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jjEWIuY FITTED TIP.
LABORINOEN’S home
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor,
182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA,
Meals at all hours. Choicest brands of
jrines, liquors and cigars always on hand.
i'?E> Pi K-TT’ftT
human hair emporium.
Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order.
Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls,
Frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and
make up ladies’ own combings in any
desirable style. We have character Wigs
Bnd Beards of all kinds to rent for Mas
querades and entertainments. Ladies and
children Hair cutting and shampooning.
Also, hair dressing at your residence if
required. We cut and trim bangs in all
of the latest styles. Cash paid for cut
hair and combings of all kinds. All goods
willingly exchanged if not satisfactory.
Kid Gloves Cleaned.
11. M. BENNETT,
No. 56 Whitaker St. Savannah, Ga.
FRANK LIN F. JONES,
AT STALL NO. 31, IN THE MARKET,
Announces to his friends and the public
that he keeps on hand a fresh supply of
the best Beef, Veal and Mutton, also all
kinds of game when in season, and will
be glad to wait on his customers as usual
with politeness and promptness. His
prices are reasonable and satisfaction is
guaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
DON‘T FORGET, STALL NO. 31.
CREEN GROCERY.
HENRY FIELDS
Tire OLD RELIABLE
GREEN GROCEH
WOULD inform his friends and the
public that he still holds the fort
t his old stand corner South Broad and
East Boundry streets, where he keeps on
hand constantly, a full supply of fresh
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable—to suit the times.
Goods delivered if desired.
Kissane and His Family.
A San Francisco letter gives the fol
lowing story of the man of mystery
For twenty years Rogers has lived in
this State, and no one to look upon his
benign face would imagine him the char
acter his many criminal acts prove him
to have been. I saw him a few years
ago at his country seat in Sonoma coun
ty, surrbunded by his family, consisting
of a wife and eight children, two of the
latter being a step-daughter and son.
The young lady is very pretty and a
great favorite in society, and the step
son is a model of propriety and well
liked both by business and social assoc
iates. His wife is a charming woman
approaching the meridian of life. Time
has used her kindly, much more so than
the Colonel, who bares the trace of
trouble deeply graven in his parch
ment like face, and indicated by numer
ous deep furrows which the odd sixty
years of time have not unaided caused.
He stands about six feet in height, is
erect and has a soldierly bearing. His
hair, or what there is left of it, is snow
white, and a silky mustache of the same
color adorns his lip. His eyebrows are
bushy, and beneath them peer a pair of
very restless steel-gray eyes. lie has
high cheek bones and a receding fore
head. The Colonel has surrounded him
self with all the luxuries tliat money
can procure, and is very proud of the
elegance of his country seat. It is lo
cated in the most charming part of the
county, about six miles from the little
town of Petaluma. The house which
may more fittingly be termed a palace,
is built of the finest of finished stone
and stands in the midst of large grounds
surrounded on all sides by grassy lawns,
graveled walks and rare exotics. Back
as the homestead stretch acres upon
acres of the Colonel’s possessions, most
of which is in vineyard, producing
thousands of gallons of wine each year.
It is through his wife that Rogers is
connected with J. B. Hoggin’s family,
with the family of Lloyd Tevis, and
through these families with the Shar
ons and Lord Hesketh, of England, who
a few years ago married Flora, the
youngest daughter of the late Senator
Sharon.
A very little fellow has a very lively
tongue, and talks so much at meals that
a recent occasion, when there were
10 be guests at the table, his elder broth
er bribed him with a nickel to be still.
Africa minutes of silence the little
„k v wuispered anxiously to Ins brother,
Arthur, Arthur, mayn’t I talk a cent’s
worth V
Voices From Eternity.
“Great is my wisdom,” the old man said,
“Great is my knowledge, and vast anl
deep;
The earth, and the air, and the ocean-bed
Have given their secrets for me to keep.
With years and honors my locks are crowned,
And greater yet shall my glory be!”
But a hand came out of the dark profound,
And a voice from the depths of Eternity:
“Let the pall be spread,
And the mourners meet.
A laurel for the dead,
And a winding-sheet.”
“Ah,” said the bride, in her beauty bright,
Dancing in time to her light young heart*
“We were wedded but yesternight,
Never again in the wor.d to part.”
But the hand came out of the chill March
mist,
And rent the lace of her wedding veil;
The stars went out, and the winds were wist,
And she heard the voice in the shadow’s
wail:
“A pillow for the head,
For the bride is sweet,
And a lily for the dead,
And a winding sheet.”
