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ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1890.
BAB’S BRIGHT BABBLE.
A CLEVER WOMAN’S PEN PICTURE
OF BRIGHTES T NE W YORK LIFE.
WHAT IB TDK FASHIONABLE DOG?—A
“SECOND HAND” LADT — DESTI
NIES TOLD IN WOMEN’S NAMES.
MEN AS SCANDAL-MONGEBS.
CHRISTMAS GIFT8.
New Yoke December 18.—[Special.]—
Ot all the funny questions that have ever
<oouie to me the funniest is this, “What is
d;he fashionable dog?” Now, my dear un-
mnknown friend, you might just as well
talk of there being a fashion in babies as
in dogs. Everybody who possesses a dog
thinks it the very acme of style, and the
average dog, nine times out of ten, is so
•desperately stuck on himself that he thinks
fee is the one dog in the universe worth
possessing. He regards himself as the
sole and only dog who has chic, and
whether his tail be long or short, he wags
it whenever he sees a looking-glass, in ap
probation of the reflection therein. 1 have
aiever had any doubt as to the stylish dog.
Tj me he has always been a fox terrier
who with all his faults 1 am forced to
love always and ever.
woman's MOST STYLISH DOG.
A fox terrier has a way that can only be
described as “jumpy;” if he is inclined to
be affectionate, instead of walking up to
you delicately and asking the favor of a
kiss, injdog language, h» makes a spring
from the door to the chair on which you
happen to be sitting,lands on a delicate part
of your anatomy, nine times out of ten and
then proceeds to cover your face with
rather moist kisses. If you are in bed,
and especially if you are a victim to an ol J-
fashioned stomach ache, and he is permit
ted to enter, he would die if he didn't sit
just where the pains were and look at you
all the time as much as to say, “I never
eat silly things that make me sick. I
never sit up too late at night, or get
op too early in the morning. I never work
iny brain so that my head aches. Oh, no,
I'm not such a fool as yon are!” These
are a few of the capabilities of a fox ter
rier. He is beauteous to look upon, but
requires as much careful grooming as a
man about town. Consequently I think
he must be the most stylish dog.
THE STORY OF A DOG.
I know a lovely story about a dog, and I
must relieve iny mind by telling it. He
lived in Loudon aud liis name was Char
ley, and he was the most all-around ador
able setter you ever saw. He was in the
habit of toddling around with bis master
every place; now his master was rather a
guy old bird, and Charley was well known
at the race tracks, the club houses, and
the uuinerons places where his master's
hansom was seen driving up. One day
■Charley and his master went to the races.
When they got to the gate there was a
great crowd and the master entered think
ing Charley was following him, for the
hansom had been sent home, as the gen
tleman was going back to towu with
friends. Charley waited outside the gate
for along, long time; the races were over,
the people went home, and nobody was
left but a few bobbies and three or four
hansoms.
adog’s way of “getting there.”
They tried to make up to Charley, but
he refused; he walked along and looked
at every hansom, selected the best, jumped
In, seated himself and refused to get out.
All the persuasion in the world had no ef
fect on him. At last the driver, out of cu
riosity, took hold of him by the collar
and looked at it. On it was liis master’s
same and club address. Being a clever
chap he jumped up on the box, drove to
town >to the club and stopped. Charlev
made one leap from the hansom to the club
steps, wdere he was let in by the door
keeper, who knew him well. The hansom
man was promptly paid his fare,
and Charley, once more at home,
was greeted joyfully by his mas
ter, who had just missed him, anl
cheered enthusiastically by the club for
doing what any well-bred man would do
under the circumstances. Today Charley
is a resident of New York. That blissful
dog, who rejoices, by the by, in the most
lovely white shirt front you ever saw, came
to pay me and my Chum a visit, and I can
assure you that if he had expressed the
slightest desire to eat either of us he might
Lave done it. As it was he had tea to
drink, cakes to eat, and three rapturously
pretty women (I am not including myself
in this party) to adore him. This is a true
story.
a “second-hand” lady.
Dil you ever send for a second-hand lady
to come to you? I don’t mean that she
was a second hand lady exactly, but a
lady who dealt in second-hand
clothes. Well, she sent me a card, and
underneath her name, strongly suggestive
of Judea, was written and underlined
‘ ‘From Paris.” And that fetched me. I
sent for her. She arrived before I was
sip, and while stie was waiting I grew so
•economical I only took one lump of sugar
in my coffee. Then when she came in
at,nd saw the huge pile of clothes, most of
them things that I ought to be wearing,
awaiting her, and the proud air on my
face, she looked at me and said, rather
•coutemptuously, that she didn’t think
raiuch of them. I never saw anybody who
bad such a snifty way in my life. A Fe
lix coat she tossed by with scorn, an eve
ning gown that was as good as uew she
looked at with indifference, while other
■belongings she lumped with an air of de
cision. Theu she said that she would give
** .50 for the whole lot and
I TOLD HEB TO GO HOME.
