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VOL. XX. NO 87
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY APRIL 0, 1003-
TERMS $1,00 PER YEAR
Tho uglier you are, the better
you should be.
The older a man gets, the shorter
the time seems.
Some people waste a whole life at'
trying to unitaie others.
People who 'miss behave are the
ones who think they are pretty.
Many a good farm hand has been
spoiled with a little education.
Whisky never gets too old to
drink. Some men the same way.
Lettuce is popular aB a garden
plant only beoause it is easily raised.
The public places all strangers in
the class of the company they keep.
Buying on credit is one of tho
surest ways of remaining a servant.
One of the beEt signs for a good
man is for his neighbors to line him.
, People wonder what lovers talk
about. *Get in it and'you will find
out.
There are so many suckers that it
is a wonder that thore are not more
sharpers.
It would be a great blessing to
some people if nobody would oredit
them.
It seems to be perfectly natural
for somo people to be careless with
fire.
Persons well balanced will not
make unkind remarks about defor
mities of people.
There would be some excuse for
dissipating if it made the health
better or life longer. j
Did you ever notice that a man
who sings at hiB work is not apt to
hold his job?
You can almost judge the char
acter of a man by the kind ot read
ing matter he likes'.
It is sad to relate that some of
the Easter hats oost more than a
barrel of fleur.
Many a man returns to his senses
after marriage and finds out that all
the fools are not dead.
A baldheaded man laps his hair
over from the side as long as he can
and then lets it go.
The woman who carries a dead
bird on'her hat must not be very
much afraid of a ghost.
If you form a habit of stopping
your friends for a long talk, they
will soon get so they will dread to
meet you.
It really looks distressing to see a
man going to his work an hour late
in such a hurry that he will be tired
down when he gets there.
When a man goes home and finds
the house locked, he walks around
nervously, but never sits contented
in the rocker that was left on tho
porch.
It must be an awful strain on the
minds of an old couple to have a
daughter appear ashamed of them
after they have spent years of toil
trying to educate her.
There is nothing that equals a
courtship in turning a man’s head
around in an unnatural position.
After the marriage the head un
twists so rapidly m getting back to
the natural way of liying, that a
divorce case is often the result.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
"Sunburnt” walking skirts are the
latest.'
Shirring is one of the features in
spring dresses.
The quaint French dresses are
very becoming to ohildish figure!.
Chatelaine bags are doomed.
Wrist bags have come for a long
stay.
Mon never know as much about
anything as women know about
dress.,
Of buttons there is a great va
riety and they lend distination with
out additional trimming.
Blaok silk coffee jackets, will be
muoh in evidence during the spring
and summer.
Although the turban was worn
during the winter it comes forth
the proper thing for spring.
Nothing so destroys the youthful
contour of the faoe as taking the
cares of life too seriously .
Mrs. Roosevelt’s gift of a hand
kerchief to the Dallas Texas fair
brought $121 into the treasury
Whatever a woman deoides to do,
if she takes hold of it with pluok
and determined perseverance she
will win.
If your nose looks shiny or oily
add six drops of tincture of benzion
to a half pint of rosewater and wash
the nose with this at night.
The secret of true success lies in
making our lives beautiful In that
kindnesB of spirit which makes us
creatures of purer mold.
The will of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
was filed for probate. The estate
amounted to about $240,000, di
vided equally among her four chil
dren.
Every handsome woman is sure
her husband’s best friend oould not
help falling in love with her if he
did not have too much respeot for
her.
If a woman wants to retain her
youthful appearanoe she must min
gle with other people, and cultivate
an even temperament.
And now the board of lady man
agers of thg Lousiana Purchase Ex
position headed by Helen Gould,
wants to keep out. the Midway dan
cing girls.
Twenty-six German titles are
worn by American girls who have
married abroad and twenty English
peerages. There are three Frenoh
duchesses and five French countess
es ot American birth.
The woman who wishes to keep
her neck plu/np and unwrinkled
should never wear a high, stiff shirt
collar. The little hemstitched lin
en collars are becoming and more
comfortable.
