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THE SUNNY SOUTH
<pe jluuny J-ontti. FOB LADIES ONLY.
ATLANTA, CIA., SEPTEMBER 10. ISM,
SENATOR HILL
Undergoes a Second Operation.
Philadelphia, September 6.—At twelve
o’clock to-day Dr. Gross performed the sec
ond operation on Senator Hill for epithelioma
of the tongue. This operation was much
more extensive and serious than the first.
Besides cutting off a portion of the tongue, it
was found necessary to take out the sub-
maxillary and lymphatic glands, and also
the whole floor < f the mouth. The patient
was under the ii.fluence of ether and had no
shock or hemorrhage. He is now doing well
and we hope that this operation may give
permanent relief. B. H. Hill, Jr.
It will be remembered that Senator Hill
went to Philadelphia this time at the sugges
tion of Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland. Yester
day a representative of the The Constitution
called on Dr. Westmoreland, and showing
him the above telegram, asked his opinion of
the results that would follow the operation.
Dr. Westmoreland said:
‘‘That is the operation which I suggested to
the friends of Senator Hill would be neces
sary to afford any relief, and if Dr. Gross has
agreed with me I am very much gratified,
end have great hope of its success. It is im
possible to say in case he recovers <s$o what
extent bis voice will be restored. If the dis
ease has become general there is no hope of a
permanent recovery, but if it is still local I
think this operation should secure an effectual
cure.”
Dr. Ridley said to a Constitution reporter
last night:
“1 knew the maxillary gland was involved,
and since this operation I am more hopeful
of a permanent cure than ever before. Mr.
Hill’s splendid health makes this more favor-
ble. He has not been otherwise sick a day in
a year. His excellent health, perfect diges
tion, fine spirits and remarkable cheerfulness
are most gratifying, There are cases on
record where the entire removal of the glands
has been followed by a cure, and I hope per
manent relief will follow this Mr. Hill told
me before he left that he would remain in
Philadelphia until the wounds caused by the
surgeon’s knife were healed, which will prob
ably be three weeks or more. He will then,
it is likely, visit Eureka springs, Aikansas, a
place that has been highly recommended to
him.”
It may be stated that the sub-maxillary
glands are glands that secrete the saliva and
are just under the jaw. Above these, and
next to the tongue, are the sub-lymphatic
glands, which have also been removed. The
lymphatic glands are small glands next to
the veins throughout the body, and carry off
the broken down bit od corpuscles that exude
from the veins. When the cancer attacks the
lymphatic it is considered a very d ingerous
state of the case, as these glands cover the
whole body, and the poison that affects one
is apt to travel throughout the system. We
learn that about one-half of Mr. Hill’s
tongue has been cut away in the two opera
tions, but it is net thought that it will inter
fere seriously with his articulation. The
breadth and scope of the cutting in this ope
ration leads to the hope that ail the diseased
tissue has been removed from the system.
Styles, Marriages, Anecdotes, Sociables,
Slanders, and General Gossip
About the Sex.
MATEO FROM TICE.
Noble Act ot Louisville Drum
mers,
Sunday night a young girl was saved from
that awful life which holds so many of her
sex in its deadly embrace, and is probably by
this time restored to her family.
When the Western and Atlantic train left
Atlanta Sunday afternoon, some Louisville
gentlemen on board recognized a young
daughter of a prominent citizen of Louisville
who has been visiting Atlanta in company
with a suspicious looking woman and deter
mined to watch her movements closely. Be
fore they reached Chattanooga they became
convinced that the woman was decoying the
girl into a life of sin and shame.
When the train reached Chattanooga one
of the gentlemen jumped off and asked for
an officer. He was directed to Capr. Lowry,
the marshal of the town, who, on bearing the
circumstances, was satisfied that it was his
duty to interfere and prevent the consumma
tion of a foul scheme.
The marshal at once proceeded to the de
pot, and found two women in the act of
boarding the Memphis train, and dragging
with them a young girl. The train would
depart in five minutes, and the officer had
but little time to act. He rushed forward,
rescued the girl and demanded an explana
tion of the woman, who was a vile hag
known as Kate Morris, who keeps a bagnio
at Little Rock, Ark. She stated that she
had found the girl in Abbie Howard’s bag
nio at Atlanta, and had persuaded her to
accompany her to Little Rock, on the pay
ment of $50, which the girl owed the land
lady. Tbis tale proved to be a lie made out
of whole cloth, as the truth, as related by
the sobbing girl and several gentlemen, who
proved to be Louisyille commercial drum
mers. They stated that they saw the young
girl in the woman’s custody, as it were,
when the train pulled out of Atlanta, and
were horrified to recognize in her the daughter
of a wealthy and highly respectable gentle
man of Louisville, who was then sojourning
in Atlanta. The young lady also recognized
the gentlemen, and immediately her true
nature asserted itself, and with streaming
eyes she beseeched them to rescue her from
the procuress. She said that the woman by
alluring promises had enticed her from her
father, and in a moment of weakness she
had agreed to accompany her to Arakansas,
While the woman Morris was demanding
the girl in the depot the train pulled out and
she boarded the car, the officers having no
papers to detain her; she left the weeping
girl with the marshal, The woman had the
the check of the girl’s trunk with her and re-
fusedto give it up, consequently the trunk
will be taken to Arkansas.
