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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & 00.. Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY II, 1877. VOL. HI. NO. 46. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Gorcn’s description of a case of de- Srium tremine: “Doctor, if you can prove to me that there is no physical suffering in hell I will cut my throat. Doctor, I have had great spiders, draw their soft bodies with hairy legs all over ray face, aud, eugh! eughl in my mouth. I have had green flies buzzing in my earn, and crawling, eugh! eugh! over me. they are coming now! They are coming now!" Music, painting, sculpture and poetry are culture. Music tickles the senses, and is the source of visions in whieh knowledge cuts no figure; painting, sculpture and poetry are vain efforts to fix on vanvass, in stone aud in verse some idle dreams. Beautiful, beyond question, softening from their impression on the emotions, but involving the intellect not so much as the building of a chicken* coop.—Mihcaukcc Sentinel, The blue panes that hung in windows with a southern exposure have mostly been taken down. The peddlers who went from house to house, vending a few square inches of blue glass at fifty cents or a dollar a pane, are driven with scorn and contempt from the door. The most diligent search has failed to find a man, woman, child, horse, mulo, dog, cat, canary bird, or house-plant in the city or around) it which has been benefited to the smallest appreciable extent by the u blue ray.”— Cleveland Herald. li. K. ItuADEN,of Australia, urges that the week be reduced from seveu days to five. And he wants the old heathen names of the day_oxehanged for onoday, twoday, threeday, etc. Sunday he wonld call Good day. It is considerable of an innovation for an Australian to propose, but Mr. Rusden is sanguine. He says the present week is a comparatively modern invention, and the names of the days are of recent application. More over, every attfeffi'pns chadge the Tefrgflf of the week or the names of the days thus far has succeeded. BKTTKR IN THE " You eau't help tho baby, pathoii Rut *UU 1 want to to no IK)Wu no’ look lo upou her An’ rvad, uu’ pray, you know. Only last week aho wan aklppln' 'roui A pullin' my winkers ano u bulr, A cltuiln'up to tho table Into hr* littlo high chair. 1 how she said It " Rut tho moruln' brought the fsvei. Aud her littIt* hitndn won* hot, An' the pretty red uv her llttlo cher Grow Into u ertmnon npot. Rut nhc laid there jent rt patient r a wonmu could. nld. A gentleman has just diod in Paris who owed moat of his celebrity to the quaint manner in which he managed to diaembarraaa himself of his creditors. No sooner did a dun present himself than he waa ushered into a room hung around with a variety of mirrors, some convex, others concave, etc. In one the unfortu nate creditor beheld himself with a head aa flat as a flounder, in another his fea tures were nearly as sharp as a knife, in a third he had several heuda and in a fourth ho waa upside down. Here he had the broad grin of a clown, there the long- drawn visage of an undertaker. On ono side of the room he saw himself all head and no body; on the oilier It seemed as if a dwarf had put on the boots of a giant. No applicant, however pressing, waa known to resist this chamber of mirrors for more than a quarter of an hour. Prisce Ldbomikski is a Russian gen tleman who was formerly page to the Emperor Nicholas, and who has written many lively sketches of Russian charac ter. In one of these he relntes how the ciar sickened and died of grief on be coming aware of those gigantic frauds which so powerfully contributed to the the defeat of his armies at .Sebastopol. He had ordered, for example, the con struction of a vast hospital, and had month after month forwarded immense sums for its completion; but when he dispatched an aid-de-camp to see how the sick and wounded were treated, tho hos pital was nowhere t« be found, the ac counts written by Prinoe Lubomirski of Rdssian maladministration would aston ish a Pasha—or a Tweed.