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J||lSHED 1850.
DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1890.
TERMS, $1.50 A YEAR.
— RAvt i riw SIGNAL.
pR0 ViDENCE_e^_
niorfng of a Bell That Fro-
Kjst* r,oOS , a Railroad Accident.
ve ° .oilroad engineers and con-
A d°^ ff° a clian ce the other day
doctors JL haire d veteran of the
da n old g■ j He faad teen an engi-
reputation as a “mu-
seer xJS gone by, but bn account
TJ£* a*d eyesight was now
of faffing^ eagy berth * 3na
shops- S e ® a j the old Y. M. and B.
“It —JSL-he began. “I was
fif 4 2S5r, and took the first coach
j» 1^?° T got a good run—all day
w ’“' the Twas boldin’ her down as a
ff0 ^-aad lBont a year after we’d got
g^-T^ood business I had some ex-
to4° m d lost my turn for a;while,
trar®®® Sts all of the time. It was
BW tri P n ?fwas r feX* gS to S
to If^l fear washouts, so we kept
aa ^to‘c»?P re “5' welL il
yas
A Ctiy at the Bottom of the Sea.
The city authorities of Rovigno, on the
peninsula of Istria, in tlfe Adriatic sea
have discovered a little south of the
peninsula the ruins of a large town at
the bottom of the sea. It has been ob
served for some years that fishermen’s
nets were sometimes entangled in what
.appeared to be masses of masonry, of
which fragments were brought up from
the sea bed. A year Or two ago a diver
declared that he had .seen walls and
streets below the water.
The city authorities recently decided
to investigate. They sent down a diver
who, at the depth of eighty-five feet,
found himself surrounded at the bottom
of the sea by ruined walls. He says he
knows they were the work of mar, He
is a builder by trade, and he recognized
the layers of mortar.
Continuing his explorations he traced
the line of walls, and was able to distin
guish how the streets were laid out.. He
did not see any doors or window open
ings, for they were hidden by masses of
An ]
Incidentof tbe Wall Street Depression.
A man wealing a slouch hat, ill fitting
clothes and having the general appeal
ance of a countryman entered the office
of a.prominent Wall street broker.
‘ l8 v this h ere one of the places where
you buy stocks?’ he asked. He was in
formed that it was. No one. however,
was encouraged by his, appearance to
make a customer of him, He looked
around curiously for several minutes
and thensaid: “Well, I came in from
the country to buy some of them cheap
1 *i ead 111 the Papers that Jay
Gould was buying lots of railroads now
and he s pretty smart, I guess, and I’m
going to be with him.”
“But you can’t buy less than 100 shares
at a time,” he was told. “All right ” he
replied; “1 guess I can stand it if' the
rest can.”
On the
No. 2. We
but the machine I
bad a h to ‘get there,’ and I was
**
on S? take the siding. They‘swung
ca ^ d A .^d we side tracked, until the
“^wnt away. I was pretty warm
the time, and when we lit
°f JSre I polled her right up to the
£ md she went for all she was
*5; were making about forty-five
an how, and when we reached tbs
of Wildcat I worked steam aU
S y*v down. We were bout half
Syto'the creek when the bell rang. I
forked mighty quick, but it was down
Sand the rails were wet andldidnt
trimmed until the pilot was almost
Sftifbridge-or where the bridge
St to be—’cause when I stopped the
"Sjght was shining over a chasm,
bridge was washed away. Gad!
seaweed and incrustations. 'He traced
the masonry for a distance of 100 feet,
where he had to stop, as bis diving cord
did not permit him to go farther. He
had proved beyond a doubt that he had
found the ruins of a once inhabits
town which, through some catastrophe,
had been sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Some people think that they identify
this lost town with the island mentioned
by Pliny the Elder under the name ol
Chssa, near Istria. This island cannot be
found now, and it is thought that the
submerged town may have been a settle
ment on the island that so mysteriously
disappeared.—London Letter.
The
y on can tell just ’bout how I felt. 1
Croman nearly fainted, and I wasnt 1
S him. Well, after we steppe*! the
conductor, a smart chap with a fancy
lamp and a rubber collar, came arunnin
m wantin’ to know why I stopped. _
"Cause the hell rang. What did
you pull the rope for? I says.
«<i didn’t,’ says he.
“ ‘Well, who did?
«<No one,’ says he, hot like.
“ ‘Well, some one pulled it or I
wouldn’t a stopped,’ says L
“The ‘con’ looked at me a minute, and
just then the brakeman came up.
“ ‘Did you pull the rope, Joe? said the
‘con.’
“ ‘No,’ says Joe.
“Just of a sudden a thought struck
‘me,and I told the ‘brakey’ to ask the
porter. The ‘coon’ hadn’t pulled the
bell, and the passengers in his car were
all asleep gntil I jerked them endways
“ the‘air.’ I took the conductor
1 to the front end and showed him
B was scared to death, and
Nebraska Beet Sugar.
