The Covington star. (Covington, Ga.) 1874-1902, December 08, 1896, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'll " i; i A' yj - ~fr ^Vegetable Preparation Food anriReguIa for As¬ similating the h tiiig the Stomachs and Bowels of jlgSL ._ -... ■. - IS promotes Digestion,l Iteerful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opmffi,Morphine nor Mineral. IvtnrNAHCOTIC. ofCldVrSMUELl'lTQIEa 1‘iunj‘km Sestl~ Abc Jcnrur Hulls * /{odulfe - Anise r * d * JUifien/unt /fi Gjsbvnoti - Soda * li/trifn \\finnSectl d Say#/' - • Wiiduynin rlftiw. A perfect Remedy for Diarrhoea. Constipa¬ tion, Sour Stomach, Worms .Convulsions,Feverish¬ ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. exact copy of wrapper. i ii ii nrirr~i m.-. ........ iM Established 1865. One Price Clothiers, 1 Tailors , 4 Hatters Farnis h ‘ s . 0 B 0 t RlSEM** R0S ’ Whitehall street, ATLANTA, GA. 15 and ' .NGTON. D C, BALTIMORE. MD , Wth and E. St., N. W. Factory, 213 W. German St. I The Only Manufacturers of Clothing in the South Dealing Direct With Consumer. IVliiSTQN - MACHINE - WORKS, .1 Is preparedfto Build «i •••;•• r Repair Machinery f§ (£S I or AiivVssS! s 4 - of all kinds, at prices CL- v*- tvO: F^^jgjrrl Li?; X ' that are reasonable. * 9 l.l promptly. Work done p* II. EVANS, Proprietor, - - Covington, Covington Public Schools, ''A. Begins Monday, Sept, 7, 1896. DEPARTMENTS: Second Gra les. Intrnn rdiatP Third. Fourth and Fifth Grade* Mn First and Eighth Grades, "mar School—Sixth. Seventh and Sehool ( „ »railes . i School First Second. Third and Fourth Hmh ^ *SS R * SS | : IS I,ELI A Walker. I i without Extra charge 8.E V SPENCER—Filth, Sixth and Seventh Grades. >Sr V. GLANTON—Third and Fourth Grades. Is PAULINE ASKEW—first and Second Grades . alisthemes taught in all ihe grades. budding the latest . design j •_ of he School hiiSt h gins the Fall Session in a new brick SS. tv wwu. i. T (n.«( each Peck W Hl.an.son * A in all available space, six large windows to room "'atinj ftn( j ventilating. Gills High School combine into on® ►cTThe Boys High School an d the 'he new building. School Deparlme^ ia tuition in Primary, Intermediate and Grammar to all residents bet ween (lie ages of six *"•'f’ff High ' bchool } Depa.tment r) tIoe „t is b'ts pay One Dollar per month. T union in •00 pei month to residents and iK>n residents. W. C. WRIGHT, Superintendent Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. ‘1. 7‘ a :1‘L¥\/‘ -' Rut-1f .4: .113 y: "in“ 27:"- ”‘um' ~ 1,"); .7“: mm £3034 mm; -;’.§> - . ~\"“’ ,' ‘ Iii-#2503121: ‘Ee Ill. EVANS, Propriolm', The Covington Star. Cov ington, Georgia, Tuesday, December 8, 1896. SEE ip THAT THE % FAC-S1MILE SIGNATURE -OF / IS ON THE (9 WRAPPER OF EYEFcY BOTTLE OF ii ■ :.l Vv Oaetoria is pat vp in on»-siz9 bottles only. It f 4 is not sold In bulk, Don’t allow anyone to sell anything eko on the pl?i or promise !' it is “jnst tfe-ike as good” and ‘‘-will ass*or ere-. , • pose.” that yon get C-A-S-T-O-K-i-A. The fjc eaila ic os signature e 317 n VTi'Ppftl. TIME SPENT IN SHAVING. Over Two Hundred Days of a Man'* Life Spent In a liarber Shop. People as a rule admire a man who possesses a face that shows the bright look of cl-janlineas and vonth fulness that is too result of a good, clean shave. No matter of how good a quality a tnai’s clothing may be or how late the style in which they are made, he d les not possoss that look of refinement that naturally belongs to a man if his face is mar red with a stubby beard. There is nothing that will bring about this refined effect so well as a shave. Yet how many people who admire this bringing out of the features in such a clear out and pleasant manner really know bow much time and trouble is taken up in acquiring the youthfulness of countenance that they so much admire. Few people have anything near the correct idea of the time lost by the ordinary man in barber shops, The business man who looks so nat ty in the correct and w'ell fittimr clothes, with bis smooth, clean face, gets shaved on an average of about four times a week. When he goes to the barber’s the first time, he may be lucky enough to strike a time when there is no customer ahead of him, and as a rosult he is shaved and back to business again in almost half an hour. The next time he goes he is not so fortunate, and about 35 minutes are consumed. The third time may take even longer, and the fourth time in the week, which is usually on Saturday, he may find quite a number