything on the table. When I wns a boy I was glad ti get enough dry bread to cat." "I say, pa, you are having a much better time of It now you aro living with us, ain't yon?" remarked littlo Tommy. Tczas Hillings. "Now, you young scamp," said Rinks senior, as he led '.lis youngest out into the wood shed nnd prepared to givo him a dressing down, "I'll teach you what Is what." "No, pa," replied tho incorrigible, "you'll teach me which is switch." And then the old man's hand fell powerloss to his sido. Chicago Rambler. "I've gone about as high in ma masonry - sonry masonry as anybody can," saicl a laborer. "Is that so, how high have you gone?" "Well, I worked on the top of the Washington monument as a mason." "Well, that's not taking any degrees in masonry." "It isn't, ehP Well, you'd a thought it was if you'd been there, with the thermometer at thirty thirty-three - three thirty-three degrees below. I took all the degrees I care to now." Chicago ledger.

ELEGANT TOILETTES. Some of the Materlali Considered Comae It Faut for Fall and Winter. Buckles, clasps, slides, and books in gold, silvor, steel, bronze, enamel, pearl, amber nnd jet aro used with a free hand this autumn both for dross and millinery purposes. These various ornaments, in all manner of odd, quaint devices, often represent nothing but the vagaries of the design designer's - er's designer's imagination. Antique gold belt clasps, with dog-collar orna ornaments - ments ornaments to match, set with brilliant Rhine stones, or ornaments for a liko fiurpose made of iridescent enamel, in in-aid - aid in-aid with half-precious colored gems in floral patterns, are added to many of the elegant costumes of silk and satin, and also to handsome tailor tailor-made - made tailor-made suits of rich lined tricot or bouole fabrics. With the new fashion of loose Fedora vests, to wear beneath pretty house jackets, no buttons aro visible, and the full-gathered fronts aro caught at the belt with ribbons, and held with these fancy clasps, ono large one or two smaller sizes, as preferred. Some of the elegant fancy woolen fab fabrics - rics fabrics brought out recently are as ex expensive - pensive expensive at silk or satin goods of fine quality, and are far more popular for street wear than cither of these materi materials, - als, materials, it wo except perhaps, the dark du durable - rable durable surahs. The new vigognes, for Instance, are shown with exceedingly rich broche figures, small, but magnifi magnificently - cently magnificently colored, over plain, rich, darkly darkly-dyed - dyed darkly-dyed grounds. Tho brocho designs, al although - though although showing a mingling of Persian colors, are always in perfect harmony with the prevailing shade of the goods they decorate, reminding one of the autuma foliage, a ti'ille subdued from its first vivid brilliancy of coloring, against the background of a dull, dark September sky. These rich figures are not woven in clusters, but detached and sprinkled at quite wide intervals over the'soft, handsomely finished fabrics. This is to be a "checkered" season in the matter of woolen fabrics, judging by the endless lines and grades of plaided and blocked patterns which strew the counters and adorn the shop shop-windows - windows shop-windows of "exclusive" importers, who are sure to secure tho leading novelties for their patrons. The new Elaids and checks aro uncommonly andsomo, and there is an absence of the over-brilliant coloring which fre frequently - quently frequently characterizes these designs. C ream and ruby, olive and doo color, dark blue and deep crimson (the fash fashionable - ionable fashionable "Princess of Wales" combina combination), - tion), combination), and au artistic shading of a single color merely outlined nt ttio edges of each plaid, with hair lines of a contrasting hue, aro among tho many patterns displayed. Long, full drapings, laid In heavy flat folds at one side, or down each side of the front of tho dross, is the popular and stylish mode of ar arranging - ranging arranging the skirts to these. Velvet is used as a garniture upon checked and plaided suits in preference to other trimmings, and very frequently (he dress, wrap in tho shape of Gladstone jacket, or long French pelise, and the princess bonnet are made to correspond. The new double skirts are likely to become general as the season glasses, and the fashion is eminently calculated for the heavy woolen materials which form so large a part of cold-weather at attire. - tire. attire. The double skirt increases the warmth of the gown, and docs away with complicated drapery. Upon some models these skirts are cut of nearly equal length, and are set into rather short-waisted hut pointed bodices in thick gathers or heavy folds. The up upper - per upper skirt is faced up for a considerable distanco, with a contrasting color. It is then caught up high