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There are fewer savings banka m
New York now than there were twenty
years ago.
It has been proved beyond reaaon
abb doubt that diphtheria, scarletina,
typhoid fever and cholera have spread
‘brough milk
In France tin* population averages
about 1*7 to the square mile In this
country the average is twenty-one to
tin pmre mile.
Thu highest mountain in the worhl
th >ld established Everest in the
H im alayas. Mount Hercules, in New
(InitK n, shrunk a g< I deal after it
was measured.
Massachusetts lias two of the throe
uirgest libraries in the United States,
the Boston Public and the Harvard
University The largest is the Con
gressional library
In 1H71 the equipment of the New
V’ork Elevated Railroad (Ninth ave
line) WH‘ ix engines and ten cars. In
1891 the equipment of the Now York
Elevated system c insists of 331 loco¬
motives and 1116 cars.
The prune industry is stated to be
attracting attention in Idaho, It is
reported that in the Payette Valley,
where the culture of prunes is one of
the leading industries, thereare ranch
ers who have made as high as $1000
uL’ acre
Meat eating does not promote do¬
mestic tranquility, if the conclusion
of Mrs. Ernest Hart is correct, re¬
marks the Trenton True American.
Tlio ill temper which so often makes
miserable those compelled to live to.
gether in England is in striking con
trast to the urbanity shown in France,
where meat is less eaten, and to the
exquisite politeness in Japan, where
the foo l is lisli and rice, and harsh
words are unknown.
William Morris, the poet, has made
tlu> interesting discovery that house¬
keeping is one of the most difficult and
important branches of study. “Peo¬ |
ple lift their eyebrows,” ho says, i
“over women mastering the higher
mathematics; why, it is infinitely
more difficult to learn the details of
good housekeeping. Anybody can
learn mathematics, but it takes a lot
of skill to manage a house well.” This.
Mr. Morris thinks, is a reason wh~i
women should continue to devote
themselves to housokedp/j^
Hci« csa,
m i . It is now
known that the souring results from a
fungus growth, and that this fungus is
peculiarly fatal to nursing children.
The old-time rural belief was that the
concussion from thunder acted mechan
ically upon the milk, and first soured
and then solidified it The theory is
a plausible one, easily derived from
observing one set of facts without
knowing tho existence of others more
important to the situation. It hap¬
pens that milk sours duriug^or just af¬
ter thunderstorms because the atmos¬
pheric conditions then prevailing art
usually of a kind favorable to the rapid
development of the fungus growth that
sours milk.
Tho most minute precautions are
taken for the protection of the now
President of the French Republic
There is ‘ not in Europe a sovereigu
bettor guarded than M. Casitnir-Per
icr A flying brigade of police
agents in civilian costume has been
created to follow the President step
by step w herever he goes. When M.
Casimir-Perier is about to start from
the Elysee the Prefecture of Police is
apprised by telephone of the place to
which he is going, as well as the route
he is to take Before he has crossed
the gate of the palace a carriage is al¬
ready on the street with orders to
follow the presidential conveyance,
and not to lose sight of it This
maueuvro is repeated several times
daily, for the President goes out fre¬
quently, either in a carriage or on
foot M. Casimir-Perier often goes
to the Bois de Boulogne, like M. Car
not and thus gives a great deal of
work to the police service at the Ely
sec
European coiners of counterfeit
moue y have been busy recently on the
occasion of the withdrawal of the
Italian silver coins from circulation in
France and el where. The Italian
Government on examining the first in¬
stallments f the coins that reached
Lome found that a large proportion
consisted of new coins which, al
though ot good silver and carefully
■-truck, were not theirs. These will
be returned to the Powers by whom
they have been sent, aud this will re
suit m a heavy loss to the Government
departments which called them in.
Asan Italian franc piece passes cur
rent for a sum of about nineteen
cents, while it contains silver of no
more intrinsic value than six cents,
the counterfeiting brought considers
ble profit, especially as the calling in
enabled large sums to be disposed of
without exciting suspicion. The old
piece* ol the Pope, of which a good
many remain in circulation on the
Continent, will also he refused by the
Italian Government, as they were Ion*
withdrawn.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA., TUESD , OCTOBER It. 1894.—EIGHT PAGES
Alabama's supply of red cedar is ex
haustcd. This State was once the chief
source of supply of the United States.
