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A FLIRT.
Ki .vx'sasssSS:
ss
* m tore. captive, too.
>^r-^^^Cheekswho-dy*
w .:i.n * \ '... ith i-eaaty tete-a-tete.
W >,c'- ” h , ri-aU tbeoe and more-ami
'yet- love her. even now
i " | K.,j never ~cen her face
’I r ;t !'\ , I!e n from bi lofty place.
f,-.r I- '• jqo tb,-. slave of a coquette.
. r.t that to the forest throng.
- - .. iian-J ring with boiater
‘oi’- rise* . .• we ,i with tnelorty
T - • •*' one lona unending song.
• t. ■ - ; .A* that Seed your way along
-. ve ■ xiter* of the purple an •
To music! Tor to-day
o f I iSased, and smiled on me.
- • 1 . er heart could e’er grow cold;
r T r -
* i’- • : V’ k ; the cloudless sk;e-.
A ' l ; •;* ; )r ,. i all With brighter dyee
s| El V<i WITHOUT EYES.
of m Young Man
c Bi'ad for Ten ears.
, r 'j; Record*
. * ten( j to explain how it is,
■ -I **" ’ "d‘ i*opU laugh and say lam
o *-••• : j, ..t it i* the sober fact that
hill • , t m i < res. more than ten
' . ivc seemed to see with my
r >'■ r, 4 W jth a certain region of
I “ B - ip - ‘
the tip of his mid
i~‘ "• ■ ,jjy his forehead, 39 if
<i> riCr - Nervous disturbance, and
I *• - ‘ with it the perimeter ot
‘ ' , cr than the palm of a hand,
t‘- J , . ; t the slight depression m
v■- “* nt . , u st above and between
?-• :r * u r4 ritis of the evebrows, and
t- 1!;: ‘ rr"-uiar!v oval figure, the
• ~f which barely turned the
V . ueath the root* of the hair,
eurva rt 0 f m y brain that I seem
• * , 1 ueaiu mi i
c • ir t of my brain that I seem ;
‘ 7 •• (. continued placidly* “It I
■ ", ‘ , hat I know what is going j
i’ n \ • ;tn ,| the relative direction to ;
oa 11 _ , n - with whom I talk, and |
o another, but I have in this !
rain iust as distinct and ,
r ’ , ‘i 1' ciies. faces, figures and
viuiji . I , vcr had when in the
• ' . f niv senses. And the
fu ,l ' • about it is that my irn
,!ly prove to !e correct.
F ‘ " -—turning to one of the
■ ‘u -m complexion, tall and
' 'i‘ ■ . ■*, t |y’ bald, with blue eves,
f ' ■ .rani a full l>eard slightly
wear a iaunty gray sack
c *;r'' j,laid.With Test of the
graj trousers, with
. • • shades. Your
, • .-d -iik of the Lord Stan
vviiat*. with a diamond pin.”
. of the group, lour in all,
, i the young man with two
„7 - .red at one another in blank
' i• i- rue description could not
*" ‘Vi. re accurate iu its terms if
'V’ -.i’V | tn.m bad been possessed of a
T V•! jicrfect eyes with which to
sci it ions. They were
. a , r .. i! ,ut the heater in a large
*' 7 tianl by Printing House
- ir* N t York, and the speaker, who,
- ■ . . ~ng his infirmity, has built
a'i.u. -incss in cigars, had joined
• ■rA nut five minutes before. He
*,77- mk-r. lithe, muscular man,
n perfect taste, selfqiossessed
4a j . • ral in his manner. He carried
a hjtb' -alking stick in his right hand,
tr Vil ■' th the easy grace of a person in
w. ! all hi- senses, and without
-tig< of the groping uncer
tainty .o il uition of a blind man. On
Vi *: infection an ordinary observer
mm) noticed that his eyes were
unn.it •!. ut he tunied his head so
aaturai,. nd vivaciously from one to
an .th.-; -t. -peaking, and withal behaved
- ;u ; ghlv like a t>erson with two
good • . - in'lus head, that one could
hardly - licv- that both orbs had been
enuelV.it- I, leaving two stumps only of
■y ik— ribe me.” said one of the
part', a doubter of the medical pro
;-- u. wh-> lielleved in nothing but
tiss - nd functions, and did not deny
that a man might have a soul, but averred
that a . i dissection nor experiment
had evt; ' .rnished any evidence in sup
p t -: ‘.tie hypothesis. “Describe me,
and I'll -elieve in your brain vision."
Tuc blind man turned bis glass eyes
toward the skeptic and answered with
the promptitude and absence of hesitancy
of one -rating a tact of direct observa
tion: -You are dark, with a very pale,
tnaslu eat, Mints complexion: dark
gray eye s. hair almost black, with gray
streak- v -ut the temples; Greek feature’s
tut lik. u cameo; heavily bearded on the
-.{•per lij nut elsewhere cleanly shaven.
You ap;ear to be about 35 years old; you
ire ot -light figure, and you wear a
dark cutaway coat, with test of material
tae san. as the coat: gray trousers, with
stripes - ; different shades; and a scarf of
pile ->d lor, confined at the throat by
% nlv ru>g ornamented with a dog's
Unir— -mat kind of cerebral image of
sun-out: i. objects were formed it was
i —luh.iT impossible lor the young man
to gin- m detail -uch an accurate
des-ript:- n f the medical man, with
ac-cessones of dress, etc.
“It*- \: licable." he -aid musingly.
•i ha'- 'ten beard blind men declare
ta.it th* y - .Id see with the anterior i*>r
ti -n i.t e i-rain, and persons under the
: 1 Hit’.. • of anasthetica often say
taai ta- have seen every movement of
'V ' '* ur ' n = the operation, not
witti iu .. i-jt—, but with the middle p>art
c. tu- r ad. l!ut 1 never took any
-t '* kin -i; assertions, not even enough
wtesttL-m."
went on to tell his story.
Ji-re tu .: t- a years ago, in consequence
1 an n.t.aiinaatorv affection, both eves
crc i--.it.-d. lie was then l(i years
S V Br *t he was jierfectly be
• 1.1- re. y -fae i uSS but gradually his i
, ,‘V l: - n>cs, tact and hearing in
• i rame marvelously acute,
ate that he could estimate
r l ' ' ' * the directions of foreign
• - : the quickness and exactitude
'i-.r. while with the tips of his fin
* discriminate colors and
mderful accuracy.
. “'A'/' ' have different teuipera
amixl sense, but he ascribed
1 * ! perception in this respect
ir ‘ • 1 ' the existence of which he
toduai'' ' > n untl * he lost bis sight.
a;-', a so-called new sense
-*'t i • ’ v He became abnormally J
*V,V ,V " ‘ ‘ • rations in tbe atmosphere
•, ‘ - n' tnd beneath his feet. In !
f>..-u>i ." a * '"^ n able to distinguish i
• a-. a " lncre dible distances on the I
• and even in buildings a square 1
. . -a-.w ith this strange
VtV-.'. " ,“ e footsteps of a person j
fV-.A ' '• and hoard the person !
