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GEOEGIA GOSSIP.
A WEEK’S DOINGS IN THE EMPIRE
STATE.
Cream of the New. CarefallyCollected and
Condensed Into Short Paragraphs for
Citizen Readers*
A. C. Allen, an Atlanta. man, sues
for a divorce upon the ground that he
was drunk and in a stupefied condition
when he was married.
Governor Northen has offered $200
reward for the capture and conviction
of the murderer of Parker, the Augusta
policeman, which makes $700 offered
J. A. Rylee, who was an engineer on
the W. and A. railroad, has just been
awarded a $10,000 verdict against that
road, by the city court of Atlanta, for
the loss of an arm.
There is every prospect of an ex
ceedingly lively contest for the next
United States senatorship from Geor
gia. There will be several strong can
didates in the field, says the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
Col. J. Lindsay Johnson of East
Rome has received a telegram from
W ashington notifying him that he had
been appointed a colonel on the staff of
the general marshal of the inaugura
tion demonstrations.
At Brunswick, down on the bay
there is a Cheap John clothier who is
more truthful than most dealers of his
kind. There is a sign in front of his
place which reads: “Overcoats at
cost; $20 coats for $3.
The report of the adjutant general
of Georgia shows that the total
strength of the volunteer forces of the
State at the close of 1892 was 3,950
officers and men—a decrease of 557
men as compared with 1891.
At Decatur Tuesday John Pendley,
who is now in jail charged with forgery,
was tried for lunacy. The verdict of
the jury was that he was not a fit sub
ject for the asylum, so he will have to
stand his trial on the charge of forgery.
Charles Paulk, aged 4 years, of Ty
Ty, Worth county, is 4 feet 3 inches
high, weighs 90 pounds, wears a No,
6 shoe. He is splendidly proportioned,
and would impress any one as being a
youth of 12 or 13 years. There are
indications that he will soon have a
mustache,
James Watkins, the unfortnnate mam
who was
■— T5atur'day,~' near ~the"
Griffin, had in his hand a paper sack
filled with eggs. He was struck with
such force by the engine that nearly
every bone in his body was broken, and
was knocked fully twenty-five feet down
an embankment, and yet several of the
eggs were found near the body not even
cracked.
If there is luck in carrying the left
hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, then
Charlie Walker, of McDonough, is
certainly “in it.” While out hunting
he noticed where some animal had en
tered a tomb in the city cemetery.
Lifting the slab, he discovered a rab
bit underneath that appeared to have
but recently been killed by some ani
mal. Charlie cut off the left hind leg
and is now carrying it for luck.
A very close friend of Congressman
James H. Blount says he will be of
fered the position of minister to Mexico
and may accept it in preference to an
appointment across the waters. Those
nearest to Congressman Blount know
that his ambition does not point either
to a cabinet place or a minister to some
foreign country. At a near day Col.
Blount may be a candidate in the State
of Georgia for a certain high office.
Sandersville Progress: E. R. Under
wood of Oconee showed us an interest
ing relic of the war last Tuesday. It
was the tattered colors of the Fifty-
seventh Georgia regiment, which went
through several bloody and hard fought
battles, and had so many bullet holes
through it that they could not be ac
curately counted. It bore the follow
ing legend in bold letters: “D. B. Vic
tory of Death. Aug. 10, 1861.” D.
B. was for Dixie boys. Mr. Under
wood says the flag wjns presented to
the Fifty-seventh regiment by a lady
Thomas county, Georgia, whose
name he has forgotten, and if he can
ascertain who was the donor he will
send it to her. The flag was used for
two years when the confederate flag
was adopted by all regiments in order
to avoid confusion on the field of bat
tle. It is 40 inches wide and 72 inches
long. _
j D. Watkins, Blakely, Ga., writes:
Old sores covered my entire person and
itched intensely night and day. For sev
eral months I could not work at all. I
commenced the use of Botamc Blood
Bata, tad beg» to ®
week, and am now
from sores
again.
sound and well, free
and itching and at work
The reason the world does not go
right with some people is because they
don’t go right themselves. If the
main spring of a watch is out qf order
yon can’t expect the watch to keep
good time. Time goes on all right but
the watch is out of order.
people of tne -
is?
the only
standard cough.remedy.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Six-thousand people sleep in the open
air in London every night.
The Mohammedan year is eleven
; days shorter than the Christian year.
Of the 7,000,000 Hebrews who. in
habit the earth more than one-third
live in Russia.
