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PROFESS lON A L CARDS.
jji{. t;. V. «ANPMA
DENTIST,
McDonough, Ga.
Any one desiring work done can he ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails,
lerins cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Geo W. Betas j W.T. Dicken.
BRYAK & MCKHK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
vVi 11 practice in tiie eounties composing
.fee Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of tfeorgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
j If. TI BYHR,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
ilie Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-1 y
|* J. REAGAN,
attorney at law.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia j
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octo- 79
A. UROWN,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
jy A. pr.EPI.FA
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamutok, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Out 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel.
RTEWART A WANIIII,,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Gkikkin, Ga.
| |K. It. ABNOML
Hampton. Ga,
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country, Will attend all calls night and
day.
LA If CARD.
1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, hut
will continue my practice in Henry county,
Attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will tie in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room -26, Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
January Ist, 1885.
ALL
Notes and accounts of 1). KNOTT A CO.,
must lie settled now. Please call on me at
tte old stand and find out your in- elited
ness. We need tiie money and know that
vou cannot censure ns for giving this, our
last warning. M. C, LOW E,
Tax Aiitire-Second Hound.
Hampton. Monday Oct. 28
Sixth, Tuesday “ ”9
Stockhridge, Wednesday “ 30
Shake Rag, Thursday “ 31
Brushy Knolib, Friday Nov. 1
Loves’. Saturday
Tussahaw, Monday “ 4
McDonough, Tuesday “ o
McMullen’s, Wednesday •’ 6
Bersheba, Thursday “ 7
Sandy Ridge, Friday
Locust Grove, Saturday “ 9
Lowes', Monday “ D
SOLOMON KING, T. C.
till IFF IN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
\\Te announce to the I’ubl'c that we are
\ V prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers : will take orders tor all kinds of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engine*, Boilers pod Ma, inn
erf, genera’lv. Me keep in stock Brass
fitting* of all kinds: also Inspirators, In
jector*, Safety Valves, "team Ullages.
Pipe and Pipe Fittings ami Iron and Brass
Castings of everv Description.
ONBOU.Y & WAUOTT,
AN OLD RIVER SPORT.
Oeor|fc Dctol, ** Oner Famous Gambler
on tliv MltfUsippi Steamboat#.
A representative of a generation
fast dying out was in Memphis the
other nav. It is a generation of men
that flourished and decayed with the
steamboat interest on the southwest
ern rivers, and though not commend
able from tiie moralist’s point of view
they were an interesting part of life
from Cincinnati to New Orleans a score
or two years ago. Tiie visitor was a man
of 60. well preserved and stoutly built,
with hairy, muscular hands; a big
head, from which time is plucking
the strands of sandy hair; a short
beard of the same color tinged with
gray, and gray eyes, with the quick,
keen glance peculiar to men who have
carried their lives in their hands and
who search in that swift moment the
features of people they meet for the
first limn. It was George Devol, an
IshmaeiTte of the lshmaelites. for
forty years the king of river gamblers,
who in ins eventful career has seen
more of the seamy side of existence on
and along the Mississippi than any
other living man, and whose name is
as familiar ns pig tracks U> ;>eople
who have traveled ou the great river
before and since the war.
“Everybody gambled,” ho said, as
sat in the olhee, “and all had stull' to
lose. 1 handled every sort of tools
them days monte, faro, roulette,
short cards and everything you want
ed to bet on. I bad the ‘privilege’ ou
all the big boats runniu’ out of Or
leans, and it wasn't much of a week
when 1 didn't 1 draw out live or ten
thousand. Now I’m glad to get a hun
dred sellin’ a book, it was the monte
that used to slay the most lambs,
though. It wasso simple, you see, and
they all just knew they could beat it.
It caught the fellers with the big wal
lets tiiat thought they could bust any
little machine like that Did they
ever bust it? Well, not as I remem
ber. It wasn’t built that way. Yes,
I’ve been a pretty hard one.