;,J ut distance away,‘walk |
th. • . ' : s fairs and enter a room, j
'l>" .-- every movement, pause!
kc , V ‘ 1 u nf .ait as exactly though 1
Sr.- 7'* 1 arotigh brick walls. At
ifemio-* ; CBat “ ra l sensitiveness to i
■eeanki’n ,“ ! T Jla *‘ a nd. him exceedingly,
a Ua 7 the led seemed to be
cirduc- ,',i \7’ r;tt3r - v Phenomena, dis- i
ceannh -Aa i- a T“? 0B “ a8 mixed and
how -.a ' u " ‘nextrieahiv. After a while, j
to the- nerves became habituated
the purrtT- 1 , ® ena: a ?d they subserved
is th.. 7 •' ‘ and (mrception
tell red taordinary way. He can
L.ats ' v - s'texn, blue and violet
x I , anether by the manner in
or tu- fhe tips of his fingers
B-.-t v • ' J anv exposed surface— ■
iloi, •' - terence in temjK-rature
but . that is i*rceptible to him,
tx : . :* r *‘nge influence that each
tn. ji -' Pendent of mere temiera
cars on the differ
t!n s ,reet railway In the city
i. a. • • . : atr by the different vibra
ted car] - 1 ~ fhem when in motion,
from j 7 ■ .- --iSQ an Eighth avenue car
tainty. ;a: * *y street with cer
“lneve*-r-.ki
*: i. .. a * ‘ ‘ Jm -' to inquire," he
*®d 1 nt-v-- , J*® one you would,
; lnt o the wrong car. Some
'writ, ;. hallucination; but the
T-xen o- ‘ 7- ae at '“osphere about me.
aotk-c a* vt that it is not in
*<* tsthe,* ~a f e -! ust as distinct to my
witnimen• * ‘ „ , ol 7* voice or a musical
* a -tifu' i-n„ , l “ e y are wonderfully
forth l - V*> nSr melo ' li °u sometimes,
hive no n ; e s e/es to hear. You
=u *ical noSm Vhar\ the low ‘ singular,
1 K makes in Itow!
:r-ak : a sanhVi 0 ear ,. a ? a 'nst the
h- ain *• - - *i . n if for the pleasure of
hot Umt is beyond descnjl
it * summer, when 1
Jisfr,;-; -mw. I learned to tell an
ted to . a P'ne from a hickory,
' its - Wr ' ? usic °f each, for each
I " ; ’7 l A' la f melody and pulsa
?:• ' almost write a IkoW on the
viiaiu . 'll. 1 mean to take another
“ 11 1 should live so ion
*oir. ;•’ , tia * a low. soft, swelling.
• r, . -se- which, though monfA
-rse, when listened to for
more than a few moments, possesses a
cadence and rhythm such as a practiced
elocutionist gives to Longfellow’s ‘Waif,l
for example:
q see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and mist,
An-1 a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist.’
“The oak. on tbe other hand, has an
abrupt, peculiar, explosive note of very
short pulsation, while the maple gives a
smooth, slow sonorous movement, the’
wave of which is as long as that of the
pine, but has less swell, and it is less dis
tinctly separated from its predecessor
and successor. Oh! I could lecture an
hour on the musii; of trees, and never tell
vou half ot the beautiful things they have
revealed to me.”
In replv to cross-questions from the
medical men and others of the party, the
blind man said that he bad to be moder
ately near scenes and objects in order to
distinguish the formation of these brain
imazes. He could not see more than ten
or twelve feet with distinctness, and faces
became very shadowy at a distance of
seven or eight feet. Within a circle of
twenty feet in diameter his vision was
unclouded apparently; beyond the cir
cumference of that circle was a dim
margin of twilight that gradually shaded
into utter darkness. In all cases—and
there had been dozens of them
where the accuracy of his brain images
of persons and objects had been tested,
they had proved to be as exact as those
of the actual eye, and he was willing to
submit to any tests before any scientino
society.
SOLID FOUNDATIONS.
The Shaky Substance on Which Chicago
Stands.
No foundation upon which a heavy su
perstructure is to be erected, says the
Chicago Times, is now regarded as pro
perly laid in Chicago unless the base is
first formed by a mass of concrete, made
of broken stone and cement, of sufficient
thickness and breadth to form a solid
footing. It has been discovered in the
erection of large buildings upon the soft
or made soil upon which Chicago is built
that the constituent parts of the underly
ing earth are not evenly dense, but that
pockets of quicksand or soft earth exist in
many places. The immense weight of the
large structures upon such soil causes
them to settle unevenly unless some
provision is made for overcoming the diffi
culty, and when borings are made to
aser'tain the condition of the underlying
strata the architect and builder can read
ily determine where to strengthen the base
upon which the foundation is to be
erected.
The settling of the custom house and
several other very heavy buildings has
been a warning to Chicago architects with
in a few years that a necessity existed
for strengthening the bases of large
buildings in order that they may settle
evenly when their heavy walls are erected,
and experience has taught them that if
they would have the mammoth structures
staiid without cracked walls a base must
lie created that will be almost, if not quite,
equal to a foundation upon solid rock.
As Chicago grows more metropolitan
and the demand for immense piles of
masonry becomes more apparent, it is a
source of satisfaction to the public to
know that the architects are be
coming masters of the situation, not
only in designs in architecture, but that
the question of substantiality has received
that great consideration which is due to
the future. The day has passed with the
Chicago architect when his ambition is
satisfied with having planned a structure
that will meet the demands of the present
day and stand as a monument of beauty
when the finishing touches shall have been
put upon it. Chicago has reached that
era in which its future demands and
greatness can be dimly, at least, dis
cussed, and the architect, of all others,
has it within the range of his ability to
build for that future, to display bis fore
sight, to improve upon the staid architec
! ture of the past by modern combinations
that will result in the production of build
ing monuments ol which they and the
future citizens of Chicago will be justly
proud. The substantial foundation is the
stepping-stone to the grand piles of
masonry that are being and to be erected
in the city, and are only evidence of the
solidity of the structures that will grace
the thoroughfares of Chicago, and stand
as a soil for all time.
INSOMNIA.
The Irritation of Mind that Banishes
Sleep.
The immortal Sancbo Panza save:
“While I am asleep 1 have neither fear
nor hope; neither trouble nor glory; and
blessings on him who invented sleep—the
mantle that covers all human thoughts;
the food that appeases hunger; the drink
that quenches thirst; the fire that warms;
the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly,
the general coin that purchases all things;
the balance and weight that makes the
shepherd equal to the king and the simple
to the wise.’’ Cervantes, like all great
brain-workers, evidently understood the
value, the comforts, the delights of
sleep, which are not fully appre
ciated by any one until he suffers
the pangs of* wakefulness. One of the
most exquisite forms of torture devised
by the tyrants of Europe and of modern
China was to inflict death by preventing
sleep. A case is somewhere recorded of a
Chinese criminal whb suffered lor nine
teen days before he succumbed. Food,
drink and raiment are more easily dis
pensed with for a considerable period than
is rest lor the brain. Insomnia or in
ability to sleep is a common enough symp
tom of many nervous and mental diseases,
and deprivation of sleep, if kept up long
enough, invariably results in loss of rea
son. The poet Southey laid the founda
tion of that mental malady which clouded
his later years by watching at night at
the bedside of his sick wife after the con
tinuous mental labors of the day. Many
a mental wreck dates from such over
taxation of the brain.
