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SEA MONSTERS.
Gtyntx Tenors that Bow Darf,|
Dsfathomsd Depths.
Horrors of the Fearful Octopus, into ]
Whose Clutclu s Victor
Hugo Fell.
WO-THIBDS of the
earth’* surface 1* oov-
( ered with water, the far
depth* of which, mile*
and mile* below the
wave*, have never been
' approached by the hu
man explorer. Who can
■ay what frightful crea
ture*, vast and formic**
nightman* of the deep,
may lurk there In the
darhn— of an aqneou*
night never illumined
byaann’amyT Mo on* ha* any reaeon
*» ***lifting that the enormous plesio
■aura* of the ooUthlc age, skeleton* of
vrhteh an found at tbi* day,
■Ull survive In the unfathomed caves of
wt»a- This extraordinary aquatic rap.
tile, which resemble* a gigantic snake
threaded through the body of a turtle,
having the head of a lizard, the teeth of
a crocodile, a neck 30 feet long like the
body of a serpent, the rib* of a chame
leon and the peddles of a whale, would
answer very weU to the usual description
given of the great sea serpent.
It i every likely, however, that the mon
itor which has given cause for a majority
of such etc ries is one of unquestioned ex
istence at the present time, although up
to within a very recent period science
was not well acquainted with It, nor was
it known wbat mighty proportions this
ogre of the ccean attains.
With this monstrous animal, however,
the fishermen of the Indian ocean have
been unpleasantly acquainted for many
centuries. In fact, the professional ang
ler in those South sess is compelled con
■tantly to indulge a rather exciting an
ticipation of meeting one, and a certain
percentage of loss of life consequent
upon these encounters is a matter of reg
ular estimate in the business, for the
bumble toiler of the see, while engaged
In his peaceful employment, must be
prepared at any time to see a monstrous
creature, with enormous goggling eyes,
rise cut of the depths, and fling across
his boat a gigantic tentacle armed
with scores of suckers so powerful that
nothing short of bone power can pull
them off from the object to which Urey
have been once attached.
For such an adventure the fisherman baa
always ready at band a keen knife with
Which to slash off the tentacle before it ■ w__ . . .... „ .
baa dragged him overboard in fatal em- 1??*^ «
brace. Be must work quickly, for tbe Just ahesd, and throwing an
monster has another tentacle to help
THE OCTOPUS OR DEVIL FISH.
him in tbe attack, and it is hardly an
even fight between one or two men and a
creature with an arm reach of one ban
died feet.
Sncb and even greater are tbe propor
arm 100 feet or more in length around
one of tbe whales —it encircled tbe ceta
cean three times—literally dragged tbe
whale bead foremost to the bottom.
Subsequently wbat was thought to
be tbe seme monster was seen by the
tlonsreached by the giant squldfwhich CP ' ,ft “ “ 60
«^ n te d be ed lnVc3 SSh not The SZ?thoroughly believe in the
^uo?ed sea sem^t th?existence of sea serpents of vast dimen-
SSPkSteen ’ * * eemi-fabu- , IO ns. During the wars with Carthage a
It inhabit# all sou, though it is most I P eat water 8Dake k *P 4tk ® Bo “*“
numerously found in tropical waters. A
full grown specimen weighs more than
from crossing the river Bsgrsdos, swal
lowing many of the soldiers, until at
is armed with two freater mSS% Sffi KSaiTEJS* in *“ tellD * U,e
t ° h f e "^ k ’ t The moSsteA sWn wd skull were sob
«Ci fiteu I st quentiy preserved in. temple at firm..
Many Latin authors cf repute mention
big sea serpents such as undoubtedly did
then, as they do now, exist in tropical
seas. Such marine serpents ate found
most commonly in tbe Indian ocean,
and no less than 40 or 50 species of them
are known. Tbey are all exceedingly
poisonous and will usually attack man.
They frequently attain a length of 12
feet, ana there is no particular reason
fer assuming that they do not arrive at
vastly greater s. ze.
One or rue best attested sea serpents
on record was seen on the 6tt> day of Au
gust, 1S48, by the i Hirers of H. M. R. De-
dales in the North Pacific. Abou! 60 feet
of its length were visible, and it bad all
tbe appearance of a gigantic snake, its
bead and shoulders helo four or five fa t
above the surface of the water, through
animal being the refore, no less than one
hundred and fifty feet. No wonder that
stories are told jot his attacking ships
and even dragging them under the sea.
As for tbe poor fisnerman, once cap
tured and nela last by the horrible suck
ing tentacles, he is drawn int othe closer
en brace of ti c bt act's < igbt other arms,
which are iikew iee i quipped with suck
ers, and tbe frightful creature sinks with
it* captive to the bottom, where it tears
him to pieces at its ltlttue with its pow
erful parrot like beak.
Should it be frightened while engaged
at its hideous meal, it discharges from an
organ calieo its Ink i ag a fluid which
renders the water touDd about as black
aa night for hundreds of yards, thus
effectually concealing itself.
