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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. : - LrS?-- mSS