In 1825 the price of gas in New
York was $10 per thousand feet. In
1840 it was $7. In 1855 it was $2.50.
Now it is $1.25.
The site of old Boston is now' given
up to the poorest residents in the city.
Fashionable Boston is built on the
Back Bay on land made by filling up
the harbor.
The cotton seed mills of the South
turned out cotton seed oil worth $41,
000,000 last year, $0,000,000 worth of
oil cake and meal, and over $5,000,000
worth of other grades of oil
Brooklyn has eight miles of water
front, where over $300,000,000 of
goods are stored every yeai It is the
fourth American city in manufactures,
producing over $180,000,000 a year.
A Christian church in some parts ot
Japan cannot be established without
the consent of the property owners in
the neighborhood, Iu fact, a church
lias the same status a saloon has in a
highly moral American village.
Prospectors for gold in Mashona
land, South Africa, recently found
near the ruins of Zimbabye a wooden
plate about thirty inches in circurn
ference carved with the figures of a
crocodile, the sun, moon and three
stars, and what seem to be intended
for signs of the zodiac. The plate has
been sent to Cape Town and will be
examined on archaeologists.
An Adirondack picnic is perhaps the
least trying form of that somewhat un¬
comfortable entertainment, thinks the
Chicago Record. The guide does much
of the hard work and the absolutely
delightfully atmospheric conditions
that prevail in the Adirondacks rob
the affair of the pains attendant upon
the ordinary picnic. The conveyances
are the light and beautiful Adirondack
boats, the scenery is novel and cliarm
iug, and the impossibility of catching
cold relieves every one of uneasiness
that attends picnicking elsewhere.
The return home at evening amid the
fascinating sights aud sounds that be¬
long to dusk in the wilderness is a fit¬
ting close to such an entertainment.
This year’s Princeton expedition tc
the Bad Lauds in search of fossils has
been wonderfully successful. One of
the most important specimens found
rninoreroM, wfiicn I large
was twic as
as the modern rhinoceros. They also
found several specimens of the rhino¬
ceros family and the metamydor, a re¬
lative of the rhinoceros. Then there
are skeletons of numerous small ani
mals. They found a few fish skeletons,
the only fish skeletons ever found in
t hose beds. Last year’s expedition
from Princeton succeeded in obtaining
the only crocodile ever found in the
Bad Lands. On this trip a good
specimen of the amphisbaenold lizard
was unearthed, the only specimen of
this reptile ever found in the world.
This has no limbs at all, and was a very
low order of the lizard.
One of the tricks of trade is for tht
shopkeepers in London to include the
weight of the paper iu which articles
sold are enveloped. It has been shown
that a huge profit is made in this way.
For instance, the report of the Public
Control Department of the County
Council states that in a recent ease it
was shown that a firm of tea dealers
sold as quarter-pounds of tea packets
which contained four drachms weight
of paper, and that on this the firm
profited to the extent of some thou
sands a vear. The result of the in¬
vestigation iu London was that out of
585 bags of flour weighed ready for
delivery 427 were found of deficient
weight, the deficiency amounting to
over two per cent. ; iu 409 packages
of sugar 377 were found to be short
weight, while out of 232 packages id
tea ninety-nine were short weight to
the extent of over two per ceut. In
addition to the loss by weight of the
wrapper, it was found that in a num¬
ber of cases the gross weight of the
packets was short.
The building movement of the 1
M. C. A. iu the United States has been
a remarkable one. In 1856 there was
not an association building on th. con
tinent The rir-<t building ever erect
ed for association purposes was the
first Fat well Hall, iu Chicago, which
was dedicated September 24, 1867. It
cost $190,904. This building, how
ever, was only enjoyed a few months,
as in February, 1865 , it was destroyed
by fire. It was immediately rebuilt
at a cost of $125,000, just in time to
be swept away bvthe disastrousChica
go fire of October, 13S1. After a lit
tie while there appeared upon the
same site a third building, which has
recently been torn down to give place
to a more modern building. The
building stands on ground worth
$765,750, aud the building cost
$900,000; it is thirteen stories in
height, having a front of fifty-three
leet, with an extreme width in rear of
eighty-one feet and a depth—arcade
court—of 1S7 feet ihis association
building is th most costly of the as
somatioa buildiuge in the world.