Wakefulness is generally owing to
something that irritates the brain through
the feelings. Prolonged or excessive in
tellectual effort, so long as the emotions
are not stirred up, does not naturally pro
duce loss of sleep, but rather predisposes
to slumber. When the emotions, espe
cially those of a depressing character, are
aroused, the brain is kept in a state of
irritation, and sleep will not come, no
matter how earnestly it may be sought.
In fact, anxiety to sleep, like any other
form of anxiety, hinders the obtaining of
it. Worry is, therefore, worse than work,
and wears out the instrument of the mind
more rapidly than anything else. The
hard-worked"soldier or sailor may sleep
soundly in spite of noises or confusion,
the roar of cannon or tempestuous winds,
while the officer may remain sleepless,
when the night is peaceful and everything
would seem to favor rest of mind ana
body. Care and worry over duty unper
formed or to be done effectually prevent
the advent of slumber.
THE SNAKE CHARMER.
Result or the Autopsy by Deputy Coro
ner Messemer.
A crowd of students and doctors gath
ered around the body of James Reilly, the
unfortunate showman, who died on Mon
day from the effects of a rattlesnake’s
bite, in the dissecting room of the morgue,
yesterday afternoon, says the New York
Ttmes of the 17th inst.’, and waited pa
tiently while the Deputy Coroner, Dr.
Messemer, made the autopsy. “I hud,”
he said, “that there is more or less con
gestion of all the tissues of the right
arm the hand of which the snake had
poisoned] and of the right side. No
nart of the left side is congested,
but all of the thoracic and abdominal
viscera are. The right kidney is about
one-third of its normal size onlr, while
the left is slightly enlarged. The left
lung Is blue and badly congested from
the virulent poison, and the heart is pale
and dabby. The blood in the heart, and
there was very little of it, was, very sin
gularly, still in a fluid state, there being
neither any ante-mortem or post-mortem
clots to be found. This is rather a remark
able circumstance, for generally as soon as
the life departs all the blood in the body
becomes clotted and bard. The blood in
the arteries and veins also presents as
natural and healthy an appearance as if
the man were still alive. In the brain,
which is heavy and healthy, I found slight
evidences of extravasation and con
gestion, and very slight appearances of
pachy meningitis. The latter, however,
in my opinion, may have existed for years,
and be in no way due to either the poison
injected by the rattlesnake or the enor
mous amount of whisky the man drank
after having been bitten. The brain is
slightly swollen from this quantity of
alcohol, and the stomach is a little con
gested, but beyond this I find no deleteri
ous effects resulting from it. The man’s
system was so thoroughly impregnated
with the venomous poison that the whisky
had but little effect. I incised the left
arm. but found no extravasation there,
nor in that side. The extravasation ex
tended only to the groins. It did not get
into the legs, which is another rather ;
peculiar circumstance.”
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1884.
DOGS OF ALL KINDS.
How They Are Trained and Taught to
Do All Manner of Tricks.
Chicago Timas.
“What kind of dogs are most easily
trained?” said a well-known dog-trainer
and performer, echoing a question, j
“Well, you know we divide dogs into two .
kinds—long and short-haired dogs. Of
the Iqng-haired, St. Bernards are the most
intelligent and therefore the easiest to
train. Indeed, the St. Bernard is the king
of all dogs, towering as far above ail
others in intellectuality as he does in
the price he commands, more than $5,000 i
having been paid for a fine St. Bernard.
The dogs are also of two kind6—the long |
and the short coat St. Bernard, though
they both belong to the class of long
haired dogs. Of the two, I think the long
coat deserves the preference. The St.
Bernard has a natural fondness for snow,
just as a Newfoundland has an innate love
lor the water, and he may be called a
snow-dog with as much propriety as the
Newfoundland is styled a water-dog. On
being taken where there is snow he will
lie down and roll in it, fill his mouth with
it, toss it up with his paws, and in every i
way possible evince the keenest delight at
coming in contact with it. It is this
characteristic, together with his great
size and strength, which so peculiarly fits
him for the noble work of rescuing travel
ers, to which he has so long been devoted
in the Alps.
“some years ago I visited some of the
monasteries of the monks of St. Bernard
for the purpose of seeing the manner in j
which these famous dogs are trained to
their life work. There 1 realized for the
first time, what a grand, noble thing the
education of even a dog may be, when it
has a high and loftv aim. The monks
begin to teach their dogs in the earliest
stages of puppyhood, and not only is phy
sical and mental training included in
this teaching, but spiritual culture is by
no means neglected. At meal time the
dogs sit In a row, each with a tin dish j
before him containing his repast. Grace
is said bv one of the monks, the dogs sit
ting motionless meanwhile, with reveren
tially bowed heads. Not one of them stirs
until the “Amen” is spoken. If some
young novitiate should ventre to taste
the contents of his dish ere the arrival of
the proper time some of the older dogs
forth with cause him to desist by deep
admonitory growls' and sharp pullings of
the ear.
‘•The intelligence displayed by these
animals in rescuing travelers is simply
marvelous, though perhaps you will say j
it is only memory that they show, for all j
they do has been most carefully taught
them by the monks. Alter a severe snow
storm or an avalanche two .dogs are sent
out from the monastery alone. Around
the neck of one is fastened a flask of cor
dial and to the back of the other is bound
a heavy blanket. If a traveler lies buried
in the snow their keen scent soon brings
them to him. Then they search for the
place where the snow is softest, for they
know that it is the warmth ot the tra
veler's breath that has made it so, and
that beneath that spot must lie his head.
They scratch away the snow, and when
the unfortunate’s head and breast are ex
posed they devote all their efforts to
arousing him from that lethargic slumber
into which he has fallen, the sure precur
sor of that terrible end—freezing to death.
With their powerful paws they smite him
on the chest and lace. With their mouths
close to his ear they give vent to loud
barks and cries. Meanwhile, two other
dogs, accompanied by the monks, have
lett the monastery a short time after the
former ones, whose trail they follow, the
result being that the almost frozen trav
eler soon finds himself well-housed and
fed and restored to warmth and life.
“Few people have any idea of the im
mense number of lives that have been
saved in this manner by these dogs. In
the British museum there is the stuffed
skin of ‘Berry,’ the most famous of all
St. Bernard dogs, who enjoyed a well
verified record of having saved forty lives.
“Of short-haired dogs, the most easily
trained is the pointer. A dog that is very
susceptible to training and one not gener
ally known is the Chesapeake bay water
dog, which is of a liver color and bears a
close resemblance to an Irish setter. The
bull-dog is much more easy to train and
control than is generally supposed. lam
convinced that he possesses quite as much
brain-power as any of the larger dogs.
His appearance is very much against his
character for gentleness, and this has
caused people to chain and avoid him, so
that his disposition, however pleasant it
may have been originally, has been made
cross and savage by the treatment he has
received, though he is even now much
less ferocious than he is believed to be.
No dog is capable of greater affection than
he, or shows more gratitude for any kind
ness. Pure high-bred dogs of any kind are
hard to train for the reason that they are
too high-spirited. The mongrels of the
street can be much more easily trained
because they can be much more easily
controlled.