A sample of the first run of sugar from
a beet sugar factory situated at Grand
Island, Neb., which has been received
at this office shows this new product to
be as fine as any sugar sold in the mar
ket. It is of clear white, sparkling crys
tals, and sweet and pleasant to the taste.
It. cannot be told from the best quality
of cane sugar. A circular accompanying
it says that the factory has-a capacity, oi
350 tons of beets, or 275 barrels of gran
ulated sugar of the finest quality, ovei
99 per cent, pure, each twenty-four hours.
The factory is fitted with machinery
from France, where this industry had its
first development. Its success has been
so great that its capacity will he imme
diately doubled, and numerous factories
will he erected in the vicinity to produce
raw sugar for the refiners. The circulai
further says: “Unfortunately our season
proved to be the dryest known for seven
teen years, and some farmers failed tc
raise not only corn and small grains in
paying quantities, but beets as well.
Many, however, have raised crops which
show a profit of from $20 to $60 per acre,
and it may be truthfully asserted that
our farmers are jubilant and that the in
dustry has come “to stay.”—Watertown
Times'.
Wedon t take checks on out of town
banks, he was again informed. It was
thought that would settle the matter.
“Well,” he said, “I brought the money
along with me.”
Then began a wondrous display. Bills,
gold and silver coins came out of one
pocket after another. Trousers pockets
vest pockets, coat pockets, were all filled
with every variety of money. The hilig
were of a small denomination, and when
fee farmer had emptied his pockets a
large table was covered with money,
mostly of very old issue.
“They told me np country that I’d
better put money in every pocket, so if
them pickpockets got the best of me
they’d only get part of my savings.
There’s just $7,000. Count and see if
you don’t believe me. Now, yon just
go and buy some of them stocks old
Jay’s, been buying, and I’ll be around in
about a month and put my profits in
some more of the stocks. I ain’t slow,
you bet, and Tm in with Gould every
time, don’t you forget itl”—New York
Telegram.
A Non-Bursting; Fly Wheel.
In the works of the Mannesmann Tube
T, in England, there is a heavy
jeniously designed to be ab-
of burst-
company,
Old Fashioned Watch Chains.
Among the presents showered on
blushing brides this season figures the
old fashioned watch chain, more than a
yard long. After many years of sus
pending watches from chatelaines, from
short chains hanging from a brooch and
from ribbons secured by monograms;
after wearing them in breast pockets or
tucked into the bosoms of dresses with
short chain pendants; after carrying
•them in leathern straps or slipped into
the clasp of a bag or using them as deco
rations for the handles of parasols and
umbrellas, card cases and portemonnaies,
as clasps for bracelets or concealed be
neath a miniature in a brooch or behind
the heart of a floral pin—fashion hag
gone back to the ancient style of chain
thrown around the neck that our mothers
and grandmothers affected.
The new chains are very fine and gen
erally are divided at intervals of three
or four inches by pearls, turquoises or
garnets, strung like beads, or by small
diamonds, rubies, sapphires or moon
stones, set clear. As for the watch, it is
hidden in the folds of the dress or car
ried in a side pocket. It is small in size,
and the back should be encircled or en
tirely incrusted with gems similar to
those on the chain.—Paris Cor. Jewelers’
—
and everybody came out to
"We couldn’t find any
who gave the
of
a, says: .A
,ve families
end after we’d flagged back to The wheel consists of a
, tc from
the station I got to thinkin’ more and
more, and I came to the opinion that the
hell was rang by Providence. There
ms 150 people on the train, and if that
bell hadn’t rang I’d a took them all over
into the Wildcat, and dropped them
about one hundred feet into the water.
There wouldn’t be anybody left to tell
about it, either.
‘‘The superiutendent looked into the
thing after I reported, and had me and
Joe up ‘on the carpet’ twice, but we
both heard the bell, and swore to it.
Some chap got out a long explanation
that the bell rope was tight stretched,
and we struck a low joint coming down
the hill, when one end of the coach
sagged, and the rope being tight it rang
the bell, hut I don’t believe it. It was
Providence that did it, and I know it,
and I’ve never swore an oath since, and
never will’’-Kansas City Star.
which are securely bolted two circular
plates or disks of steel about twenty feet
in diameter. Round the periphery ol
the wheel thus formed about seventy
tons of No. 5 wire was tightly wound,
thus binding the whole securely togeth
er aud making a wheel that is practical
ly beyond possibility of breakage by
centrifugal power. The circumference
of this great wheel travels at the rate ol
2.85 miles per minute, about three times
as fast as the most speedy express trains.
—Philadelphia Record.
They Parted to Meet No More.
A clergyman called on a man who had
Just lost hia wife to offer him consola-
“Don t fret, my friend,” the clergy-
man said; “the time will soon come when
fun will meet her never to part again.”
hut parson,” said the man, “I’ve been
J^ed twice, and what I want to know
7' . '^ e aln I to meet ‘never to part
^•U' Or ;un I to meet both of them
ever to part again? It strikes me that,
so, it will be a hit awkward. Besides,
m my first wife, for she was a reg-
® > r wien.”
