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ESTABLISHED 1850,
DALTON, GA., THURSD
NOVEMBER 3. 1892
MARVELOUS FAHYAHS.
TBiey Walk iii the Air Hundreds of "Feet
Above the Grnand.
The Faliyahs axe the greatest leg-
ei'dem'ainists, necromancers and hyp-
notists in the known world.
One of their practical feats iswalk-
ing in the air. The Fahyati who
performs it. lays flat down with hi a
face toward the earth for a minute
or a minute and a half, then arises,
and forcing his arms against hia
sides stands very erect, deliberately
walks into the air as far as power
of endurance will permit him, at
times reaching an altitude of from
250 to 400 feet, when he simply
walks down
Various Concoctions lat Put an Abused
Individual Into IVer Condition.
He had a" great q satchel in his
right hand and anknhrella in his
left as he entered Se drug 'store.
When he had squed himself in
frontof the soda foukin he dropped
the satchel with a tlfi and the um-
brella with a clatterid said:
“Gimme sumthinfl the brain.”
‘ ‘Phosphate ?” inqup die girl.
“You know best, ^ant sumthin
that will act as fodde^ir the brain.
I jest gin a feller ak^ity shillin
gold piece in place of Ahhy, and f
guess my brain is softefe up. ”
She drew him a glassjphqsphate,
and he made about tie swallows
of it. Then he put tilass down
WEEK’S DOINGS Iff THE EMPIRE
STATE.
Constitution, the. Savannah News
thinks that, they were adopted, because
they werelSsii presented on the printed
tickets asjt to favor their adoption.
Comparatively few of the voters, there
is reason to believe, understood them.
Although they had been_explained and
discussed in the newspapers, there was
so little interest taken in thpm that no,
general effort was made to understand
•them. However, there is every reason
to believe that their adoption will be
helpful to the State and will sa 76 money
to the people.
Although the farmers of the present
Constitution contemplated only a 40
days’ session of the Legislature every
two years,~the Legislature, as a rule,
was in session from 120 to 150 days in
Cr'-am of the News Carefully Collected and
Condensed into Short Paragraphs for
Citizen Readers.
The Ware county Tobacco Growers’
Association have established a factory,
and have begun making cigars.
An. Ocpnee county bird hunter has
killed over 500 birds this season and
sold them for 10 cents apiece. He only
missed eight shots in killing the 500.
A fruit and peanut merchant of Ath
ens says that his house stands a loss of
$600 a year from men who pass in and
out and take a handful of peanuts, a i
few grapes, an occasional banana and (
a pocketful of apples. i
C. C. Stovall has "entered suit against
the Atlanta aqd_West Point raiimaiL'_
again.
At first I could hardly believe my
eyes, and I thought I bad indeed
seen a miracle performed. It took
me over a year to understand this
feat, at the end of which time I dis
covered that it was accomplished by
a thorough knowledge of the elec
trical powers.
They thoroughly understand the
.The regular [session of
that period.
He downed the stufl w ofifcstop-r
ping to take breath, and. he low
ered the glass he asked : //
“Got anything here fui iVers?”
' “We have ealisaya.” :
“Gimme some. PoJic an said
he’d run me in, and cold- ivers are
galloping up and down u? spine.”
He drank this mixtui vith less
haste, and after he hfidviped off
his chin he said:
“There orterbe sumtl to brace
up the hull system in ge - al, but I
don’t know the name of i
“We—we have tone,”*> replied.
“Then gimme some. 1 1 a-goin
laws of changing their eletetiified
form from the • positive to the nega
tive by inhalation, and by that means,
just the same as this universe is held
in place by a congeniality of those
two forces, so they utilize them in
the performance of this feat.'
To try to make it even clearer I
will go into the philosophy of the
trick, starting from the first prin
ciples of electrical law, congeniality:
Two persons are introduced to each
other. Instinctively each party to
the introduction knows whether there
is a feeling of perfect congeniality or
not. If there is a congeniality that
proves that one is the positive and
the other is the negative; if that feel
ing of congeniality is wanting then
they both possess similarly electrified
forms and naturally are repellant.
Of course after associations may
ofttimes make two such similarly
electrified forms friends, but ’tis very
rarely the case. The same law pre
cisely that governs the feelings of
these men who have been introduced
to each other is that which controls
and keeps the universe in place.