She said a great many ladies, real ladies,
were willing to sell as many clothes as
that for the price of a pair of gloves, and
I told her 1 didn’t need a pair of gloves.
Then I risked my reputation as a real lady
and, standing up in the majesty of an un
curled bang, a crimson Japanese dressing
gown, a pair of white Turkish slippers,
and a heart on my neck marked “To a
good giri,” 1 told that old woman to go.
and if she didn’t go I would get a District
Messenger boy to put her out. She went
and I sat down and cried; and I said to
myself, “Bab, you are the most consum
mate idiot in the world. What do you
want doing with second-hand people?
Do as yon have always done, give your
things away to first-hand people, and have
the pleasure of hearing somebody saying
thank you for them. The only thing 1
can say in extenuation of you, Bab, is
that it is your first, and please gracious, it
will be your only experience with ladies
who buy duds.”
DESTINIES TOLD IN WOMEN'S NAMES.
Some women were talking the other
nigVit about the influence of names, and
they claimed that when yon named a
child, especially a girl child, you simply
made it for life; that a blonde baby chris
tened “Julia” would turn dark and grow
tall and dignified-looking and couldn’t
help it. That Florence was as certain to
be blonde and to have an inclination to
play dreamy music as Charlotte was to be
an energetic housekeeper; that Fanny
couldn’t help being frivolous and flirty,
and that Katharine, with all her pretty
diminutives, always made people fall in
love with her, especially men people; that
Mand and Cora would go to the “demni-
tion bowwows” without any volition on
their part, and that Ida and Blanche were
pretty certain to get there in time. That
Mabel was apt to be a little frigid, and
Margaret had a weakness for being blonde
both in appearance and temper. That
Emily had a good strong will of her own
and was apt to have gray eyes, and that
Evelyn, well, there seemed to be a general
feeling that Evelyn was inclined to be a
bit of a liar. Everybody’s mother seemed
to be named Mary, and every woman at
some time or another seemed to have a
friend, who was very loyal, named either
Frances, Edith or Helen. That Gladys
was a pretty name for a girl as long as she
was just a girl, but that it lacked
dignity when she became a woman. That
Louise had thin lips, was apt to be very
decided in her views, and that Josephine
was wheedling. All the diminutives of
Mary were approved of and Dorothy was
given a high place of honor as being aris
tocratic. Something was said about Bar
bara, and one woman, without much sense
said she thought it was like a knife
that cut, but another one, with
a gryat deal of sense said that a
knife was as apt to defend you as cut you
This is what three women said about
women's names.
MEN AS SCANDAL MONGERS.
Who does the most gossiping in this
world, men or women? Well, there, I
haven’t used the right word. Gossip, pure
and simple, is harmless, and really means
chatting about gowns and belongings,
people and things in a kindly, if a frivolous
w'ay. But who talks the most scandal?
Men, my dear, men. It’s my private
opinion that if any wicked scandal were
followed up to the place from which it
emanated, any wicked, malicious rumor,
it would be found that a man was at the
bottom of it. A man who was disliked by
the woman against whom he talked.
Women say nasty, tantalizing, abominable
little things just as small dogs snap at
you and think they are doing no end of
harm, but men—well, men don’t hesitate
to tell great big tarididdles that are like
the bites of bull-dogs, go in deep and leave j
a scar.
A WOMAN’S MOTTO FOR MEN.
Most of us hear unpleasant things of
ourselves;our friends are courteous enough
al ways to let us know of the unkind word
and most of us, being what the world calls
supersensitive, shed bitter tears, tears that
hurt the heart as weil as the eyes,over the
yelping of mongrel dogs, and then we get
up aud realize that it would be a gfeat
deal wiser if we could be great
enough to scorn these things. But you
see we can’t, we are women, and the un
kind word hurts much more many times
than does the unkind deed. Iu that wise
book, the Talmud, there is o le sentence
that I wish men would hive written,
framed and hung on their walls, if is this:
“Man, beware of making a woman shed
tears; for every tear she sheds;
God counts up against you.”
THE SEASON TO BE RICH.
