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CLIPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS. Births exceed the deaths in the world by three per minute. Swearing is wholly unknown in Japan. The worst word a Japanese ever applies to a man he dislikes is “beast.” Carpet knights were so called be cause they gained their positions by mere fax or at court, and not on the field of battle by their military ex ploits. A four-footed bird is found on the Island of Marago, at the mouth of the Amazon. In time one pair of legs are changed into wings by as singular a process as. that wbich makes tne tadpole a frog. The business of trick-making is believed to have been a royal mono poly in Egypt, and Wilkinson states that more bricks are found in Egypt with stamp of Thothmes 111. than of any other monarch. In Normandy the cruel practice of singing contests arranged by the bird dealers between the chaffinches are still kept up, in which the birds are frequently compelled to sing alterna tively as many as 800 times. Fre quently they are deprived of their sight, as blind birds are often the best songsters. Miss Miranda Davis, of Stafford, Conn., has been gradually starving to death for the last fifteen years. Oc casionally she takes a sip of water and eats a few cracker crumbs, but that is all. Sometimes she goes forty seven days without food or drink. Al though emaciated, her general health is moderately good. An English farmer reports a strange friendship between his ferrets and young rats—natural enemies of the i fiercest sort. Twice when his ferrets | has had a litter young rats have been given her for food, and each time she has saved and suckled two of them I with her own young until they had ' matured. Some facts regarding railroad freight are curious, as for instance, it costs four cents per ton to unload tierces, and twenty-four cents to un load light boxes. The chief reason is that one can be rolled while the other must be handled. Iron beams cost $2.05 per car to unload with tackle, and $5.61 without. It costs eighty one cents per car to unload rolls of leather, but $5.76 per car for loose sides. Their Last Thoughts. The old belief that the ruling pas sion is always strongest in death had a singular corroboration in the last hours of the noted Mark Pattison, who died a few weeks ago in England. The great scholar, we are told, always lov ed his books as if they were human beings. The “sight of them,” he de clared, “was necessary to him while at his work.” He always had dusted j and taken entire charge of them him- I self. When he was dying he asked for one old favorite after another, un til he was literally covered with them as he lay. "Ah'” he said, “I must leave them 1 They have been more to me than any of my friends.” A struggle of a different kind was that of a miserly German who died lately in Pennsylvania. As he found I death approaching, he badehis attend- i ants bring him a canvas bag, in which, ■ for years, he had stored away his sav ings. When it was opened, he plung-1 ed his hands into the gold, clutched it, j caressed it, and In the effort to gather : it all closer to him, stiffened and died. ' Louis XI. ordered the crown to be ! put upon his head, and grasped the j sceptre, as the last breath left his lips. ! A French poet demanded that his own verses should be read to him as he was expiring, and with his last mo- i ment cried, “Surely they will make me j immortal!” Only the story now re mains as a ghastly jest; the verses, ; even the name of their maker, have long been forgotten. When any unworthy pursuit or pas sion of men is brought into contrast with death, its littleness or folly ap ; palls us. But when days and months and years have been given to it, why j need we shudder when it claims the last moment? Is not life as impor tant ana terrible as death ? Youth's \ Companion. Tobacco and Eyesight. Dr. W. F. Coleman reaS a paper be- I fore the Chicago Medical Society re cently in which he declared that he knew of no more constant effect of the use of tobacco than more or less impairment of vision known as am- ' blyopia. The use *of tobacco was so commonly associated with the use of liquor that it was a question with many whether or not alcohol was not the chief or only causative. In Eng land the belief among surgeons was that tobacco was the more frei u?nt cause of amblyopia, while in America alcohol was considered the prim; tve agent. The speaker declared that! most of the text-books supported the idea that the use of tobacco caused im pairment of the sight. Smokers were the more frequent sufferers, especially the smokers of pipes and cigarettes. In the course of his practice he had come in contact with many persons suffering from various defects of sight who smokel ; but did not drink. Smoking often caused color-blindness. Such defects were cured by abandon ing the use of tobacco an i. if need be, ta Ung Sinai; 'I-., s <f strychnine. (iMjettc. VOL. XII. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 11, 1885. NO. 43. 87 STREET, ROME, Q-Jk.., Are Acknowledged Headquarters in North Georgia For CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS AND MEN'S FINE SHOES. ij-sr” t VT7 E have made extensive preparations for a rousing business during the coming season, and we have taken every precaution to fortify ourselves against disap- 1 ' W pointmeut. Our new stock is all that could be de-ired in style, quality and price, and, if extra inducements are a consideration, our store will bo the most 1 j attractive place in this country for those who want the best for the least money. ) .-jeSS FALL r TItAI)E2 IS WHAT AVE WANT! . And no stone has been left Unturned, no opportunity has been Neglected, no pains and expense has been Spared to Secure Yhe SttActive Stodk of Clothing fibowq ip ! REMEMBER: We tell only goods worn by the MALE SEX - Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, and Men’s Fine Shoes—we can fit you out from head to feet, and hope every reader of this paper will give us a call. We are always glad to show goods, and think our attractive display cannot fail to please you. EMMONS McKEE * CO., Men’s and Boys’ Outfitters, ST UHOAD BTHEET, ROME, Ct A, Force. ( Tlw stars know ft secret They do not tell; And morn brings a message Hidden well. There’s a blush on the apple, A tint on the win 4, And the bright wind whistles, And the pulses sting. Perish dark memories There’s light ahead; This world’s for the living Not fur the dead. In the shining city, On the loud pave, The Lie-tide is ebbing Like a leaping wave. How the stream quickens, As noon drnwa»noar ! No room for loiterers, No ttine for tear. Out on the farm lands Earth smiles as well: Gold-crusted grain fields, With sweet, warm smell; Whirr of the ronper, Like n giant bee; j.ike a Titan C ticket, Thrilling with glee. On mart, and meadow, Pavement, or plain; On azure mountain, Or azure main— Heaven bends in blessing; Lost is but won ; Goes the good rain-cloud Comes the good sun ! Only babes whimper, And sick men wail And faint-hearts, and feeble-hearts, And weaklings fail. Down the groat currents Let the boat swing; There was never winter But brought the spring. —E. R. Sill in Overland. SERVED HIM RIGHT. “Old Mr. Bogwood—died last month —two thousand dollars to a niece liv ing somewhere hereabouts. Must look her up before long.” Martin Satterthwaite pricked up his ears, figuratively speaking, as the above words reached him, Lawyer Ilarkley having unconsciously raised his voice a little as he pronouncel the words. Martin was busy tying up a pack age of tea for old Mrs. Doolittle; but in spite of the excitement caused by the words, he did not forget to give the old lady a little short weight in her tea. “A penny saved is a penny gained,” was his motto; which he did not fail to put into practice with such of his customers as were not in a situation to resent the Imposition. Martin Satterthwaite had embarked in the dry-goods and grocery business a few months before on money grudg ingly lent him by a rich uncle, with the parting injunction: “Don’t come to me fur another red cent if you lose every dollar you’ve got! If you’d a’ stuck to the farm, I’d see you through; but this here store keepin’ don’t suit my notions. I’d rather see a stout young fellow like you swingin’ an axe or a mowin’- scythe, than stannin’ behind a counter measurin’ tape an’ blue ribbon.” But “swinging an axe or a mowing scythe” did not suit Martin’s avari cious nature. It was too slow away of making money, and he was ambi tious to be rich as soon as possible. The words he had overheard that morning had awakened a new scheme in his fertile brain. “Two thousand dollars!” he repeat ed to himself, enviously. "I could double my stock with that, and have something to go on. And I know the girl, too. It would be a good specula tion to marry her before she knows she’s an heiress. I believe I will. But pretty Bessie Moore! I’ll have to give her up,” he added, gloomily. Pretty Bessie Moore had a hard time of it living at Mr. Doubleday’s. There were so many mouths to cook for; so many floors to sweep and to ; scrub; so many dishes to wash, and pots and pans to scour, and so much milk to skim and to churn. EMMONS McKEE & CO., I There was bread to make, and the i cows to milk, the chickens to feed and the pigs to “slop,” and the berries to pick and make up into “jell,” or jam, or preserves. And only one pair of hands to do it