The world is supposed to be 25,000
miles in circumference, 10,000 miles
more or less in diameter; it revolves
only once around the sun every
twenty-four hours.
That is a pretty rapid rate of speed,
it must be admitted, and naturally
some force of electricity must be
evolved; call it positive. Then if the
world is positive space must be nega
tive; otherwise one would be repel
lant to the other and we could not
hold our place in the terrestrial firma
ment.
Now if the^world does'.-hold , its
place by that law of electrical com
geniality, why is it not possible for
the man who possesses the knowledge
Atlanta that represent a total capital of a
$250,000, employ 200 hands, ship year- | :
ly 40,000,000 feet of manufactured lum- 0
ber, and 60,000,000 feet of rough, or y
iO0,000,000 altogether, worth $30,000,- v
UUO. e
Col. John I. Huggins, one of the old- t
est citizens of Clarke county, died sud- j
denly at his home near Athens, one day t
iusi week, at uie ripe age oi eigmy-uve. ,
He was found reclining in his old arm ,
chair, and had evidently passed with- j
ou j. pain from a_quiet sleep into,, e te r " 1
nity.
J. H. Jeffries, living six miles from
Cuthbert, was robbed one night las*
week of $1,675 in cool cash, besides
bis notes and other valuable papers.
Jeffries occasionally drinks, and when
he left town late in the evening for his
home he was pretty full, and a few
hours after he was found by friends in
toxicated and his money gone. He of
fers a reward of $500 for its return and
no questions asked.
Robert N. Brooks, a young farmer
living ten miles from Griffin, is not.
complaining about bard times. He is
ajoung, married man, and ^started out
AN OLD DUTCH FARMHOUSE.
Carious and Interesting Features of Some
Real Ancient Dwellings.
The old farmhouse usually con
sists of a kitchen, a large living room,
a cheeseroom, a dairy, two small
bedrooms in the garret, and at the
back (forming part of the main build
ing) the big cow stable with its huge
loft, and a wide space in the middle,
where thrashing and winnowing are
still done'in primitive fashion. Hay
ricks with movable roofs on four
poles, various barns or sheds, and an
outside kitchen called the “baking
house,” where the rough work is
done (food cooking for the cattle,
etc.), surround the main building.
The “baking house” is often used
as a living room in summer, and is
more cheerful than the solemn apart
ment into which the visitor is in
variably ushered. A wide chimney
lined with tiles stretches nearly across
one side of this room, but the open
fire on the heartli. has long ago dis
appeared and given place to an ugly
stove. Quaint brass fire irons, hang
behind, it, and on either side is an
armchaij, differing from its humbler
brethren oiSljr in the possession of
.wdoden ari&s. :If- : ther%is aSbabv in
‘ Then give him one,” she bluntly
replied.'without looking up from her
'washtub.
“Rnt T ain’t not none.”
“But I ain’t got none.’?
“Then give him somethin else.”
“Would you mind his chewin up a
pnnil tin box full of ointment, Mrs.
McCarthy?” .
*v“Indade I wouldn’t. I’m a-thinkin
be-all the healthier fur bavin
hisinsidesgreased a bit. Don’t kape
him dLthe ragged aige, as they call
it, hut Sited it over.”’ _ . ’ ' • .
“It mayWt be ointment, Mrs. Mc
Carthy,” sauLf the boy as. a doubt
^rose-in-.his mindf .
t “Then it’s glue, antt 'glue won’t
jmrt a gqgj iifct dort*t do him no good.
,gl»e kmfcin at ye?”-
“Is he smelirn qjjplfie box?” ~~
FAMOUS NICKI
An Eventful Night Ride.'
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
“I had my hat kicked off oi
night, by a dead man,” said J<
Edwards, who was entertainii
Munchausen club at the L
opportunity to study-a cal
a bird, and probably the?
much alike in both. The!
itself on the outside sill <1
dow, near to a pine trci
presently ht ■qa^tln- r-ro
[nation to live athgmo.
3 i s that he invested
acres in corn ani
fsyfUp’Hie planted a half acre in
toes and has galhered"60 bushels
were widefr bright
JusTaisecfand intent
730 Market Street.
An old saw reads that. ‘‘A NEW BE00M SWEEPS
CLEAN” Even so, the same applies to a
]\ew Candidate ton "Pnblic Favor*.