This Is tbe creature which not a few
men of science declare to be what those , ... ... . , -
who thought they had seen tbe great I ^ swam at the rate of perhaps 15
set pent oi the sea have attempted to de- I *“ *V OBr - 14 w f® viewed at quite
scribe. Extended observations of small fjoee quarters through field glasses irom
specimens mace in the aquarium at I 4 5 e j kl R_*w deck 8nd , w * B observed to be
Brighton, Eng, have demonstrated tbe dark *?L own „ col « r * yellowish white
fact that this is its favorite method of I •JooMJr® throat, and with what appear
feeding m led to be a mane.
Inasmuch as it always swims backward, I On Feb. 24, 1849, about 40 mUes from
making progress by expelling water I 44,6 spot where the serpent above-men-
rearward from a big siphon in its body, I tloned was seen Capt. Herriman of the
observers casually viewing a giant squid I ,W P Brasilian saw a strange creature as
atsca may have most Daturally imagined I 48111 stretching along the water for 30
that the part going first was thehead, I fee4 °* more, with its head lifted several
the appearance of a tentacle upraised I feet above the surface and a mane run-
B SOME GIRLS 60 CRABBING
How They Caught the Crahs
and How the Crabs
Caught Them.
in the water, being mistaken for a tali.
Such, at all events. is a theory maintained
with great amy of evidence* apparently
moat' sii able.
Forth* present, however, It must re
main s disputed question whether this
animal of fact is to take the place of the
sea serpent of ancient and respected tra
dition. It is worth saying, by tbe way,
that tbe two great snakes which attack
ad the Laouoon family may very well
bays been the two great tentacles of
a giant squid, making allowance for er
ion of tradition.
The “kraken,” which advocates of tbe
giant f quid theory likewise identify with
the same monster, was believed for centu
ries to inhabit the sess and fiords of
Scandinavia, where It is now known that
■quids of the largest size dwell. There
■seme, In truth, no good reason for doubt-
lng that the two creatures, the one real
and the other half mythical, are one.
The famous bishop and naturalist,
Fontoppidau, member of the Boyal Acad
emy of Sciences at Copenhagen, wrote
that the kraken grew to be half smile
long, and was frequently mistaken while
floating asleep upon the surface ofthe
sea for an island, so that people landed
upon it and were enguired in a maelstrom
by its sinking. It will be remembered
that Sinbad the Sailor is said In the “Ar
abian Nights” to have had a like adven
tare. The kraken w as big enough to lay
hold of the largest man-of-war and pull
it down to the bottom with its arms,
which it frequently raised up as high as
tbe masts of a ship eat ofthe water,
Fontoppidan speaks of tbe manner in
which the kraken was accustomed on
occasions to discolor the water about it,
and bis-descriplion otherwise proves that
it and the giant squid were the same an
imal.
Victor Hugo was more distinguished
aaa literary man than as a zoologist.
Accordingly, his famous ‘devil fish,” de
scribed with such horrible detail in the
‘•Toilers tf the Sea,” is to some extent a
mixture of the giant squid and the octo
pus, to be spoken of later on.
Many astonishing adventures with
* specimens ot the giant t quid have been
recorded on the strength of unimpeach
able testimony. On the 30th of Novem
ber, 1861, between Madeira and Tencnfi'e,
the French steamer Aiectoa, commanded
by Uent. Boujer, came upon tbe enor
mous specimen fl sting asleep.
The vessel was stopped and many bul
lets were fired at it. passing through Us
■oft flesh without doing it much harm
apparently. Harpoot s were thrust Into
it, but tbey would not hold, and finally a
rope with a running knot was slipped
oyer tbe tail. When an attempt was
made to hoist tbe creature on deck the
enormous weight caused the rope to cut
through and the mass tell back Into the
M* tod disappeared.
On the 26ill of October, 1873, two fisher
men were out in a email beat near the
east end of Belle Isle, Conception bay,
Newfoundland. Seeing a strange object
floating on the water, they struck It with
a gaff, upon which it instantly shot out
two enormous tentacular arms over the
boat, trying to selzu its assailants. One
of the men—Tneopnlins Picot—cut off
both arms with an axe, whereupon the
animal moved off, darkening the water aa
it went with an inky fluid. A fragment
of tentacle presented by the fishermen,
17 feet long and 314 feet in clrcumfer-
enos, was sent to kale College and was
esiefnlly estimated to have belonged to
a giant squid with a body 10 feet long
and tentacles 32 feet In length. This,
however, was only a baby one. On the 221
of September, 1877, another specimen of
about equal size was stranded, on the
north shore of Trinity Bay, Newfound
land. A perfect reproduction of It as it
was in nfe mey now be 8ten in the Na
tional Museum.
On tbe ll/th of January, 1877, affidavit
was made by officers and crew of the
bark FanJine f o the efft ct that on July 8.
1873, in lat. 5 13 toutb, long, 35 west, they
nil saw three large sperm wnaesoffthe
ning down the neck. A boat was lower
ed, and the monster was approached with
harpoons. It was found to be an im
mense piece of sea we< d, to which tbe
swell caused by the subsidence of a pre
vie us gale gave a sinuous and snake Tike
motion. This latter story Illustrates the
possibilities of optical deception in the
case of most conscientious observers.
