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GIANTS AND DWARFS.
Chinese giant, Chang, is eight feet
inches.
trpolus tells of a young giantess who was
ten leet high.
A giant eight feet high was exhibited at
Rouen in 1755.
Lecat speaks of a Scotch giant eleven feet
six inches in height.
The Grecian giant, Arnanab, now 18 years
obi,-is seven feet eight inches tall.
The giant Giilo do Trent, in the Tyrol, and
one of the guards of the duke of Brunswick,
was more than eight feet four inches in height,
The Austrian giant Wmekelmeier, who
was recently exhibited in Paris, measuring
eight and a half feet, may be regarded as a
specimen of the highest stature [attained by
the human species.
A Swedish peasant, cited by Buffoon, was
eight feet and eight inches in height, and the
stature of the Finnish giant Cujanus was the
some, while Frederick William, king of Pms
sia, had a guard of nearly equal stature.
At the opposite extremes may be found
numerous dwarfs not more than twenty
inches, and some even os little as sixteen and
even twelve inches in height; but such
dwarfs aro only monsters with atrophied
limbs or twisted backbones, or stunted in*
fants whose age is usually exaggerated by
their Barnums.
Swedish Social Etiquette.
All through Sweden social intercourse is en¬
cumbered with much ceremonious etiquette,
particularly among the landed gentry. The
three Scandinavian tougues employ the two
personal pronouns “thou” and “you,” the first
familiarly, the second when speaking to a
mere acquaintance. But a well bred Swedish
gentleman addressing a stranger will always,
with old fashioned courtesy, substitute the
equivalent for “Monsieur,” regardless of har¬
rowing repet itions, and where a title is de¬
manded, even under the difficulties of rapid
speech, it is never for a moment omitted. As
such politeness, however, in the end becomes
both monotonous and wearisome, they have
a practical way of cutting the Gordian knot.
When a casual acquaintanceship has ripened
into genial sympathy or mutual respect, your
Swedish l’rieud at once proposes “a brother¬
hood.” This is a distinct social ordeal, the
initiation to which demands a special rite.
The man who has requested the honor of be¬
coming your brother provides you with a
glass of wine filled to the brim, he himself
holding another; both rise, each linking the
right arm of each; looking one another boldly
in tho eyes and pronouncing fcfce words: “Skal
bror!" the beakers are emptied. Hence you
are expected to use the pronoun “thou,” and
you take your stand on the footing of
relationship. Among the reminiscences of
this visit to Vermland is an evening when I
acquired no Jess than six now and stalwart
brothers. On the subject of ancienne polit
esso, 1 should mention, by the way, that there
is n well known Swedish gentleman who al¬
ways gives precedence to his own son, because
“he has one ancestor more than his father.”—
The Comliill.
« ho 1 a»rt‘> In Hound Safe*.
**W do a big trade in house safes,” r#
tnarlc fo manufacturer to a reporter.
>v truthfully that it ©present:
one tenth of the entire safe in ustry of tbi
country In aon: * cases tho aai
but in more modest families it is a movable
safe, mainly used for plate, and kept in the
dining room, sometimes finished in a way as
to look very much like a sideboard. There is
very little attempt to make them either fire¬
proof or burglar proof. As a general thing
they are made simply of boiler iron, with
combination locks. That is quite enough to
baffle the ordinary house burglar, while the
high toned bank burglar wouldn’t waste Ills
time over it, as he knows the haul wouldn't
l>e worth his trouble.—Philadelphia Call.
Well Preserved Railroad Ties.
Near Reno, Cal., railroad ties laid down
nineteen venrs ago when taken up were found
i lie in a perfect state of preservation. An
aalysis, ie to determine what has prevented
wood front rotting, will be made at once.
*
Tl»e “Yankeriee” in London, which were at
first regarded as a failure, are now quite as
thronged os the “eolouke” were in tbeij
prime.
A DIUIMIST’S MISTAKE.
A Sick Man's Wife Disregards the Druggist's
Advice and So Saves the Life of
Her Husband.
I am a wood carver by trade and it is
out of 1113 ' line to write letters; but my
wife thought it was no more than right
that 1 should let you kn#vv what your
remedy has done for me, and I think
so too.
