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from a want of disposition to i a vest
and under a belief that prices would
go lower. If trade could be left to
its legitimate channels a healthy and
prosperous condition would ensue.
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The Georgia legislature adjourned
on the 20th after a long and labori¬
ous session. Some persons are dis¬
posed to criticise, but thiy must re¬
member that no legislature in Georgia
ever had more peplexing problems to
solve and questions to meet. Their
enactments have been wise and con¬
servative and good will result.
Reader.
Mulberry ttrovc Dots.
Wet and rainy.
The Atlanta exposition was well
attended from the Lower 19th. All
have returned pleased with their trip.
A little stranger came to Mr. An¬
drew Huling's last week. Mr. Hu-
1 mg’s face is as long as a maypole;
he wanted a boy.
Mr. A. J. Gordon left last week
for Birmingham. Our best wishes
follow him.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gordon visit¬
ed their son, R. W. Gordon, last Sat¬
urday, to see the strange little lady
that came to Bob's house last week.
Bol) is all smiles.
Mr. Sharp is thought to be im¬
proving slowly.
Mr. Cardwell is on his feet again.
He went to see his new grandson
Sunday.
Mrs. Houston spent the day with
Mrs. George Gordon to day.
Regina.
Mountain Hill Maypruing*.
Where are our young folks.
We are all back from the Exposi¬
tion.
Rev. C. A. Martin is remodeling
his dwelling.
Mrs. M. E. Campbell spent last
week with relatives in Troup county.
Mis.- Willie Clines has been on a
two weeks visit to relatives near
West Point.
Your reporter feels completely
Bugged since no one jelsc saw the
pumpkin as big as the balloon.
The colored school will close next
Friday with an examination and ex
hibition at night, Prof. Middle
brocks, (col.) is held in high esteem
by both white and black, and has
done credit to himself in teaching
the Mountain Hill school
Much land is to be sold here next
Tuesday. Many people will be in
town, if you owe the Journal for
subscription or advertising please
drop in and settle, We need the
mqpey and will count it a favor if
our lriends will heed this call.
DIFFERENT SPECIES OF BEAR.
Much Controversy as to the Various
Kind* Found In the Kocky Mountains.
There is among western men much
controversy as to the various kinds of
bear inhabiting our western Alps; but
the number of those who, from personal
observation, are capable of forming an
opinion, is very small. In the first place,
for aM the sanguinary talk around the
stove, there are not a great many men
who liave made a practice of hunting
bear at all. One such incident as that
which occurred, two years ago, in the
Big Horn scares a good many. A poor
fellow there came on a bear, a small cin¬
namon, feeding on an elk he had killed.
He fired and wounded it; the bear re¬
treated, and he followed. Coming up
with it, again he fired, when the bear
charged him. Trying to reload (he used,
I heard, a single shot Sharp rifle), the ex¬
tractor came off the empty shell, and, of
course, he was defenseless. He evidently
drew his knife and used it desperately;
for when they found him the bear lay
near him, dead, w ith many knife wounds
in it, but it had killed him first. In
short, both on account of the danger and
by reason of the great difficulty of seeing
them, it scarcely pays to hunt bear alone.
There are comparatively few men, I
say, whose opinion is worth much; and
sonic of these seem to have an idea that,
for the credit of the mountain land they
love so well, they are bound to ]>eople it
with as many different species of bear as
they can. Now, as a matter of fact, I
believe that almost all the liears ranging
in the Rocky mountains occasionally
breed together; certainly, brown and
black sometimes do. Our party once
shot a black bear with a large brown
cross, extending from the tail to the back
of the head and down each shoulder.
Just as certainly the brown and grizzly
on occasions intermarry. My hunter as¬
sures me he lias shot gray cubs with a
brown sow. I may be wrong, but I can¬
not myself see any difference sufficiently
marked to warrant the idea that the cin¬
namon Ixiar of the Rockies is not the
coarser, larger brown bear, the result of
some crossing between the grizzly and
the brown.