A creature close y resembling tbe mon
stroua ichthyosaurus of antediluvian
times was seen in the Gulf of California
by Capt. George Hope of her Majesty’s
ship Fly. Tbe sea being perfectly calm
and of glass-llke transparency, he beheld
lying on tbe bottom, a few fathoms
down, an enormous animal with the
head and general figure of an alligator,
except that the neck was vastly longer,
and instead of legs it had four large flap
pers like a turtle's. It appeared to be
pursuing some prey and moved in ser
pentine faabion, its body having ring
like divisions. An eminent zoologist
has referred to this as the most Interest
ing natural history fact of* the present
century.
That other enormous horror of tbe sea,
the giant octopus, with which Victor
Hugo mixed up the gr at rqaid, is ofthe
same family with tbe latter beast—a soft
“Crabbing” is fine sport. Some people
tbink it rather tame, bnt fonr young
ladiee who tiied it up tbe Hudson the
other day have discovered that it is capa
ble, under certain ciicumstances, of
affording considerable excitement.
The four maidens in question em
barked in a boat by themselves, not be
cause they were averse to masculine
companionship, 1 ut because there hap
pened to be no young man around to take
them out. Soon after starting they
found that their boat leaked a little.
Then tbey took off their shoes and stock
ings and stowed them away high and
dty on tbe thwarts, and dabbled with
their shapely 1 ttle ‘ tootsey wootseys” in
the water in tbe bottom of the boat, and
agretd that they were “awfully glad”
that they hadn't brought any horrid man
along, b< cause then their little “tootsey
wootseys” would have had to stay in
their shoes and stockings, which would
consequently have gotten wet.
It is a singular fact, or perhaps not sin
gular at all, but merely illustrative of the
p« cullar idiosyncrasies of feminine na
ture, that a girl in an abbreviated bath
ii'g costume, which displays pretty near
as much girl »s costume, will make no
bones about exposing her feet, especially
if they sre shapely feet, and even some
thiDg more than a good section of her
ankles to critical masculine scrutiny; but
when she isn’t clad in abbteviated and
close-fitting garments the mere acci
dental exposure of one little pink toe
causes her to blush.
It requires more luck than skill to catch
crabs, and as the girls had plenty of luck
they caught a goodly lot and deposited
them in a big basket, and bad a tip-top
good time all round. But In frisking
about one of the girls accidentally
knocked over tbe basket, though none of
them noticed the accident at tne time.
The first intimation that three of the
girls had that the crabs were loose was
prolonged, blood curdling jell. The own
er of that yell was the fourth girl, and
the eanse of the yell was a crab which
had grabbed ber by the little toe. Bn*
kicks d so vigorously that the crab was
sent flying the full length of the boat,
and In conasquent was doubtless more
frightened and astonished than the girl
luui beer.
The three other girls shrieked, too,
when they discovered the cause of the
sudden commotion, and dropping their
lines in a jiffy they took refuge on the
thwarts, wnere they gradually ceased
screaming when they perceived that tne
crabs conid not get at them. Luckily the
boat waa a beamy craft, built on the
scow plan, or she -certainly would have
capsized and then the comedy would have
been turned into tragedy with a yen
geanee.
But the tables were completely turned,
and instead of four girls catching crabs
it was a case of crabs catching four girls.
The crabs held indisputed puss, salon of
the boat which floated gently along the
calm bosom of the Hudson. The girlB
meantime held a council of war, and de
elded they would do what girls generally
do when confronted by the semblance of
and pulpy monster, with eight tentacles * ee P screaming,
of t qual length radiating from its central
mass, and armt d with suckers. Its habit
is to lurk in some dark cranny In tbe
depths, waiting for an unwary victim to
venture within reach. With three or
four of its mighty arms it clings fast to a
rock, while with the remcining tentacles
waving, gliding and feeling about in the
water it keeps on the alert for prey.
A man coming within its reach—and
human beings are often its victims—js
instantly embraced. Instantaneously as
the pull of a trigger the pistons of the
hundreds of suckers on the tentscle are
simultanecns:y drawn laws rd; the air is
removed from the pneumatic holders, a
vacuum being created in eacb, and the
victim is so completely pinioned that
hardly a struggle Is possible. Men have
been known to cut themselves loose from
tbiB death grip, but the chance is small
indeed. Immediately tbe other tentacles
not occupied with clinging to the rock,
are wrapped about the man, and be is
drawn into the close embrace of the
poulp to be torn t<- pieces by its beak,
and absorbed.— Washington tutor.
QUEER AND CURIOUS.
The B< washes believe in a bell of ice, and
cremate their dead.
A Philadelphia medicant known aa
'Blind Johnny” is said to be worth $20,000.
A New York bride received among her
wedding presents a receipted gas bill of $17
from her father.
A paper recently started at Julian, Ida
ho, has for its motto, “Grasp for all in
sight and rustle for more.”
Extreme ugliness is on the list of dis
qualifications laid down by the medical
department for French conscripts.
A boy in Peeksville, N. Y., is said to
have hooked in succession two eels whose
combined length was seventeen feet.
Ben Dixon, a colored man in St. Louis,
has only two fingers, but he can play eight
musical instruments at the same time,
A few miles from the eastern shore of
Florida, nearly opposite Matanzus, a large
spring of fresh water boils up in great
abundance.
The name of a woman who died in Kan-
is City a few days ago was JoicyJane
Permelia Ann Sarah Elizabeth Douglass
Carr Gentry Ballard.