“One thing 1 can say that lots of
men that think they are better than
me can’t—l never beat a friend, or
anybody that 1 knew and liked. I
never would give up money that 1
won when there was a bluff made,
but many’s the thousand dollars I've
given back to men that couldn’t af
ford to lose it, and many’s the time
I’ve given back diamonds and such to
ladies on boats when their husbands
would lose’em to mo. Eights! Well,
rather.
“I’ve been cut and slashed and shot
all over, but I’m here yet. you see.
Look at that gash on my throat; see
that wrist shot all to hinders; and
there's plenty more signs where you
can’t see ’em. My main holt in a
rough and tumble tight was buttin’. I
win most of my fights that way. I
never wanted but one pass at a man
anil I haul him. My head’s as hard as
iron. I’ll bet money that I can split
the skull of any nigger in America,
and there’s mighty few doors I can’t
bust in. Of course, I wouldn’t be here
if the steamboat men hadn't been my
friends. I stood in with the barkeep
ers and mates and pilots, and the ofli
cers liked me ana wouldn't see me
hurt by a mob if they could help it.
Still, I’ve had to take water more than
once to save iny bacon when there
was a gang after me.
“There are just as many suckers on
the big Atlantic liners as you can lind
anywhere on earth, and they are gen
erally well fixed—tour of Europe and
all that, you know. I’ve worked ’em
many a time to the queen’s taste. The
purser stood in with me. I’d go aboard
and put my tools in his office and he
would point out to me the passengers
most likely to bo worth my while. 1
always put a stock of good liquor,
wines and cigars iii my state room
and after I got acquainted I would in
vite the fellers in to sample ’em, and
then I had the game in my own hands.”
—Memphis Avalanche.
The Dreaded Man with tlio Lantern.
“One of the greatest terrors in the
oil regions,” says an old lime operator,
“is the man with the lantern. Holms
been the cause of more needless con
flagrations among oil wells than any
other thing, and has cost the region
■millions of dollars. He is usually an
employe about the wells, and nine
cases out of ten a man of experience
and intelligence, but he will persist in
taking the chances in paying a visit
nowand then to some g:-s enveloped
tank, carrying his lighted lantern
with him. Tho result isn’t always dis
astrous, but that isn't the fault of the
man with the lantern. Usually an
explosion results. If a destructive
fire does not follow the explosion the
fact will 1h: without precedent. Some
times the cause of a tire of this kind
will not be quite certain at first, but it
only needs a roll call of tho employes
of that particular property and tiie
taking of an account of the tool house
stock to ascertain the cause. There
will be one employe short, and tho
number of lanterns will be loss by
one. Then it is known that the mar
with the lantern has been walking.
He always disappears on occasions of
this kind, anil instances are rare when
even a piece of his ear is ever found.
But he is uot iii ad. The man with the
lantern never dies in the oil regions.
He will be sure to walk again not
long after he has disappeared, and
will continue to walk at disastrous in
tervals as long as oil wells last.”—
Philadelphia i .ess.
Why Mortar Harden#.
Jntil very recently it was held by
most engineers and architects that tho
solidification of mortars took place in
consequence of the absorption of car
bonic acid gas by the lime during tiie
process of crystallization, but it has
been fairly objected to this theory that
the quantity of carbonic acid gas con
tained in tile atmosphere which could
be brought into contact with a large
body of cement would not suffice to
saturate the latter. The generally re
ceived opinion on the subject now is
that lime hardens simply in conse
quence of the combination with water
whioh takes place during the slacken
ing, and that the rapidity of the set
ting and the permanence of the newly
formed hydrate of lime depends upon
its being combined with some other
Lit, the pure hydrate of lime is, in
fact, soluble, the hydrated silicate of
lime is tolerably insoluble, but it form*
slowly, while the hydrated double sil
icate of lime and alumina, or of lime
and magnesia. are practically inanln
mcdonouoilga., Friday.November,a»,who.
bie. 'I his muj 7 be taken as an explana
tion of the general conditions which
arise, but the obscure subject of the
chemical action which takes place
under the influence of high degrees of
temperature has not yet been tlior
ougty investigated, and offers a most
interesting livid of exjierimont and re
search.—New York Star.
