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AT— GEORGIA. ctory is to be pub soon, giving the names f 30,000 Chicago women *o various religious, bene >olitical organizations. The . compiled for the purpose of .fig the number of women in <:»go who wen interested in work not purely persona 1 aud to encourage them to i greater unity of effort. We learn from IklCs WeCdy Messenger (London,England) that Sir J. Ii. Lawes, the eminent agricultural chemist and ex¬ perimenter of Rothamslead, England, has devoted the handsome sum of $500,000 for the perpetuation of Lis invaluable field and laboratory experiments. The series of. investigations which were begun ■ nearly fifty years ago will therefore be continued permanently, the income of the money so munificently given for this purpose having been put in barge of nine trustees of the highest character,one >f whom will be the proprietor of the Rotliamstead estate for the time being. Thus the first experiment station in the world, both in existence and character, i os well as in usefulness, will be made a permanent establishment. Wolverines arc Ugly Customer*. Few "Washington people know what a wolverine is. They kxvA that Michigan is called the Wolvc.riile State and that j Michig. n people arc called Wolverines. ; But (bay have little or no idea why the state was so mum ;l or what the nickname menus. The Slide i named after an animal that used to in lest, and still frequents, : the dense woods in the northern part of - the State, as v.. ii as in the woods of j northern Wt e msin ami Canada, l’his ( miitnal is the wolverine, or, as the varie- I ties countries of him found called, in the northern glutton. European They j are* beasts, these wolverines j j are savage are, ,-uid they play sad havoc with the cattle , of the Michigan wolf farmers. They are The like a \ cross between a and bear. tail I'lid the temper r< semblt*. those of a wolf, J but in strength and size and savageness 1 they much resemble a bear, a very bud j bear. They are less clumsy than bears, though, and they can climb trees. Many n hunter lias walked under a tree up in , Michigan without looking for a wolverine ; in the tree first, and the wolverine . dropped down on him from one of the j lower limbs, and before the next morn¬ ing had him eaten up, buckskin breeches all, even to the heels of his hunting They are ugly looking beasts, the one pretty thing about them being their bushy tail,a foot or so long. Their claw s are longer and sharper than beam’, and their teeth just as sharp. They are so savage and so wary and that it is almost impossible to them alive, and so they don't have them in circuses and zoological gardens, and most people don’t know what they They are so savage that hunters cure to limit them, and so the wol verine has things about his own way where he lives.— Washington Critic. Laying Tracks by Machinery. An invention which promises to revo¬ the present method of railroad was put to a practical test re¬ 1 on the Green River branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Washington Territory. George Roberts is the inven¬ tor, and the trial of the new machine was made in the presence of the superinten¬ dent of construction, the chief engineer and about 300 railroad men. The ma¬ chine worked beyond the expectations of the inventor and to his entire satisfaction, the men laying at the rate of two aud a Rdf miles of track per day, and twelve intN doing the work of seventy-five by the Gd way. It handles ties and rails ol the he*vest kind—used in constructing mountain roads—with the greatest ease, placing them rapidly and accurately iu position. The machine is so constructed that it can be used on any ordinary flat car. All construction material is moved on rollers fma, the rear to the front, where Hie machine takes up the rails and the ties, laying them very rapidly. Whero the test was made the grade was aud difficult. The great success at “'e trial has caused the Northern -ure the refusal of the first •nventor is now arrang more machines to mtor receives a 'riraering and HORSES IN BATTLE. THE PART PRAYED BY WELL TR AINED ANIMALS IN WAR. They Enter Info ihc Spirit of the Fight as Fully as Their Riders— Quick new in {learning Buttle Cells and Evolutions. The Chronicle a few days ago noted the fact that the Government had paid Captain Jerome B. Cox $100 for a horse killed in the late war, twenty-seven years ago. It is interesting to know that the a ? imal which the Captain prized so highly then met death at the battle of Murfreesboro, with which Captain Cox’s military fame is most closely connected, for it. was here that Cox’s battery saved the day forRosecrans by holding an im portunt position at a critical moment against fearful odds, winning a place iir history which will be held while the story of the great battle