all, for Mother Doubleday was crip pled with the rheumatism, so she could do nothing but sit in her easy chair and knit; and Farmer Double day and his two stalwart sons had their hands full with the sheep, and the teams, and the thrifty acres of field and meadow to cultivate. To-be-sure Tom, the youngest son, did what he could to help Bessie. He carried in the wood for her, brought her a bucket of fresh water from the old well in the back yard as often as possible, and helped her drive up the cows from the back pasture, where they delighted to stray at milk ing-time. But with all his endeavors, Tom could not do a great deal, and Bessie was often tired enough when she crept up stairs to her little room at night to find the only rest she knew out of the twenty-four hours. She kept up a cheerful heart, how ever, and even dared to think, secretly, of the lime when she would have a home of her own, with only two to “do for.” For Bessie and Martin Satterthwaite were “keeping company,” and though he had not actually proposed to her, they were looked upon by the .Satterth waite family and the village folks gen erally as an engaged couple. “An’ a good match it’ll be fur her, too,” sighed Mother Doubleday, half | regretfully; “but I dunno what we’ll | do without her. Sich another gal ain’t I to be had, fur love nor money.” "She’s too good fur Mart Satterth waite,” grumbled Tom. “It’s a-throw ing herself away to marry a mullet head like him.” But nobody minded what Tom said, and Bessie’s market was looked upon as already made. { * * * * * * * * * “Maria! Jfarfa!” The click of the sewing-machine suddenly stopped, and a sour-faced girl looked up crossly from her w ork. “What do you want?’ she demand- ■ ed. “I never get a chance—” “Maria, Martin Satterth waite’s down stairs askin’ fur yowl Hurry an’ go down!” Maria Bogwood started up eagerly at her sister-in-law’s announcement. “Martin Satterthwaite ! What do you reckon he wants?” she cried, turn ing to a square-framed lookiug-glass on the mantle-shelf. “To see you, he said; an’ he’s all spruced up, like he’d come a-courting. Mebbe lie’s fell in love with you.” “Mebbe he has.” Maria smiled complacently as she smoothed her straight, black locks and carefully adjusted a staring red bow at her throat, and went down to receive the visitor. Martin stayed some time, and when he left he was engaged to Miss Maria Bogwood, who triumphantly announc ed the fact to her sister-in-law. “I said so!” cried little Mrs. Thatch er, delighted. “I said he looked like he’d come a-courting, and so he did. He’s mighty well-to-do, an’ you’re lucky to git him, Maria.” “Oh, of course you’re glad to be rid of me!” retorted Maria, ill-naturedly. “But I wouldn’t have him, anyway, only to spite Bess Moore. She’s been trying to ketch him all summer, an’ she hain’t got him, after all!” ********* “Keeping company vi ith Maria Bog wood ? Oh, Tom, it can’t be true!” “I’m afraid it is,” returned Tom, i gravely; “and—and, Bessie, they say I he's engaged to her. Don’t cry, Bessie!” I he added, gravely. “Martin Satterth ! waite ain't worth a tear from you.” “I ain’t crying!” declared Bessie. I though the tears were slow); dropping ; from her downcast eyes. “But, Tom, don’t—don’t tell anybody I felt bad about it!” she urged, beseechingly. "Tell anybody! What do you take me for?” asked Tom, with an indig nant Hush on his handsome face. “1 brought you the news myself on pur pose to keep anybody from knowing how you took it.” And so pretty Bessie Moore, with her hair as golden as the field butter cups, and eyes as blue as wild forget me-nots, was deserted, and Martin Satterthwaite married the sour-faced Maria Bogwood, much to the sur prise of the village folks and the pub lic generally. "And now for the two thousand dollars,” thought Martin, well pleased with the success of his "speculation.” And accordingly, one morning, he called upon Lawyer Ilarkley, who was stopping for a few weeks at the village hotel. "I have called upon you on behalf of my wife, formerly Alias Maria j Bogwood,” he announced, conse- I quentially. The lawyer looked puzzled. •Tray explain,” he returned, grim ly- “Bogwood—l thought you would understand. She is a niece of the Mr. Bogwood, who died recently,” ex plained Martin. “And I understand I the old gentleman left a couple of j thousand dollars to his niece.” Lawyer Markley's grim face relax ed. “Ab, I understand!” he cried, looking shrewdly at his visitor. “Mr. Bogwood did leave his niece the sum you name, which I am ready to pay over to her at once. But her name was not Bogwood; it was Moore—Miss Bessie Moore! I have just learned where she Is stopping, and shall call on her to-day and pay over the bequest at once. Good-day, sir!” And the lawyer’s sharp, gray eyes i twinkled as the door slammed to be- I hind his visitor. I ♦*** * * * * 1 Six months later, Bessie Moore was married to Tom Doubleday, and the legacy helped to buy them a snug farm, where Bessie was as happy as the day was long, and Tom was even happier, if possible, than she was.