WAS HIS NEW WIFE A WITCH?
The OKI Man Thought So, but Was Soon
Quieted of Ilia Fean*.
Old man Bill Buggs had for some
time been a widower for the second
time. lie grew tired of single cussed
ness, and as he is so ugly none of the
Tallahassee girls would have him. The
old man grew desperate and advertised
in a matrimonial paper of Chicago
for a wife. Ere long he received a
dainty missive through the mail. It
contained the photo of a witching,
black eyed maid who wanted a home
and did not require youth and beauty
in a husband.
It did not take them long to fix up
matters, and now she is queen at the
old man’s country residence. Bill was
delighted with his third draw in the
matrimonial lottery. She is domestic
and quite handy about the house,
comely of person, and of a naturally
happy disposition; but wbat worries
Bill is that she will not breathe one
word of who or what she was before be
coming Mrs. Buggs. The old man is
somewhat superstitious, is a firm be
liever in witches, ghosts, spirit rap
pings, etc., and his wife# silence as to
herself tore him all up in the mind.
The other night Bill awoke with a
start. A shadowy form was Hitting
around his couch, and in its out
stretched hand was some vessel in
which burned a ghostly blue flame.
By tho light of tht blue and mystic
fire Bill saw that the shadowy form
was that of his new wife. She was re
peating in a soft solemn tone words
that Bill could not understand. His
heart thumped loudly against his ribs.
He felt as if he were shrinking small
er and smaller. His eyes rolled and
he tried to draw in his head as would
gopher. Was his new wife a witch, of
which ho had read so much? Was
she working some unearthly charm
about him?
What was he to do? Tho mystic
Mire came nearer his face. Now it was
immediately over his head, lie
thought ho saw a long, blue tongue
of flame leap downward as if to con
sume his pent up breath. lie gave
vent to a fearful yell, straightened
out with such force that the foot
board of bis bed was shivered into
pieces, and leaped out and into a cor
uer, where he shivered and moaned.
“What’s the matter, you old tool ?”
screamed Mrs. Buggs, almost as fright
ened as he.
“Oh, please don’t witchcraft me,”
moaned Bill. “I’ll do anything. I’ll
give you a deed to tho farm. I’ll buy
you a new bombazine dress. Oh, I’ll
do anything if you'll only put out that
infernal ghost fire and let me alone.”
“Shut up, you old crack headed
idiot I Como right hero and nail this
bedstead together again,” snapped
Mrs. Buggs. “If you had the sense
of a dead frog you would have known
that I Was only burning camphor to
get rid of these blamed mosquitoes.
Witchcraft, indeed! What do you
suppose I know' of such things?”
“Oo oo —oo!” puffed Bill. “I
wasn’t scared. You spilled some of
the fire down my neck; that’s all what
was the matter with mo.”—Tallahassee
Floridian.
Impartial.
It is a common experience for edi
tors to reject their own manuscripts,
but they do not often go about it in so
methodical a fashion as did a man of
whom Tlio Boston Transcript tells a
story, lie was a newspaper editor,
and one day wrote an article of a light
and entertaining character, suitable,
as ho thought, for some magazine.
lie kept it by him for a while, occa
sionally reading it over and retouch
ing it, all the time uncertain whether
it really had any particular value.
Finally he hit upon a plan for get
ting his own impartial judgment, lie
would mail to his own address, receive
it and road it in the regular course of
business, and see bow it would stand
the test.
He addressed a note to himself as
editor, inclosed stamps for a reply,
and sent out the manuscript, just as if
lie hud been sending it to The Atlantic
or The Century.
The envelope reached him early in
the afternoon, but, as usual, he* al
lowed it to lie for some fime upon his
desk unopened. Toward night, when
weariness had brought him into a de
clining mood, he took up tiie parcel,
and read the proffered contribution.
