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TIMELY TOPICS,
The total length of submarine cables
i* about 68,000 miles. Each cable con¬
tains an average of forty strands of wire,
so that altogether there are over 2,500,
000 miles of wire used in their construc¬
tion, or ten times the distance from the
earth to the moon. Practically all this
has been laid within the last twenty-five
years; the greater part within a decade.
According to the Ephemeris an exami
nation of 8,726 prescrip tions in a Boston
drug store showed th at 504 different
drugs Quinine were took called the lead for by by appearing the doctors.
in
39 to prescriptions, bromide of potassium morphine appeared iodide iu
17 uo in 171,
of potassium in 150, and muriate of iron
in 144. The whole number of articles
in the phermacopceia half is 904, and Boston
uses more than of them.
According to a recent issue of a relia¬
ble scientific journal earthquakes have
occurred once in about every twelve days
somewhere in Canada or in the United
States, the Atlantic coast being visited oa
an average about once a month. These
shocks occurred during the period between
1872 and 1883, and were frequently of
so light a nature as to be delicate detected only
by the scisometer, a very instru¬
ment designed for that purpose.
An observing philosopher contradicts
the prevailing interferes theory with that physical mental beauty. ac¬
tivity
He says: A handsome man, or woman
either, who does nothing but live well or
8elf-indulgently of the grows flabby, and but all the
fine lines features are lost; the
hard thinker has an admirable sculptor
always at work keeping his fine lines in
repair, and constantly going over his
face to improve the original design.
Transfusion of blood has_been success¬
fully tried in the collapse of cholera by
a member of the Paris faculty of medi¬
cine. The patient, who was moribund
when the remedy was tried, recovered
$rom the death coma in a few minutes,
and, from the moment of the transfusion,
spontaneously and rapidly improved.
Human blood was employed in the case;
but experiments are to be made with the
blood of domestic animals, particularly
sheep and cattle.
No hotel keeper in India dare receive
a native guest, through fear of losing India his
custom. In still Bengal and Northern and native
things are whatever worse, his rank, no
gentleman, character be, visit place age or of
may can a
public resort frequented by Englishmen,
especially if it be in a native dress, with¬
out a certain risk of insult and rough
treatment. Railway traveling is no¬
toriously dangerous for them in this re¬
spect, and men of high position are often
openly insulted by the guard and told to
make” room for an English traveler by
leaving the car.
From recent cable dispatches the limit
of taxatiou has been reached in Russia.
The ordinary and the extraordinary ex
penditure for 1883 reached the sum of
$400,000,000, which is an enormous sum
when the wealth of the population This is is
taken into consideration, sum
mainly laid out for military purposes.
The peasants are unable to pay the per¬
sonal and land taxes, the customs dirties
are yielding less, though most of the
duties have been increased, and general
discontent reiens throughout the empire. the
The national debt at the close of
year aggregates $2,172,500,000, aud what
is worse, it is increasing rather than de¬
creasing.
The Chicago Tribune declares that the
professional beauty and actress, Airs.
Langtry, has sent instructions to her
agent to buy for her out and out the
house she formerly lived in at Thirteenth
street, New Y T ork, if it can be obtained
at a reasonable price. She states that
she has determined finally to become an
American. There is an agent of hers
"already on the lookout for a piece of
Newport property, where she will take
up her summer residence aud probably
her official one, because she has not
abandoned the idea of her divorce suit,
and has been assured that divorces are
easier iu Rhode Island than in New
York.
Glass has been in use from so remote
a period of antiquity, and has so inti
mately associated itself with the progress
of civilization that it is not surprising to
find improvements in its manufacture as
often as the necessity for them has
arisen. From the paintings found by
Wilkinson at Beni-Hassan, it appears
that the art of glass blowing Sometimes was known
at least 3,200 dealing years ago. with the mate- new
processes in raw
rials have produced desirable and some
times startling results. It is said that
some Anglo-German manufactures have
recently turnei out g ass as s rong an
iHub^^d^
parari ely u„i.t „rWi.i at-ura rtmnt lanin it
“S‘.rtte€“o7 „ and water nines is
‘ ?
iren. «u»•>»» ^»"«-»“■» -*»;
The fact that the old, the poor and
the over-fatigued people^to are more subject than
other the attack of cholera
notorious But that men, and especially
unmarried men, are much more prone to
the disease than women has only now
been pointed out for the first time, in
the official report ou the cholera recently
published at Paris, bv M. Bertillion
This authority states "that during the
month of Novemder 561 men died of
cholera at Paris, and only 379 women.