shall last. It was during these critical moments, when the battery was pouring grape and canister into the ranks before it at the rate of six rounds a minute, that a shell exploded under Captain Cox’s horse with fatal ef feet, though the rider escaped unbanned. The horse was a well trained animal that had galloped over many a battle field, and was Captain Cox’s private property. Hi s claim for its loss was not presented after the war until too late, but a recent Congressional enactment reopened the way for his claim. “It is remarkable how quickly horses adapt themselves to the military service,” said Captain Cox to a Chronicle reporter. “ Every artilleryman knows that they learn the bugle calls and the evolutions quicker than the men, as a rule, For one thing, they very soon acquire a uni¬ form gait, which is about the same as the ‘route’step or the usual marching step, It the horses did not acquire the same gait as the infantry there would be vary ing distances between the different arms of the service—that is, between the in¬ fan try and the cavalry, artillery, and the commanders and their escorts. “In the drills in the artillery service t lit- horses will themselves preserve their alignments as well as the infantry, I shall always remember one illustration ol" this trait which 1 noticed at a very ex citing and critical period of a battle, fn order to save some of our infantry from being surrounded and captured, I quickly mounted the.cannoneers on the guns and put the whole battery at a dead gallop across a stretch of meadow about half a mil,. wide. I was quite accustomed to such sights, but when we were half way across the field I noticed the array, and for a moment I was lost in admiration of the magnificent picture. Every driver was plying whip and spur, the great guns were rocking and thundering over the ground, and every horse, risking with foam and full of animation and excite uient, was straining every muscle rt he galloped forward, yet it seemed to me that a straight line drawn along in front would have touched the heads of the lead horses in front of the six guns. That was an artillery charge, one of the most thrilling sights in the evolutions of war. “it is surprising how quickly they learn the bugle calls. After we had been in service some time, my first sergeant once asked me what call that was, as the bugle blew some command. ‘That’s a pretty question for you to ask,’ l said, ■llow in thunder do you know how to march V ‘I don’t know,’ he said, ‘but my horse knows.’ Let the first note of the feed or water call be blown, and there will be a terrible stamping, kicking, and neighing. Once, in a terrible storm, our horses and those of several other batteries broke loose, and there was a wild rush among the artillerymen to get homes in the morning. All was excitement and the horses were hard get, but when 1 or tiered the bugler to mount the stump and blow the feed call the horses all made such a made rush for our battery that the men could hardly get out or the way " quickly enough. “When it comes to battle a horse seems to know everything that is going m but he does Ids duty nobly, and seems to be in his element. He enters into the spirit of the battle like a human being. He shows no fear of death, and it is singular that if his mate is shot down he will turn to look at him and seem pleased A horse in my battery was once struck by a piece of shell, which split his skull so that one side was loose. The driver turned him loose, but he walked up to the side of the gun and watched the firing, and when the shot was fired would look away in the direc Hon of the enemy, as if to see the effect of the shot. When a shell would burst near bv he would calmly turn and look at it When he saw his own team going j back for ammunition he ran to liig own Place amt mdloped back to the caissons : with the rest When the Lieutenant pushed him aside to put in another horse he looked at the other one sorrow fullv while he was being harnessed up. ind~when he seemed to realize that there j was no further use for him he lay down ! md died. The Lieutenant strongly as- 1 jerted that he died of a broken heart. i “At the time that Adams’s. Jackson’s ! i Preston’s brigades charged me and at ajsboro some officer was killed, •Ves were driven hack. But the "s horse had not been taught j be did not. He just came ngh the battery, and I simply his grand. tie ' nostrils were ; rly blazed, and 'iis teeth as he came on. He came like the wind, and with his saddle-flaps flying he looked as if he were flying himself, instead of run¬ ning. Everybody gave him a wide berth, and I called to the infantry that I would give $100 to the man who would catch him, but no one tried it, and he is run¬ ning yet for all I know of him. 4 l I tell you I was sorry to lose Charley at Murfreesboro. He w as my friend as well as a faithful servant, and was as fine an animal as I ever bestrode. When he was shot I tried to get him to go on, but he told me plainly that it was all up with him,and I had to leave him where he fell.” —San Francisco Chronicle. Facts About Lamps. Oil has been burned in lamps for many centuries, but no real improvement in oil lamps was made until about lOOyearsago, or about 17S3, when M. Argand,a Swiss, who lived in London, invented the cylindrical wick and burner, which has since borne his nanie.