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ENQUIRER - SOT: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 30.
GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO.
J. RHODES BROWNE, President.
WM. C. COART, Secretary.
GEO. W. DILLINGHAM, Treasurer.
ATTENTION, BUILDERS.
BRICK FOR SALE.
Good, well burned Brick% of best Machine make. Orders
promptly filled. Correspondence solicited.
T. J. BATES.
rnhSl dtf
THOMAS CHAFFIN,
Books and Stationery.
COOPER Sc HOWARD,
WHOLESALE GROCERIES.
The largest and best equipped Wholesale House in the City.
Plantation Supplies a Specialty.
At the Old Shoe Store.
The Planters Brogan, the most satisfactory shoe for com
fort and durability yet produced.
More of those Fine Calf Bals, noted for elegant fit.
G-nFomon’s Kid Oxfords, a dainty thing for evening
dress wear, and our usual full stock of goods for all wants in
foot wear.
New Stock of Fitted Uppers, for Shoemakers; Calf rem*
nauts, cheap stock. Iron Lap Lasts, Kit Lamps and Shoema
kers Supplies, Harness, Sole and Upper Leather.
WELLS & CURTIS.
THROUGH COACH
COLUMBUS AND ATLANTA,
VIA
Georgia Midland Railroad.
ONLY ONE CHANGE TO
Washington, Now York,
Nashville, or Cincinnati.
Schedule in effect Sunday, May 26,1889.
Train North
Leaves Union Depot, Columbus, l:fl6 p m
Arrives Griffin 3:50 p m
Arrive Atlanta 5:45 p m
South Bound Train
Leaves Atlanta 2:15 p m
Leaves Griffin 4:05 p m
Arrives in Columbus 7:00 p m
Special Train—Sunday Only.
Leave Columbus—Union Depot, 7:40 a m
Arrive Griffin 10:39 a m
Arrive McDonough .11:40 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 12:30 p m
RETURNING—South-Bound.
Leave Atlanta 6:50 a m
Leave .McDonough 7:30 a m
Leave Griffin 8:05 a m
Arrive Columbus—Union Depot.11:10 a m
Accommodation Train.
NOETH BOUND—(DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY).
Leave Columbus—Midland depot, 7:00 a m
Arrives at Griffin 11:50 a m
Arrives at McDonough 3:00 p m
SOUTH BOUND—(DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY).
Leave Atlanta. 6:60 am
Leave McDonough 6:30 a m
Leave Griffin 8:20 a m
Arrive Columbus, Midland depot, 1:00 pm
Ask for tickets to Atlanta ancfall pointf
beyond over the Georgia Midland R. R.
Tickets on sale at Union Depot, and at the
office In Georgia Home building:
M. E. GRAY, Sup’t.
C. W. CHEARS, Gen’l Pass, Agent.
Columbus Iron Works Company,
MANUFACTURERS OF
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, NEWELS,
BALUSTERS, and Ornamental WOOD WOBlw.
DEALERS IN
LIME. LATHS, SHINGLES, LUMBER, and
i Everything In tlie MJIMHIf© IsiHiK-
Columbus, : : j : • '• • :
lun 5-3in
BARTLETT, NEWMAN A CO.,
Successors to D. R. SIZE,
Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Makers.
Repairing and Repainting. Horse Shoeing a specialty.
apr9 d3m —————
THE LUMMUS COMBINATION GIN.
THE ONLY GIN MADE WITH FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
js^sasss:Sk’6«55^
Enclosed Condensers, Two
Patent Stationary Bhush Carder and Fir
Extinguisher. Guaranteed to be equal and su
perior to any Gin made.
Prirra.—Per Saw, Gins, >3.00; Feeders, >1.C0;
Condensers >1.00. .
Rennirlng: Department.—We have in
creased facilities for carrying on this work in all
its branches, by careftil, experienced workm .
Remember, That if yon have a good old
Gin btM“with Shafts and Boxes that can be
nwd we can supply the other parts and
glee ycua* bin eqosJ to new Jw
one-half the pnee of a new Gin, or >1.80 per saw.
1 49-Send for circular.
For Sale by Cnlumbna Alliance
Warehouse Company.
■VT". J - . ID-A/VHD,
qenebal ageht.
LUSIMU8, [Manager.
FRANKLIN H.
JUNIPER,
_ GEORGIA.
innglfti.mn.wedAwSmo
The Old Reliable Saloon,
UNDER, new management,
With the Choicest stock of Imported Win**, r|r » ta w aalooa
A OHOIOB LUNCH served every day at 11 otlock, w**®* 1 mhai Smlp
the South. Soap, Boast Beef, Salads, etc., alwsp W*-
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ENTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA
Quickest and best. Three hundred mi.e*
shorter to New York than via Louisville.