During the past ninety-six.year# 343,
915,000 pounds of gold were coined in
France.
Th6 British and foreign Bible sq-
ciety sends, out every, day five tons
weight of Bibles, Testaments and por
tions of scripture.
A process has been discovered for
metalizing textile fabrics by which the
latter are rendered proof against the
attacks of insects.
Well diggers at Kennett township
Pa., claim to have discovered the live
root of a poplar tree at a distance of
35 feet below the surface.
Out of a, population of about 30,000,
000 in Prussia, only about one-tenth of
them possess, it is said, an income of
900 marks a year, which is equal to
about $225.
The two editors of a Kansas paper
were married the other day, and their
names now appear at the top of the
columns: “Eugene L. and Nora Cook
Smith, editors and publishers.”
There were 180,000 emigrants to this
country in 1892 who did not have an
occupation of any kind. There certainly
could not be any question of the pro
priety of shutting out foreigners of this
class.
It is said that two 10-cent confeder
ate stamps recently carried, a small
package from Granby, Mass., to Bos
ton. The package had gone through
the postoffices at Granby, Hadiey and
Boston unnoticed.
Packs of wolves have appeared at
Belgrade and other towns in Servia.
At Pozarewatz a girl was devoured by
the famished brutes, and stories of
similar tragedies have come from va
rious parts of Europe. The cold in
Bohemia and Servia has been extreme
Lamar's Lash.
The death of Justice Lamar has re
called his well-known devotion to the
confederacy, and his love for the leader
of the lost cause was productive of one
of the most dramatic scenes in the his
tory of the senate. The Mexican pen
sion bill, was under consideration and
amendment'-Beaded!
provisions foil -all'Veterans irrespective
of their course in the war between the
States. It was near adoption. Con
gress, it was said, could best show its
desire to forgive and forget by extend
ing the benefits of the measure to
those who had once borne arms against
the common country. The amend
ment was near adoption, when Senator
Zach Chandler came to his feet with
a short speech, in which he said that
while in the main he agreed to the gen
eral tenor of the amendment, yet under
its provisions even Jeff Davis would be
restored to citizenship. “And,” he
added, “I am not prepared to go so far
as that..”
Lamar arose. His intense excite
ment was evident. Between him and
Chandler a strong personal antagonism
existed. An outburst was expected and
it came.
“Mr. President,” Baid the Mississip
pi, with outstretched finger pointing
at his foeman, his tall form trembling
with emotion, but his voice bell like in
its clearness and without a quiver in it.
“When Prometheus lay bound to the
rock it was not the king of beasts who
availed himself qf his distress. It was
not any other of the nobler brutes of
the field or birds of the air. It was
the vulture, the scavenger of the ani
mal kingdom gluttoning upon carrion,
which preyed upon his vitals, knowing
that in a defenceless man, who could
move neither hand nor foot, he had
one into whose vitals he could dig his
beak.”
He sat down amid a stillness so pro
found that the rustle of a paper sounded
harshly. Chandler was deadly pale.
Drops of perspiration stood upon his
forehead and he clinched the arm of his
chair until the strained wood creaked.
It was expected that he would reply.
Twice he arose and then sank back.
He did not reply.
jQ A pyramid of Petrified Slcalls.
It is reported that near Currizo
Springs, Tex., an oval topped mound
covered with petrified human skulls
has been discovered. The mound is
circular in form and about one hundred
feet high and on one side is joined to a
short range of hills of about the same
height. On the summit and for some
distance down the sloping side it is
covered with what appers to be smooth,
spherical bones, which, upon close ex
amination, prove to be, it is said, petri
fied human skulls distorted into gro
tesque shapes. It is further stated
that, by removing the loose dirt and
sand from the orifices of the face, the
unmistakable human countenance is
revealed. Bones of other classes are
also said to be found there, and from
all apperances the whole mound is
formed of human skulls.
It is estimated that 24 tetters in a
million go astray; but it’s always the
24 that are yranted the. iyQfpt.
A FROG, BUT NO AFFIDAVIT.
Said to Have Been Found Living in the
Center of a Lamp of Coal,
From the Philadelphia Press.
A miner while at. work the other day
made a wonderful-discovery of a large
and well-formed frog in a mass of an
thracite coal blasted from a chamber
300 feet below thtf surface in Simpson
& Watkin’s Mount Lookout colliery at
Wyoming, Pa. I
The discoverer df, the rare curiosity
is Joseph John, u He was timberiu;
with another miner, James Otts, in
tunnel in the nqne and had barred
down a large lump of coal when the
gleam of light from his lamp fell upon
something in the coal. He stooped
down and touched the object and was
surprised to find it soft and yielding.