— Helen Whitney Clark. The Lightning Ticket Seller. Barnum used to carry round with him his famous “Lightning Changer,” an individual whose mechanism was a side-show in itself. The man sold the fifty-cent admission tickets. He would receive coin, make change and deliver the tickets to half a dozen persons at a time. The rapidity of his hands was so great that their movements could not be analyzed. It seemed to the dazed observer as if he did nothing but make a con tinual "scooping” movement of the i money into the wagon behind him; but with all his swiftness he never made an error in change. The strug gling, fighting crowds would swarm about him, thrusting in their halves and fending off the press about them. Men would cling so tightly to coin that he would have to bring his fist down “bang” upon the fingers tc wrench it out. There is a story related of him that a man once shoved in a pile of I pennies to him for a ticket- “You don’t come that,” said the j “Lightning Changer,” glancing at the pile and showering out tickets t< other hands. “Take that away, will you?” shout ed the changer, sending the pile in a scattered shower among the crowd; “there’s only forty-nine cents in that pile!”— lngleside. A horticultural authority says “ there are 1,600 kind of pears.” It is the green pear, though, that is the : doctor’s favorite. This is one of the 1 things that science cannot alter. How to Produce Sleep. An excess of blood in the brain pre vents sleep. How to remove the sur plus is the problem for the unfortun ates who wisli to sleep but cannot. A pump is needed for that purpose, and it may be easily provided, as fol lows: Having assumed the usual pos ture of repose, inhale and exhale slow ly and steadily long breaths, devoting the whole attention to making inhala tions and exhalations of exactly the same length. The length should be much greater than that of ordinary breathing, although not sufficient to disturb the circulation by working the lungs to their utmost capacity. Any person who lias force of will enough to concentrate his whole attention on the maintenance of this style of breath ing can compel sleep in very unfavor able circumstances, and victims of in somnia should know it. The value of the method is not solely in its holding the mind to one object of thought, but the process of breathing here described is really equivalent to the insertion of a pump in the brain to draw off its excess of blood. To convince your self that this is so, fill your lungs with all the air they will hold, and then ex pel it, repeating the operation three or four times as rapidly as possible. The result will be a feeling of faintness, unless you are other than an ordinary mortal, and its cause will be a deficien cy of blood in the brain, produced by the pumping process. Such violent breathing will not produce sleep, how ever, as there is a reaction which sends the life current rushing back to the seat of the mind. Scientists say that the reason why fear, surprise, or any other sudden emotion often causes faintness is because it rapidly drives the blood from the brain, and the fact j is significant for those who wish to un derstand how to induce sleep, wheth er on the railway train or in their beds at home, by pumping the excess of blood from their brains by a pecul iar method of breathing. Insanity in the United States. The increase of insanity in the United States during recent years is quite amazing. One is inclined to doubt whether the figures given can possibly be correct; but they are offici ally authenticated. Statistics show that in 1865 the number of insane people in the States wa ; 24,042, a ; small percentage. In five years the I number reached 37,432, ami in 1880 I the figures had grown to the surpris ing total of 91,959. In all probability | the authorities have bad until lately a j careless system of investigation, and ; many lunatics have escaped enumera- ; tion. Even allowing a liberal margin | for this, however, there seems reason j to believe that insanity has claimed ; and is claiming an increasing number i of victims. The race of life is run at ■ a greater pace than it was, and the i pressure is greater in consequence, j Many organizations give way under ' the strain. It is said that the increase has been most rapid in the Western States, but no reason is suggested, and it would be deeply interesting to know ■ why, for the causes which are in force | there are doubtless in force elsewhere. | The increase in insanity during the ■ ten years from 1870 to lbßo was near- ■ ly 150 per cent., it is stated. From j 1865 it is still greater, and, though ; this is far from a subject of jest, it | may be wondered whether, if the pro portion is maintained, it will not soon j be necessary to calculate the small percentage of inhabitants of the West- I ern States who retain their sanity.