^ Soon after the glass chimney was introduced and light¬ ing oil Ivas fully revolutionized. These two improvements multiplied the light to be obtained from a lamp, and by producing a perfect combustion of the oil obviated the smoke and bad odors previously inseparable from the use of oil lamps. Other improvements followed, one of the most notable being the placing of the reservoir of oil below the burner instead of above, making the lamp much more convenient. This was a discovery of Philip Girarde, a Frenchman, about 1S07. Another Frenchman, Cartel, con¬ trived a mechanism to regulate the supply of 'oil, but his contrivance was super seded by the moderator lamp, introduced about sixty years ago. Some further modifications of lamps followed the dis¬ covery of petroleum, but these are the principal features included in the lamps of the present day, the Argand principle being substantially unchanged .—Good Housekeeping. Salt as a Luxury. “Dr. Hibberd talks about paying three dollars (in California, where the gold fever first broke out) for five pounds of barley to make a feed for his horse,” remarked O. L. Divine, foreman of the composing room of this office, “and of paying three dollars for having hi.s*hair cut and being shaved. I have an experience in high prices that will beat that or anything that occurred during the last war. In the winter of 1854 I was in the mines on the north fork of the Salmon River, in North¬ ern California. The Salmon Mountains were covered with about sixty-five feet of No pack-trains could get in to us, ■•,d [>i •vision;; of all kinds were running hort. E : >i:r sold as high as two dollars pound. We were absolutely >ut of } 11 an ! the men were fairly wild hu>: icMichael, of Philadelphia, E he forks of the Salmon, 3 rummaging about he came hi*or ten small sacks of salt that had el.ni'l a partition in his store. I’he -R f, find spread like a prairie 1 oe was besieged with men itj = •ft. McMicliael said he f- E >t he could to make it go r- money would buy it. He iveig it out by the ounce, each paring an ounce of gold ud was then worth $16 an muci, so that he sold his salt at the rate I d r and everybody was — Ind■ ■napolis Journal. The Most Prolific of Authors. The most pretentious example of fecundity that the world has ever is to be found in the Spanish Lope de "Vega. His known are almost beyond computation, He thought nothing of writing a play in days, that even a copyist could not in that time. He dictated verses rapidly than an amanuensis could it down. Alight farce lie could in a couple of hours, and in the of his life he wrote more than two original dramas. Hallam cal that De Vega was the author of 21,300,000 lines. But oven arithmetic fails to convey to the mind the immense production of this remarkable writer, Some of his plays still hold the stage m Spain, though it is nearly three cen turiea since they were written, Defoe and Southey were the most voluminous of English writers, but their works are now nearly forgotten. Defoe's fame is enshrined in “Robinson Crusoe,’" while South, y's rests on his “Life of Nelson • and ‘ Life of IV e»ley, and then popularity is somewhat on the decline. • Chicago Herald. Cocoanut ~~~7 Talm 7 America, “ The m The cocoanut palm succeeds best near the seacoast, w here its leaves are occa siomillv moistened with saline fogs, This species of palm grows to a height of from fifty to one hundred feet, li j planted in a good soil it requires no after cultivation or attention. An immense ! number of these palms have already been ! planted along the coast of southwestern j Florida, but very few are as yet old enough to bear, and nothing certain can j be said of the financial success of these cocoanut plantations. The fresh nuts foi I planting are procured at various parts in Central America. Date palms may be raised from the seed or nuts taken from the pressed dates found in our markets at all times. Remove the nuts from the pulp and then plant in a sandy soil, eov ering them about one inch deep. As this palvu does not require very great heat, we should think it would thrive anywhere in Florida, provided it was protected from. severe frosts in winter:— JFteoY&rl San. WORDS OF WISDOM. Ignorance is the mother of all evil. That alone belongs to you which you have bestowed. No gift can make rich those who art poor in wisdom. Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson. The surest way to please is to forge; Due’s self and to think only of others. The more you practice what you know the more shall you know what to prac¬ tice. We attract hearts by the qualities wt display; we retain them by the qualities we possess. Laughter does not always indicate good nature; the laughin: hyena is the fiercest of ar a>. Time wil vvr ev iyi: ing to po 0 terity; it is shier, .ml -peaks when no question One of th <rre; > .........of trouble in this world i- the hulot v ople have ol talking faste than they think. It is not polling thine n the right place that both: irai so much as finding the re pi: after he has put things in it. Pay your bi : twi ■ r her than go to law. There an i & V V rs clamoring for the wrong a there are lawyers clamoring for rigl The prejudices of men emanate from the mind and may be overcome; the pre¬ judices of women emanatS from the heart, and are impregnable. The man who does good, and the man who does evil, are alike expected to hide their deeds; it is only the man who does neither who is allowed to boast. Most of the troubles of life originate from the habit of talking too much. The tongue is useful in its way, but it should be handled with as much care as gun¬ powder. We have heard a great many people admit that they were peculiar, but we believe we have never heard a man ad¬ mit a peculiarity that he thought was to bis dircredit. The Logwood Industry. The trim little Yankee brigantine Edith, of Boston, Captain W. G. Fostei master, was lying discharging logwood from Jamaica at Providence, R. I.. when the Journal's marine reporter strolled on board in search of an item. The mate gave him this information: lv This brig is a rcg’lar West Indiaman; that’s what she was built for. She has carried many cargoes of sugar, molasses md melado—melado, yes; melado is a combination of sugar and molasses much ike that we call molasses sugar.” Melado, when refined produces various grades of sugars and sirups. Logwood, the sap or juice of which is extracted very largely for purposes of dyeing in different colors, grows in swampy places on low lands and is the other branch of the business. The trees are shaped somewhat like elm trees, with large branches, but these are more tortuous and kinky—much more clumsy looking, in fact. The leaves of the foli¬ age do not grow with any luxuriance, but are dwarfed and grow close to the limb; they are slimmer and longer.. The natives, in securing the wood, cut down the trees with huge, heavy-headed axes, like beetles, and Cut off the bark md sapwood with these and with machetes, long cimeter or cutlass-like knives. The heavy heads of the axes assist them in breaking off the limbs when nearly severed, and they proceed ten cut these into convenient lengths. The heartwood. which is red (the sap wood is yellow), is used for dyeing, and is piled up and carted down to the shore or quay, where it is piled up by the natives. The carts are of very rude construction, with clumsy, ungainly wheels made by the natives. If the ship is to be loaded lying off in the harbor,, the logwood is loaded in canoes carrying two natives, who handle the wood from the canoes to rhe ship. The canoes are “dugouts,” cut from the trunk of the cottonwppd tree. The natives have cut down ail the trees near thy shore, and now have to go from three-yfeu gJsj.1 four,, to even ten. miles inland to finjl wood. The?older- growth is the lief i. ^ The HJytians are said' to be a lazy, shiftless set,, and addicted to drinking cana or sugarcane rum (pronounced canya), and fond of vondoo worship. Human saarifices ’of infants even arc said to be a part of their weird wor ship. ) Congress Gaiters the ideal Shoe. Button and lace shoes not only , going out of‘style, but out d^se. The only thing that can save the Xce shod ; will be the invention otta fast&mg. foi die ends of the laces winch will no awaj j with the tie and at the same time be j popular. There nave been seieral rnven turns ®f tms kind, but none oi them , were practical. The principal rouble i with the gaiter hitherto ha- been the bad quality of the rubber used m the elastic sides or gore?. Tneseare now being made with a new kind of rubber, invented by a Connecticut man, called “Kelgum. It is made of vegetable oils, and is said to be much more durable than the rubber that has been used. The gaiter is |>opu lar because it can be piit on and taken%fi. so much more rapidly than the styles of shoe, and physicians recommend its wearing because it does not weaken the ankle as tie lace and button shoes do. 1 — St. Louis GiWjt Democrat. | I UNAPPRECIATIVE. How little we are apt to appreciate that which we possess. The hardy wood-sawyer envies th* wealth of his employer. The rich man envies the