ahead of him, and very often he is oompelled to wait fully an hoar before be is shaved. In this way the business man spends on an average 2 % hours each week in a barber shop. It does not seem long for a week, but when you calculate the time spent in this way in a lifetime it is enormous. At the above rate, which is very low, the business man, com¬ puting that he starts shaving when he is 20 years of age and lives to be 60 continuing shaving during the , interim, will have spent nearly 217 days in a barber shop. If be gels shaved but throe times a week, ns many of them do, he will during the same length of time as in the above mentioned instance have spent near¬ ly 150 days in a barber shoo The above is only for ille t * mQ and does not include the exi-nse at cached to t^»<nronize’?r bv busihesV b .! r n of any standing whatever the price of a shave is never less than 15 oents. Usually, too, there is a tip of at least a dime for the barber and a nickel for the boy who brushes your lmt and clothes. This runs the cost of your shaving up pretty high, especially when you take into con¬ sideration the fact that during nn ordinary lifetime a man who shaved four times a week makes over 8,000 visits to the barber shop As the cost of these visits is usually 25 or 30 oents each, it oan readily bo seen that the expense attached to the operation during a man's life¬ time is no inooosidorate or trifling amount. In the shops patronized by tbo •working olasses the prices are n SO high, the expanse of the laboring classes in this line amounting on nn average to about $1 per month, Even at this rate it costs the or dinary laboring man a few hundred dollars during bis lifetime for liis indulgence in the luxury of a clean shaven face.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Not J'lftfatf(1. An exoited group of depositors be sieged the trust company, Rnmors had spread that the manager bad departed for Europe without warn¬ ing. The president of the corpora tion came out to paoify the deposit ors. unpleasant “To set at rest sur mises, »* he said, “I will say that the manager has gone to Europe to float loau. ” a “I know wbat lie has done for ns, though," spoke up one of tbo listen ers. 4 t Wbat is that? »1 “He may be trying to float a loan, but he has loft us to sink together. —Philadelphia Call. How to Test a Watermelon. To test a watermelon draw your thumbnail over the melon, scraping off tbe thin green skin. If the edge-* Of the skin on each side of the scar left ragged or granulated, and are is smooth, the rind under the scar firm and unite and h “ -'SSS “”°J’‘”® smooth and even, and the tbu ib are the rind in pi eos, nail has dug into and the skin does not come off ck-uu, then tbe melon is green This is the test used by tbe southern farm era. Not nt Home. Caller—Is your father at hem- ? Little Daughter—What is your name, please •' tell him it ie his old Caller—Just fr Litti« B I he Doughter-Then heard him guess tell ain’t at home I if any bill came he wasn t matmna Times. at home.—Washington A Submarine Woncex. Down in South Brooklyn, in the top loft of a building which still retains the tarry smell of the ship ! ; chandler the u building n >' establishment, .. ... , formerly to which . was devot j ed, is an invention, receiving its finishing touches, which for ordi \ nary ingenuity commands, the ■ ... admirat,on of the few people who have been favored by the inventor with a glimpse of its wonders, For ten years, says the New v Y ° rk , ... U ° rld ,, Alvary . , Tera „ P , l0 ha , ' ’ c em pl°>' e d his spare time and the few dollars he could sav ,> from his scanty earnings as a machinist, in building what he calls an aqua Through suspicion and espion age Tetnplo has passed unruffled and unrobbed of his secret until now. Protected by patents in every country, he is ready to give the world a practical proof that his decade of thought and labor has not been wasted. Resting upon a cradle* in the South Brooklyn loft is a cigar shaped vessel, eighteen ieet in length, twenty-three inches in di¬ ameter at its largest point, which is the centre, tapering to almost a needle point at each end. At first sight, the sun falling directly upon the glistening sides of the result of Templo’s years of work, it looks not unlike one of tljose gi¬ gantic tarpoons, whose /silvered sides flash off the reefs of Forida. Closer inspection, however, shows that the silver in this case is real ■ ly aluminum, with which the in¬ vention is sheathed, polished to the smoothness and reflecting pow ers of a mirror. To give the soft aUimiuum sheathing the rigidity and resist¬ ing powers needed Templolias suc¬ ceeded by making the framt; of his boat, if it may be so called, out oi the finest seamless tubing, such as the frame of a bicycle is built of. Tm. 