on one side or on both sides a la milkmaid as taste suggests. The bright facing is in intended - tended intended to be shown, and this color is repeated on the waistcoat and upon the collar and cuff facings. N. . Post. Contagion by Mail. , The Waterlown (N. Y.) Times gives the case of a little girl who was dying with scarlet-fever. She sent a "dying kiss" to a little friend, which was im printed on a letter and a circle drawn around the kissed spot. The "little friend" kissed the spot when the letter was received and shortly afterward be became - came became a victim to the disease. It was the only case in the place, and her phy physician - sician physician believes the affection was com communicated - municated communicated through tht malK

Great Men In Countries Measured hy llraan Iluttoni The llaehelnr'a and Married Man'i llulloin A Fori one hy a Mlell Manufacturer. When a man says "I don't rnro a billion, he means to convoy tho Men that the subject under consideration la ( no value and hn is entirely indifl'cr indifl'cr-cnt - cnt indifl'cr-cnt to it, lint if hn lived in China ho would not tiso tliat figure o( speech. Them a button is of soino iinportanee, for llinro a man in known by the but button - ton button he wears. Show a Chinaman a man's button and he will tell you what be is. For buttons h will work, nnd intrigue, and light, ambitious to lie translated from white to red, and from red to blue, whilo for the vellow but button - ton button tho imperial vellow, which niiikos a man brother to the sun and uncle to the moon what will ho not do for that? Kverything, anything. In China public servants arc divided into nine ranks, each of which has two classes, thus forming eighteen classes of officeholders. They are distinguished by the, peculiarities" in form nnd sub substance - stance substance of tho buttons (hey wear, which range from precious stones down through various grades of value to bits nf glass. Nor nre buttons so Indifferent to us as tho common saying might imply. Have fair readers) over seen a West 1'olnt endot return home arrayed in blue and brass to bask In tho smiles of a fond mother and admiring sisters? Have they mil Iced (he enthusiam his buKons awaken? Nothing could in induce - duce induce Hint youth to part with his but buttons, - tons, buttons, except to gain the bullous of a l.li'iilenanl. The Lieutenant aspire (o the Captain's, and tho Captain to (he Major's and so on 11 it through all the nrmy grades, until at last (here are no more buttons to conquer. So in the navy, from naval cadet to Admiral, bullon worship goes on, and we have bti( little to boast ourselves over the Celest'til children of the nlmond eves nnd slanting brow. '1'hero was, imleed, our great (iencral, who has been laid to rest amid (ho (ears of (he Nation, who did not seem to have the bullon mania and never looked very bright or glaring In (ho eyes of his fel fellow - low fellow soldiers; but there were numerous cithers, who, surrounded by gorgeous escorts, shone brightly in tinsel, and not infrequently looked like a brass foundry with the front door open. It is no reproach to them. Some of the world's bravest men hail this pardon pardonable, - able, pardonable, Tnnity. Mural shone rcsplcmlcni when ho headed a cavalry charge. Scot I, at I.undy's l.ane, ami in all his battles, was arrayed in full-dress uni uniform. - form. uniform. Nelson, Hi Trafalgar, had on all his buttons and badges. Doubtless they felt better and Ihcy fought better, and tho world may sniile a little, vet honors (hem none (ho loss. A blue coat with brass buttons was part of tho habitual costume of Daniel Webster. It seemed as if it would be unconstitu unconstitutional - tional unconstitutional for him to wear anything else, and he stuck to lira and blue, and huff waistcoat to the end cf his life. The members of tho famous Pickwick Club woro a brass button on their coats, bearing tho Initials P. C pe peculiar - culiar peculiar coat, as Mr. dingle translated it and It was that button that nearly Involved Mr. Winklo in a duel. So, in fiction, in politics, in war, and in his history - tory history the button holds a prominent, if not a foremost place, anil the man who uses the phrase "I don't care a button" tloosn't know what he is talking about. Ho would rare, if he would only think for a moment on what the button has done for the world. If the loss of a single suspender button will mako a roan feol mean and uncomfortable all day, what would tho loss of all his but buttons - tons buttons entail upon him? It is the button that marks the difference between the ancient and tho modern styles of dress, between the old and (ho now civilizations. Tako away but buttons - tons buttons and you tako away steamboats, telegraphs, railroads, the newspapers, and all tho wonderful appliances (hat make life pleasant in the nineteenth century. Buttons had to be first in invented, - vented, invented, and were the forerttnnors of all these, for until one eould button bis clothes snugly about him tie could not work at these great problems. Think of him trying to do anything that is handy. It can't be done, and when a man's mind is necessarily occupied with trying to hold his clothes on, it can pot be occapicd with much else