—,V. Y. Tri- hunt. Darwin mentions a poisonous plant growing in Virginia which kills white- haired swine, but does not kill those with black hair. Dr. Ogle says that there is no evidence that the black swine eat the plant, and that the white swine, became they are not supplied with a certain black pigment necessary to the possession of taste and smell, are deficient in both tastes, and are there fore unable to discriminate bet yeeu poisonous and non-poisonous plants. They therefore eat poisonous plants, which the black pigs, with better taste, refuse to eat. A correspondent cf the Scientific American writes to say that be does not know anything about the effects of poisonous plants on the pigs of Vir ginia. but that there is a poisonous plant in Florida upon which black hogs fatten, while those with white hoofs after eating it become lame and their hoofs droj 0Philadelphia Ledger. " Tho tluys are terrible long nn' aio* An' she's growln' wus in oach : Alt' now ahe'a j«*at a s'lppln' Clear away out ut our roach, livery night when 1 go to kliw lift, Tryln' hard to cry Hhe says In n way that kills me — • Re W'ter lu loomin' ’—bye !' •• Hhe can Ho I wm And talk You’ll I , f Not that tho baby needs It, Nor that wo make anv complaint flint God seems to think lle’sTfcodln' The suillo uv the little Mint" " I walked along with thoeorpord I would n 1 hsn 1 was with hla heartfelt welcome To hin lowly cottage door. Night fnlln again in tho cottage, Tl Idea pnnling upon the bed. •' I>oea baby know pupa, darling?" And she moves her little fare With answer that shows she known hin Hut sea roe a risible trace <»f her wonderful Infantile beauty Remains as it wrh before; The unseen, silent inessengtr llnd waited nt their door. “ papa— kiss- baby ; —I's-so—11 red." The man hows low his face And two swollen hands aie lifted In baby's last embrace. And Into her father’s grlszled liearil Tho little red fingers cling, While her husky whispered tenderness Tears from a rock would wring, " Rahy—le— so—sick—papa— Rut—don't want—you—to— cry," • And night around the baby is falling, Hcttllug down dark and dense ; I prayed with teara In my voice, Aa the corporal solemnly knell Alike from the humble and haughty Goal It un cvermoro tho cry ; “ kly child, tny precious, my darling, How can I let you die 7" Oh ! hear ye the white lips whisper— " Ba— better— In—momlu'- bye." , , ,. , , _ , . , , ,, KuIhki’h observations were mndo upon ho daren't tnko off mu clothes or hod ,,,. , , , .... ,, mcca To doRtfi - tte asnarsfiSjl hml T 7 MIt. SMITH*S HOY. Ilia Startling Statement* Concvvning hin Family. A family named Smith has recently moved to Germantown, and Mr. Brown’s boy on Saturday leaned over the fence and gave to our reporter his impressions of Mr. Smith’s boy, a lad about fourteen years old: “ Yes, me and him are right well ac quainted now; he knows more’n I do, and he’s had morejexpericnce. Bill says his father used to be a robber (Smith, by the way is a deacon in the Presbyterian church, and a very excellent lawyer), and that he has ten million dollars in gold buried in his cellar, along with a whole lot of human bones, people he’s killed. And he says his father is a con jurer, and that he makes all the earth quakes that happen anywhere in the world. The old man’ll come home at night, after there’s been an earthquake, all covered with sweat, and so tired he kin hardly stand. Bill says it’s such hard work. And Bill told me that once when a man came around there trying to sell lightning-rods, his father got mad et him right up, and he takes bites out of every body he comes acrost. That’s what Bill tells me. That’s all I know about it. And he told me that once he used to have a dog, one of these littlo kind of dogs, and he was flying his kite, and, just for fun, he tied the kite-string on to his dog’s tail. And then the wind struck her and his dog went a-beomin’ down the street with his hind legs in the air, for about a mile, when the kite of a sudden began to go up, and in about a minute the dog was fifteen mileshigh, and commanding a view of California, and Egypt and Oshkosh, I think Bill said. He came down anyhow, I know, in Brazil, and Bill said he swum home all the way in the Atlantic ocean, and when he landed his legs were all nibbled off by sharks. “I wish father’d buy me a dog, so’s I could send him up that way. But I never have no luck. Bill said that where they used to live ho went out on the roof one day to fly his kite, and he sat on top of the chimbly to give her plenty of room, and, while he was sitting there and thinking about nothing, the old man put a keg of powder down below on the fireplace to clean the soot out of the chimbly. And when he touched her off Bill waa: blowed over 8gin the Baptist church steeple, and he lauded on tin weather-cock, with his pants torn, and they couldu’t get him dewu for thre< days; so he hung there, going rouud am round with the wind, and lived by