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MARK TWAIN. [
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Some Practical Information from |
' \ the Humorist.
He Tells How to F~*-nove Warts
and Tattoo,. /arks. j I
th<| humor- 1
Mark Tw r ain, well-known ,
ist, in a letter to tie New York Sun
says that he finds (me following sugges
tire derelict wandering about the 0CCMn
of journalism: . said _ I
“I’d give a thousand dollars, a
well-to-do New lorker the other day, ^
“to have that mark removed, nnd he j
held out a well-shaped and well-cared- i
for hand, on the b3ck of which,between ;
the thumb and first finger, was tattooed |
a big blue anchor, “When I was a lit
tie fool at school, With my head full of
stories of adventure, my highest ambi
tion was to go to sea. An old sailor 1
who lived in tlic village tattooed about
a dozen of us <?n tlic sly, and 1
remember the lies I told my !
1
mother, I ) kept my , ban cl ,
as ,
done up in a ra pretending I had
cut it, till tho soifc healed, Then she i
gave me such a thrashing as broke up i
my plan, fortunately, to have a line red
and blue heait donq on the i acli of the
other. The disfigurement h-u caused ;
1
and lias i
me no end of annoyance since |
cost me considerable money for gloves, .
which I always wear, winter and sum- !
I debest them in ■
mer, though warm j
weather. But a man can’t tv car glove? j
at the table, and often at restaurants I
catch people staring at my hand, and I
wonder if they thiqk I have served my
term in the fo’castli of some oyster scow
or lumber schooner! ’’
A tattoo removed] mark continues Mark Twain,
is easily j'lien May I drop into
personal history? A 1 was a small
boy I had my shaite of warts, I tried ;
in turn the three hundred and sixty-eight
ways of removing Ithcm, but without re¬
sults; indeed, I sa-med to get wartier
and wartier right} el along. B it at last
somebody re veal to me the three
hundred and sixtt-ninth way, aud I
triedit. Thus: 11! rove a needle down
into the basemlnt of tho wart;
then held the olfiier end of tho
needle in the fiaW of a candle
some little time; ilia needle became
red hot throughout its length, aud
proceeded to cooff^he wart. Presently
I drew the needle hi.; if it ha 1 white
atoms like nits stic i u , f a h ou t jig point
that wart was done! if the point was
clear, I drove it in tfcuin and cooked till
I got those white filings. They were
the roots of the Vvart. Twenty-four
hours later the w would become soft
aud flabby, and 11 removed it wi’S a
single wipe of my hind. Where it bad
been was a smooth! surface now, which
quickly healed, an| left no scar. Within
two days I was wattless, and have so re¬
mained unto this diiy.
Well, a long tirftc afterward, when I
was sixteen years d^l, a sailor tattooed
an anchor and ropoi on the back of my
left hand with inllia ink. The color
was a deep, dark b|ue, and extravagant¬
ly conspicuous. Havas proud of it for
awhile, but by the kine I had wo n it
nine years I was tiroj of it and ashamed
of it. 1 could fmi nobody who could
tell me how to geUhid of it; but at last
my wart experienct of near half a o gen
eration before owcurreil to me, and 1
got several needlesfaii l a candle s'.ra’ght
way. I drove that needles along just
under the surface the skin nnd toler
ably clo e toAther and made
them include the {whole tattoo mark;
then I fired up on rLem and cooked that
device thoroughly.* Next day I wiped
the device off wSJh my hand. The
place quickly heal and left no scar.
A faint blush ting rem lined and I
minded to begin dcaiu and cook that
out; but as it wi hardly detectable,
and not noticeal®, it did not seem
worth the fuel, an® so I left it there,
and there it is yef,«liough 1 suppose 1
am the only mjmllr of my tribe that
knows it.
A Surgeon’s I.aJlghnhle Blunder.
They are laugSng over a blunder
cf a United States examining surgeon
up in Caribou, ; was examining for
deafness an applies it for a pension, and
to test a man’s left :ar held a watch at
some distance and j -ked him if he could
hear it tick. The answer was “No,”
and the same reply was given to repeat
ed questions as the/watch was brought
gradually nearer. V'Put him down to
tally deaf in the left eir,” the surgeon
said, aud holding tie \e.tch away from
the man’s right ear7 the same question
was a ked. To hisSsuiprise the answer
was the same. It then occurred to the
surgeon to examine his watch, and he
found that it had stopped. The exam
ination was begun ah over again.— Lew
iston {Me.) Journal ..
A Funny Way to Hunt Antelope.
An old hunter, (now Jiving in to*
second canon of the Yellowstone, neat
the great National Park, used to hunt
antelope altogether with nothing but a
revolver. His method was to crawl as
near as possible, th suddenly to stand
bolt upright, and before the Irate could
make out what he * 3 .% to turn a series
of cart wheels, hea over he.Is, directly
up to them, They, ef course, never
moved, so astonished and bamboozled
were they by thehtrai e'-' spectacle.
Quick as a flash he w ould stop these cvo.
lutions, draw h s revel and pepiK-:
their hides good, 'never failing to g e’
two or three of a bend, and sometimes
four and five .—lore Times.