Apparently ho succeeded in judging
it without personal bias. At all events
be picked up one of the ofiicial letter
heads, wrote a brief note to the would
be contributor, inclosed it with the
manuscript in a big envelope, and
dropped this into tlio mail box.
Next morning lie received this en
velope, with the restof his letters, and,
on opening it, read with great interest
this note:
‘‘Unavailable. Too discursive arid
trivial in its tone. Should have been
elaborated with more cam Many pas
sages not needed for the presentation
of the idea. Contains promise, how
ever; the author is advised to try
again. ”
How Papen Are Head.
“It is peculiar how personal charac
teristics manifest themselves,” said an
elderly gentleman in the elevated cars
to his equally elderly companion,
’and perhaps not the least noticeable
is the way different people read news
papers, especially in public convey
ances. Everybody has his own pet
way. Take the way th< -j#iiold them.
Did it ever strike you in how many
different ways this can beandisdonei”
This peculiarity had never struck
his friend, so the elderly gentleman,
who wore a shining silk hat, a pair of
gold rimmed spectacles and a white
lawn tie, continued his aphorisms.
“Just look across at those men on the
other side. No two are reading their
papers in the same way.” The eaves
dropper at his side also looked across,
and the observation was true. One
man had doubled his sheet, another
had made it into a quarto, still an
other bad folded it into three straight
sections the full length of the column.
“1 have found,” continued the ora
cle, “that a large proportion of the
men read tbepafiprs folded in half. tij,e
.itirvrr.-r section '(Wli come next, and
‘tnu full length socHnnists next. It is
ro.reh you see two-men sitting side bv
sale reading a pajier ibo someway.
There was a momentary pause filled
by the rustle of some assenting news
paper, and the orach) again remarked:
“ The way of holding a paper shows
the man as surely as the way he
walks. The refined, educated man
carefully crosses his paper, sees that it
is in compact shape, and then goes
systematically through it, passing
from column to column and page to
page, with ease and facility, whereas
the shiftless, uncouth man bunches
it into wads and goes through it as if
hunting for something in a rag bag."
—New York Times.
HOW TO COLOR A PIPE.
A rolmrconlat Givun a llpporlur So*m»
puiutH m Unrolling a JHporM’ltmnn.
“Now, I have about ns good a nicer
srhaum pipe ns one wants to see,” said
the writer to a tobacconist and pitie
maker, a foreigner, vi ho learned nis
trade in Vienna, by the way, “and 1
want to know howl shall start in to
color it."
“It is well you ash i?id If you don’t
know,” was the reply, “for if yon at
tach anything more than a sentimeut
al value to the pipe you can just about
double its value by careful coloring.
"Meerschaum pipes need about as
much care as a baby. First of all you
must get a false bowl, that is a bowl
of brier wood or meerschaum which
vou must fit into the top of your pipe.
Don’t use tho lower bowl for smoking
at all, but the false one, or you may
burn your pipe and almost spoil it.
Then, too, you must keen your pi]>e
case well brushed out. If pieces of
tobacco are allowed to get in it they
harden and scratch the pipe all up.
And you must keep tho pi]>e wiped,
too, for tho same reason, and also so
that it won’t have u dirty look. Your
false bow 1 must be wet just a little on
the inside before you use it, and lie
smoked very carefully until it gets a
crust, or you will have to throw it
away and get another.
“i’lug cut tobacco is the best to use,
as it is not as hot as most line cuts and
is uot as likely to burn the bowl."
“Isn’t a meerschaum pipe ruined
after it has been? burned once?” asked
the writer.
“No. That is a mistaken idea. If
you burn your pipe so that you find it
won’t color any more, bring it in to
us and we will boil it in wax, and
then you can try your luck again. All
meerschaums are boiled in wax; and
when a pipe is overheated that waxy
polish on its surface disappears, and it
looks (hill and chalky. In making a
carved pine they cut out the design in
the rougn and boil the pijie in wax.
Then they finish the carving and boil
it in wax again, and the pipe is really
for market.