The evolution of clothe fastenings was something like this: Thorns, tish bones, strings, metal clasps, pins and buttons, and the buttons did not coma until about the timo Columbus dis discovered - covered discovered America. Hut buttons alono woro not (ptito sufficient and it took our 'good ancestors two centuries longer to invent tho biitton-holu. That is to say, buttons woro first used en entirely - tirely entirely for ornament, and It was not until tho close of Queen Elizabeth's reign that tho great convenience of buttoning one's clothes, instead of pin pinning - ning pinning them or fnstening them with clasps, was discovered. Tho ornamental purpose of tho but button - ton button Is still in vogue In ladies' costumes nnd in men's survives in thoso two helpless buttons on tho back of their coals. Some dreaming enthusiast has calculated that if we would only forego the use of those two buttons the amount saved in a few years would pay Iho national debt, or would found a charit charit-ablo - ablo charit-ablo institution that would provide for everybody, substantially banishing pov poverty - erty poverty from tiio earth. Hut fashion do do-mands - mands do-mands that we should retain them, and so (he national1 debt must take caro of Itself and the millennium still delay its coming. Last game tho self self-fastening - fastening self-fastening button, very recent, as wo all know, a boou to bachelors and lone, lorn widowers. Time was when a wife was an Indispensable necessity to ovcry gentleman for his bullous' sake. Studs and self-fasteners have changed all that, and now a man need not marry unless lie wauls to. Indeed, u marry marrying - ing marrying man may he known by tho bullous he wears. If he wears studs and sclf sclf-fastcners - fastcners sclf-fastcners ho is hopelessly independent. If hu still clings to pearl buttons nnd (he art of sewing lie is sure to marry on the lirs( opportunity. llutlons are made of almost every mnterinl and in every color. There is scarcely an article can be named, leav leaving - ing leaving out fats and such tilings, that can not be turned inlo buttons and after which the public does not run with fruntic eagerness. It has infinite vari variations, - ations, variations, and its fashions trend upon each oilier in swift succession and crowd the wearer. Their manufacture is enor enormous, - mous, enormous, our largest factories being at Newark, N. J., Walerhury, Conn., and Springfield anil Kast Hampton, Mass. Wo import from (Germany, Vrance and Knglaud buttons to thu value of three million dollars yearly. The first manufacturer of buttons In the United Mules was Samuel Willis Willis-sum, - sum, Willis-sum, of Kast Hampton, Mass. His father, grandfather nnd great grand grandfather - father grandfather hail been ministers in Connecti Connecticut - cut Connecticut and Massachusetts, and he intended to lie one, but whilo studying for that profession his eyes gnvo out and he nearly lost their use. He gavo up the ministry, became a country storekeeper and married. His wifo to help keep the wolf from t lie door commenced to cover by hand tho wooden buttons of (he time, which met with quite a ready sale in I lie store. Heboid how large a matter a little button maketh. Thu snlability of the article led to a study of the subject and to the consideration of machinery as an aid to the business, for your true Yankee will never do by hand what he can get a machine to do. One invention led to another, nnd to (he establishment of a factory, con constantly - stantly constantly enlarging, in which was made more (linn half the buttons used in the United States. Samuel WilliMon made n largo fortune in the button business, and lived a long and useful life, dying in IS74, nt the ago of seventy-nine. During his life he founded the Willis Willis-ton - ton Willis-ton Seminary, at Kaslhampton, en endowed - dowed endowed two professorships in Amherst College, built a church, which' was twice burned down and rebuilt by him, giving during his life nnd be bequeathing - queathing bequeathing at his death to these and other charities, more than one million live hundred thousand dollars. That is what buttons did. Could anything better be said about them? Observe, too, it was the wife whose industry selected (ho object which made the fortune. If Mr. Williston hud remained a bachelir and depended on self-fasteners or studs, he would never have been iible to give a million and a half dollars in charity. Tho moral lies on tho surface. Chit-ago Herald.