Sixty-five years ago Emmons Radge was
arrested in Hartford, Conn., for selling ice,
i the doctors of the city had decided that
was unhealthy to use it.
in due time tbe screaming attracted at
tention, and a boat shot out from the
shore, in which were two young men
from New York. When the rescuing
party of two drew near one of the gins
suddenly remembered something, and
communicated it to her companions,
Then they all shouted out in chorus to
the young men in tne boat In perempto
ry tones.”
“Don’t come any nearei!”
“Wnat’s the matterT” howled one of
the young men, as they stopped rowing.
“We’ve been crabbing aud the crabs
are all loose in the bottom of the boat.”
“Well, why can’t we come any nearerT”
It was some little lime before one of
the girls answered, in tones hard y audi
ble:
“Because we’ve got our shoes and—and
—stockings off.”
“Well, what are we to do about itf”was
the abrupt hut pertinent masculine in
quiry.
Toe girls held another conference.
They finally decided that tne young men
must throw them a rope and tow their
boat to the shore. When this was done
and tne boat with the girls had strnck
bottom, they directed the twoyonng men
to letire behind a point- and made them
promise not to peep for five minutes. At
the expiration of tuat time thegirls were
all ashore, aud instead of “tootsey woot
soys,” dainty little suoes peeped forth
from beneath their dresses.
I am able to tell this story because I
was one of the two i earners.—New York
Herald.
Hicks
SEFIEMBEK WEATHER.
Foi
recast for tlie Current
Month.
While the Bev. Irl Hick* does not hit
it every time, he nevertheless does often
enough for ns to pay attention to what
be say a. For September his calculations
are aa follows: *
Cool nights with probable touches of
frost to the northward will prevail in
most parte at the o pening of the month
From the 3d to 7th storm conditions will
develop and ran their regular coarse
from west to east. By the evening of the
5th or 6th these storm movements will
have passed the central region of the
Mississippi valley, and a cool wave will
be announced as following in the west.
All will reach the east In due lime. A
dash of cool, northwest wind and weath
er will supplement each ah turned period
in September. It will grow warm
and next to the 10th ana 11th. From
these reactionary days forward until we
pace beyond the center of the earth’s
equinox about th*22d, general storms
ana gales may be looked for. From the
14th to 17th we count danger days. Sea
faring folks' who fall to exercise a pru
dent watchfulness may pay a heavy pen
alty. Earthquakes.
The planet Mercury passes its equinox
on the 21st, the earth ners on and about
the same day, the moon her first quarter
on same day, all added to regular reac
tionary storm tendenci* on the 21st and
22d. From about the 19th, very warm
days may be expected in the west, grow
ing warmer and traveling eastward, with
Vrry active storms on sea, lake and land
from the 20th to 23d. Note this period—
be prepared for the sudden and perhaps
severe developments it may bring, and
do not be caught altogether nnawaies
should a cold wave with a frost and some
early freezing follow in the days Immedi
ately behind the storm area. Earth
quake phenomena at and abont this
time, also, need be no cause for surprise
or alarm.
From the 28th, to 30th the elements
will undergo the last storm movement
of the mouth. We name the 27th, 2Sth
and 29th as probable danger days. The
month bids fair to end in cool nights,
with cold and frost to the northward,
sufficient to justify proper watchfulness
and preparation again t damage to im
mature Vegetation.
In answer to numberless inquires from
all parts, we state here that we believe
the early autumn will bring very cool
weather, at d that the coming winter
will be muv.n more severe than last.
Such conctunon is only a part of dedne
tions drawn!' nd printed six years ago,
calling for the wet seasons and the mild
winters thronga which we have passed,
and for the change to dry, warm sum
mers and colder winters for at least
t hree years, dating from the solstice in
June, 1890. if the correctness of our cal
culations in the past should move addi
tional numters of our fellow men to a
careful consideration of the subject, and
if results in olessings of bread, comfort,
life and health should follow, our heart
would bow the lower in humility and
thankfulnew at the f et of Him who giv-
eth all wisdom and blessing.
Europeanized Tokyo.
Continued from fourth Page.
and second personage in every ceremony
ot the Court. She has her suite, her see
rets ries, readers and interpreters, and
she has had to study hard and be con
■tantly on the alert to keep pace with
her Court and country. She has founded
schools and hospitals, a Bed Crass soci
ety, and other good institutions, and she
constantly inspects and directs them.
She wears the drees of European Women
altogether, bnt insists upon wearing
Japanese fabrics, made np by Japanese
dressmakers under a Frenchwoman’s di
rection. She rides on horseback, bnt
only in the palace grounds, the gilded
state carriage, s quiet landau or broug
ham with half drawn curtaindconveying
her to any place she may go. There Is
a handsomely finished car in which the
Emperor and Empress travel on the rail
roads, and whenever they have gone
down to the Inland Sea, one of the regu
lar mail steamers has been chartered for
the trip. Sea trips were only made as
matters of absolute necessity, as the Em
peror Is a very bad sailor, and he her
never had any wish for an imperial
yaeht, or any prolonged cruises. With
the extension ofthe railroad from sea to
sea, and side to aide of the main island,
the ncceealty for his sea tripe is over.
In personal appearance the Emperor,
Mateo Hito, is disappointing, for al
though be has a longer and stralghter
Una of descent that any other Using aov
«reign, he has not the characteristics of
the Ideal aristocratic type of his race.