Our Stock is NEW and CLEAN with all the NOVELTIES
OF THE SEASON, and at prices that are in the reach of all
those that wish to dress well at
MODERATE PRICES.
‘ "We make a good Business Suit to order for $20.00.
A good pair of Trousers for $5.00 and upwards.
Overcoats at $20.00 and up.
When yon are in Chattanooga don’t fail to call and see ns
Atwater Tailoring Co.
September 22, 1892-3m.
PLACING .THE BLAME.
Incidents Which Led Up to the Losing of
the Head of Mrs. McCarthy’s Goat.
He was a boy about twelve years
of age and he liad in his hand a rail
road torpedo which he had picked
up off the tracks. As he came along
by Mrs. McCarthy’s cabin be looked
in and shouted j
“Mrs. McCarthy, your old billy-
goat is following me about for an
Is he waggin ay his tail?” .
“The same, Mrs. McCarthy.”
“Then give it to him. His sinse of
slunell inches him that there’s sum-
thin refresliin in tli,e box.”
The boy hesitated; no longer, but
dropped the box and crossed the
street. The goat seized tbe box in
his mouth, turned around three or
four times, and then stood still and
worked, his jaws. He couldn’t re
member of ever having tasted of such
fruit before, and he was hurrying to
get down to the core, when there was
a flash and an explosion and he turned
a back handspring and lay quiet.
“Ah, now, what’s the racket?” de
manded Mrs. McCarthy as she ap
peared at the door.
"Is he dead?” called the boy.
"Monty mither of Moses! He/
longer a head on him!” / „
" You told me to give him boX '
“I did that, and don’t.A 11 w / rJ Y
"e box inat
ve* .
baize curtains,
as near as possible to tbe fireplace, in.,
defiance of all laws of health.
Two or three large -cupboards,
sometimes handsomely carved, and
always kept well polished, stand
against the whitewashed walls. One
of them generally has glass doors in
the upper part, and on its shelves yr
family china—often of fwmut jaly"
is exposed to ™w.
W up enterpris-
proved J^g^ armer has not part-
S°3 his family possessions. In a
jer of the room a chintz curtain,
?r sometimes a double door, shows
where the big press bed is—an in-
stitafion of prehygenic times, which,
to/the peasant mind, has no in
conveniences whatever. In the mid
dle of the room a table stands on a
carpet, and as people take off their
shoes at the door and. go about in
away wid my gop^ n uub
after bis eaten overt* thousand of all
sorts. It's tbeA fellers down at
fired
about it. It was niveiv . „ . . _ — — — - -
got away wid my go.y™ tlus : their thick woolen stockings, neither
it nor the painted floor ever shows
signs of mud.
Another table stands near one of
the windows, of which there are two
or three. The linen blinds so closely
meet the spotless muslin curtains,
which are drawn stiffly across the
lower panes on two horizontal sticks,
that a stray sunbeam can hardly
make its way into the room, even if
it has been able to struggle through
the thick branches of the clipped lime
trees that adorn the front of the
house. On one of the tables a ti ay
stands, with a hospitable array of
cups and saucers, teapot, etc., and is
protected from the dust by a crochet
or muslin cover. .
The huge family Bible, with its big
brass clasps, has au honorable place,
often on a stand by itself. Rough
Sandy Hook agin. Tley ve
another :M°t as big ■ xS a ^ ar L
another/ape of sam has got- m tbe
way aril deflected f* e ball into me
doo/ard. Kar- shtill on the box,
ipfiuis, au d ain’t breathe a word fur
/our life' ^’ Te got a clear case agin’
' Sandvnook, and I'll niver let up till
thegovemment puts a new roof on
r>" shanty and hands me fifty av the
i.ong green dollars that buys provi
sions and rides you down to Coney
Idand av a Sunday afthernoon 1”—
Yew York Herald.
Wanted—A Ward.
1 beg to ask. What word' should we clergy
0: stating our uoi fonnai/co of 1marriago
rsremouy? If I say, "I married Miss So-and-
t0 - it is liable to the construction that I am
coir her husband. To say, “I performed the
Carriage sen at thc nuptials of Mr. and
suss —is rathe. 4 -olongei. What one
wnrdvouid you sugg.st as descriptive of the
clergyman’s part? Vould -m .rriiied” ho --
able.' "I marrified 'lies So-atid-sn’’
\ ' FI T? r> r - , ——'-iLEE
ERGYMAN.