“I will build a palace so fair, so fair,”
Said the youthful king in his royal pride,
“That men shall call it bey on 1 compare,
And its towers shall triumph o’er time
and tide.”
But the mighty hand from the dark was
thrust,
And his ermine robes and the crown of gold
Were cast without in the way side dust,
And the soLmn voice to the throne was
rolled:
‘‘Candles for the head,
And candles for the feet,
A mausoleum for the dead,
And a winding-sheet.”
‘I will sing,” said the poet, “a song so clear,
So sweet and mellow, so long and loud,
That, earthward turning an envious ear,
The lark will pause in the morning cloud. ”
But the hand came out of the twilight gray,
And broke the strings of his lyre in two,
And sealed his lips with a so il of clay,
And the voice came down with the falling
dew—
“ln Heaven, ” it said,
“Are songs more sweet;
Roses for the dead.
But a winding sheet.”
“But by and by when the risen souls
Go down in their graves for the crumbling
clay,
And the smoke of the burning world uprolls
In the sunset fires of the Judgment Day,
The sound of voices the sky shall fill,
Os friends that meet, and of foes forgiven,
Till the highest stars in the dome shall thrill
To the b ended song of the blessed in
Heaven:
“Crowns for the head,
And harps for the hand,
• And a flow’ry way to tread.
In the morning land. ”
A JOKE JNDEED.
BY MARGARET EYTINGM.
Adrian Mosscroft was in, or very near
ly in, the depths of despair. Every
thing had been going more or less wrong
witli him ever since .the first day of the
new year. On that day an adroit pickpock
et had relieved him of his gold watch and
his wallet, the latter containing his sav
ings for several months. I fact ; all the
money he had in the world, for Adrian
had not begun to save until he met
Ethel Burroughs, the pretty buyer of the
lace department cf an enormous up
town establishment. Shortly after the
loss of his fortune he was taken down to
his bed with rheumatism, and there he
remained for two months, and when he
got up again he found himself out of a
situation, the firm in whose employ he
had been for more than five years having
“gone,” as their errand boy expressed it
and “busted with the biggest kind of a
bust. ’
“What in Heaven’s name am I to do?”
asked Adrian of himself one morning as
he paced to and fro in the small room he
occupied in Mrs. Hasher’s “home for a
few select boarders.” “Os course I shall
get another situation soon, but I am
already in debt, which it will take me
a long time to clear f.wiy, and—and
confound it, I shan't be able to invite
Ethel to go anywhere, or to give her any
bouquets, or candles, or books, or any
thing else. By jovel I’ve a good mind
to ask Aunt Tamasin for a loan. She
must be pretty well off, for she used to
tip me generously when I was a boy.
I’ll do it,—l’m auro she’ll let me have it
—and pay her back as soon as I can.”
He had just come to this conclusion
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY, MAY 28.1887.
when a maidservant knocked at his door
and handed in a letter. He tore open
the envelope, took out the enclosure and
began to read: “My dear nephew’,” he
repeated slowly. “Why, this must be
from Aunt Tamasin. She’s the only
person I’m nephew to. What a strange
coincidence 1 In a moment more I should
have been writing to her.” Then he
went on with the letter.
“I am very sorry to be obliged to ask of
you the favor lam about to ask. You,
as well as all the rest of my relations,
have always thought I was rich, al
though I have lived all my life in a very
simple manner. 1 have never said any
thing to the contrary, for 1 have found
that being thought rich secures for one
a great deal more attention than one
would receive if supposed to be poor—a
lamentable fact, but a fact nevertheless. !
But this is neither here nor there. Can i
you give me twenty-five dollars? If you I
can I want them at once.
Your mother’s only sister,
TAMASIN BROCK.
Pippintown, R. 1., April 1, 1886.”
“By Jove!” exclaimed Adrian when
he had finished reading his aunt’s letter,
“wants help from me, and I just on
the point of asking a loan from her.
Poor old auntie. I wonder what can be
the matter. She used to have enough to
live on comfortably, 1 know, and how
good she was to me when I was a little
motherless boy. I ought to be ashamed
of myself for not having been to see her
for the last five years. Haven’t even
written to her. Suppose she thinks I’m
a selfish wretch and have forgotten all
her kindness. But 1 haven’t and she’s
got to have that money. My mother’s
only sister and my only aunt. Yc.'i
she’s got to have it. But where is it to
come from?” Then his eyes brightened as
they fell upon his spring overcoat, care
fully spread over the back of his chair.