The following statistics show the differ
cnee between the deaths of married men
of all ao-es ° from cholera:
Married Unmarried
men. men.
From the age of 25 to 30. 18 51
From the age of 30 to 35. 21 78
From the age of 35 to 40. 40
From the age of 40 to 45... .44
From the age of 45 to 50... .47 83
From the age of 50 to .55... .37 1B7
From the age of 55 to 60... .57 86
From the age of 60 to 65.... 46 117
From the age of 65 to 70....46 80
From the age of 70 to 75... .46 55
Cocaine chloride, the new ansesthetic
which produces unconsciousness only in
the locality of the bodv to which it is
annlied is cornin'* into active use. The
swelling on General Grant's tongue, which
it was "feared might be cancerous, has
been greatlv reduced bv the use of this
new remedv \ physician of Vienna.
Flrisch- declares that it will cure
rapidlv and painlessly the effects of bad
habits'in tbeexcesriv'e use of morphine
and a’cohol The “patient” is the* deprived
of the drure or the liquor and terri
ble nervous prostration whjph ha l alwavs
foffowed the abaodonmentof these stim
riant* D prevented bv hypodermic in
effected wtinns of cocaine ^ chloride -V cure about is
cacc.iu in m ic. The trouble
it L VCrwu p^lple'f ^uleV that too bad. tfccv
be cured wL-n tkv get
will become reckless in the use of opium
and liquor. The draw, however, is very
expensive, and those tempted to dissi¬
pation should remember that if they
spend all their money indulging in their
bad habits they will have none left to
spend for the cure.
Foints About the Peaunt.
A scientific journal having recently
said that the manufacture of oil from
peanuts was destined to draw on' the
crop to such au extent that the nuts
would become a scarce article of trade as
a food nut in the near future, a New
York Sun reporter asked a wholesale
dealer in peanuts for further information
on the subject.
“There isn’t a pint of peanuts made
into oil in this country that I know of,
and never will be as long as the greasy
cottonseed holds out,” he said. “Before
they began to make cottonseed oil pea
nuts were used largely in manufacturing olive
an oil that was used in place of
oil, and during the war a great deal
of the illuminating lubricating oil
used in the South was made
from peanuts, the entire crop be¬
ing used for the purpose. The making indus¬
of peanut oil was a very extensive
try in France for many years before the
introduction of cottouseed oil, and in
those days at least fifty per cent, of the
oil imported by us as olive oil was either
pure oil of peanut or olive oil adulter¬
ated with peanut oil. France makes
considerable peanut oil yet, and America
is the chief buyer of this cottonseed product, and oil,
we eat it as well as our
when we eat oil at all, in nine-tenths of
the restaurants and imagine it is the chiefly gen¬
uine olive grease. The nut now
used in France for oil making is the
African ground nut which all through and
tropical Africa is largely raised is
used, cooked or Taw, as food. It is ex¬
ported in large quantities to France from
Guinea and Angola. It is richer in oil
by one-third than the peanut, and is put
ou the Marseilles market cheaper by half
than the American nut can be sold there.
The peanut lover need have no fear for
the future of the popular shell fruit.”
Color-Blindness.
It has not been the duty of the writer
to investigate cases of accident which
might have been caused by defects of
sight, but he has been assured by offi¬
cials that a solution will hereafter be
found in them for those hitherto insolu¬
ble mysteries where men, otherwise
credible, have so flatly contradicted
themselves and the circumstances of the
case. By one prominent officer he was
told that, being upon a train accident, at night, he
delayed by some slight and, going
himself took a red lantern, a
proper distance back, placed himself on
the track in the way of an on-coming
train, but, finding his light not observed
he was compelled to dash it into the
cab to attract the engineer’s attention, col¬
and arrest him in his progress to a
lision. Upon the examination of another
engineer, his superior officer being pres¬
ent and convinced of his color-blindness
remarked that, but a short time before,
the man had run into the rear of a train
properly protected by a red light in the
hands of a brakeman some distance in
the rear, that the most careful investiga¬
tion had resulted only in the suspension
of the brakeman for not having gope satis¬ far
enough back, but that he was now
fied that the color-blindness of the engi¬
neer had been the real cause of the acci¬
dent. Some slight or minor accidents
recently led to the discovery that another
engineer tesled had by some oversight not been his
in his division, and this led to
examination and detection there, and to
his conviction by the writer as color¬
blind. Still another case now presents
itself: An engineer some time ago ran
over and killed a brakeman, holding a
danger signal on the track in front of
his engine, and no satisfactory explana¬
tion could then be given; but the divi- •
sion examiner predicted that he would
probably be found color-blind, and on
his examination this proved Monthly. to be the
case .—Popular Science
English Fairs.
