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BY THE EGYPTIANS, AND HEBREWS. Bint* Are Regarded Differently New Then Formerly—\Torn Met So JIneh tar Ornament as for Their Intrinsic Value. Some Famous Rings In History. Looking at the exhibition of modern finger rings, the old timer is forcibly struck by the fact that, whereas in the good old days the decorative art and de sign were iduio-t wholly expended on the gold .baud itself,, modern jewelers confined themselves almost exclusively to combinations of valuable stones. It is a very nngratefnl task to spoil a ro mance, but cold trnth compels the ad- mission that this is a practical age. which looks largely to the matter of converti bility in rings, watches and valuable presents. Actors and actresses on their travels are seldom seen without a diamond pin, brooch, necklace or solitaire ring, be cause these articles represent a condensa- ' tion of money in small bulk and nu'de- predable form. The finest workman ship on the gold itself goes for nothing. Itis simply "old gold”—sold by weight. It was very different in "the days of old,” though there were plenty of pre cious stones available it they had been needed. The Pharaohs and their states men, the princesses of Egypt and their fa vored ' attendants, undoubtedly wore rings, for quite* number of mummies have been found with a dozen finger rings liberally distributed on the eight fingers, besides the indispensable thnmb rings. For it is a singular fact that for hundreds of years after the Christian era the custom still prevailed of wearing the' wedding ring and the masculine token df wealth and power on the thumb. KOYPTUN UINC1S. The ring is so frequently alluded to in the Old Testament as to make it plain that the greatest-importance attached to it, even in tho pastoral age. In Geu. xU, 42, it is stated that "Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand,” as a signal murk of favor. In Estb. iii, 10, mention is made of King Ahasnerns taking his ring from his hand and giving it to Hnman, and the context thows that certain written documents were “sealed witli tho king's ring.” Tho old tailo rings wero made of all sorts of material. Pliny mentions that iron rings were commonly worn by be trothed persons. It seems tolerably cer tain that rings of gold and silver were wom only by kings, princes and nobles, while les3 expensive circlets of brass, ivory, iron and porcelain or glass were wom by tho average citizen. The oldest gold Egyptian finger Ting actually preserved belonged to Ainu- nbph HI, who reigned over Egypt four teen centuries before Christ was born. Bings of the date of Osirtaaen and Thoth- xnes in, who were contemporaries of Joseph and Moses, have Seen fonnd, bat they are of common material and doubt ful authenticity. The scarabacos, a beetle which formed the Egyptian token of im mortality (from being a sexual) is a com . mon emblem in Egyptian finger rings, and one of Poe's most extravagant “tales of mystery, imagination nnd humor” has a well established foundation, so far os the senrabaens ring is concerned. It seems to bb tolerably certain that Egyp tian women wore as many rings as they could crowd on thoir fingers. \ . AI.TICrHT.OF KSC& The Egyptians and Romans undoubt; edly preferred tho left hand for ring pur poses, while Ocsar, Livy and^Tacitns all - seem to insist that the Ganls and Britons wore their rings on the right hand.' In any case, it seems to have been tacitly agreed: that the third finger v.-as the place of honor. The Hebrew rings worn in those good old days were very ornate Shd be, Quito a number of them havo been pre served, and they {Alt the art of the mod- em jeweler entirely to the blush. Tho most beautiful were the pledges of bo th rothal or wedding gifts. The ceremo nies in connection with these rings seem to he foreshadowed in the redemption process specified im Both iv, 7. The worfanaiishipof these Hebrew bethrotbal rings grew still more elaborate in the Middlq Agee, when towers and minarets -of gold were most exquisitely built np on the hoop. The Jewish bride of this era wore the wedding ring on the first finger, bnt in later days shifted it for convenience to the third!. .The oldVyle “gemmel” or "gemraon' ring(evidentlynssociatcdwiththoFrench Jnmeon jnmello, tmrommon, meaning “twin”) is not at all