The girl was taken to a hotel last night,
and her father, who was ignorant of her
whereabouts, telegraphed for. We suppress
her name through regard for her family,
who are highly respectable in Louisville.
How Jehaax Strauss Writes
His Waltzes.
Strauss and his wife were enjoying a quiet
walk in the park at Schonau recently, when
suddenly the composer exclaimed: ‘My dear,
I have a waltz in my’ head; quick, give me
the inside of a letter or an envelope to write
it down before 1 forget it.” Alasl after much
rummaging of pock, ts it was discovered that
neither of them* had a letter about them—not
even a tradesman’s account. Johann Strauss’s
music is considered light, but it weighs
heavy as lead on his brain till he can trans
fer it to paper, His despair was heartrend
ing, At last a happy thorght struck Frau
Strauss. She held out a snowy linen cuff
and Johann smiled. In two minutes it was
MS. Then its mate shared the same fate,
then Frau Struss’s collar, then not another
scrap of starched linen on which to conclude
the composition. His own linen was limp,
colored calico—no hope there. Johann be
came frantic. He was much the worse for
having b.en allowed to write three-quarters
of the.waltz. He was just on the point of
dashing home like a madman when another
happy thought sti u k Frau Strauss. She
plunged her hand into a a pacious pocket,
fished out a purse, opened it, aud displayed
to his delighted gsze aud bran new hundred
gulden note. Hurrah I The entire finale was
written on the bank note, and then Johann
Struss relapsed into his usual placidity.
It is a custom at European watering places
for ladies to carry parasols into the water
with them.
The young lady who could not make her
bangs stay bung, said she was having a tuft
time of it.
The “coming girl” of style is the auburn-
haired. Brunettes and blondes will in future
be completely extinguished.
Miss Julia A. Ray, who has for three years
been principal of Vassar College, has re
signed, and will leave the institution imme
diately.
Elegant toilets are composed of a black
satin underskirt and a gold dotted, black satin
overdress, trimmed with gold wrought Span
ish lace.
There are few persons who possess the
“knack” of writing a pretty, graceful note,
and in the exceptional cases the art belongs
to women.
Transparent veils, embroidered with gold
or jet beads, are worn just long enough to
reach the nose. Don’t attempt that style un
less you have a pretty mouth.
At Brighton Beach, last Friday a fashion
able belle, while bathing, had this compli
mentary remark passed under her: “Well, I
declare, she outstrips them all ”
Miss Stella Bowen delivered the 4th of July
oration at Dayton, W. T., and the Columbia
Chronicle prints it in full. Her address was
eloquent, graceful and patriotic.
Mrs. William Vanderbilt is driving Sara
toga belles wild with envy of her sixty bon
nets and loads of priceless lace. She had to
engage an extra room just for her own
trunks.
Turbans are not becoming to many people,
but they will be fashionable next winter.
The most- stylish are covered with black
velvet and the crowns hidden under a load of
grebe feathers.
Mme. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has re
ceived from the King of Sweden the medal
“Literis et artibus,” in diamonds, with an
authorization to wear it suspended from the
blue ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim.
Corresptfutlcuce.
LETTER FROM RICHMOND.
The Water Famine—Contest Be
tween the City and Railroad
on the Subject.
In a bad case of gapes give the chicken a
pill of camphor about the size of a garden
pea. As soon as any symptoms are mani
fested, give the birds water to drink which
has been strongly impregnated with camphor.
The treatment seems to explain itself. The
gapes or geping is caused by the presence in
the windpipe of small red worms. No medi
cine can reach them unless it does so in the
form of vapor. One hour after the chicken
has swallowed the pill it smells of campto*.
Camphor is a strong vermifuge, and under
the above treatment the worms die.
The latest thing in stockings, not counting
feet, is pink silk with overtrain of flowered
lace. The effect is to cause a muddy crossing
to assume the appearance of a bed of pan
sies, and to bloom and blossom as the rose.
Miss Nellie Hazeltine, the belle of St. Louis
who was reported to have had an offer of
marriage from Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, is
said to be engaged to the handsome Philadel
phia tenor of Ford’s Opera Troupe, Mr. John
Amweg.
“Once upon a time,”as the story books say,
a certain lady was invited to a dinner party.
In accepting the invitation she sent her card,
on which was written:“Come with pleasure.”
She is still wondering why she was never in
vited again.
Now that the city women are returning
from their country rambles, tho first two
weeks after their return will be devoted to
removing freckles and tan from their faces
and arms. Benzoin is the best preparation
for this purpose.
The big coquetish gypsy hat wreathed
with scarlet berries, is the present favorite
style. It is tied down with a long black
Spanish lace scarf that is wound around the
throat and finally fastened by a spray of
berries at the throat.