Close connection with Piedmont Air Line and
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
June 2,1889. No. 63
No. 51
8 30pm
800pm
446pm
110 a m
2 23am
3 i3 a m
3 63am
4 V5 a m
6 27am
6 50am
“ Montgomery
“ Chehaw —..
1139am
12 66pm
152 p m
2 39 pm
3 08pm
413 pm
5 60pm
Arrive West Point
14 LaGraDge..................
“ Atlanta
Via W. & A. Railroad.
Leave Atlanta.
1 36pm
6 59pm
6 65pni
“ Chattanooga...... -
6 43 pm
U 40pn
Via the Piedmont Air Line to New York and Ma&i
7 10 am 6 15 w.
Arrive Charlotte - ....
“ Richmond.
“ Washington
“ Baltimore
“ Philadelphia
“ New York.
625pm
6 40 am
8 3o am
10 03 a m
I2 36p m
8 20pm
6 0> a 11
3 45 p n
8 28 p m
11 VS p m
8 20 am
620am
Train No. 51, Pullman Palace Buffet Oar Mont
gomery to Atlanta and Atlanta to New York with
ont change.
From Macon
From Montgomery and Troy.
From Bir’gnam and Opelika.
From Greenville
7 25am
1216 p m
10 16 a m
10 26 am
2 40 p m
7 00pm
6 26pm
Sleeping cars on night trains between Macon
and Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta.
For further information apply to
H. H. WARNER, Ticket Agent. J. W. DEMING.
Agent, Columbus, Ga.
W. H,MoCLINTOOK, Hup’tO.and W Div.
E. T. CHARLTON. G. P. A., Savannah.
T. J. DUDLEY & SONS
^ UST opposite Union Depot,
y ^ealers in and Manufacturers of all^Materialr
yjsed in|the erection of Houses.
J^oors, Sash and Blinds,
y^ime, Laths, Shingles, Sash Weights and
Jgveryhing kept in stock necessary for
'you to complete the job with;
^nd, should you want something
J^"ot carried in stock, we can make and
yyeliver same on short notice.
^pecial attention given to every variety of
Qrnamental Wood Work, such as Fine Doors
jewels, Balusters, Sawn and Turned Work.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
COLUMBUS, GA.
iant8 ly Telephone 84.
A Successful Physician.
In a large and lucrative practive run
ning through a number of years my hus
band, by using Swift’s Specific, restored
health to a great many people in whose
cases all other remedies proved useless.
To give a list would be to write the his
tory of sutbbom maladies and remarkable
and wonderful cures. I will mention the
case of a young man afflicted with blood
poison for five years. He was helpless for
a year—was blind for some days, and his
case seemed incurable—for under the
usual treatment he had grown worse,
nntil his condition was, to say the least,
horrible; rheumatism came on to add to
his sufferings. Dr. Love prescribed Swift’s
Specific, and by its nse the poison was
gradually forced out of his system, the.
rhgpmatlsm cured, and to-day he is a
Bond and healthy man. My husband re
garded Swift’s Specific as the best known
'medicine for diseases which it professed to
cure. Mrs. J. T. Love.
Leesburg, Ga., Sept. 29,1888.
South Bound Trains. | No. 60 710.62
Leave Atlanta
Arrive Opelika
Arrive Chehaw.
Montgomery .....
Selma.
Arrive Mobile.
New Orleans...—...
1 25 pm
5 14 pm
6 07 pm
7 20pm
920pm
210am
7 00am
1130 pm
4 42am
648am
7 20am
9 10 am
166pm
7 20pm
* OHAS. HJ3BOMWELL,
CECIL GABBETT, Gei#f Passenger Agt.
General Manager. •>
L. A. CAMP, Passenger Agent,
City Drug Store, Columbus, Ga
Improved Train Service
FROM COLUMBUS,
Via the Central Railroad of Georgia
Beginning Sunday, June 23, 1889.
(90th Meridian Time.)
To Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans, via
Union Springs.
leave Oolumbns I 7 85 a ml 2 45 p
Ininarnion HDrinra. 9 40am 4 55u
Arrive Union Springs.
Arrive Montgomery
Arrive Mobile
Arrive New Orleans.
9 40am| 455pm
1135 a ml 6 30pm
1 3 20am
7 66am
jriveNew urieans. ■ - l
at New Orleans with through trains
for Texas. Mexico and California.■-
To Birmingham, Talladega and Anniston, via
“ Ohildersburg.