Then, some men insist that among the
gray boar tliero are no less than three
distinct varieties—silvertip, ronchback
and grizzly. As I have said before, I
cannot say anything al out the California
grizzly, though I do nut think, from skins
l have examined, he differs materially
from his neigh lor of the mountains; but
as to these differences of color indicating
a distinct variety, I cannot believe it.—
Rev. W. S. Rainsford, D.D., in Scrib¬
ner's Magazine.
Tho Chinese giant, Chang, is eight feet
three inches.
Garpolus tells of a young giantess who was
tea feet high.
A giant eight feet high was exhibited at
Rouen in 1755.
Local speuks of a Scotch giant eleven feet
six inches in height
The Grecian giant, A wanab, now 18 years
old, is seven feet eight inches tall.
The giant Gille de Trent, in the Tyrol, and
one of tho guards of the duke of Brunswick,
was more than eight feet four inches in height.
The Austrian giant Winekelmeier, who
was recently exhibited in Paris, measuring
eight and a half feet, may be regarded as a
specimen of tho 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 wus the
same, while Frederick William, king of Prus¬
sia, had a guard of nearly equal stature.
At the opposite extremes may bo found
numerous dwarfs not more than twenty
iuches, and Some even os little a* sixteen and
even twelve inches in height; but sucb
dwarfs ore only monsters with
limbs or rivisted backbones, or stunted in¬
fants whose age fa usually exaggerated
their Barnums.^ * «.
A Chance for an Inventor.
The Associated Press lias taken up tht
typewriter, and now employs many of
these useful instruments. All its tele
graphic reports are sent in to the news
papers in type written copy. On the
thin, yellow ‘•flimsy” paper used the
typewriter will give a score of duplicate
copies if necessary. It is one of the fun¬
niest things in the world to see a teleg¬
rapher use a typewriter. The fastest
telegrapher using the Morse alphabet is
slower than the slowest operator on the
typewriter. For instance, it takes four
dots to represent the letter H on the
telegraph instrument, while one stroke
witii the finger imprints any letter on the
typewriter. This gives the transcriber
on the typewriter plenty of time. He
generally sits with his coat off, in an
easy and picturesque attitude, often with
his legs rei*>sing on the table on each
side of the typewriter, and thus with
careful deliberation he clicks out letter
after lefter as if he were merely fooling
away his time and didn’t care whether
school kept or not. The slow clicking of
the typewriter is quite a contrast to the
rattling chatter of the telegraph instru¬
ment, and the moral seems to be that the
person who talks the fastest doesn’t nec¬
essarily say the most.
It seems to me that the typewriter and
the telegraph might be wedded closer
than they are. Here is a great chance
for a future inventor. If a couple of
typewriters could be attached by a wire
in such a way that when the performer
played his tune on one instrument the
letters would be recorded on the other it
would be a great step in advance of the
present mode of telegraphing. Some
time ago I saw the announcement made
that such an invention had lieen com
pleted, but as nothing seems to have
come of it I imagine that the scheme was
not as successful as at first announced.—
Luke Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
Terrible Process of “Marooning.”
4. Maroon—to put ashore on a desert
isle, as a sailor, under pretence of having
committed some great crime. ” Thus our
good Noah Vv ebster gives us the dry
bones, the anatomy, upon which the ira
agination may construct a specimen to
suit itself.
It is thence that the marooners took
their name, for marooning was one of
their most effective instruments of pun
ishment or revenge. If a pirate broke
one of the many rules which governed
the particular band to which he belonged
he was marooned; did a captain defend
his ship to such a degree as to be un¬
pleasant to the pirates attacking it he
was marooned; even the pirate captain
himself, if ho displeased his followers by
the severity of liis rule, was in danger of
having the same punishment visited upon
him which he had perhaps more than
once visited upon another.