Reoipe for hair tonic, to be ap
plied every night with a medicine
dropper: Forty-eight grains of
resorcin, one-forth ounce glycerine,
diluted alcohol to fill a two-ounce
bottle. Rub in with the finger tips.
It is the tendency of the day for a
a woman to be known by her hus
bands first name, no initials being
used. For instance, Mrs. Oliver
Hazard Perry Belmont has new
cards reading, “Mrs. Oliver Bel.
mont."
EDITORIAL.
The classified oivil service now
embraces 184,017 positions.
Our principal exports to Korea
are eleotrio appliances and idols.
We Bell Chinese about $5,000,000
a year more than we buy from them
One-fifth of the senators of the
present congress have been gover
nors of states.
The fixed oapital m agriculture
in the United States is four times
that in manufaeturers.
The large cities of the' United
States are growing twice as fast as
the rest of the country.
Sinoe September 1, Tacoma has
sent 227,020 barrels of flour to Asia,
against 134,C78 for the correspond
ing period last year.
The post-mortem inspection of
food animals by the government m
1002 numbered 38,004,625, and 61,.
080 oaroasses were condemed.
Sevnty-one patents covering appa
ratus for wireless telegraphy, were
issued in the -United States last
year, making the total number 100.
The number of irrigating dituhes
and canals in operation in the Uni
ted States excoeds 20,000. and their
■combined length is more than 50,-
000 miles.
Nr. Whitman of the University
of Chicago, one of the Carnegia In
stitution’? advisers, recommended a
biological farm for the study of
heredity and evolution,
Another reason for patriotic pride
in the revolution of’76 has already
been indicated by President Roose
velt. Look at the large family of
daughters it left!
The average railroad rate across
the American continent is $15 a ton
in carload lots. The rate on similar
goods from London around the
world to Seattle is $10 a ton.
The Washington postoifice re
quires 452 olerks while Cleveland
with greater revenues, requires but
185. The entire difference is true
to the franking privilege accorded
government officials.
Of the five new battleships an
thorized by congrees the three 10,.
000 ton vessels will bo named Vcr
mont, Kansas, and Minnessota, and
the two 13,000 ton vessels will be
named Missippi and the Idaho.
Uncle Sam thinks he is doing
something big when he contracts
for four or five new battle ships,
England has under construction 71
new warships and will spend nearly
$500,000,000 on such ships this
year.
. President Roosevelt, who is so
bitter against childless homes,ought
to have been for a few years a la
borer with a wife and six children
to support, on a dollar a day. Then
he would have been qualified
speak.
One member of the United States
senate is 82, ten are over 70, and
only ten are under 20. Of tho 337
congressmen in the Fifty-seventh
House there were only fifty-seven
under 60. One was 80, another 76
and another 71.
ALL SORTS.
Painting a battleship oosts $5,-
000.
Cotton has the same composition
as wood.
But one-sixth of the surfaoe of
Japan is arable.
Fewer marriod men than bache
lors oommit fuioide.
1 he submarine cables, if joined
would reaoh to the moon.
New Yord state leads in grange
membership with 70.000.
Canada sold England $25,000,000
in butter and cheese last year.
Former Senator W. E. Mason
will soon publish a paper m Chi
oago. -
The Frenoh sold in Amerioa in
1002 more than $800,000 Worth of
automobiles. Beer produotians in
Austria declined last year by 482,-
111 barrels.
In New York oity one hundred
new cases of consumption develop
each day.
It takes ninety threads of the
spider to equal in Size one of the
silk worm.
Herr Krupp’s income, the largest
ever known in Germany, was $4,-
700,000 a year. t
If requires 8,000, pounds of roses
Qr 5,000,000 Hovers for a pound of
essential oil of rose.
In the spring people have either
house cleaning or fall in love or get
into some other trouble.
The secret of making oarbon pa
per and tppewriter ribbons is known
to scarcely two dozen people.