The provincial fair of England is a
survival of an ancient religious custom.
In early times, when England observed
saints’ days, a crowd of worshipers and
pilgrims used to assemble within the pre¬
cincts of a church or abbey during the
festival of a popular saint. To supply
th e w ants of the throng, tents were
pitched and stalls for Peddlers provisions set up
jn the churchyard. and tra
q ers found many customers among the
worshipers, nnd in course of time these
pj ous assemblies became marts of trade
were known as “fairs.”
Many odd customs associated with
English fairs illustrate the social life of
Englishmen, centuries ago. The open
;is G f th e f a i r j n several English towns
W announced by hoisting a large glove
j n a conspicuous fair' place. could When be held there without was
a ]aw that no
a royal permission, the king used to send
his fflo toatownagatokeaofhls
C0 ? JS,e °7’
t In L 1 ^? 001 , a , han< ^ , "' as exhibited m .
ssrsowra, “. u .
the town s preeinctG.
b'v fouFvoke dn g was drawn’ tZoZTxhl
town *° a’ distributed^to ofoxen andafter
' ar dicn£ ^400 the crowd Iu in
ho re nd"ofTeef were pounds of flour 170
U suet ref’ 140 Bounds boiled of rai
bfewerscoouerthreedals and 240 eg It was in a
I vZth's Cor^pJrdon and irehts
> oxdh» (ompamon.
A Marriage * Ceremony Ceremony.
The celebrated wit, Dean Swift, after
he had gone to bed one night was called
up by a runaway couple, who wished to
be married. He told them as he leaned
from his upper chamber window that he
was undressed, and as they were probably
in a hurry on account of a threatening
storm, if for no other reason, that he
j would He marry the them where preliminary they stood,
! put necessary ques
tions, and then proceeded:
Un-ler this window in Stormrr w together; P *th*r
I marry this man and woman
Let none but Him who rules the (hander
Put this man and woman asunder.
Largest Han 0 in 0 Rail Bell.
^ The largest hanging fccil in the world
is in a Buddhist monastery near Canton,
China. it is eighteen feet high and
forty-five feet in circumference, and is
of s01ld bronze. It is one of eight great
bells which were cast by command oi
the Empercr Yunglo about A. D. 1400,
and is said to have cost the lives of eight
rcen . wh o were killed during the process
of casting. The whole bell, both inside
ont. is covered with an inscription
in embossed Chinese characters about
baif an inch long, covering even the
handle, the total number being 84,000.
rh e characters teil a single story—one of
the C hinese classics.
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Virtue will catch as well as rice by
contact; and tbe public stock of honest.
manly principle will daily accumulate.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES,
Snore Off.
“John, I thought you swore off,” said
a Fourth street woman to her husband
the other evening.
“That’s right. I did.”
“Well, you took a drink of beer to¬
night. I can smell it on your breath.”
"That one doesn’t count,” he replied.
Next day she shone forth resplendent
in a new bonnet.
“Mary," expostulated the husband,
“I thought you swore off buying bonnets
without my permission.”
“Yes, I know,” she replied, archly,
“but this one doesn't count .—Breakfast
Table.
The Tables Turned.
Mr. Tattersall and Charles Mathews,
the elder, were very intimate, nnd the
great comedian was frequently in the
habit of accompanying his friend to
Newmarket, where, on one occasion,
Mathews indulged in his well known
taste for mimicry, at the expense of Mr.
Tattersall, during a sale of blood stock
conducted by the latter. “The first lot,
gentlemen,” said Mr. Tattersall, “is a
bay filly by Smolensko." echoed “The first lot,
gentlemen," Mathews, in pre¬
cisely the same tone of voice, “is a bay
filly by Smolensko.” The auctioneer
looked somewhat annoyed, but pro
ceeded. “What shall we say to begin
with?” “What shall we say to begin
with?” oring replied the his other. vexation, Still Mr. endeav¬
to conceal Tat¬
tersall inquiringly called out, “One hun¬
dred guineas?” “One hundred guineas,”
echoed Mathews. “Thank you, sir,”
cried Mr. Tattersall, bringing down the
hammer with a bang: “the filly is
yours I” Mathews was considerably
taken aback by his sudden acquisition of
“blood stock,” and the company en¬
joyed the joke immensely.
She Thought She Knew.
