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CHEAP RESTAURANTS
A French Eatinsj House 'Where
a Meal Costs a Cent.
How a Discontented Customer
• Was Surprised.
“Talk about cheap restaurants," said
a New Yorker to a Tribune reporte
“we don’t seem to have anything here
to touch one or two I saw in Paris
when I was there. They are in the
poorest part of tho city, of coufSfcr utiff
their customers are of the doubtful—
well, no, not doubtful at all, but rather
decidedly shady—case of the popula¬
tion, who gather in there after the thea¬
tres close at night and everybody from
whom they can beg with any chance of
profit has gone borne.
“The arrangements and the service
are quite simple. They consist of one
immense iron pot, filled with a con¬
glomerate stew of all sorts of odds
and ends of fool picked up at the
refuse-baskets of the big hotels and
restaurants, and a long-handled iron
fork. The hungry customer advances
to the pot and pays a cent to the land¬
lord, who hands him the fork. Taking
a long sniff of the appetizing (?) steam
which rises from the cauldron, lie
plunges the fork into the mass and
withdraws it Once—no more. If he
stabs anyth ing with the fork and brings
it to the surface, the morsel is his; if
he gets nothing — whiah sometimci
happens—ho has no redress, but must
pay another cent for another
plunge or go hungry, Tue
experiment is always watched
breathlessly by tho other customors,
and if the lucky fisherman brings up a
substantial piece of meat he is con¬
gratulated, if he brings up only a po
tato or a bit of carrot, which more fre¬
quently happens, the stinginess of the
master of the cuisine is freely com¬
mented on and doubts are even ex¬
pressed of the existence of any more
meat at all in the stew but if a luckless
wight brings up nothing at all, he is
greeted with a chorus of laughter and
•derisive remarks, and is advised to fill
himself up with a smell of the vapor. v
“Another restaurant which I visited
there,” continued the narrator, “was
established by charitable poople for the
express use of the outcasts of society,
and a much more substantial meal is
given there for a sou than at the place 1
have just described. Therefore it is
mere popular with those of the criminal
classes who are not in danger of im¬
mediate arrest by the police and can
afford lo come out of their hiding
places long enough to eat. If you did
not know the place to be the resort of
thieves, you would soon begin to sin
pect it Nothing about the place is
movable. Tho tables and benches arc
screwejj which to the floor, food the iron basins
from the is eaten are
sunken into the tables and screwed
down at the edges. The spawn, knives,
cups and forks are also secured by short
chains, and, as the food is already
seasoned, no pepper Or salt castors are
pfovided.
“The only one-cent dish, however, is
a thick broth or soup, A strapping big
woman carries it about the room to the
customers in a sort of rubber bag, which
she holds under her arm and uses for
all the world like a Kcotchrr.au’a bag¬
pipes. The bag is provided with a
long neck which ends in a nozzle. The
woman lowers the nozzle into the basin
before the customer aud when she gives
the bag under her arm a squeeze with
her elbow, out squirts the broth and
she Controls the quantity by gripping
the long neck, giving a oae-cent dish
or a two-cent dish at will.
“While wa were looking on, the at¬
tendant got iato a dispute with one of
her customers, a stranger to tho place,
a truculent-looking ex-convict, about
the quantity of broth she had placed
before him for two sous. He asserted
that it was .not worth more than one
cent, and nobody should make him pay
any more for it. He threw down his
one cent w-th an oath, and took up his
spoon to oat Quickly and quietly tho
attendant lowered tho long neck into
his soup-basm, withdrew tho pressure
of her eibow from the bag under her
ana, and with an auiible suck half the
broth was siphoned back into the hag
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“I understand that you are quite gone
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SPRING PLACE. GA_ THURSDAY. u FEBRUARY
27, 1890.
Behavior In Other Lands.
In Sweden, if you address the poor¬
est person on the street you must lift
your hat. The same courtesy is insisted
upon if you pass a lady on the stair¬
way. To enter a reading room era
bank with one’s hat on is regarded as a
bad breach of manners. To place yonr
hand on the arm of a lady is a grave
and objectionable familiarity. Never
touch the person; it is sacred, is one of
their proverbs. In Holland a lady is
expected to retire precipitately if she
shou.d enter a store or a restaurant
where mon arc congregated. S 10 waits
until they have transacted their busi¬
ness and departed. L idles seldom rise
in Spain to receive a male visitor, and
they rarely accompany him to the door.
F'Ta Spaniard to give a lady (even his
wife) his arm when out walking is
looked upon as a decided violation of
propriety.
In Persia, among the aristocracy, a
visitor sends notice an hour or two
before calling, and gives a day’s not ee
if the visit is one of great importance.