“In selecting dogs to train, much
depends upon the purpose for which you
wish to train them. For the canine tricks
which we are accustomed to see done by
performing dogs upon the stage and in
circuses, French and German poodles are
among the best and the most frequently
used. The former are especially good for
this purpose, owing doubtless to the fact
that the French have made a great
specialty of educating their poodles for
many years, and the progeny of educated
dogs, like that of educated people, grow
more and more susceptible to cultivation,
with each succeeding generation. The
law of hereditary descent is nowhere
better established than among dogs. This
is strikingly illustrated by my Leo, a pure
Gordon setter or retriever, whose father
and mother were among the most cele
brated bird-dogs of the day. Leo has
never been broken to the field, yet so
strongly implanted in him is the impres
sion made upon his parents and other
ancestors by education that he will not eat
birds or fowls of any kind, though it is the
nature of all field dogs to be intensely
fond of that kind of food,
“For leaping the best dogs are hounds,
especially English and Italian grey
hounds.’’
“What methods are adopted for training
dogs?”
“There are two. Kindness is the prin
cipal factor of one and brute force of the
other, By the former the dog learns
through love, by the latter through fear.
By the one he is encouraged and re
warded, by the other his spirit is broken
and he is beaten into submission. The
former, in most cases, is the only proper
method, though I must say that some
dogs, like some children, cannot be in
fluenced or controlled until they are fully
convinced that you are their absolute
master, a conviction that can only be
brought home to them through ’ the
medium of a severe whipping.
“First of all, win the dog’s confidence
and affection. Begin his education early
in puppyhood, and make his lesson seem
like play. First teach him to retrieve;
that is, to fetch and carry. Show him
some article, such as a handkerchief, and
when he has worried it for a short time
throw it from you. He will run after it.
When he has picked it up call him to
bring it back to you. He will soon under
stand what you mean, and when this has
been many times repeated he will compre
hend that’when you throw the handker
chief away you wish him to go and fetch
it. and he will do so without being told or
called.
“Most canine tricks are done by means
of cues or signals given to the dog by his
master without attracting the attention of
the audience. Let me illustrate this:
Apparently one of the most wonderful
dog feats ever accomplished is that of
picking out any numbers that may lie
called for by the audience, which is done
4y my dog Romeo, yet it is the simplest
thing in the world.’ Blocks upon which
are painted the ten numerals from 1 to 0
are placed in a row upon the stage, and
someone in the audience is requested to
name a number. Perhaps 50 is selected.
Romeo will go promptly to the row of
numbers and bring me blocks bearing the
figures 5 and 0. This, of course, seems
marvelous, but the manner of doing it is
simply this: The dog has been trained to
commence at his extreme right of the row
of numbers. If the first number he en
counters be the correct one, I say and do
nothing. Silence gives consent, and he
picks out that one and brings it to me.
If, however, it is not the correct one, 1
gave him a cue which sends him on to the
next one, and if that is still wrong I send
him on, by repetitions of the cue, till he
comes to the right one. Then my silence
again gives consent, and he picks that one
out and brings it to me. At first the cue
has to be very stronly marked, but you
can gradually make it less and less pro
nounced till at last it is so slight as to be
wholly unrecognizable by every one ex
cept the dog. (My cue' for Romeo is a
very slight clearing of the throat that can
not be heard over the footlights. In teach- ■
ing this trick you must begin with only !
two or three numbers, placed very far '
apart.
“A dog may be taught to remember the :
name of any 'object and to associate it :
with the object which it indicates. This ;
is abundantly proved by the fact that any
dog can be taught his own name. He not
only learns the word, but he also learns j
that it designates himself. Thus he may
be taught the word hat &ud the articles it
signifies. Romeo knows the name of
manv objects, and if I place a hat, a
handkerchief, a whip, and a basket on the
stage and ask him for anyone of them.he
will bring it to me with never-failing ac
curacy. i give you my word of honor
that this is not done by any cue or sig
nal whatever, the dog actually knowing
the names of the different objects just as
he knows his own name.
“Dogs have an excellent eye for colors,
and can be taught to distinguish between
them by their names just as readily as
they can be taught the names of objects.”
“Does it not necessitate an immense
amount of time and patience to teach any
of these things?”
“Undoubtedly. Romeo is an unusually
bright dog, but it required two years ol
constant, unremittingeffort to perfect him
in the trick of picking out numbers.”
“From a careful study of them lam
convinced that dogs are capable of as
much affection, jealousy and passion as
any human being. They have imagina
tion also, as is proven by a bulldog of
mine, which always sleeps beside my bed.
He often has strange dreams, which cause
him to growl and bark in his sleep. Some
times he will start suddenly to his feet
from a deep slumber, with his eyes wild
and staring. Then, as he gradually re
gains his composure, he will give me a
look which seems to say, ‘Pshaw 1 What
a fool I am. It was only a dream,’ and
will lie down and go to sleep again.
“That dogs possess reasoning power I
am convinced, from the conduct of one of
my dogs, which is a cross between a St.
Bernard and a Newfoundland. I spent
last summer about nineteen miles fron.
Baltimore, and every morning I used to
give the dogs a swim’ in the Gunpowder
river. A short distance from the shore
there was a large quantity of sea grass,
which grew in such a way that while it
was easy for the dogs to make their way
through it while swimming out into the
stream it was quite an obstacle to their
progress shoreward, requiring a severe
effort to overcome it. When swimming in
the dogs would come all abreast, but just
before reaching the sea-grass the one I
have mentioned would fall out of his place
in the line and, allowing the others to
precede him, would follow close in their
wake, thus making them beat an easy
pathway for him through the grass.
“There is also charity and unselfishness
in a dog’s nature. I knew two dogs in
San Francisco, some years ago, who re
minded me very forcibly of the Judge and
the Major in Chanfrau’s “Kit.” They were
very seedy in appearance and were al
ways trying to sponge on other dogs for
bones. They were absolutely inseparable
and you would never see one without the
other. At length one was taken sick,
and throughout his illness, which lasted
for a week or more, the other dog nursed
him like a brother, and never left his side
except to get bones for him, which he stole
or bulldozed from other dogs.
“Since dogs possess so many human
qualities does it seem strange to believe
that if human beings are immortal dogs
must lie so, too? I cannot help thinking
that such is the case, and that there is a
system of rewards and punishments for
good and bad dogs hereafter. One thing
lamsilreof: if there is a place where
the good dogs go after death it must be
located in the dog star.”
AVAR TIMES IN GEORGIA.
The Experience of Southern Children in
War Days—A Deception under Difficul
ties.
As my home at the time was in
Marietta, Ga., quite near Atlanta, and
directly in Sherman’s line of march,
writes a Southern girl in the Watchman,
I saw a great many strange and exciting
things, and suppose that is the reason 1
remember my life there so well; for,
although a very smallgirlat the time, it is
far more vividly real to me than the
events of last year.
I can picture to myself distinctly the
quaint figures of my little playmates, for
invention, like charity, begins at home,
and we little ones showed the first fruits
of our mothers’ talents in that direction.
We always wore “homespun,” and as the
cloth stood a good deal of wear our
dresses were made large enough to last
two seasons. Some ot us wore shoes, but
they were such odd-looking things, made
of coarse leather and only reaching our
ankles. As the leather shoestrings wore
out they had to be replaced by the cover
ing from the wires of hoop-skirts, dyed
black. Our stockings were knit of plain
white yarn, also homespun. For “every
day” we wore calico sun-bonnets, but ou
“State occasions” hats braided at home
from the palmetto straw. As one thing
after another gave out the women were
always equal to the emergency and quick
in finding substitutes, just as our great
grandmothers did during the Revolution.