entlnf the crows that came and sat on him be cause they thought ho was rheet-iron and put up thero on purpose. “ He’s had more fun than enough, lit was telling me the other day about a sausage Bluffer his brother invented. Ii was a kind of machine that works with a treadle; and Bill said the way they did in the fall was to fix it on the hog’s back and connect the trcndlo with a string, and then the hog’d work the treadle and kept on running it up and down until the machine cut the hog all up fino and ^hoved -the meat into the skins. Bill said /lis brother called it ‘every hog its own atuflbr,' and it worked splendid. But I do’ know. ’Pears to mo’s if there couldn’t be no mnehino like that. But, anyway, Bill said so. “And he told mo about an undo of his out in Australia who was et by a big oyster once, and when bo got inside he stayed thero until he’d et the oyster. Then he split tho shell open nnd took one for a boat, and ho sailed along until lie met a sea-serpent; and he killed it and drawed off its skin, and when lie got home ho sold it to an engine company for hose for forty thousand dollars to put out fires with. Bill said that was actu ally so, because he could show me a man who used to belong to the eugine company I wish father’d lot me go out to find a sea-serpent liko that; but ho don’t let me have no chance to distinguish[myself. “ Bill was saying, only yesterday, that the Indians caught him once and drove eleven railroad spikes through his atom ach and cut off his scalp, nnd never hurt him a bit. He said he got away by the daughter of tho chief snaking him out ot the wigwam and lending him a horse. Bill says she was in love with him, and when I asked him to let mo see the holes where they drove in these spikes, he said ho darsn’t take off his clothes or he’d didn’t know it, because Bill was afraid it might worry the old man. “And Bill told me they wasn’t going to get him to go to Sunday-school. He says his father has a brass idol that he keeps in the garrot, nnd Bill says he's made up his mind to bo a pagan, and be gin to go naked, nnd carry a tomahawk and bow and arrow ns soon as warm weather comes. And to prove it to me, ho says his father has tho town all un derlaid with nitro glycerine, and as soon as he gets ready lie’s going to blow the old thing out and bunt her up, let her rip and demolish her. lie said so down at the dam and told me not to tell any body, but I thought they’d bo no lmrin in mentioning it to you. “And now I believe I must be going. I hear Bill a-whistling. May-be he’s something else to tell me.” SIGNIFICANCE IN COLOR OF IHtESS. Blanc’s Art and Ornament in Dress: Without noticing the particularly and purely local significations that different nations have attached to them, colors have human affinities, and harmonize with our ideas, but especially with our feelings and our passions. This is why women, who are led by sentiment, at tach more importance to color tbiyi men do. Red is a favorite color with all na tions of vhe world. As distant from yellow and white as it is from blue or black, it occupies a central position among tho primary colors, and in it tho morning and evening meet, and are united.' The expression of blue is one of purity. It may be suitable in its light shade for the dress of an innocent maiden, nnd in its dark for romantic affections nnd evening thoughts. It seems, in this latter case to indicate a mind which is beginning to withdraw itself from the realities of life and to incline to solitude, mystery and silence. There is something slightly acid in orange color, just as there is in the fruit from which it derives its name. Green can only awaken gentle and amiable thoughts, remembrances gracious as those of spring and other promises of nature: green gives repose to the mind, it does to the sight. It is only when combined with black that green becomes symbolical of sadness. ViRGJNlUfl was made immortal by killing his daughter whom the king had ordered bus vassals to bring to bis licen tious court. The father, hearing the out landish order of Claudius, hastened home and kissed his Virginia a farewell, and ^hen killed her. In our age the father VllOTUGltA CH.'S IN lllti EVE. Thero has long existed a popular super stltion that tho human eye after death bears tho picture of tho scene on which it last gazed. Abundant romantic stories aro current of how murderers have beer recognized through the Imprint of their features on the pupils of their victims; and not^very long ago many believed that u