The princess of Wales, on the late occa
sion of awarding prizes at the Royal School
for the daughters of officers, dispensed with
splendor and wore a simple cream colored
satteen dress and a straw bonnet trimmed
with cream colored lace.
Mrs. C. C. Steele, a sister of ex-senator
Cockling, has been for the past twelve years
employed in the customs service, at the port
of New York, as a searcher of female passen
gers suspected of having smuggled goods
concealed on their persons.
A Harlem man kissed the hired girl the
other day “behind the kitchen door.” When
he retireid Mrs. Brown found a black hair on
bis cuff button; but it was so near the color
of her own,that she suspected nothing. Brown
calls it a hairbreadth escape”
There is an awful state of affairs in New
Rochelle, where a type-setter substituted the
word “widows” for “windows.” The editor
wrote: “The windows of our ohurch need
washing badly. They are too dirty for any
use and are a disgrace to our village.”
On warm evenings at Saratoga the ladies,
arrayed or rather disarayed, in petticoats
and sacques, congregate in their rooms and
play poker all the afternoon, and then tell all
manner of stories to their husbands in order
to account for their astonishing lack of
money and jewels.
Among other tribulations of this turbulent
year 1881, we have been sorely afflicted with
a water famine here in Richmond. Some
time ago the Allegheny Railroad Company
bought the James River and Kanawha Canal,
one terminus of which is in Richmond, for
the purpose of building a railroad on its
banks, pledging themselves to continue fur
nishing two or three large manufacturing
companies with water power therefrom, as
heretofore. Now the great drought came,
and as the citizens were clamoring f. r water,
the Mayor put on his war paint and sent a
squad of policemen to open the gates and
turn the water from the canal into the river.
The Railroad Company, fearing to break
their contract with the manufacturers, shut
them again, and threatened to arrest anybody
who further meddled with their water. Then
the thing got into the courts, and, after
having witnessed the expenditure of an im
mense amount of legal wisdom, the Judge
issued an injunction against the city, forbid
ding it to fool with the Railroad Company’s
fluid after 4 o’clock sharp on Mondayaf temoon
September 5th, until which time an opportu
nity was given the City Council to settle
amicably with the railroaders if they could.
Thus matters stand now, and squally war-
clouds hover around the horizon of our
usually peaceful community. This bears
•specially hard on some parts of our popula
tion, as for instance our Baptist brethren,
who are in mortal fear that the old boy will
hold high revel in the absence of the cleansing
and restraining element, whereas another
portion wouldn’t care a snap of their fingers
if the whole James river was to dry up to
morrow, as long as no misfortune happens to
Berner & .Engel’s lager beer bvewry in Phil
adelphia. As for their ablutions, they would
just as lief suspend them for a time without
feeling any the worse for it.
To a simple an unprejudiced mind it would
seem, in an emergency like this, that a city
of 65,000 inhabitants ought to have the pref
erence; but the mysterious wisdom of the law
and its professors is at times so deep, that it
is entirely past finding out by any ordinary
comprehension.
Very respectfully, O. A. E.
OUR PLEBEIAN FRUIT.
The waning summer’s heats and droughts
have scorched the leaf and shrunken the
stream and the dust lies thick on road and
pathway. Out in the orchard what late
fruits the chill spring left us ajre scant and
small. These are the Patricians to be en
closed and fed and tended in r-rder to bring
us any reward; but out yonder in fence cor
ner, by dusty roadside, in wooded hollow,
and by tiny streamlet, grows our brave
Plebeian, the unfailing blackberry.
For him we provide no accommodations,
we tender him no sustenance and vagabond
stock are free to dine on him whenever it
pleases them so to do, but still in Spring be
hangs out his white banners of bloom, and
early in summer offers for our acceptance his
ebon clusters of shining berries,
What matter if peach and apple, pear and
fig fail us, here is our fruit for dinner pie and
pudding, for supper compote and tartlet, for
breakfast jam and marmalade. Here is the
base for our cordial, so invigorating and
healthful to those suffering from summer
maladies, or the wine, pure and sparkling for
those who delight in the pleasures of the ta
ble.
And there, in the pantry, the thirsty
householder has stored her shelves with the
luscious and prodigal fruit, canned, preserv
ed, jellied aDd dried. No danger that the
winter’s soups ana stews and roasts will not
have their delicious addenda.
Brave, no cold and cruel frosts daunt him;
patient, he lives through all neglect from
man and depredation from beast, year by
year he comes at his appointed season and
offers himself to the epicure.
All honor to him then the “Caesar Impera-
tor” of all fruits. Helen Gervyse.
UNPROTECTED MALES.
POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI.
It is not generally known in kissing that
for the most electrical results, one kisser
should be a blonde and the other a brunette,
representing the opposite poles of a battery.
When people of the same complexion kies
each other, all of the rapture and bliss sim
mers down to a mechanical task.