American women are, I think, quite re
markable for that sort of thing. My
mother must have been unusually clever,
lor 1 remember so many bright things
that she did. Trifles never seemed to
daunt her. Our table was always de
lightfully served, although her inventive
faculties were constantly called upon to
supply some need in the kitchen. There
is one very clever thing that I recollect
about her. She had sent out invitations
for a very large and “swell” party; for
Marietta was quite gay at one time, as a
number of refugees, besides a great many
officers “on leave,” were in town, and my
mother, who was delighted to be able to
collect together so many charming people,
determined to give something very grand.
Her preparations were all completed, as
she supposed, on the morning of the ap
pointed day, and she was actually arrang
ing the flowers in her rooms when she
received the very depressing tidings that
not a candle could be found in Atlanta for
love or money. Most women would have
despaired at such ill-luck as this, and
w’ould have sent immediately to inform
expected guests that they need not come;
but my mother did nothing of the sort.
She put on her “thinking cap” at once.
She sent far and near to borrow all the
wine-glasses possible. These she filled
with pure white lard, and every one who
could be spared on the place was set to
work cutting out little round pieces of
paper about the size of a half dollar.
Each of these she twisted in the centre to
form a taper, and placed on the lard in
the glasses, ready for use, for she meant
to light her rooms with them. We always
had used, thym in the bedrooms and for
sickness, as they would last all night, and
candles were far too precious to be wasted
in that way. But the idea of making them
ornamental was mother’s, and you cannot
realize how lovely the house looked that
night. She had placed them every where,
and had built pyramids of lights, banked
in with flowers," in every available nook
and corner. The room and halls were
brilliantly lighted by the tiny flames,which
seemed to me to be flashing from floor to
ceiling in every direction, and looked liko
some lovely fairy scene, far prettier than
any ballroom 1 have since seen.
A TEXAS FUNERAL.
The Grip Which Religion Has in Waco.
Life.
The obsequies of Mr. Henry Wagner,
the late cashier of the third national faro
bank, at Waco, Texas, who died suddenly
after haring a misunderstanding with
Mr. William Brown, of the same city,
over a stack of chips, were of a novel and
somewhat interesting nature. Mr. Wag
ner had expired in his boots, and his grief
stricken widow, touched with frontier
pride, had resolved that he should be
buried in them.
On the other hand, the Rev. Mr. Samuel
Ingalls, who was called upon to read the
services, considered the boots a9 a symbol
of violence, and declared his intention to
deny Mr. Wagner the comforts of bell and
burial unless he should appear at the
ceremony in slippers.
This divided the Wagner coterie into
two factions—boots and anti-boots—and at
the hour appointed for Mr. Wagner’s fu
neral the adherents of each swarmed to
the house. The original boots in which
Mr. AVagner had breathed his last had
been secretly cut from his leet during the
night by some emissary from the hostile
camp, but the watchful relict had sup
plied their place with anew pair. The
Rev. Mr. Ingalls arrived, but casting one
glance at Mr. Wagner’s feet, reas9umed
his hat and prepared to leave. Mrs. Wag
ner, anticipating, had stationed herself in
the doorway. There was a moment of
brief silence, and then, with the enthusi
asm for which Waco is celebrated, both
factions met in battle, the result of w T hich
was that not only was Mr. Wagner tri
umphantly buried' in boots, but also the
Rev. Mr. Ingalls, a deputy sheriff, two
cousins of the deceased and Mrs. Wagner
herself.
Religion has a strong grip in Waco, but
the local pride of the community cannot
be ruthlessly trampled upon.
It appears that an offer of $125,000 from
some German speculators for the sole !
right to produce “Parsifal” was rejected !
by the heirs of Wagner before the mvs- I
terious American offer ol $250,000 was
made. Wagner's executor declares that
“Parsifal” shall never be performed out
of the Bayreuth theatre.
Bangs are a thing of the past.
LIGHT-FINGERED LADIES.
Kleptomania A moos Women of SocljU
Standin B at Washington.
Washington Star.
“Lifters? Yes, there are lot* of them.
We can’t tell how much we lose in a vear
from shop-lifting,” said an avenue mer
chant the other day, as he leaned care
lessly against the counter, his restless
black eyes watching everyone and every
thing in the store with the keenness of a
detective. “Kleptomania they call it
where fashionable women are caught
with bolts of lace, hankerchiefs, collars,
and the like smuggled under their wraps.”
“Do you meet with cases of that kind?”
asked the Star, with astonishment.
“Many,” was the reply. “There are
women in the highest walks of life in this
city who are practical shoplifters. They
say it is a disease, when they are caught,
but I don’t believe that. One woman I
caught stealing some lace, however,
swore that it- was an affliction which she
could not control, and offered to bring her
familv phvsician to prove it. But I don’t
put any faith in it. They have a propen
sity to steal, and do it rather than buy.
Some of these women are from the first
families in the city, have wealth, and
would pay out almost any amount of
money to avoid exposure, yet they will
steal, and we have to forbid them the
store. Some of them are very clever
thieves.”
‘•How do you catch them?” asked The
Star.
“We are always on the lookout, and
most of the sales-girls are very sharp.
Then, too, we get to know their ways so
well that we recognize them very readily.
When a woman is very loquacious and
affable, and keeps her eyes watchfully on
yours while talking, averting them only
occasionally to take a hasty glance at the
articles about her, she’s a person to be
watched. It doesn’t make any difference
how handsomelyiehe’s dressed, or whose
wife she is, we have to keep an eye on her.
OI course, we never let them know we
suspect them, but it’s seldom they get
away with anything when once we have
marked them thus. When we once catch
them we generally take them up-stairs
and search them, and, having settled the
thing upon them, we make them pay for
what they took and warn them never to
come in the store again. I suppose there
are a great many whom we never
catch. But our girls are trained to be
quick and clever, and they are not apt to
let anyone get ahead of them. Some of
them it would be next to impossible for
any one to steal from —they are always
watching and never seem to be. Girls of
this kind are, of course, in great demand,
and their wages are regulated by their
cleverness. There’s a girl,” he added,
pointing to a strawberry blonde with a
pretty, bright face. “She’s the sharpest
girl in the store. She’s always pleasant
with the customers, never appearing to be
suspicious or watchful, but there is very
little she does not see. Avery stylishly
dressed lady—the wile of a navy officer—
came in here the other day. She had
every mark of a lady about her, and was
the last person in the world you would
suspect of being a shoplifter. But she
had not been in the store long, look
ing over a pile of fine collars, when
that girl gave me a sign and told me that
the customer had something in her pocket
that she had not bought. Before we could
secure her she got out of the store, but we
followed her closely without attracting
her attention, and she went into the store
next door, and taking the collar out of her
pocket, pretended she wanted to match it,
then asked the clerk to wrap it up. Just
then she was told that she was wanted in
here, and she returned without protest,
but before doing so she slipped the collar
over to her maid, who was accompanying
her. They were both brought in here, and
she paid for the collar after receiving a
lecture aud being warned not to come into
the store again. She is a woman of high
social position, but is probably pretty
well known by the merchants in
the city by this time. There are any
number of just such cases, though, of
course, the "majority of shoplifters are
professionals. One woman, who is pretty
well kuown to us now (she lives in a fine
house), stole a pair of stockings. The
sales-girl saw her tuck them upiinder her
basque, and invited her up stairs, and
on the way up she tried to throw them
awav. There are lots of tfiese cases, and
it is hard to tell what to do. I suppose
we should expose them, but it’s hard to
do. as many of them are from families
who would be crushed by an exposure of
anything of the kind. Then, too, the
articles are too small to prosecute for,
and we prefer to settle the matter at once,
Whenever we catch anyone stealing, no
matter who it is, we settle with her anC
show her out.