But, there, what’s the use of thinking of
these unpleasant things? They do exist,
but so do toads and bats aud no end of
ug’y things; while the shops are full of
beautiful vanities, while the Christmas
feeling is in the air, while the sun is shin
ing, and there are lots of pretty women
on the street, there is no earthly use in
bothering about cads, who call themselves
men, aud women who are only women as
far as their sex is concerned and who are
toads at heart. This is the only time of
year when I envy the Rothschilds. Just
fancy being able to buy all the Christmas
gifts you want! Just fancy being able to
give every human being that you know or
don’t know, that you like or don’t like,
something for Christmos day! For my
own part I would be willing to be bank
rupt for the rest of the year. However,
there are a lot of things that you and I
can give whether there is gold in the
purse to buy them or not.
Father’s ffsy.
[To Wilson Barrett.)
My father was no pessimist; he loved the things
of earth—
Its cheerfulness and sunshine, its music and its
mirth:
He never sighed or moped around whenever
things went wrong—
I warrant me he’d mocked at fate with some de
fiant song.
But, being he warnt much on tune, whenever
times were blue,
He’d whistle softly to himself this only tune he
knew:
Now mother, when she learned that tune which
father whistled so.
Would say: “There’s something wrong today with
Ephraim, I know;
He never tries to make believe he's happy that
ere way
But that I'm certain as can be some trouble is t«
pay!”
And so, betimes, quite natural like, to us observant
youth
There seemed suggestion in that tune of deep pa
thetic truth.
When Brother William joined the war a lot of ua
went down
To see the gallant soldier boys right gayly out of
town;
A-cornin’ home, poor mother cried as if her heart
would break—
And all us children, too—for hers, and not for
William s sake!
But father, trudgin’ on ahead, his hands behind
him so,
Kept whistlin' to himself, so sort •* solemn like
ami low.
And when my eldest sister Sue was married and
went west.
Seemed like it took the tuck right out of mother
and the rest;
She was the sunlight in our home—why, father
used to say
It wouldn't seem like home at all if Sue should go
away!
Yet when she went, a-leavin’ us all sorrow and
ail tears.
Poor father whistled lonesome like, and went to
feed the steers.
When crops were bad, and other ills befell our
homely lot.
He'd set around and try to act as if he minded
not;
And when came death and bore away the one he
worshiped so.
How vainly did his lips belie the heart benumbed
with woe!
You see the telltale whistle told a mood he’d not
admit— ’
He’d always quit his whistlin’ when he thought
we noticed it!
I’d like to see that stooping form and hoary head
again—
To see the honest, hearty smile that cheered his
fellow men;
Oh, could I kiss the kindly lips that spake no
creature wrong.
And share the rapture of that heart, that over
flowed with song:
Oh, could I hear the little tune he whistled long
ago,
When he did battle with the griefs he would nol
have us know.
London, Oct. 28, 1800. —Eugene Field.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS WITHOUT MONEY.
There are some things that money will
not buy.
• One of tnern is a Christmas greeting
with a kiss of love to make it sweeter.
One of them is a deal of affection and
consideration.
One of them is a memory of somebody
afar off—a memory said either in a prayer
or thought out when the Christmas chimes
are ringing.
One of them is a new belief in humanity
—the belief that the world is, after all,
not as black as it is painted, and that love
and hope may go hand in hand and joy
will be the result.
One of them is a putting down of all the
hard, unkind thoughts—a blotting out of
the disagreables, and an intention to see
only the beautiful things.
One of them, and this is the best of
all, is to resolve when you sing your Christ
mas hymn to be good and kind and loving
to all the little babies in the world—to all
the little people, and then in that great
future you will find that as “ye have done
it unto the least of these ye have it unto
Me.” Bab.
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Let Christinas Stand for Pleasure.
Christmas is the preacher who empha
sizes the fact that the religion which it
jelebrates is adapted to human nature.
Horace is called the laureate of the
worldly, of the epicurean, of the pagan
who would eat and drink in view of to
morrow. The gay adage dum vivimus
is cited with a shudder as the gospel of
pleasure. Christmas was hunted in the
Puritan parliament as a kind of god of
pleasure who was only a masked devil.
It was confounded by Governor Brad
ford with the Belly god. But why, said
Charles Wesley, as he sweetly sang—
why give all the good tunes to Satan: !
The sweet singer might haye enlarged
his view and his question. Why give
Satan any of the good things? Why,
above all, let him have Christmas, as
Andromeda was abandoned to the drag
on of the sea? Let Christmas stand for
pleasure and for the reasou that it is es
pecially the Christian day. Then Chris
tianity drops her weeds and smiles.—
Harper’s.
An Impostor Who Made Money.
One of the men who made a fortune
out of the Cardiff giant humbug nearly
twenty years ago died in New York re
cently. His name was George Hull.
He was formerly a tobacconist in Bing
hamton, and was the author of the
fraud, which he engaged an Italian
stonecutter of Chicago to carry out.