Leave Columbus
Arrive Opeliaa.
Leave Opelika.
Arrive Roanoke
Arrive Birmingham.
Arrive Talladega. —-
Arrive Anniston —
8 20am
9 25am
9 30 am
12 45pm
’ 160pm
7 57 p in
3 20pm
4 45pm
6 40pm
■^Tiinnn, Augusta, Savannah and Charleston
12 26 pm
846pm
610 p m
Leave Oolumbns —.....
Arrive Fort Valley .............
Arrive Maoon - -
Arrive Augusta —
Arrive Savannah
Arrive Charleston —
— To Atlanta. via Opelika.
Leave Oolumbns...,
Arrive Opelih*
Arrive Allan!
Leave Columbus... ——
Arrive Union Springs
Arrive Troy..
Arms
Arrive Eufhnla
Arrive Albany---
Arrive Thomesvffle.
Arrive Brunswick..
Arrive Jacksonville
7 85am
940am
U 10am
226nm
646pm
816pm
246pm
466pm
640pm
1026pm
120am
646pm
1250p^
12
To Greenville. ■
Prom Greenville.
Arrivals of Trfino at Oolumbns.
AJ Successful Physician.
Gentlemen—Knowing that you appreci
ate voluntary testimonials, we take pleas
ure in stating that one of onr lady cus
tomers has regained her health by the
use of four large bottles of your great rem
edy, after having been an invalid for
several years. Her trouble was extreme
debility, cansed by a disease peculiar to
her sex. Willis & Co.,
Druggists.
Waco. Texas. May 9, 1888. a
-1
Swift’s Specific is entiiely a vegetable
remedy, and is the only medicine which
permanently cures Scrofula. Blood Hu
mors, Cancer and Contagious Blood
poison. Send for Books on Blood and
Skin Diseases, mailed free.
The Swift SpecificiCo.
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
mayie-d&wly-nrm
THE
National Bank of Columbus.
Capital and Undivided Profits >176,000.00.
A Bank of deposit and discount.
Exchange bought and sold.
Collection
ns made on all points.
The accounts of Merchants, Farmers, Bankers,
ectfully soli
mhl7d*wly
Banners, I
Manufacturers and all others respectfully solic
ited.
Last CaU For Tax Returns.
Tax payers, take notice. Last call for tax re
turns: but 12 more days before my books will be
closed. If yon fail to make returns, don’t blame
the receiver. Many have called and went off in
a huff, as we disagreed as to the assessment. That
is no fault of the receiver. If we disagree as to
returns yon have yonr remedy. Leave it to arbi
tration. as I have told them. These had better
look well to it or they may be the losers. My
books will close July 1.
June 5-td F.G. WILKINS, B.T.B.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Colnmbns Southern Railway Company.
The annual convention of the stockholders of
Columbus Southern Railway Company will be
held at theoffice of Cliff B. Grimes, 1146% Broad
street, Colnmbns, Ga., on Wednesday, July 10,
1889, at 11 o’clock a. m. CLIFF B. GRIMES,
ju2 tiljuylO Secretary.
“FERNOLINE BALSAM.”
It is an acknowledged fact, that this wonder-
fa! family remedy is the most effective one that
has been yet introduced for affections of the
Lungs and Throat. For Rheumatism, Neural
gia, loothacbe and affections of the Muscles, it
is a sure core. To the Nervous System it is sooth
ing and invigorating.
Rheumatism Cured.
About two years since, while suffering from a
perioMafl attack of Inflammatory Rheumatism,
my attention was called to Perseilae Bal
aam. I tried it, and mm gratified to say that
dM its use I have not only been relieved, hot
.hiintely cared, OLIVER MOORE,
Charleston, 8. a
Far Sale by sU Druggist*.
n°vl4 dlT
MR. BOWSER ON DECK AGAIN.
Ho Delivers a Lecture Upon the Careless
ness of Women.
In returning from a trip down town the
other week I left my shopping bag in the
car, and when 1 mentioned the fact to Ur.
Bowser and asked him to call at the street
railway offioe and get it, he replied:
“No, ma’am, I won’t! Anybody care
less enough to leave an article of value on
a street car deserves to lose it. Besides
you did not take the number of the car,
and they would only laugh at me at the
office.’’
“Do yon take the number of every, street
on ride in?” I asked.
supper in No. 66. Yesterday 1 made my
trips m Nos. 55,61 and 38. To-day in Nos.
83, 77 and 15. The street railways con
tract to carry passengers—not to act as
guardians for children and imbeciles.”
“.dr. Bowser, other people have lost
things ob the street cars.”
