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PEOPLE WHO GAMBLE.
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to (.iiiiiix of C'liMnoe.
Of all the nations of the earth who
gamble and they nil do it more or loss
—the Chinese come in an easy first.
Superstition and the gambling mania
go in double harness, and while the
mandarins fly kites to decide what
should be done about Wei*Hai-Wei and
Talien-Wan the humbler Celestials gam
ble for dear life to pass the time away.
“The Chinese play night and day,”
says a traveler, “till they have lost all
they are worth, and then they usually
go and hang themselves, ’’ from which
it would appear that the yellow danger
is nut so formidable after all.
The Chinese laborers in the United
States squander their earnings in a
game called “white pigeon's ticket.”
White, by the way, is the unlucky color
for the gamer anil the lucky one for
the keeper of the gaming house. These
gentry keep orange peel in a box, be
lieving that it will bring them luck.
The Italians are no less superstitions,
and they gamble persistently, the poor
people especially, in the government
lotteries. Everything has a number; a
cat, a dog, a gondola, and the “Libro
dei Sogno”—the lotto player’s oracle—
will tell you what the number is and
the rules for interpreting the appear
ances in dreams. Visitors to Venice,
which has always been a stronghold of
gambling, may have seen the declara
tion of the winning figures from the
Campanile of St. Mark’s—the silent,
eager crowd gathered in the square and
the group of officials gathered round
the boy with the bandaged eyes who
draws the numbers from the cage.
There is a story told in Venice of a
madman who hailed a gondolier from
the window of the madhouse on the is
land to tell him the numbers he had
dreamed. The man put his money on
them and won, and from that day to
this the gondoliers go near the window ]
as they pass in the hope that the mad- i
man will call again. The story is true. I
•—London Chronicle.
VORACIOUS LITTLE ROBINS.
Kacli It eq n I red Fourteen Varda of
Anglewormi Every Day.
A would be philanthropist relates his
experiences trying to play mother to a
nest of little robins, which had by some
accident been deprived of their rightful
mother’s care. He diligently set to
work digging angleworms, nnd sup
posed that he was fulfilling his whole
duty, when one of the poor little songs
ters died. Upon examination of the
body, which was reduced to skin aud
bone, the foster parent came to the con
clusion that it must have died of starv
ation.
Deeply grieved at his shortcoming,
he redoubled his efforts, determined to
at least save the other two. It was not
long, however, before a second one died,
evidently of the same malady. The good
man then reeolved that, whatever the
third one died of, it should not be
starvation, and took off his coat aud
went to work in earnest. He kept on
with the angleworm diet until he found
that his one little bird was consuming
from 14 to 18 yards of angleworms a
day. This was too much for his pa
tience, and he proceeded to substitute
the more easily managed diet of bread
and milk and other delicacies, which
were, however, not nearly so much to
Miss Rotun's taste.
Wanting to discover whether he had
been catering to a family of abnormal
appetites, our friend took to watching
the methods of a real mother bird and
found that she fed her young every two
minutes. He then consulted the learned
books upon birds and discovered that
14 yards of worms a day, with meals
every two minutes, is the average rate
of feeding fledgelings. He has therefore
decided that he does not care to take
up raising birds by hand as a business.
—Boston Transcript.
Jlc (jut Hie Ad.
“You're uot on that horrid paper,
are you,” cried the girl who speaks her
uiiud, “though 1 did ouce meet a re
porter from it who was rather nice?
He came to see about getting an adver
tisement— What! Not a reporter?
Why, 1 thought he was. Well, anyway
1 had lost a dog, and he said he had
heard of it and wanted to know if I
didn t want to advertise in his paper
for it. 1 told him I didn’t believe I
liked his old paper, and he said he
didn't think much of it himself, but he
thought it was pretty apt to reach the
class of people who stole dogs. And so
since he was so {tolite about it I
thought 1 might as well advertise iuit.
But i didn't get the dog.”—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
A Girl With h Srkfmr,
Miss Millward—Good morning. Have
you kissed Hobson ?
Miss Aylesworth—No, I am trying to
win a reputation that will enable me to
go upon the stage, and 1 guess the
easiest way to get it is by spreading the
rumor that I haven’t kissed Hobson.—
Chicago News.
So Were His Manners.
“Excuse me, sir,” said Barker to a
boorish traveler, “but what is your
business?”
