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yol. yxn. no 12.
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ft, 1003
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THE BUSY WORLD.
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Alaska has only (ivo miles of stand
ard-gauge railroad.
A ton of sugar beets yield 210
pounds ol i(.'fined sugar.
Mo;it all tho bakers of bread in
America are of German births
Out of the 13,500,000 people in
Mexico less than 2,000,000 can read
Twelve hotels in New York City
have more than 300 telephones each.
South Dakota has one county that
is four times as big as Rhode island.
Only about five per cents of the
land in Colorado is now capable of
raising.
A gentle, land horse will nearly
always bo found to have a wide
forehead.
The profit to the Government on
pennies pays tho entire expense of
the mint.
Of 1,908 cases of typhoid fever in
sixteen hospitals last year, one in
eight died.
There is at present an immense de
mand for portable buildings all over
South Africa.
Between no mind and an unused
mind there is not enough difference
to Borap about.
The ministry is the only one of
tho learned professions that is not
now over-crowed.
Carelessness and laziness go hand
in hand and together are a fruitful
source of failure.
A horse has no bad habits that can
not be traced to tho way in which
he has been handled.
The first daily paper in America
was printed in Williamsburg, Va.,
in 1780, at $50 per year.
One harness horejk critio tells us
that Prince Albert couldn’t pace a
mile ill 2:05 if he were sober.
t Wo show our character moro clear'
iy in what we consider laughable or
amusing than in any other way
Tho Black Hills in So. Dakota,
cover about 100 miles square, and it
is said to be the riohest area in the
wot Id.
A large part of the tropi cal fruit
used iu the United States is raised
by the transportation compies whicn
bring it.
Standing, kneeling, sitting and ly
ing down are the four positions pre
scribed for firing by the army regu
lations.
Half a ton of sawdust contains 1(50
pounds of charcoal, 180 pounds of
acids, 218 pounds of water and 182
pounds of tar.
An automobile was driven from
Chicago to New Stork, on the com
mon roads, a distance of 1,177 miles
in 70 hours.
“We use 144,000,000 safety pins
a year,” sayb a New York editor.
The uufortunate brother has no wife
to sew on buttons for him.
Anybody can tear down; the diffi
cult thing is to build up. Any one
can find faults and defects; the hard
thing is to do bettor yourself.
Never shrink from doing anything
which your business calls you to do.
The man who is above his business,
may one find hisbusiness abovehim
The Federal government is hol
ing a well in the bottom of Lake
Michigan to procure drinking water
for its nine employes at the life sav
ing station.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Give the slovenly girl a looking
Scatter salt on a carpet when
sweeping.
It's the unexpected that happens,
fton’t worry.
Japanese servant, girls work for $3
to $5 per month.
Slesves grow more voluminous
from elbow to wrist.
No need of any one being idle and
miserable in this busy old world .
The olosely knitted Jersey will be
worm by many ladies this fall and
winter.
Don’t wear the hair always ill tho
same style. A change of mode is hen
efioiul.
Acquire good sense and you will
not need to worry about good and
bad luck.
R. S. V. P. is too old fashioned.
They write it a. o. d., now: aceept
or decline.
Help somebody. Working for the
happiness of others will beautify you
speedily.
There are 1 3-4 million more men
and boys than women apd girls in tho
United States.
The merchant who advertises his
goods to catch the woman’s eye
succeeds iu business.
A woman in Philadelphia has ae
cured a phonograph and with it she
is leaching parrots to talk
A girl needn’t apologize in this
town because she works;.’udeed she’d
bettei apologize if sho doesn’t
Tho large number of famalo farm
hands in Scotland receive $2 to $2.50
a week without board or allowances.
One secret of a sweet and happy
life is learning to live dav by day
People grow - old thinking tihem
slaves old.
Dr. Mary Chandler of Lowell
Mass., is said to be the only woman
in America who is entitled to practice
law and medicine.
A Kansas father has nicknamed
his two grown daughters Reliance'
ON THE FARM.
Try to keep up with the times.
Farm hands in Norway roeoive $40
to $80 a year.
The surplus horses on many farms
ate up the profits.
Are there plenty of nut bearing
trees on the farm?
Cat nails are said to last longer in
a roof than wire nails.
Irapfoyed harvesting machinery is
in demand the world over.
