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The Block ol dry goo*** ° f H ;
Levi., on Bay ..reel, Brco—c*.
wa« consumed by S f e Mon ay
The buiM.ng wfl * <, ° ' n,lirtl
interior. H»U> .be «" d
were insured-
Mrn. Kitty diver, wife of the late
Col. J M. Oliver, of Perry, died Sun
day morning. Mrs. Oliver had been a
confirmed invalid fur several years
with rheumatism, and was a great
sufferer She leaves two brothers and
one sister.
The Wayne County Troop,
Company I, ot the First Georgia Cav
alry, has broken camp at Linder’s
Bluff, on Hie Ahamaba river, where
they bad been camping for a couple of
days and all members are benefited by
the trip, as everything was done ac
cording to military tactics, and the
same instructions were given and the
same duty performed as in the regular
state encampment.
Mayor Bribe’s circulating library has
opened up for business and hundreds
of the poorer people of Macon have
been enjoying an insight into thing
that have been bidden mysteries to
them and were reading magazines
and newspapers furnisied to them, as
the result of the thoughtful plan
evolved by the Mayor. It is Mayor
Price’s plan "to put a newspaper into
every home and furnish every home
with magazines and good reading mat
ter.
The many friends throughout the
state of Dr. J. A. Stewart will be pained
to learn that this distinguished physi
cian is critically ill at Conyers, and
grave fears fnr his recovery are enter
tained. The doctor is a confederate
veteran He entered the army from
this place as captain of a company of
brave men, and owing to valiant con«
duct was promoted to major. After
the War he relumed to Conyers and
resumed the practice of his profession,
and he has done an extensive practice
ever since. P. S—The doctor has since
died.
Ordinary's Advertisements.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
To All Whom it May Concern: J.
Chestney Smith, County Administrator,
having, in proper form, applied to me for
permanent letters of administration on the
estate of Mrs. J. D. Sherrell, late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of Mrs. J. D.
Sherrell to be and appear at my office in
Griffin, Ga., on the first Monday in April,
by 10 o’clock a. m., 1899, and to show
cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not t be granted to
J. Chestney Smith, County Administrator,
on Mrs. J. D. Sherrell’s estate. Witness
my hand and official signature, this 6th
day of March, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator
of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and en
tered on record, that he has fully admin
istered Miss Lavonia Walker’s estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said Adminis
trator should not be discharged from his
administration, and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in May, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
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OEIIM CELLS OF LIFE.
THEY RETAIN VITALITY EVEN AFTER
APPARENT DEATH.
A Startling Theory Showing That
Inatant Death I. an Impossibility
and That We May Be Coiiacioua For I
Some Time After Diaaolatioa.
“Yon often meet with the phrase
“death was instantaneous,” and you
believe it. but instant death is impossi
ble.
A professor has been studying the
subject, a man of renown in his own
world, and he has discovered certain
important data proving conclusively
that no one can meet with instant
death. He works out his theory on the
data afforded by the physiology of cells.
He states that no one yet has proved
the difference between a dead and a live
brain cell. When this has been done,
then we can more easily ascertain how
long a time elapses before the death of a
cell takes place.
But, first, what is a cell? Tc be brief,
both plants and animals —including, of
course, man —are built up of units, ele
mentary units, which you can only de
tect under the microscope. Now, each
tiny cell is a vital elementary unit. We
are nothing but highly developed results
of the individual vitality of huge quan
tities of these fundamental cells.
As this is undeniably so, how is it
possible, by simple decapitation, say,
to cause instant death in the millions of
cells which compose the brain ? It is
known that brain cells have their own
cell life and are liable to live a certain
time after they are cut off from outside
nutrition without the supply of any
blood whatever from the body. The
nourishment is supplied inside the cell
walls, and it can go on living after be
ing cut off from other resources.
From this argument it is clear to the
professor that these millions of cells in
the brain must continue to live after
death has apparently intervened —that
is, when death appears, but only on the
outside, to have been instantaneous.
After a man’s leg is cut off, or an
animal's, you can stimulate the nerves
for a long time, but you cannot do it
after the cells are dead. You cannot get
any response at all.
Electricity has been thought to be the
germ of life, but this is a fanciful the
ory when confronted with the new laws
as by research established.