He is met by servants before he reaches
the house, and other considerations are
shown him according to relative rank.
The left, and not the right, is con
siderel the position of honor. No
Turk will enter a sitting-room with
dirty shoes. The upper classes wear
tight-fitting shoes, with goloshei over
them. Tue latter, which receive all
the dirt an 1 duit, are left outside the
door. The Turk never washes in dirty
water. Water is poured over his hands,
so that when polluted it runs away.
In Syria tiio people never take oil
their eips or turbans whep entering the
house or . visiting a friend. but they al¬
ways leave their shoes at tho door.
There are no m:it3. or scrapers out aid 3,
and tho fl iors ia ode are covered with
expensive rugs, kept very clean in Mos¬
lem houses and used to, kneel upon
wh.la saying prayers.
Dr. Tulmage’s Income.
Ip a sketch of tue busy iifj of the
waT^i
of that famous div.ue was moro than
$100,000. Those who are well informed
on the doctor’s affairs know that this
estimate is easily within tho truth, and
that the reverend geatlomaa could very
materially incivaso it wore he so minded.
Not a day patscs but what he receives
half a dgz;a or more requests from
editors, publishers and newpaper syn¬
dicate! for artis.es, stories, reviews and
opinions on ail sorts of subjects. His
c irrespondents offer to pay anything ia
reason for the use of his name, but the
name they must have. By way of
illustration, a certain trade j mrPal
recently wrote to him asking him to
prepare an article on food adulteration.
Ho could make it as long or short as he
please 1, an 1 CJuld aims his own figure
for the work. Within a week an in¬
surance publication had penned a some¬
what similar proposition, in this case
the advantages of life insurance being
the theme upon which the great divine
was request, d to turn his eloquence.
Dr. Ta.mage read the first proposition,
gave utterance to a single “humph,"
and tossed the letter aside. Presumably
the second epistle met a like fate, as
neither of the desired articles has ever
appeared.
A Waterspout
An officer of the American steamship
Sanii ig > sends to the Hydrographic
Bureau an account of a waterspout
which the vessel passed through near
one of the Bahama islands last spring,
He says: “The steamer pissed through
the outer edge of the whirlpool, the
diameter of which I judge to have b'een
50 to 75 yards. On passing through
the outer edge I observed that the
center was hollow, the water circling
from west to east, or against the sun.
Tho water that fell on the deck was
very salt, and the drops as large as 50
cent pieces. During tho few seconds
of our passage through it the wind blew
at the rate of 30 or 85 miles per hour,
I did not observe any calm in the center
at all, the water arising-from it resom
b.ing an inverted fountain. After
clearingitthe wind resumed its original
force, about 15 miles per hoar.” -
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Superfluous Advice.
look Jones—For here! heaven That sisake^Robmson, boy has broken
through the ice.
Robinson — S j he has Wha m tho
world are we -going to do for lum,
Joaes! (To shivering ent rusted
boy.) Keep cool, bub! kbej (»<?«—
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POSTAGE STAMPS.
A Few of the Most Famous Col¬
lections in Existence.
Enormous Prices Paid for the
Rare Specimens.
Six years ago a business man in this
city, says the Philadelphia Nem, who
had plcn'y of money, determined to
eo.lect a magnificent assortment of for¬
eign postage stamps. For six years he
has done little else than pursue this oc¬
cupation. He became connected with
all the leadiag dealers in the world and
left with them orders to secure rare va¬
rieties at any price. He has already ex¬
pended $25,000, aud has now a collec¬
tion of about 14,000 stamps. This may
include all the “adhesives," as there
are but 8000 of them in existence. Oc¬
casionally yon read, and so do I, of
postage-stamp collections oontaining
millions of d fforent stamps. Such
things are myths, unless they consist of
innumerable duplicates.
Perhaps dealers and advanoed collect¬
ors consider the collection of M. Fer¬
rari, son of the Duchess of Galatea, the
finest collection of postage stamps in
the world. It is said to outrank even
the famous Rethschild collection. The
Ferrari collection is worth $250,000,
and its happy owner employs a well
educated secretary who does nothing
whatever but attend to it This secre
tary classifies and pastes the stamps,
and corresponds with all the leading
dealers of the world, endeavoring to
obtain what collectors eall “unattaina
bles.”
The stamp dealers frequently obtain
specimens of rare stamps in qiiecr ways.
Not long ago a bookkeeper employed
by a Philadelphia merchant entered the
firm of which Mr. Hanes is a member,
and throwing a stamp on the counter
asked whether it wa3 worth anything.