substantial proof of the supposi tion had been afforded by the eye of a murdered man, whose body bail been found under a hedge, exhibiting a ram ified appearance, a likeness between which and that of the tangled branches above the organ some imagined they could trace. It is certainly startling to meet with the grave assurance that the above superstition,although not literally true, possesses u very strong foundation in fact; but the recent wonderful dis coveries of Drs. Ball and Kulmo leave no reasonable doubt but that our retinas are sensitive photographic plates, inas much ns they contain a substance which under the influence of light, undergoes chemical changos which vary in intensity according to tho intensity and character of the luminous rays. Kot very long ago Dr. Boll, professor of physiology in Rome, directed the at tention of the Berlin academy to the curious fact that tho external layer of the retina, which tho microscopo shows to be made up of rods and cones, is in all animals of apurplocolor. This color, he pointed out, is during lifo being con stantly destroyed by tho light which enters the eye. Darkness, however, re stores the color, which vanishes forever almost immediately after death. The very remarkablo nature of these statements induced Dr Kuhne, professor of physiology in tho Heidelborg univer sity, to undertake a repetition of the experiments; and tho result* of his re searches he has lately communicated in a paper addressed to tho Heidelberg Natur-Historich Mediciniscees Vercin. examining as soon as possible after death the Retina of animals which had been kept in darkness, ho found “ that the bonutiful purple color persists after death if the retina bo not exposed to light; that the bleaching takes place so slowly in gaslight that by its aid tho retina can be prepared and tho changes in. its J tint deliberately watched; and thiftt When illuminated with monochrom atic sqdiuin light, tho purple color, does uot disappear in from twenty-four *to twepty-eight hours, even though decom position has set in. These facts, ob viously going to disprove one of Boll’s important statements, at tho same time removed many difficulties of investiga tion ; nnd Dr. Kuhne, carrying on his researches by the monochromatic light of sodium, proceeded to investigate the conditions necessary to the vision pur ple (Sehpnrpur ns he terms it), as well as some facts relating to its restoration or removal. These observations yielded the discovery; first, that, under yellow light or in the dark, the retina may be dried on a glass plate without its color changing; second, that tho color is not destroyed by strong solution of ammonia, saturated solution of common salt, or by maceration in glycerine for twenty-four hours. On tho other hand, it is de stroyed by alcohol, glacial acetic acid, strong solution of hydrate, or a tempera ture of 212 degrees JFali. It was also determined that the more refrangible rays of the spectrum have tho greatest influence on the color, wjiilo red light is as inoperative as yellow light. Dr. Kuhne next showed that, even after the living cyo had been exposed to daylight, its retina, on being examined in the sodium light room, still showed a fine purple, thus negativing another of Boll’s assertions; while he further noted that the fading of tho purple occurred only after the eye had been exposed for some time to sunlight. The curious re sult was also reached that, while a retina removed from the eye lost its purple color under diffused daylight, another retina, left in the eye but exposed by an equatorial section, turned dark red, which bleached when the retina was ex posed in naked condition to the daylight. A still more remarkable experiment was that showing how the vision purple is restored. On making an equatorial sec tion through a recently extirpated eye, and lifting a flap of retina from the underlying choroid so as to expose the flap to the light, the purple color of the flap was found to be destroyed, while the color of the rest of the retina persisted. But on replacing the flap a complete restoration of the vision purpje occurred. I)r. Kuhne concludes, therefore, that of such a child would have spared the | this restoration is a function of the living daughter and slain the king as tho less of I choroid, probably of the living retinal the two crimes.