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Tallapoosa, and President
son says the balance of the route
be fixed upon in three months.
balance of the route is very
tant to LaGrange, Chipley and
ilton. If the Central R.R. is
this enterprise these points are
but it will be well for them to look
rv
The committee appointed to ex¬
amine the Savannah, Dublin &
tern R. R. will report
and will say that the road is
constructed. This will probably
up the effort at consolidation
Macon to LaGrange. The
seems to be that the project of a
road from Savannah to Birmingham
via Macon and LaGrange is at
without chart or compass. It
money and brains to build railroads.
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It is also rumored that a
will be built from Macon to Opelika.
Doubtful.
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One editor says wisely: “Pay
merchant, pay your doctor and all
other indebtedness, But Be Sure To
Pay The Printer,” and so thinks
Reader.
PERSONAL CHARMS.
How the DtliartlAD Theory of Develop¬
ment Beautifies Women.
What is the Delsartian method ?
If ladies ca cuitivation of
the voice, so Ci 1 converse
weetly mo trong and
deep tones, and by the same course
of training acquire grace of carriage
and the development of the chest and
lungs that insures health and adds to
personal charms, the methods em¬
ployed are worthy investigation.
So thought our reporter, who call¬
ed upon Mme. Gray, the noted teach¬
er of Oratory and Physical Culture
at one of our leading hotels.
As he entered the room a lady tall
but well proportioned came with
graceful movement toward him. A
well shaped head, crowned with a
wealth of iron gray hair, dark, brilliant
eyes, beneath finely arched brows,
were noted as she approached. When
she spoke it was with a voice sweet
and low, yet with a wonderful com
pass.
“What is the secret of this power
of vocal expression you seem to have?”
“Secret? there is no secret,” laugh¬
ed Mme Gray. “Time was when I
had one of the weakest and thinnest
ot voices. Any one can accomplish
what I have done. It is so easy to
acquire a full, resonant voice, that
will never tire or grow hoarse. All
vocal disabilities may be overcome,
hesitation, stammering, stuttering,
soon disappear under proper
ing.” the
“Does this training affect
ical system ?”
“Yes, it will develop the bust to
almost ideal perfection. Gentlemen
will add four or five inches chest
measurement in as many months.”
“It is desirable from a point of
beauty, then ?”
“Yes, ladies gam the roundness of
waist, taper of arm and hand, and
the perfect of poise, ease and grace
of movement, that add so much to
personal charms.”
“Health, I should think, would be
benefited, also?”
“Indeed it is. Lung and throat
troubles decrease, narrow chests and
thin arms are developed, and female
weaknesses largely overcome.”
“It seems to be a regular panacea?’*
“No, I am sorry to say that some
organs cannot be made good in this
way after they have been injured as
mine were by a sojourn near a south¬
ern swamp. Before I tried physical
culture and Warner’s safe cure I was
a confirmed invalid. I was con¬
sumptive in early life, and it is only
a few years since I overcame a seri¬
ous liver trouble. I owe much to
Warner’s safe cure, and I do not hes¬
itate to acknowledge it.”
“And the consumption tendency?”
“Disappeared after the use of this
remedy, and when I had learned how
to breathe. Not one in twenty breathe
in such a way as to fill all the air-cells,
to expand the strong muscles at the
base of the lungs,which should do the
labor of expelling the air. Hence, if
kidney disease prevails, the lungs af¬
fected by the kidney poisoned blood
soon give way.”
“Is not your system the Delsartian
theory?”
“Yes, and I greatly rejoiced when
this grand teacher gave to the world
his ideas. They corresponded to
those I had long taught, for I am a
pioneer in this work and have devot¬
ed life and energy to teaching the
world that women may gain vocal
accomplishments, health, grace and
beauty all at the same time by these
mothods of cultivation.”
“You are yet teaching ?”
“Yes, at the School of Oratory and
Physical culture at Syracuse, N. Y., a
permanent institution, now in very
successful progress.”
BUSY AS BEES.
‘‘Please sav ^ to the readers of the
JOURNAL that while are too , bus
we
to write an advertisement, we are not
, .
too busy to . give t tie tn a -
tion if they are in need of anything
in the way of clothing, hats, furnish
ine goods &C. Our stock is full and
complete r, ’and the great 6 rush upon us
IS . evidence that , our pr • or* ootic *
<
factory. Never before haue we been
so well assured of the wisdom of our
motto “Quick sales and small profits.”
Thus spoke the senior of J. K.
Harris scrib^as N Co Clothiers Columbus
to this he hurried off ft oat
tend a waiting customer.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Its History in Brief—A Popular Fancy,
A Welcome Celestial Event.
“Where can the Star of Bethlehem be
found?” is the oft repeated question that
comes from many quarters. The fact is 9
no such star is visible in any part of the
heavens. An observer with a vivid im
agination fancied he had discovered this
long looked for star, and announced its
return in some journal of the day. The
paragraph was widely copied throughout
the country. The idea pleased the popu
Jar fancy, was received with almost un
questioning faith, and the sky was eagerly
scanned for a glimpse of the star that
once shone over the humble dwelling that
enshrined the Redeemer of mankind.
Even the peerless Venus was impressed
into service, and was firmly believed to
be the sacred star once more shining
upon the earth after wandering for ages
in the star depths.
The history of the so called Star of
Bethlehem is briefly this: Tycho Brahe,
a Danish astronomer, discovered, in the
year 1572, an apparently new star near
Caph in Cassiopea. When first seen, in
November, it had attained the first mag¬
nitude. It increased rapidly in brilliancy,
until it rivaled Venus, and was visible at
noonday. It began to diminish in bright¬
ness in December, and continded to fade
away until the following May, when it
disappeared from view.