'the boat, ready for use, since weighs, minus the keel, which is detachable for storing purposes, less than fifty-five pounds. To better exemplify the work ings of the boat, Templo gave a re practical example of how * porter a it is to be driven when in action He stepped into the well atnidship and sealed himself upon a saddle there, his feU slipped down through rather tight fitting rubber trousers, secured to the hull of the boat On eacli side of the keel and termin ating in leaden shed shoes, winch were held to the weighted pedal by an arrangement not unlike the ordinary toe-clip used by the laud cyclist. This done, a rubber waisi or jacket, with sleeves ending in digitated terminals, was the. drawn over that part of the bodj which appeared above the boat. To cap all, the regulation drivers' helmet was screwed 011 and tin rider was ready for his journey be neath the water. Power he secured by bevelled gearing, ballbearing and running in a watertight covering, filled with oil, which resulted in the al¬ most total elimination of iriction. When it was a matter of port 01 starboard the slightest power ap plied to the handle bar shitted tiie rudder instantly. If, however, u was a question of imparting a upward or downward direction, then fins attached to the boat s sides were brought into play by raising or lowering the handle bar, while the power generated by the pedals are applied to the screw, at forced the boat to take the 1 angle given it by the fins, , j pj ie t xtreme bow of the vessel ; ma( , e 0 f s t e el-rirnmed glass, of i efficient thickness and toughness to withstand ordtnar, In f ac t, the secret of making glass is a i iher of Templo's inventions. To prove its ability to defy hard knocks, he repeatedly struck the lantern, for such it really was, with a heavy hammer without in any way injuring tbe glass it was ma le of. Through this shine the ra > s in-in a powerful electric light. Rack of the i amp a nd on the oulside of t h e vessel on either side Templo carries a torpedo Sufficient- ly powerful to sink the heaviest battleship when properly placed it. a vulnerable spot beneath the ar mor and just below her machinery. These torpedoes show the same ingenuity which everywhere marks the construction of this wonderful machine, They are fitted first with wonderful magnets, which causes them to adhere to the hull of a vessel, but for fear this may fail, two rudder suckers will make doubly sure of their adherance. The explosion is secured by means of clock-work, which the operator can regulate to any time sufficient to enable him to get safely a wav after attaching the torpedoes to the vessel which he intends todes troy. In the interior, to the rear of the lamp, are stored chemicals through which the air breathed by the op¬ erator is passed, cooled and made fit to again be breathed. Tetnplo declares that he will have ample air and light for a continuous im¬ mersion of more than six hours. He also called attention to an ar¬ rangement whereby thedriving ap¬ paratus could be folded up along¬ side the leaden keel for the sake of storage or when the boat might temporarily prefer to depend upon walking upon the bottom for loco motion. Tetnplo will offer his invention to the Cuban junta for use against the Spanish cruisers now patrolling the coast of Cuba.—[New- York Journal. Something about Partridges. Among the habits of a partridge one is that when a covey is roost¬ ing on the ground, with their tails bunched together in a circle, the bunch is surrounded by a line of watchful heads, like sentinels on duty Another is that they run the instant the ground is touched after a “flush,” the dogs often trailing them in rabbit hunting evidently verv acute, for during the nesting season, if the eggs which number from io to 20, are disturbed in any way, or a hand even inserted in the nest, it will tie immediately deserted and anew one built. A short time previous to the nesting the males are often involved in desperate combats for the choice of mates; who stand b> and quietly watch the encounter, seeming not to care which one be comes the victor. The incubation is