The new Japanese minister at Wash
fngton is a Yale man, but he is *aid to
have no football record.
Real estate business iu London can
be estimated from the record of ft
week's doings at Tokenhonse Yard,
Of fifty-two auctioneers who con¬
ducted sales twenty-two had to retire
without selling a single “lot,” and
only five sold all they had on hand.
The introduction of predaceous nni.
mals, to hold certain pests in check,
has not proved an unqualified success
in New Zealand, notes the American
Agriculturist. A local paper of that
colony states that the weasels, which
were imported to keep down rabbits
and rats, are increasing so rapidly as
to become a serious menace to poultry
keepers Their success in keeping
down the rabbit pest is problematical,
aud so far are they from destroying
rats, it appears that they fraternize
with them, one farmer having found a
rat living on merry terms in the same
nest with four weasels.
A French newspaper has put to
gether the deaths directly and indirect*
lv caused by President Carnot’s assas¬
sination. An'employe of M. Carnot’s
stables died of a stroke brought on by
grief and excitement. Aboyw asacci
dentally stabbed to death by a school
master who was demonstrating too reali
Bticllv how Caserio eommittodthe mnr
der. A woman at Perpignan,who went
mad on suddenly being told the news,
threw herself out of the window and
was kill d. Indirectly, the event
caused the deaths of the foreman of
the men who arranged the funeral
hangings at the Elysee, Paris, aud of
four persons who were killed in the
crowd.
A British officer, who apparently
knows, Hays that it “would be as rea
sonable to charge brave men armed
with pitchforks against brave men
armed with rifles as to pit, man for
man, the Chinese in their present
condition against the Japanese. ” “Of
all native and colonial troops I have
seeu, and I have seen most of them,”
says he, “I would, next to Goorkhas,
prefer a regiment of Japanese. They
are brave, temperate, patient, ener¬
getic, and at this moment the Chi
nese, whatever might be done with
them, are 200 years behind.” There
is a gymnasium in every Japanese
barracks.
The deposits of petroleum discov¬
ered u few years ago in the Province
i«. the
the coasts of the Malacca Straits, are
being rapidly developed. Concern,
have been granted by the Dutch In
dian government to both Dutch and
English capitalists, but at present
only the Dutchmen have worked their
concessions. The area of the lands
conceded amounts to 318 square miles,
aud it is believed that tfiis portion of
the island is very rich in petroleum.
The wells are put down very near to
the coast, so that the expense of car
riage and shipment is not heavy, and,
as the quality of the oil is very good,
it is thought Sumatra may, before very
long, enter into serious competition
with Russia and America, the more so
as this portion of the coast possesses
i deep and well-sheltered harbor.
The report made by the captain o 1
the U nited States cruiser Columbia,
which vessel arrived recently at Bine
fields, Nicaragua, shows that the ves¬
sel burned a little more than 700 tons
of coal during the voyage of seven
days and twenty-two hours from New
York. This amounts in money to
nearly $3,000 for the fuel alone, using
only three-eiglits boiler power for
three days of the trip, and one-fourth
power the rest of the time. The cap¬
tain of the ship says that a very eco¬
nomical speed had to be maintained,
in order that the ship might still have
a fair amount of coal on board upon
her arrival at Bluefields. And yet,
even at this economical speed, if she
could be run every day in the year,
the cost of coal alone, upon the basis
of the low prices at New Y'ork, accord¬
ing to the Tribune of that city, would
be in the neighborhood of 8150,000.