A large gypsum slab was obtained in
Iowa and cut into the form of a gigantic
man. The stone was artificially colored,
to give the appearance of great age, and
then buried in the vicinity of Cardiff,
where it was accidentally (of coursej
discovered and exhumed, and exhibited
about the country as a prehistoric figure.
The imposition was so clever that many
scientific men were deceived by it.—
Chicago Herald.
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Induction.
Two Detroiters were closing a large
land deal the other day by telephone
when there came a “zip!” and a female
voice inquired:
“Is Mrs. Joues home?”
“No,” answered another.
“So sorry! Well, just the minute she
comes do you tell her to come right up
here.”
“Sickness?”
“No. All my canned peaches have
begun to work and must be scalded over
again!”—Detroit Free Press.
CENTRAL, PEOPLE’S
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Columbus & Gulf Navlgatior
LINES OF
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Columbus, G»., September 6,189L.
On and after September.5, 1890, the local rate*
of freight ou the Chattahoochee. Flint and Apa
lachicola rivers will be as follows:
Flour, per barrel • JjJ
Cotton Seed Meal, per ton 1 28
Cotton, per bale 8®
Guano, per ton 1 28
Other freight In proportion.
Passage from Columbus to Apalachicola, $84)0
Other points in proportion.
8CHXDULX.
Steamers leave Columbus as foliews:
Steamer Fanny Fearn Tuesday? at 8 a. m
Steamer Naiad Thursdays at 8 a. m.
Steamer Milton H. Smith Saturdays at 8 a. m.
Above schedule will be run, river, etc., penal! |
ting. Schedule subject t.o change without notice.
Boat reserves the right of not landing at any
point when considered dangerous by the pilot.
Boat will not stop at any point not named lx
list of landings furnished shippers under date ol
December 15, 1889.
Our responsibility for freight ceases af ter It hai
been discharged at a landing where no person if
there to receive it. „
GEO. B. WHITESIDE,
See’y and Treas. Central Line of Boats
W. R. MOORE,
Agent People’s Lire
I. JOSEPH,
Pr eei lent Columbus and Gulf Navtaatioe f *•
W. K. BROWN, President.
8 81P llih, ec*y «nc tress.
Electricity has not been practically
applied in the art of music heretofore,
except, perhaps, in the operating media
uism of church organs. George Breed,
of the United States navy, has devised a
method by which the passage of a brok
en current over a conductor in a mag
netic field produces musical notes of
varying pitch and volume.
Georgia State 3*jS 103
Georgia 4(4* 118
Georgia 7s, 1896 117
Georgia 7s, 1892 102
Atlanta 6s 106
Atlanta 7s 112
Columbus 5» 105(4
Columbus 7s HI
Augusta Cs 106
Augusta 7s Hf
Macon 6s 115
Savannah 5s 101(4
Ga. Mid. & G. R. R. first, due 1917.. 91
A. aud G. 7s, 1897 HO
Central railroad joint mtge 104
Centra] railroad gold 5s 99(4
C., C. and Aug. first mtge 107
C.. C. and Aug. second mtge 115
Columbus and Rome first mtge 107
Columbus and Western first mtge. .107
Covington and Macon first mtge 6s.. 90
G., Jeff, and So. first mtge end 112
G., Jeff, and So. first mtge 107
G., -Tetf. aud So. second mtge end.. .110
Georgia railroad fe 107
M. and N.Ga 93H
Montgomery and E. first mtge, 1909.107
O. S. S. Co.,endorsed by C. railroad.101
Sav.. Americus and Montgomery 6s.. 95
S. Fla. and W. 6s, 1935 112
S. Fla. and W. 7s, 1899 115
Georgia Southern and Fla. first 96
Atlanta and West Point stock 109
Atlanta and West Point debentures. 101
Augusta and Savannah stock 139
Central stock 117
Central debentures 97
Georgia railroad stock 200
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A farmer of Sumner county, Kan., has
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produced $20,000 worth of ore, and dur
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than five men at work on an average.
A peculiar fish, of brown color, with
out scales, and weighing twenty-one
pounds, was caught in a net at New
Dorp, S. L, by the lighthouse keeper. In
forty years’ fishing the keeper has never
seen a similar fish.
Eagle and Phenix stock 80
j Muscogee Factory stock 101
! Swift Manufacturing Co. stock 116
. Chattahoochee Nat’l Bank stock 200
I M. and M. Bank stock 150
Third National Bauk stock 125
Columbus Savings Bank stock 115
| City Gas Light Co. stock 88
| Georgia Home Insurance Co. stock. .207
I Columbus Ice Co. stock 90
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‘ Muscogee Factory bonds. 7s 105
I Swift Factory, fin 103
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