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By tire Eagle Publishing* Company.
VOLUME XL.
1899.
H. E. ANODE & CO.
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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899.
THE SASSAFRAS PLANT. I
From It May Be Brewed a. Pleuant?
Tea and a. Good Macila&e. •
A correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier says of the sassafrau
plant: “The whole plan.t ia valuable
for its medicinal properties. The roof
makes an excellent tea, spicy and fra«
grant, and baa alterative virtues quite aaj
good as the sarsaparilla. The stalks’
have an inner pith that, although tedi-jl
ous to extract much of it, when scrape®
out and put into cold water and agitate®
for a few moments with a spoon forma
a most thick and tenacious
retaining a delicate flavor of the ameljb
of the sassafras and ia a bland amt
soothing drink in fevers, when tha
mouth is dry and great thirst exists, if
is frequently retained gratefully whes
plain water ia ejected. *
It ia astoniahing how mucilaginous q
small quantity of this pith makes q
tumbler of water, which becomes thick*
as gum arable water. A mere
ful of the pith taken out of the small,
green branches of the bush will maker
three or four tumblerfuls of thick muV
cilage.
For inflamed eyes this mucilaginoufr
water is very soothing and curative and
has long been used for all forma of injj !
flammation of delicate tissues, bat is s$
simple that it is ignored by the profqgk
sion.
The oil of sassafras, which is madtf
from the root as well as other parts or
the plant, makes a splendid liniment
for pains and aches in combination witJR ■
turpentine in proportion of one-third oL
the former to two-thirds of the latteiL
Other stimulating tinctures, such a|F
spirits of ammonia, are sometimes add
ed, but the chief ingredient of the ligbtr.
ning liniments hawked about by itinef*
ant quacks are composed principally of
sassafras oil, which is really pungent* *
and effective. *’
THE PRICE OF PEPPER. |
It Helped to Change the History oS
the Old World.
In the sixteenth century all the pep- 1
per consumed in England was bought
by the English merchants from the
Dutch, who brought it from Indiaf-
Owing to racial jealousy, the Datclq
traders in 1599 raised the cost from 8
shillings to 6 shillings per pound. 3?hia
petty display of ill feeling caused con£t
siderable annoyance to the English *
chants and aroused in them that feeling "
of independence whjch has always beeir'
so characteristic of our race.
They determined to import their pep*
per direct from India in their owa
ships, and for this purpose formed ar’
company, called the Governor and|
Company of Merchants of London Trad- '
ing to the East Indies, and vhich ift
latter days became eventually known'
as the East India company. i
Their first voyages embroiled them
in almost innumerable quarrels with;'
the Dutch and Portuguese, and for a '■
time the venture proved a financial fail
ure. It was not until 1615 that thli
company became successfc}
lucrative treaties, lawing
cisively defeating the Portuguese.
From this time on their possessions
gradually increased, slowly at first, and
then very rapidly, until, by the wise
and beneficial management of such men
as Clive, Warren Hastings and Corn
wallis, they exercised sovereignty over
the greater portion of India.
In this manner it happened that an
increase in the price of pepper momen
tously affected the history of mankind.
—London Standard.
A Shining Mark.
A lady, grievously tormented with a
corn on her toe, was advised by one of
her friends to anoint it with phosphorus,
which in a weak moment she did, but
forgot to tell her husband before retir
ing at night. It had just turned 12
when the husband awoke, and was star
tled to see something sparkling at the
foot of the bed.
He had never heard of a firefly in the
locality, nor did be ever remember see
ing such a terrible looking object as
the toe presented. Reaching carefully i
out of bed till he found one of his slip- 1
pers be raised it high in the air and j
brought it down with great force upon i
the mysterious light.
A shriek and an avalanche of bed
clothes, and all was over. When at last
be released himself from the bedclothes,
he discovered his wife groaning in a
corner of the bedroom, but she bad not
got that phosphorated corn.—London
Answers
Weather Forecaata.