D--: clergy limn was puzzled what to
J’ , eD man suddenly brightened
‘ ^claimed, almost cheerfully:
"’Dl be all right, parson,
w., was such a downright bad
t think there’s much fear
Iba Economy of Electric Tractlor**
Mr. Cox, the borough surveyor ol
Bradford, England, havjpg been deputed
by that city to make investigations with
a view of ascertaining the best system
of street car traction, has made a valu
able report on the subject. He speaks
in the highest terms of the work of the
accumulators on tli© Birmingham elec-
trie line, aud states that the receipts
there are twopence per car mile, as
against tenpence with horse traction, s
difference which is likely to have con
siderable weight with the corporation
of the city of Bradford, to which his re
port has been submitted.—Loudon Let
ter.
aboufj
part farm
ers, have recently secured about 3,000
acres of choice farm land in Cullman
county, Ala., on which to locate a co
operative farm. It is to be organized as a
joint stock company, with a capital stock
of $200,000, limited to 200 shares of $1,000
each. No person can purchase, own or
control more or less than one share of
'the capital stock. The labor is to be
performed by themselves and their fami
lies at stipulated wages, the profits to-be
distributed as dividends. They propose
to introduce manufactures as soon as
practicable, as they possess a tract of
valuable timber as well as an inexhaust
ible supply of coal. This county is the
.only farming territory in any of the
southern states in which there are no
negroes.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Of Uiv
lt-gi“ 6etiu S ' ler in heaven.”—London
Frank
te n ’ otto.
4 b onder Worker.
jjine Tears’ Jouruey of a Letter.
Nine vears ago a woman in Germany
,/rote a'letter to her husband, a sailor,
who had gone out to Brazil. His vessel
had left when the mail reached there
ever since this letter has been rambhng
through numerous postoffices in differ
ent parts of the world, always arriving
the wake of the husband’s ships de
parture. It was recently returned to
the German dead letter office, which
has restored it with scrupulous care vC
the sender. The letter was dated Oct
16, 1881.—London Tit-Bits.
Turtles Bat a Baby.
It is reported that a child was eaten
by turtles in Hangchow, China, a short
timfl ago. There is a large pool of water
in front of the yamen or the provincial
treasury. In this pool a number of large
turtles are kept, in order, as it is said,
to keep robbers from burrowing into the
vaults of the treasury. Some of the large
ones have shells that would measure 2
feet by 3 feet or more in width and
length. ,
People are constantly standing about
the pool watching them as they come np
to feed or to take breath. One day a
nurse with a child in her arms was
standing there, when the child suddenly
sprang into the water. The turtles soon
gathered around it, tore it to pieces and
devoured it. The nurse fled.—North
China Herald.
A Child’s Strange Mishap.
Julia Beddick, aged 7 years, met with
a peculiar accident Wednesday after-
* ThA
Invited the Crowd to Eat Oranges.
T A. Melter purchased 5,000 sweet
oranges and placed them on Concords
wharf, foot of Ocean street, for frce ^, s
tribution. The only proyvso was; that
the eater should
place the peel in a
standing near. About 4,00
across the street oranges were eaten by the surrounding
. oss thG StrCet crowd, and Mr. Melter got a goodly
amount of work done for nothing,. . Th
peeling will be shipped to England to be
Si for medicinal purposes—Florida
Times-U nion.
seen ... j — •—j states that he had
Jtvsieiaiic r , caie °F two prominent
tD'le * a o ’ a ? d used their treatment un-
f^ounced Hc b ' e t0 sct a ™und. They
hdineni-iKi ^ a!,e to be consumption
h fiffgL He was persuaded to try
«en, eofloi,’- C " thscovery for consump-
not chin* c °Dls, and at that time
without m,.*- balk across the street
to used half'^ ® e ., found i before he
,as touch w, a do Har bottle, that be
is to-,lor ter .’ ie continued to use it
have o Z ^'Joying good health. If
"le try it ' «- lroat ’ lung or chest trou-
Friil W« f ' e guarantee satisfaction,
store. Ue free at S. J. McKnight’s drug
noon that may cause her death. The
little girl was coming home from school
and had a slate pencil about six inches
long in her month. As die crossed the
Btreet she fell in such a way tlmt the
pencil was forced through the roof of her
mouth and the point penetrated to the
*base of the skulL She was taken to the
Pennsylvania hospital, where Dr. Leidy
removed the pencil by means of a pair
of forceps.' She is now in the hospital in
a dangerous condition and the physi
cians are afraid blood poisoning may set
Philadelphia Times.
eagle eyed astrono-
that Ut rc „ at1 ’ a ^ er satisfying hi-msAlf
-uun-, :^ Ur -’ Evolves once on its axis
aroundthp 1Uti0 v ° f
Ration to v t l0 sun ’ Das turned his at-
^fieves th- f 613 ? 3- Dte discovers, as he
Sb ? Follows tiie same law,
revolnfi ° n ber asas while she makes
Stor. on of 225 days around the
•slag of
furnaces for many years
• ravrnes and piled upon
lUanttK 11 ^Dad accumulated in
again 6S ’ now it is being
• resmelted in some in-
Costly Buildings in Boston.