The other day, one of the boys who
pack their grips and go out into the wide
world to talk country merchants to death,
was riding in one Alton of the railroad, elegant trains when of
the Chicago and a
pretty country lass boarded the train at
a small station. She had not been long
in her chair, when she turned half around
and peered quizzically if info the “I faces wish of I
the passengers, as to say:
could get acquainted and with the some drummer of those
nice young men,”
winked at her, and she smiled at the
drum—commercial tourist, and then he
went down where she was and said:
“Excuse me, miss, but I believe I have
met you before. ”
“ Well, I guess we were both before,
if we ever met—I before you and you be¬
fore me,” the saucy young thing the merchant replied.
“Ah! Oh! Perhaps “I so ”
traveler stammered. cannot remem¬
ber where it was, however.”
“Let—me—see!” said she, slowly
and reflectively. “Oh, yes. I visited
the jail in Pontiac last summer.”
The merchant traveler subsided very
hard .—Through Mail.
A Preaching Touruay.
Old, but good, is the story told of the
young preachers who were discussing
the subject of off-hand sermonizing,
when an old gentleman declared he al¬
ways preached extempore and trusted to
the occasion for inspiration. A young
man declared he never did, but preferred
carefully preparing his sermons and com¬
mitting" them to “the memory. “Pshaw,” don’t
said the old man, reason you
preach extempore is btcause you can’t.”
“Well,” replied the young man, “I’ll
teil you what I’ll do. Next Sunday
we’ll both preach extempore. I’ll preach
in the morning from any text you give
me, and you preach in the afternoon
from the text I’ll give you, and we’ll
see who does the best.”
Agreed. The affair got noised abroad,
and a crowded house greeted the the pulpit, young
preacher as he went into
and the old man passed up the text,
from a verse in Numbers: “Aud the
Lord opened the mouth of the ass.” The
young preacher pitched in and graphi¬
cally described the kinds and breeds of
asses, their usefulness, good and bad
traits, and drew a moral and adorned a
tale from all he knew of asseology. The
sermon was a success. Evening pulpit, came,
and the old preacher ascended the
and the young one sent up the text from
the next verse in Numbers: “Am not I
thine ass?” The old gentleman rubbed
his glasses and adjusted them, read the
text to himself, then took off his glasses
again and rubbed them and read the text
aloud. Then he coughed and looked
around at the audience, for the meeting
house was packed, readjusted his glasses, and,
coughed and repeated the text
bending over the pulpit, said: “^® 8 t
brother, I guess I am.” Cincinnati r.n
quirer.
A Joke on a Conyrswman.
Th C omrressmen arc Quite like other
p g' eop y i e says i a Washington g. letter to the.
. They enjoy
their little jokes and like to rap one an
ot her on what may seem tender spots,
ra. -tE&rs&s‘Was stra
whiskered man ia the House.
Ridi "S U P t0 the ca P it0 > in a bobtai ‘
car a day or two ago were Robertson . f and
? f rom ? be West. °£ They er were ml:rabere pass,ng ’ mo jokes f y
a Promiscuous way, killing rime them as
tbc raw-boned car horse dragged
slowly up the hill
“ l don 1 know wbe her T* /
of it, gentlemen,” said one of the party,
“but they have a law out in Kentucky
quite peculiar to the State, and which
has made my friend Robertson here quae
famous in a certain way. it is rather a
peculiar law,” he continued, as every- ladies
body in the car, including some look
who chanced to be along, began to “and
toward Robertson wish interest,
is, in brief, that any woman who may
be sentenced to be Banged may be par
doned if anybody will, at the last mo
ment, come forward and marry her. It It
happened,” happened,” he he continued continued with with some some
gusto, g u8t0 - as as the thc interest interest began began to to grow grow
more intense intense and and Robertson Robertson began began to to of
grow more embarrassed embarrassed as as tne the center center of
observation, “that a woman was to be
hanged there one day At the last mo
ment, when they had her upon the cart
under the gallows, the usual question
was asked whether there was any man
there who would save her from death by
marrying her. Robertson was there, and,
tender-hearted fellow that he is came to
the front and said, ‘Yes. I will. The
woman was blindfolded. She was told
of the offer, and began, naturally, to ask
for a description of the man she was to
marry to escape death. They described
h.m as well as tnev could—his age his
size, his shapely band and exquisite foot,
and manly form when suddenly she
asked the co.or of hts hair and beard,
An attendant drived whispered the truth in her
ear. ’Then the kyart pleaseri
she said, and that ended Robertson s
matrimonial ventures ”
There was a roar of laughter » . which
Robertson, who knows how to take a
joke, joined, and the crowd hurried out
as the car reached the foot of the Capi¬
tol steps.