“Yes—other women. Yon never heard
of a man losing anything.”
I let the matter drop there, knowing
that time would sooner or later bring my
revenge. It came sooner than I expected.
Ur. Bowser took his dress coat down to a
tailor to get a conple of new bottons
sewed on, and as he returned without it, I
observed:
“You are always finding fanlt with the
procrastination of my dressmaker. Your
tailor doesn’t seem to be in any particular
hurry.”
“How?”
“Why, you were to bring that coat
back with you.”
“That coat. Thunder!”
Mr. Bowser turned pale and sprang out
of his chair.
“Didn’t lose it going down, did you?”
“I—believe I—I ”
“You left it on the street car when you
came up?”
“Yes.”
“Mr.’Bowser, anybody careless enough
to leave an article of value deserves to
loee it. However, you took the number
of the car, I presume?”
“N-no!”
“You didn’t! That shows what sort of
a person you are. Yesterday when I went
down after baby’s shoes I took car No. 111.
When I returned I took car 96. When I
went over to mother’s I took car 56 The
conductor had red hair. One horse was
brown and the other black The driver
had a cast in his left eye. There were four
women and five men in the car. We
passed two loads of ashes, one of dirt and
an ice cream wagon. The conductor wore
No. 8 shoes and was near-sighted. The
street railways contract to carry passen
gers, Mr. Bowser, not to act as guardians
for sapheads and children.”
“But I’ll get it at the office to-morrow,”
he replied slowly.
“Perhaps, but it is doubtful. As you
can’t remember the number of the car
they wifi laugh at the id«a, and perhaps
take you for an impostor.” t
He stared at me like a caged animal, bu
made no reply, andl confess that 1 almost
hoped he would never recover the coat.
He did, however, after a couple of days,
and as he brought it home he looked at
me with great importance and said:
“There is the difference, Mrs. Bowser.
Had you lost anything on the car it
would have been lost forever. The street
car people were even sending out messen
gers to find me and restore my property.”
One day a laboring man called at the
side door and asked for the loan of a spade
for a few minutes, saying that he was at
work near by; and he was so respectful
that 1 hastened to accommodate him.
Two days later Mr. Bowser, who was
working in the back yard, wanted the
spade, and I had to tell him that I lent it
“This is a pretty state of affairs!” ex
claimed Mr. Bowser when he: had given
up the search. “The longer some folks
live the less they seem to know.”
“But he looked honest.”
“What of it? You had no business to
lend the spade.”
“1 was sure he’d return it.”
“Well,he didn’t, and anybody of sense
would have known he wouldn’t. If some
body should come here and ask for the
piano. 1 suppose you’d let it go. Mrs.
Bowser, you’ll never get over your
wser, you’ll never get over your coun-
tryfied ways if you live to be as old as the
hills. It isn’t the loss of the spade so
much, but it is the fact that the man
thinks you are so green.”
In the course of an hour I found the
spade at the side steps, where the manhad
left it lafter using, but when 1 informed
Mr. Bowser of the fact he only growled:
“He brought it back because he proba
bly heard me making a fuss about it and
was afraid of arrest.”
Two days later, as Mr. Bowser sat on the
front steps, a colored man came np, and
asked to borrow the lawn mower for a
few minutes, to use on the next corner.
“Certainly, my boy,” replied Mr. Bow-
ser, “you’ll find it in the back yard.”
When he kkd gone I observed that the
man had a suspicious look about him, and
that I should not dare trust him, and Mr.
Bowser turned on me with:
“What do you know about reading
character? There never was a more hon
est man in the world. I’d trust him with
every dollar I had.”
In about half an hour Mr. Bowser be
gan to get uneasy, and after waiting a few
minutes longer he walked down to the
corner. No black man. No lawn mower.
By inquiry he learned that the borrower
had loaded the mower into a handcart and
hurried off. It was a clear case of confi
dence.
“Well?”;i queried, as Mr. Bowser came
back with his eyes bulging out and his
hair on end.
“It’s gone—it’s gone!” he gasped.
“I expected it. The longer some folks
live the less they seem to know. If some
body should come and want to borrow|the
furnace or the bay windows you’d let ’em
go, I suppose.”
“But he—he—”
“But what of it? You had no business
to lend that lawn mower, Mr. Bowser.
You’ll never get over your countryfied
ways if you live—”
He rushed
out and sailed around the neighborhood
for two hours, and next morning got the
police at work, and it was three days be
fore he would give up that he had been
“hornsnoggled” as one of the detectives
iut it. Then, to add to his misery, the of-
icer said:
“We’ll keep our eyes open, but there
isn’t one chance in five hundred. After
this you’d better let your wife have charge
of things. That negro couldn’t have bam
boozled her in that way.”—Detroit Free
Press.
