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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
The school officials of Boston hat
posted notices in all the school buildings
of that city forbidding the chewing of
tobacco by the pupils. They have oven
posted notices in the girls’ high-school
building, much to the indignation of the
young women.
The little State of Belgium, says the
Cultivator , has always been the battle
ground of Europe, More decisive
battles have been fought on its soil than
on any other of equal area in the world.
Should war occur between France and
Germany, Belgium must take the brunt
of the conflict, This small nationality
appears to have been kept distinct as a
fighting ground for its bigger neighbors
when they fell out. Just now the people
of Belgium are taking great interest in
French and German politics, though
unable to do anything in either, except
to patiently await the turn of events.
The cential provinces of Spain (the
Madrid correspondent of the London
Chronicle says) have been visited by so
terrible a plague of locusts that whole
districts are ruined. Within the space
of a few hours these pests have destroyed
every trace of vegetation—grass, wheat,
vines and olives, Over considerable
tracts of country not a vestige of green
is to be seen, and the reports state that at
times the sun has been obscured when
these fearful pests have been winging
their flight from place to place. In La
Mancha the trains have been stopped by
them, and gangs of workmen have had
to go ahead of passenger trains in trucks
to clear the lines of the myriads of locusts
that have descended upon them. In many
cases the insects have lain so thick on the
rails that trains have not been able to
travel faster than three or four miles an
hour. The eortes are about to vote a
large credit in aid of the sufferers and to
provide for a means of destroying these
voracious swarms of insects.
The Chicago correspondent of the New
York Star says that Nina Van Zandt, the
proxy bride of August Spies, the con¬
demned Chicago Anarchist, is in decided¬
ly ill health and probably dying. She has
cut loose from her family and is having a
hard time. The correspondent reports
Miss Van Zandt saying: “Oh, this worry
is killing me. Not only the anxiety about
the outcome of the case, but the iutoler
able throngs of callers, curious only to
see me, and the army of beggars who
have read that I was rich; and then the
letters, bushels of them, from every con¬
ceivable sort of people, some of them
threatening my life and some asking for
money ; many abusing me, and no end to
the marriage proposals from unknown
vagabonds who say they are much better
than any Anarchist; (hat Mr. Spies wilt
be hanged anyhow, and I had better con¬
clude to accept their offer. A great
many include photos, so that I can see
how good looking they are. Oh, 1 did
not know the world was so full of silly
fcols as it seems to be. I am nervous,
sleepless ami nearly worried to deatlv.
The injunction suit cost me a great deal
of money, and my income has been shut
off on every hand. I have nothing now
but the income of my book on the life of
Mr. Spit s, and the attacks of the press
have made its sales very slow*, I have
not spokeu to mother or father for
months; then came that cruel edic*t from
the jailer that I should not be allowed to
see Mr. Spies even through iron bars.”
The fastest passenger steamer afloat \n
said to be the Queen Victoria, which is
to ply between Liverpool and the Isle of
Man. On the trial trip from Greenock
to Liverpool, she made an average of
twenty-two and one-fourth knots or
twenty-five and one-half miles an hoi#.
This was accomplished in bad weather
and against a rattling gale.
The Presidents of the various Repub¬
lics of the world are, for the most part,
men in about the middle period of life.
Few of them are over sixty, and for va
rious reasons, none of them are so young
as many monarehs have been when they
mounted the throne. The oldest is the
President of France—Francois P. Jules
Grevy—who will finish his seventy
fourth year in less than three months
from the present time. Our own execu¬
tive, Mr. Cleveland, completed his half
century some months ago.
Building railroads in China is an old
theme. Circumstantial details have ap¬
peared from time to time with accounts
of concessions obtained and with pre¬
dictions as to the time when that country
would be covere 1 with a network of rails.
The latestaccount is given in the London
Colliery Guardian , based on news from
Pekin, which declares positively that
China is at last to have railways. The
report is that the Chinese court has ad¬
vised the empress to order the construc¬
tion of a railroad from Kaiping toTakoo,
the port of Tientsin, and a line from
Takoo to Tientsin. It is considered
probable that the coal mines in the
vicinity of Pekin will be connected with
that city by rail, thus permitting the cost
of coal to be cheapened. The building
of these roads, and positively others, is
looked upon by British iron and steel
manufacturers as likely to open a large
field for British goods of this character.
Twelve Great Classes of Plants.
Twelve of tlio groat classes of plants
are classified by botanists as follows .
tercup. I. Crowfoot 2. Columbine. or Buttercup 8. Larkspur. Family.—1. 4. Black But¬
Snake-root. 5. Anemene, (5. Virgin’s Bower.
Water-Cress II. Mustard Family, Mustard. or 3. Crucifene.—1. Shepherd’s
3.