He is five feet in height, rather heavy in
movement, and he has not the miUtary
shoulders and bearing. His features ars
heavy and irregular, and there is more of
stoUdity and impassiveness in his looks,
as one sees him at Court functions, re
views and races. Toe Empress Haruko,
however, is a fine example of the highest
type of Japanese woman. She is small
and slender, dignified yet gracious in her
manner, and ber fine oval face has the
delicately drawn and accepted features
Japanese artists delight in. Her skin is
only creamily yeUow, nt r ha'r blue black,
and her eye the deepest velvety brown.
She followed the old Japanese custom of
shaving her eye brows and blackeoing
her teeth at the time of her marriage, but
long ago ceased keeping that up. With
her trim little bang over her forehead,
pretty bonnets and weU chosen costumes,
she is a charming woman of this country
in appearance. In her rich old brocaae
and crepes, and with her wonderful halo
of hair, there was something oriental
and picturesque, an d much more majestic
and imperial about her. The Empress
comes from one of the oldest families of
Court nobles. Her mother is still living
and occupies a small palace in Kyoto,
and the two younger sisters of the Em
press, are married to nobles. Neither of
those sisters is as beautiful or as clever
as the Empress, who writes poems that
are helo In tne highest esteem.
The Empress Dowager has a separata
palace and Court in Tokyo, and is a jeal
one upholder of the old customs. She
wears the old stye dress, never takes part
in Court fnnetions, and no foreigners are
presented to her. The third member of
the imperial family is the little Crown
Prince, Haiti, a boy of three years. He is
not the child of the Empress, but
of one of the Emperor's ten lnftricr
wives, who sre never mentioned or
seen in connection with the modern
Court, although they still survive and
had a very definite and fixed status un
der the old older. Prince Haru is being
educated in a.very liberal manner, and is
as progressive and precocious a young
ster as there is. A new era had come in
when he was born, and all precedents for
a Crown Prince’s life and education were
departed from for him, so that there will
be a still newer era for Japan when he
com* s to the throne with all his modern
experience of the world, men, and af
fairs.—El za Bahama Scidtnore in the
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A REFINED young man (age 23) of high social
standing solicits correspondence with livelv
young ladies of ed ucation and refinement a/
dress LaFayette Olive Branch, N. cf 768 It
S END silver dime and learn how to beautifr
complexion without cosmetics. Ssfe, cer-
. S. and Positively no expense. Box
68, Chipley. Fla. IQilt
A refined.educated and accomplished woman
of twenty five-gentle and, is said, lovable
—would 1 ke to correspond with an old or mid
dle aged gentleman of wealth, social position
uid refinement Mary Dangerfield, New Or-
768 4t
leans La.
W ANTED—Ladies to send their old dresses
and soiled garments to us, we dye and
clean the most de'icate shades and colors we
pay expressage both ways, on large bundles
write for price list. McEwen Steam Dye Works!
Nashville, Tenn, 766 6m
W ANTED:—Agents to put up oDe of our
Automatic advertising docks iu postoffico
or best hotel in every town and city in the South
and West. Plessstit noil prolitable work for
good men. Address Manager Clock Co.. Salem,
767—It
Cbetata Wary Academy,
OGONTZ, PA. (Near Philadelphia.)
Unexcelled Location and Surroundings!
Perfect School Equipment!
Library. Gymnasium, Chapel and Drill Hall.
Thorough preparation for best Colleges and
Scientific Schools. Number limited to sixty
S500 per year. No extras Illustrated Catalogue
JOHN CALVIN RICE. A. M., krincipal.
766 6t
SOCLE COLLESE.
i A College for Women ¥
Offers graduate and undergraduate courses in
the six schools of L Philosophy, II. Mathemat
ics, III. Aocient Language, IV. Modorn Lan
guages, V. English VI. Natural 8cience.
Laboratory work in the sciences. Well-
equipped music and art departments under
teachers of American aDd European training.
Delsarte system of Elocution. Expenses, $200.
With music $260. For catalogue address
Z. C. Graves, LL. D., President,
or J. G. Paty, B. A., Secretary & Treasure.
Murfreesboro, Tenn. 763-5t
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The Dramatic Season.
DeGive’a open house opened formally
for the season on last Tuesday night,
the attraction being Wm. A. Brady’s pre
■entation of Dion Boncloault’a “After
Dark.” The piece was not new to Atlan
ta, having been well received last year.
James Wallick’a “Cattle King” company,,
on Thursday night, waa the second bill
for the new period, and the next will be
“McCarthy’* Mishaps,” on September
10. We sui-j tin the mil list for the sea
son, aa far as engagements have been
made:
September—
10 —“McCarthy’s Mishaps.”
11—Cleveland's Magnified Minstrels.
13—“Tin Soldier.”
15— Gardner’s Company.
19— “Jim the Penman.”
22—Beil’s Marionettes Company.
29—“Twelve Temptations” Company.
October—
1—“Fairies’ Well” Company.
3— ‘Undtrthe Gas Light” Company.
6— “Penalty” Company.
7— Gondolier’s Opera Company.
9—McNish’s Comedy Company.
10—Frank Mayo.