The countless millions of cells of
which our bodies are entirely composed
contain the germ of life, and it is im
possible for these to bo visited with an
instantaneous unconsciousness.
You can take living cells from a pig’s
glands, and this same professor will
demonstrate to you that after these
glands have gone through their prepara
tion the cells are still living.
But the curious fact remains that at
present there are no data showing the
supposed length of time it takes for the
cells of the brain to empty themselves
of the germ of consciousness or life, but
it is certain that consciousness does not
cease immediately after, say, a head
has been cut off a body. The belief,
however, is that at least four or five
minutes must elapse ere death finally
steps in to arrest life.
It has been noticed in the case of a
decapitated head that the cheeks remain
red for some minutes after the sever
ance, a conclusive proof that the cells
are living.
The heads of decapitated animals
have continued to bite and snap at the
air for three or four minutes after sev
erance. This phenomenon is well mark
ed in the head of a tortoise separated
from the body. The life of the brain,
therefore, must be retained for some
time after the head is severed, from the
very fact that, though being separated
from the trunk, its nutritious blood and
gases, taken from the fund stored up in
the cells, are in sufficient quantity to I
carry on life, but for what exact period
is unknown.
Do the brain cells die simultaneously ?
No, because they have their own indi
vidual cell life. Our scientific friend
also makes the very startling statement
that in many diseases the brain cells,
although the person to all appearances
is dead, may live for three or four hours
after supposed death has taken place.
In the case of a healthy person being
hanged, seeming death is not instanta
neous at all. Organic motion is arrest
ed, but real death is certainly not in
stantaneous. The brain cells are the last
to die, and life is not really extinct un
til rigor mortis sets in, which, in the
case of a healthy person dying sudden
ly, is protracted.
Now, when it is known that an ordi
narycell lives after being removed from
a living body, why, then, cannot the
brain cells retain their life when the
conditions immediately surrounding
them are much the same as during their
previous existence?
The head of a chicken was ent off.
and after certain stimuli had been
made it opened its mouth and gasped
five minutes after its head had been
decapitated from the body.
The head of a certain animal was cut
off and found susceptible to light for
many minutes after it was apparent
ly dead A strong electric light was
held in front of the eyes and moved
alternately near to and far away from
them. The pupils of the eyes followed
the light in its movements, expanding
and contracting, that is to say. focus
ing themselves upon the light as it
moved backward and forward. It was
proved that the anima) was capable of
smelling by the use ort certain pungent
odors placed near the nasal organs—
and all this because the brain cells were
yet living
RiiiKing: Duck* Withoot Water.
Ducks don't need water to thrive.
There are many duck raising plants in
this country where thousands of the
fowls are bred each year for market and
where there is not even a puddle for
them to flounder in One of these farms
is credited with an output of 20,000
ducks a year
SUNDAY IN ENGLAND IN 1760.
The Pleasure Seekers Were More
Vumerons Than Charehcoers.
Would you like to know how the peo
ple of London observed their Sunday
150 years ago ? The churches were open,
of course, and there were two services
in every one, and in some there were
three; also the responsible and respect
able citizen took his family to church,
as a matter of course.
He made his apprentices go to church
as well and demanded the text when
they came home as a proof of attend
ance. Alas, he little knew that the
boys weie larking all the morning, and
when the congregation came out stop
ped the old women and got the text
from them I
However, those who went elsewhere
formed the majority. The fields round
the town were filled with companies of
men. called rural societies, who ram
bled about all the morning and dined
together at a tavern. The high consta
bles went their rounds among the vil
lages pretending to prevent profanation
of the day, but they were squared by
the publicans.
Informers were about threatening
publicans, barbers and greengrocers for
carrying on trade on the Sunday morn
ing unless they paid a little blackmail
A shilling was understood to meet the
case. Barbers sent their apprentices on
Sunday morning to shave the prisoners
in the Fleet for nothing, so that they
might get practice.
Children were baptized after after
noon service, and a supper was given
afterward to celebrate the occasion. At
this snpper the nurse, it was allowed,
could blamelessly get drunk.
The beadles of churches were bribed
by beggars to let them sit on the steps
and ask charity of the congregation
coming out. It was the best business of
the week. The rails before the houses
of gentlemen were crowded with beg
gars.