Purse. 4. Radish. 5. Turnip, b. Sweet
A l” 1
11 Pink Family. 1. Pink or Carnation.
2. Soapwort. 3. Bladder Campion. 4. Corn
Cockle. 6. Chick-weed. (». Sand Wort.
IV. Pulse Family. 1. Pea. 2. Bean. 3.
Clover. 4. Locust. 5. Sensitive Plant. 6.
Wild Indigo.
V. Rose Family. 1. Plum. 2. Cherry.
8. Five-Finger. 4. Strawberry. 5. Bram
bl snip!" iVT l‘£SL': R°? e ‘ „ „ . 0 „
5. Water Hemlock. 6. Black Snakeroot.
VII. Composite or Aster Family. 1. Aster,
2. flower. Daisy. 6. 3. Chamomile. Tansy. 4. Marigold. 5. Sun
VIII. Mint Family. 1. Mint. Horehouml 2. Thyme.
8. Sage. 4. Cat-Mint. 5 6.
Skull cap.
IX. Ground Nightshade Family. Tomato. 1. Bitter-sweet. Potato.
2, Cherry. Thornappleor 3. 4.
5. tobacco. 0. Jamestown
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X. Oak Family. 1. Oak. 2. Chestnut,
8. Beech. 4. Filbert. 5. Iron-wood. 6.
Chinquapin. XI. Lily Family.—1. Lily. 2. Solomon’s
Seal. 8. Asparagus. 4. Star of Bethlehem.
onion. 0. Garlic.
XII. Grass Family—1. Meadow Grass. 2.
Wheat. 8. Barley. 4. Rye. 5. Oats. 6.
Broom Corn.
Indian Pum Ptiins.
The Indians residing on the Yakima
Reservation held one of their pum puma
or tumaniraus dunces in their medicine
house a week ago. The danc e and ac¬
companying weird incantations were for
the purpose of supplication propitiating the good
spirit, and in for a bounti¬
ful run of the Chinook salmon. The
lodge, a low structure about seventy feet
in length,was covered with tule matting,
and in this were 200 bucks, squaws, and
pappooses, fantastically clad and painted
in all the colors of the rainbow. The
dance was under the direction of Ko-ti
a-can, one of the head medicine men.
For hours the Indians danced and chanted
their monotonous songs, until tired na¬
ture asserted itself, and they would fall
on their knees and offer up “amens” to
the exhortations of the medicine man.—
Chit > lit raid.
Conscience is at most times a verv T
faithful -
ami t ,undent monitor.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Wanted to Fly—A Boarder With
Two Throats — He Paid Off
An Old Debt—Preferred
a Mud Color, Etc.
*My son,” said a Boston father as he
took his boy by the hand, 1 t you are
about to start for the West to found a
city. Consider well. Found it upon the
banks of a river, so that steamboat rates
will keep railroad rates down to the low¬
est notch.”
(A period of six months is supposed to
have elapsed, and the old man gets a let¬
ter).
“Dear Father: River is frozen up
and railroad snowed under. Send wings
for me to get out of the durned coun¬
try. ”— Wall Street News.
A Boarder With Two Throats.
The Widow Flapjack got a new
boarder the other day. At the first meal
he took he choked and had a terrible
time trying to swallow some coffee.
“What’s the matter, stranger?” she
asked, kindly.
down “Nothing, the except the coffee went
“Good heavens! wrong way.”
It isn’t possible that
I have secured a boarder with two
throats!” exclaimed Mrs. Flapjack, who
has been complaining very bitterly of the
amount of food a man with only one
throat can punish.— Chicago National.
He Paid Off an Old Debt.
There is in this city a young man who
has a habit of personifying objects in his
speech, and this habit kas brought him
no little annoyance, particularly in the
office where he is employed, and where
the young lady bookkeeper seizes upon
every such lapse of speech to make him
uncomfortable in the presence of his
other office associates. The other day
in speaking of the clock he said:
“She keeps excellent time,” and was
immediately brought up short by his tor¬
mentor with the question? “Why do you
say ‘she’ in speaking of a clock?”
Here was a chance to pay off an old
debt, and promptly came the reply: ‘ ‘Be¬
cause its pendulum, like a woman’s
tongue, is always wagging.” —Boston
Budget.
Preferred a Mud-Color.
“Yes, a pretty good looking carpet,”
she said as she stood off and surveyed J it,
“Aren’t the colors all right, ma’am?”
“They seem to be. ”
“Ami you like the pattern?”
“Verv mnnli ”
“And I m sure the price is very reason
able.”
“Y-e-s. It wasn’t that so much, but
I was wondering Joshed liow this carpet would
!?° the k engines ■*»« had filled the got house.with on fire and wa
ter, the firemen had tramped through all
the rooms, and twenty reporters had come
around to ask about the insurance. I
guess I’d better get something of a mud
color.” — Detroit Free Press.