A young Louisville lady, said to be related
to Sally Ward Hunt, creates quite a sensa
tion at Saratoga by wearing a very shor'
dress, and stockings of a contrasting color,
one blue and one pink. Of course, the artless
creature does it merely to attract attention
to her tiny feet, though she declares she is
absent minded.
A dressy poke bonnet for the early fall i-
made of cream-colored straw; lined with bot
tle-green velvet. The trimming consists of
two phaesants’ wings posed on the right side
of the hat. On the left is a cluster of crim
son crushed roses veiled with Spanish lace.
The broad strings of surah show a mixture
of crimson, cream color and dark gteen.
Martha Washington, who was a perfect
model of good sense and elegance, is a strik
ing contrast to the fashionable society wo
man of to-day. Lady Washington consider
ed two or three “best” dresses as more than
sufficient, and she was a president’s wife,
But Mrs. Upper-tendom has to have at least
three hundred costunes for her Saratoga sea
son.
Perfumes Used by Egyptians.
The consumption of essences must have
been enormous at the highest tide of Egypt
ian splendor, for the people were actually
enjoined to perfume themselves on Fndavs;
corpses were anointed with aromatic essences:
sherbets and sweetmeats were flavored will,
fine vegetable extracts; perfumes filled the
air in every well-to-do house, and saturated
the letters and presents which were con
stantly being exchanged. The ladies batheo
in perfumed water, the men used scented oils
for the hair, and both made use of red, yel
low and green soep. During great festivals
incense was burnt in all the streets, so that
even the poorest might be regaled by the
mere act of breathing. Nor was there any
lack of narcotics. The mode of preparing
opium, introduced from Syoot in Upper
Egypt, w.is well known, and the Suita;
Beybars promulgated several edicts prohib
iting the use of basbeesb, a stupefying and
intoxicating preparation of Indian hemp.
In spite of the prophet’s prohibition, the
juice of the grape continued to be indulged
m; alcohol (as its name indicates) is an Arab
discovery, and beer—the favorite beverage
of the ancient Egyptians—was also brewed
and dnrnk, under the Khalifs. Many a jo
vial song in praise of wine was sung by the
Arab poets, and in early times many Arabs
would by no means admit that tbe pAphet
had forbidden its use. In an old MS. copy
of Tha’alibi it is said: “The prophet—may
God bless him and accept him—permitted
wine, and mercifully allows ns to strengthen
ourselves with it at our meals, and to lift
the vail of our cares and sorrows."
Mississippi is Vesuvius in activity now, po
litical parties, at least the Democratic being
at war in its own domain. Gathering its
numbers from various quarters, the Bourbon
Democrat, the moderate Republican and the
defunct Whig, the latter two factions have
become disaffected and threaten to leave the
victors of 1875 again in the dust of defi at.
The two prominent causes of this disaffection
are, that in the distribution of offices the
northern tier of counties has been represent
ed to tbe almost total exclusion of the south
ern; and the County nominating Conventions
have traded candidates, and endorsed their
own favorites, disregarding the will of the
people whom they are presumed to voice in
in the matter. So goes politics in Mississippi;
and "Hie vir, hie est,” comes from all parts
of this new “Field of Mars.” .
A WOXDERFUZ ZiAMJS OT IOWA.
The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa, and perhaps in any other State, ia
what is called the Walled lake, in
Wright county, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific railway, and
160 miles west of Dnbnqne city. The
lake is two or three feet higher than the
earth’s surface. In some places the wall
is ten feet high, fifteen feet wide at the
bottom, and five feet wide on the top.
Another fact is the size of the stone used
in the construction, the whole of them
varying in weight from three tons down
to 100 pounds. There is an abundance
of stones in Wright county, but sur
rounding the lake, te the extent of five
or six miles, there are none. No ona
can form an idea of the means employed
to bring them to the spot, or who con
structed it. Around the entire lake is a
belt of woodland half a mile in length,
composed of oak. With this exception
the country is a rolling prairie. The
trees most have been planted there at
the time of the building of the wall. In
the spring of the year 1856 there was a
great storm and the ice on the lake
broke the wall in several places, and the
farmers in the vicinity were obliged to
repair the damages to prevent inunda
tion. The lake occupies a ground sur
face of 2,800 acres ; the depth of water is
as great as twenty-five feet. The water
ts clear and cold; soil sandy and loamy.
It i6 singular that no ene has been able
to ascertain where the water comes from
nor where it goes, yet it is always deal
and fresh.—Burlington Hawk-Eye,
Death ot Lorenzo Delmonico.
Lorenzo Delmonico, tbe well-known New
York restaurateur, died at six o’clock yester
day afternoon in one of tbe cottages attached
to the Pavilion Hotel at Sharon Sprint's.
His nephew, Ch>jles, was with him at the
time of his death. He was sixty-eight years
old and leaves a wife to mourn him. His
body will be brought to New York on Mon
day and taken to his residence on East Fif
teenth street, and from there the funeral will
take place on Tuesday morning. His re
mains will be interred in tbe family vault at
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in Mott street.