The first attempt at scientific fore
casting of the weather was the result of
a storm which during the Crimean war,
Nov. 14, 1854, almost destroyed the
fleets of France and England. As a'
storm bad raged several days earlier in
France Vaillant, the French minister of
war, directed that investigations be
made to see if the two storms were the
same and if the progress of the disturb
ances could have been foretold. It was
demonstrated that the two were in real
ity one storm and that its path could
have been ascertained and the fleet fore
warned in ample time to reach safety.
Qualified to Do It.
“Did you know,” said the tooth oar- ;
penter, looking up from his paper, “that
the Indians practiced dentistry in the
earliest times?”
“I didn't know it, ” replied the man
who had once sat in a dentist’s chair,
“but I am not at all surprised. The In
dians have always been a brutal and
cruel race. ”
Then he laughed gleefully, forgetful
of the fact that there was still time for
the dentist to add sls or S2O to his bill.
—Chicago Post.
Where Our Langaage Stumbles.
“There is positively the dumbest man '
1 ever saw. Why, that fellow doesn’t
know anything.”
“And yet be is chief assistant in his
wife’s intelligence office.”—Chicago
News.
Mrs. Nancy Hitchcock, Sanfordsvile,
Ga., writes: My husband, Elder D. S.
Hitchcock used Dr. M. A. Simmons |
Liver for indigestion, and think its med
ical properties far exceed Zeilin’s Reg
ulator and Black Draught.
Magistrate Pool of New York city
has barred the bible from his court
room, except as a book of reference
or quotation. He will have no more
kissing of tbe book by witnesses. He
says kissing the Bible in court serves
no purpose further than to distribute
disease germs. Hereafter he will
swear witnesses by making them
hold up their right bands.
OLD- DUELING RULES.
“MUCH USEFUL ADVICE” FROM AN
ANCIENT BOOK.
If Hie Combatant Dies a« a Result of
the Encounter, He Is Told to Go Ofl
as Good Grace as Possible.
Irishmen Not Good Seconds.
To Englishmen dueling is happily a
lost art, but three-quarters of a century
ago dueling was sufficiently in vogue to
induce an anonymous writer to publish
a book “containing much useful infor
mation, ” ironically dedicated to Daniel
O’Connell, Esq., M. P., and James Silk
Buckingham, Esq.. M. P., as “enter
taining the opinion first promulgated
by the immortal Falstaff of happy
memory that discretion is the better
part of valor. ”
The author advises “all my country
men who go abroad to use the pistol in
stead of the sword when they have the
choice of the weapon, as the balance of
killed and wounded is now much in fa
vor of the French, who, upon the ter
mination of the late war, amused them-
I selves by occasionally spitting some half
dozen of our traveling young fashion
cables before breakfast.” He recom
mends “Purdey, in Oxford street, afi
the maker of the best dueling pistol
i* locks, ” care in the selection of a stock
• which fits the hand comfortably and to
•eschew “saw handles. ” Barrels should
be ten inches long and half rifled,
which, considering that throughout his
' volume he poses as a man of the strict
best honor, is puzzling, for he admits
E that a wholly rifled pistol is considered
an unfair weapon, therefore one not ap
pearing to be rifled should be substi
tuted.
On “the chances” he writes. “Many
. a poor, long armed, straggling fellow
►has received the coup di (sic) coeur (or
fatal stroke) who might still have been
in existence had he known how to pro
tect his person in the field, ” the neces
sary protection consisting in standing
1 sideways and drawing in the stomach.
, “Should the party be hit” —presumably
because he could not draw in his stom
ach— “he must not feel alarmed. ” Thia
seems difficult, as a man with a bullet
in his stomach can hardly be expected
* oof to display some little natural anxie
ty, for, as is admitted later, “a shot in
the digestive organs must be particu
, larly annoying to a bon vivant. ” To
- aldermen his advice is “the old method
of fighting—the back to the adversary
and discharging over the shoulder.’