I live in East 157th street, west of
Third uVenue, and have lived there for
about twenty-three years, where I own
real estate. Up to the time I am about
to mention I had been a strong, well
man. There was always more or less
malaria in the neighborhood, blit I had
not personally suite red from it. It was
in 1880 I had my first attack. It came
on as such attacks commonly do, with
headaches, loss of appetite and ambi
tioin chilly sensations with slight fever
afterwards, a disposition to yawn and
stretch, and so forth. I was employed
at that time at Killians & Brothers,
furniture manufacturers, in West 32d
street. 1 hoped the attack would wear
off’, hut as it didn't I consulted a well
known and able phy sician in Morris*
ania, who gave me q in lie and told me
what to do. I can sum up the first four
and a half or live years of my experi¬
ence in few words. Occasionally I
was laid up for a day or two, but on
the whole I stuck to my work. I kept
taking quinine, in larger doses from
year to year, and kept on getting weak¬
er and worse, slowly hut surely, all the
time. My trouble was now well de¬
fined and its symptoms were steady and
regular. I had dumb ague in its worst
form, and it was grinding me down ill
spite of all that I could do or the doc¬
tors could do. It held me in a grip like
fire in a hunting coal mine. The poison
had gone all through and over me and
nothing was able to touch it. I was
fast losing flesh and strung!h, and about
March. 1884, I knocked olV work entire¬
ly and went home t <» bn down sick, and
to die for all I could tell. I ran down so
rapidly that 1 soon became unable to
walk anydist men. Liter 1 went from
room friends to room in my own house only by
holding me up by each arm. The
doses of quinine were increased until 1
often effects look Ih this tig tremendous giaius <ti a stimulation tfose. The
of
was to make me nearly wild. It broke
my sleep all up, and 1 often walked the
floor, or staggered about it, all night
long, scarcely able to bear any noises
or even human speech. My temper
was extremely irritable. As to food,
one of my litil* children would eat
more I would in order a meal food than and 1 could then in a day.
turn from
it in disgust. I lived on quinine and
other stimulants anil on nig self like a
bear in winter. The quinine set my
head in a whirl, and the liquor—given
ns a fh«sTn ine -made my stomach so
siek I could not tolerate it.
From 175 pounds (my proper weight)
1 ran down to y? pounds—the weight
of a light girl—and was scarcely better
than a skeleton.
Jfanghodg had taken a hatchet and
knocked me doten and killed me I should
have During hern better the off’. this
latter part of period,
early in 1886, my physician said:
“Miller, there’s no use in my taking
|iyy more money of you, I can't do you
any good. 1 might pour and pounds of qui¬
nine down your throat it would n’t
help you.”
On the strength of this I gave up the
use of quinine altogether, and main e up
my mind to do nothing more and take
niv chances.
Three weeks 'afterwards—about the.
last of May—my wif - iw an advertise¬
ment of K iskiim in a New York paper.
fold me of it. 1 said: 4 ft Stuff and
it ca n't druggist's, do me any good.”
But she went to a neverthe¬
to get it. Tne druggist advised
against Kaskim*: he said it was
but sugar; that she ought not
to throw away, her money on it, &e.
Ho s;ii< 1 he didn’t keen it, but could get
it if she insisted on having it. Turn¬
ing away in disgust my wife spoke to
our neighbor, bottle Mr. A. G. drug Hegewald,
who got her a at a store in
Sixth avenue.
Almost against my will, and without
the least faith, I began taking it. In
one week 1 was lx •tier. I began to
sleep. I stopped »• seeing ghosts.” I
began to have an appetite and to gain
strength. This was now the first of
June, 1886, and by the end of that
month I was b-e k at my b neh at C. P.
Smith's scroll sawing fair cry in 116th
street, wit re 1 wor* mcr.
Since t i i• n 1 T !• • ■ v. • ■ v lost a day
from sick nes-. an - k ne only,
about forty pcMm sin i >” q ml (loses
a dav, I eon! Hind tb gti The ma
lari a appear * i t<> be k . in my' sys
tern, and now Uv-* g-*i b ick my old
"
weight— 175 pounds > I my old
strength to labor, I V i •>’) ustonish- .
nient to m; ^e i ami !<> ;n friends, and
it K iskine did not I i- I :< n't know
wimt did. The - nly r • rer thing it
Could do WOldd be o» . e » e •i dead man
to life. 1 k f im rick .i Miller,
630 K .S , 4 • . t a iji !*•' . New York.
P. S. lbr ! !mill of the
above stab m-.-nt i fe: I > ihc following
gentlcni'Mi, win) ar * po. smallv ac¬
quainted with tin* faets: Mr. A 1 ex
ititilcr We’r, 626 156tli M.: Mr. George
Seaman. l-> 8 ;’n street and (Jourtlandt
avenue; Mr. A, M»vbi;s, 151th street
and Courtlandt itvcuae; Mr. I*. F.