There was about a square inch of sur
face exposed at the time and he saw
that the thing, whatever it was, was in
a cavity. With his pick he very care
fully chipped off the coal all around it
until the cavity or chamber was fully
opened, and there nestling in the hard
coal he found a frog.
Some seventeen years ago, while
working in the mines, he made a simi
lar discovery and had then taken the
frog in his hand, shown it to his brother
miners and taken it home. But while
it was alive and warm when he found
it, it died before it had been exposed
to the air half an hoar. Atthattimea
scientist had told him that if he had in
closed the frog in an.air-tight compart
ment immediately after unearthing it
the animal might have lived.
When he made his second discovery
on Wednesday this fact at once re
curred to his mind, and as soon as he
had recovered from his surprise and
realized what he had found, he ran to
his dinner pail and got an air-tight fruit
jar in which he had brought the tea for
his lunch. Into this ‘be pnt the frog
and closed the lid tightly, excluding all
the air and the jar hal not since been
opened. U
The frog at first showed no signs of
life, although it was warm, but after
being in the jar abouti^six hours it be
gan to move, and when^it had been ex
posed to the light te# hours it was
quite as lively as any specimen which
can be found around the ponds in Bum
mer. Since then it has continued to
be fully wide awake and stares in won
der at all who look at it.
In appearance it is not very different
from an every day frog except that its
back is nearly black and there are two
each side~of its spine. “ Its legs also
are peculiarly iong and its feet very
delicate and tender.
The Lost “Congres-ional” Duel.
The year 1851 marked the end of
congressional dueling, says a writer in
the Louisville Courier-Journal. In
February the last affair in which both
principals were members of congress
and in which the provocation was given
in debate, was fought near the national
capital between Mr. Inge, of Alabama,
who had been second in the McCorkie-
Gwin duel, which resulted fatally for a
mule, and Mr. Stanley of North Caro
lina. Inge charged in the House that
the river and harbor bill for the fiscal
year 1851-’52 was sectional and Stan
ley objected to the statement. Accord
ing to the Congressional Globe Stanley
told Inge he had little sense and less
charity in charging him with unfriend
liness to the South.
“I say that remark is ungentlemanly
and unparliamentary, and comes from
a blackguard,” retorted Inge.
“Mr. Chairman,” cried Stanley, “he
charges me with being a blackguard.
He has just shown to the House and
to the country that he is one.”
“Personalities are not in order,” in
terposed the chairman.
No,” was Stanley’s reply; “person
alities are not in order. “I am willing
to let our conduct be judged by the
public, and let them estimate his char
acter and mine. As to my friendship
to the South let the record and my con
duct speak whether I have not more
friendship for the South than these
noisy traitors who impeach others and
seek the applause of the grogshops at
cross roads at home by their own pro
fessions of devotion and by crying eter
nally: ‘There is danger, danger to
the South!’ Even those who voted
with a majority of Southern members
upon certain measures are uncharitably
assailed. I regret I have been called
on to say anything. I was unconscious
of giving any provocation. The gen
tleman cast the first stone and he will
make the most of what I have Baid.
shall hereafter treat remarks from
that quarter with the contempt they
deserve.” The duel took place Feb.
24 and resulted in nothing more than
an exchange of shots. Stanley was
the man who fought Wise, of Virginia,
nine years before. Jefferson Davis
was Inge’s second.
A good brother who recently offered
prayer at a prayer meeting, says the
New York Tribune, started to make a
reference to Noah, but got a little flus
tered and forgot the name of the pa
triarch. After hemming and hawing
for a few moments he turned to a
neighbor and asked in a loud whisper,
“Who was it built the ark ?” .
The main drainage pipes of London
are eighty-two miles long.
War Time Reminiscence*.
“A man is not safe from bullets any
where,” Capt. Eugene May- remarked
the other day to a lot of old comrades
in the hearing ef a New Orleans Times-
Democrat writer. “I have-reason to
appreciate the truth of this observation
when I reflect upon the experience
had at Jackson, Miss., .once during the
war. Bullets were flying around pret
ty lively, but we felt pretty safe, as
we were behind a high embankment
which extended some distance above,
our heads. Well,, there wasn’t any
thing to do just then, so I 8ti-etched
out beneath a caisson with my head just
behind a wheel.