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
CLOVER FOR DESTROYING RAGWEED.
A good uniform catch is the best cure
for ragweed, as well as various other
small annuals that often trouble farmers.
The clover seed, if sown early, will de
velop into broad leaf so as to smother
the smaller weeds that start in the
Spring. To do this, however, clover
seed must he itself free from weed seeds
and be sown with liberal hand. It is
in the vacant place i where clover does
n0 £ that the weeds get their
strongest hold. Yet a strong growth of
c \ovcr does not apparently lessen the
cr0 _ 0 p g, a j n w ith which it is sown.
FEED OF YOUN'O ANIMALS.
The feed of young animals should al¬
ways he liberal. This is the time when
food produces the greatest growth, per
baps for one reason became the natural
strength of the digestive organs has not
yet been impaired. A young animal
after being once stunted never fully re
covers its digestion. This most impor
taut of all tlic organs 0 remains enfeebled,
and diminishes 4 the effect of all good
feeding afterwards. It also pro! ally
help3 to overcome the natural instinct
which prevents eating too much. Al¬
ternate starving and clogging will ruin
any digestion, and with this injured, all
animals, even up to men and women,
arc not worth half whut they should be.
KEEP TIIE STABLE LIGHT.
Dirk stables, says the Western, World,
arc an abomination, and should not be
tolerated. There is no necessity to sac¬
rifice comfort, either in winter or fum
mer, to secure enough light.
A horse’s eye is cnlarged- 'the i P«
of the eye is—by being kept jjf\ ark
stable; he*baj a harness put on him and
suddenly brought out into a bright,
g lar i u 3 sunlight, which contracts the
pupil to suddenly as to cause extreme
pain. By persevering in this very fool¬
ish and injudicious, as well as cruel
practice, the nerves of the eye becomes
impaired, and if continued long enough,
loss of sight will ensue.
To see how very painful it is-to face a
bright light after having been in the
dark, take a walk some dark night for a
short time till the eye becomes accus¬
tomed to the darkness, then drop sud¬
denly into some well lighted room nnd
yofl will scarcely be able to see for a
few moments in the Hidden light. You
I ^ now * 1<IW painful it is yourself, then
j why have your liorsc repca'cdly hear
j such unnecessary jiain?
j A dark stable is invariably a damp
ono > aud such a slahl: we are not yet
1 willing to put either a valuable working
' or living horse in. Give good ventila
* 1011 ’ *' le s' 111 ight and the air have a
,
chance to effect an > entrance, aud your
stables wifi be purer and healthier
than if you take such pains to exclude
them and the good influence they in¬
variably bring.
CROPS FOR SUMMER FEEDING.
In choosing during
tbe Hummer lollid PC
soifim^gvs^swfci'^rprn i,i W.I should IriLri
neglccte Thflgraitj, coiitatft; tvn
five per i jwioi o g TL ca ..« flt; of
1 field t orn, and.neaTty-Tw.ce^as much oil,
1 while the slcms^contidn considerable
! i more sugar. By a strange ovcfilght no
, 1 analysit seems to have bcen^tcaxle of
: sweet fodder by of tl'ffi''experi¬
j corn a:iw
ment stations, but by tbe test of feed¬
j ing to dairy rows tho writer has found
!
it to be much more productive of milk
and butter than tlic common field corn
nnd ful!y at prolific. Au early variety,
■ ns Minnesota or Nnrragansett, which
| makes the largest growth of any early
varieties, will mature for feeding in 60
^ys, and two crops maybe growfa in
the season, while if planted weekly a
i constant succession raa ? ,l ” during
i the Summer. With sufficient orchard
i grass and clover and timothy to (cut
green and sweet com fuli feeding int.
bo had from May to November with the
I least trouble and cost. Tlic small early
sweet corn may be grown in rows 2 feet
: apart and 18 inches apart in the rotjs,
giving nearly 15,000 stools per acre aid
in rich soil well cultivated at least 20
tons of green food per acre aud 30,000
ears of corn with the fodder.
SOIL ANALYSIS.
: in the early days of agricultural
; science much was anticipated from the
services which chemistiy would be able
to render in the way of determining ac
curately the several substances used in
the growth of crops, and t he proportion
of each of these iu the different kinds of
crops. Having made these several de
terminations, nothing more would be
necessary than to ascertain what clemc nt
; of plant-food is deficient in the soil, i aa
apply it accordingly. This appeared so
simple, and, at the same time, so plausi
i that it b as not surprising that there
I srose film >st a mama for soil-analv.-is
amoeg progressive farmers. But un for
seen difficulties arose, aud these ardent
anticipations were doomed to disap
poimment; and the value of soil-; -analysis
is now in danger of beinc as much un
dervalued as it was formerly overesti
mated.