“Now r , here is a pipe in the shape of
a woman’s head, with a wreath of
flowers across the forehead. The
wreath, you seo, is white and chalky,
and the rest has tho familiar wax fin
ish. That is because, the wreath was
curved after the pipe had been boiled
in wax the second time; in carving
the wreath the workman cut below the
wax finish. When the pipe is colored
the wreath will remain white as you
see it now, and the effect will bo very
fine.”
“Where are the moat meerschaums
made?”
“In Vienna. Pipe making is a trade
there and there are very few first class
pipe makers outside Vienna andPestli.
American work is often pretty, but it
lacks the finish of the European.
Foreign pipes are lighter and more
graceful tlmn the American.
“In a first class pipe half of the
value ought to be in the amber; but
both meerschaum and amber are of all
qualities. For instance, one bundle of
meerschaum may be worth SSO, while
another exactly the same size may be
worth SSOO. The lighter the better is
the general rule.”
“Where do you get most of your
meerschaum.”
“We get most of ours from Asia
Minor, where it is mined, the town of
Fouish furnishing the principal sup
plies. The Austrian merchants buy it
at Smyrna. Meerschaum is also found
less abundantly in Greece and some of
the Grecian islands; in Moravia and in
Morocco, where it is used when fresli
as a substitute for soap. A variety
used as a building stone is found in
South Carolina. Its name, ‘meer
schaum,’ is the German for sea foam,
and is given it only because of its ap
pearance.
“An imitation meerschaum used for
making pipes is made of hardened
plaster of Paris, treated with paraffin
and colored bv gamboge and dragon’s
blood. The French also use as a sub
stitute for meerschaum a preparation
made chiefly of potato. The artificial
meerschaums cannot easily be distin
guished from the real, but they aro
usually heavier and freer from blem
ishes, caused by the presence of foreign
minerals in many genuine meer
schaums.
“By the way, that new pipe of yours
is now worth from sl2 to *is, Color
it up well and in two months you can
sell it for $25. Yes, tips false bowl
will cost you twenty-five cents.”—Bos
ton Globe.
KTlJiernfflfs tbfl Silkworm.
If Moussa Effendi Khouri is right,
the value of silkworm* will soon be
very much depreciated. This gentle
man is a Syrian and a native of Bey
rout. For years he has been trying to
manufacture silk without the aid of
silkworms, and now he claims he has
succeeded. He has patented his in
vention in the east and in all the
countries of Europe. In this country
he has also filed an application for a
patent.
After studying for a long time the
manner in which silkworms do their
work Moussa Effendi Kliouri came to
the conclusion that quit.) a line silk
could be made out of the twigs and
bark of the mulberry tree, as is made
at present from the leaves. lie there
fore experimented with the hark and
twigs, discarding the services of the
worm altogether, and, after years of
labor lie succeeded in producing a silk
which has been pronounced by Euro
pean experts to be no whn inferior to
the article manufactured by silk
worms.
In appreciation of Moussa Effendi
Khouri's devotion to science, the Tur
kish government has granted nun
certain rights over all the mulberry
trees. ,in. fh&. guiUta’ts- domains “fiu
mug as 1 have enough mulberry
trees, say* Khouri, "1 can produce
silk at less than half what it costs
when produced by silkworms.”—New
York Herald.
Till© Ttiv;©*.
A magazine lias just begun to write
“The Ilistorv of a Title Pago.” It may
seem a small subject, but it isnn inter
esting one. It has also a very marked
bearing on the history of literature. In
volved in it we find tho questions of
titles, new, borrowed or imitated; of
authorship, real or assumed; of dates,
accurate, inaccurate, or absent nlto
gather. In the mere arrangement of
type ot tho title page, uot much vari
ety Is to be looked tor. Some origin
ality in that respect is shown now and
then by publishers with taste anil
fancy, but it is obvious that not much
novelty is feasible. Every now and
then wo have tho name of the author
at the top of tho jiage, instead of in tho
middle, after the French liqdtiou; tho
effect is quaint, and pleases. Now and
again, tho title of the hook starts at
the left band top corner, anti is run
ou like a sentence till finished, instead
of beiug divided ami spread out oyer
tho page, in orthodox style. But when
all has been done that can bo done in
this unit other directions, the present
day publisher soon discovers that tho
variations aro by no means endless.