“The last thing in the world seemed
the coming of a bullet into the shade of
that caisson. But while I was lying
there taking it easy I suddenly heard a
sharp ‘sping’ just behind my head. It
was unmistakably the noise of a bullet
hitting something. Well, I turned over
and looked at the wheel, and, by George,
there it was imbedded in the tire of the
wheel just about an inch from where
my head had been. If that tire had
been a fraction less wide I’d have got
the bullet in the head. I wasn’t sleepy
after that, I can tell you, and I moved
away from there almost as quickly as I
got from behind the bowl of that tree
at Chickamauga.”
“What tree at Chickamauga?” quer
ied some one.
“Well,” replied Capt. May, “it’s a
long stoiy and I had almost forgotten
it till I was reminded of it the other
day by old Jim Dabney. The way the
thing happened was this: Our section
had been fighting it all alone in a peach
orchard until the other members of the
battery joined us, when we moved for
ward and had quite a brisk engagement
with the enemy. Our ammunition ex
pended and our men worn out, we halt
ed at a spot in the woods to rest and to
replenish our ammunition.
“The fighting was going on all
around us and stray bullets were com
ing past us every now and then. I
don’t believe I was ever so tired in my
life as I was after that engagement, jit*
was absolutely necessary for me to takff
a rest, and perceiving a huge tree near
by I concluded to plant myself along
side of it. So I leaned against it with
my back to the enemy’s line, stretched
out my feet and was having a splendid
rest when a 1-2 pound shot came bound,
ing along and struck the tree plump on
the opposite side from me at a point
just opposite my head,
isiwoia
me. The shock was tremendous.
Great Jerusalem I but did’t 1 run from
under that tree, looking sideways up
and expecting momentarily to see the
whole enormous mass of wood and
leaves come crash down upon me.
didn’t know what had happened until
I saw some of the boys dancing around
in high delight, clapping their hands
and yelling at me. I felt for a week
as if I had been struck on the back of
the head with a sledge hammer.”
A Chinese Colnmbns.
Columbus had his Erickson, and now
Erickson must give way to the almond-
eyed celestial as the original dicoverer
of America, if the word of an English
writer is to be believed. This writer
claims that the Chinese crossed the Pa
cific to America as early as the fifth
century. China had attained a high
state of civilization from a very remote
age, and undoubtedly made use of the
magnetic needle in navigation centuries
before the European countries adopted
it. They have a history which scholars
consider trustworthy for four thousand
years back. In these official annals
found an account of the discovery of a
great country lying far to the southeast
of Alaska. Holi-Shin, a Buddhist
priest, was the Chinese Columbus, and
there is little doubt but that he visited
the western coast of Mexico. The in
habitants of Fusang, as he called the
country in his narrative, had a mon
archical form of government. This
we know was the case with all the early
nations of Mexico. His statement that
the houses were made of wood, that
the people had little practical knowl
edge of iron and that silver and gold
were considered of little value, corres
ponds with historical facts in regard to
the old Aztec kingdom. Holi-Shin
gave a minute description of the Mexi
can aloe tree, that is indigenous to
America. But perhaps the strongest
evidence in favor of the Chinaman is
the recent discoveries in old Aztec
temples of sculptured elephants. The
elephant was an animal totally unknown
in America, but it is a religious symbol
frequent use among the Asiatic
Buddhists. It is difficult to see how
came to be sculptured in Aztec
temples unless under the influence of
the priests from Asia. But it does not
detract from the fame of Columbus,
that he may have had predecessors in
his discoveries; fpr their voyages and
settlement had been productive of no
practical results to the Europe of the
fifteenth century.
If anybody—democrat or republican
—imagines that Grover Cleveland
hasn’t nerve enough, to do and act just
as he pleases, regardless of outside in
fluences or party pressure, he simply
doesn’t know him—has mismeasured
the man. The new president is going
to surprise a big lot of people.—Jack
sonville Times-Union.
. . BLIND .MEN SMOKE.
How a "Would Be Scientist Discovered This
- Ail Important Fact.
I saw a blind man smoking a cigar
the other day.' Now, as there has
been some scientific controversy as
to whether a mail can enjoy a Smoke
who cannot at the same time seeth©
smoke curling np from the'cigar or
pipe, I was struck -with this apparent-
solution of the question.
I have heard it repeatedly stated
that nobody could tell in the dark
.whether his cigar was alight or not,
if he couldn’t see the fire. I had
tried it myself and had come to the
conclusion that the statement was
correct. Nevertheless here was a
blind man who was not only smok
ing, but apparently, enjoying -the
process.