i The first aud chief difficulty in the
way of profitable soil-analysis is the
gr at diversity and inconstant character
(; f so p ?< Aou may take samples of soils
from several pi: s ou the same acre o f
ground, and -analysis \ show t :
CiC i, different from the othe: SO that
a single sample tak a for ana w. u.d j
be of no va'.u?, nnd indee 1 migut mis-1
lead the farmer in the proper improve- j
of his soil. In relation to several
elements of fertility the com¬
of the soil is far from being
Ammonia is one of the most important
elements of plant food, but it is exceed¬
ingly volatile •, and if the soil is exam
ined when it is first broken for a Spring
crop, and the examination is repeated
after the field has been exposed to the
heat of the Summer months, it w ill l;e
found that the ammonia of tlic soil has
diminished one-half or more, under the
influence of Summer heat, On the
otber hand, the soluble salts of potash,
soda, lime, etc., will accumulate under
influence of dry, hot weather, but if the
drenching rains of Spring are suffered
to wash the soil, these soluble salts will
proportionately diminish, It will be
readily perceived that au accurate analy
sis of the same soil at different seasons
of the year will show very different re¬
sults. Of the materials which go to
make up the bulk of field crops, so small a
proportion is derived from the soil that
it renders tho process of determinin < ■
the presence of that little a very dele
cate one. If 200 founds of guano l>e
carefully mixed with the soil of an acre
of ground, its effect on the crop will be
very sensibly perceived; hut of the es
ser.t’al elements of plant .fool, the
guano has added to the soil only six
pounds of potash, twenty-four of phos¬
phoric acid and thirty-four of ammonia.
—Bouton Cultivator.
GAME FOWL.
The game fowl, in my estimation, say3
a writer in the New England Homestead,
is the most profitable to keep. I keep
no other kind but pit games. They are
not as largo as some of the oilier breeds,
but they are less expensive; being great
foragers, they require very little to eat
outside of what they provide for them
sel vcs. They are very healthy, scarcely
ever having cholera or any of the dis¬
eases so common among poultry. As au
egg producer the game hen is without a
peer. She will average, when properly
cared for, from 225 to 259 eggs per
year. Slie teldom gets broody, aud
when she does is easily broken from
wanting to sit. Sire makes an excellent
mother, and it is with great difficulty
that a crow or cat captures one of her
brood. The little chicks grow rapidly
and, when fat, make as fine a table fowl
;vs one can desire. I have bred several
varieties of poultry, hut from experience
and obsorvation I prefer game3 to all
others.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
LjJAU. 1 air in stables affects the .quality
of mu
>st pf! mis will not thrive in a cold,
wet soil.
Plant the garden in rows, and culti¬
vate with a horse.
Eat ripo fruit or sauce every day, or
twice a day, if possible.
Have n good orchard, and as good a
variety of fruit as possible.
Make farm, garden aud poultry house
furnish ail they can of tho living.
liaising ducks is very profitable. The
Pekin is tho most hardy and easy raised.
Warmth is tho best of all medicines
for roup and swelled heals and eyes.
Pb.ee the birds by a stove if possible.
Eggs are the cheapest and most satis¬
factory food the farmer or boarding¬
house keeper can put upon their table).
Slake your selection of calves to raise
from the first of the good ones. Don't
sell them and take what is left for your¬
self.
Annoint the combs and wattles of the
large comb breed of fowls with glycer¬
ine occasionally, and it will prevent
frosted combs.
A good deni is said-about thorough¬
bred stock, and not near as much as
might profitably he said about
thoroughbred help.
Don’t be in a hurry to get the cows
on to the pasture; they, both cows and
pasture, will be better to wait until the
grass has a good start.
The day of large profits is gone. The
profits of dairying are made up of the
small daily savings, in the difference be¬
tween the cos; of production and tho
value of the milk or butter.
IV lie re Penn Signed tho Treaty.
A Weil-worn spot, kissed. no doubt,
by the li]is of many ardent tourist s as
the one on which William Teuu made
his famous treaty with the Indians, has
just been proved to be some fifty odd
feet removed from the historic elm be¬
neath which that tre ity was really made.
The spot is on live lower side of Beach
street, below Palmer, and is now the
property of Ncafie & Levy, the ship
builders. When they purchased the lot
two years ago for the purpose of enlarg¬
ing their works, an old resident pf illC
neighborhood stated that the elm stoed
about fifty or sixty feet from
the street. He was laughe 1
at, of course, but his statement ha<
jas: been verified. In excavating ffir the
bull ling, °
tlC w Ncafie & Lev y unearthed
at the point indicated, the root of the
old !m. It was about eight feet in cir¬
cumference, aud so firmly embedded
tlia' the workmen "'ere unable to re¬
move it without laborious effort, Fifty
fivt feet fr. in (lie root, on an adjoining
lot, stands the wea cr-w; ra marble tab- i
!e:, whi.-h says that upon “this sp j
im Pena made Ms f:imoU3 t reatv.
Ur ■cr ■it g the tablet wo
net c. c-a b :t has lain thei
my y(uir* and J> a wnys b.en th .un: i
:o Le up ,, n thc x e , y - p , t on P(jaj j
si ou.— PhUa ie ! phia Enquirer. t
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The direction of the recent earthquake
shocks at Wiesbaden was from west to
east.
Children born of women addicted to
the morphine habit are practically mor¬
phine eaters from birth.
Beliite is said to be thirty per cent,
stronger than dynamite, absolutely safe
for transport, and flaineless.
Street car lines in Liverpool, Munches
ter and London ai% to bo supplied am
monia fireless engines, invented in Ncv
Orleans.