13— Lillian Lea is.
14— “Among the Pines” Company.
16— “Great Metropolis” Company.
20— George Wilson s Minstrels.
22—Sol Smith Buss- II
24—Kiraify’s “Watei Quei n’ Company.
27— Frederick Ward.
29—Robert Mantel!.
31—Vernona Jar beau.
November—
3—Hess's Opera Company.
6—Eliie Blister.
10— William Redmond.
11— “Fast Mail” Company.
12— Lizze Evans.
14— Patti Rosa.
17— ' 81 Perkins.”
18— “Held by the Enemy.”
19— Rosa Coghlan.
21— “The Spider and Fiy” Company.
24-Conrold Opera Company.
28— Amy Lee Company.
December—
1—Hanlon's “Fautasma.”
3—“Little Tycoon.”
5—“Still Alarm” Company.
8— Prescott and McLean Company.
10— Field’s Minstrels.
12—‘ Shenandoah” Company.
15— Blue Beard Opera Company.
19—Primrose & West’s Minstrels.
24— Nellie McHenry Company.
26—Hecahaw & Ten Broeca’s“Nt bobs.”
29— “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”
January—
1— Clay’s Gaiety Company.
2— Boston ideal Opera Company.
5— James O Neill's Company.
7—“Old Homestead” Company.
9— “Ivy Leaf” Company.
12— Annie Pixley.
14— “Pearl of Pekin.”
15— Cleveland Minstrels.
19— Robert Downing.
21—Parlor Match Company.
23—“The Wife.”
26— “Alvin Joeltn.”
28—Rhea in “Empress Josephine.”
February-!-
2—Stuart Robson.
4—Kate Emmett.
6- Thornes Keene.
9—“One of tne Bravest” Company.
11— Mosin’a Concert Company.
13— Boland Reed.
20— j t ffcrson-Fiorenoe.
23—Greenwood Opera Company.
25— Lout* James and Mr*. Bower*.
27— Katie Putnam.
March—
2—Emma Abbott Opera Company.
6—Fat Me • Club Company.
9—Patti K*uvar Company.
30—Conalr Opera Company.
April—
6—Pearl Melville Comedy Company.
15—0 Connor, the tragedian.
Mat—
4—“Old Cronies” Company.
At Wuhu, in China, a priest was burned
death by order of a higher priest for
misconduct. He was placed in a large
stack of hay saturated with oil.
Mrs. John McWilliams, a Nebraska wife,
prays the court to restrain her lawful hus
band “from patting her on the head, pok
ing her in the ribs and talking baby- talk
to her.”
The Cochin China people strike two
pieces of bamboo together and ignite tinder.
The coating of amorphous, selix like flint
on’ the surface ofthe bamboo yields a spark
at a sharp blow.
A spider has four bags of thread—such
little bags. In every bag there are a thou
sand holes—such tiny holes. Out of each
hole thread runs, and all the threads—
4,000—she spins together as they run, and
when they are all spun they make but one
thread of the web she weaves.
A flower has been discovered iu South
America which is only visible when the
wind blows. The stem is covered with
dead, warty looking lumps which need but
a slight breeze to make them unfold large
flowers of a creamy white, which close and
appear dead as soon as the wind subsides.
Brownsville, Tennessee,
FEMALE COLLEGE
Claims to stand, as to Substantial Educational
Advantages—
IN THE FRONT RANK
AMERICAN FEMALE COLLEGES.
Extensive Course: Teachers Specialists: Least
Expensive of its Grade. Fare Unexcelled.
Confers Four Degrees, the highest being A. Jr,
Address TH SMITH, A. M„ President,
(Alunmus of University of Virginia.)
760 2m
If the remains of Grant should finally
be transported to Washington, the Grand
Army veterans will convey them thither
according to a plan which they are at
present discussing. It is proposed that
the casket containing the body of the
beloved commander shall be borne
from New York to Washington upon the
shoulders of Grant’s old soldiers. Suc
cessive G. A. R. posts will take charge
of the procession, and relays of veterans
from one post will relieve each other in
carrying the burden to the territory cov
ered by the next. So, by not difficult
stages, the journey will finally be made
and the remains taken to the national
capital.
DEAFNESS CAN’T BE CUBED
by local applications, as they cannot
roach the diseased portion of tbe ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that Is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an Inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eusta
chian tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rambling sound or im
peril ct hearing, and when It is entirely
closed. Deafness is the resalt, and anless
the ltiflam&tion can be taken ont and
this tube restored to its normal condi
tion, hearing will be destroyed fcrevei:
nine cases oat of ten are caused by
catarrh,which is nothing bat an inflamed
condition of the mucous surface.
We will give One Hundred Dollars, for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that we cannot care by taking Hail’s
Catarr , Cu-e. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO , Toledo, O.
A New Use t.*r Electricity.
One of the latest uses to which electricity
is to be applied is the blacking of boots. A
patron sits down in a chair, places his feet
on a block, puts a nirkle in the slot, and
t he macliiue does the rest.
Stanford Female College
STANFORD, -° _ KENTUCKY.
Full Session September 1,1890. J. M. Hubbard,
A. M. President, with a faculty of Southern
teacheis, trained in Conservatories and Normal
Schools. Situated in the famous Blue Grass
Send for catalogue.