POPULAR bCIENCE.
Matters of General Interest Gathered from
Study and Laboratory.
Professor Carnelley and Miss E. John
stone, says Industries, have recently con-
trbuted to the Royal Society the result of
the experiments on the effect of floor deaf
ening on the sanitary condition of dwell
ing houses. They show that this is a fre
quent source of pollution and vitiation of
the air of dwelling houses. Dr. Emmer
ich, of Leipsic, has previously pointed out
t-hat. “there exists nowhere in nature, not
even in the neighborhood of human
dwellings, a (natural) soil so highly con
taminated with nitrogenous organic sub
stances and their decomposition products
as the deafening material under the floors
of dwelling rooms.” In Dundee the au
thors have examined samples of the floor
deafening from several houses, and have
found it to have a most disgusting aud
filthy smell, and in their chemical and
bacteriological examination of the sam
ples collected they have shown that floor
deafening furnishes a good and suitable
medium for the growth of micro-organ
isms, and gives off fetid gases from putre
faction, provided the necessary factors—
moisture, warmth and nitrogenous organic
matter—are present.
Two new colors are described in various
recent technical journals. The first is ap
parently a reproduction of a color known
to the ancients, and made by them with
sand and lime heated with roasted copper.
The pigment, on analysis, appears a com
pound silicate of lime and copper. It is
now made with exact proportions of the
inatorinla, so that the prodnct is uniform,
and the process seems likely to furnish us
with a material of great value. The color
is a bright greenish bine, so that it will be
more available for decoration than French
bine or cobalt bine, both of which are of a
purplish cast and do not mix well with
other colon, while it appears to be as per
manent as either of them.
The other color is black, which has been
mad* hy treating camphor with sulphuric
acid. By steeping camphor in strong sul
phuric acid a jelly-like mass is formed of a
reddish color. When this is heated it
boils, giving off fumes of sulphuric acid,
and turns intensely black. By evapora
tion the unconverted excess of acid and
camphor is driven off and a black mass re
mains which seems to have the qualities
of India ink. Like India ink, it can be ap
parently dissolved in water, and remains
suspended for a long time. We hope that
some one will pursue the subject of this
camphor-black. A pure liquid black is
one of the thingBthat science has searched
for in vain for many years, and even so
near an appioach to it as good India ink
would be a useful substance.
A traveling electric light has been used
in Germany with much success. The ar
rangement is a very simple one. A dyna
mo, with an engine to drive it, i3 mounted
on a wagon, something like that of a
steam fire engine, containing boiler, fuel
box and water tank, complete for a night’s
service. A supply of wire, and a number
of poles, corresponding to the number of
arc lights required, are added to the equip
ment, which is then drawn by a pair of
horses to any desired place. On arriving
there the poles are set up where required,
and stayed with wires fastened with
■‘-kee driven into the ground; the lamps
> then hung to them and properly con
nected, and the engine is set in motion.
The lights immediately kindle, and from
one to fifty lamps can be operated, accord
ing to the power of the machine. As the
lamps can be suspended anywhere and
are not affected by wind or rain, the ad
vantage of the apparatus to contractors
and others who have to carry on night
work is apparent.
One of the most interesting achieve
ments in modern engineering is the elec
tric mountain railway recently opened to
the public at the Burgenstock, near
Lucerne. The rails descrioe one grand
curve formed upon an angle of 112 de
grees, aud the system is such that the
journey is made as steadily and smoothly as
upon any of the straight funicular lines.
The Burgenstock is almost perpendicular.
From the shore of Lake Lucerne to the
Burgenstock is 1330 feet, and it is 2860 feet
above the level of the sea. The total
length of the line is 938 metres, and it
commences with a gradient of 32 por cent,
Which is increased to 5S per cent after the
first 400 metres, this being maintained for
the rest of the journey. A single pair of
rails are used throughout, and the motive
power—electricity—is generated by two
dynamos, each of 25 horse power, which
are worked by a water-wheel of nominally
125-horse power, erected upon the river
Aar, at its mouth at Buochs, three miles
away, the electric current being con
ducted by means of insulated copper wires.
The loss’ in transmission is estimated at.
25 per cent.—Manufacturers’ Gazette.
?o measure water roughly in art open
stream, take from four to twelve different
points in a straight line across the sireaui,
and measure the depth at each of these
points,' and adding them together, divide
by the number of measurements taken.
This quotient wiil give you the average
depth, which should be measured in feet.