“The chances of a man’s being killed
are about 14 to 1, and of his being
hit about 6 to 1.” He arrives at
this conclusion by dividing a man’s
> body, when opposed to his adversary,
. into nine parts. Therefore he says, “As
' in only three of these a wound would
■ prove mortal, the chances are 8 to
1 against his being killed, and 5 to
■1 against his being hit —that is, how-
Jev^r," he hastens to add, “provided his
Jantogonist has never read my work. If
hqhas, the case may be different 1”
combatant is told “not to allow
. the idejt of* becoming a target to make
him uneasy, but to treat the matter
jocosely. ” He is to laugh away the
evening over a bottle of port, and play
a rubber of whist, but he must avoid
drinking to excess, or taking “any food
that tends to create bile. ’ ’ because ‘ ‘bil
ious objects are not seen either distinct
ly or correctly. ’ ’ This would rather be
a valid reason for getting as bilious as
possible. A man with an attack of
jaundice should be invisible, and able
to blaze at his antagonist in perfect
safety If he cannot sleep on retiring
to rest, he is to read Byron’s “Childe
Harold. ” His servant is to call him at 6
and give him a strong cup of coffee.
Then he is to smoke a cigar, and “on
his way to the scene of action” he is to
take a brandy and soda, as a most
“grateful stimulant and corrective. ”
No wonder our author recommends
him at this point to draw in his stom
ach. “If he dies, he is to go off with as
good grace as possible!” On the other
haftd, if he hits his antagonist, he is to
take off his hat to him and express re-
■ gret
I A challenge is not to be in rhyme,
' such as “a certain poetical, brandy lov
! ing major general of marines” wrote
to a brother officer who ran off with his
wife:
Wounds on the flesh a surgeon’s skill may
, heal,
But wounded honor’s only cured with steel.
An Irishman is not to be chosen as
second, for nine out of ten have such an
innate love of fighting they cannoi
bring an affair to an amicable adjust
ment, and the first duty of a second ia
to prevent the affair coming to a seri
ous issue. Other advice is for the sec
ond to take care his principal is not in
convenienced by the sun, and to get hig
antagonist with something dark behind
him, when it will be much more easy
to hit him.
As may be inferred, the author holds
by dueling, for “the man who falls
in a duel and the individual who is
killed by the overturn of a stagecoach
are both unfortunate victims to a prac
tice from which we derive great advan
tages It would be absurd to prohibit
stage traveling because occasionally a
few lives are lost by an overturn, and
unless men endeavored to destroy each
other they might live to a patriarchal
! age and multiply so rapidly that the
. soil would soon be insufficient to sup
ply them with nourishment,” with
which reductio ad absurdum the vol
ume may well be put back on the shelf
—Navy and Army Illustrated.
A Double Headed Bull.
On the occasion of a public reception
at Napier, Australia, the school chil
dren of the town, after being duly com
plimented by his excellency from Coun
ty Tyrone on the hearty manner in
which they had rendered the national
i anthem, were solemnly assured that if
' they put their shoulders to the wheel
they would be sure to reach the top of
the tree! Upon which a compatriot
turned to me and said, “Sure, it was
an axletree he meant, bedad. ”—Spec
tator.
Mother’s Trusted Friend, Simmons
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Dr. H. H. Carlton says if the army
of Northern Virginia had been as
well supplied with food and equip
ment as the American army in Cuba
and Porto Rico tbe southern men
down about Richmond would be
fighting yet.
Don’t wreck a life! From girlhood to
womanhood the monthly course should
be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vine
Wine or Tablets.
MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA.
Three Steamers Didn’t Underatua*
It, but the Prince of Monaco Knew.