Peck's Sun thinks there are female “mash
ers” who take advantage of their male broth
ers, and upon this subject has the following
to say:
There has been a great deal of talk in the
papers about arresting “mashers,” that is,
young men who stand on the corners and
pulverize women, and a great many good
people got the idea that it was unsafe to trav
el the streets. This is not the case. A wo
man might travel all the day and half the
night and not be insulted. Of course, once
in a great while, a woman will be insulted by
a man, the same as a man will be by a wo
man. No woman, unless she throws out one
eye, kind of stunning, is in danger of having
a male man throw out his other eye the same
way. There has got to be two parties to a
mashing match, and one must be a woman
Too many women act sort of queer just for
fun, and the poor male man gets to acting
improper before he realizes the enormity of
the crime, and then it is everlastingly too
*»e
But a female masher, one who is thor
oughly bad, like the male loafers that have
been driven from the corners, is a terror.
She will insult a respectable man and laugh
at his blushes One of them was arrested
the other day for playing her act on a po
liceman who was disguised as a respectable
granger from Stevens' Point. These female
mashers are a tornado. Why, one of them
met a respectable church member the other
night, and asked him how his liver complaint
was. He was a man who had been troubled
with the liver complaint, and supposing she
was some acquaintance, he stopped on the
corner and talked to the pullet for about ten
minutes, explaining to her the course of treat
ment he had used to cure him, and dozens of
people passing by knew him, and knew that
she was clear off.
Finnally she asked him if he wouldn’t take
her to a restaurant and buy her a spring
chicken and a small bottle. He told her if
she would come up to his house she could
have a hen, and there were lots of bottles,
both large and small, that she was welcome
to. She told him to go to hades, and he went
into a drug store and asked a clerk who that
lady was he was talking with, and when the
clerk, who knew her, told him she was a road
agent, a street walker, a female masher, the
old man bad to sit down on a box of drugs
and fan himself with his hat. We mention
this to show that ladies are not the only por
tion of our population that is liable to be
accosted and insulted.
The other night a respectable merchant
was going to the opera with a friend from
the country, when a couple of sirens met
them, and one said to the other, “Look at
his nibs,” and she locked arms with him and
asked him if he was not her darling. He
said his name was not “Nibs,” and he would
have to look at his memorandum book before
he could tell whether he was her darling or
not, but from the smell of gin about her per
son, he should blush to extemporize. We do
not give his exact language, but in the heat
of the debate he shook her and told her if
she clawed on him again he would ever last
ingly go and tell her parents. And while he
was talking to her the other one had seated
herself beside his country friend on a salt
barrel in front of a groceiy, and was feeling
in his vest pocket to see if he had any clevee.
A female masher is as much worse than a
male masher as you can imagine. Whoever
heard of a male masher feeling in an unpro
tected female’s vest pocket for cloves? Oh,
the men are simply unprotected, and at the
mercy of wicked, designing women, and the
police ought to protect them.
Cranes
Cranes of one or more epacies are found
everywhere, with the exception of South
America, the Malayan and Fapanan Archi
pelagoes, and the scattered islands of the
Pacific. The common European species
celebrated in all times for its migrations-
“So steers the prudent crane
Her annual voyage borne on winds; the aii
Floats as they pass, fann’d with unnum
ber’d plumes”—
was at one time very numerous in the fen
ny districts ot England; so possibly Miltoi
knew the bird. The name is qnite wrong
ly applied to the heron in Scotland and
Ireland, while in America and Australia
the white egret herons are also called
cranes. Old ASsop.s fable of the stork be
ing captured in the evil companionship
of the cranes, and being condemned to
death for thus even associating with noto
rious plunderers of grain, indicates th»
he well enough knew the two kinds oi
birds;far better, indeed, as Blyth truly rt
marks, than did that world renowned ma
ter of mediaeval painters, who commit-
the carious zoological mistake of intro
ducing cranes instead of storks in bi>
world-known cartoon of the ‘ Miraculous
Dranght of Fishes.* In common with mt-
ny other gregarious birds, cranes always
place sentinels as a lookont, while the res
of the flock will trustfully repose, and
they likewise leave them on tbe watc-
while on their marauding expeditions to
crops of grain.— Nature
Let No Fat Man Escape.
Fat? You bet he was! And he was one
of those cautious men who wear their winter
flannels and socks up to the first of June for
fear of cold waves and rheumatic twinges.
It grew hotter and hotter as he came down
Grand River avenue, and he finally slid un
der the awning of a saloon and dropped
down on the head of an empty beer-keg and
groaned out:
“Lands alive! but she’s more than biling.
Seems to me that I’ve commenced to melt!”
He hadn’t got the perspiration wiped off
one whole ear yet when a tall, lean man came
aloDg from the other way and also halted.
Not a drop of moisture could be seen on his
face, and his hair was as dry as a clothes
line.
“I presume, sir,” he began, “that you find
this heat uncomfortable?”
“Great snakes! but I’m roasted!” groaned
the other.