Multiply this average depth in feet by the
widthin feet, and this will give you the
square feet of cross section of the stream.
Multiply this by the velocity of the stream
in feet per minute, an i you will have the
cubic feet per minute of the stream. r«The
velocity of the stream can be found by
laying off 100 feet on the bank and then
throwing a board into the stream at the
middle, note the time passing over the 100
feet and dividing the 100 feet by the time
and multiply by 60 gives the velocity in
feet per minute at the surface. The veloc
ity at tha centre is only 83 per cent of that
at the surface; and so only 83 per cent
should be calculated. For example, sup
pose the float passes 10 feet in 10 seconds,
that divided by 10 and multiplied by 60
(seconds in the minute) gives 600 feet per
minute as the velocity, and S3 per cent of
this gives 498 feet per minute as the veloc
ity of the stream at the centre, and area
of the cross section multiplied by this will
give you the number of cubic feet per
minute iu the stream. This, of course, is
only a rough way of calculating, but it is
often used, and is a good and simple way
to obtain data to select a wheel by.—
Textile Record.
FISHING AND FLIRTING.
MAN’S ORIGINAL HOME.
A Very Sarcastic View of Angling Fe
males.
A favorite delusiou of mankind, in
youth, or even in middle age, is that there
is pleasure in fishing with a lady. About
this let there be no error, says the London
News. If you do not care about catching
trout, and if the young lady is young and
conveniently handsome,” as our father
Walton says, go fishing with her by all
means. In exactly ten minutes the follow
ing things will occur: First, she will en
tangle your lines and flies with hers.
Next, she will wind her own cast all
round her, and in her dress and in
her hair, caught in the coils of the
casting line, like Salammbo in those of
her serpent. You will extricate her, and
hand her your rod, but iong before you
have disentangled her flies, she will have
hooked yours in the bottom of the boat.
You snap the line with a jerk, and me ke a
new cast, the boat meanwhile drifting on
shore. You push off again and begin cast
ing, and by some accident you hook a
trout. Then the fair one perhaps screams,
averts her face, and calls you by a number
of terms expressive of a tender aud feel
ing, but indignant heart,or she gets wildly
excited, and twists the oar into your line.
If the trout is firmly hooked she goes for
him with the landing net, and if one thing
more than another tries the human tem
per, it is to see a woman hac‘- ing with a
landing net at his line. She frightens
the fish away several times, and
then catches the net in the bobfly, hits the
half dead tront on the nose, breaks the
cast, and pernrts him to join his rcla.Ions,
with a piece of gut and an artificial fly in
his mouth. The horror of trying to troll
with woman-kiDd, the extent to which all
the many hooks of a phantom minnow get
inextricably intertwined with her gar
ments, ought not to be described by per
sons of feeling. If any one likes these
recreations, let him be assured that he is
no fisher, bus a lover. If any one who does
want to fish can keep his temper in the
midst of these distractions, he is no hus
band, but a saint. “All hope abandon, ye
who fish with ladies,” might be written
over all Highland boat houses. The only
thing to do is to abandon hope of sport,
and fleet the time carelessly, not toying
with the tangles of fly hooks in Ncaera’s
hair. Land on an island, lunch, smoke,
touch the light banjo, exchange sentimen
tal confidences, bnt do not think to fish
with a woman in a boat. And then, after
all, when you come home she will mock
you for not having caught any trout. As
if Mr. Francis Francis, or Mr. Thomas Tod
Stoddard, or Maui, who invented barbs
for hooks, could have caught trout with
a lady in the boat. Her presence may
have other advantages, that is a matter of
private taste and sentiment, but to loch
fishing women is simply fatal. But her
presence in a boaten a loch is a great
lesson in the difficult art oi grinning and
bearing it. Fishers are now warned.
Angling is quite difficult enough, thanks
weather and the wariness of fish; to add to
the perplexities caused by woman is
merely wanton. On the other side, he
who has a woman with him on the loch
has a beautiful and charming substitute
for all the otherexcuses in which failuje
and incompetence find refuge.
The Missing Link Damaging to the Owe of
Evolutionists.
Eden, according to the prevalent idea
of the teaching of the Bible, wee a dis
trict in Armenia, watered by the Tigris
and Euphrates. The biblical narrative in
fact mentions the Euohrates as one of the
rivers of Eden. Undoubtedly, in the
common belief, Paradise was in Asia and
not in Europe or Africa. A few ingen
ious parsons, it is true, have located man’s
birthplace in Europe or Africa, some hav
ing the hardihood to establish it in Amer
ica, but those who have made the most
fanciful use of the scanty evidence sup
plied by the second chapter of Genesis
have been content usually to find the gar
den eastward in Eden,” within the Umits
of Asia. Scientists, who hold a special
view respecting the mode of man’s origin,
are approaching, it is pleasant to observe,
agreement with the general view as to its
place.