Margaret Laiubruu.
The death of Mary Queen of Scots so
affected one of her letinue, that he died
soon after of grief, leaving his widow,
Margaret Lambrun, who became so in¬
furiated inconsequence, that she resolved
to revenge the death of both upon the
person of Queen Elizabeth. To accom¬
plish her purpose, she dressed herself as
a Spark,’ man assumed the name of Anthony
and attended at the court of
Elizabeth with a pair of pistols, with
one of which she intended to kill the
queeD, and with the other to shoot her¬
self, should she be discovered. One day,
as she was pushing through the crowd
in order to get to her majesty, she acci¬
dentally dropped one of her pistols. the
This being observed by ono of
guards, she was immediately seized. The
queen interfered, and desired to examine
the culprit. She accordingly demanded
her name; to which Margaret, with
undaunted resolution, replied, “Mad¬
am, though I appear before you
in this garb, yet I am a woman. My
name is Margaret Lambrun. I was sev¬
eral years in the service of Mary, a death, queen
whom you have unjustly put the to best of
and thereby who deprived could me not of survive the
husbands, catastrophe of his innocent mis¬
bloody His is hardly dear
tress. memory more
to me than that' o'f my injured queen;
and regardless of consequences, I deter¬
mined to revenge their death upon you.
Manv, but fruitless were the attempts
made to divert me from my purpose. I
found myself constrained to prove by
experience the truth of the maxim, that
neither reason nor force can hinder a
woman from vengeance, when she is im
polled to it by love.”
Highly ns the queen had cause to resent
this speech, she heard it with coolness
and moderation. “You are persuaded, in this
then,” said her majesty, “that
step you "your have done nothing What but
what duty required. “Is that
think you is my duty to you?”
question put in the character of a queen,
or that of a judge?” inquired Margaret, Eliza¬
with the same intrepid firmness. in that of
beth professed “Then,” to her continued it was Lambrun, a
queen. “it is majesty’s duty grant
your to me a
pardon.” “But what security,” demand¬
ed the queen, “can you give me, that
you will not make the like attempt upon
some future occasion?” “A favor ceases
to be one, madam, ” replied Margaret,
“when it is yielded under such restraints;
in doing so, your majesty would act
against me as a judge.” her tiers,
Elizabeth, turning have to com thirty
exclaimed, “I been a queen
years; I never had such a lecture read
to mo before.” She then immediately
granted an unconditional pardon opposi¬ to
Margaret Lambrun, though in
tion to the advice of her council.
A Novel Crow Hunt.
It is well known that crows, buzzards,
ravens and other similar birds attack all
owls, even the largest, in tho day time,
as they are well aware that the bright
daylight blinds owls to such an extent
that it is impossible for them to defend
themselves; and for this reason the
huntsman uses a chained owl for attract¬
ing crows and other birds that ho wishes
to destroy. The owl is chained on an
upright post or rod provided with a
crotch or small platform on which the
bird sits. This post or rod is connected
with a rope or chain passing over suita¬
ble pulleys and extending to a hut, so
that by pulling the rope or chain the sup¬
port or platform on which the owl rests
can be moved up and down, thus causing
the owl to move about, flap his wines,
and create a commotion to attract the
other birds. A short distance from this
post a low shanty or hut is erected, the
side toward the post, qn which the owl
is chained, through being which provided with small of
openings, the be thrust. The the hut barrels should
guns can the
be erected at base of a large tree, as
many birds of prey prefer to take a short
rest before attacking their enemy, the
j owl.
A. short rime after . the ,, owl , has . been ,
chained, it is surrounded by a flying mob
that beg.na to bother and pester it, the
large birds being very bold and audacious
» their attacks, rho hunter m the
shanty or hat can take good aim and kill
a large number of birds in a very short
j time, for it seems that the killing of some
of the birds does not disturb the rest,
‘hose dispatched by the hunter are
immediately replaced by others .-Sctcn
W lc American.
A Gnrc lor Corns,
A young man on the smoking car
pulled tired feet. off his He tight complained boots and bitterly rested his of
his suffering with corns.