“I am a gentleman, sir—that’s my j
business. ”
“Ah,” said Barker, “I sea Y’ou are
taking a holiday.”—Tit-Bits.
DYED DIAMONDS.
Yellow Stones Cnn He Mode to Look
Like Gems of the First Water.
“There are tricks in every trade” ha*
grown to be an adage, and this proverb
holds especially good with regard to the
jewelry trade, which for “ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain” fair
ly takes tho paim for roguery.
Although a great deal of capital, time
and labor have been devoted to counter
feiting the diamond, very little success
has been obtained from a fraudulent
point of view, as the diamond possesses
extraordinary qualities of hardness
and brilliancy, with which no imi
tation, up to now, can attempt to vie.
“Paste” of all kinds can be tested by
means of a sharp steel file, which
scratches its surface.
A method of successful imposition
with diamonds has, however, been dis
covered, and the originator of this swin
dle actually defrauded the pawnbrokers
of London alone in one year of upward
of $500,000.
The general public, as well as jewel
ers, are aware that diamonds of a yel
lowish tinge, or, as they are called in
the trade, “straws,” are worth very lit
tle. Large stones of this color, even
when weighing from 10 to 100 carats,
are quite common and will onlyfetch
in the market from |5 to S2O per carat,
the value, of course, increasing in ratio
with weight. Diamonds of the same
weight, if of the first water, or perfect
ly colorless, would be worth from five
to ten times as much.
The methods of the individual refer
red to were as follows: He purchased a
quantity of “yellow” stones, and then
by a simple yet ingenious process suc
ceeded in imparting to them an evanes
cent purity of color. This was done by
procuring two ordinary glasses, a kettle
of boiling water and a threepenny
packet of mauve dye.
The “yellow” diamond, which was
perhaps set in a gold ring or pin, was
merely dipped in the glass containing
the dye, and then in clean boiling wa
ter half a dozen times, and allowed to
dry, when it presented all the appear
ance, even to the eye of an expert, of a
magnificent stone of the first water.
The next move was to place the ring
on the finger, and the well dressed dia
mond dyer would sally forth, enter a
pawnbroker’s and pledge the ring for at
least three times its worth. Within 12
hours, however, the effects of the dye
would have disappeared, and the pawn
broker could only wonder what on
earth was wrong with his eyes when he
advanoed so much money on such a yel
low stone.
Fortunately, owing to the magnitude
of this individual’s operations, the
fraud was discovered, and now pawn
brokers, if they are suepicious of a dia
mond’s color, immerse it in nitric acid,
which destroys any dye that may be
present without in any way injuring
the stone. —London Mail.
GOOD MONEY FOR BAD NEWS
I’Hltl to Learn That Sight Wonld
Leave llim In Six Months.
Somehow it made me feel bad, this
happening that lam about to relate. I
was in the office of an oculist, one of
the leading men in his profession in
Pittsburg. A big, strong and healthy
looking man entered. His appearance
indicated that he had many years of life
before him. He was well dressed, keen
ly intelligent nnd of pleasant counte
nance.
“Doctor,” he said, “my eyes have
been troubling me, and I would like
you to make an examination of them
aud treat them. ”
After a few preliminary questions the
doctor told him to strip himself to the
waist. He took off his clothes and stood
there, a magnificent specimen of man
hood. The doctor examined him, pay
ing particular attention to his back, for
a reason of which I know nothing.
Having finished, he said:
“Put cn your clothes. I can do noth
ing for you. Your sight may last six
months, but m longer. Treatment will
do no good. Blindness Is sure to come.”
“What’s the matter, doctor?” he
asked quietly, with a faint tremor in
his voice.
The doctor told him in technical lan
guage and then explained that the trou
ble came from the wasting of a nerve
leading from the spine.
“What’s your bill, doctor?” asked
the man when ho got his clothes on.
“Five dollars,” replied the doctor.
He paid it and left the office without
another word. In tho fullness of life he
walked out into the blessed light of day,
doomed within six months to darkness
until death. It was an incident to the
doctor; to me it was a tragedy.—Pitts
burg News.
Irving Didn’t Rend.
Sir Henry Irving appeared at the
Theater Royal, Edinburgh, in 1857,
and two years later he went to Linlith
gow to give a soading there. He was
delighted to se<rliis name in big letters
on the posters on arriving in the town.