“I’ll sell that,” he said. “Jim Turner
wants one. He’ll t ike it, and I’ll wear
my winter one till warm weather, on '
account of* the rheumatism, I’ll tell the
boys. Ha! ha! who’d ever thought I
could have a merry thought in connec- j
tion with*that pain fiend, the rheuina- |
tism. And I’ll pawn my dress suit and I
my sealskin cap. I have never pawned j
anything and have always declared that
I never wouNl, but in this case I must
fly to my uncle to get help for my aunt.”
He was as good as his word, and that
very afternoon a check for $25 went.to
Aunt Tam.
The third of April dawned bright and i
clear, but the air was undeniably chilly I
and Adrian’s winter overcoat did not
feel at all uncomfortable. And so he
was saying to himself when, coming out
of the front door of his boarding house,
he ran against the postman. “Another let
ter for you, sir,” said that functionary.
“From Aunt Tam again,” soliloquized
Adrian as he glanced at the hand-wr.t
ing, “acknowledging the receipt of the
check, I suppose; hope it reached the
good old lady in time.”
He opened the letter—he opened his ,
eyes—he opened his mouth—he stared
like one suddenly gone demented, for
this is what he i ead :
“You Dear Young April Fool—l
received yours dated April 1 with five :
and twenty inclosed. I know how you i
raised it. I have a spy in the same house I
with you. All your misfortunes since
the beginning of the year are known to ■
me also, but known to me only lately, or
you should have heard from me before. I
‘Now is the time,’ thought I, ‘to try if he '
has really any kind remembrance of his
old aunt.’ Ifind you have, and I return
you five and twenty dollars with the in
terest that has accumulated on them
since yesterday.. Go to the City Bank
and you will find there awaiting you I
$1025.
“From yours affectionately,
‘AUNT TAM.’
Pippintown, April 2, 1886.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Desperate Courage.
On the outbreak of the Sepoy mutiny
against the English, in 1857, shocking
cruelties were perpetrated. The English
residents of towns within the limits of
the insurrection were massacred; in
deed, all India was in a fever of excite
ment.
Colonel Leevin, in his “Fiy on the
Wheel,” says that the magistrate in |
charge of the town of Banda narrowly
escaped with his life, at the beginning
of the excitement. When the storm
burst, he was the only European left in j
Banda, the other residents having alreadg
sought refuge in Futtehpoor. Thi
Nawab of Banda, although at heart it
sympathy with the mutineers, yet pre
served to the last an appearance of loy
alty. The magistrate had been informed
that a rising was imminent, and wen
to the Nawab to exhort him to use al
possible influence to quiet the people.
Even as they sat talking, there reached
them a murmur from the town without,
swelling into a shout as the tumuli
came nearer. A dead silence fell in th<
room, and on locking up the magistral
saw that the Nawab was smiling. IL
knew then that his only hope lay ir
prompt action; so, drawing his revolver,
he seized the Nawab by the collar and
placed the muzzle against his forehead.
“Is a carriage likely to be soon ready
for me to depart?” he asked, quietly.
“Yes, yes, Sahib; one is now ready,”
vociferated the affrighted attendants.
“Then we will go at once.”
Without relaxing his grasp of the
Nawab’s collar, they emerged from the
palace, and the imm-nse mob outside
hushed their clamor, in terror for the life
of their Nawab, and in amazement at the
daring of this solitary Englishman.
“Now,” said the magistrate to the
Nawab, “tell them that if I hear a hoot
or an insult, or if any man’s hand is
raised against me, that moment will be
your last.”
The Nawab entered the carriage with
him, and they drove off, no one daring
to interfere. At twelve miles distance
from the city, the magistrate had a horse
waiting for him, in case of a sudden
emergency; so here he left the Nawab,
politely thanking him for the pleasure of
his company, and rode off unharmed to
Futtehpoor.
Increase of Sound by Echoes.
Sound is much increased by the echoes
in a closed vault. In a cave of the
Pantheon, the guide by striking the flap
of his great-coat makes a noise like the
report of a cannon. The same phenom
enon is found in the Mammoth cave of
Kentucky. In the cave of Smellin, near
Viborg, in Finland, by throwing in a
live animal terrible noises are heard.
Pliny tells of a similar cave in Dalmatia
where the falling of a stone raised a per
fect storm. Fingal’s cave, in the island
of Staffa, presents another remarkable
phenomenon. The end of this cave is
dark and gloomy, and may be compared
to the channel of the church, while the
basil! *c columns may be likened to the
organ pipes. At the extremity of the
giotto, and near the level of the water,
is a small opening whence come bar
monious sounds which are produced by
the sea rising and falling.—Nature.
Persian Jewelry.
As goldsmiths and jewelers the Per
sians are expert, an 1 jewelry is by no
means the exclusive luxury of the rich.