It is said that the murder of Presi¬
dent Carnot, and the plots against the
life of the Czar of Russia, which were
discovered in that connection, has led
to his determining that Siberia was
too good a place for anarchist con
victs, and has decided that hereafter
they should be housed on the island
of Saghalien. The Trans-Siberian,
railroad, now building, is thought
likely to make that country too de sir
able anyway for a penal settlement.
It is said to be rich in agricultural
resourc * 8 ’ aml fuii of most valuable
miueS ’ 8ud 6re l0Qg k be «owded
™ th an hoaest and industrious popu
lation ’ among whom the convicts
would be sadly out of place Sagha
lieu, however. has no such bright
Viture possible before it Its climate
v? gloomy, inhospitable and horribly
cold, and its soil rocky aud sterile. It
is srtul that a P« r80n not acclimated
t0 th<? plftCe ’ caunot expect to live
there longvr than one vear There
are a number of Russian convicts
there now, and among them Sophie
Bhihstein, who is sai l to be the most
resourceful aud hardened crimtaei
ever uroduoed.
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NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
And Condensed Into Pithy aud Inter¬
esting Paragraphs.
The next legislature will be asked
to make a new judicial circuit for Sa¬
vannah, taking iu McIntosh county.
Up to a few days ago there was co{n
siderable doubt as to whether or no*
the Dixie fair at Macon would secune
Paine’s “Last Days of Pompeii,” di* fLs
one of its great attractions. The
rectors the great met spectacular and closed agreeing the contract to giv[e fojr
the owners of it 80 per cent of tlje
gate receipts at night
President Collier, of the Exp. ion
company, received a letter fro the
board of control of the Sorer >nt
exhibit a few days ago giving t »ut
lines of the building which the | rn
ment will erect at the exx Ion
grounds. building will The contain letter states] 51,(id the
fare
feet of floor space aud the exf di
mensions will be 190 by 270 j ith
the main entrance on the low of
the building.
The property of the Oyste pg
an d Cultivating company, ns
wick, including oyster fan
boats, shell, plant and machi iave
^"iu"by John’c" Lehm,"*’ a r ere D,
Aiken for $10,200. The pr<i ! 08 t
more than $25,000. A com] ora
P° se( l °f Ar H. Lane, J. M den,
F. D. Aiken and others wills gan
ized to operate the plant, aul peo
pie will be given employmen
the A Laundrymen’s most enthusiastic Nationa con I im fsocia- of
tion has just adjourned laundrymejrJ all lester, 1
N. Y, Lots of pres
ent, selecting aud when the import! pliff matter §
of a meeting 1896
the lecting delegates Atlanta had no Several! hesitnj fin Indred se
strong the laundrymen will In the
city during the exposition, Ita will
be treat nothing them white about and clean [re they will
stiff the w fie
will receive.
A goodly sum of monel $18,850,
last was sent Tuesday out from the executive Educational office
morning for
purposes. A warrant fom$5,625 tl for
the fourth quarter’s dues the Tech¬
nological School was issu®, one for
$5,725, the dues of the G rgia Nor
mnl and Industrial Colle wai sent
out, as well as $4,750 for school for
the the des’f at Cave Springs/$2,000 avannah, for
negro college at a
branch of the State U ■ersity, and
$750 for the college at I •qnega, also
<*b£j|nijkjMthe. i ; .JasMtsTBrnioi un ^S^§
an , d f loricla roa( *
has appointed Mr. Eugene C. Spald
in S Umpoiary receiver. While the
appoi ltment occurred before the time
set for the hearing of the case, it was
ai* instance of where the emergency
demanded immediate action. The road
has out against it not less than $50,
000 of indebtedness, which does not
include bonds, and then holders of
nearly two-thirds of this amount were
praying for protection iu the bill for a
permanent injunction and receiver.
The Macon and Northern railroad,
running from Macon to Athens, was
sold at the door of the courthouse of
Bibb countj recently. Mr. Alexander,
Brow.n, Jr., of Baltimore, was the only
bidder. He took the preperty in for
the sum of $1,700,000, the upset price
of th^ road. A check for $30,000 was
deposited with the commissioners as a
guarantee of good faith. The price
paid means that the bondholders pay
the receiver’s debts and take the road.