performed entirely by the female, tue male, when not feeding, often being perched upon some slight evation, encouraging her by hi mellow toned call of “bob white.” Two and sometimes three broods of y oung are reared during a sea s >n, tue nesting beginning as early as May 1. Later in the fall the broods occasionally join forces, bu. whether from a want of company or for protection is not known. When feeding, the birds are some¬ times scattered several yards apart, but at the first sign of danger ai. alarm is given and they immedi¬ ately “bunch,” with their heads placed close together as it in con¬ sultation. The first shot into a covey will often cause them t< break and fly in all directions, and if not disturbed again for several minutes “scatter calls t 1 will be heard on every side. These are made to collect the remaining birds, who again bunch Many ot the market gunners seem to have no qualms of conscience and very often kill without hesitation an entire covv, when at least one or two pairs of birds should be left for breeders.—[Baltimore Sun. Mr. Allen Flemming, of Augus¬ ta, bought last week, the oldest bale of cotton in the world. It was grown by a Mr. Watts in 1842, in Laurens county, S. C., and was set aside from the balance of his crop to pay his burial expenses in case he should die destitute, But he was in good financial shape when he died, and the cotton was transmitted by will to the present day It was snowy white, without the yellow tinge. J OB PRINTING A Highest of ail in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report RpyaJ sss ABSOLUTELY PURE Finance in Sunday Schools. - The Sunday school needed mon ey, and Mr. Smart, the superin tendent, had a new way of getting it. He proposed giving each boy half a crown. At the end of a month the principal, together with what it earned, was to be returned to him. The scheme was good, but it didn’t work quite as well as Mr. Smart had anticipated. The fourth Sunday found the superintendent ready to audit the profit and loss accounts, and he commenced with Johnnie’s class. ; i < How have you done, Johnnie?’’ < t My half crown has earned an other one,’’said Johnnie, with the air of oiie having an option on a halo. “Good!” said the superintend ent. “Not only is Johnnie a good boy in helping the school, but he shows business talent. Doubling one’s money in a single month re quires no common ability. Who can tell but what we may have an other budding Croesus among us?” Johnnie, you have done well ; and now, Thomas, how much has your crown earned ?” 1 1 Lost it, »y said Thomas. 4 ( What!” Not only failed to earn thing, but actually lost!” said Mr. Smart. “How w is that?” “I tossed with Johnnie, ) » was the reply, “and he won.”—[Lon¬ don Tid-Bitts. — -t A Curious Creiature of the strangest of animal, fish or bird kind was caught herein Ame¬ lia river yesterday with a hook, and line by a colored fisherman that has been seen in this part of the country, It is truly a peculiar specimen, and is a prize for some museum, which, if they secure it, will have one of the rarest (what is it) ever seen, The man who caught this fish, animal or bird has sold it to Mr. D. N. Disben nett of this city, who prizes it as a curiosity. J He has been offered for it, and has packed it tor , 50 up shipment to have it stuffed, so that it can be exhibited to the public, This bird, fish or animal is about and has head . , d , two teet long, a a " face that looks much like a human, with a mouth or bill something like that of a small dog. It has wings or flappers that start Irom the top of its head and extend to the legs, which are about six in ches long, with feet that resemble a mop 1 011 the end of a stick. There only two legs. 1 he tail .... is are about eight inches long and curls over the back. It is brown in col OT, and a very peculiar looking ob ject. Mr Disbennett says this specimen is worth a few hundred dollars, and he expects to sell it as soon as mounted, and expects to get a good price for it. Nothing of this kind has ever been caught in this river before, but it is said that there was one caught in Tampa bay some years ago, and that it is being exhibited over the country in a museum. It may ot be that w« shall need these toiiifieaiions for tu ny years to cotne, i>nd ihc stronger we make them the less likelihood of their being assaulted Inn wc do not know ! w but cb.y they m «> be needed, We b *vo several limes of late been criti caiiy close 10 interna ional trouble and when we need works of thai kind we need them badly, In peace prepare for war and mi prepare that vour adversaries will hesitate to at tack >ou. Fol¬ these reasons ttie governors ot ad ihc southern states should either attend the Tampa meeting or see lhai (heir slates are properly represented — ll"Uiton Post, D. m Subscribe for the Star. “The best oyster experts that I know of,’’ said the captain of the oyster boat, “judge an oyster by the smell instead of the taste. 