He went to the hall, but there was no
crowd there—in fact, the caretaker had
not arrived, having forgotten all about
the reading. Irving went in search of
him, and things were got ready; 8:80
o’clock arrived, but no one came to the
hall—not even a small boy. In recalling
the incident Sir Henry was wont to
say, “I never slept better than I did
that night.”
THE FIREMAN’S LIFE.
lie Cannot Altvay* Flnlah Hl* Toilet
Before a Mirror.
“Of course everything about the fire
department interests us always, ” said
Mr. Glimby, “but there is one little
thing in particular that I’ve seen I
(suppose hundreds of times that appeals
to me more every time I see it, and that
is the firemen getting into their coats
as they go along. You see this among
the men on trucks and on hose wagons.
The men on the engine have to use
their hands to hold on.
“It’s a simple enough thing in gen
eral to see a man putting on his coat,
but hero he isn’t standing up in his
room before a mirror, but he’s jumped
out of bed and taken his coat under his
arm and slid down a sliding pole and is
completing his dressing sitting on top
of a rack of ladders going through the
street like mad, drawn by three great
horses at one end, with a man down
at the other end steering this outfit
with a wheel This sight never loses its
novelty or its interest. You may see the
same thing on a hose wagon.
“But what set me to speaking about
this now was seeing a man on a fire
patrol wagon, sitting on one of their
long seats, facing outward, pulling up
the tops of his high boots—red wagon,
galloping horses, banging gong, men in
fire hats and rubber coats, the whole
blooming outfit on the dead jump and
this man sitting on the side seat reach
ing down for the tops of those boots and
straightening up with each ono as he
got it and swaying back a little as he
pulled it up into place, just as a man
would sit on the edge of his bed at home
to put on his stockings and slippers and
just as cool and comfortable.”—New
York Sun.
Geography For Women.
The introduction to Parkenton’s
“Modern Atlas,” published in 1815,
has a reference to “the sex” which
ought to be very interesting to our
modern college girl. The learned author
says:
Geography is a study so universally
instructive and pleasing that it has for
nearly a century been taught even to
females, whose pursuits are foreign from
serious researches. In the trivial con
versation of the social circle, in the
daily avidity of the occurrences of the
times, pregnant indeed above all others
with rapid and important changes that
affect the very existence of states and
empires, geography has become a ha
bitual resource to the elegant female, as
well as the profound philosopher.
Stopping a Big Steamship.
To stop the Etruria, whose displace
ment is 9,680 tons, horsepower 14,321
and speed 20.18 knots an hour, 2 min
utes and 47 seconds are required, and
during the process of stopping the ship
will forge ahead 2.404 feet, or nearly
half a mile. The United States cruiser
Columbia, with a displacement of 7,350
tons, 17,991 horsepower and f speed of
22.8 knots an hour, can be stopped in 2
minutes and 15 seconds and within a
space of 2,147 feet. In each case the
vessel is supposed to be going at full
speed and the stoppage produced by
reversing the action of the propeller.
Damaa’ Quick Wit.
Dumas found a man asleep in the
Theatre Francais during the playing of
a piece by his friend Soumet. * “You
see that?” said he, “that’s your work. ”
Next evening a Dumas comedy was
put on. The two friends looked in again
and found a sleeper. /
“You see, dear Dumas,” said Sou
met, “your works ean produce sleep.”
“Do yon refer to that man?” replied
Dumas. “Why, that’s the man who
Was there last night. He’s not awake
Vet!” —San Francisco News Letter.
Worth Waiting For.
During a performance at at the Tyne
mouth Aquarium, a couple from Old
Hartley were among the audience.
When half time arrived, an attendant
placed on the stage a board inscribed
with the word “Interval.”
“W’at’s that, Geordie?” asked the
wife. Geordie spelled the word.
“In, in; t-e-r, inter;v-a-l, interval.”
“But w’at is’t?”
“Aa divvent knaa, lass. 3he foaks
is aall gannin oot; but we’ll stop to see
it I”—San Francisco Wave.
In 1666 the great fire in London
burned over 436 acres, destroying at
least $35,000,000 worth of property. In
1872 the Boston fire burned over 80
acres, at a loss of $1,000,000 an acre.
If the same fire occurred today, it
would cost, at the very lowest estimate,
$l('v,000,000. In 1893 the loss on the
%% acres burned over was over $350,-
000,000.
Ita Natural Kffect.
“How many of these sheep got out
of here?” asked the angry farmer.