The following will give an idea o
what Boston is spending upon some.o
its Jirincipal buildings: The ne
house will cost perhaps from $4,000,000
to $5,000,000; the state house
aq 000.000* the public library, $-<,500, >
SfSSate bmldtag, on State .trtet,
*3,OOMIOO or » 8 . 000 - 000 J, t tf?‘SM'«lo’
at the foot of Court street, $700,000,
Jd the Sears building repairs and alter
ations, ftanO-000-—Boston Letter.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so wel l
Offered
Mulder rheumatism in the
Si that ^.® ont Ds and the only thing "
Bfe r
teed to do an w 0 a s ,ralt rhetun
Bitters will cure pimptes, nonis, . m
sir
mat
1011 Oil. t,. rae an y good was Salva-
7 all snff Cure d me, and I recommend
-CS
1 Pearl
tem and P rev |“J c ^ r " of headache, con^ti-
with said disease.
■ St., Baltimore, Md.
N.
rial fevers. . F?r cure ui B it-
pation and indigestion fry ^^^t ee d, Qr
ters. Entire satisfaction j <a?i nn
(\f\
Killed by Her Comb.
Mrs. Semmener, wife of * ^bHw® ■*
Watton, Norfolk, met with Der death
recently under distressing circum-
Rtances. While ascending a staircase
she fell head foremost to the bottom,
aLl the teeth of a large omament^comb
she was wearing were deeply imbedded
SdtotoofE
Vas at once procured and ^ D^en
teeth were at once extracted.bntdeath
resulted, owing to the d®P th _^!^.
wounds and shock to the system.—Gahg
mini’s Messenger.
A Luminous Crayon.
Aluminous crayon has been invented
for theDorpose of enabling lecturers to
Kodacks at a Railroad Wreck.
Superintendent Husted, of the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton, doesn’t like
the kodak, and his experience of the
last few days does not lessen his dislike.
When the wreck occurred at Oxford the
“kodak fiends” were out in force to
make sketches of the scene. . As a busi
ness proposition Mr. Husted objected to
photography of the affair being sent
broadcast over the country, and many of
the kodak manipulators consented to
his request and left the place. One chap
with a fine instrument would not listen
to anything and insisted on* taking a
picture. At last the superintendent told
him he was trespassing on the company’s
grounds, and the r_ian with the kodak
remarked that he would goto an adjoin
ing field and secure a view.
The superintendent told him that he
would be trespassing there also. This
made the chap angry. Mr. Husted is an
exceedingly mild mannered man, but he
grew warm under the collar. “I have
tried to treat you as a gentleman,” ex
claimed he, “and yon won’t let me.
Now, Ml freat yon like a tough. If you
attempt to make a picture of this wreck
Til gm ash that kodak over your infernal
head.” The kodak fiend evidently be
lieved that Husted would make his word
good, for he went back to Oxford on a
work train.
While Superintendent Husted was
thus engaged Chief Engineer Porter aud
his assistants were chasing kodak fiends
over the surrounding country with dubs.
The wary men with the cameras didn’t
hold choice points of view, but it’s fair
to guess that they are loaded with snap
shots at that wreck.—Indianapolis News.
A Story of 5,000 Manuscripts.
I know an editor, who is at the head of
a popular periodical which, from its pe
culiar character, invites and .receives
probably more manuscripts in a single
year than such magazines as The Cent
ury, Scribner’s or Harper’s. This year
he has already exhausted two manu
script record books, each holding 2,000
entries, and the third is already half
filled. In other words, he has received
in ten months more than 5,000 manu
scripts. I had the curiosity to look into
the figures last weejj: which -this enor
mous deluge of manuscripts told, and
they were interesting. There had been
received, for example, a trifle more than
500 short stories, yet only 11 of these
had been accepted, less than 2 per cent!
Of over 1,500 poems a few over 30 had
been accepted, a little better than 2 per
cent! an I yet every manuscript had been
carefully read, and the position of the
magazine is such that it is in a way of
getting much good material—Edward
W. Boll’s Letter.
Epidemics Among Animals.
The epidemics which show themselves
at certain intervals in cattle and other
domesticated animals have recently been
the subjects of many reports and discus
sions. Among these.diseases none has at
tracted more attention than that which
has recently decimated canaries and other
cage birds. Not very long ago upward
of 1,800 canaries died in one year at Nor- -
wicli, England, and occasioned a loss, to
■ L1 -- owners estimated at about $5,000. A.,
the disease, which at present is thought
to partake of the character of diphtheria.