When the ladies got home after
church, they did not disdain to slap
their servant if dinner was delayed.
The fields between the Tottenham court
road and the Foundling hospital were
the resort of the sporting fraternity,
who were assembled to enjoy the inno
cent diversions of duck hunting and
cat hunting, with prizefighting, quar
terstaff, wrestling and other sports.
The pleasure gardens were open all
day long. Peoplfe crowded to them in
the early morning for breakfast and
staid all day. At 3 there was an ordi
nary, in the afternoon and evening an
organ recital; there was tea in the al
coves, and in the evening there was
supper.
In the evening, when they reluctant
ly came away, with as much punch as
they could hold, they formed them
selves into bands for purposes of pro
tection, while the footpads looked out
on the road for single passengers, or,
haply, drunken passengers, whom it was
easy and a pleasure to rob.
And this was the way of a Sunday
in June or July, 1760.—London Queen.
JAMES COULDN’T IMAGINE.
A Story That u New York Clubwoman
Tells About Herself.
Here is a gojd story which a clubwo
man tells about herself.
“At one time,’" she says, “we had a
colored butler who staid with us for
years, and who admired my husband
immensely. He thought that Dr. H.
was a marvel of manly beauty, as well
as the embodiment of all the virtues,
domestic, professional and otherwise.
Os course I quite agreed with the but
ler on this point, but the fact is I some
times pined to have him pass his en
thusiastic compliments around to the
family and not bestow them all on the
doctor. So one morning, when Dr. H.
had just left the breakfast table and
was even then to be seen, an imposing
I picture, as he stood on the front steps
drawing on his gloves, I remarked to
James:
“ ‘Dr. H. is a handsome man, isn’t
he?’
“ ‘Yes, ma'am. 'Deed an he is,
ma’am!’ with gratifying enthusiasm.
“Then, hoping to get a rise from
James, I added with an absentminded
air, as if I scarcely knew what I said,
but was just uttering my inmost
thoughts:
“ ‘How in the world do yon suppose
that such a handsome man as Dr. H.
ever happened to marry such a homely
woman as I am ?’
“Well, James just stopped short and
rolled his eyes and shook his head as if
he gave it up. Then he ejaculated:
“ ‘Heaven knows, ma'am!’ ” —New
York Sun.
I.lKfit From Sagar.
A phenomenon, the cause of which
has not yet been satisfactorily explain
ed, was described at a meeting of the
British association. Disks of loaf sugar
were mounted on a lathe and rapidly
rotated while a hammer played lightly
against them. An almost continuous
radiation of light was thus produced
from the sugar. It was shown that the
light did not arise from heating of the
sugar, and it is believed to be caused
by some change taking place in the
sugar crystals. The act of crystalliza
tion is known to be sometimes accom
panied by flashes of light The practi
cal bearing of these experiments is on
the question of the possibility of obtain
ing artificial light by methods as yet
untried.—Youth’s Companion.
A Poser.
Mrs. Jibbins (after gazing on a globe
in a shop window) —Well, nothing
won’t persuade me but what the
world's flat
Mrs. Trimmins —Well, Mariar, if the
world's flat, ’ow can yer account for
'Averstock hill?—London Punch.
Wan Gathered In.
Watkyns—What did you««ay to your
wife, anyhow, when you proposed?
B jones— W ell—l—er w ell—th e f act
is, Mrs. Bjones was a widow when 1
married her. —Somerville Journal.
TEA Table ETIQUETTE.
Quaint Custom* Oace (ibicrvrd fry
Knigliah Dameg.
Tea drinking has become very fash
ionable among ns of late years, almost
as ranch so as it was in England a cen
tury ago, but the prevailing customs
at the table are different. The “teacup
times of hood and hoop” had their own
etiquette, of a sort not likely to be re
vived. What should we think now of a
fashionable lady who cooled her tea
with her breath ': Yet Young says of a
certain bewildering Lady Betty:
H» r two red lips effected eephyr* blow
To cool the Bohoii liud inflame the beau,
While one white Auger and a thumb conspire
To lift the cup and make the world admire.