In Egypt inoubators, muoh of the
same pattern as those now in use,
wore used 4,000 years ago.
To bo able to pronounce “heredi
tability” is a sure sign of soberness,
says a Cardiff (Wales) dootor. ■
This is the time of the year when
in olden times our mothers would
give us sulphur on bread and mo
lasses.
Tho generous people of Minnes
sota have raised $50,000 for the
famine stricken people of Norway
and Sweden.
Cipriano Castro, president of
Venezuela, is 43 years old. He
was elected February of last year
to serve until 1008.
From one hundred people or.o
would possibly reoeive one hundred
different answers to the question*
“How do you cure a cold.’’
The record yield of timber from
one tree is 80,000 feet, from ‘a red
wood twenty feet in diameter, out
last year m California.
The Homestead mills produce,
with about 4,000 men, three times
as much steel at the Krupp works
with 15,000 men.
“Deadwood Diok, ” the famous
hero of yellow back novels is alive
and has handled freight on, a rail-
roap for the past 18 years.
Tho English soldier’s pay is $7.50
a month. The soldier of no otner
country gets as muoh, with the ex
ception of the United States.
If Germany contributes $760,000
to be used as an exhibit at the St.
Louis exposition, she will set lively
paoe for the other nations.
Buffalo Bill intends to retire
from the show business. He has a
gold mine out west that is supposed
to make him a multimillionaire in a
few years.
Forty acres of pure plaster of
paris have just been discovered in
Oklahoma. It belongs to an Ital
ian in the Argentine and covres 100
square miles.
A new book tells “how to make
money.” A book that would tell
how to make money and not get
oaught in the aot would be more
popular.
In Forto Rico 1808, with 1,000-
000 population, there was not a
single power mill for grinding
gram. The work was all done in
in band mills.
Governor Lanham, of Texas has
vetoed a bill allowing a, man to
marry his step-daughter or a wo
man towed the husband of her dead
daughter.
By the use of eleotrio- applianoes
three men now do the charging of
twenty furnaoes, at Homestead,
which. formerly required 250 meh.
The lead or black ponoils is now
made from coke. It is ground and
subjected to pressure under great
heat.
It is probably not generally known
but nevertheless is true, that 30 of
the large manufacturing firms of
tne United States have established
$i? Etisi i5sj»v k ” ■*4 ABri “ u ”‘ i1
States and Canada are being drawn jdcllege showed that one in three of
oloser together. I them are now farmers,
More than nine-tenths of the 300,-
000 pounds of peppermint oil an-
pually consumed by the world is
produoed within ninety miles of
Kallamazoo, Mich.
The center of tho mothor-of .pearl
industry is Singapore. The shell
oyster is six to ten inohes long, the
larger ones weighing as much as ten
pounds.
Rev. C. M. Winchester, of Mid
dletown, N. Y., claims that a*
clergyman oan live on $12 a month
if he is single. Tell us how you
do it without sponging.
" The executive officials of Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg,
it is reported, will adopt measures
to diminish the tip-giving nuisanoe
on their lines,
A Pennsylvania small boy has
quite satisfactorily answered the
long standing question: “What is
■home without a mother?'’ He
thinks it is an inoubator.
Machinery has been ordered for
the Argentine Republic to turn out
250 tons a week of “Molasouit,’’
the new cattle food made from mo
lasses and sugarcane fiber.
Philadelphia has a bureau whioh
undertakes to have people killed
when other people are willing to
pay schedule rates for the removals.
Philadelphia isn’t slow in all
things. . .
The genuine artists in the garret
and paints the pioture, and the lit
tle fellows make the reputation by
copying it and live in brown stone
fronts ever afterwards.
A female medical student an
nounces that she has found thirty
six million bact'eria, known assterp.
tococus tetragenus rureus in a dish
of ice oream.
A census of over 1,000 graduates
A Boston pLysioian says 30,0001-
women in that city that have the
tea habit. There is nothing strange
about this. The first tea party ever
held in this oountry was in th#
Boston harbor.