The subject is an important one, as the
transmission of diphtheria to children
from domestic animals has come to be
not only frequent but occasionally most
serious in effects.—New York Commer
cial Advertiser.
Educating; Farmers’ Children.
A movement is on foot in Denmark,
corresponding with the needlework in
dustries of England and Ireland, to ad
vance the farming and dairy interests
for the benefit of women. Little girls
are being trained to raise poultry, make
cheese and butter, and brand them with
the badge of excellence. The agricult
ural, industrial and scientific worlds are
levied upon for improved machinery and
appliances. Not only are the cattle fed
to Danish fashion, but by the use of spe
cial methods 10 per cent, more butter is
extracted from a gallon of. milk than
ever before. These fancy products are
put in the highest markets and yield a
revenue not to be approached by the old
system .of women’s work.—London Let
ter.
Checks Found in a Dump.
Two checks for quite a large amount
recently sent by a Saco, Me., man to a
Portland firm have had quite an inter
esting history. As the Portland firm at
first denied having received them, it was
at first thought that they had been
Btolen, but it was at last concluded that
they had found their way to the waste
basket by mistake. This supposition
was followed up, and four men were
kept at work all day Sunday turning
over with pitchforks the dump heap on
one of the Portland wharves. It was
like hunting for a needle in a haystack,
but the search was successful, and the
two checks were at last recovered.
Philadelphia Ledger.
While Mr. Williams, of Montezuma,
Ga.„was driving under an oak tree at
dusk the other day he was amazed to
find his horse leave the ground and re
main in the air. Investigation proved
that the affair was not supernatural, as
the *nTmal got caught in a swing hang
ing from a hough of the tree.
Amnrig the latest disinfectants is
“lysol,” which appears to be very much
like carbolic acid. The emulsifying
agent is resin or fat soap, tar acid being
incorporated with the soap at the mo
ment of saponification.
It has been proposed to make the up
per half of war balloons of very tinn
steel and the lower portion of ordinaiy
balloon material, the whole so construct
ed as to hold hydrogen instead of or
dinary gas.
pjf^VAniug the nose and cheeks under
the eyes has been found an effectual pre
ventive of snow blindness, or the injuri
ous effect of the glare from illuminated
mow upon eyes unaccustomed to it.
to take notes. Ex-
chanue. uttle sickly cWld hasfieen
the grave bV its kind mother
saved fromthegra g ^ orm Destroyers,
ga the Bttle'onetiiought was can'dy.'
Data of tiie trials of three large steam
ers, showing the comparative merits of
large and small screws, show that pro
pellers of small diameter have in each
case proved the more economical and ef
fective, both increasing fee speed and
creasing the coal consumption.
Killed a Mountain Lion With His Knife.
H. Woods went out to Bullock’s ranch
i ecently, and from there took a hunting
trip into the mountains the next day
with his shotgun to bring down some
small game. He had not been out long
when he heard a peculiar noise in the
underbrush, and, after some scouting
around, a large-sized mountain lioness
showed up. .He had only small shot in
his shells, but as soon as she came in
reach he let loose, and she took the con
tents in her body and dashed up the
mountain.
Woods, thinking that she had a mate,
located himself on a rock where he could
see into the canyon, and, true enough,
in a few moments the lion appeared,
and a monster at that, as large apparent
ly as John Robinson’s biggest circus
lion, and he came directly to the spot
where Woods was secreted, and when
within a few feet he got the contents of
the gnn in the region of the heart. The
lion rolled down the side of the Canyon a
short distance, regained his feet, and
made up an arroyo.
Woods followed him up and soon came
within hearing of the lioness, which was
howling frightfully, and all of a sudden
it emerged from a thicket and dashed at
him, with eyes glaring and mouth wide
open. He emptied the contents of his
shotgun into its month, which dazed it
for a moment. Instantly he jerked out
his sheath knife and as he did so the
lioness sprang for him, but only to re
ceive the blade of the knife into its heart,
and the fierce animal lay dead at Mr.
Woods’ feet as the trophy of his hunt.
He did not want any more lioness, but
made his way back to Bullock’s ranch,
bnt not until he had taken the hide of
his lion, which is now on exhibition.—
Tucson Star.
Olives
fee fingers, and it is also permissible to
help one’s self to cut sugar wife the dig
its, although the use of fee sugar tongs
is preferable.
Murphy’s Long Leap for Life.
John Murphy, a harness maker of
Cleveland, sat np wife a sick friend at
Rocky river and started to walk home
next morning on the Nickel Plate track.
While crossing the bridge over Rocky
river, which is ninety-two feet above the
water, he was overtaken by a passenger
train. He shouted to the engineer and
started"to run, but it was too late. The
shriek of the whistle, the roar of fee train
and the trembling of the bridge caused
Murphy to become paniestricken, so
that instead of lying ddwn on the outer
timbers, as he might .have done with
perfect safety, he leaped from the bridge
into the chasm below.