A geologist has become convinced b\
examining some evidence furnished bin
in Scotland that the earth lay in a liquid
state for 150,000 years.
Some very valuable experiments have
lately been made in Germany on the
preservation of wood by means of sul¬
phate of copper and tar.
As a science bacteriology is still in its
infancy, but already its teachings are
producing a most profound effect in the
domains of medicine ond hygiene.
The Georgia . school of technology will ( j
sliortly have a baiometer with a tube J .
twenty feet high and three inches across j !
-the ,, ,. biggest one on the continent. ... |
A new fire-kiudlcr that looks like
brick is cheaper and more compact than
wool and that will set coal on fire in¬
side of two minutes has just been pat¬
ented by a man of Portsmouth, N. II.,
The Troy, (N. Y) Steel and Iron
Company has succossfully made soft
steel by a process invented by W. C.
Bilott, chemist for Washburn & Moon, |
of Worcester, Mass. j
It has just been found out that com- ■ .
mon nutmeg 0 is a powerful 1 narcotic poi- ‘ j !
son, but as o re must cat several , , before ;
it comes dangerous, careful cooks need •
not banish the flavor. i
A general of the oceanic I
survey re¬ j
gions leads to the inference that volcanic '
action can only have had a very subordi¬
nate part in determining the origin and
position of the great marine depres¬
sion.
A furnace in the carsliops at Spring,
field, Mo., burns two pounds of water
with evety pound of c <al, with the re¬
sult of perfectly consuming its own i
smoke and saving more than half the
.
fuel. i
Large numb rs of young pines are j
now shipped from the Landes,in France, j
to England, to be converted into paper.
Nearly , 17a, 000 tons , of , older , , pines wera
, . • . „ ...
sent, too, to , help m propplug English
coal-pits. |
French experiments show that shave .
ings completely coated with thick
whitewash arc the best thing yet tried i
to deaden sound in floors, wall-spaces, ’
etc.' In addition, tho shavings are so
incombustible ns to lessen the risk of
fire. 1
A fog bell has bceti established 1
on
George’s Island, in Halifax Harbor, by
the Dominion government. The bell is
erected on the western side of the light
house, facing the channel on the we item
side of the island. It IS . operated by
machinery, and gives seven strokes every
minute at equal intervals.
Dr. Currier tested the artificial waters
manufactured in New York, which are
filtered through layers of charcoal and
sand. The sed invent is thereby removed.
But one microscopic examination showed
that in a cubic centimetre of the nr.in- ,
cial waters there were 3,200 bacteria,
while the unfiltered Croton, taken at
random from a neighboring hydrant,
averaged only 432 of these morbific
germs.
A new principle for keeping plants
through the winter without artificial
heat is applied in Regent’s Park, Lon¬
don. Glass bottomed tanks about threa
inches deep are so arranged that all
light and heat musi reach the plants
through a thin layer of water. TJia
water exercises great control over the
temperature, protecting the plants from
frost in winter and from direct excessive
heat in sumnu r.
Indian Palki Bearers.
Before railroads were built, iu India,
the ordinary mode of rapid traveling
was by the palki, which was borne on
tho shou ders of four natives, The
speed and endurance of the professional
palki bearers are really remarkable. An
i ish traveler of only a few years
ago thus describes a journey which he
made in Bengal:
“By half-past four in the afternoon I
was at the entrance of the Patna bazaar,
nine miles in length, and thirty-three
miles from Barh. Thus they had brought
me at au average rate of over four miles
au hour, including a stoppage of over
half an hour for their mid-day meal. It
is true I was a light weight; but I once,
with a friend, tried to carry an empty
palki, and found it so gall ng to the
shoulder that I could not get beyond a
few yards, while these men, who lived
on little else than rice, could carry a
loaded one over forty miles, at the rate
mentioned above. »*
The World’s Groat Railroad*.
The four greatest railways in the
world, in reipect to mileage are: The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa be system,
7560 miles; the Pennsylvania Railroad
system, 7540 miles; the Missouri 1 acitic
system, 7115 mi'es; the Chicago and
Northwestern system. 1082 miles. The
Canadiau i aciric sysfem comes only
eighth in the list with 4900 miles.
] Just for a joke a Des Moines (Iowa
man put an old clay pipe in his store
Window and labeled it "Martha Wash¬
ington s p:; e.” Within half an hour a
. » patriot lad broke called the and punched his head
pipe.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Virginia preachers are said to make
the best farmers,
Kirk White, the poet, ■arned Groek
while walking to and fri n a lawyer’s
office.
A piece of redwood ba t brought to
Visalia, Cal., a few days fgo was three
feet thick.
There is a salt mine ii Austria that
has been worked for mot than a thou
sand years.
'
A teacher at Easton, 1 an., made a
boy write 3000 words fo having missed
in spelling.
Chief Sholer, of the fading (Penn.)
police, measures six fee eight and a
half inches in height. I
A celebrated pbysicpn in London
translated Lucretius whip: riding in his
carriage upon his daily Joinds.