The Prince of Monaco has been known
since 1885 as an enthusiastic student
of the sea and its various forms of Ufa
He usually spends his summers in the
study of oceanographic problems, and
his cruises have on some occasions been
extended almost to the coasts of Amer
ica. He delivered a lecture before the
Royal Geographical society in London
in which he told this incident :
One afternoon, while in the bay of
Biscay, he sank the trap in which he
collected specimens of sea life. It went
to the bottom in over 12,000 feet of
water, and as night approached he fas
tened to the wire attached to it an elec
tric buoy and then stood off a mile or
so. It did not happen to occur to him
that he was right in the track of steam
ers plying between northern Europe
and the Mediterranean, but he was re
minded of the fact later.
As he and his 14 sailors were watch
ing with a good deal of satisfaction the
swaying buoy with its brilliant illu
mination a steamer’s lights came into
view It was soon evident that the
steamer was curious to know the mean
ing of the illumination, for she altered
her course and made for the light She
knew that no fishing boats came out so
far from land and so determined to
solve the mystery. Up she came to
.within a quarter of a mile of the buoy,
slowed up for a minute, and then start
ed ahead, perhaps a little disgusted at
the incident that had lured her several
miles out of her course.
She had hardly got away when a sec
ond steamer came into view, and she,
too, bore down upon the lighted buoy
The marines on the prince’s vessel un
derstood by this time that the illumina
tion was probably believed to be evi
dence of a disaster. Just as the prince’s
steamer was moving up to explain mat
ters she was nearly run down by one of
the large liners in the oriental trade,
which had also left her course to render
what assistance she could.
The swell was very heavy, and the
prince feared a collision as the three
vessels approached the light like moths
around a candle He therefore veered
off and the other vessels, after standing
by for a few minutes, went on their
way and probably never learned the
cause of that night’s illumination at
sea.
But the incident gave the prince a
pointer He carefully refrained there
after from exhibiting his electric buoy
on any of the much traveled ocean
routes.—New York Sun.
FOOLED IN A HORSE TRADE.
This Animal Possessed Several Re
markable Traits.
A prominent English landlord was
one day riding across a common ad
jacent to his preserves when he over
took one of his tenants, who was also
mounted. After the usual salutations
they rode on in silence for some min
utes, when the tenant slightly spurred
his horse, a balky animal, whereupon
it dropped to its knees.
“What’s the matter with your
horse?” asked his lordship. The em
barrassed tenant remarked byway of
explanation that his steed always acted
that way when there was game to be
found.
A moment later, to the tenant’s sat
isfaction and surprise, a frightened hare
jumped out of some bushes near by.
This so impressed the landlord that
he at once drove a bargain by which he
secured the tenant’s barebacked beast
in exchange for his own fine mount,
perfectly saddled. With much agility
the tenant leaped to his new horse, and
all went well until they came to a
small stream, whereat the landlord’s
new nag immediately balked. A drive
home with the spurs brought it again
to its knees.
“Hello, what’s up now? There’s no
game here, ’ ’ said his lordship.
“True, my lord,” was the ready re
ply, “but I forgot to tell you ’ee’s as
good for fish as ’ee is for gama”—San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Audience Got Ansrry.
There was a scene of wild excitement
during the last week of May, 1892, at ’
the Gaiety, London, and all owing to
the singular behavior of a policeman.
Two popular entertainers were on the
stage, and one of them asked the audi
ence a little conundrum, “Why is a po
liceman an utter scoundrel?”
A gentleman in blue who was appar
ently on duty in the body of the thea
ter at once took offense. He jumped on
to the stage and, seizing the offender,
attempted to drag him off.
The audience rose in indignation.
Men shook their fiats and shouted,
“What has he done?” One frenzied
young lady in the front of the gallery '
seized a tumbler and would have thrown j
it at the policeman if her arm had not i
been arrested.
The policeman then dragged his cap- ;
tive off the stage amid the hisses and
shouts of the audience. But anger was
speedily changed to laughter when Mr.
Policeman reappeared with his victim
and stood revealed as one of the Cosmo
trio, y never saw an audience so com
pletely taken in.—London Correspond
ence.
PiKH and Witchcraft.