The passengers on the train and three
or four persons in the vicinity saw Mur
phy turn over several times in his awful
fall and strike fee water, which is only
six feet deep at this point, and supposed
he was killed. The keeper of fee boat
house, a short distance below, pulled
rapidly to the spot, found Murphy still
struggling and hauled him into the boat.
He vomited freely, but quickly recov
ered, and on the arrival of a physician
it was found that, although badly shaken
up and bruised, he had sustained no seri
ous injury.—Cor. Chicago Herald.
About Folding Election Ballots.
If those distinguished New Yorkers
really couldn’t fold their ballots accord
ing to the method prescribed by the new
the thought that the greatest minds are
often puzzled by trifles. Newton, who
enunciated the laws of nature, cut a
large hole in his study door for his cat
and a small one for her kittens. Chaun-
cey M. Depew and Abram S. Hewitt
mn direct great public interests, bnt
cannot fold a little piece of paper. Such
is genius.
As to a Brooklyn gentleman, who
bears the euphonious title of doctor of
pedagogy, but could not, after repeated
attempts, succeed in folding the ballots
to the satisfaction of the inspectors, his
failure may perhaps have been due to
the fact that he took his learned degree
into the polling • place and got tangled
np in its intricacies.—Munsey’s Weekly.
Sending Panoramas Abroad.
A product purely American and prob
ably in the nature of a revelation to the
heathen peoples of England and France,
to whom Steamship Agent Low has just
consigned it, reached here all fee way
from Minneapolis a day or two ago by
water. It was a panorama, and as it
was fifty-four feet long it had to he tar
paulined and bolted to the deck of the
steamship Lydian Monarch, as there was
no room for it in the hold. A single
freight shipment fifty-four feet long is
not to be sneezed at, even if it is only
five feet and a half square in the other
two dimensions, and this particular big
roll of canvas weighed all of three tons.
The. manufacture of panoramas for the
European market is a novel industry of
recent origin. r These canva3 pictures are
not shown over- here at all.—New York
Letter.
Home Without u Mother.
The room’s in disorder,
The cat’s on the table,
The flower-stand npset, and the mischief to pay,
And Johnny is screaming
As loud as he’s able,
For nothing goes right when mamma s away.
What a scene of discomfort and confu
sion home would be if mamma did not
return. If your wife is slowly breaking
down, from a combination of domestic
cares and female disorders, make it yo ur
first business to restore her health, nr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is without
a peer as a remedy for feeble and debili
tated women, and is the only medicine
for the class of mala’dies known as female
diseases which is sold under a positive
guarantee from the manufacturers that
it will give satisfaction, or the money
will be refunded. It is a positive cure
for the most complicated cases of womb
troubles.
The Thinness of Gold.
Gold beaters, by hammering, can re
duce gold leaves to such minute thinness
that 282,000 must be laid upon each
other to produce fee thickness of an
jnen Yet each leaf is, so perfect and
free from holes that one of them laid on
any surface, as in gilding, gives the ap
pearance of solid gold. They are so thin
that if formed into a book 1,500 would
only occupy the space of a single leaf of
book paper. A single volume of a gold
leaf book one inch in thickness would
have as many pages as an entire library
of 1,500 volumes of common books, even
though the volumes averaged 400 pages
each.—St. Louis Republic.
A physician has succeeded in grafting
the skin of a frog to that of a tortoise,
and the skin of a tortoise to that of a
frog, and also in securing the growth of
a frog’s slrin upon the skin of a man 54
years old. Bone grafting is not so far
advanced, bnt has met wife fee same
success as skin grafting.
Hot Water in Paris.
The nickel-in-the-slot machine has
found a very useful adaptation in Paris,
where a new apparatus has recently
been set up at several points in the pub
lic streets for the purpose of -supplying
hot water. A small structure is utilized
as a bill board for advertising placards,
and at a convenient point a faucet pro
jects. Near fee faucet is a slot, and be
side the slot a button. To use fee appa
ratus a pail is placed beneath the faucet,
a five centimes piece (equivalent in size
and value to one of our old fashioned
copper cents) is dropped to the slot, the
button is pushed and forthwith a jet of
steaming hot water gushes from the fau
cet into the pail, running until -nine
'quarts have been delivered, when the
stream stops automatically.
The interior of the apparatus is partly
occupied by a coil of pipe, within which
is a gas burner, exactly as to contriv
ances used in this country f5r heating
water quickly.- The coil communicated
with the city water supply, so feat fee
water drawn is always fresh. The gas
Is not wasted by being kept burning all
fee time, bnt is lighted by the pressing
of fee button which opens fee faucet,
and the automatic closing of fee faucet
and shutting off the gas after fee pailful
of water has been delivered are easily
effected by devices in common use. One
of the chief uses of this new institution
is the filling of hot water cans which fee
cab drivers place in their carriages in
cold weather to warm their patrons’ feet.
—New York Commercial Advertiser.
Beds for Hyacinths.