Swarms of crows are s un in the gar¬
dens of Ogden, Utah. he people there
call them “Utah niglitii tales. »»
A Dr. Pilisbury has 1 - ed a Western
court to change his 11 c no to one less
significant of his profes on.
Dr. Darwin compost 1 nearly all his
works in the same wa r writing down
his thoughts in a memorandum book,
which he carried for thfpurpose. I
A canary in West Trf/, N. Y., has
been kept in tho same rem with a par¬
rot so long that it has le rned to repeat
distinctly the words ‘ ‘Petty poll” and
“Polly have a cracker. »>
A grocer of New Yor, City says that
women of tho poorer ebsss start their
fire with clothespins whei they happen
to be out of kindling wood. For this
reason the sale of cloticspins is very
large.
Every bank of Eugund note pre¬
sented for redemption b the “old lady
of Threadneedle street’ in the century
and more of her existen c is on filo can¬
celled, and so indexec and docketed
that it can be found ' vitliin ten min¬
utes.
An old ledger ha recently been
brought to light in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It belonged to a mcrchnt of the 16th
century. At the top o: the inside board
the bookkeepeiiiufcri'ed the words!
“God blis this and kelp me and it
honest. ”
The fashionable dog for 1889 is the
schipperke, or little ski per. He comes
from the Low countries, and is the old
time companion of the Flemish bargee.
ILc is black, with ivextto no tail, and a
hard coat inclined tobi rough, and does
not weigh over twelve munds.
The Celtic language prevailed in Eng¬
land A. D. 1, the Latn was introduced
about the same yem; the Saxon pre¬
vailed from A. D. <50 to 1066, Latin
re-introduced by nissionaries, 596; the
Norman-irieneh conbining with Eng¬
lish 1066 to 1229; early English, 1250
to 1500.
I
J. D. Cox, who ii operating among
the coal fields of AlJbama, made a
singular discovery a few weeks since. A
force of hand) were at Work at the bot¬
tom of a shaft 180 feet Ibelow the sur¬
face, when they came upon the petri¬
fied remains of a sheep. \ It was in so
perfect a state of present ition as to bo
readily recognize i, and vas kept intact
for several days, after which it was
broken and the pieces Attributed among
the miners as curiosities.
Pasteur on Malstoncs.
The tremendous scare [throughout In
diana, duo to the occasional cases of hy¬
drophobia, which are scattered over a
wide spread of country,! has attracted
great attention to “madstones, ” as they
a;e called, and there is a lady at Terre
Haute who claims possession of a stone
of marvellous power, which his been in
the family for 80 years, and of which
it is sai l that it has never failed in hun¬
dreds of cases. Of recent months it
has been in almost continuous use. Re
ccntly a gentleman cf Indianapolis
wrote to Pasteur, of the Institute of
Franco, originator of the treatment by
inoculation, asking his opinion of those
, stones of alleged marvellous powers,
and a reply h.v been received from the
great savant, writtc i by him in person,
iu which he savs:
“There is no coun;ry in the world
which has not one a more pretended
remedies against the madness. One
could count them by tb 0 hundreds and
by the thousand. You tell me that the
state that you inhabit, ol which Indi lan
npolis is the capital, p ssesses a stone
called the mad-stone, vhich, applied to
the wound iu case of madness, causes
the healing, and you a-sk me what I
think of it. I am convinced that in all
cases where one could relieve in the ef¬
ficacy of this curative o- preventive rem
edy one has badly judged, Ono has
ta : cn for authentic proufs simply fortu¬
nate coincidences. I do not have time
to estabbsh these assertims. You only
ask my opinion, Hare entire confi
dence in it.”
Gotham’s Army of Unemployed.
If we have in this criy 100,000 idle
men and women, it is fair to assume
that, all told, there aie not less than
250,000 human lieings, men women,
Doys and girls, wli > wender when the
soft gray li.ht penetrjtes their bed
n oms, where they are toget their break
fast .—Aew York Press.
Eonally Daiigi roat*.
«»TT ire you lieea through, the St, Law
re apidsi”
• No; but I married my third wi/e last
we^k.”— Jalge.
Flying Machines.
A.tempts to make birds the models
upon which man should construct a fly¬
ing apparatus are almost without number
Histoy is full of such attempts nnd their
failures. Three years ago, at the meet¬
ing of the American Association for the
advancement of science, a certain profes¬
sor, Isaac Lancaster, read a paper beforo
the Biifalo Convention, in which ho pro¬
fessed to give the results of many years’ of
study devoted to the observation
birds ii flight. “In 1876,” sttid Prof.
Lancaffer, “I went to the Gulf coast of
SoutaFlovida, below Tarnpi Bty, and
reside, there for live yeats, continuously
•ngagtd in this matter. From Tampa found
Bay tothe Keys,goaring birds are
in precision. These consist of buzzards,
frigate birds, various cranes, gun nets,
Cagles, pelicans, gulls, herons, and oth¬
ers of less importance. The buzzards
would habitually rest in the sea breeze
along tie inner or bay coast, between
thirty aid fifty feet abqye the water, fac¬
ing the wind for boars at a time on mo¬
tionless wings. They were birds of
from foir to six pounds weight, with an
equal rtuuber of square ft ct of wing sur¬
face. I watched a score of them on one
occasion for fourteen consecutive hours,
during which time not a dozen flaps were U
made foreach bird. If a bird can nit
indefinitely in c dm air without using
muscular exertion, being for mcchaubal
purposes as rigid as a board, then a board
or rnutal aody of the right shape and po
sition ought to be able to do the same
thing. In construction it must preset ve
the essential features of the bird s wing,
^ pro{e . <br gaid that nothing imitation was nec- of
essary to success but a nice
the figurqof a bird when floating in tin
air.