—Loot'd Swing. I epithelium and it appears to be inde pendent of the black pignieut which tL retinal epithelium normally contain* Thus not only does tho retina contain i substance capable of being acted upoi by the light, but connected with it an structures which, so long us they ur< alive, aro able to provide fresh stores o: sensitive material. After concluding this first soriea o researches, Dr. Kuhne endeavored tt obtain, on the retina of freshly killec animals, images corresponding to object!- looked at during lifo. And ho showed that, in order to obtain a permanent pho tograph, or a* he terms \i } \optoijramm tho effect of the light would have to hi so prolonged or so intense as to destroy the balanco between the destiuction o tho vision purple and tho power of thi retinal epithelium to restore it. In ordoi to test the matter thoroughly, ho fixed the head of a living rabbit, so that om of tho eye-balls would be 58.5 inches from an opeuing 11.7 inches square in n window shutter. Tho head was covered for five minutes with a black cloth, nnd then exposed for three minutes to a some what cloudy sky. Instant decapitation was then affected, and tho eye-ball was rapidly extirpated under yellow light and plunged in a five per cent, solution of alum. Two minutes after death, the second eye-ball, without removal from tho head, was subjected to exactly the same processes ns tho first, namely, to a similar exposure to tho same object, then extirpation, etc. On the following morning the milk-white and now tough ened retina of both eyes were carefully isolated, separated from the optic nerve and turned. They then exhibited on a beautiful loso-red ground,a nearly square image, somewhat larger than 0.001G square inch in size, with sharply defined edges. The imago on the first eye was somewhat rosoato in hue, but less sharply defined than that of tho second, which was perfectly white. In brief, tho hole in tho window shutter was photographed on the rabbit’B eye. What further in vestigations into subject aro likely to show, it ismracult to surmlso; but it is certain that no results that may bo adduced can bo more astonishing or un looked-for than those already reached. They bring out in tho strongest relief tho fact of how littlo wo really know of our own organization ; while they add to the already long catalogue of marvels pertaining to that most wonderful of optical instruments—the human eye.— Scientific American. TALLER THAN A FISH STORY. Not so very long ago there arrived at Ban Antonio a gentlemun from a large town on the railroad between here and Galveston. He put up at ono of our hotels, nnd displayed a tremendous ap petite. At the end of the week he ex pected to bo presented with his bill, but no bill was presented, although lie had no luggage at all. Time went on and still no bill. The landlord treated him with lofty courtesy, as did the waiters. One night, however, ho did not return to tho hotel, and next morning the land lord hired a detective, who hunted and found him. The stranger thought the landlord was going to have him put in jail for swindling, or something else, and he felt very much nlarmed about it. But no. The landlord was as pleasant as ever. He asked tho stranger what he had done that he should desert his hotel that way, inquired whether tho waiters had offended him, and finally begged him to return to his hotel once more, promising to furnish him with oysters or anything else he might wish. The stranger was astounded. He told tho landlord that he couldn’t pay his board. The landlord replied ho did npt want any board, and finally extorted from the stranger the promise to return to the hotel. After a few days, tho stranger took the landlord aside, thanked him with tears in his eyes, and asked him why he was so anxious for him to eat at that hotel free of charge. “I’ll tell you,” was „the reply; “I don’t care a cuss for you personally, but since you have been eating here I have had forty more guests to dinner than I ever had before. They come here for no other purpose than to look at you eat— you eat so hearty. But the trouble is, T had $2,000 bet you would choke to death at the dinner table within a speci fied time. To-dav is the last day, and I have lost. Git!” And he kicked him nineteen feet ten inches into the street. — San Antonio, Texas, Herald. .. Amortg th j papers of a thief arrested in New York last week were found writ ten the following truths : “ Vice is only laziness, and law-breaking an attempt to dodge the law of labor.” “ The chief cause of crime is the desire to obtain a living by some easier means than honest toil.” TRUTHS AND 1 RIFLES. lii-ronvuviuitlon ipuvo ntul kuj The