A ERPjj
>.ill not do. There
Xo. “marri.1
would be to strong a temptation to
use it as a.b l Y mG “scarify.” Per
haps “vf/dify” would be better
Rut ti;,,/sotiross d the language do
/.d any word to meet the
mentf of the case. Orig-
■ ponying” was the work
lyttd ethers in wedlocl
ware so united wei
n a persons. Gradually thoe.
.!■ d l:.-We secured the use of
- dwhiclaonce' belonged to the
t til the priest is crowded off
v.-j ground'or made to share it
T a way as leads to the dilemma
" eo rrespon‘dent.
‘/.is, thqmen who marry—
w b’-i'oal meaning of the word
e allowed the wedded ones to
;• i take possession of a philo-
I strongholi In their satis-
II ia doing a good work and,
iHa.ly ) receiving the fees at 1
; hereto, the priests have failed
' L on then" rights, and so have
, ,jrc ‘ed into an etymological
■ u ary. The only escape is by
e word labyrinm, and the only
fee.
j^tisfaction will be to increase the
“Grand Rapids Democrat.
ise thief, was shot and
•‘t -Lewisburg, Tenn., last week.
natter' the*originals, are hung on the
walls.—National Review.
A Picture Factory.
A picture factory is a place in
which they put blank canvas on
shelves running around the walls.
Then aman comes along and paints in
the sky on canvas No. 1; then passes
on and paints in the sky on canvas
No. 2, and. so on all around the room.
Then another man comes along and
paints in a sandy shore; then an
other and paints in a tree: then an
other and paints in the sea; then an
other and'paints in a ship upon the
sea Then those pictures, which are
as like each other as two pins, are
by a beautiful division of labor fin
ished, so to speak, in less time than
no time. „ , . ir .
And they call the first, On a
Smiling Shore;” the second, “Where
the Wavelets Kiss the Sands; the
third, “The Ship that Sailed. They
give each picture a different title, l
believe they keep a man whose sole
business is to find the titles. He
must be the most ingenious, not to
gay imaginative, man in the place.
The whole affair is a beautiful ex
position of the applicability to com
mercial purposes of the fine arts.
All the Year Round.
New cases of cholera are still devel
oping at Hamburg.
qeg cl Li v e—Wff
the earth all are—to-"®
process of ' _ , ,
when lie li^ ’ u P on the ground, and
then waJ^ int° the same space, by
the laws that hold that tremen-
dovrtgiobe and all the other planets
y,id stai-s in their place?
This is the way, and the only way,
by which the Fahyahs perform this
most wonderful feat. —Cincinnati En
quirer.
From the New York Press.
If we look at a lady’s sealskin jacket
we at once observe its rich brown color
and the velvety softness and denseness
of the fine hairs composing it.
If this be compared with the coarse,
hard or dry salted sealkin as imported,
or, still better, with the vast difference
between them, and wonders how the
coarse, oily looking, close pressed hair
of the.live animal can ever he trans
formed into the rich and costly gar
ment above spoken of.
Passing our fingers among the hairs
of the cat or dog, we may notice fine
short hairs at the roots of the longer,
coaser, general covering of the*animal.
This is so-called under- fur. But in
the greafer number of animals the short
hairs ar*> so few nnl^nn-fi.
adjourned .session. Under the amend
ment there will be a session of fifty
days each year, and no adjourned ses
sion.
The amendments relative to the first
and second readings of certain kinds of
bills and the granting of certain kinds
of charters by the Secretary of State
will save the time of the Legislature
without detriment to the public inter
est. Great care will, of course, have
to be exercised in the framing of the
bills to authorize the Secretary of State
to grant charters, so that such charters
will not contain extraordinary powers.
There will be no difficulty, however, in
framing such a bill as will amply pro
tect the public.
The State could very well get along
with less lawmaking. Altogether too
many laws are enacted. Many of them
quickly become dead letters. The ti
must come very soon when the Legis
lature will give its attention only to
general laws, leaving county commis
sioners and municipel authorities to
deal with purely local matters.
Dumas aud His Pedigree.