— London Standard. A Phenomenon. Small boy (reading paper): "P-h-e- ! n-o-m-e-n-o-n; what does that spell, pa?” Father; “Pheuomenon, my son.” "What is a phepomenen, pa?” “A phenomenon is a man who nev er says, ‘la it hot enough for you ?’ ” Novel Corn Planting. The means used in planting corn in the semi arid Kansas belt enables that region to raise good crops of the great fattening grain of the United States It is by means of the listing plow, which throws the soil into high ridges, the middles being deeply pulverized in addition. In the trenches the corn is planted down in the permanently moist soil of the trenches, these being filled up in the process of cultivation. This trench, as plowed, is V-shaped, and sixteen inches deep. Until the corn gets strong, an inverted trough covers the rows as the cultivator pass es, preventing the plows from rolling the soil over the plants. When the corn is ready for the second cultiva tion the trough is laid aside. The shovels are set to throw the earth to the corn plants, now strong and two feet tall, and they are also set to take the ground deeply. This cultivation throws almost all the earth into the trench that the lister threw out. The weeds are deeply buried. The surface of the field is level. The main roots of the corn-plants are at least ten inches below the surface of the ground and how much further they have sunk into the rich,damp, underlying ground, no one knows. But now no ordinary drought affects the plants. The Hot southwest winds can blow, the mercu ry cm rise until the integrity of the thermometer is threatened, the sun can course across a cloudless sky for weeks, but the corn leaves do not roll. The plants thrive, and, if a soaking rain falls between the middle of June and the middle of July, the listed corn will make a full crop.— New York Sun. Utilizing Pine Shavings. In Europe pine shavings are largely used for stuffing purposes. At Pesth, in Hungary, a large factory is exclu sively devoted to the production of such shavings; which latter, by the aid of machinery, aro reduced to such a degree of fineness that the resulting product resembles tow. Pine-wood shavings are claimed to be superior to every other substitute for horse hair in connection with upholstering pur poses, whether as regards elasticity, softness, or durability. For bedding such shavings aro recommended by reason of the resin contained in the wood being an effective preventive of vermin. The German Ministry of | War has tried the material for bed j stuffing purposes, and has expressed i its high approbation of its merits, both J for hospital and barrack use. As er : having been in use as stuffing for ' five or six years, the shavings can be I renovated by being exposed to the heat 1 of the sun or to a heightened teinpera i ture. As regards wear, pine shavings ’ are said to compute favorably I with horse-hair; while the cost is nat | urally far smaller. — Popular Science I News. The Use of Mosquitoes. There had been a discussion in the parlor car on the uselessness of mosqui toes. This particular parlor car was running through the State of Michi gan, where August mosquitoes are not \ noted either for their modesty or their ; smallness. After everybody else had j given ins opinion a young man accom ; panied by a young lady was invited to j express his convictions on the momen ! tous question. This young man was ■ engaged in watching the face of the young woman, who was so sweetly ! sleeping upon his shoulder, breathing through her mouth instead of her nose, i He was so vigilant in his guard against mosquitoes lighting upon the face of this fair one, evidently his own ’ittle tiredy bridey wifey, that his own neck and face were exposed to the as saults of the enemy. “Do I think mosquitoes are of any ; use in this world ?” he said, with se vere slaps and scratches. “Yes, I 1 think they are. It is their (slap) mis sion to remind a feller that (slap and scratch) this isn’t heaven, after all, cuss ’em.”