Sun flower seed is good for fowls
and will produce rich plumage.
England makes but a third of the
machinery used by its farmers,
If your oow doesn't pay for her
board, let someone else board her.
The total income of all American
farmers last year was about $5;500,-
000,000.
How are your farm buildings?
Ever been painted? This is a good
time to oolor them up.
An easy riding buggy has become
a necessity on every farm to make
the equipment complete.
Don't lose courage; but living in
hopes is sometimes a poor apology
for an empty stomaoh.
Free distribution of seeds is a bad
thing, whether from roadsides and
fence corners or Washington.
The farms of the United States
covers 841,000.000 acres and em
ploy nearly 10,600,00o peoples
Much of the best and best paying
farming is done upon small or at
least a moderately sized farm.
If there is any space under the
trough in which the horse can pos
sibly get his head fast, better change
things.
A man doeH not know how
little he knows or how poorly lie
knows it until be has tried to tell it
to others.
Farm maohinory saved in tho
planting and gathering of last year's
crop in the linked States seventy
million dollars.
The ohioken coop should have two
Shamrock because they are both J 0 j- three rooms ouefor them to roam
stuck on a fellow named Cupp. | about in one for setting hens and the
Wheii you aie feeling fagged and j other bedroom.
your skin looks pasty, dip a sponge
in very hot water and batho the base
of be brain, also the faoe aud throat
for five minute.
A chair of matrimony has been
added to the University of Chicago.
How to catch and keep a husband
is the lesson hewill attempt to teach
the young women.
The snheme to have English wo
men with title come to America m
seareh of millionaire husbands .which
is now being perfected, is likely not
to be entirely successful.
Lace is so muoh worn this year
that the plainest of blonses can be
made dresay by means of a little cof
fee coat or deep perlme collar of
lace'or net or a combination of both.
Mrs. Linda R. Wade, president of
the Western Dressmarker’s Assn,
said she had always noticed that wo
men are one-sided; one armislonger
shoulder more developed or some
thing wrong.
Nobody wantsblondeson the stage
any more, they are not in it. It is
the brunette chorus girls now in
fashion. So now all those peroxide
blondes will have to fall in line with
the color scheme.
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The average cost of raising a bus
hel of corn in Illinois as determined
by an exhaustive line of experiments
was found to be ten seats.
You don’t know it all—even Solo
mon didn’t. The other fellows can
tell you a few things that it will be
money in your pocket to know.
At a big Poland China hog sale in
Williamsfield recently, 03 head of
hogs were sold for $1579, the aver
age price being $25.08.
Many a man robs his own hen
roost by cutting down the feed ho
gives to his chicks and the quality
of the care he takes of them.
The farmer who has a good wife
ought to appreciate ber enough to
furnish her the best possible equip
ment for her part of tho work.
If our farmers would give more
attention to the winter housing and
to the vitality of their stock returns
would be larger aud more certain.
Australia has the largest duck
farm aud the largest incubator in
FACTS IN GENERAL.
Grit makes the man, tho want of it
the chump,
The men who win lay hold, hang
on and hump.
There are 25,000 people employed
by Unole Sam at Washington. They
reecive annually $25,000,000, iu
salaries.
Mutual good will and helpfulness
accomplishes moro pi the active af-
frirs of life than antagonisms aud
contention.
It seems to be a proposition as
clear as day that the farmer, moro
than any other man, ought to have
the privilege of good roads tho year
round.
Thore aro good housekeepers and
good barnkeopers, but we think the
former are more numerous than tho
latter. This sounds well for the la
dies.
An increase from 46,000 emigrants
in August, 1002, to 64,000 in August
1903, shows that every year more
peoploare willing to leave theirhap
py homes for us.
A farmer of the central West who
uses a small traotion engino and a
gang of fourteuu-inoh plows, says
that it costs him 50 to 02 cents an
acre to break his ground.
The total government receipt for
September woro $44,100,818 and
tho expenditures $38,430,0(13 lovauig
a surplus of $6,540,0o0. The receipts
tell below thoos of 1002,
Maximite, the composition of
which is a Government f seoret, is
abuot three time as powerful as ord
inary gunpowder and is a • powdery
substance melted bv heat and poured
into a shell.