Georgia’s Prosperity.
Borne carefully compiled Statistics
beating on the progress and prosperity gratifying
of Georgia, are of the most
chaiacter. It is shown that the value of
property in" 1ms increased from $225,093,
419 1879, to $327,863,831 in 1889,
being an increase of $102,769 912 in ten
years. This is independent of the rail
road property, which has incre ;scd in the
* rom
127, an increase of $19,437,098, or 212 r>
per cent., m king an aggregate increase
of all taxable property in the state in ten
years of $122,207,910, or 53 per cent.
'I he percentage of increase in the chi f
items is also an interesting study. In
ten years the value of improved land lias
increased 29 per cent., city and town
property 73, iive stock 22, forming .im¬
plements §9, cotton manufactories 393 i.
mining investments 102, banking stock
61, and iron works 91 per cent.
A Loxdon cabman ran against the
Right. Hon. W. E. Gladstone and knocked
the venerable statesman down. lie
was on his feet in an instant and gave
chase to the reckless driver,and overtook
him fin j i K .p| Mui fast until a policeman
arrived and arrested trim,
When you suffer from dyspepsia, heartburn,
malarial plaint and affections, other wasting kidney diseases. disease, liyor When coin- you
wish to enrich the blood and purify the all system
general!}-. When you wish to remove feel
of weakness, weariness, lack of energy, how try
ft bottle of Brown's Iron Hillers, and sre
Inown p-.atly it will bmefit you. it surpasses all
remedies as an cnricherof the blood,
and a perfect regulator of the various bodily
functions. Ask your druggist.
The b: evreries in ! etvni!, Midi., Tiave passed
iuto the coatrol of a British syndicate.
Is if any Wonder
Uutt Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Disoovety
iines Outsells all ether blood superior and liver curative medicines,
It possesses such its mufacturers In pr.ip
eri tos ns to warrant m qup
S lying It hr tho people (as they are such doing,
brough druegistsj under conditions ns no
other medicine is sold under, viz: that the ft mus*
either benefit < r cUfo th" patient, returned. or It money
paid for it will h> promptly liver, cures
ail diseases arising from biliousness, deranged “Aver or
from impure blond, ns com¬
plaint," all Bkin and scalp diseases, sa’t
fever-sores, rbeuro, tetter, liip-joint scrofulous d sores and a'd kindred swellings, ail
;oase
m - nts.
$500 Itoward tor nu ir.curable case of ebr Tlic
Nasal Catarrh offered by tlic manufacturers of
Dr. Saco's Catarrh llcnedy. 60 cents, by liruif
gtsts.
Keep a big pieoa it of rock salt where tho
Block can g *t at y time.
Cniairh Cared.
A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease. remedy, Catarrh, at last and found vainly
trving every known a
proseri ption which completely cured and saved
him from dent!). Any sufferer from Ibisdread
ful disease seatlinna self-addressed stamped War
envelope to Prof, A. Lawrence, 88 en
g t _ jy- y„ willteceivetberecipefreeof charge.
A Difllculty Marino anted.
It is often va-y difficult to tell what kind of a
laxative to eko to a very young child who is
suffering froiii tbi constipation. The only medicine
which is at earn time perfectly Hamburg safe, Figs. etlcc- 25
i live and pleasant Fig. to take, Mack is Drug Co., N. If.
cents. ** Dose #>e |
____ __
Ok* on, Hi? J'nrndl-c of Farmer*.
Mitd, equable M f-nir. ctimaio, grain, eertainandabundant s'oek
crop*. t* grass and
country in world Full information free.
Address Ore| Im’iu-v’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
Tun iesscilipjiin confine
ment, and makes labor comp ira
tivelyoasy. "Sole! by all druoraristH.
$
i "a
%
1 ,w
m
: Vigor <1 Vitality aro quickly given to every
part of th •otiy by Hood'd Sarsaparilla. That tired
feeillnR erootue, tho bkod is purified and vital
l*Cd, Btoif ch Btrenf;thoned, Appetite restored.
! M C—A r»l Ciiltnrr. rc T-E LOCUTION Deiirablc Position* anu
j. lal«re«ted
i to progressivo stiulenla. AH
Wlfrrc'Plve if iaddrcssUvg valuable E. b.fonua* TOGIV)EE, ion Boston, Free, Maf,s.
j__ ip F k?M FOS SHLEr.ft/M)
! IS Y0
! Ifsoad (»ss Ucaris A Whight, 233 IlroaUwar, N. Y.
: W. L. DOUGLAS
i - $3 SHO H
J GENTLEMEN.
j Best In the world. Bx«mme liis
! SX.OO GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE.