I knew the man was blind because
there, was a placard slung around his
neck announcing 1 ‘I am blind. ” Then
I had seen him standing at the foot
of the elevated stairs month in and
month out selling lead peneils to sym
pathetic people who didn’t want any
lead pencils—who never used lead
pencils. He was not on duty at. the
timg. I don’t know, but a blind man
selling lead pencils and smoking a
good cigar at the same time would
seem an incongruous thing. Not be
cause he hadn’t a perfect right to do
so, but somehow the prevailing pub
lic idea is that a blind man has no
use for the ordinary luxuries of life,
ahd to see him indulging in any such
thing would have a tendency to de
stroy his trade. He probably under
stood this, for he was at a free
lunch counter, having evidently just
quenched his thirst with a glass of
beer.
“Does it give you pleasure to
smoke?” I inquired, softly observing
the marvelous instinct with which
he discriminated between the bits of
sliced ham and bologna.
“W’at d’ye s’pose I do it for, eh?”
says he.
“In the interests of science,”said L
“W’at’re ye givin me?” says he.
‘ ‘I’m not giving you anything, ” says
L “You are helping yourself by all
indications. I have been told that a
blind man never smokes. It is said
that”
He stopped his onslaught upon the
edibles long enough to turn the sign
over. Then he turned his weak and
watery eyes upon me.
“Hang your science I” says he and
walked calmly out of the place.
I felt somewhat put down myself,
but science is all right. Let this evi
dence be spread upon the record-
blind men do smoke.—New ' York
Herald. ' ~ '
A Carious Marriage Custom.
The marriage customs in some
K CfernV
important personage to whom the
candidate for matrimony applies for
a list of eligible girls. Having se
lected one, the tailor at once pro
ceeds to the maiden’s father, carry
ing a wand or broom. He is dressed
for the occasion in official stockings,
one of which is of violet color and
the other red, and with him is the
suitor and his nearest relative. While
the family chiefs are making their
arrangements, the lovers retire to
the other end of the house and dis
course their own “sweet music.”
It is necessary that the engaged
pair should put an end themselves to
the term of the negotiation. They
approach, holding each other by the
hand, to the table where their par
ents or relatives are seated, when
bread, wine and brandy are brought
in. The young man and the maiden
eat with the same knife and fork and
drink out of the same cup, and the
day for the union is then agreed up
on.—Million.
A DRUMMER WHO COULD DRAW.
An English Child's Birthdays.
The fete dayB of an English child’s
life are emphatically his birthdays.
Much is always made of them. Ev
ery one in the family, including the
servants, gives the celebrator a pres
ent. A cake is always made for tea,
with name, age and “many happy
returns” on its icing in colored sug
ar. The use of candles is German
rather than English, and is not so
common over there as here, though
I have seen it. There is always a
special dinner, with the child’s par
ticular dainties served, and a party,
picnic or expedition somewhere.
From breakfast, with its array of
gifts, to tea, with its beautiful cake,
the birthday is a long and full holi
day. Lessons are given over, and
everybody contributes in some way
to mark the day with pleasure. This
custom is general. From Windsor
castle down, birthdays are made very
much of in England, and it is a poor
home over there that cannqt make
the day different from its fellows.—
New York Times.
No Half Way Measures.
It was proposed to celebrate the
semicentennial of the town’s settle
ment, and a patriotic citizen rose to
object. “Mr. Moderator,” he said,
‘I am informed that a semicenten
nial means a half centennial. Now,
sir, for one, I am opposed to half way
measures. Let us have a whole cen
tennial or none at alL” But notwith
standing his eloquent appeal the
measure passed with but one dissent
ing vote. It does seem as though
minorities have no rights the major
ity is bound to respect—Boston
Transcript
Funnier Than He Knew.
The humor of the French duel was
exhausted in the sententious reply of
Clemenceau to the pleadings of his
friends not to unnecessarily expose
himwlf to danger in the meeting
with Deroulede. Said he, “I have
stood on the field of honor too often
to have any apprehension. ”—St Louis
Post-Dispatch.
The celebrated remedy, Salvation Oil,
is recommended by experienced veteri
nary surgeons as jnst the thing for the
stable and cattle yards.
How Church Committees Arc Often Led to
Choose an Architect.