Again a passage in contemporary lit
erature shows that it was a lack of
good manners to take much cream or
sugar in one's tea. Says a lady of qual
ity to her daughter; “1 must further
advise you, Harriet, not to heap such
mountains of sugar into yonr tea, nor
to pour such a deluge of cream in. Peo
ple will certainly take you for the
daughter of a dairymaid. "
Ceitain other iu toms may be re
membered in this country among us
who had grandmothers trained in the
ceremonies of a later day. One of them
consisted in putting the spoon in the
cup to show that no more tea was de
sired ; another was that of turning over
the cup in the saucer for the same pur
pose.
Etiquette also demanded that the tea
should be tasted from the spoon, and
that the hostess should then inquire,
“Is your tea agreeable?” Certain serr.
pulous old ladies ask that now, and
the question savors of a more sedate
and gentle day than this. —St Louis
Republic.
AN EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENT.
The Head Bookkeeper Finally Bal
ance* III* Account*.
A south side man who is a clerk in
one of the Iwding banks on this side of
the river was in a communicative mood
last night. During a conversation about
various things he took on a retrospective
air and said, “There is nothing like the
faithful discharge of one's duties, but
it is sometimes an expensive experi
ment. ”
On being questioned as to the cause
of the remark he replied; “Well, it re
minds me of an experience I had while
employed in a prominent Fourth ave
nue bank. I don't mind telling it to
you. The head bookkeeper was a char
acter in many ways. Method was his
hobby. He had away of doing every
thing. and he never varied from the
rules he set down. Exactness in his ac
counts was a particular fad, and he
spared no pains in carrying his ideas
into effect. One afternoon in balancing
our books it was found he, was short 1
cent. We searched and searched, but
when it came to the usual time for go
ing home that cent was still missing.
“Do you think the head bookkeeper
would allow us to go? Not much. Sev
eral of us had engagements we wanted
to fulfill, but it made no difference.
Supper time came, and we were no fur
ther ahead than when we started.
Headed by the bookkeeper, we repaired
to a neighboring restaurant for supper
and then returned to work. After sev
eral hours the missing cent was found
and the accounts balanced. But in fig
uring up it was discovered that in
searching for the discrepancy of 1 cent
the bank had incurred a bill for suppers
to the amount of $7.50. ” —Detroit Free
Press.
All American Children.
“Do you not have trouble with so
many nationalities?” the spectator
asked of the principal of a large school
in the crowded tenement part of the
city. “Oh, we hang the flag over the
school platform,” was the answer,
“and have the regular exercise of salut
ing it, and the children become very
patriotic indeed. They will not own, in
most cases, that they are not Ameri
cans. ” “Yes,” said the other teacher,
“I often ask, ‘Will the German chil
dren in the room stand up?' The Ger
mans are more wedded to their father
land, api>arently, than other immi
grants, for a few though not by any
meanshhalosf —of them usually rise to this
invitation. ‘Now let the Italian chil
dren stand,’ generally brings no re
sponse at all, though the school is
crowded with them in my district. But
when I end up by saying, ‘Will the
American children stand up?’ the
whole schcolrises joyfully.”—Outlook.
A* to Providence.
A country parson went to see a hum
ble parishioner and, if possible, to com
fort him some little under heavy trou
ble which had befallen. The pastor
found the homely old man in his deso
late cottage alone. He said many
things, and added that he must try to
take all affliction humbly, as appointed
to ns by Providence.
“Yes,” said the good old man, who
was imperfectly instructed in theology',
“that’s right enough, that is. But
somehow that there old Providence have
bin ag’in me all along, but I reckon as
there's one above as 11 put a stopper on
he if he go too fur. ” Baltimore News.
Wanted Thein All.
Julia Ward Howe was once talking
with a dilapidated bachelor, who retain
ed little but his conceit. “It is time
now,” he said, pompously, “for me to
settle down as a married man, but I
want so much. I want youth, health,
wealth, of course, beauty, grace”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Howe, sympathet
ically, “you poor man. you do want
them all. ”
The right leg is far more subject to
accidents than the left. It has been
found that the ratio is alx>ut 13 serious
accidents to the right leg to three to the
left
The practice of kissing under the
mistletoe is of very ancient origin, as
it dates from the days of the Druids,
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