This wn9 one of the first stamps issued
by the city of Baltimore many years
ago, and the bookkeeper said ho hod
founcHt on a letter of an old corre
spondent of the firm for which he
worked. Apparently the man did not
think the stamp would bring more thau
50 cent3 or a dollar. You can judge
of his amazement, therefor, when he
was offered a sum very far bey out} this,
and which seemed to him fabulous.
He parted with the stamp gladly, and
hurried out of the office as if he were
afraid tho money would be asked back.
Several days later this stamp was soli
;or $260.
One of the most famoui collectors of
the world is Mr. Tapling. an English
member of Parliament. He lives at
Dulwich, not far from London, His
collection, which is valued at $200, 003,
is mounted on cardboard and includes
a long list of what connoisseurs call tho
“unattainablcs.” Dozens and dozens of
Mr. Tap’ing’s stamps are worth from
$100 to $150 apiece.
Several weeks ago a very small boy
who has been selling stamps at inter¬
vals to a local dealer called upon him
with a United States stamp—I think it
was one of the old “eighty cents”—
and asked how much it was * worth.
This was a stamp which sells readily
for $i0. But the lad had never re
ceived more than five or six cents
apiece for his stamps before, and the
dealer was afraid of frightening him at
first by mentioning a high value, so he
told the boy “it was a mighty good
stamp.” Then offering $5 for it, he
asked the lad whether he would sell it
at that figure. Tho boy became Beared,
picked up the stamp, ran away and has
never returned. He probably has an
idea that it is worth a fabulous sum.
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The Perils of Buffalo-Hunting.
On the occasion in question, says
Theodore Roosevelt iu St. Niohola*, my
brother and cousin were on their way
homeward. They were just mounting
one of the long, low swells into which
the prairio was broken, when they
hewd » low , muttering, rumbling
“°ise, like far-offi thunder. It grew
steadily louder, and, not knowing
*kat * meant, ,they hurried forward to
the fop of the rise. As they rescued
* they stopped short in t eW q,,.nd
amazement, for before them the whole
praWe was black with madly-rushing
buffaloes. . ,'
Afterward thpf learned that another
couple of hunters, four or five mites off,
had fired into and stampeded a large
herd . This herd, iu its rush, gathered
all thundering along together
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The surprised hunters were far away
from any broken ground or other place
of refuge; while the vast herd of huge,
plunging, maddened beasts was charg¬
ing straight down on them not a quar¬
ter of a mile distant. Down they camel
—thousands upon thousands, their
front extending a mile in breadth,
while the earth shook beneath their
thunderous gallop, and, as they came
closer, their shaggy frontlelB loomed
dimly through the columns of dust
thrown up from tho dry soil. The two
hunters knew that their only hope for
life was to split tho herd, which,
though it had so broad a front, was not
very deep. If they failed, they would
inevitably be trampled to death.
Waiting until the beasts were in close
range, they opened a rapid fire from
their heavy breech-loading rifles, yelling
at the top of their voices. For a mo¬
ment the result seemed doubtful. The
line thundered steadily down on them;
then it swayed violently, as two or three
of the brutes immediately in their front
fell beneath the bullets, while the
neighbors made violent efforts to press
off sideways. Then a narrow wedge
shaped rift appeared in the line and
widened as it came up closer, and the
buffaloes, shrinking from their foes in
front, strove desperately to edge away
from the dangerous neighborhood; the
shouts and shots were redoubled; the
hunters were almost choked by tho
cloud of dust through which they could
see the stream of dark huge bodies
passing within rifle-length on either
side; and in a moment the peril was
over, and the two men ware left alone
on the plain, unharmeJ, though with
their nerves terribly shaken. The herd
careered on toward the horizon, save
five individuals who had been killed or
disabled by tho shots.— St. Nichola).
Mexicans as Matchmakers.
Georgs Morrison, formerly connected
with the Mexican Central Railroad, told
me somo interesting facts concerning
the little boxes of wax matches which
•he small boys push under the nose of
every man that gets off an “L‘ ’ train at
a downtown station.
“Those matches,"ho said, “are nearly
all made in M.xieo, and so cheaply
that, after paying heavy duty, cigar
dealers and others sell them at the
cheap rate you see. In Mexico they
sell at the rate of two boxes for a cent
There are about fifty matches in a box,
and, considering the care required in
their preparation, this cheapness is won¬
derful. The body of the mutch is mads
with a cotton wick and wax, like a
paraffine candle, with a colored mixture
of phosp lorous at one end for ignition.