The stumbling block in pedigree
building is the occasional cropping
up of a disreputable ancestor whom
you have a special reason for not re
membering. Sydney Smith used to
say “that several members of his
family disappeared about the time of
the assizes;” and most people remem
ber the story of Alexandre Dumas,
the elder, who had a considerable
dash of the tar brush in his veins,
and who was pestered about his
pedigree by some antiquarian Smell
fungus.
“Your father, M. Dumas, said the
bore, “was, I take it, a mulatto.”
“Yes, sir.” “Thus your grandfather
must have been a negro?” Precisely
so.” “And your great grandfather,
cher M. Dumas?” “A monkey, sir,”
thundered the exasperated Alex :
andre. “My pedigree ends where
yours begins.”—G. A. Salain London
Times.
Poss of Caste.
In the year 17GG the late Lord Clive
and Air. Yerelst employed the whole
influence of the government to restore
a Hindoo to his caste who had for
feited it, not by any neglect of his
own, but by having been compelled by
a most unpardonable act of violence
to swallow a drop of cow broth. The
Brahmins, from the peculiar circum
stances of the case, were very anxious
to complv with wianes ot the
government. The principal men
among them met at Kishnagur and
once at Calcutta, but after consulta
tions and an examination of their
most ancient records they declared
to Lord Clive that there was no
precedent to justify the act. They
found it impossible to restore the un
fortunate man to his caste, and he
died soon after of a broken heart.—
Sydney Smith’s Essay on Indian Mis
sions.
The Most Unlucky Day.
A statistician of the German gov
ernment has come to the rescue of
those persons who do not share the
widespread superstition that Friday
is the most unlucky day of the week.
A short time ago he determined to
make a scientific investigation of
this question. The most fatal or un
fortunate week day, according to
Hie investigator, is not Friday, but
Monday. —Exchange.
the fur on its neck and about'its face
slowly stood up, as if electrified.
Except for this rising of the fur
and a certain intensity of life in the
whole attitude of the beast, it was as
still as if cut from stone. Thje/bird
quivered, trembled, looked fixedly at
the cat, and finally, with a feeble
shake of the wings, fell toward the
cat, which bounded to seize it.' A
lady tells me that she “does not be
lieve that cats can charm birds, be
cause she has seen a cat trying to
charm a parrot, and the bird, greatly
alarmed, scolded loudly.” This proves
nothing; the parrot in general, or
more probably that particular par
rot, did not prove a good subject for
the mesmeric power. I have seen
people who cannot be hypnotized.
They resent the effort and nervous
action becomes intensified.—Science.
Patti and Royalty.
Patti has met and known well
eveiy sovereign in Europe. The
Prince and Princess of Wales have
always shown her marked attention,
which she cordially appreciates, pay
ing sincere homage to the princess,
whom she considers the mo3tibeau-
tiful woman in England. Th? old
German emperor was a great favor
ite of hers, but when a naive rirl at
Homburg, and the then king sent
her a message requesting hbr to
walk with him in the morning while
he drank the waters, she sent back
the answer: “Certainly not'. I get
up early for no king in Euiope.”
Later when, a short time before his
death, he sent in word to her tc visit
him in his box, apologizing for being
unable to go to her behind the
scenes, she said -with tears in her
oyes, “Oli, now, sire, I would run
anywhere to see you.”—New York
Sun.
No Comparison at All.
Overheard during the election in
the Ealing division:
First Laborer—Well, Bill, are you
going to vote for his lordship?
Second Laborer'—No, I ain’t. Wot
I says is, we wants more workingmen
in the ’ouse, plain misters, and not so
many of your bloomin lords. Now,
there was Disraeli, ’e was a fine
man, ’e was.
F. L.—Yus, that ’e was.
S. L.—Well, now, look at that there
Lord Beaconsfield. Wot a bloomin
bad lot e’ was! Why, there ain’t no
comparison.—London Globe.
Amateurs.
She—Who played the principal
part in the operetta at the Van Og
dens’ last night.
He—The orchestra.—Kate Field’s
Washington.
St. James and St. Christopher
share July 25 between them.- In
gome parts of England the apple
trees are blessed on this day, which
is said also to mark the success - or
failure of the hop crop. ,
J. F. Chase, a veteran of the Fifth
Maine battery, is reputed to carry
on his body forty-eight scars. He
exhibits an empty coat sleeve and an
artificial eye, ail the result of a
bursting shell at the battle of Get
tysburg.