In the preparation of a garden bed or
border for hyacinths it i3 best to take
some special care. The application of
stable manure before planting is not de
sirable, as it has a tendency to cause the
bulbs to decay. But the addition of a
quantity of leaf mold and if the soil is
heavy a good dressing of sand will be
found beneficial. About four inches of
the top soil can be removed from the
space intended for the bed and laid on
one side; spade over the whole as deep
as possible and work in the leaf mold
and sand, if desired. With a sandy soil
leaf mold alone makes an excellent dress-
“ Lohengrin’’ In Paris.
Nearly fee whole of an act of “Lohen
grin” has at last been performed at fee
Grand Opera, bnt the trick was man
aged to such a way that no Chauvinistic
prejudices could be hurt. It was an
nounced that at the performance given
for fee benefit of M. Dumainie a duet
from Wagner’s opera would be sung by
Mme. Caron and M. Vergnet. When
the audience expected the two singers
to come on in ordinary dress the con
ductor gave the signal for the orchestra
to attack the first chord of the prelnde
to the third act.
The curtain then rose on the bridal
chorus, and, this finished, Elsa and
Lohengrin ware left on the stage to sing
the most interesting and the most im
passioned love duet that has ever been
written. Now that an attempt has been
made to reverse the sentence passed
upon Tannhauser five and twenty years
ago at the Opera, and to make amends
for the brutal treatment of “Lohengrin”
at the Eden theatre, it is to be hoped
that fee hundreds who applaud Wagner
at the Sunday concerts week after week
and year after year may at length have
a chance of hearing his masterpieces at
the French Academy of Music.—Paris
Cor. London Telegraph.
Indeed a Remarkable Criminal.
A remarkable prisoner, who calls him
self August Maler, was received at fee
penitentiary to Jefferson City, Mo., a few
days ago on a -two years’ sentence from
St. Genevieve county for obtaining prop
erty under false pretenses. He is prob
ably 70 years old, and has commenced
and, with the exception of a year that
he spent in jail in Illinois, he has never
boon—<rot r>P tliia .TiMlitpniiMcJait a £gne
months at a time since. He is known at
fee prison as “Dutch Charley.” No one
knows his right name or anything of his
antecedents.. He is a monumental liar
and rarely ever tells the same story twice.
He has' been sentenced every time for
working some kind of a confidence game,
and even while in the penitentiary has
plied his vocation on verdant guards and
amateur detectives with more or less
success.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Cows No Longer Own Fort Dodge.
The Fort Dodge cow, whose proud po
sition as queen of fee city has made her
famous the world over, has been deposed.
A herd law was passed by almost a
unanimous vote of fee people at fee re
cent election shutting off all the privi
leges which that favored animal has en
joyed wife perfect immunity for twenty
years. The result of the election was a
great surprise to the friends of the coW,
who had supposed her firmly intrenched
in popular favor. The overwhelming
victory of the anti-cow factions is laid
to the tremendous agitation of a year
ago, which held np the cow thraldom of
the city to fee ridicule of the civilized
world. Anti-cow agitators in the coun
try over will be encouraged to their work
by this famous victory in this hitherto
impregnable stronghold of the bovine,
ote was ten to one against the free-.
Tribune.
Sixty-oue Times Around Cape Horn.
Capt. J. M. Holmes left his home last
wqek for New York, from whence he will
start on his sixty-second voyage around
Cape Horn. He has the .reputation
among seafaring men of having made
the trip around Cape Horn more times
than any living man, and if fee captain
keeps his word he will reach the century
mark nn the trips before he retires. This
time he is bound for fee Golden Gate,
and will probably not be seen at his
home for a year or more. He is captain
and principal owner of the proud ship
Charmer, which has weathered many
gales and brought him safely around thtf -
treacherous Horn over sixty times.—Cor.
New Haven Register.
When sores break out on your person,
when pimples cover your face, when you
feel weak and debilitated, and your nerv
ous system feels shattered, when you
have aches and pains, when your appetite
fails, when you are troubled with dys
pepsia, •vyhen there is a general function
al derangement and life hardly seems
worth living, give Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla
a trial and you will be delighted at its
pleasing effect. As a general health re
storer and strengthener of the whole sys
tem it is superior to any other compound.
It will not harm the most delicate invalid
and has saved thousands from a prema
ture grave. You wrong yourself when
you delay giving it a trial.
Electric Oil WeU Drills.
A patent has been granted for an elec
trical drill for oil wells. Th© device con
sists of a series of motors in tandem,
connected in such a way as to make one
motor. The design has been to get fee
power within a six inch diameter, so
that the entire mechanism, which much
resembles a common boiler, can be low
ered in the well, and the power can be
applied at the bottom. The drill bits
are firmly fastened on fee rod, which is
worked rapidly in and out of a cylinder,
after the manner of a piston rod.—New
York Telegram.
Women Lasso a Vicious Deer.