The postotfioe officials have pro
pared a ruling that cremated bodies
may be sent though the mail classed
as merchandise. Four bodies are
already know to have boon bent,
Bast Friday the editors of Georgia
had a reunion and barbecue
Atlanta, and W.R. Hoarst was he
the guest of honor. Mr. Hearst owns
the New York Journal, Chicago
American and San Francisco call
three of the largest daily papers in
America. He is also a prospective
candidate for president on the dem
ocratic ticket.
In Germany there are tile -oofs
that have been on building for 600
years. Nearly‘all the buidiugs there
are covered with tiling. It is claim
ed by those who are in a position to
know, that the cost is no greater
than for slate or tin, and a roofing
of this kind once on is thereto stay.
So far this year more than forty
railway postal clerks have peeen
killed and over 500 injured, more or
less seriously. In. consequence, the
clerks are not attracted by fast
trains. Many of them have asked to
be transferred from tbe trunk lines,
where thev get $1,500 a year, to the
branch lineH, where the mixiinum
$13.00.
Alexander Dow-ie has marched his
host in Madison Squaro (garden and
says he will get New York city con
verted and collect fifty million dol
lars for llm purpose. Dowio calls
himself The Second Prophet Elijah.
He has about 5,000 people follow
ing bun around. We have not heard
CHICAGO.
Chioago has 390 hotels.
Chioago is just one hundred ye ars
old.
The total street milage is 2,798
miles.
It mens tiros 30 miles from north
to south.
Thecity's population is 2,23J ,000.
Tho area is 191 square miles.
It has seventeen parks, whtoh are
oolloctively the finest in the world.
The longest thoroughfare is West
ern avenue, which iB 22 milos in
length.
There are 780 onurehes, 29 con
vents, 21 libraries, 58 hospitals, and
992 public schools,attended by 275,
000 children.
There are six railroad stations, at
whioh 29 different railroads enter.
At these stations 1,410 trains arnvo
and depart every twenty-four hours.
A lady a good many years ago saw
that there ought to bo an improve-
mout in baby carriages. She invent
ed the modern perambulator and
took in over $50,000 in the way ot
voyalitios.
A telegram from Milwankoosays:
That a process has been discovered
whereby fint-elass while ey can inndo
front sorghum for only 8ots a gallon
tho firs cost of whiskey is very small.
Before the war good corn whiskey
retailed at sixteen con Is a gallon and
there was a largo profit in it at that.
It is the tax and lioenso that consti
tute tho cost. formerly any little
Jim Crow dealeroould put iu a still
and make his own liquor from apple
paring that contained sugar When
the government stepped Into regu
late the manufacturer it necessitated
employirig larger capital, hence the
enormous distilleries of the present
day and the whiskoy trust.
. The liquor dealers of the city have
boon informed by the sotliern exspfss
company that the Town Council
of Moultrie has prohibited trans
portation companies trom bringing
into town any malt,spirituous or aby
intoxioatingliquors notice is therofoe
given that tho company will have to
refuse shipment of this kind for
Moultrie, tho action of the counoil
of Moultrie while not of so muoh
importance of itself is of considerable
importance in that if it can prohibit
the importation of liquors all the
other towns of the state can follow
sni; it is therefore certain that the
p ir'tes most concerned will take steps
to defeat this possibility just whar
steps will be taken have not yet
been decided on tho railroad
commission may be appealed to the
the matter may bo taken in the uity,
-Savannah Press
the world. The incubator has a ca-s 0 ^ feeding-that five thousand on
pnoity of U,440duok eggs or 14,080 >ytbing like three loaves and two
;hen eggs-
I fishes.
Are you jealous of your neighbor’s
prosperity? What has ho done t«
you? Because he pushed aud pulled
uml scratched aud sweat and toiled
aud succeeded at last in reaching an
easy road to life and you rested un
der the shado and failed, does that
make it your duty to rail at him and
smirch him at every oppotunity?
Does it? Say a good word for
him No man is tho only pebble on
the beach. Your time will come if
you will use hands and held. Try
to pluck some benefit out of every
day. Don’t feel sore because some
fellow lias more sense than you.
Help the town along—help the coun
ty push and pull and you will be
surprised how muoh prosperity will
come to you and how much smoother
the road than when you wars talking
mean about your neighbor. *
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