A Father’fe Worry.
Your poor wearied wife losing sleep
night after night nursing the little one
suffering from that night-fiend to chil
dren and horror to parents, croup, should
have a bottle of Sweet Gum and Mullein,
an undoubted croup preventive and cure
for coughs, colds and consumption.
When a 17-year old girl sues a 74-
year old lover for breach of promise of
marriage it is high time little Cupid
was given a good spanking.
among what to our eyes constitute the
coat. ”
The remarkable feature, then, in the
fur seals is its abundancy and density.
The operation which the skin under
goes to bring out, so to say, the fur,
may he briefly-described as follows:
The skin, after being washed free of
grease, etc., is laid fiat on the stretch,
flesh side up. A flat knife is then
passed across the flesh substance, thin
ning it to a very considerable extent.
In doing this the blade severs the roots
of the long, strong hairs, which pene
trate the skin deeper than docs the
soft, delicate ones under the fur. The
rough hairs are then got rid of, while
the fur retains its hold.
A variety of subsidiary manipulations
in which the pelt is softened and pre
served, are next gone through. Then
the fur undergoes a process of dyeing
which produces that deep uniform tint
so well known and admired. The dye
ing process causes the fur to lose its
natural curly character and present its
limp appearance.
from 24 acres in cotton he will pick at
least ten bales. All of this was done
by his own efforts, save just a little
work that he hired done. He used but
little guano and his crop is nearly ,all
profit as it was not expensive to raise,
aud next year it will be clear money as
lie has enough to run him.
A LITTLE WISDOM.
The devil has always been afraid of
the man he couldn’t scare.
If money could make people good it
wouldn’t be worth while to preach very
much.
The devil never has to try more
than one or two kinds of bmt to catch
people who do not think.
If some people could have their way
in this world, the devil would he willing
to sleep all day every Sunday.
There are some people in the church
who would hurt the devil’s cause a
great deal if they were to leave it.
How soon the millenium would come
if the good things people intend to do
to-morrow were only done to-day.
The devil would soon have to run if
he couldn’t manage to make the Lord’s
troops now and then fire into one an
other.
Make no Mistake.
When one wants te eradicate every in
dication of malaria from their system,
uhey are truly wise, and make no mistake
fl.ntr will fru T)r .Inhii Bull’s
if they will try Dr. John Bull’s
smith’s tonic sykup.
For many years it has deservedly main
tained its reputation as being the most
reliable of the many
CUKES
one sees advertised aud sold for the most
annoying aud enervating of all malarial
diseases, known as
CHILLS .AND FEVEK.
It has a good and lasting effect, and no
other remedy has ever given such satis
faction. Demand it of your druggist.
Take no substitute on which a larger
profit is made. One bottle will do you
more good than six bottles of any other
remedy, and the relief is always perma
nent. A word to tbe wise is sufficient.
It cures malaria.
Take Bull’s Sarsaparilla.
Is vour blood in bad condition? Do
you feel weak? Do you have pain? Do
sores trouble you? Are you in poor health
and growing worse? Use Dr. John Bull s
Sarsaparilla. It will make you well aud
strong. Do not delay. Give it a trial.
Get iFfrom your druggist. Large bottle
(192 teaspoonfuls) SI.00.
to.
A boastful young man of Kansas
City, Mo., drank twenty-one glasses of
whisky a few days ago while another
fellow footed the bill. He lived just
15 minutes after gulping down the
dose, and an examination showed that
his brain was literally cooked. The
last assertion is doubted, as nobody be
lieves he had a brain.
The Exposition Did It
Is how Mr. O. C. Johnson, of Beloit,
Wis., expresses how he found out what
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullein was, and how efficacious it
is in curing coughs, colds and croup.
plungin
darkness for several hundred yards,
when my horse stopped so suddenly
that I inadvertently left the saddle and
sat astride his neck. My roadster was
trembling all over with fright, but to
save me I could see nothing. I thought
it must be more footpads and spurred
the horse forward, while I held my
pistol ready for the expected attack.
“As I passed a large walnut tree
that covered the road a big muddy boot
struck me in the face and scraped my
hat off. I concluded that I didn’t need
a hat, so did not stop to recover it. On
my way back next morning I found
that the kicker was a dead man, who was
swinging from a limb, with a piece of
paper pinned to his shirt, on which was
scrawled, ‘Thou shalt not steel—spesh-
allv cows and mewls.”