HE HAD NO BUSINESS IN EUROPE
How the Millionaire Found Out He wag
Not a Solomon.
“Yes, sir,” said the American million
aire, as he consulted the bill of fare in a
Parisian cafe, “I delight in travel. YVhen
1 was a boy, working for $2 a week, I used
to think what a grand thing it would be
if I had money and could travel all over
the world. 1 resolved then that if ever 1
became rich I would see the noted places
of the earth. YVell, I made money, and
here 1 am at Paree on my tour of observa
tion. YY'hen an American citizen, sir,
gets the travel fever on him, his country,
big as it is, is too small to hold him.”
“Yees. your country ees a big country,”
said his French acquaintance, who sat
opposite to him.
“Big country,” exclaimed the Ameri
can, striking'the table with his hand;
it is the biggest country tn the world.”
“I’ve been there,” said the Frenchman;
“it is full of wonderful sights, Niagara
Falls, for instance.”
“Never saw it,” said the American;
“never could find time to visit it.”
“And de Yosemite valley,” continued
the Frenchman.
“Never had a chance to go there,” said
the American.
“And the Yellowstone park.”
“Heard lots about it, but never could
find time to visit it.”
“And de Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.”
“Blamed if 1 ever thought of visiting
that.”
“De palisades of de Hudson ”
“YVhew! Did intend to see them, but
always had so much to look after, you
know, and ”
“And the scenery, magnilique at de
YVhite Mountains ”
“Never could find time to take a tripup
there, by gosh.”
“Of course, you have seen de Thousand
Islands, aud de rapids of de St. Lawrence,
Lake George, Lake Champlain, and all
does beautiful places?”
“Never had time to visit any of those
places. Always had too much business
on hand.”
“YY’hy come to see de tame scenery of
Europe when you haven’t seen de grand
scenery and de wonders of your own
country?”
“Because I’m a dinged fool. I’ll go
right home on the next boat. A man who
hasn't been any further east than Swamp
scott and any further west than North
Adams in hi's own country, has no busi
ness in Europe.”
DOMESTIC ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
An Interesting Trial In Rngland with
Accumulators.
Quite a number of electricians and
scientific men were present a few weeks
ago, bviuyitation, to witness an example
of with stored electricity at the
Sir Daniel Cooper at Ken
sington, London. On this occasion the
drawing and dining-rooms, the recep
tion and other rooms, as well as the hall
and corridors, were lighted by a hundred
and twenty-six Swan glow lamps of
twenty-candle power each. The display
s said to have been charming and very
effective. The current was produced by
means of the latest improved Faure sec
ondary accumulators of sixty small cells
of two volts each, placed in the coach
house. There were also other accumula
tors brought into use to show the various
purposes to which these batteries may be
applied; as, for instance, to run a tram
car, of which there was a model in opera
tion, to pump water, work a lathe, main
tain an equable heat in an incubator, and
even to warm apartments from a current
of air delivered from outside. But the
main interest centered in the electric
lighting, by means of which it was de
monstrated how a brilliant, cool and soft
light could be supplied for balls and din
ner parties without the use of machinery
on the premises and without destroying
the purity of the air. There was nothing
really novel in these experiments. They
have all been done in this country with
the Faure portable electric accumulators
as improved by later electricians. The
ability to store electricity, and even to
use it for lighting and small power pur
poses, such as to run lathes and sewing
machines, tricycles and boats, has been
established. The objections to be over
come are the cost of the stored electrici
ty, the great weight of the boxes of cells,
and the short time, without being rein
forced with a fresh supply, the electricity
lasts. The accumulators used on the oc
casion referred to were only equal to giv
ing light for ten hours. After that thev
had to be recharged.
An Adventure In the Ball of St. Peter’s.
James A. Harrison in the Current.
It was one August day—the twenty-
of a certain anniversary—that a party
of friends found themselves in the shadow
of the Cathedral of Peter at Rome. As
we lounged about in the twilight of the
basilica, we remembered, with a sigh of
relief, the glowing square outside, the
tapering obelisk in its centre—so like the
one in New York—the fountains spurting
up their water-dust like great snow
white tiger-lilies striped with rainbows,
and the outstretched colonnades of the
sculptor architect. Bernini, closing round
the front of the church like the claws ot a
gigantic crab. Every cobble-stone in the
square had sent a flinty gleam right into
our optic nerves and lighted up the face
of the church till its yellow colors seemed
on fire. There was no coolness anywhere
to be found, except in the neighborhood
of the ever-plashlug fountains, or behind
the pillars of the colonnades. A glance
at the Tiber river near by made you re
coil from its deep-sunk flood that seemed
to boil and ooze sluggishly in the sun.
The Castie of St. Angelo, over yonder,
which was once the tomb of Hadrian, re
gained a part of its original purpose—
that of a huge vase for ashes filled with
the relics of the Caesars, over which the
archangel-weathercock exulted in the
bright air, like a mounting flame. The
sky, absolutely peeled of clouds, was a
cauldron of blue crystal in which molten
turquoise was all aquiver.
Was it any wonder that we had fled to
the all-embracing cathedral church of the
world for refuge against the beleaguer
ing light?
Here within, all was dim and twilight
like and sweet; even the faded and ever
fading incense was sweet. It was delight
ful to touch the cold marbles, to handle
the moist wings of the “younger-eyed
cherubim” that upheld the mighty basin
of eau benite, to put the palm of the hand
against the icy prophyry and the shudder
ing malachite.
Away up yonder, in the vast arch of the
dome, the feathery quill of St. Mark
seemed to waft down coolness upon the
pilgrims below; the tombs of princes and
prophets around were ice chests stored
with vitality in comparison with the
heat and languishment without; the
chapels behind the iron gratings were
redolent of mountain breezes in the cool
ness which they suggestively breathed
upon us. The silvery tone of the interior
of the church was trauquilizing. No
painted glass threw tumbled spots of
blood and fire on the sensitive floor or
concentrated in their glassy flower bed
the humors aud passions of the sun. The
air was rich and still and filtered; the
panes of wbite glass were nebulous; the
long-drawn aisles were lorest vistas full
of shade; Yallombrosa itself could not be
moister or dimmer than the perfect arch
ot the dome crowded with its far-with
drawn mosaics. Had it been a cathedral
of ice with piliars of ice, we could not
have been more refreshed.
“Let’s go up into the roof,” cried one of
the party, wearying of the monotony of
the church.
No sooner said than done. A courte
ous ecclesiastic guided us up the inclined
plane that led heavenward by an ascent
so easy that you could ride up on horse
back or roll up in a carrlage-and-four.