R. G. l&hhamij a farmer, was attacked
on his farm near Sherman by a large
buck deer, which escaped from fee Bat-
sell park, and gored very badly. Lan-
ham’s wife and daughter came to the
rescue, lariated the animal and tied it
to a tree. This is the second man this
pet kaR nearly killed with his immense
antlers.—Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette.
A lady who has suffered for over three
months extreme torture from a violent
cough has become completely cured by
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
Horse Sense vs. Fashion.
McAllister—I noticed you kept your
front blinds open all the summer.
Going out of society? _
Smith—No; but we concluded that aU
the people we really cared to have think
us out of town were oat of town them
selves.—Puck.
The Shrine of Love.
rrfrariip—What church do you attend
service at, Fred? '
Fred—I-er—I say, Torn, what church
is it Miss Sweete goes to?—Epoch.
mg.
Rake over the bed, freeing it from
all stones, and giving it a smooth, level
surface. Parallel lines can be drawn
and intersecting ones, and fee bulbs
placed so as to show solid masses of color
or designs of any desired patterns. At
fee point where fee lines cross press the
bulbs down into the soil even with fee
sm£aqe t and w^eja all have been set
cover fet who£g bg3i over with the soil
which was h«t .-removed, thus leaving
them with about tu™- inches of soil en
tirely over them. Before -u, a ground
freezes hard fee bed should have u^j^
cow: lug of leaves for a winter protec
tion.—Vick’s Magazine.
Machine for Turning; Boob Leaves.
A company is being promoted for the
purpose of introducing a novel machine
for automatically turning over the leaves
of books, which is especially adaptable
for libraries, hotels, railway stations,
shop windows, etc. “The Herald Exhib
itor,” as it has been named, is fee patent
of Mr. T. W. Tetley, of Bradford, who
Harms that fee machine will work for a
week or longer period, according to ad
justment, without attention, and will
turn over any size or weight of leaves,
within reasonable limits, allowing suffi
cient interval for perusal between each
operation. When a leaf has been turned
over in either direction the machine au
tomatically reverses, and so arranges it
self as to be ready to raise the following
leaf, feus giving a continuous motion.
If fee appliance full fils all that is claimed
for it by the inventor, it seems highly
probable that an extensive use may be
found for it in public museums, libraries,
etc.—Industries.
Grew Over lOO Feet in Nineteen Tears.
German SenteFs house was cut down..
A careful measurement of the tree
showed it to be about 115 feet high from
the ground to the topmost branch. It
was 4 feet to diameter and about 12 feet
in circumference at the ground. We
are informed by a Portuguese that ho
set the tree out nineteen years ago.
Think of it! A tree only nineteen years
old, 115 feet high and showing a diam
eter in proportion. The residents of thaf~
quarter watched the fall of the monarch;
with genuine regret, bnt its great height
made the cutting of it down a necessity,
as it was liable to break and fall on some
of the residences around.—Santa Clara
(CaL) Journal
A Bellamy Apartment House.
Omaha will soon have an apartment
house that will be built according to fee
Edward Bellamy idea. J. EL Van Dora
is now having the plans for suoh a build
ing prepared. It will be situated at
Twenty-second and Leavenworth streets.
It will be a brick structure, four stories
high, and containing twenty-five apart
ments. The plan of living in this build
ing will be Co-operative, as all of the
cooking will be done to one kitchen, each
individual sharing his or her expense.
The house will be put in operation about
Jan. 1.—Omaha Bee.
A Han-ry Salmon.
A salmon taken at Astoria, Ore., had
a silver watch and chain to its month.
The watch had evidently laid in the wa
ter for years, as the steel portions crum
bled to dust when touched. Its presence
in the salmon's month is accounted for
by the fact that salmon at this time of
the year will eagerly bite at any bright
object, and the watch and chain had
been caught by fee net dragging on fee
bottom. As it was hauled to it attrao**
ed fee attention of fee salmon. «nd he
took it in.—Chicago Herald.
Have lots laugh all you can
and keep the s S*.'^ne > in your heart if
you want to be wlef, young and popular.
The world hates a woman with a griev
ance. It pays to be honestly happy.
There is absolutely no profit in being
bine and very little sympathy attend
ing it.
A system of* “telephoned' messages”
has been organized to Paris. For a fee
of 50 cents a message may be telephoned
to any one of eight central offices in va
rious quarters of fee city, after which it
will be delivered to its address by special
messenger. The message is not to ex-*
ceed 100 words.
The youths’ scarfs now are as large as
fee average adult effect of a season or
two ago, and being small in comparison,
fee lurid red backgrounds and other
bright hues are being utilized.
A curious new carnation pink In dis
tinct stripes of red and white has been
brought out by a Long Island florist and
has been christened “The American
Flag.”
The original of the song “Old Black
Joe” was a native of Virginia and died
this summer at his home in Mount
Holly, N. J., at the age of 112 yearn.
I have used Bnll’s Sarsaparilla to skin
diseases of long standing, which deman
ded a thoror" ' +L- «««!«» of
the body, an_ ; .
composition will
Premise, Lewisport, Ey.
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