Wesleyan Female College,
MACON, GEORGIA.
o
The Annual Session begins October 1st. Best
advantages in Literature. Music and Art. The
Highest Course for girls in the South. Moderate
rates. Apply for Catalogue to
REV. W-
760 3m
BASS, D.D.
Shorter Female Collep,
ROME, GA.,
Ranks among the best schools in the South.
Location nnequaled for beauty and health.
Send for catalogue.
L. R. GWALTNEY, D.D.) Associate
A. J. BATTLE, D, D. f Presidents.
762.2m
Detroit College of Medicine.
A first-class Scbool of Medicine, with all
modern facilities
Excellent corps of trained teachers.
Clinical advantages unsurpassed!
Send for Catalogue.
E. C. SKINNER, M. D.
Detroi', Mich. Secretary.
762-oct 1
F OR SALE:—My entire stock of Silver Laced
WyaiKlottes «t a bargain: prize winning-
stock Reason for selling, change of business,
r irstcome first, served. Aoo Plymouth Rocks,
write to A H. Kuhn,Prosperity, 6. c.
M IDDLE-A GKI> widower with children, of
goot family Christian, of nice habits,
pleasant disposition, mo erate means—wishes
the correspondence, with a view to matrimony,
° » young lady between zO and :i0 who is fond
of children, sweet tempered chaste and lovable.
Address H. W., care Sunny 8ouih. 766 '■it
C RAYON PORT R A ITS.—Send me $2.00 and a
good original and I will make you a fine
Cray* n Portrait. Positively no humbug A re*
liable house—established over teu years. The
Star Copying Bouse 670 and 6*1, W. Lake street.
Chicago, 111. T66 3t >
WANTED-You to keep your money in the
vv bouth, send your old faded suit to McEwent
Steam Dye Works and Cleaning Establishment,
they will make it brand new for vou, they
clean, dye ami repair. They pay the freight,
write for catalogue. McEwens Steam Dye
Works, Nashville Tenn. 766 6mi
W ANTED at once. A man or woman to work
for us in every vicinity. Liberal Pay.
special inducement next few months All time
not necessary. Give reieiences. R. H. Wood
ward <fc Co., Baltimore. Md. 7os 6
W ANTED—Ladies and gentlemen to know
that we dye vour goods ami guarantee them
not to smut, save money we will make your old
cjothes new, we pavexpress both ways write
for catalogue. Agents wanted. Mcfcwen Dye
Works, Nashville, Tenn. 7,:r t 6m
L EARN how to repair watches It is pleasant,
and profitable. Can be learned bv bov or
gtrl, man or woman. I send a book of plain in
structions witn a set of tools suitable for tbe
amateur at a nominal cost The amateur waleh
maker’s set is a never ending source of instruc
tion to those rossessing mechanical genius and
a source of profit to any oue who wish to learn
the business Write for circular giving full in
formation and prices to F E Dey, Evergreen
A1 “- 766-3t
W AN TED—Ladies to know that we make a.
specialty of dyeing mourning goods wt
take tbe fanciest colors and make a beautiful
black we Day all expresssge, write for particu-
ars. McEwens Dye Works, Nashville, Tenn.
7i 6 6k,
Ilf ANTED—You to send u« that old over eoat.
“V we will dye it a beautiful color, put on new
buttons, re line and thus save vou buying a new
one. we guarantee it not to smut wo pav a.
expressage, write for price list- McEwen Steam
Die Works and Cleaning Establishment, Nash
ville, Tenn. 766 6m
••body:
ton, N. to introduce their’ great "Nickle”
Cigars, will send to any person (whether mer
chant or eoi sumer) C. O. II. by express (with
privilege of examination) a sample lot of foe
cigars for $5.25 (retail value $7.Mj). They also
send in tbe same package a gold tilled, stern-
wiudmg watch, accompanied bv the u anufac-
turer’s guarantee to wear 20 tears. Under nc.
circumstances will this package be sent twice
to one party. Orders will have attention after
ward at $36.00 per 1 000 cash (or COD) with
out watch. 763-tt
(L H AT! Do tbev trust any and
Yes, The Havana Cigar Co.,
Steam Dye Works by doing artistic work,
have now many cu-tomers in every state in tbe
Union- They pay freight both waj s, so it placet
it in your reach as well as if in your own town,
correspond with them aud patronize a worthy
Southern enterprise. McEwen Dye Works and
Cleaning Establishment, Nashville, Tenn. 765 6m.
A HE YOU Married? if nol, send your address.
to The American Corresponding Club, P.
“ Box 643. Clarksburg. W. Va. 756 12m
H A I R—-Superfluous hair permanently re
moved from tbe face, from motes, or from
any part of the body, without injury- or discol
oration of the most deiicaie skin. Simple, easy
of application and positive in its effects. En
close stamp for particulars. Address Home
Manufacturing Company, Box 210, Atlanta Ga.
758 6m.
ADIES’ Amenagogue Fills, for Irregularities:
I safe and certain; should not be taken if en-
ciente. Price per box of 100 *1 Dr. W. C. Asher.
21 >4 Marietta street, Atlanta. Ga 718-tt
WASHINGTON SIMINAKY,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Boarding and Day School for Girls. The
Muqip fypirrmi ts under the direc-
IVIUMC OCHUOL tlon of Alfredo Barili.