on object in col lections of antique rings. The meaning of the indivisible links is self evident. Usually at the marriage of the parties the links wero severed, each party wearing one of tho rings. George IV gsre a gcnuxel ring to Mrs. Fitz- berbert The toadstone ring was another - quaint mediieval conception. It was an outcome of superstition and died when superstition died. The idea of the toad- stone ring was to prefect mothers and ■mall children from the evil influences of the fairies. The smallest wedding ring over fashioned was that nsed at the mar riage of Mary, the "infant daughter of Henry VHI of EngiAd, to the Dauphin of France, son of Francis L The marriage was performed by Cardinals Wolsey and Gampeggio, tho bridegroom being 8 months old and the bride 1 year and 10 months old.—Boston GHobe. The Why of It. When some one bragged that only one ' public execution bad taken place in Turkey in five years, an Englishman in vestigated and discovered that no culprit who could raise $100 to bribe officials had suffered death daring the last twenty rears. There isalwayaagood rpasonfor anything that happens in Turkey.—De troit Frso Ppmb. Metallic llallrnatl Tin. •Metallic railway ties are by no means a new invention, although the railway companies of the United. States have been singularly backward in adopting .them. They were laid upon European roads as early as 1880. and since that time the npmbcr has increased, so that in 1890 no less than 10,222 miles of track were laid with them. In addition to this there were, in the same year, f,29l miles In Africa, 9,814 in Asia, chiefly iu India, and 3,788 in Mexico, Central nnd Sonth America; but in, tho - United States, a nation usually in the lead of nil Improvements, tjicro were only two miles, these having been pnt down us experiment. Quite aside from the ques tion of cost it would seem that that of safety alone is of sufficient importance to justify the substitution of a substan tial metallic tie tot the short lived wooden one, with its unreliable fasten ing. Three-fourths of a mile of track were laid with these ties - on the Chicago, Western and Indiana railroad in Chicago in October, 1889, and tho time elapsed has been sufficient to give results of some reliability. The ties were laid at a~point where tho ballast was light gravel, and tho traffic eighty regular trains in one direction each day, the heaviest engine weighing 90,000 pounds, with 15,000 pounds on each pair of drivers. Daring the time that tho ties have been down over 37,500 trains have passed over them, and the muuager stutes that the cost of this maintenance has been so small as to be hardly worth taking into consider ation.—New York Telegram. She Wui Too Eagrr. Awell known vocal teacher of. Boston, whoso reputation brings him pupils from all over tho country, relates that there once came to him a lady who onnonficed herself ns a music teacher from another city, and declared her intention of tak ing ti course of lessons. She asked bis terms, and pronounced them satisfac tory, nnd then went on to bilk about the time of lessons. . "You see,” she explained, "I have only ti limited time in Boston, anti 1 must manage so as to get tho whole twenty lessons into that.” “IIow long are you to lie here?” the other asked. "Three weeks,” she replied. "Twenty lessons in three weeks!" he exclaimed aghast "How could that bo done?” “Oh," she responded easily, “1 could take two lessons some days.” “Yes,” the teacher answered, "or yon might take the whole twenty lessons one after the other all at once. That would only take about ten hours.” The face of the lady brightened, “ Would you really be willing to give them to me that way?!' she asked. "Then 1 could get home inside of 1 ten days, and get. my advertisement as your pupil printed before the end of vacation.” And the amusing part of the story is that the woman could not be made to seo the ab surdity of her suggestion.