“Nevertheless, I desire to make you an ad
dress on the subject of the weather. The
seasons are divided into four. We will first
take the winter season.”
“Oh! I don’t want to hear anything about
the weather. I want to cool off and get
home.”
‘ Nevertheless, the winter season includes
December, January and February,” contin
ued tbe lean man, as he walked up and down.
“Do you know why we have cold weather in
the winter and warm weather in the sum
mer?”
“Say, let me alone, won’t you? I came
within an inch of being sunstruek.”
“Spring is the next season, and sometimes
it is wonderful how closely it follows winter,
and then again it is wonderful how it hangs
off until fall. Spring is supposed to include
March, April, M y and several blizzards _ d
freshets.”
“Say, I won’t stand it! If you didn’t move
on I’ll injure you for life!”
“We now come to the third season,” ob
served tbe lean man as he folded his hands
behind his back. “The third season is called
summer, and includes the months of June,
July and August. June was named after
old Juneberry, a Greek orator who con
tended ”
“Will you move on!” yelled the fat man as
he pushed his handkerchief down the back of
his neck.
“1 will not,” was the calm reply. “June
was named after old Juneberry. a ”
“Who the cares!”
“All of us. Old Juneberry contended that
the sun was composed of ”
The fat man tried to get up,but little creeks
of perspiration ran down his back, one of his
suspenders broke short off, and he fell back
and yelled “police!” in a voice so husky that
he seemed to have a peachstone in his throat.
Three or four men came out of the saloon,and
he pointed to the lean man and gasped out:
“Fire dollars to the man that mashes
him!”
“And now we come to the fourth season,”
coolly remarked the lean man as he walked
slowly away, “which includes September,
October and Noyember, and in leaving this
for another field of labor I want to say to
you, old fatty, that I’ll lay for you from
now till the end of dog-days but what you
shall hear the remainder of my address and
Juneberry’s reasons for believing that tbe
sun was composed of scraps and ends of
lightning which had drifted into a sort of ae
rial whirlpool. You may sweat and blow
and call for the police, but I’ll trail you to
the bitter end, and don’t you forget it!”
And he walked briskly away under the hot
son just as the fat man was going to raise
the reward for mashing him to $5o.—Det.
Free Press.
“Tl»e Sweet Ry-and-Ry.”
Many ot our readers have doubtless heard
the song which is known as “The Sweet By-
and-By.’’ Few of them, however, know its
history. The words of the song were com
posed by Dr. Fillmore Bennett, now of Rich
mond, "Illinois. They were set to music by
Joseph P. Webster, now dead. The worm
were written in about fifteen minutes. Wet>
ster was a despondent and melancholy man,
and the world seemed always to go wrong
with him. One day he came in, and relating
some of his sad experiences, wound up by
saying: “Ob? well, it will be all right by-
and-byl” Upon tbe impulse of tbe moment,
Dr. Bennett took up his pencil and wrote tbe
words of the soDg which have been so popu
lar. Webster took his fiddl», and before the
day closed the tune was arranged, and when
he finished tbe work he said the song would
live forever. It was first printed in The
Signet R'ng, published in Chicago, and in a
short time $50,000 copies of the song were
sold. It was afterwards printed in sheet
form, and in tbe first six months 20,000 copies
were sold, and since then it has had an aver
age sale of 10,000 copies per year. It is also
published in every hymn book that comes out,
and this privilege costs $50.
Tbe Eden ot Widows.
Kentucky takes care of the widows. Three
“relics,”as they are disrespectfully called in
obituaries of husbands, at the recent State
election were elected county clerks in place
of their deceased lords. The pioneer move
ment was made last spring, when a county
judge appointed a widow to succeed her
husiand in a clerkship. Each of them can
scratch if they cannot write the decrees of
courts in fine penmanship.
A Paris correspondent says: Apropos of
marrying for money, I am reminded of a
funny story told of an American young lady
who has been studying music for some time
in Vienna and Paris, and is now singing with
great success in Italy. I alluded to Miss
‘ Uara Berstein of Cincinnati. Ohio. One
evening at a social gathering a Frenchman
asked her: ‘ Your musical education must
have cost you a great deal of money, has is
nor. Mile. Berstein?”
“Oh, yes; quite a sum.”
“Well, now, dop’t you think you would
have acted more wisely to have saved that
money and got married ?”
Miss Bernstein looked at her interrogator
quizzically, and responded: “Perhaps so;
but on the other band, 1 don’t believe I could
have bought just the husband that would
suit me for that amount of money, you
kno.. I” _
Our theatre-goers are to be treated wiil a
fresh stock of frivolous entertainments dormg
the autumn. Later on may it not be hoped
that there will be something offered more
akin to the legitimate drama?
Expansion of Metals.