Two women of the lower class were
quarreling violently the other evening
in Heavitree, a suburb of Exeter. One
yelled to the other: “You wretch, yon
always keep a black and a white pig,
so that you can witch us! You ought
to be scragged I’ ’ The one so addressed, '
it seems, has lived in her cottage some
20 years. She has during this period, it ■
is said, always kept a couple of pigs,
one of each color, and her neighbors
consider she does this so that she may
enjoy the very questionable powers of ■
witchcraft. No butcher in the neigh- 1
borhood will buy her pigs, as if he was
known to do so he would certainly lose ■
the local custom upon which he relies. I
—Notes and Queries.
An Honest Medicine for LaGrippe. |
George W. Waitt of South Gardiner,
Me., says: “I have had the worst cough,
cold, chills and giip and have taken lota
of trash of no account but profit to the>
vendor. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
is the only thing that has done any good
whatever. I have used one 50-cent bottle>
and the chills, cold and grip have all.
left me. I congratulate the manufac
turers of an honest medicine.” For sala
by M. C. Brown & Co.
To sweeten the breath, brighten the
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FREAKS OF MEMORY.
QUEER PRANKS FOR WHICH THERE
IS NO ACCOUNTING.
Some Instance* of the Singular Ef
fects Produced I'pon the Mind by
Gasing Steadily at a Crystal—For
gotten lucidenta Recalled.
The queer freaks of memory are a
constant puzzle to those who study
psychical phenomena Who has not
been driven to the verge of distraction
by the total inability to recall a name
when an effort was made to do so and
when the occasion for such remem
brance was past had the missing name
flash into the mind apparently of its
own volition?
Great minds have wrestled to find an
explanation for the pranks that memory
plays and have had to give up the
effort In the course of a systematic at
tempt to arrive at some understanding
with regard to the wonders of memory
a very valuable and unique body of
testimony has been obtained. The fol
lowing questions have been put to 200
American university students and pro
fessional persons. 151 being men and
49 being women. The answers are here
given with the questions
Question I.—When you cannot recall
a name you want, does it seem to oome
back spontaneously without being sug
gested by any perceived association of
ideas 1 To this 11 per cent answered
“No” and 81 per cent “Yes. ”
Question 2.—Does such recovery ever
eome during sleep? To this 17 per cent
answered “No” and 28 percent “Yes. ’
Some examples given
1 This morning I tried to recall the
name of a character I had read of the
night before in one of Scott’s novels and
failed. I taught a class, and walking
home in the afternoon all the names re
curred to me without effort
2. I tried to recall the name of a
book. Gave it up Half an hour later,
while talking of something else, blurted
it out without conscious volition.
Question B.—On seeing a sight or
hearing a sound for the first time, have
you ever felt that you had seen (or
heard) the same before ? Fifty-nine per
cent answered “Yes.”
The action of unconscious memory
during sleep is illustrated by further
queries
Question 4. —Do you dream ? Ninety
four per cent answered “Yes. ”
Question 5. —Can you wake at a given
hour determined before going to sleep
without waking up many times before?
Fifty-nine per cent answered “Yes. ’
Thirty-one per cent answered “No.”
Question 6. —ls you can, how about
failure? Sixty-nine per cent seldom
failed; 25 per cent often.
Question 7. —Do you come direct from
oblivion into consciousness ? Sixty-four
per cent answered “Yes” and 16 per
cent “Gradually ”
Examples
1. I had to give medicine every two
hours exactly to my wife. lam a very
sound sleeper, but for six weeks I woke
up every two hours and never missed
giving the medicine.
2. I am always awake five minutes
before the hour I set the alarm.
3. I had had little sleep for ten days
and went to bed at 9, asking to be
called at midnight I fell asleep at
once. I rose and dressed as the clock
stuck 12. and could not believe I had
not been called.
