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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1890)
i __ i / m GIA TIMES. ■ . m I 1 s. 1 i i W- fjj m If V . ■ $ i * ieUir 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 * * **' ,io “ md " *• 1 ---- “I understand that you are quite gone — ~ v* “No; not quite, but 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.” - ‘ —- 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 (»<?«— ~ *■ 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. -— 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 -—“ a 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 ,b * - ,ta -• 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 ~ 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.