It is generally thought, says the Lon
don Times, that the expansion of bodies
on heating and contraction on cooling
hold good, as a rule, for the passage
from the solid to the liquid state, and
vice versa. Substances, Kke ice, whioh
behave differently are regarded as ex
ceptions. The researches of Herr Eopp
have shown that phosphorus, snlpher,
wax, steario acid, stearine, chloride of
calcium, phosphate of soda, hyposulphate
of soda, and Bose’s metal grow larger in
volume when fused. As to metals the
data of past observation are very dis
cordant, and on this account Herren
Nies and Winklemann have recently
■tndied the subject anew. Their funda
mental experiment was patting the solid
metal into the fused metal In some
cases the difference of density conld be
measured. They found, then, that tin
in solidifying, is increased in volume 0.7
per cent., that zinc is increased 0.2 per
cent, ana that solid bismuth is as much
as 3 per cent less dense than the fused
metal. The fact of expansion in solidi
fying w is also demonstrated for anti
mony, iron and copper. With lead and
cadmium the results were indecisive, (the
former presented difficulties in the prob
ably very small difference of density as a
solid and as a liquid, its small heat con-
ductively and heat of fnsion, the latter in
the fact that in fnsion it first passes into
a viscous state.) Thus, of the eight
metals examined six showed distinct ex
pansion in solidifying; and the same may
occur in the two others. 80 far as these
experiments go, therefore, thephenom-
enom in question would appear to be the
rule and not the exception for metals.
HARRIED IN BED.
A midnight Sensation at Kan
sas City,
„^ AS , SAS City. Sept. 3.—At eleven o’clock
Ihursaay night a beautiful young lady called
upon Rev. Bookstaver Bell, at his residence
on Oak street, and requested him to perform
the solemn ceremony of marriage. At first
the good doctor thought his fair visitor
was the incumbent, but she stated that she
was acting for a third party in the matter,
who desired her services to promote the cer
emony. The unknown then conducted Rev
Mr. Bell to 101 West Fifth street, where Mr!
t rank Fruhmuth, of Syracuse, N. Y., and
Miss Lottie Kaufman, of Cincinnati, stated
that they desired to be the high contracting
parties.
The parties had no marriage license, and
Dr. Bell informed them that it would be nec-
essary to obtain one Seeking the service of
a Times representative, the rector proceeded
to the county court house, where Deputy
Recorder Winship was waked up and a mar
riage license procured. The ceremony was
then proceeded with at the rooms in West
Fifth street, the hour having advanced to
midnight, Dr. Bell officiating, and Miss Alice
Stewart and Mr. Winship.and a reporter be
ing the witnesses to the ceremony. VVhen
the party entered the bridegroom was lying
in bed »ith nothing on but ,a scant robe de
nuit. Miss Lottie Kaufman, the bride, also
known as Joe Miller and Lottie Price was
sitting on the side of the bed.
The young man wanted to sit up in bed
while he war being married, but the minister
insisted that he should stand. As he was un
clad the counterpane was thrown around
him as he arose,and in this condition, looking
like an Indian war chief, he was married.
The parties stood up and were made to join
hands. They listened intently to the solemn
ceremony, although deeming it discreet to
keep propped firmly against the bed to main
tain their equilibrium. When the first sol
emn words had been spoken, and the minis
ter asked: “Do you take this woman to be
your lawful, wedded wife, to cleave to her
until death? etc.,” the bridegroom waited for
a moment, and then raising his right hand
with a deprecatory gesture, exclaimed: “You
bet your life.”
At this juncture the girl Alice snickered
outright, aud the other members of the party
found it difficult to control their merriment,
especially an old negro attendant who was
rolling on the floor in an agony of mirth in
the next room.
The same solemn question was asked the
bride: “Do you take this man for your law
ful and wedded husband,ar.d promise to love,
cherish and obey, ” she also responded, ‘‘That’s
right.”
The couple were pronounced man and
wife.
Joe Miller, the bride, in this strange cere
mony, u a large, fleshy woman, who has
lived in the rooms in the locality mentioned
for about three years. The young woman
who was so intent upon seeing them married
was her sister. Frank Fruhmuth, sometimes
called “Lew,” keeps a saloon near the corner
of Fifth and Broadway. To a certain extent
the surroundings of the marriage were dis
graceful, and Dr. Bell was as much shocked
as anybody, but saw no way out of it after
having once ventured in. The parties were
of age and had a right to get married. It is
thought, however, that the whole secret of
the affair was that they were urged on to
this step by the younger sister, who doubt
less had her own reasons for so doing. Curious
to learn the result of the midnight ceremony,
a reporter went to see the bride of a night,
and found her packing up her things to leave
tor Chicago. She said she would not live
with her husband, and would not believe she
was married to him when she woke up in the
morning and had been repeatedly told of the
fact. All she wanted, she claimed, was to
get out of the town, and she would leave her
effects and several hundred dollars’ worth of
furniture behind for them to do with as they
saw fit. The would-be husband was still in
the next room, having refused to leave the
house all day.
What He Hadn’t Got.
A certain rich man possessed of great
wealth was wont to be proud of his posses
sions and to refer to them often, but withal,
he was not a man of intellect.
One day he had an old Irishman working
for him, aad he went out to oversee the job.