portion ot it, aim all this miglit nave been prevented by the simple precaution of selecting good sound seed in the fall. There is another fact which should be considered, and that is that corn is susceptible of greater improvement through the selection and use of tho best seed than any other plant grown upon farms, ana at the same timo this plant can bo better improved by using home grown seed than that pro procured - cured procured at great cost from a distance. There are many wise and thoughtful farmers who havo been saving seed from their best plants for many years twenty, forly and some for tiity years and their rcputatious for growing good corn und large crops have made lliem the seedsmen of their localities, tanners who might have done tho sumo for themselves have paid four or live prices for seed grown by these neighbors. Perhaps this common neg neglect - lect neglect is a necessary condition to estab establish - lish establish the truth of tho proverb that "the hand of the diligent maketh rich," but at any rate the result juslilics the say saying. - ing. saying. This .-eli-iiillieU'il tax paid to the diligent seed gatherer might be spared uud the public wealth increased by a hundred million dollars if every farmer would early begiu tho work of selcctiug seed corn, and hereafter take special paius to cultivate, the crops grown from it so as to improve the grain m every possible way. And just hero we would deprecate as strongly as possi possible - ble possible the so-called experiments of some agricultural experiment stations, the ooject of which has been to try to show that moldy, hnlf-ripeuoJ, shriv shriveled - eled shriveled corn would grow aud protiuco a crop. What is the possible use of such an experiment? It may servo to en encourage - courage encourage a thriftless farmor in neglect neglecting - ing neglecting the plainest precaution and duty, and so injure tho interests which should be helped and encouraged by these sta stations, - tions, stations, but no reasonable man would ever act upon such a suggestion. Be Be-sidos, - sidos, Be-sidos, it is not tnie. It is an apparent impossibility that a grain of corn defi deficient - cient deficient in substance can bear a germ of sullicient vital strength to reproduce the original quality of seed. It it wero othorwise, tuen all the claimed results of breeders from the excellent care and cultivation of a race of cattle and tue selection of tho best dams and siros would be falsiiied, aud the poorest haif haif-starved - starved haif-starved scrub might be used as the progenitor of a superior progony. "As a niau bows so shall he reap." Then the farmer intent upon improv improving - ing improving his corn will go into the field as the ears aro ripon ng und select those plants which most nearly meet his ideal of what the best corn should bo plants with moderately sized and well leafed stalks which bear two cars, both well tilled out und souud, and the earliest ripe and from these plants he will choose the upper car for seed, and mark tho stalk by tying a colored strip around the top of it. Or as soon as he becomes expert and can select those stalks as he goes along in cutting tho crop he leaves them standing until the rest is all dowu and these ears are ripe and dry, and then proceeds to save them in the best manner. If there is but ono good ear on a stalk it may be saved, but as mul multiple - tiple multiple earmg is very desirable we would choose a less attractive ear from a twin twin-bearing - bearing twin-bearing stalk in preference to a single car. But the top ear should always bo taken because it u Uie earliest.