G1.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE.
j ■ '•Vo 93.50 POLICE AND FA EMEUS SHOE.
& i *:i.50 EXTRA VALUE CALI' SHOE.
sSSM S2.25 WORKINGMAN'S SHOE.
£3.00 GOOD-WEAR SHOE. SHOES.
I *2.00 and SI. 15 BOVS’ SCHOOL
AU made in Congress, Button and Lace.
I ff W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 £ *2 SHOES LADIE8.
\ K-st Mutf.risff. Beat Style. Best Ftttins.
v W. r>ovtr las’ S3.00 Shoe,shown Incut A*
; ni 'Ae o? fine Calf, on---- lasts modeUeU (or the f read
•
; •SriV- ’ - o inslfle to hurt aa the li«ml-sen feet. Every , ed shoes, pair «ina warranted. no tr.cks oi
j >
j CAUTION W I DOl'Gl, name adverfised avw\ the hlra price before are fctampeu *eavTnft bta ew rLt^tN refl
the tiottom of all Shoe* Ly a^nst pr^cs ^ fi£N
j vJfer.or goo-is. If vonr fr>etorv; dexlor offers this you protects shoes tlie without jvcar^ W. 1-. uavw
I price stami>ed on them, and sxvs they are bis shoes, or inti as ;ooa,<uo not be
( #efved bv thereby. Dealers make more profit induced on unknown to 1 ccs : J ice* th arc v o reputa t wa r - 4/b
ifiii. •r.ted auviodv. lis'tcfyve do uct be I>OliOLAS - ' and the price i
l:uy only t1io*e tha have W. 1.. f»:d value '•-'f r your money. i ■in
Vottsands <*n the bottom, tr..| veu are sure to ret country by i* lie of CD
of tlollsu are *aved annually iu Ibis wearers ^ Jr 2
fr. a: your I*. l>0!<Gr. dcai^r V\ not 81IOKS. set the Kind cr strlc v ^’‘ ^ ^\.',^1 , . A ^
w von will he bcr.t >cuby <b
to his factory, with tho price enclosed, a*’d they „
^turn iia always mail, W. HOrOI-AS* or;coneco«en\\v,v.o S»K>ES. matter lie where sore ana you st*~e live, ym i;ze
width jet I . order l>. 1
#hi r you wear; ',f not «i:re, tend for fit. an
via full -r*7tructicca how to set a perfect 5.0
W. L, DOUGLAS. Erocktoa, Mass.
LIST
---or
CHAMBER SETS i
colors, Blue, Brown, Pink, per
s.-'f
bands, Blue, Green, Pink, Jla
roon, colors, per set......................... Printed Decoration,p< go
colors, Landscape, r set 8 On
set...........................,..’800 blower., 4 Cii
per colors, variousDwaoi ntionSjperset
Hose, and other Dee- rations, 8 75
per set 4 15
Lily, Ac., per set.... 4(0
and Marine, pm s t.. 500
.
Full lino of White Plates, Granite, O. C. and Yellow
consisting of Cups and Sauoiri
and B tains, Dishes, Balers, Ac.
Full stock of Goods,'Wines, Glassware, such Ao., as Tumbler.
Fixtures, Bar including Burners, Wicks, Lamp Chedt
Ac. Chim¬
KaTPrioes on application.
JL,. Jp. BROWN,
IMPORTER ANI) JOBBER OF—
Glassware, Tinware,
19A bust Ili»y Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
.US WCELB 0 JJ 3 HT TO mow IT,
The world ought to 1X1 know wnat S S. S.hua
done whichwasBobadcstoggsgibo for me I 11 the euro 1 "Jr J of a considered malignant Cancer
the physicians HI in Chicago, inemu
lie hy Uw where 1
-v ent to bo treated. One F f 1 1 of my neighbors cent
n,c Swifl’u a copy t-uccific, of an wiser- and i LAfj tgtga tisement began taking in regard it. I got to
relit gradually f from forced the/lrst out few of rjrVjdcBts; J my system, tho poison and 1 was
and BbH xvcll. it was ,
soon cured sound tsSEa is now tea
months since I quit tak dreadful in" S. R. S. nnd I have
had no sign of return of the disease.
Mich., Dec. Mbs. Ann Botuwkix,
Au Sable, 20, ’08.
Send for book# on Blood Diseases and Caaeers.
mailed freo. Tus Swift specific 3. Co.
Drawer Atlanta, Go.
CHICHESTE R’S^LN (iLISh“
mimmki pills
BED CE0D3 DIAMOND EBAND 4
\ Original, beat, only genuine and
,,’vi reliable pill for sale. Never Fail.
A*»!i *" r C/ijc hette.r's JSnglilh
I^i ^ * v' $ Diamond Brand. j| » red me
*rYVi: ; at 1 to Uifo v sealed with blue rib
~ fk t ether* AI ilrugKfslN, All pills in Accept
1 pink paste¬ danger*
board box* - wrappers, arc n
p viis particulars fonulcrfelt* and “JCelicf Send for 4t\ Ludlen,”Ml (stamps) for
<
onluT* ioffer, l>v return mall. Name 10,000 Paper. teatW
from LADIES »ho hn ve used them.