“Let’s go up into the dome,” cried
another, finishing his hasty survey of the
small town that has sprung up on the
roof of the church. The masons and
workmen, you must know, live here on
top and their supplies are brought up to
them on donkey-baok. They succeed
each other in regular hereditary line and
the right of living in this aerial city is
handed down lront father to son.
Think of being born up in the air!
So off we started on the climb ot the
dome, in and out of winding staircases,
with little flashes of light shooting sud
denly iu on us through loopholes as we
climbed. Presently we came to a galleria
that girdles the dome outside like a neck
lace or the ruche of a Turkish minaret.
Here someone dropped his pocketbook,
and out in every direction, scattered and
ran and roiled’ the bright gold coins.
How the Capuchin panted, and the*
Italian contadina puffed, and the English
men blew, and everybody be-Joved!
Evidently nobody had lung complaint.
“Let’s go up into the ball,” suggested a
third member of the party, scornfully
viewing the landscape at our feet, “this
is nothing!”
“Oh!” ejaculated the Capuchin; “Ah!”
murmured the contadina; “hum—oh—ah!”
muttered the Englishmen; “Yes!” cried
everybody, with simultaneous acclaim.
Plaintive contadina, ojaculatiy- (japu-
CiJjU, muttering Englishmen, indefatiga
ble everybody, started at a run, higher
and high'er still, up the steep ladder that
leu from the galleria into the golden
orange that surmounts the dome of St.
Peter's. From the ground, this orange
is really an orange to look at. When you
get into it —it iiOluS Sixteen people! And
on top of this there is tvhat looks like a
tiny cross, a mere, glittering toy, such as
a lady might hang about her neck or a
nun swing to her rosary; but—it is seven
teen feet long, fit for the neck of one of
the Jack-killed giants!
In we climbed, cautiously, one alter the
other, through an aperture just big
enough to admit one person of ordinary
size. There were slits in the inossy r bronze
through which we were soon gazing out,
as through the end of an aerial spy-glass
—out—out—far as the eye could see.
Wonderfully distinct, like a piece of
chiseled marble, lay the city ot Home,
beneath and about us. The thunder of
the Eternal City melted to a musical and
almost inaudible murmur as it gathered
in shadowy fccalization within the hollow
heart of the ball. Far away westward,
or what seemed westward, in the direc
tion of Ostia, there was a line of white
that betrayed the shimmer oi the ivory
toothed Mediterranean as it gnawed aiid
chopped the shore. Yonder was the
crawling skein of the Tiber, tangling
itself in the complications of Old Rome,
clutching the throat ot the city, like the
yellow fingers of a thug. Three hun
dred churches sent up campaniles, clock
towers, duomos, of every imaginable shape
and size, into the air to meet us. On
one side the gardens of the Vatican,
shrouded in shade, made a dark green
spot on the earth; and on the other the
beautiful terraces of thePampili Ooria
and the lines of the Janiculum Hills re
treated into lovely distances unsubstan
tialized by the delicate and beaming
vapor that lay between. The Protestant
cemetery, rich in immortal ashes, seemed
richer for the powerful lens of magnify
ing air through which we looked at it.
Tasso’s San Onofrio, the sweetest and
most sacred spot in Rome, full of honey
bees, and grapes beloved of the wasps,
and garnered memories, and glories of
Domeniehins, shone like a stanza out of
some mythic Faerie Queen enclosing the
Rower of Adonis. Over the houses lay
the glorified Campagna, and over the
Campagna the purple peak of boracte,
and over this the masses of violet and
salmon flame that moulded themselves
into the Apennines and seemed ready to
exhale and float away with trembling
lightness. Stonepines ’ seamed the hill
sides with statuesque shadows, veritable
umbrellas of Old Lak-Oie spreading
painted dreams over the heads of the good
children sleeping beneath them. The
obelisks in the great piazzas shot out
their pointed snake tongues at the sun.
The huge bowl of the Coliseum looked
like a teacup and the Palace of the
Ca-sars was the house of the tin soldier.
You could have hung the Temple of Vesta
to your watch-chain as a charm, and
used the Column of Trajan as a tootpick.
The Pincio was a toy garden that would
readily slip into your vest pocket. Ber
nini’s crab-claws shrunk to the dimen
sions of a shrimp. His Holiness, the
Pope, on his white mule ambling in the
Vatican gardens, was a crumb pulled by
an emmet. You, yourself, tor the moment
were an animalcule inside of a drop of
water, looking out through the clear
crystal walls in the world at large.
“Air, air!” suddenly gasped somebody
beside me; “air! I’m suffocating?”
How had we been able to stand it even
five minutes? Here we were in more
than the fiery furnace of the Book of Daniel
—a red-hot ball of flaming bronze heated
by a thousand suns, till one’s very hair
smelt like burnt feathers.
“Air! air!” shouted the Englishman.
What was the matter?
Well, the great, greasy Italian con
tadina, panting with ambition, had
ascended the ladder less agilely indeed,
but not less inevitably than we. She had
ascended —ascended —head— shoulders —
bust—middle!
There she stuck!
Neither up nor down could she advance;
and there she lay weltering and wrallow
inginthe hole.‘a huge, perspiring stop
per, sealing us up like a bottle of bay
rum!
“Good heavens 1” we all cried; “woman,
will you let us out? Hurry, we are
stifling!”
An elephantine roll was the only re
sponse.
“Chuck her down!” murmured one of
the Englishmen, between his teeth;
“she’ll be the death of us all.”
Again the woman swayed helplessly in
the hole, her clothes gathering in formida
ble fluffs about her like life-preservers,
and Ik dangling extremities going
throucu the pendulum drill tar below.
“’Eave ’er out!” urged the other
Englishmen, who had oeen a sailor.
“Throw her overboard—drown her!”
The unfortunate contadina lay In the
clutch Of the hole, caught as securely as
the belted Orion. Twirl her extremities
as she might—peudulate—oscillate—heave
—revolve: in vain: there she stuck, and
the air could no more get through her to
our famishing lungs than it could get
through the bronze itself. Eight people
inside of a brazen globe, hotter than ten
thousand egg shells, could not get air
enough through the slits in the metal to
live on.
We should all die!
“By the eternal Jericho, I won’t die up
here, you confounded idiot!”
The two took hold of the woman’s fat
shoulders, gave her a scrunch down
wards, like running a cork into a bottle:
a fair push, a long push, and a push
all together—and—down she went.
A whiff of delightful air rushed in
through the neck of the bottle, and we
breathed again; we were saved! •
And so our birthday party in the ball
of St. Peter’s came to an end.
BLACK SKIN AND GOLDEN CURLS
Strange Effect of Arsenic Eating on a
Former Philadelphia Girl’s Complex
ion.
The strange sight of a girl with golden
curls reaching nearly to her waist, and
yet with skin black as ebony, says a
Cleveland (O.) special of the 15th inst.,
was presented in this city yesterday.
This freak of nature is the only child of a
family named Lorgan, residents of Phila
delphia until within a short time. She
was noted for her beauty, and moved in
the best circles ol society. It was finally
discovered that for some time she hail
been a habitual arsenic eater, and steps
were taken to overcome the habit. Shortly
after she became seriously ill, and for a
long time her life was despaired of. Upon
her recovery yellow spots began to show
themselves on her face, and these rapidly
extended and grew darker until she was
as black as an Ethiopian. The skin on the
body not exposed to the air, however, re
mains yellow.