— Chicago Herald. TIMELY TOPICS. In France there is hardly any growth of population; and the French, so far from appreciating this condi tion, are doing their best to alter it. They in fact put a “bounty” on large families by causing s venth children to be supported by the State. The remedy for corpulence, accord ing to the Lancet, is in the method of eating and drinking. If we only ate more deliberately, it says, we should find half of our accustomed quantity of food sufficient to satisfy the most eager cravings of hunger. Let men of all classes who lead healthy lives resolve to eat and drink slowly. The present population of the city of Buenos Ayres is estimated at 400,- 000. One of the local newspapers predicts that in a few years it will be the New York of the southern hemi sphere. Emigrants are arriving in a steady stream, and if the proportion of the first six months of the year is kept up, their number will be 150,000 before the Ist of January next. Hal ■ ians form the great majority of the incomers. Getting into debt in Mexico is a se rious business. If a debtor is unable to pay on the day his debt is due he is arrested and chained to a post for five days. Then an officer looks at him to see if his punishment has enabled him to pay his debt. Os course it hasn’t, and so the debtor’s labor is sold to the government for forty cents a day until the obligation is discharged. The government sends him with a gang of felons to a silver mine, and be does not see the light again until the debt is discharged. The Supreme courts in several of the Northwestern States have recently rendered opinions which are likely to work an important change in the trial of actions to recover damages for per gonal injuries. By the general prac tice heretofore followed the existence, nature and extent of the injuries al leged have been determined mainly by the evidence of the complainant and his own medical witnesses. But in the opinions to whicli we have referred the principle has been affirmed that the plaintiff may be required to sub mit to a personal examination by physicians chosen by the defence or designated by the Court. Decisions to this effect have lately been rendered in lowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska, fol lowing a precedent established some years ago in this State. The analo gous question has also been laised in criminal cases. But there it has been held that a prisoner cannot be com pelled to submit to an examination of his person when such examination may afford evidence against himself. H may be interesting to our readers to know where the bodies of our Pres idents lie. Os the twenty-two that have occupied the chair from 1789 to date, but three are living, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland, the others are in terred of follows: George Washing ton, at Mount Vernon, Va.; John and John Quincy Adams, at Quincy, Mass.; Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, Va.; Janies Madison, at Montpelier, Va.; Janies Monroe, at Richmond, Va.; An drew Jackson, at his old “Hermitage” home, eleven miles from Nashville, Tenn.; Martin Van Buren, at Kinder hook. N. Y.; William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio; John Tyler, at Richmond, Va.; James K. Polk, at Nashville, Tenn.; Zachary Taylor, at Frankfort, Ky., Millard Fillmore, at Buffalo, N. Y.; Franklin Pierce, at Concord, N. IL; James Buchanan, at Lancaster, Pa.; Abraham Lincoln, at i Springfield, Ill.; Andrew Johnson, : Greenville, Tenn.; James A. Garfield, at Cleveland, Ohio, and Ulysses S. Grant in Riverside Park, New York | City. Serpent and Fiddler. Uncle Billy Adams was furnishing the music for a gathering at the resi dence of a well-known planter in Dooley county, given in honor of a visiting young lady from Augusta. The night was warm, and the win dows were thrown open. Miss Alice, weary of dancing, noticed the bird cage hanging among ths vines which grew over the veranda, the inmate of which was aroused to its sweetest strains of song by Uncle Billy’s fiddle. Tapping her finger lightly upon the cage, Miss Alice felt the vinebuds playing about her hand. “My God !” exclaimed one of the dancers, as he looked toward the girl, “look there !” A shriek from Miss Alice, and she fell to the floor. As she fell a huge snake was seen circling down her arm from the cage across her shoulders, and as •he lay prostrate gathered itself in a huge coil upon her bosom. With its mouth wide open, its fangs set, and pressing its head closely by the girl's i cheek, the moment was one of intense excitement. The ominous rattle was ' heard when Uncle Billy’s fiddle gave forth one of its liveliest airs, and the ; reptile quickly crawled off, wriggling i its way toward the music and out of I the bouse. "I dess knowed dat ’ud fotch urn,” said Uncle Billy, as he caressed liis instrument. “Doescreep in’ creeturs is a might fond of music.” The reptile was followed and killed, when it was found to measure eight feet. — Globe Democrat,