“I don’t know,” replied the new
hired man, rubbing his eyes. “After
I’d watched five or six of ’em jump
over the fence I seemed to lose the
count. That always puts me to sleep. ”
•—Chicago Tribune.
Ot Mu Avail.
“Prisoner.” said the court, “have
yon anything to say for yourself?”
“UN hat s the use?” replied the cul
prit; “you guys wouldn’t believe me.”
—Philadelphia North American.
Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern Railroad.
SAMUEL 0. DUNLAP, Receiver.
Time table No. 12, taking effect 5. 50 a. m., Jan. 6, 1899,
MA.IN LINE
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NORTH BOUND. Between Social Circle BOUND,
Read Downward and Gainesville . Read Upward.
First Class. ~ First Class.
93 9 1 85 83 81 STATIONS. 82 84 86 92 o 4
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% HOG 11 00 450 SOCIAL?CIRCLE 915 3 30 9 20 S’
o 11 15 1120 505 GRESHAM 855 3 10 9 05 c
S. H3O 1140 525 MONROE. 835 2 50 8 50 5-
I 1145 }£J!j SS CAMPTON 8152 30 8 35; £
r 1158 G BETHLEHEM 800 215 822 j £
TUY 12 15 ~ 14W.V, WINDER 7452 00 g 807 _L_
11,5 „ 1 ® 6 ™ 7101 30 £ 94
S7 12 30 b 157 648 MULBERRY 7201 10 ° lon 88
Zl 12 45 ~ 2177 03 HObCHTON , 739
108 g 2457 23 HICKORY TREE. 0451s 30 <= 719 claily
Sun p- 2 , e x
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640 US 255 730 BELLMONT 40 10 05 7 14p m
645 l 2? 735 KLONDIKE 635 10 20 1 [j- lf r
650 J 2? * HANDLER 630 10 16 lA A
710 1 40 330 8 00 GAINESVILLE. 610 9 55 6 4 iS
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8 7 I9 1 85 f3 1 81 j jB2 j 84 1 86 |~93~[88
No. 82 will run to Social Circle regardless of No. 83.
No. 84 will run to Social Circle regardless of No. 81,
No. 83 will run to Winder regardless of No. 84.
No. 84 will run to Winder regardless of No. 83.
No. 92 will run to Social Circle regardles of No. 91.
JEFFERSON BRANCH.
Time Table No. 12, taking effect 5.50 am., Jan. 6, 1899.
NORTH BOUND Between Jefferson and SOUTH BOUND
Read Downward Bellmont. Read Upward.
First Class. First Class.
Bt~ STATIONS. ~88 90”
Daily, Daily Daily
except except except except
Sun Son Snn sun
P. M. A M. Lv. fiTAr. P. M. A~m7
11 35 550 JEFFERSONI 810 11 10
12 00 615 PENDERGRASS 748 10 43
n l2 35 ,. ® 4O BELLMONT 730 10 25
p M , A M. Ar. v. P. M. A. M.
B 9 1 8 7 I 88 |9O 1
No. 90 will run to Jefferson regardless of No. 89.
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Show Vonr Best Qualities.
Honesty does not require us to hang
our oil paintings faced to the wall in
order that our friends may see that
they are made on coarse canvas. It ie
right to appear always at our best.
Give the world your brightest thoughts,
your most courteous speech, the out
come of your kindest impulses and
purest motives, no matter if you are
conscious that these things are above
your ordinary level. God made t-he
flowers show their colors, not their
dull, fibrous matter; to load the air
with their odors, not with the rank
ness of their sap.—Homiletic Review.
Change Wanted.
What some people need more than
anything else is change—they have
dollars, and they need sense.—Jewish
Comment
The Wronjj Measure.
Employment Agent—Those are fine
recommendations that gurl has, mum-
Shall I send for her to come and talk
with you ?
Mrs. Bronston—la she tall or short?
“Rather tall, mum, but”—
“Is she fat or thin ?”
“Rather stout, mum —a good,
strong”—
“Is she stouter than I am?”
“Oh, yes, mum, a good deal. ”
“She won’t do. She’d split the eeani*
of every dress I have.”—New York
Weekly.
Dewey to Be an Admiral.
Washington, Feb. 13.—The senate
passed a bill creating the office of ad
miral of the navy. Rear Admira
Dewey, it is understood, will be na*d
for the office.