The process of marooning was as sim¬
ple as terrible. A suitable place was
chosen (generally some desert isle as far
removed as possible from the pathway of
commerce), and the condemned man was
rowed from the ship to the beach. Out
he was bundled upon the sand spit; a gun,
a half dozen bullets, a few pinches of
powder and a bottle of water was
chucked ashore after him, and away
rowed the boat’s crew back to the ship,
leaving the poor wretch alone to rave
away his life in madness, or to sit sunken
in his gloomy despair till death merci¬
fully released him from torment. It
rarely if ever happened that anything
was known of him after haring been ma¬
rooned. A boat's crew from some vessel,
sailing by chance that way, might per
haps find a few chalky bones bleaching
upon the white sand in the garish glare
of the sunlight, but that was all. And
such were marooners.—Howard Pyle in
Harper's Magazine.
Eight dogs belonging to the Duke of
Sutherland are in Germany being treated
for the gout.
An Almogt Human Monkey.
Massiea was a female chimpanzee, ke
in the Dresden zoological gardens. Sffl
was but remarkable, in her disposition. not only in At her liabiwj nA
one
ment she would sit still, w r ith a bi\^S
ing air, occasionally darting amischievoB
glance at the spectators; at another, sfl
took pleasure in feats of strength, ■
roamed about in her spacious inclosu ® 5
like Massiea an angry beast frequently of prey. ungovemde. ^ j
was
She would obey no one but the dir tor
of the garden. Sometimes when she as
in a good humor she would sit upoihis^ tout
knee, and put her muscular arms
his neck, with a caressing gesture put, j ,
in spite of this occasional clemenc he
was never safe from her roguish trie-. vingS
She knew how to use a gimlet, handkeihief
out wet clothes, and put a
to its legitimate use. If allowed to <> so,
she would draw off the keeper’s lots,
scramble with them to some place ct ol
reach, and then throw them at his ►'ad.
Once she succeeded in opening theocki
of her cage, and, having done so, dole
the key. It was kept hanging. 01 the
wall outside, and Massiea, observii; it,
took it down, hid it in her armpit and
crept quietly back to her cage, Yhen
occasion again served her purpose she
easily opened the lock with her key and
walked out.
She died of consumption. Just before
her death she put her arm about the
director's neck, looked at him
kissed him three times, stretched out her
hands to him and died.—Youth’s Com
pamon.
Vegetable Pearls.
If has long been known that in some
specimens of bamboo a round stone is
found at the joints of the cane. This
called “tabasheer, ” and is supposed to
deposited from the silicious juices of
cane. Another curiosity of this sort is
the “cocoanut stone,” found in the.
endosperm other East of India the islands. cocoanut It in is, Java anc|
j ri g to Dr. Kimmins, a pure carbonate of
lime, and the shape of the stone is some
times round, sometimes pear shaped,
while the appearance is that of a whito
p C arl without much luster. Some of the
etones are as large as cherries, and as
hard as feldspar or opal. They are Very
rare iy found, and are regarded us precious
stones by Orientals, and charms aganst
disease or evil spirits by the
Stones of the kind are also found in the
pomegranate and other East India friits.
Apatite lias also been discovered in the
midst of teak wood.—Engineering,
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A
Conception as to Colors.
Experiments made by scientific nj
prove that much dullness of conception
to colors of shorter wave lengths, such
green and blue, exists among rude j
tions. Some aboriginal tribes of ij
have the color sense developed o^#
far as red, their knowledge of ymj
green, blue, being most limited and;
mentetfy; the uncivilized Damaras
give names to blue and green and
such colors need no names; while
Nubians are very indifferent to colors
middle and shorter wave lengths.
dullness in regard to shorter wave
is in sharp contrast to their ease inld 1
tinguishing red.
My own observations, which are nene^
sarily limited, indicate that average lqflfe wf
prefers red first and blue next; and
the shorter wave lengths are approacMI
differences his interest and jiower of distinguish! amtt| * I
become less, and only
the most highly cultivated are the soB
shades Most of color preferred or enjoj® B
women will agree with me that
average perception man when rivals he the matches barbarian in cq^U |j||
worsted
buys a bonnet. Experiments on a h HI mm
scale might result in proving that
color sense has been equally develope ill HR W
man and woman, but hardly that
Elizabeth lias reached Clarke superior in Home development.—Iw| Journal, 'mm