“Corns, eh,” ejaculated a gray-haired
man. “Suffer, do you? Well, I don’t
U pity you much. has himself About thani. every man that
corns to If peo
pie will pinch their feet and cramp their
toes and wear shoes so short that every
sxssssm stsj'.ssk
irv
man, but I can tell you howto get rid
of corn3 ’ Sa - v ’, do r cad? ”
“Of course I T read What t has „ that (
g°t “A t° good J‘th dea corns?" When you get home
.
take a novo or book you are much inter
ested in Put a kettle of_ water on tho
kitchen stove. Put y our reel in a bucket
° f " FT?" St ? d Kead
your book. i u Add hot wa er to your
bucket once in a win e to keep it hot,
taking the cold water out. Keep on
reading. Sit there two hours and a
half. Occasionally take your feet out
and scrape your corns with a knife.
Don t do violence to them. Don t cut
or haggle. Scrape off the loose part
only. Don’t be in a hurry about it. The
water will soften your corns and you can
gently remove them. It is foolish to cut
corns or abuse them. But But sit sit there there two two
hours hours and and a a half. half. Don’t Don’t be be satisfied satisfied
with with an an hour. hour. Three Three hours hours is is better better
than than two two hours. hours. Do Do as as I I tell tell you, you, wear wear
sensible sensible shoes shoes and and you’ll you’ll have have no no more more
corns corns. .”—Chicago —Chicago lleral/l. Herald.
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Stopping Vibrations.
In an establishment where numbers of
sewing machines am used there was
much annoyance from the ring and sing
ing of the machines in motion. The
manager raised them from the floor, and
put slips of rubber under tne legs. The
device was useless, and bits of lead were
substituted with no relief.
An intelligent drilled mechanic was called in
and he holes in the legs, and
even in the tables of the machines, coun
tereunk them, introduced plugs of soft
bar lead, and riveted them iu. There
were no more noisy vibrations
To determine the place of the vibra
turn, he used an ordinary spirit level m
an iron case, and holding it against an
upright by the portion, change he dete' shape ted of the the W
uon in
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
If an American boats his mother, he is
ined for an assault. In China his head
kould be taken off.
Amo g the Arabs (he belief is prov¬
ident that washing the face is simply an
Indirect form of suicide.
At an egg eating match at Peterbor¬
ough, Canada, a short time since, one
man forty. ate The forty-one eggs and the other
eggs were raw and taken
from a basket in a grocery store. The
basket was emptied, and the winner said
be could eat a dozen more.
The word “hurrah” was used by the
Eastern nations as a war cry. Tha term
is Slavonic and signifies “to Paradise,”
sad was used in the belief that each man
tvho had died in battle while serving
his country went to heaven. The orig¬
inal form of the word was "hurrej.”
Max Muller shows in a magazine arti¬
cle that many tribes called savages pos¬
sess a large inherited treasure of knowl¬
edge and thoughts; the Fuegians, for
example, whom Darwin considered the
lowest of human beings, possessing an
elaborate language with 30,000 words.
A peculiar article produced by the
negroes of Georgia is called by them
persimmon bread. Five pounds of it, it
is said, will make nearly a barrel of
agreeable and non-intoxicating beer.
The persimmons are gathered when
till thoroughly it ripe, the mass is kneaded bread
is of the consistency of
dough, made into a cake, and then put
into an oven and baked. It will keep
all winter, and can be used until late in
the spring.
The artificial limb department is a
government branch which is little known
about. According to a Washington with
paper it fits out war veterans new
sets of arms, legs or other apparatus
every five years. During the last live
years 18,000 veterans have applied however, for
repairs, who have the choice,
between repairs and the money equal to
the repairs. The allowance for a leg is
$75; for anything less than a leg, $50.
Heads are not furnished, but parts of
heads, jaws and sections of the skull are
supplied.
A French arrangement for beards when
just starting is very much used. It re¬
sembles a sling made of rubber. The
rubber is made to fit the jaw aud chin.
The seam in the middle goes where the
beard is to be parted. When a man
uses it he must put a little wax on lvis
chin whiskers and tie the strings of tko
sling behind his ears. The pressure of
the rubber pulls hack the beard, so it
sets toward the ears, just in the right
shape for a dudo whisker, Of course
the rubber has to be worn several nights
before the job is complete.
George Lawson, of D&lhousic college,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, writes as follows
on wasps as as fly-killers: “ In this part
of the world wasps enter dwellings and by
the open windows in summer time,
hunt flies unmercifully, leaving the dead
in hundreds on the floors, ready to bo
swept into a dustpan. This occurs only
in the country, and whero wasps’ nests
are near by.” Westwood quotes from
St. John’s “Letters to an American
Farmer” that, “ The Americans, aware
of their (wasps’) service in destroying
flics, sometimes suspend ft hornets’ nest
in their parlors.”