Chicago, the city of sensations and
horrors, has just furnished one of the
most horrible suicides on records.
Placing his left leg on a block of w'ood
the suicide cooty cut it off just below
the knee with a hatchet and tlieD cut
his left arm so that it hung by a shred
of skin only. He then pounded his
head with a hatchet until he fainted.
It must be a very violent form of in
sanity which leads a man to thus hack
himself to pieces, when there are so
many pleasant methods of shuffling
off this mortal coil.
The Bishop of London is alarmed at
the great increase of the drinking habit
among women, both in public and at
their homes. If English women a* <:
becoming addicted to liquor, it is no
wonder. It is the result of centuries
of bibulous behavior on the part of
English men. The daughters are not
free from the operation of heredity’s
stern laws.
If you wish to secure a certain and
st.eedv result, when using Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla, be careful in observing the rules of
health, or the benefit may be retarded
A fair and persistent trial of this medi
cine never fails, when the directions are
followed.
A correspondent of the New York
Press (stalwart republican) has discov
ered that there is a secret colored or
ganization in Ohio, 8,000 strong and
growing every day, 'whose purpose is to
defeat the republican party. The Press
seems to have been panic-stricken by
the news: but it will need to brace up,
as there is likely to be worse behind.
“Not all is gold that glitters” is a true
saying; it is equally true that not all is
sarsaparilla that is so labeled. If you
would be sure of the genuine article, ask
for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and take no other.
Health is too precious to be trifled with.
The ordinary expenses for the first
three years of the Cleveland adminis
tration were $627,000,000. For the
first three years of the Harrison ad
ministration the ordinary expenses have
been $901,000,000. Figures never lie.
congress till he celebrated as many
golden wedding anniversaries as Methu-
seleh and never again interpose objec
tion to a Grand Army Republic or Dis
trict of Columbia bill; yet he never
could cultivate that title. ‘ ‘ Kicker Uil-
gore” of Texas has a name that will
stay by him to the end of the chapter.
“Czar Reed” may never preside over
another legislative body, but he has
gained a title that will stick to him
whether he lives in Maine or Missouri.
“The Sockless Statesman” acknowl
edges with pride his alliterative nick
name, and the “No Quorum Kid” from
Texas, will be remembered by that title
long after his grandson has taken his
seat in congress. “Silver Dollar Dick”
is a title its possessor is proud of, for
he won it in nearly a twenty-years’
fight for his conception of an “honest”
dollar. The young man from Georgia,
who rolled into congress on the
“ground swell” of ninet} 7 , smiles be
nignly at his title of “Calamity Howler”
while “Private” John Allen is prouder
of that title than that of “Honorable”
which Congress tacks onto his address.
London ladies are now complaining
because their dressmakers have not as
yet invented a watch pocket which will
be handy for use and safe to wear.
The dressmakers evidently do not want
to give up their traditional prejudice
against putting any dress pocket where
it would be possible for a man to find it.
A totally blind man in New York,
Julius Stern plays a capital game of
billiards, knows how to distinguish
money by touch and adjustment, con
ducts a large news dealing establish
ment, and makes a first-rate living. He
is an inveterate smoker, and only re
grets that he cannot see hi3 children.
“I tried a bottle of Salvation Oil on a
wound and was cured within several
days. I never had such a good remedy
as Salvation Oil in my hands.
Mrs. J. C. Duucan, Lexington, Mo.”
A Detroit man offered to bet a mod
erate sum that he could name a city of
over 100,000 inhabitants north of Ma
son and Dixon’s line in which Harrison
would not get a vote. The bet was
eagerlv accepted, and the Detroit man
won. He named Washington, D. C.
Many things which are advertised
possess no value; but who would say that
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup possesses no
merit ? It is the standard remedy of our
age.
An Indiana millionaire advertised for
a wife. Of course he got one. No
matter how old or ill-favored he might
be, his pile paints a halo round his
head for the eyes of thousands of wo
men. A Nashville girl exchanged her
person for his money.
"Baldness is either hereditary or caused
by sickness, mental exhaustion, wearing
tight-fitting hats, and over work and
trouble. Hall’s Renew.er will prevent it.
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