The only device which has not of
late been greatly exploited is that of
tho illustrated title page, with its
broad margin of artistic design in
closing tho smallest possible amount
of type. This used to bo very popular,
but luus now fallen into almost entire
disuse. Tho preference now is fog
title pages of simplicity in design ami
brevity in wording. In tho latter re
spoct we go, perhaps, to an extreme,
reserving uil our explanations of tho
volume’s scope for the preface, and
thus giving trouble to tiie casual in
spectors of books. On one point one
might almost ask for legislative enact
ment—on tho point of including on
every title pago the date of the year
in which the work is published. Tliero
are publishers who systematically
evade this duty, and tho result is that
ono cannot tell whether their publi
cations aro old or new, without mak
ing inquiries which cost lime, and
which should not ho forced upon tho
weary student. —London Globe.
Aborting; a F©lon.
Ho who discovers a sure means of
aborting a felon will make his name
immortal. None need bo told that it
is a most painful utfection, and one
not wholly devoid of danger to life.
Now methods of treatment tocut them
short aro constantly being devised,
and as far as the writer knows, none
absolutely certain in all eases lias as
yet been found.
Tho troublo is that all felons are
not near alike. In some deejicr tissues
are involved than in others, and a
remedy which might act well in ono
ciuso would prove absolutely useless in
another. r uio latest additions to the
list of abortive methods is recom
mended by a physician of Algiers.
He says it is sufficient to moisten
slightly around it with some water,
and to pass over this surface a stick of
nitrate of silver. A few hours ufter
ward the skin becomes black, all pain
disappears and the inflammation is ar
rested. Tho blackened epidermis re
ceives no dressing, and in six days tho
black color disappears.
The author was induced to try tliis
remedy in a case of a lit of gout. The
patient had his great too swollen at its
base; it was painful to the touch, a
tittle red, ana tho seut of lansinating
pains, which hindered tho rest of the
patient. The painful urticulation was
moistened and rubbed over with a
stick of tho nitrate of silver; the next
day the joint was diminished in size,
and was covered over with a black
skin. Tho pain completely disappeared
a quarter of an hour after the paint
ing, and the patient got up to follow
his occupations. The victim of a felon
can safely try this treatment; it can
do no harm. Too much confidence
must not, however, lie put in it—Bos
ton Herald.
The Crista at Waterloo.
All at once camo the tragedy. To
the left of tho English ana on our
right, tho head of the column of cui
rassiers roared with a fearful clamor.
Arrived on the ridge, wild, furious
and running to tho annihilation of
tho squares and cannon, tho cuiras
siers saw between them and tho Eng
lish a ditch —a gravo. It was the
sunken road of Obain. It was a fright
ful moment. There was the ravine,
unlooked for, gaping, before their
very horses’ feet two fathoms deep be
tween its banks. The second rank
pushed in the first and tho third push
ed in the second. Tho horses reared,
fell backward, struggled with their
feet in tho air, heaping up and over
turning their riders. There was no
power to retreat; tho whole column
was but a projectile; the momentum
gathered to crush tho English, crush
etl the French. Tho pitiless ravine
still gaped till it was filled. Riders,
horses, rolled in together pell mell,
mangling each other, making com
mon flesh in this gull; and when tho
gravo was full of living men, tho rest
rode on over them and passed on. Al
most a third of Dubois’ brigade plung
ed into this abyss.—World of Adven
ture.
Killed by a MoccoalA*# Kite.
About a month ago Curtis Mcßur
rows. an 8 year old child of William
Mcßurrows, colored, grabbed with his
left hand at a fish in a pool which he
and others had muddied, near Ilaw
kinsville. As ho did so a water moc
casin, which had been unseen, struck
its fangs into tho fleshy part of his
hand, between tho thumb and fore
finger. The child grabbed tho snake
with his right hana and tore it loose,
but the. snake instantly coiled around
the left arm and inflicted several bites
on it. The child’s arm was treated by
his parents, who applied to it such
remedii s as they could think of. but it
steadily grew worse. They brought
him to Hawkinsville to Dr. Taylor.