But this is not all the work. The little
boxes, holding fifty of the matches, are
complicated affairs, consisting of two
peculiarly prepared pasteboard cases
fastened together with rubber, with gay
little pictures on both sides. These
matches are made by Mexican girls at
about 12^ cents a day, and the ma¬
chinery in the manufactories is what
we would call decidedly crude and un¬
satisfactory. How they make any
money off of them, or even a living, is
more than I can tell But the little
dealers seem to thrive by selling them
at three boxes for a nickel. That does
cot bring them iato much competition
with our own manufacturers, and I
guess no one but smokers buy them. ” —■
Jf. Y. Star.
The Yalue of Water in the Far West
The far West has been the land of
, n j nes an< i ran che!—a desert terrible in
i tg vastness and barrenness. But nearly
*U the good farming-land of tho Central
p laia has now beea tnken up The Di .
katas, which have been immigrantsIsince receiving and
absorbing the mass of
the lands of Nebraska, Kansas, and
Minnesota have been appropriated, are
aow we u. 80t tled States. When Okla
homa wa3 , ecent i y O stood* p eao d, twice
M many settlors ready
M then was land for them
^ occupy> g ; m tbo great g t ream
|f European immigration rolls in upon
9 The Eastern States will send theia
yon ag mon Weet. Where are all these
farmers to find the farms to work?
Iq thcir 89arca foc tham they are m V £ .
t ** JWteaji. their way iu to every part of the
st They are at last, by
Bece98it . forced t0 tara to th e ari4
rogiotvllUh ^^ ert 0 unthought of as a field
0 . :
A s these pioneers pres, on into this,
ankagwa landi they tn4 the COnimoa
i ictare of it raUleaiin xhey flod
that, if the country be a desert, it is so
only W lack of water, md not from
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VoL X. New Series. NO. 4.
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Some of the Principal Indica¬
tions of Longevity.
Habits and Conditions Which
Tend to Lengthen Life.
A physician who issued a work on
the suiject of longevity, early in the
present century, stated “that it would
appear that tho principal natural indica¬
tions of • long life are: to be descend¬
ed, at least by one side, from long
lived parents; to be of a calm, con¬
tested, and cheerful disposition; to
havo a just symmetry or proper confor¬
mation of parts, a ful chest, well
formed joints and limbs, with a neck
and head large rather than small iu pro¬
portion to tho size of tho body, and to
be a long and sound sleeper." In the
course of his hints, he informs us that
“the stomach ought nover to be over¬
loaded with food, but that exercise,
food, drink, sleep, etc., should be
taken in moderation.
“All food should be duly masticated
before being swallowe 1, and a variety
of dishes ought not to be eaten at the
same time. Extremes of heat and cold,
with respect to food, drink, and air,
are equally to be guarded against.
Sleep ought not to continue less than
six hours, nor exceed eight."
Another writer states that, “exercise
eontributes to the preservation of human
life; it invigorates our faculties; it dis¬
sipates all the superfluous humors of a
plethoric habit; it is a gain of time, the
enemy of idleness, the duty of the
young, and the delight of the aged.”
Professor Hufeland says, “peace of
mind, cheerfulness and contentment are
the foundation of all happiness, all
health and long life. Certain habits
and dispositions of mind, such as
melancholy, care, dejection, fear,
anxiety, faint-heartedness, and, in par¬
ticular, avarice and hatred, which are
hostile to life, claim, a distinguished
rank among those means which tend to
shorten it." These are said to destroy
digestion and assimilation, and slacken
the vigor of the heart.
Sir William Temple was of opinion,
“that great temperance; open air; easy
labor; little care; simplicity of diet,
rather fruits and plants than flesh; and
water, which preserves the radical
moisture without too much increasing
the radical heat,”—were conducive to
good health and long life.
Dr. Fothorgill, who treated the sub¬
ject in an able manner a century ago,
observes that “the duo regulation of
the passions contributes, perhaps more
than any other cause, to health and
longevity. The animating passions,
such as jay, hope, love, etc., when
kept within proper bounds, gently ex¬
cite the nervous influence, promote an
equable circulation, and are highly con
ducibe to health; while the depressing
affections, such as grief, fear and
despair, produce the opposite effect. ”
Longlife, in his opinion, isdependent
on, “air and climate, meat and drink,
motion and rest, sleep and watching,
and affections of the mind; all of which
ought to be adapted to the age, tem¬
perament, and constitution. Fresh air
is more immediately necessary to liie
than food. Tho plain diet and invigor¬
ating employment of a country life are
acknowledged, on all hands, to be
highly conducive to health and lon¬
gevity; while the luxury and refinement
of large cities are allowed to be equally
destructive to the human species, and
this consideration alone, perhaps, more
than counterbalances all the boasted
privileges of superior elegance and
civilization resulting from a city life.”