A Possible Explanation.
“bmlkins says i he , s no friend t i of c yours
any more,” said Sam Sample to Charley
Sellers as they met at the store the other
morning.
“indeed?”
, lY No. He , r says that ... your are no friend . . ,
of his any more. Now what is the trou
ble? You haven't insulted him simply
because you both happened to be going
to see the same girl, have you?”
“Certainly not.”
“Then what can be the matter?”
“I don’t know unless he lias found out
who it was sent that newsboy in front of
her house to holler, ‘ here's j*our morn¬
ing understand papers,’ while lie was in there calling.
I that that call sort of waked
up her father and made trouble for
Snif.”— Merchant Traveler.
The Dark Side of Things.
Some people will persist in taking a
gloomy view* of everything. There is a
man of that kind in Austin, living in
Ward No. 13. A neighbor happened to
drop in to see him the other day and
found everybody lively except the head
family. *
of the
t 4 How are you all coming on ?”
“We are all tolerable except Bob. He
is laughing and joking because he is go
ing fishing. I just know* that he is go
ing to come home drowued, and howling
with a fish hook sticking in him some
where.”
“Wd', the rest seem to be cheerful.”■
“Yes, sorter. Jemimy is jumping and;
skipping about because she is going to a
candy pulling, but I know
will happen to her. I read of a girl in
Philadelphia only last year wTio-was
ing from a candy pulling, when a drunken
man threw his wife out of a three-story
window 7 and killed her.”
“Killed who?”
“Jemimy.”
“Why, no; there she is.”
“Weil, it might have been her If
had been on the pavement below where
the woman fell.”
“Well, you are looking healthy.”
“Yes, I feel just like the man did wt
dropped dead in New York last wee
from heart disease. He w*as in high spiri;
and had a good appetite, and them’s ju
my symptoms .”—Texas Siftings.
He Filled the Prescription.
When the fizz of the soda fount:
died out in a Washington avenue
store yesterday afternoon the good
standing looking clerk there glanced up and saw a man
with a
near the door. m
“Well, what is it?” demanded tin
clerk. I
The man came forward and spoke
few words, in the language of Esaias
Tegner, which were entirely cleric. unintelligible
to the good-looking Then the
man produced studied a folded paper, which the
clerk took, a moment and said:
“I don’t know this doctor, but sit
down and I’ll have it ready in a moment. ”
He went behind the prescription case
and in a few minutes reappeared with a
four-ounce vial, which he neatly labelled,
and marked the dose: “A tablespoonful
after each meal. Shake well before tak
ing.” Handing it to the man he re
marked laconically:
“Dollar and a half.”
It evoked considerable pantomime
before the Swede understood, but he
finally the paid the money and disappeared
with medicine. The good-looking
clerk went down to the ball game and
had hardly disappeared before in rushed
a well-known young attorney from
Temple Court. He carried the vial in
his hand and blood in his eve.
“Where’s the man who filled prescrip¬
tion No. 3,006?” he demanded.
The proprietor cooly surveyed the
bottle, and with a look that would have
disarmed a pirate, blandly replied:
“Why?” Caesar! Why? I’ll show
“Great you
why! Produce the prescription! Do
you hear me? Trot out the prescription
before 1 strangle you!” produced the of
The druggist scrap straight¬
paper and the excited attorney
ened it out on the show-case and de¬
ciphered the bad writing as follows:
“Ivan Olsen—Come to my office this
afternoon at 3 o’clock, sure. Business of
importance. Saw your man and every¬
thing is all right.” “prescription.”
This was the The
drug man fainted and the clerk is now
advertising for a position Paul as Globe. porter in
a hardware store.— St.
Just a Bit Too Previous.
A Chicago society youth recently at¬
tended church with a young lady on
whom lie was particularly sweet. When
the contribution box started out on his
rounds the young man took a five-dollar
gold piece out of his pocket and dis¬
played it in such a way that the young
lady saw it. She mildly rebuked him for
his extravagance, but he said he often
contributed that much, especially when
in strange churches. Watching his
chance he slipped the gold coin into his
pocket and slyly took out a silver quar¬
ter which he* as slyly dropped into the
box when it reached him. This fixed
the impression on the young lady that
her beau was generous, and held the
church in high esteem. At the close of
the services, as was the custom of the
church, the amount in the box was an¬
nounced, The total was $3.75. That
young man has had no business in the
immediate neighborhood of that young
ladies’ house since that eventful evening.
— Ch icago National.
-A. amount of opposition ...
certain is a
great help to man. Kites rise against and
with the wind. Even a head wind is
better than none. No man ever worked
his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let
no man wax pale, therefore, because of
opposition,
In Germany householders aie allowed
to treat trespassing cats and dogs as beasts
prey: that is, they can kill them in any
they choose.