1 There is something about the smell of any oyster that indicates its condition to me much plainer than does the taste. People buy them and eat them probably on ac¬ count of their taste. So, also, do they buy tea, coff. e and the va rious grades of whisky and brandy for their taste, but all experts on those things pass upon their smell, The professional tea taster or whisky taster, so-called, never tastes them, but simply arrives at their taste by their peculiarities of flavor, or to speak plainly, smell. “I can always tell what price a load of oysters will be rated at when they arrive at the wharf here by opening up) the hold of the boat and smelling. In eight cases out of ten 1 am right. It strikes oys terinen as strange when they see persons going about from boat to boat, as they lie at the wharf, tasting oysters before they con elude to buy. Taste is all right, but if they don’t smell right they will taste right, > > never Tho use of flowers for food was a novelty in our matter of fact coun¬ try under our so called newer civi¬ lisation when Mrs. Cleveland took np the graoeful custom of serving flowers in salads. In truth, this is but a small part of tho use that can be made of flowers as food. If our ambitious housewives in the semitropio regions of the south of California and Florida would the northern marxer, nrey wrarami a good business. There is always a steady demand for the French can¬ died flowers. Where the violets of Grasse, France, are grown, all the old and stale violets are sold to man¬ ufacturers of confectionery. In Rou mania violets, roses and lime flow¬ ers are utilized largely for flavoring preserves of different kinds. The most esteemed sherbet, in Egypt is prepared by pounding violots and boiling them in sugar. This violet sherbet is of a green color and is called the “ grand signor’s slier bet. ’ ’ Rosebuds boiled in sugar and made mto a preserve are eaten by 1 Arabian women. Rose petals are oftn( j^ e q violets, and so likewise j , ira jasmines. The common, yellow pond lilies make deliglitul preserves, and from them the Turks prepare a cooling drink. These flowers have a , porfum0 j ike that of brandy and Donee are sometimes called “brandy bottles.” The petals of roses thrown upon cold lisht wine float away from the lips in drinking. Every lover of | CQol aml fragrant beverages heated knows t De luxury of plunging the face into a bunch of fragrant green 1 imnt - I A scientific publication recently sa ^ t jjat by means of niusioal vibra ; t j ous f ornJa of flowers and trees oan bo produced upon sand and semi ; liquid substances. Imagine the pleas¬ ure of seeing the image of a flower grow to the sound of musioal notes while one enjoys the delicate flavor an( j O( j or 0 f the daintiest of nature’s products. flavor and AH flowers of pleasant semisolid substance,like the camellia and orange flower, can be used in sa ] a q 8t preserves and sweet fritters. Not oply must the form and fla vor of foods be considered, but also I the nature of the elements they bring mto the system, the proper proportion of chemical substances and their laxative or constipating nature, for we do not require of either too concentrated or too bulky a nature. It requires also a due ad¬ mixture of foods. Thus pure albu¬ men is not desirable. -We may be ! m; tde to starve on cheese. Experi ments as to the relative solubility of animal and vegetable albumen, even if oorrectly conducted, may be in the highest degree deceptive. The amount of albumen which we daily require is relatively small and needs a large quantity of respiratory food to be tuken with it. The latter is of various kinds, which differ very much in the rapidity of their action. For instanoe, staroh is slow and alcohol is quick in producing ita effect as a supporter of combustion. If more albumen be taken than ia required, the excess ia necessarily not digested. Nature takes what she I requires and leaves the’rest.—Juliet j Carson in New York Flowers.