A strange phenomenon has come to
light in the course of the inquiry into
the mystery of memory. It has been
discovered that by gazing steadily at a
crystal consciousness is partly lost. In
to the void thus produced those who
have practiced crystal gazing find that
there enter unbidden forgotten incidents
and lost memories To give a few in
stances ■■ A lady in crystal gazing saw a
bit of dark wall covered with white
flowers She was conscious she must
have seen it somewhere, but had no
recollection where. She walked over the
ground she had just traversed and
found the wall, which she had passed
unnoticed.
She took out her bankbook another
day. Shortly afterward she was gazing
at the crystal and saw nothing but the
number one. She thought it was some
hack number, but, taking up the bank
book, found to her surprise it was the
number of the account.
At another time she destroyed a let
ter without noting the address. She
could only remember the town. After
gazing at the crystal some time she
saw “321 Jefferson avenue.” She ad
dressed the letter there, adding the
town, and found it was right.
A lady sat in a room to write where
she had sat eight years before. She felt
her feet moving restlessly under the ta
ble and then remembered that eight
years before she always had a footstool
It was this her feet were seeking
Psychical research brings to light
many cases of similar strange tricks of
memory It is easy to find instances
that serve to deepen the mystery It is
not so easy to give an explanation. The
cleverest men who have attempted to
do so have had to admit defeat. —Wash-
ington Post
The Women of Belglnm.
No one can travel in Belgium with
out being struck by the extraordinary
activity and prominence of the women.
Over the doors of shops of all descrip
tions the name of the owner or owners
is frequently followed by “Soeurs” or
“Veuve.” You find them proprietors of
hotels and restaurants. They are often
custodians of the churches. They are
employed to tow the boats along the
canal banks. They cut up the meat in
the butchers’ shops, and they are even
to be noticed shoeing horses at the forge.
To Ba Avoided.
Mrs. De Sour—l want you to keep
your dog out of my house It’s full of
fleas
Mrs. De Smart—Mercy on me I Fido,
come here, sir I Don’t you go into that
house again. It’s full of fleas. —Jewish
•Comment
One of the shrewdest of modern
Iswindlers turned a pretty penny in
I Vienna the other day. By circula
'ting false rumors he started a run on
a bank, and then when the anxious
depositors gathered about the doors
and were fighting for admission to
get what part of their deposits they
could before the money was all gone,
be circulated among them and by
offering cash payments bought a num
ber of deposit books for trifling sums
The bank, as a matter of fact, was
absolutely sound, and the swindlei
‘made a lot of money.
NUMBER 5.
CLOTHES SPECIALS.
Queer Pockets and Thlncx Tailors
Have to Put In Garment!.
“No special'
With that remark to the assistant
who took down the measurements the
tailor dismissed his patron and said
that the suit would be finished “sure”
on a certain day
“What did you mean by saying ‘no
special' to your clerk ?" asked the cus
tomer.
“Well, that means that you want
your clothes made all right and without
any crank things about them. Pockets
are the great specials. We have cus
tomers who want, besides the regular
pockets, places in their waistcoats for
pencils, eyeglasses and all sorts of
things Some pencil pockets are made
to hold only one pencil and some for a
bunch Eyeglass jMa kets are also or
dered in keeping with the shape and
style of the glasses, and pockets for
cigars are ordered for all sizes, from the
little half pencil shape to the great
big perfecto. Freak pockets, inside of
other pockets, are also in demand, and
chamois lined pockets, which we usual
ly make for the watch side of the waist
coat. are ordered often for trousers by
men who carry silver trinkets in them. ’
Another class of special customers
are those whose garments are made
with a view to the wearer’s health
Many men have an inner band of red
flannel put on the waist of their trou
sers as a cure for rheumatism, and some
driving coats are made so that sheets
of stout paper may be slipped between
the breast lining and the doth when
driving against the wind.
“On the whole.” said the tailor, “a
man in my business has the best oppor
tunity to find out the kinks and queer
points about men. not only as to their
persons, but their minds ” —New York
Tribune
FINERTY’S SERMON.