iltiiu imstusl pleasantly away 1 ill the hour hud come to go. Then u pensive mood mine o'er mo; I remarked, with many a nigh, " The front and cold will noon be here. The liindnmpu chaise lo brown and scr*. And all things green will die." She looked sweet, sympathetic. And tho tears stood In her eye, As aim murmured in u voice divine, i'laclng her Illy hniiil In mine, " I'm sorry, hut—good ha l" .. A ecu riling to tlio Danlmry Now. etiquette, you should 11 novor flab tor tl • lout oyator In your soup." Hut when you aro at it church festival, and tho latl oyator in your soup ia also the firet, etiquette must, go under nnd the oyster must come up. ..There never waa a time when the inHuranco huaincHa waa ao aufo aa it now All tlint a man wants to do after ha gets insured ia to die right quick before tile company dnen. Hut ho doean’t want to he tooling around, living and having a good time. I am convinced tlint tho world ia daily growing better,” remarked the reverend gentleman to a brother clergy man; “my congregation in constantly in creasing." “ Yoh,” interrupted tho brothor, who happened to be a peniten tiary chaplain, “nnd ao ia mine.” And tlioro tho diacuaaion on tho onrly nrrivnl of tho millennium dropped. An intelligent Hurlington hunting dog, Hint had a rathor buay time last Boaacn, wont down to a tin shop ono dny lnat week nnd had ilia hind legs and back plated with nlieot-iron. And now when he aeca hin maater looking at the gun he smiles nnd remarks that he is rendy to hunt In front of tho best fancy shot in Burlington. .. A London letter in tho N. Y. Times linstiiis curious item: “Mr. Ward Bra- linm, tho brothor of the Countess Wal- degravo, died suddenly tho other day at his beautiful residence,' View Island,’ on the Thames. There'is an old law that carrying a corpse over any plot of land or through any place or passage creates a right of way. A neighboring land-owner barricaded his property against the passage of poor Braham'a re mains, which lind to bo taken some miles roundabout to the adjacent churchyard.” Tlie old-time fancy for distributing wedding favors is again in vogue in Lon. don; dirocliy uftor tho ceremony and wliilo the nowly-married pair, with the more immediatn relatives, are singing the register, tho bridesmaids dispense them. Tho gifts designed for the lady guests consist of small bows of white satin ribbon tying little sprays of jes samine ; those for the gentleman are a spray of oak-leaves and acorns without ribbon, while the bridesmaids’ favors have some distinctive mark, such aa a spray of forget-me-not. Their boqueta are the gift of the bridegroom, and aro sent before tile ceremony with the locket or other touvenir which lie presents them. He also furnishes the bride with her flowers for the occasion. UK IMI'KJtHOWA TKD THK UK VII.. A strange story that is wafted from the nortli of Spain into the Fall Mall Garotte brings to mind a chapter in Midshipman Easy.” A landed proprie tor refused to receive the consolations ol religion. His family Bent for the parish priest, but the sick man declined to reccivo him, and the priest withdrew, declared that I he devil would come in person and carry off so hardened a sin ner uh soon ns lie was dead. A few hours afterward the sick man died, and while the members of the family were watch ing over the body the door of the'room was opened witli a great noise, and there appeared Upon tho scene a personage ar rayed in red, brandishing a pitchfork, dragging a long tail lifter him, and smell ing very strongly of sulphur. His ap pearance created so much terror that the women present fuinted, and the men rushed out of the room by another door. A man-servant armed himself with a re volver and made his way to the room. For the moment ho was terrified by tho appearance of tho devil, who by this time had got the body in his arms; but mastering his fears he fired three barrels of his revolver at him, and the devil fell to tho ground. His majesty proved to he the parish sexton, who, by orders of the priest, bad disguised himself as eatiiu. Four priests, who are suspected of com plicity in this attempt to work upon the superstitious feelings of the family, have been taken into custody. IF YOU ARE TO MARRY a delicate, n»le and sickly lady, make her take Dr. .1. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial end Blood Pu.ifie,; it vitalizes nnd purities the blood. > trengthens and invigorates, causes the rich Mood to the check again. Dr, J. ft- McLean, 914 Chestnut Sit-, St-Xouia, Mo,