I liirlicstcrt licmical (:o.,Mafii#onSq..Phil». 1 P#,
MOTHERS’ FRIEND
MAKES CHILD BIRTHM
IF USEO DEFOtse CCNFiNEMetMT.
Book to "Mothers'’ MailedtFrkb.
IIKAIM-TELR REW I.ATOU CO., ATLAXTA46.4.
Soi.ii nr all Druggists.
W. G
Hashvllie, lean* College for Young Ladies,
13 the lending acbool of this section. 1WG
with W pupils, without grounds or builaiBg* ottkes, of its
own. 3Sow Las 3 buiidinus, 10*) rooms, 20 42ft
pupils from 18 States. Full courts in Literature,
science, Art, Music, privileges in VanderbuiU vni
xersity,fully equipped Gymnasium, and a l l modern
conveniences. For catalogue address President.
Itev. Geo. W. F. Prick, D. D., Nashville, Tenn.
;•«Plantation Self-Contained Engines
SI With
. RETURN FLUE DRIVING BOILERS,
pffS 3 FOR
COTTON GINS and MILLS.
t IgS i*.JAMES Illustrated Pamphlet Fr«. AdUrsu
LEFFEL A. Co.
SPIII.VGFIELB, OHIO,' F.
or 1IO Liberty St., New Youfc*
Road Carts IHK
i 0 per cent cheaper
til id anybody.
*iy“Dor.'t buy before g tt.n« uur vriues and eat* . .
lo.-w Name THE GEO. W. NASJJ STOCK fiXLR. ELL Tl£N*t CO.. T
th . paper.
S/5 for fO us. Ageuts A MONTH preferred cau who be maete worktop twu(St>
a horae nnd give their whole time to employed the bwaHnes*
Spare momenta may be profitably stoo
A few vacancies In towus and cities. H. R JtMN
SON ,% OO., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. N. £.~
VIfait itatf ay and buginrtt experience. Never'
mind about tending it amp for reply. B. F- J. A Co.
WASHINGTON 11 INFORMATION BUREAU,
Ctll.F A HEEHI.E. Proprietor*.
1)32 I Mi root N. W„ VVasliinftion, II. C.
General information furmahod. solicited.
Oorrenponivnoe
* Smtthdhal BttrioeM, Konnn
to Wrltlag, T;pe wrill f,
& ^ PRACTICAL ^ .. fih*rt-h*nd, T«letfr*“
j ht. *o<i G'la
. fstftiss** 4
COLLEGE, S
DETECTIVES
lYacted in every County. Shrewd men to act under tnitruc Uot
|l our Secret Service. Experience not necessary. Particulars ira^
GrAunaa i)eloctito Bureau Co.41 Ar^di.GlaciaaitLO.
cS (719011 SgUbU fir idl Old USU Vitoria SjJyiiStSIIU and YflUn?.
aj ^"Eithor 5
X-'» Sex. Prevents and cures 1 to
N, rioture. Send One p.Tnrto U^MMoN Ala.
OIFH. (to., Buz 407. MeiitKMiiierl,
p a g ana M - Every one t j inva*tl«»t«® 5 w
i *»,«*** B I* 11 Ddicit fortune: us » investmi r.DpoUu' will gxdtr W fw
» au 1
i P.l'v l '»* p I le ,"!» * ' a ** *'t «“ 9 K i % ‘ It U! v ’ ‘
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BiSESl glftlr’S 9 PH!* B lliwi C ; BnfUfiWtlC # h l E ^!!i n nBfnc^ R r e ^
i Oirol Bo*, .Hi rouu«l 14 Fills*
S5... ' o $8 «• *l;«y Samp'«8 wortU $2.15 Frc®.
Linen not under Iwrso’B teat. Writs ... - JJr’-vr- -
rSilrlv Ho *l©l* M‘oa.
T>\i..»!’S HI s. COU.KIlK. Phi adulphia. Pa.
j 5 Seh«>tor»hip and positions, Slot). W rite for oirouHr.
\ gonts wanted. $1 an hour. 30 new nrfcio es,G»t*J«Uii
.'imi Hftinpios t'r®6. O. K, Mitrslull, G *.
PtSRIESS BYES Arc tbe BF.MT.
S* i i.n hy Dbuggists.
IS1 Plso's Retneov for Catarrh la the
jSJ Rest Easiest to Use, and Cheapest
v- V iSS* *£»
v.
i Sold by druitfti-ts or sent by roait
50C. Iu T. HatalUne. »rren. Fa
I prP'prlht’ ftnd folly eolY op*
PL., Corse Biz <: vs the
in ^ sped fic for the certain cura
■ i t'wactMd l TO 5 DATS. cot w NjS w of U.H..lN::RAUAir.M. thisch-“ase. H,
'
C&iwb airtotoic. * Axosterdftm, *•
i L-'i lirdoDij We Save u
Ch&OlGtlCo. man years liest or ,
V3SS& piveu the
dnoivoen ^ fact li'DYCHEftCO..
j iV vcao. 1>. rnleako. 111.
// a Druggtola
;, Trade SoM by
A. N. v rT U .Twenty-three, ’89
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