• -Building committees are too often
at the mercy of tricky schemers and
“fakirs.” There are so called archi
tects who lay themselves out to de
lude this class of clients. The writer
well remembers an instance of this
kind. In the course of a visit to a
friend living in a city that may be
called Boardville, his host happened
to mention that be was a member of
a church building committee, and
one evening he begged to be excused
in order to attend a committee meet
ing. A great New York architect was
coming to submit plans for the new
church. My host regprned home de
lighted with the New-Yorker.
“He’s a fine fellow,” said my host.
“You should hear him talk. He has
the building at his finger ends and
speaks of the smallest detail as
though he loved it. Such undoubted
ability I Such mastery! He has
planned a church that will be the
gem of the city, and after looking at
bis drawings one can understand one
very striking remark he made.”
“What was that?” - - -.
“Oh, he said it had been the dream
of his life to build a church like that
the dream of his life. I like to see
a man so earnest and enthusiastic. I
am going to vote for him,-and so are
more than half of the rest of the
committee. ”
So the enthusiastic architect was
chosen. It was .only when it was
found that the lowest builder’s esti
mate that could be obtained for the
building of the church was 30 per
cent more than the architect’s esti
mate, and also that after the work
had been begun very important
changes in construction had to be re
sorted to in order to make the build
ing safe that this genius begun to be
worshiped with a less adoring hom
age. Moreover, the church was
found to look very much less impos
ing in reality than it had in the
drawings, in which advantage had
been taken of every trick of drafts
manship and shading to produce ef
fective tout ensemble.
Two years later the writer was in
vited to pay a visit to a relative at,
we will say, Grandejou. Strangely
enough, his host upon this occasion
was also a member of a church build
ing committee. He, too, was absent
one evening at a, committee meeting,
and on his return the writer was sur
prised to find that the, identical New
York architect before mentioned had
been interviewing the committee.
“Well, does *tii'e : -architect me'et
.©visitor. ^ a
y. Me is a very finq f qllp^r.
Really a remarkable .man, ’’’. said the
host ; impressiyely.
'hi ’j Myapaw
sub
ject. You should hear him | He is a
thorough genius. He says it has been
the dream of his life to. build a church
like the one he proposes, but he has
never had the opportunity until
now.”
He had quite taken the committee
captive by his pretty drawings and
his eloquent talk. He was, in fact, a
clever drummer who could draw.
He understood next to nothing of
scientific construction, rarely made a
calculation as to strains and stresses,
put in deep shadows in his drawings
where there was no varied outline in
the profile of the building itself to
justify it, and drew attractive figures
in the foreground which, by their
ridiculously small comparative size,
elevated the fictitious edifice on pa
per into grand proportions. When
he got hold of a building committee,
he conquered them by his clever
readiness and flattered them in a way
that his exquisite perception of char
acter rendered possible.—Engineer
ing Magazine.
Snakes Do Not Bite.
A popular error is the supposition
that a snake bites. Probably no crea
ture in the world provided with teeth
and jaws has so little power of biting.
The jaws are not hinged, but are at
tached one to the other by cartilage.
Thus a snake can have no leverage
in opposing one jaw to the other, and
could not in this manner pierce the
skin. The fangs are driven into the
flesh by a stroke, not by a bite. A
snake is harmless unless in coil. From
its coil it throws its head and body
forward and strikes or hooks its
fangs into the object aimed at. The
entire work is done with the upper
jaw, the lower jaw having nothing
at all to do with it. A man striking
a boat hook into a pier furnishes an
example of the way in which a snake
strikes. Biting is a physical impos
sibility.—New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
Bricks as Cargo.
The captains of ships which carry
bricks have to be very careful. An
ordinary brick is capable of absorb
ing a pint of water. So with a a cargo
of bricks in the hold serious leakage
may quite well go on undetected, for
the water that enters is sucked up as
fast as it gets in. If this should he
the case, the consequences are found
to be most disastrous.—Yankee Blade.
Colors For Dining Rooms.
For dining rooms warm colors,
such as soft reds and browns, are fre
quently used. We may also use com
binations of blue, green and silver,
which are cool and refreshing in the
daytime and light up brilliantly at
night.—Decorator and Furnisher.
Better Than Nothing.
Servant—Please, sir, the coal is all
out.
Mr. Wearie—Well, here’s a big pile
of dunning letters for that last ton.
Burn them.—New York Weekly.
Satisfaction to Customers.
The fact of anything giving satisfac
tion to my customers is a guarantee of
its efficacy. Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy
of Sweet Gum and Mullein gives more
satisfaction to those wanting a good
congh medicine than any other I; sell,
says Mr. B. O. Wood, of Monroe City, Mo.
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