—Boston Cour ier. Fiuldy's.Idea of a Microbe. Two sons of the Emerald Isle eat in the depot the other day, running from one current topic of discussion to another. They finally reached the subject of the great prevalence of sickness. “Are'n't yez afraid of typhide fever?" raid Denis. “Yis, I am,” replied Pat. “Fat?” “Yes, Dinny.” » “What aro thnse microbys uud germs the docthers are talking about?" ' Waal, I’ll toll yez my idee, Dinny. Them germs and microbys are pacatiar things. Flannigan was tollin', me about them. He aez they reaidd in tho wather. He was fishing Monday, and he polled np his line, begob, and found a microbe on it Ho ccz it Inked like a bullhead, bnt it had a paculiar face. He sez he threw it hack ofther he got over being ■cart Me own opinion ia, Dinny, that microbes are a paculiar kind of fish.” ■Begob, I guess ye’re r-’ There’s a good dale. . vailin’." • "Yes," repliei dale, Dinny. Ti complainin',"—A1 IUpUl«. Sevent; What the mamma creation today the r. mesozoic epoch. The) climbed trees and were jumpers. Some of ti While some were herb upon plants, others wer. preserving existence bydi * vegetable eating cousins, . ion reptiles were enormous . as much as seventy feet in lei afforded food for the carnh tiles, which were smaller than ivorous kind', just as lions ai nowadays are smaller than oxen. Though bigger, the vegetarian ores usually hud.no armor nor w> to defend themselves with. Their powerful defence was a kick, which livered with a hind leg fifteen fa length, was assuredly not by any me. to he despised.—Professor Cope in Wat ington Star. DOCTOR ACKER’S 'ENGLISH BLOOD ELIXIR New York is ahead of all the other cities if individual riches running np into seven or more figures are meant. It r York has over XfidO DmIcmUmm Often fhe Trouble. The variety of shoes which claim to follow the natural shape of the foot is almost as large as those that <lq not Some of these shoes are so absurdly brood at the toes that they give on im jrcsaiou that they were designed for a looted beast; others are ventilated in the sole. Bat, in spite of' all these orig inal and expensive patented devices, the fact remains that aa many people escape all afflictions of .the feet who wear ordin arily well shaped, hand sewn shoea-os those who adopt ecceatria shoes. It is evident that there is some other trouble besides the shape of the shoe that is work.—New York Tribune. Father—My dear girl, the lrst gowto yon got was only eighty dollars, bnt this one is ninety dollars. Is this worth ten dollar* mbre than the other? Daughter —Certainly, father. Just think how much Inter it is—Cloak Re view, r ‘T Git., on Wednes uy, July 1st. 1K91 the loll«i Ing over and unclaimed f M < igbt, forwhlth trail*porta tlou chaiges are due: lcnie<ir> goods anil leasee othlng marked Cook, McRae A Co., .Mamo, (in. C-arges. 2 hair*b.*rr< In vinegar,* market! Ncwbl 1 Bros, a Co.. Seville, Ga. Charge* fS.20. 1 tub premie marked .T W Well, Seville, Ga Charge 75*. I part sack corn marked K. & Co., Seville, a. 1 sewlt g machine mark'd T M Culpepper, Preston,um. Charge s '1.43. • 2 bundle- cotton lie-, no mark; 1 cotton planner bos, no mark; l putt sack flu mar* Ga.' 1 package tatli marked A. Peiklne, Ro. chefl* Ga. 1 bundle- bidding marked Lula Jor.cs, J o chelle, Ga. 1 sack pea* marked J. M. Vaughan, f o cnelle, Ga C'-arges 25#• 1 box clothing marked Geo. McAllister Rochehe, Ga charges 1 box marked F. w. Astray. 1 barrel crockery marked Mc^Iath *ros„ Plains Ga. 8 pcs. ‘241o. drain pipe msrkcR Col. Holton Abbeville. Ga. t lm’gtsfON*. 1 barret oil, marked Bowt-u Bros , Ab beville, Grt. * Charge* 12. 7 bun* It s cotton He- marked J. 1). Wynn, Abbeville Ga Charge* ?1 21. ‘ box H H good*. 2 Bends. 1 package " s, marked JoeMcholson, Abbeville. G Cbt.rgefl.57. 1 box groceries marked E I.alsby, Abbe* vllle.Ga. Charges25*. 1 wagon axle marked J. C. Carter, Rich land, Ga. Charges 25*. 2 keg* cider marked M. D. Rich?ird*on, Hichlund. Ga < barge* |2.21. •1 dozen plow fl d*-rs, l package callings marked Z. f. llavcick/ ltlc!.lanil, Ga. Charge - 75#. 2cr'ts Iron gales (2 beams short) marked C. Iron Works Mfy. W. ,V. Shipp, Cordele, Ga. C barges fl.OI. M barrel syrup marked R. E. Hull,Cordeie, Ga. 6harg' * oOf. 14 barrel R. oil marked Allen Kooks, Cor- 8 oases canned meat.marked A J Callahan, Cordeie, Ga. 4 barges 11#. 1 bd e. L. belting marked Williams A H , Cordeie, Gs/ Charges fl.lH. 2 kegs lard and 1 cun oil marked J W Taber, Cordeie, Ga. Charge* 50*. 1 stove arid contents, 1 pot, 1 kettle ard 1 bunule pipe, marked Jack Stubbs, Cordeie, Ga. Charges f 1.40 1 axe marked R Riley, Helena, Ga. Charges lsaw marked BUI Jones, Helena, Chatgcs 50#. „ 6 cases med,. marked A B Riggs, Lyons,