M hat will become of the Macon and
Northern road is now the question in
railroad circles. Mr. Brown declines
to be interviewed, but so far as can be
learned, the road will be operated in¬
dependently.
* * *
Two important resolutions were
adopted by the United States grand
jury at Atlanta a few days ago. The
first was a resolution urging the estab¬
lishment of a reformatory prison.
And the second called for the appoint¬
ment of a special committee to repre¬
sent the views of the grand jury in
regard to the establishment of a
United States prison in Georgia. A
bill has already passed the two houses
of congress providing for the erection
of a certain number of additional
jirisons throughout the country. The
nearest federal prison at this time is
the one at Columbus, O., and t-o
this point nearly all the prisoners
who are convicted of felonies in
the northern district of Georgia are
carried for imprisonment. The dis¬
tance is such as to make the expense
of carrying prisoners to and from the
prison at Columbus very expensive to
the government, and it frequently
happens, on account of the difference
of climate and latitude, that great suf¬
fering is occasioned to the prisoners
and many die from exposure to the
rigorous climate of the north. If the
prison is located in the northern dis¬
trict of Georgia it will bring to that
section of the state a large appropria
tion—between $500,000 and $600,000.
It will furnish employment to a large
number of officers and will be an im¬
portant acquisition in many respects.
Cotton is Late.
The crop report for the past week,
as furnished by the weather bureau,
shows that cotton is rather late, but
that no material injury has resulted
from the storm which recently passed
over the country. The week was
marked by the passage along the
southeast and east boundaries of the
state of one of the West Indian hurri
canes, which occur at this season of
the vear Happily its center and
rnos t destructive portion did not enter
the state, which felt the effects of its
outer and less violent portion In
tht northwest portion of the state it
war hardly felt at all. The damage
caused was not great and consisted
chiefly in the beating down of some
Corn Hud cotton and the tangling of
the cane fields, thus rendering harvest
i U g more difficult Eveu this damage
was confined to a few counties in the
east and southeast sections. Inquiry
made as to the proportion of the cot¬
ton crop which has been picked, indi¬
cates that about one-half is still in the
field, taking the state as a whole. In
the north and northwest sections,
where picking is least advanced, 80 to
85 per cent is still unpicked, and a
late fall will be needed to produce
even a fair yield. In the central belt
hardly half the crop is picked out;
and in the routhern diatiicts from 30
to 40 per cent is still in the field.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Turned the Crank Too Fast.
Frank Scinella, an Italian orgaa
grinder, called at the Emergency
Hospital last nigh*. He appeared 1’yle to
be in great misery, and Dr. ask¬
ed him what the matter was.
“I got-ta a sprain-a wrist.”
“Howdid it happen?” inquired the
doctor.
“i play-a ‘High Sehool-aCadet-ta.’
Him very fast, to mak-a demon. He
sprain-a de wrist.”
Further inquiry brought out the
fact that the Italian had been playing
in front of the American House, and
that some men had offered him halt
R dollar if he would play as fast as he
could. In trying to comply with the
request he had twisted his wrist out
of joint.—[Boston Herald.
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RJIOTHERS, hWH Batemans Props, Godfrey’s Do Cordial, You so-called Know Soothing .hat Syrups, r^rir,
many and
most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine f
Do You Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poiscas f
Po Yow Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics
without labeling them poisons ?
Po You Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your child
unless you or your physician know of what it is composed T
Po You Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of
its ingredients is published with every bottle r
P» Yon Know that Castoria is the prescription of the famous l>r. Samuel Pitcher.
That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than
of all other remedies for children combined f
Do You Know that #
the Patent Office iVpartmcnt of the United States, and of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to l>r. Pitcher and his assigns to uso the won/
” Castoria” and its formula, and that to imitate them is state prison offense T
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Do You Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protection was
because Castoria liad been proven to be absolutely harmless?
Do Yon Kkow that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 3.5
cents, or ono cent a dose ?
Do Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children inn;
be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest f
Well, the s e things aro worth knowing. They are facts.
The fac-simile la on every
gignatnro of wrapper.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
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Enterprise BOILER Works
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