Telegraphic Messages from Spirits.
Cleveland has for its size, perhaps, in more the
millionaires than any other city
United States says a letter in the Phila¬
delphia Press. Their big palaces their bank lino
Euclid avenue for miles anil
accounts are the wonder of the State
of Ohio. They are a curious set of fel
lows, too—most of them self made men,
nnd some full of cranks and oddities.
There is J. II. Wade, for instance, who
organized the Western Union Telegraph
company, and was for a long time its
president. 'He lives on the nabob side
of Euclid avenue, at, the corner of Case
and has the lawn tilled with statuary.
That big house next door belongs to his
grandson, built for him by Wtnle at a
cost of $100,000, and that red granite
mansion that is going up over there ho
is building for his granddaughter. When
Wade’s son died a few years ago it al
most broke his heart, and Spiritualist that
he is, he now holds communications
with him through the medium of the
telegraph. A man told me the other
day that Mr. Wade supports a medium
named Charles Watkins, and that he
letB him have a house on Woodland avo
UUC and gives him an allowance to use
in evangelizing the neighborhood, requires only in
payment for this he one
condition, and that is he lie granted between a
seance every Sunday morning time the
11 and 12 o’clock. At this
millionaire comes to the house of the
medium with a little ivory sounding tel¬
egraph instrument in his pocket. The
medium puts his fingers on this and goes
into a trance, whereupon the ghost of
Wade’s son speaks to his father by tele¬
graph through the medium’s fingers, an
swering his father’s questions and con¬
versing with him generally. Wade him¬
self is an expert telegrapher, but it is
said the medium knows nothing about
the art, Mr. Wade s wife is a Unitarian,
and she makes her husband give liber¬
ally to the church.
Fisli Dentistry,
The gist American of a story told by Seth Green
in the Angler is contained in
the following: faqua,ium “Chancing to glance window at
the fish ai in the
f con f ec , ioncrv establishment in
1{ochcster N y„ i noticed that all the
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fish but one bore scans of conflict. The
fish were California and brook trout,and
tbe injurie8 J were inflicted by one of the
U)m Itse emsthat one of the trout
wa9 o{ a 90ur , r)U a r re!somc disposition,
aad had | )ecn in the habit of worrying
tbe 0 ih cr s persistently. 1 suggested the
remova l 0 f the offending trout, such a. fellows we are
OCf . ag i on „i|y troubled by
amon( , the trout in the Caledonia fish
^ „onda aud the usual remedv is to spear
nfJ make an en ,i 0 f the would he dc
gtro .. cr 0 f his fellow-companions. One
these quarrelsome trout would other
w j S( . wound and cause the death of a
5 ari; ,. number of others. But the proprie
to r 0 | )ictte d to adopting the remedy sug
„ e9tedi and trouble continued to exist in
the aquarium. I revisited the establish
inent a day or two subsequently, i’rocur
ing a pair of pinchers I took the big
trout from the water and extracted its
)eeth an ,j those that could not be drawn
j cutdown with a knife, exercising as
much care possible, so as not to injure
tll0 fi#h bv handling. The offending fish
althou „h apparently none the worse for
the operation, ceased to attack his com
, wiu that tne teeth of
trout are not used for the mastication of
foo<1 b(lt are intended to aid the fish in
mainta i uin g b0 ld of its prey. Troutin
’ juariums have therefore no
pQnd9 an(J that
af . tlja) nced of teeth, for the reason
they are not obliged to seek their own
f 00 ,j. The experiment 1 expected but would I
£^ p C r -> ’ a th of the fish, was
* * 3 diiappointe ri d.”
Without economy none can be rich
with ecoa (T few need be poor.
W. J. POLLARD. JA8. L. ROBERTSON.
POLLARD & ROBERTSON,
Cotton Factors S Commission Merchants,
5^31 REYNOLDS ST, s AUGUSTA, GA
Manufacturers and General Agents for the following Machinery:
too A ciitc PMleeW*er» anti Clod Crnihers,
too Keapers, Different Makes and Styles (single or combined)•
*•> llubbard Gleaners and Binders (Independent).
85 'threshers and Scparttfors (various sixes and styles).
85 WfMertotcn Steam Engines (all sixes and styles).
80 fi As e, iooper & to. Steam Engines (all sixes and styles),
to Oneida Steam Engines (all sixes and styles).