A Disease of the ltlood Whleh Demands Prompt and Decided Action. Years ago a notion prevailed among stockmen that when the horns of a sick animal were cold at the base it was in indicative - dicative indicative of some disease of the horn, the nature of which no one professed to understand. Horn ail, according to Tellor, is now understood to be a special diseased condition of the blood, in which there is either a deficiency in the amount of blood in the body or a dim diminution - inution diminution ot some of its important con constituents, - stituents, constituents, especially tho rod blood cor-pu-clcs. Such condition may follow an attack of any acute disease where re recovery - covery recovery is slow and partial, but generally results from poor or insufficient food, exposure and neglect, fonl air, lack of cleanliness and other necessary condi conditions - tions conditions of health. The food may bo abundant in quantity, but contain an excess of water and a deficiency of solid matter. An exclusive feed of roots or of green food growing on damp soils, or tho persistent use of a singlo variety of food, sometimes results in this depraved condition of the blood. The symptoms are those of great debil debility. - ity. debility. Tho animal is thin in flesh and hide bound, often lousy, with hair standing staight out from the body or titrucd toward the head. The appetite is ravenous or irregular; the bowels either constipated or too loose, gener generally - ally generally the latter; the fieces are very fetid and accompanied with gas. The pulse is feeble and the animal easily fatigued. Tho lining membrane of the mouth is unusually pale and the horns colder than natural, sometimes almost as cold as thoso of a dead animal. It is this condition which gives the disease its name, and the ignorant cow doctor, with no knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the animal, imagines the disease conlined to tho horns, which, under his treatment will either be bored with a gimlet and turpentine squirted into the orifice, or an active plaster will re applied to the head at their base, which, as the temperature results from a low condition of tho blood, can have no beneficial effect Later symptoms of the disease are swellings under the jaws and about the navel, also dropsy of the belly. The cause of the disease being understood, common sense will suggest that the first thing to do in the way of treatment is to see that the ani animal - mal animal is well fed, comfortably housed and kept perfectly clean. The food should be of the best quality, given in small quantities and often. If lousy apply Persian insect powder thorough thoroughly - ly thoroughly three or (our times every other day. (.iive from one pint to one quart of lin linseed - seed linseed oil, varying the quantity to cor correspond - respond correspond to the sue of the animal. If tho animal suffers constantly from diar diarrhoea, - rhoea, diarrhoea, give powdered chalk one ouuee and bisulphate of soda one ounce, three times a day, mixed in feed. If this does not pioduce a favorable effect mix oil of turpentine one-third of an ounce and lauifauum one-third of an ounce

A Genuine Character. A real "Daughter of tho Regiment" is said to live at St. Petersburg, whose fate shows that the Kussinn soldiers are not all as stony-hearted as they are sometimes painted. In 1877 a Russian regiment, after a hard struggle, took and invaded tho Turkish town Hotv manly. Tho inhabitants had mostly fled, but one of the Kussinn soldiers, in searching for booty, came upon a beautiful young girl about fivo years old, who "looked at the soldier'with tears in her large black cyos. The soldier pitied the child, took' it along and showed it to tho officers, who soon raised a subscription of five thousand rubles, and sent tho child to St. Petersburg to a school for young ftirls. She is now a charmlflg Oriental icauty of thirteen, and it is surmised that out of gratitude she will marry one of the ollicors who provided for'hor. Recently, at a special festive occasion, she sent a telegram: "I congratulate my dear unelos heartily." N. Y. Post.

LOVE'S EXCHANGE. Why hury nil crnlcmmcnl in nuv hearts, Anil never know tho Joy nf love eontcsHod'? He reels the heav'nly bliss that It Imparl Who lovoa, caresses, U loved ami caressed. Why keep our kisses for tho denHi-cnld: faoe, To rlve them nil with utiavnillnir Ictirsi' why not heslnw thorn whlli.' they inny crnm A lino of care niul briirhtcn weary c" The iluml), colli clay will no spirit thrill, Nor touch of liiiK'rlnic lips, nor last bin bin-liracot - liracot bin-liracot Endcarln words ne'er reach thn heart so till When wo Khali mourn ahovo Its resting place. 0 friends, I pray, ye who aru.frlcmls Indeed, Keep not your kJssch for mv frozen face; The liw, nweel word, the fond caress I need While lolling In life's weary-welghlcd race. My marhle llp can mako no warm return. Nor eves, nor wonla can utter love's do do-IlKhli - IlKhli do-IlKhli 1 will not need, nor will my spirit yearn For love'a oxchungo, when t am still and while. Lu n. Cnkr, (ii t urmil.