In support of this, he slated that “the
number of deaths in London from 172#
to 1758 amounted to 750,322, and that
in all this prodigious number only 242
persons survived their hundredthyoar.”
He further observes that, “man is by
nature a field animal, and seems des¬
tined to rise with the sun, and to spend
a large portion of bis time in the open
air, to inure his body to robust exercise
and tho inclemency of the seasons, and
to ipake a plain, homely repast only
when hunger (dictates. But art has
studiously defeated the kind intentions
of nature, and by enslaving him to all
the blandishments of sense has left
him, alasl an easy victim to folly and
caprice.”—Fanis) Bladx
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The farmer who makes his own pork
id bqans puts another bond on heal#*
and pays himself for so doing.
Better Than a Cat.
The barn owl, when she has young,
brings to her nost a mouse about every
twelve minutes, and as she is actively
employe l both at evenings and at dawn,
and as male and female hunt, 40 mice a
day is the lowest computation we can
make. How soft is the plumage of the
owl, and Jiow noiseless her flight 1
Watch her as she floats past the ivy tod,
down by the ricks, and silently over
the old wood; then away over the mead¬
ow, through the open door and out of
the loophole of the barn, round the
lichened tower, and along the course of
the brook. Presently she returns to
her four downy young, with a mouse in
one claw and a vole in the other, soon
to be ripped up, torn and eaton by the
greedy, snapping imps. The young
aud eggs are found in tho same nest.
If you would sea the midday siesta of
these birds, climb up into somo hay¬
mow. There in an angle of the beam
you will see their owlships snoring and
blinking wide their great round eyes;
their duot is the most unearthly, ridicu¬
lous, grave noise conceivable, like
nothing else you ever heard. Here they
will stay all day, digesting the mice
with which they have gorgad themselves
until twilight when they again issue
forth upon their madcap revels. This
clever mouser, then, has a strong claim
upon our protection; so let not idle su¬
perstition, further its destruction.
The Nomen's Hunt.
A very curious custom is that called
the woman's hunt, which prevails
among somo of the aboriginal tribes of
Chota Nagp >re, India. It is observed
whenever any calamity falls upon the
community—such as, perhaps, a visita¬
tion of cholera.
The women put on men’s clothes,
take up arms, and go a-hunting—not
in the jungles, but in tho nearest
village east of them. They chase pigs
and fowls, take as their own everything
they kill, and levy blackmail from the
heads of the villages for the purchase
of liquor, or else they allow themselves
to be bought off for a small sum of
money and a pig.
Toward evening the hunting party
retire to a stream, cook and eat their
meal, drink their liquot and then return
home, having acquit ei themselves dur
ing the day in a thoroughly masculine
and boisterous manner.
Then tho village that has been visited
goes on a sim lar excursion to the
village east of it, and so on to the
eastern border of the district. By this
series of excursions it is supposed that
the evil spirit is safely conducted out
of the district without offending its
dignity.— Chicago Time*.
Do the Dying Suffer Pain f
The rule is that unconsciousness, not
pain, attends the final act. A natural
death is not more painful than birth.
Painlessly we come; whence we know
not. Painlessly we go; where we know
not. Nature kindly provides an an
{esthetic for the body when the spirit
leaves it Previous to that moment,
and in preparation ■ for it, respiration
becomes feeble, generally slow and
short, often accompanied by long in¬
spirations, and short, sudden expira¬
tions, so that the blood is steadily less
and less oxygenated. At the samedime
the heart acts with corresponding
debility, producing a slow, feeble, and
often irregular pulse. As the process
goes on the blood is not only driven to
the head in diminished force and in lesa
quantity, but what flows there is loaded
with carbonic ac.d gas, a powerful an¬
aesthetic, the same as derived from
oharcoal. Subjected to the influence of
this gas tho nerve centers lose conscious¬
ness and sensibility, apparent sleep
creeps over the system; then comes
stupor and then the end.
A Pigeon Decides a Law Case.
A novel decision was rendered by
Justice Miller in a suit before him be
tween John B. Kirby and John Scott;
each claiming the ownership to a certain
carrier pigeon, which was' brought into
court in charge of an officer. Justice
Miler, in order to settle the ownership
beyond question, ordered the pigeon
priced in the hands of two disinterested
persons, who took it four mi.es south of
the city and released it. After it had
started two chasers were sent up by
Kwby, and Scott followed suit by ro
leaslag another pigeon. The pigeon In
controversy flew straight to the red¬
den ee of Scott, and according to tha
decision of Justice Miller U now Scott’a
p»p«V.