Forty years later, when the telescope
was invented, a small telescopic star was
found close to the spot where the won¬
derful star was seen, It is still there,
and is probably the same, It is now
classed among variable stars, and is,
therefore, liable to blaze forth at any
time in the same extraordinary manner.
After classifying the star as a variable,
the next thing to be done was to find out
its period of variability. Astronomical
records were searched, and it was ascer¬
tained that about the years 1263 and 956
bright stars suddenly appeared near the
same quarter of the heavens. It was,
therefore, classified as a variable, with a
period of about 309 years. Counting
back three periods from 956, the exact
period being uncertain, the star may
have appeared near the time of the Chris¬
tian era. Some imaginative observer,
for this reason, christened it the Star of
Bethlehem, and with scarce the shadow
of a foundation the name has adhered to
it ever since. It is also known as the
Pilgrim Star, and among astronomers as
the star of 1572.
If the star be a variable, with a period
approximating to 309 years, it is now
due and liable to burst forth into sudden
brilliancy at any time. No celestial event
would be more welcome to astronomers.
The scientific world would be wild with
excitement over the substantiation of an
ingenious theory and the confirmation of
its hopes. Its first appearance, its exact
position in the heavens, its changes from
day to day, would be telegraphed all over
the country and minutely described in
the journals of the day. The advent of
a comet, spanning the sky from the
zenith to the horizon, would be of no ac
count in comparison with the blazing
star! Meantime the telescopic star near
Caph in Cassiopea shows no signs of any
coming disturbance, and observers must
wait patiently for developments, remem
bering that the outburst will be sudden,
if it come.
it, i B generally considered that the ex
traordinary changes of light in stars, like
that of 1572, are caused by sudden out
jjgxsts of glowing hydrogen gas, which by
its own light and by heating up the whole
surface of the star causes the immense
increase in brilliancy. The spots, faculas
and protuberances on the sun give
some idea, on a small scale, of what may
be going on in other suns on a much
] ftr gp r gQgig, Fortunately, the new or
temporary stars observed by terrestrial
astronomers number only about twenty
four, an infinitesimal number wkiricm
pared with the boundless millions of stars
that shine with nearly unchanging.^*-
ness. The pi o* * 'u,\
that our sun >
j blazing stars.
millions of VC 1 tO €
! for millions oi vears ‘ he
observed froi hei 2 sy:
will be classer a , with a jer d
of about ole 1 r v eu q -^responding 'iitic
the cycle of e n spot Sole: Am r*
ican.
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A B Tickle Factory.
Fredericks! . r;; vn-» 1ms a big pickle
factory that i hip lied with cucumbers
from the lanes r.djMr ti e city. This
season the supply has reached UO,000,000
cucumbers, those er gaged in uieir pro
duction furnishing from 200,000 to
1,000,000 each. \i, aere_ will \ wxluce
100,000, and they iseH ' Fredericksburg
at eighty cent re 1 00- . The object ia
to get them i s inch oi an inch and a
half long, and Mm requires active picking
before they ; ate this size. A coy
will pick 3,0( in a oa y. J eking r -h to
thus early inc * it 3 prod act! ven^ of
the vine, an< wide the season
others are appearing in place of c xse
taken from th vines.— New York Su.
The Com'ooos Persian.'
The Persia s a very punctilious
race; and it is 1 Able easton of the
country, on n a.- call, to announce
beforehand that > re co.rim. A
thousand and on p ,i. II
have to be observ ; 1 A e rta numb
of cups of tea ar. de i aeur three pipes
at least have t > smoked, a rev,- whiffs
from each; the >nk and precedence of
every guest is rigorously observed, and
each visitor in r . aes for, and generally
receives, a littl i more than her due To
omit to return a .sit is au unpa donabri
offense. The p n ular place in the apart.
ment of each git is regulated to a nicety,
and many and briber are the feud or this
subject.—St. James’ Gazette.
Ignored by German Paper*.
In four pages of rws from alt { its of
the world in The Cologne Gaze te i ,-fra
a single line fr mi America, tel* ip, • ’ r j
emperor of Bra. iris departure foi E c 3
The case cited • not the exception but
the rule, not o: - with The Gazette, but
with all Germa papers which re: xi the
government’s prii-v. 7n> flnitec s area
are referred to at seldc i >rd as ri .eiri,
as possible, ana this in *pho of the fact
that there is scarcely a family in Ger
many which lias not a relative, a friend,
or an acquaintance here. If the German
chancellor could arran; 1 n map of the
world b) his liking, 1hc: •* v- .uld not !»e a
republic left on it.—St.' Ik publica?!.
The Speculj and tb - Bnfitl f>\.
The real esta agent n t the man a
the depot, who id invest d in the new
Dakota town by ail, ami after a twenty
mile ride across .0 pra* >e e.e said fi:
him:
“We are now xactly in fhecentfi
Metropolis City.
“What?” yelled the speculator, “I
don’t see but three houses!”
“Of course—I live in one, the news
paper is printed in another a r ’ the post
office is in the other.’
“And where are al the railroads I saw
on the map?’ ’
“Coming, sir, ail them c ming. No
mistake about it, V-• u r -1 u president
of each company.
“But are those >ts I b uT right .ere
by the poetoffice* ^
“Such questio makr me n- d N
sir, those lots by .** postoffi eare for \c r
chamber of conn oce, a..d ail the oi *
around here ai business lots.
bought resident* tota--ti.ey are N- no
the slough and over the hill, a v t nf
mile from here. You ion’t wanr u i -r
right in the hear of city, do v c 5
the way, I keep i h 1 as well r •
estate office—do yo. Iff . L
me to-night, or v ? J r id lay out'
want to stop with me y ou’ll hav<
towlwneo-^^t ^ lie the look.