In his new work on evolution Mr. Alfred
Wallace, who may be said to rank with
Darwin as the creator of the new view of
the origin of species, expresses the belief
that man originated in one of the plateaus
of Asia. Haeckel’s view was somewhat
different. He held that man, or his pro
genitor, originated in a continent which
once existed east of Africa and south of
Asia, but which is at present the bed of
tne Indian ocean. This continent, he
supposed, was connected on the west with
Madagascar and Africa and on the north
with Asia, and it was by successive mi
grations westward that Africa and Asia
were peopled. Here in a tropical region,
according to Haeckel, were found the con
ditions which favored the intellectual and
physical development of the progenitor
of the human and the monkey races.
Wallaco holds, on the contrary, that man
originated in Asa, and in somo part of it
favored with a teinDerate or sub-trobical
climate. “It is probable,” he says, “tnat
he beg in his existence on the open plains
or high plateaus of the temperate or sub
tropical zone, where the seed of indigen
ous cereals and numerous herbivora, ro
dents and game birds, with fishes, moi-
iuses in the lakes and rivers and seas, sup
plied him with an abundance of varied
food.” Here he would develop, not the
aboreal structure of the monkey, fitted in
hands and feet for obtaining ripened fruit
from trees by climbing, but the structure
that fi'.ted him to get his living while
roaming through scanty woods and over
the open plains. Mr. Wallace finds man
related to the anthropoid ape. It is not
his belief, of course, that he is descended
from the ape as we know him, but that
man and the anthopoid ape are descended
from a common ancestor. The genealog
ical tree of the man and the ape, ac
cording to the evolutionist view, has
many branches, widely separated for ages
past, but if the converging lines could be
followed back far enough, a point, it is
believed, would ultimately be reached
where the sou was who first ancestor of
man was the brother of the first ancestor
of the anthopoid ape. The father of them
both was, of coarse, neither man nor ape.
It was his sons who, differing much in
character, force and aggressiveness, devel
oped in themselves and in succeding gen
erations the structure and qualities that
distinguish man and the ape from each
other.
To Mr. Wallace it is clear that man and
the anthropoid apes originated in the
same regions of the earth. - Where, then,
have the latter been found to be now ex
isting, or to have existed in former ages?
They have never existed, lit appears, in
America, and did not exist in Africa when
it was connected with Madagascar and
both were separated from Asia, Madagas
car was separated from Africa before the
latter became joined with Asia by the
isthmus of Suez. The animals of ancient
Africa are therefore to be sought in Mad
agascar. But there are no traces of an
thropoid apes in Madagascar. Those,
therefore, which now exist in Africa
must have come from Asia. There is proof
that man existed before the Isthmus of
Suez rose above the level oi the sea, and,
supposing his distribution to have been
like that of his supposed relative, he
must have reached Africa by land from
Asia. The color of the Chimaman, inter
mediate between the black of Africa and
the white of Europe, Mr. Wallace thinks
the original color of man. The suns of
Africa ebonized the complexion of the
African, while the winters of Europe were
blanching the European. Farther explo
ration of the plateaus of Central Asia
may bring to light, Mr. Wallace suggests,
the early man, the missing link, whose
persistent alibi, so to speak, is so damag
ing to the cause of the evolutionist.
The Bouquet Artist.
BEER OR WHISKY?”
How a Legal Light in Embryo Won His
Spurs.
At the Princeton reunion last week, says
the New York Sun, one of the ’86 men told
a story of his success in getting a commis
sion as an attomey-at-law in Virginia,
where three judges of the supreme court
must sign the paper before the applicant-
can become a member of the bar.* The
three judges examine the applicant sepa
rately, and aflix their names to his papers.
He said that he got two of the neces
sary signatures after undergoing a pret
ty stiff examination by each of the
magistrates. Then he sought the third
judge. He went to the county town in
search of him, and there learned that he
was on a fishing trip at a lake five miles
away, in the mountains. It was impos
sible to get a conveyance in the town, and
the young mamconcluded to walk out to
the lake. On the way he was overtaken
by a party of men who had a keg of beer
in their wagon, and were going to join the
judge and his friends. They made room
for him, and when they arrived at the
cottage they found that the judge had just
returned from a trip on tne iake.
The young man told the judge why he
had sought him. “Well,” said the judge,
“you must want to be a lawyer if that is
ail that brought you out here. Come up
stairs and I will examine you.”