In the first p'ac: it is cheap. Tne most
skillful jewelers are glad to work for
two shillings a day and the profit they
can make on the very small amount of
solder they are permitted to use. The
Persian seldom buys his jewelry ready
made; he orders it. When the various
pieces have been cast or cut out from
the metal supplied by the customer, they
are brought to him for inspection and
carefully weighed. Then the article il
put together, either in the customer’s
own house and under his eye or under
the supervision of his servant. Then
it is again weighed, then chased and
finished, the filings and waste being
collected and credited to the customer.
—[Chicago Tribune.
Earthquakes in this Century.
The principal earthquakes that have
taken place in this century, with the
number of casualties, are thus stated:
1805, Naples, 6000 killed; 1822, Aleppo,
20,000 killed; 1829, Murcia, 6000 killed;
1830, Canton. 6000 killed; 1842, Cape
Hayden, 4000 killed; 1857, Calabria,
10,000 killed; 1859, Quito, 5000 killed;
1860, Mendoza, South America, 7000
killed; 1868, towns in Peru and Ecuador,
25,000 killed; 1875, San Jose de
Cuenta, Columbia, 14,000 killed; 1881,
Scio, 4000 killed; 1880, Charleston, 00;
1887, Southern France and Northern
Italy 700.
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THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Ingrowing Toenail.
For that very painful affection, in
growing toenail, the simplest measure of
of relief which has been advocated is th©
application of tannin. One who has had
many years’ experience with it uses a
concentrated solution (an ounce of per
fectly fresh tainic acid dissolved with
six drachms of pure water, with gentle
heat), and has the soft parts around the
nail painted twice a day. Two cases re
cently had no pain or lameness after the
first application, and went about their
work immediately, which they could not
do before. After about three weeks of
this treatment the nail hud grown to its
proper length an I breadth, and the cure
was complete. No other treatment of
any kind was used, though formerly he
introduced lint under the ingrowing edge
iu such cases.
Heep the Body Erect.
An erect bodily attitude is of vastly
more importance to health than most
people generally imagine. Crooked
bodily positions, maintained for any
length of time, are always
whether in the sitting, standing or lying
posture, whether sleeping or waking.
To sit with the body leaning forward on
the stomach, or to one side, with the
heels elevated on a level with the hands,
is not only in bad taste, but exceedingly
detrimental to health. It cramps the
stomach, presses the vital organs, inter
rupts the free motions of the chest, and
enfeebles the functions of the abdominal
and thoracic organs, and, in fact, un
balances the whole muscular system.
Many children become slightly hump
backed or severely round shouldered by
sleeping with the head raised on a high
pillow. When any person finds it easier
to sit or stand or walk or sleep in a
crooked position than a straight one,
such person may be sure his muscular
system is badly .deranged, and the
more careful he is to preserve a straight
or upright position, and get back again,
the better. [Chicago Health Journal.
A distinguished physician has made
the remark that if his “patients would
make it a rule to eat a couple* of good
orang s before breakfast from Febtiury
to June his practice bo gone.”
While such a statement Wan be taken
literally, there can be no doubt that the
more general use of good ripe fruit in
the early part of the day would be found
beneficial and often prevent illness.
Fruit has the composition of a perfect
food, containing all the substances re
quired for the bo<y. Every one knows
that it is a deficiency of the stimulant
action of the liver that causes billious
ncss. The acid contained in fruits is a
much better correction of this trouble
than medicine, and come the nearest
to a perfect physical development when
we rely most upon the food which nature
provides for us. From the ripe juicy
strawberry iu the spring to the purple
grape of the fall we have a constant suc
cession of the most healthful of food
substances. The real place, however,
for fruit is at tne beginning of the meal
an t not at the close. It cannot be
looked at as a luxury, but as a thing on
the side of economy.
Strong Affection of Pigs.
Pigs, says a writer, have been re
peatedly known to attach themselves to
individuals or to other animals, and to
show the greatest docility, gentleness
and affection. Mr. Henderson, the
writer of a well-known work on the
swine, relates that he had a young sow
of good breed so docile that she would
suffer his youngest son, 3 years of age,
to climb up on her back and ride her
about for half an hour at a time or more.
When she was tired of the sport she
would lay herself down, carefully avoiding
hurting her young jockey, who habitu
ally shared his bread and meat with her.
De Dieskau also cites the case of a wild
boar which he caught very young, and
which formed such an attachment to a
ycunglady residing in the house that he
accompanied her wherever she went and
slept upon her bed. This affectionate
creature fretted himself to death on ac
count of a tox which had been taken,
into the bouse to be tamed.
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