MBS. BAYLOB STEWABT,
747 6m Principal.
Many old soldiers who areon the penhio.i
lists of the United states live in foreign
countries. Over 500 reside in Germany,
4*5 in Great Britain and 70 in Switzerland.
Statisticians have figured it out that the
average cost of constructing a n.ile of rail
road in the United States at the present
time is $30,000.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A PLEASANT LEMON DRINK.
^Iter biliousness and constipation, take Lemon
E Fo^indigestion aud foul stomach, take Lemon
8ick * nd nervous headaches, take Lemon
^For sleeplessness and nervousness, take Lemon
loss of appetite and debility, take
j^r fevers, chills and malaria, take Lemon
.„ Dr - M<ratey's Lemon Elixir win not fail yon in
*ny of tbe above named diseases, all of which
arise from a torpid or diseased liver, stomach,
kidneys or bowels
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozlky, Atlanta. Ga.
50c and $1.00 per bottle, at druggists.
A PROMINENT MINISTER WRITES.
Aftef ten years ot great suffering from indi
gestion with great nervous prostration bilious
ness, disordered kidneys and constipation I
have been cured by Dr. Moziey’s Lemon Elixir
and am uowawell man.
Rev. C. C. Davis, Eld. M. E. Church 8outh,
No. 28 Tatnail St., Atlanta, Ga.
—AND—
SCHOOL OF STENOGRAPH YJ
Open throughout the entire year, students
can enter at any time. Near Virginia Beach and
Old Po*nt comfort. Business men in want of
competent stenographers and book-keepers
should correspond with us. For circulars,
address.
I. W. PATTON, Principal.
745 ly Norfolk. Vs.
HARBAUGH’3 SKIN LOTION.
For Saddle, Collar and
Harness Galls, Bruises, Con
tusions, Abrasions. Burns,
Scalds, and all Skin Erup
tioi.s. Price. $'.(0 a quart.
60 cents apiut.
For Horses and Mules and Many Other
Specifics.
Any oi the remedies
may be purchased at regu-
b iur prices, or, all of them,
packed iu a case, with a
Balling-Iron to administer bal’s. su Injection
funnel snd tube forgiving injections, i.nd ihz
Horse Owner’s Hand-Rook, for $12 1 ■''
Send for TH K HOUSE OWNER’S HAND
BOOK,” a concise and practical treatise on
the most frequent diseases of horses and mules
Habbadgh Veterinary Remedy Co,-
Nonoie, Va.
St. Hilda’s School
MORRISTOWN,
NEW JERSEY.
* Church School for Girls *
Under the care of tbe Sisters of St. John Bap
tist. Eleventh year begins Sept. 29th. Terms
f250. Music extra. Pupils received at any
time. For Circulars address the Sister Superior.
765 6t
St. Cecilia Academy,
For Young Ladies and Children in
The Preparatory Class-s.
NASHVILLE,
TENNESSEE.
Location unsurpassed for beauty and health.
Board excellent. Pleasm e-grounds extensive.
Educational facilities of the highest grade.
Terms the most moderate yet offered. Address
Directress 764 lm
B 1HE Georgia Telegraph School furnished
Agents and Operators for Twenty-three (23)
fferent roads during the year 1889. The most
unplete Telegraph and Railroad Business In
stitute in the United States, and the only recog
nized telegraph school in the 8onth. Send for
new catalogue, free. Address Couch A Lugen-
beel, Senoia, Ga 748 tf
IS THE BEST LINE TO AND FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE SOUTH.
For any information write to
FRED D. BC3H, Dist. Pass Ag’t.,
Atlanta. Ga.
or C. P. ATMORE, Gen'l Pass, ag't,
Louisville Ky.
WASHINGTON and LEE
UNIVERSITY, Lexington, Va.
Instruction in the usual academic studies and
in tbejprofessionai schools of Law* and ENGI
NEERING. For catalogue address,
760-2m G. W. C. IEE, President
• Cheap Excursions to Florida. *
HOME 8EEKER3’ RATES.
$ Only One Fare For Ronnd Trip *
From all points North, East and West Tickets
on sale Sept. 9th. 23d and Oct. 14th
Limited 30 days to go
and return.
SEE THAT YOUR TICKETS READ
via
Florida Central & Peninsular R. R.
IMMIGRANT RATES
ONE AND ONE-HALF CENT PER MILK
Tickets on sate Sept. 9th 23d and 30th. also
Nov. 11th and 25th and Dec. 2d. Tickets wifi be
sold from all prii cipai points in me territory of
the Trunk Line Central Traffic, “ estern States
and Southern Passenger Association at one aud
a half cents per mile. Tickets limited to con
tinuous r — -
via 1
iuous p. ssage to auypoint in Florida reached
l the Florida Cential A Peninsular system.
*5" Reroemb rand ask the Ticket Agent to
route the Ticket via ‘The Florida Central and
Peninsular R. R.
For Maps.Time-Cards and all information, ad.
dre.-s
N. S. Pennington A. O. MacDonel),
w MKna « et G. P aud T. A.
Waiter t. Coleman, c. S. Beerbower,
Gen’I Trav Agent. p. and T. A.
Jacksonville, - . Florida.