The young man went to the judge’s
room and was asked one or two questions,
which were so simple that he could hardly
refrain from laughing as he answered
them. Then the judge gravely remarked:
“Young man, I am about to ask you a
question upon which your future rests; one
which will test your capabilities a3 a law
yer in Virginia; one which I hesitate to
ask yon because I feel an interest in you.”
“Please propound it,” said the confident
youth. “I wilL On this shelf over my
head is a bottle of whisky. Down stairs
they are tapping a keg of beer. The ques
tion is: Which will yon take?”
The young man said promptly, “If you
don’t mind, I will take a little of both.”
“Mr. Gaines,” said the judge impera
tively, “I will sign your paper, and let
me assure you that I am confident that
yon will succeed in the practice of law in
this state.”
Do yon ever wonder who and what the
man is who, as a clean-shaven and white-
aproned waiter in a swell restaurant,
opens the wine for you, and serves your
table generally? Well, the other night at
a theater I had a chance to see a waits,
off duty. He was not in the gallery, nor
in the family circle,nor yet in the parquet,
but was seated in a proscenium box. It
i3 true that he was head waiter iu a fa
mous restaurant, and therefore an impor
tant personage in that establishment, yet
il seemed odd to see him doing the grand
at tiio theater. He looked pompons, and
no doubt strangers mistook him for some
thing or other in the high professional
line; and with him were two notably
handsome young women, although their
costumes were rather too fantastic to be
approved. I happened to sit within a few
few feet of the party, and before the per
formance was over I knew that they were
on terms of familiar acquaintance with
the leading actress on the stage. It was
a first night, and it had the usual quantity
of floral nonsense and nuisance. The head
waiier’s young ladies produced a huge
oouquet, at a point of applause, and made
ready to throw it over the footlights.
“Not yet—not yet,” the actress whis
pered, andc-r cover of a general noise.
But she couldn’t prevent the too soon
throwing of the flowers, which evidently
had been previously arranged, and so she
had to put on what I believe stage folks
call a crockery smile, and pick up the
bouquet with a semblance of enormous
amiability.—Clara Beil’s New York Let
ter.
GLOVES OF HUMAN SKIN.
They are Palmed Oft as Being the Best Kid.
“Gloves which are sold as kid are often
made of human skin,” said Dr. Mark L.
Nardyz, the Greek physician, yesterday.
“The skin on the breast,” condnaed the
physician, “is soft and pliable, and may
be used in the making of gloves. When
people buy gloves they never stop to
question abont the material of which they
are made. The shopkeeper himself may
be ignorant, and the purchaser has no
means of ascertaining whether the mate
rial is human skin or not. The fact is, the
tanning of human skin is extensively car
ried on in France and Switzerland. Thus
you see a person may be wearing part of
a distant relative’s body and not know it.”
Then the doctor drew from a drawer a
brand new pair of black gloves. “There,”
he said, “is a fine article made from the
skin of a child. As the hide of a kid com
pares with that of a goat, so, of course,
does the skin of a child compare with that
of an adult, and it is mnch sought in
France for glove purposes.
“The skin on a man’s back makes good
sole leather,” said the doctor. “Nature
nas protected man’s spine by a akin which
is much heavier than that on other parts
of the body. Here is a piece of well-
tanned skin from the calf of a man’s leg.”
And the doctor displayed a bit of white
leather, strong and tnick.
In a museum in Belgium are the bodies
of six members of one family. They
were all buried in a tan yard, and when
they were exhumed, years afterward, the
skin, flesh, and even the bones, were well
preserved, so thoroughly tanned were all
the Darts. These specimens are in a bet
ter 'state of preservation than are the
Egyptian mummies. V
A few years ago Gen. Ben Butler effect
ually checked the tanning of hnman skins
in Massachusetts, and since tnat time the
business has ceased. The few samples of
tanned hnman skin now obtainable were
made by scientists as an experiment.
Dr. Nardyz formerly possessed a fine pair
of slippers made of the skin of a member
of the genos homo, but his wife did not
like the idea of her husband literally
wearing a dead man’s shoes, and so one
clay they vanished. The doctor does not
say a word, but he thinks he knows who is
responsible for their disappearance.—
Philadelphia Record.
Force of Habit.
The tired ldbking little school ma’am had
been obliged to give up. She bad to re
main away from ber duties and summon a
physician. “Yonr liver is out of order,”
said he gravely. “Out of order!” she re
peated in a mechanical tone. “Stay after
school for fifteen minutes and lose-your
recess for the remainder of the week!”—
Merchant Traveler.