health and strength of his poor neighbor. “Our mind and our time we employ In longing for what we have not, Unmindful of what we enjoy.” How much better if all exerted themselves to ob¬ tain their heart’s longing. If poor in purse seek to gain wealth by industrious and frugal habits. If poor in health seek to use those remedies which are the best and truest medicines. Among remedies sold by druggists none is the equal of Botanic Blood Balm for curing the ills of flesh and blood. Felix Foster, Atlanta, Ga., says: “I took B. B. B., for several foul ulcers, which had given me much trouble and would not heal from a use of ULCERS other remedies. Within ten days my health improved, and before I had used three bottles every sore was entirely healed. It improved my appetite and gave me flesh and strength.” Hudson Clark, Camden, Ark., says : “I was af¬ BAD BLOOD flicted with the severest form of rheumatism for about 12 years, and suffered extreme misery during all that while. I also had catarrh so bad it almost stopped CATARRH my breathing through my nosa. My flesh in some places looked as if it had been charred or scalded. My back was sc lame I could hardly stand. I tried nearly every RHEUMATISM thing but found no relief until I tried B. B. B. I used several bottles and am now as sound and well as any man in Arkansas.” J. W. Messer, Howell’s Cross Roads, Cherokee County, Ga.- writes: I was afflicted with chronic SORES sores nine years, and had tried many medicines and they did me no good. I then tried B. B. B., and eight bottles cured ace sound and well.” (6) S. G: RILEY Physician anti Surgeon. HAMIXTON CEOlMilA. Office at the Drug store of Riley & Wil¬ liams. Calls promptly attended day or night. II. II. P. Is an old reliable family medicine, that lias been proven invaluable for Liver and Bowel complaints. Guaranteed to cure Sick Headache. Indigestion, Dyspep¬ sia. .Sour Stomach and Heartburn. Taken regurlarly it will cure the most stubborn ease of Habitual Constipation. No Cure, no pay. Mau’f by the Barret Drug Co. For sale by Riley & Williams. GILDERS LIVER PILLS. These Pills are justly the most Cele¬ brated and highly Recommended of any on the market today. Gentle but Effect¬ ive in tiieir action, as a cure for Contipa tion, Liver Complaint. Biliousness, Indigestion, etc; they are unsurpassed. All we ask is a trial, if you are suffering from any of these Complaints. GUARANTEED, and Man’f by the Barrett Drug Co. Augusta Ga. For sale by Riley & Williams. I, W. HOWARD & CO., 1441—18 1st Avenue, Coliimlras, <i». -BUY RISS AN I HIDES, D id Cotton, Ba“fgi ug-, Furs, Beeswax,Old Metal, cttoii in the Seed and Gotton Seed —And dealers in— Stationery,Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags, Time, E-c. Orders Promptly Fi 1 ! ed, P RiCKLY ASK BITTERS One o? the most important organs af t fctsman body isthe LIVER. Whenitfail; ijroperly perform its functions the enb system becomes deranged. The BR£!" KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all reu lo perform their work, DYSPEPSIA, CO STIPATI0N, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY D“ EASE, etc., are the results, unless so* thing is done to assist Nature in throv in?, off the imparities caused by the inac i<m ol a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary wil! be found in Prickly Asb Bitter; ! It acts directly on the LIVER. STOMaert and KIDNEYS, and by :!smild and cathartic effect and gcaergi tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and cures ;fii diseases arising from these causes. M PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health, if yo*. druggist does not keep it ask him to order 'd !or you. Send 2c stamp tor copy of "TsE HORSE TRAINER.” published by us. Pf|SQJ(LY ASH BiTTERS CD., _XL——- ■ ’ ST. LOUIS, 250. _ ftgg To Sewing-Maohinc establish 1 * at once h trade in all parts, Wad ifi and placing poods our where mach the ines people can sea them, we will send f'ree to ona s person sewing-machine in each locality,the veiy fm I Rthe [ * best world, with all the attachments. made in | £8 Jfcline J| We will of our also costly send free and valuable a complete art j* mjlyOs «show imples. what In we return send, we to ask those that who yon raa v call at vour home, and after 3 iTJl ’ V months ail shali become your own 1 ITv ^^gnaadr Rproperty. This prana xnachi patents. me is , nB/mwhich after the Singer L have run out: before patents ^ ^ —■attachments, ranoutitsoidf. and i now sells w *th the for f «!£££ psSf I,IICL if ful •ST>0. machine Best, in strongest,most the world. All use¬ is a free. No capital required. Plain, ’ r :*f !.'irracti*'ns jriven. Those who write to us at once can §e c-.re tree tiw* best sewing -machine in the wretd. and the ■ .,^i» »f *vurk« of hicrh art ever shown together in America. i libfi A CO., Box Aufrosta, Main**