Vaupel, lb 1 th street and Courtlandt
avenue; Mr. John Limny, 630 East
158 t!i street; Mr. John Renshaw, 124
125th street, and many others. I will
also reply to letters of inquiry.
We submit that, the above astonish¬
ing cure, vouched for as it is by repu¬
table men, i deserving of a thorough
and enndid investigation by th'nkhig
people. And w Niifhrr net that
when druggists turn away customers remedy
by falsifying the character of a
because they do’ not happen to have it
on hand, they do a great ’ Tong. If
this afflicted man had not disregarded
the druggist's advice and scut else¬
where for ihe renc’dv !••• would without
doubt have been .n !ns grave.
Other letters of a similar character
from prominent individuals, which
stamp Kaskine as a remedy of un¬
doubted merit, will be sent op applica
lion. Priee. $1.00, or 6 bolties,*$5.00.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail oa
receipt of price. W&rrM
The Kaskiue Company, 54
St.. New York.
--^ i » i -
The finest line of Toilet Soaps
ever exhibited in Hamilton just re
ceived at the Drug Store. tf
ICEI IGE.
Will be kept at the Drug Store for
sale. Persons wishing it in quantitief
please give me notice in .time to have
it shipped.
A CARD.
I respectfully tender the public my sin
cere thanks for (he vetv liberal patronage
extended to me during the year 1886, and
respectfully solicit a continuance of same
for 1887. Specialties. Obstetrics, Chronic
and Piiyate Disetses. Will ktep also a
full and complete line of first-class Diugs
at the lowest prices possible for puieuoods
and hope that with an experience of thirty
)cars in the practice of medicine to give
entire satisfaction.
Very respectfully.
S. G RILEY, M. D.
DR. W- T.
DENTIST,
OYER COLUMBUS BANK.
All Diseases of the Mouth and
Teeth treated in the best manner.
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Torpid and inactive Liver, Billiousness,
Malaria, Chills and Fever, Jaundice and
all complaints from a diseased liver.
Dispepsia and indigestion in all its forms
Siek headache and rick stomach, colic and
asthma when dependent u on indigestion
and a disordered stomach
Dr. E. C. Hood’s time-tried and most
effective prescription, used by him for 30
years in practice for disease of the liver.
It promptly cures and prevents CONSTI¬
PATION, however obstinate an! tiouble
some yields to the curative power of Hoodg
Eureka more directly and certainly than to
any other remedy in ,^u e. ft 1 ms been
most effectively tested tor this,and is with¬
out doubt a perfect household medicine
HP A XxXVX-^ A "LT p Torpid Liver,
Sick Headache,
HOOD'S Indigestion, Constipation,
Dyspepsia, Chills *
n vv 11 t\ H. tv K A ■ and Fever,
iiV/ r. Alii i\ kVihSick languor and blues,
Stomach .
FOR general debility or
depressed feeling •
No remedy acts so delightfully and efiect
ual.y as a household remedy
as Hood’s Eureka.
Hood’s Eureka is without a rival in the
treatin'nt of all these i flections. Such is
our confidence in the preparation thht we
challenge all .competitors to compound
ail) tiling equal to it. Wherever tded it
has given unl*oimded satisfaction, and oui
chsdlenge is founded upon the experience
of intelligent pat ons.
Dr N. J Bussey, Pieddent of the Eagl
& Phenix Mf’g Co., < f Columbus, Georgia,
writ is : ‘T have used Hood’s Eureka for a
number of >ears in my family, and I con¬
sider it a valuable family medicine, and I
do not hesitate to say it is all he claims
for it. > ?
Me srs M. D Hood & Co —Gentlemen
l have tr ed Hood’s Eureka Liver Medicine
well and I unhesitatingly pronounce it the
best medicine I have ever used to inval'
liable do I regard it that l keep a
on hand all the time I hereby commend
it to all as a mist efficient, satisfactory
and reliable honsehok lemedy.
CLIFF B. GKIMES, Mayor
Put up in liquid and dry form, and sold
by all drugi-ists at 25. 50 and $1 a bottle.
PATTERSON & THOMAS, Mfrs, f
Columbus, Ga.
J. V*. HOWARD
Oglethorpe St,, Columbus, Gao
Dealer In
Rags, Hides,"
Old Cotton, Hemp, Gunn;
Rope, Bagging, Furs,
Beeswax,Old Metal.
Cotton in the Seed and Cotton Seen
pDr Orders lor wrapping paper ant
paper bags filled at shor notice.