It Brouslit Braise From the Preacher '
Who Didn't Deliver It.
Before ex-Congiessman John Finerty
became famous as the great American
British lion tail twister he was one of
the best reporters in Chicago He was
on The Tribune, and one day a certain
city editor (best known to fame as the
man who always wore a straw hat and
smoked a corncob pipe) decided that
Mr. Finerty should be disciplined.
It was Saturday, and some time after
midnight Mr Finerty was assigned to
report the morning sermon of an ob
scure minister way down on the South
Side Finerty was the senior, and his
associates were thunderstruck. They
expected an explosion, at least, but
Finerty remained calm and dignified,
although a trifle pale “Then he will
resign,” they thought, but Finerty
walked out and made no sign To the
surprise of every one, he reported the
next day as usual and turned in an ab
stract of the sermon Every one read it
on Monday morning, and it was cer
tainly an eloquent and carefully report
ed sermon
That afternoon a man of clerical cut
called on the city editor and asked to
see the young man who had reported
his sermon the morning before Mr
Finerty was introduced The man of
the clerical cut would like to see Mr
Finerty alone for a few momenta Out
in the hallway he asked. “Os course,
you were D?t at my church yesterday
morning?'
“No,” replied Finerty.
“Well. 1 simply stopped to thank you
for the sermon It was far more elo
quent than the one I preached. ”
Finerty had composed the sermon in
a neighboring cellar beer saloon on
Saturday night —Lippincott’s Maga
zine
Fok In PhotoKraphr.
One serious and at the same time un
suspected source of fog in photography
is often due to the fact that the black
ing has slightly worn off the leui
mount and there is a reflection which
results in a loss of brilliancy in the
negative Constant use and endless
cleaning of the lens in time wear the
blacking off, and this should be attend
ed to and all metal parts kept well
blacked. Where lenses are mounted in
aluminium still more care is necessary
in this respect, as, wherever iu such
cases the blacking wears off, white light
instead of yellow light is reflected into
the lens.
Sometimes diaphragms of the iris
pattern are greatly at fault in this re
spect. By reason of its construction the
leaves or vanes in this diaphragm are in
constant friction while being set, and
thus become polished and reflective, for
which reason some photographers avoid
having iris diaphragms in their lenses,
notwithstanding their convenience. A
careful examination of the apparatus
wMI insure safety in this matter. Stops
of the ordinary pattern become in time
little better than bare metal, especially
at the edges of the aperture.
Some Clerical Jokes.
“Do you have matins in your
church?” “No, we prefer linoleum.”
Another clerk gave out in church, “Let
us sing to the praise and glory of God
a hymn of my own composure. ” A
lady asked the dean to read at her bed
side “that beautiful lesson * * * there
was summat about greaves in it.” The
dean read her 1 Samuel, xvii. “She
listened with arms outstretched and
made no comment until I came to the
verse, ‘He had greaves of brass upon his
legs.’ At this she raised her bauds in
ecstasy and said, ‘Ah, them greaves,
them beautiful greaves!’ ” —“Phases of
My Life,” by Dean Pigou.
The Araxes river, in Transcaucasia,
has shifted to its ancient bed and now
flows directly into the Caspian sea in
stead of into the Kura at a point 60
miles from the latter’s mouth.
A proposal has been made by a
French chemist to obtain easily assimi
lable iron tonics from vegetables by feed
ing the plants judiciously with iron
fertilizers
A two or three weeks course of Dr. M.
A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so reg
ulate the Excretory Functions that they
will operate without any aid whatever.
The deepest hole in the earth in
Ketchau, Germany. It is 5,735 feet
in depth, and is for geological
research only. The drilling was be
gun in 1880, and stopped six years
later because the engineers were
unable with their instruments to go
deeper.
TAKE ONLY the best when you
■ need a medicine. Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla is the best blood purifier, nerve
1 and stomach tonic. Get HOOD’B>