He looked at Pat a minute, hard at work,
and said:
“Well, Pat, it is good to be rich, ain’t it?”
“Yis, sur,” said Pat, who had the wit of
his nation.
“I am rich, very rich, Pat”
“Yis, sur.”
“I own lands, and houses, and bonds, and
stocks, and railroads, and—and—and—”
“Yis. sur,” said Pat, shoveling away.
“And what is it, Pat. that I haven’t got?”
“Not a bit av sinse, sur,” remarked Pat, as
he picked up his wheel barrow an d trundled
it off full of dirt; and the rich man went into
the house and sat down behind the door.
Onions and Gravy.
A rather seedy looking customer came into
a restaurant on Austin avenue and said to
the proprietor:
“What do you ask for niGely cooked beef
steak, well done, with onions?”
“Twenty-five cents.”
“And the gravy?”
“Oh, we don’t charge anything for the
gravy.”
“You don’t—that’s liberal. How much do
you charge for the bread?”
“We throw in the bread.”
“Is it good bread?”
‘‘It is.”
“So you throw in the bread and gravy?”
“Certainly.”
“Then bring me some bread and gravy.
i!’s not healthy to eat meat in summer.”
An aesthetic bouquet lately received in
Taunton consists of leaves gatnered from the
graves of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wal
ter Savage Landor and Theodore Paiker,
who all sleep in the Protestant cemetery at
Florence, Italy, an Alpine bluebell from tbe
summit of Mt. Rbigi, an olive leaf from the
tree that shades the tomb of Virgil at Naples
and a bit of coliseum ivy from the wall of the
house of E'aurus at Pompeii.
It is said that four barrels of the water of
the Great Salt Lake will leave after evapo
ration, nearly a barrel of salt. The buoyancy
cf the water is so great that it is not an easy
matter to drown in it. No fish have been
discovered in the lake, but myriads of flies
cover its surface. Compared with the Dead
Sea the Great Salt Lake is longer by 43 miles
and is broader by 35 miles.
The cotton crop, it is estimated, will be a
m ’.lioa and a half bales short this year of
what it was last, though the Mobile board of
trade puts the shortage at only one million.
Whatever it may be, it means correspond
ingly better prices for the planters.
A Philadelphia paper asserts that sucking
pigs and oocoanuts are the fractional curren
cy of King Kalakaua’s domains. Imagine the
consternation of the foreigner who slings out
a dollar bill for a nickel cigar and gets a lit;
ter of pigs in exchange.
The city council of Nashville, Tennessee
has passed an ordinance requiring “ drum
mers” to pay $100 a year license, and a pen
alty of $50 is to be imposed for violation of
the ordinance.
Milch Cows.
The milking qualities of cows are the result
of the arts of man. The cow in its natural
state gives as much milk as will keep a calf
about two months, then for four months as
much as will partially sustain it; after that
it takes care of itself. On the other hand,the
cow which art has produced gives as much
milk for four months in the year as will sup
port four or five calves, and for five months
more as much as would support three, two
and one. Thus we find that almost every
breed has its milking strains. The Durham
has its milking qualities just in proportion as
man has indue ed them. The Hereford is also
a noted beet producing breed; but these are
strains which are deep milkers. But man has
not succeeded so well in converting butter
and milk-producers into heavy beef animals.
The Ayrshire, the Jerseys, the Guernseys,are
not easily converted into beef animals; yet it
may be said that man changes the character
istics of animals almost at will.
Hon to Get Sick.
Expose yourself day and night, eat too
much without exercise; work too hard with
out rest; doctor all the time; take all the vile
nostrums advertised; and then you will want
to know
How to Get Well.
Which is answered in three word—Take Hop
Bitters. See another column.
Statistics show that out of every five hun
dred men who feel iu the spring that it
would be nice to have a little garden, only
six ever get further than feeling so. Six
is just the proportion of lunatics in every five
hundred population.
Complications.
If the thousands that now have their rest
and comfort destroyed by complication of
liver and kidney complaints would give na
ture’s remedy, Kidney-Wort, a trial they
would be speedily cured. It acts on both or
gans at the same time and therefore com
pletely fills tbe bill for a perfect remedy. If
you have a lame back aud disordered kidneys
use it at once. Don’t neglect it.—Mirror and
Farmer.
Even so ii flammable a material as cotton
can be used for the construction of fireproof
buildings The raw cotton is converted into
a paste by a chemical process, and this paste
becomes as hard as stone. It it molded into
large slabs, aud designated as architectural
cotton.
Neuralslne.
This specific for neuralgia and headache is
offered to the public not as a king cure all,
but only as good for neuralgia and headache.
For lhese troubles it it unfailing. Every
bottle guaranteed if taken according to di
rections. Hutchinson & Bro , Proprietors,
Atlanta, Ga. For sale by all druggists.
DB. STAIN BACK WILSON
•TX7ILL send eitherof his works, ‘GUd Tidings
YV fob Mothers' or Diseases of Men,’ on re
ceipt of a stamp addressed to him, Atlanta, Ga.
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