75 Smith’s Band-Cower Cotton and Bay Dresses.
60 Dollard Champion Gins, Feeders and Condensers.
85 Keblett «t- Goodrich 1X1 7 Cotton Gins at 98 per Sau>.
to Xeblett «fc Goodrich second-hand MXIt Cotton Gins at $t.S9 909
Sate, in good order,
6 Kreible Engines.
>tta Silent Gan Engines, Com and Floor *1111 Machinery, Hancock Inspirators, Dean Steam P nrsg r
MUlburn Roller, breast Gins, Feeders nnd Condensers, Carver Seed Cotton Cleaners, NetreB
Cotton Seed Ilullcrs and Separators, Colt’e Power Cotton Presses, Fairbanks
Standard Scales, Shafting, Pulleys and Hangers, Steam and Water
Pipce, Votings, etc. Belting lacing. Hoes. etc., etc.
COTTON unx SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY.
A hit line of Machinery of nil kinds In stock and for sate low. Can and examine before pnMfeMhm
and save money.
Sand for catalogues. Correspondence solicited and promptly attended to.
«OLLARD A ROBERTSON, 731 Reynolds St.. Augusta, Oa.
J. L JARRELL, Crawford, Ga, Agent for all attire Machinery.
0. D. FLANIGEN’S
GHH3ST.A G
ATHENS, OA.,
It the place to find the most magnificent stock of Beautiful Goods tnd the handsomest Store In Athena
CUiina and Crockery of all Grades.
GLASSWARE FROM THE FINEST CUT TO THE CHEAPEST FHESSED
lamps of the Most Approved and Safest Datterns.
Tin Sets, AMU fare, Knifes and Forks, Woodenware, in enta Kaiietf.
FANCY GOODS
That sre scxnowledged to be better selected end cheaper than any in Northeast Georgia.
Appreciating the shortness of the crop, we have made onr prices to roll tight money. Cali sod see OP
C. !>• PLAN1GEN,
Opposite the Campus. ATHENS, CA.
Talmadge & Collins,
(SUCCESSORS TO W. A. TALMADGE
Invites the attention of Close Bnyoni to the Extraordinary Attractions presented at the
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Corner College Ave. & Clayton Street
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intelligent purchaser th# advantage or buying tholr
WATCHES. CLOCKS, JEWELRY, &C
From the Ilonse that offers the largest select on and lowest Prices, and as we bny for cash, nssesIL and in
lares quantities, direct from the Manufacturers, you will find it to your interest to give
We also make a specialty of repairing fine Watches, Clocks and Jewelry; and icom our ex
nerience, together wilb the latest Improved tools, and machinery, fcol con ldent of pro*
during the boat work at lowest prices possible. Don’t forgot the place,
TALMADGE & COLLINS Cor. Clayton St. & College Ave., Athene, C
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VGcorgia IRON&BRASS MINING&MILL SMITHING.
CASTINGS. ( MACHINERY, REPAIRING.
MILLGEARING SAWMILLS. 1 1 PAT ,J W 0 RK ,
STEAM ENGINES AND CIRCULAR SAW MILLS.
Improved Houtlmrn Ipowcfnnd Uver'ana’Brooks™ "v"'ivln l i l <^Uon , ?S*rfron 1 lLudiig, etc'*’
S/titmw “ 2 S? ^?}SulSaS* SIS fa-d. f£ ■team eett.ee.. MUlstonm,
f H08. fAILEY, Agent.
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, 34 LEONARD ST.. NEW
W. M. HOWARD,
Attorney at JL*»w
LEXINGTON, QA.
in the attend new Arnold building, next to poit
offlee. Will all Courts.
H. M’WCORTER,
Attorney at J^a>v
LEXINGTON, GA.
Office in old bank building, next to hotel W
practice in civil and criminal court*.
Notice to passengers.
riOMJItNCINO February Jet, 1881, and until
vy further notice, the Passenger Fare over tb«
Georgia Railroad, Main Line and branches, will
be *a follow.:
Agent’s Bate..........Three (3) cent* per mild
Train Kate............Four (4) cents per mile
Children between 5 and 12 yrs. half above rates.
Minimum rare, fur any distance, five (S) cents.
Paeaerigen* are hereby notified that if they fai!
to purchase Ticket* from the Station Agents,
•.boy will be charged Train rate*.
donductor* are net ticket nellor% and are noi
allowed to accept lea* than Train Rate* of font
cent* per mile. Therefore, to secure the advan¬
tage of the reduced ratoe, purchase your ticket*
before entering the train.
The Company reserve the right to change, oi
entirely abrogate theee rates, at pleasure DORSEY. ant
without notice. E. It.
General Paenenger Agent
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