The case baffled the physicians, and she
was taken to the Hot Springs ol Arkan
sas by her distracted parents, but all to no
purpose. The young lady is otherwise in
good health, but is morbidly sensitive,
and has isolated herself from the world,
refusing to see even her most intimate
friends.
Young Men! Read This.
The Voltaic Belt Company, of Marshall,
Mich., offer to send their celebrated Elec
tro-Voltaic Belt and other Electric Ap
pliances on trial for thirty days to men
(young or old) afflicted with nervous de
bility, loss of vitality and manhood, and
all kindred troubles. Also for rheuma
tism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many
other diseases. Complete restoration to
health, vigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is
allowed. Write them at once for illus
trated pamphlet free.— Adv.
Slotting.
ALLOW US TO SAY TO THE PUBLIC, AS
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS ARE
NOW MADE, AND THE PEOPLE’S MINDS
ARE AT REST ON THAT SUBJECT, WE HAVE
SOME CLOTHING FOR MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS
AND CHILDREN LEFT, WHICH WE ARE
AHXIOT7S TO DISPOSE OF, AND ARE MAK
ING GREAT RisnwcTlONS IN PRICES.
WE ARE NOT SEEKING ftPS-ICK. NOB
HAVE ANY AXES TO BUT OUR
AIM IS TO IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE OK
PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM CLOTHING
THAT FITS WELL, AND MADE UP IN THE
LATEST STYLES, AT TUE VERY LOWEST
PRICES.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
FURNISHING GOODS!
REDUCTIONS IN PRICES IS THE ORDER
OF THE DAY WITH US.
COME AT ONCE, AND LET US FIT YOU
OUT, SO YOU WILL BE IN A CONDITION
TO APPEAR BEFORE THE PUBLIC IN THE
HEATED CONTEST BEFORE US.
REDUCTIONS! REDUCTIONS!
IN PRICES.
Chas. Logan & Go.,
THE SAVANNAH
Clothing & Hat Store,
£ve.
ICE! ICE!
Knickerbocker Ice Cos.,
144 BAY STREET,
Wholesale aad Retail Dealers in
KENNEBEC ICE!
Orders by Mail, Telephone, or
given to our Drivers, promptly at
tended to.
TELEPHONE NUMBER, 217.
Jpvtotvvt gfg.
HEADQUARTERS
/; 7%7
FLY FANS.
—FOB —
Preserve Jars, Kerosene Stoves,
Cream Freezers, Water Filters.
JAS. S. SILVA.
f umber, etc.
BACON, JOHNSON & CO.,
Planing Mill and Lumber Yard,
Keep always a fall stock of
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
SHINCLES, LATHS, et
Also, VEGETABLE CRATES.
Pm ©oo
HemoTal! Removal!
IMMENSE CLEARING SALE
-OF
DRY GOODS
-AT
DUEL HOGAN'S.
I will offer for the next SIXTY DAY'S my
entire stock of
SUMMER SILKS,
BM ui Colored Sills,
Silk Grenadines, Nun’s Veilings,
Albatross Cloths iu Seasonable Colors,
Black Included,
At prices entirely regardless of cost.
1 lot Gents’ Genuine Balbriggan Undervests
at 7Sc. and $1; reduced from $1 25 and fl 50.
25 dozen Gents’ Open Front Reinforced
Shirts, 3-ply Linen Bosoms, at $1: worth $1 25.
50 dozen Gents’ Reinforced Shirts. 3-ply
Linen Bosoms, at 75c.; reduced from
100 dozen Gents’ fine Half Hose at $2 40 per
dozen,or 20e. per pair, worth at least $3 dozen.
100 dozen Ladies’ Silk Clocked Hose at 25c.
per pair; reduced from 35c.
In connection with this special lot of Ladies’
Hose I will offer:
150 dozen Misses’ Full Regular Hose at 22%c.;
worth 35c.
700 yards Bleached Table Damask at 75c.;
worth’ll 10.
100 dozen Huek Towels, I}, yards long, at
300 Boys’ Odd’ Pauts at 85c.: wortti |1 25.
100 Boys’ Sailor Suits at $1 75; reduced from
12 25.
A special lot of 200 pieces Hamburg Edgings
and Insertions at half price.
200 pieces India Linen at 15c.; sold up to the
present at 25c. per yard.
There are a few pieces CANTON MATTING
left that 1 will sell at half price.
DANIEL HOGAN.
initt, ctt.
BANANAS!
BANANAS!
FRESH arrival by every steamer of choice
Red and Yellow Bananas.
LEMONS! LEMONS!
As large a stock of Lemons as can be found
in any house in tho State, Special induce
ments offered to large buyers. Send for price
list.
Also Instock:
COCOANUTb, MESSINA ORANGES,
BERMUDA ONIONS, PEANUTS.
Always oa hand, best quality VIRGINIA
HAND-PICKED PEANUTS.
A full line of FANCY’ GROCERIES AND
CONFECTIONERS’ SUPPLIES at wholesale
only.
JOSEPH B~REEDY,
Grocer and Importer of Fruit,
145 Bay Street, corner Whitaker.
iDatctieo anf
Sold anl Silver Bantle Bracelets,
Gold and Silver Bangles made to order.
Solid Sterling Silverware,
COLD HEAD CANES.
I SELL the best quality of goods only, and
at the lowest prices.
AGENT FOR
Mai Mas.
F. H. MEYER,
Great Reduction in Prices
—OF—
WATCHES and JEWELRY
—AT
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
LADIES’ Gold Watches, key-winders. S2O,
reduced to sl6.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, key winders, $25,
reduced to S2O.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, stem winders, S3B, re
duced to S3O.
Ladies’GoldWatches, stem winders, $56, re
duced to S4B.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, S3B, reduced to
S3O.
Ladies’ Gold YVatch Chains, $35, reduced to
S2B.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, $55, reduced to
$43.
Gents’ Cameo Rings, $lO and sl2, reduced to
$8 and SB.
Diamond Ear Rings and Diamond Finger
Rings at a bargain.
Silver-Plated Ware reduced 20 per cent.
Gold Pens and Gold Pencils very cheap.
Fine French Clocks very much reduced.
This is a Fine Chance for Buying Fine
* Goods at Low Figures.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
goPa iffatrr, etc.
MIKE T. QUIN AN.
MANUFACTURER and Bottler of Belfast
Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Soda, Sarsapa
rilla and Mineral YVaters generally, is now
prepared to supply any demand. My goods,
being prepared from chemically pure water
and extracts,defy competition. Having ample
facilities for filling country orders, 1 only ask
a trial from those doing business out of town to
demonstrate what I can do in shipping prompt
ly. Syrups of all kinds furnished. Orders
from physicians for highly charged Siphons
for sick patients filled at any hoar of the day
or night.
Day—Factonr, 110 and 112 Broughton street.
Night—Residence, SO Broughton street.
Soda stands using fountains will save money
by ordering from me.
Soda and Mineral Waters
5 CENTS A GLASS,
At Strong’s Drag Store.
FLY TRAPS.
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