Tiie arm was dreadfully swollen, and
tho whole body seemed to be poisoned.
Amputation \v:;s decided to be neces
sary. and tho arm was taken off at the
fio, ier by Dr. Gua Taylor. The child
r;;!ii i after the operation and bade
fair i>> get well; but inflammation of
toe L .-./eis set in, and lie died.—Haw
kinsville Dispatch.
UUll ; f! I l.glUll.
I b - ■ oft n beard that the English
taketb r pleasures sadly. ! am not
prepare 1 to say that 1 indorse, this
opinion, but 1 can affirm that the
French haven wonderful capacity for
enjoying tlicmselvos. They know
how ana when to throw off conven
tional restraints. Take/ watering
places for example. \V\3 Ine oppor
tunities the English seem to throw
away there for enjoyment.
In French places' of tho kind, rll
holiday makers form mt ono big fam
ily, as il were. Tho i hildren play to
gether without restraint. In tho even
ing “the children of a largcrgrowth
meet at the Casino, where, oy paying
$5 a month, they can enjoy good mu
sic, have the use of the billiard rooms,
smoking rooms, reading rooms, etc.,
and tho entree of frequent halls ami
soirees. All mix ana all aro happy.
I have seen aristocratic ladies of the
most haughty typo— persons who in
Baris or their country homes would
not think of associating with any ouo
outside their own class—put in an ap
pearanco nt these Casino balls and
danco with the first coinor who asks
them for a wait* or a polka.
These acquaintances are niado for
the pleasure of the moment and do not
lust. No Frenchman takes advantage
of such an acquaintance to go and
call on tho poojue he thus moot* —nav,
more, if he meets elsewhere a lady
with whom he has danced at tho sea
side he lints her completely at her ease
by not showing signs of recognizing
her, unless she herself makes advances.
If ho behaved otherwise he would bo
immediately stamped as an ill bred fol
low.
Tho Englishman who passes his
tiino in standing sentry at the door of
his dignity is almost always bored to
death at resorts, if ho have a large
family ull may go well, but imagine
an Englishman with a wifo mm a
daughter at the sea. If a week of
wot weather set in, poor fellow ! What
resources bus ho but the local library ?
On the beach ho looks around, and
says to himself that all the people look
decent enough, but there is no know
ing who they aro at homo. Tlmt man
over there looks jolly; but, alas 1 per
haps his grandfather kept a shop. It
is too horrible to think of the risk one
may ho running by making acquaint
ance with him. Ho John Bull retires
into his shell I—Max U'Rell.
Mr. Dockery Wim There,
Wo were about to leave Louisville
on a down river steamer, and tho anon
were just hoisting in the gangplank
when a tall, slim young man, with n
great deal of cunning in his compo
sition, leaned on the rail of the prom
enade deck, scanned the crowd of 200
on the levee and called out in a thin
voice;
“Hay I is Mr. Dockery there?”
“Ho is I” promptly replied a voico.
“Then tell him that I’m coming
back in about a week to sandpaper Ills
head. 1”
It was intended for a joke but no
one laughed. Just at that minute the
gangplank was dropped for a belated
passenger, and a man from tlio crowd
rushed along it to tho boat, dodged up
stairs lilco a monkey, and next instant
appeared before tlio astonished smart
Aleck.
“Sandpaper my head, will you,” lie
hissed, us he reached out for hair.
“Oh. now, but you aren’t Mr. Dock
ery,” snouted the young man.
“Aren’t I? Don't I know my own
name, you luscious persimmon? Take
that—and that —and that I"
And ho banged him right and left,
lifted him up and down, und ended by
spreading him over the deck as far as
lie would reach. Then ho skipped off
to he received with cheers, while the
young man gathered up the fragments
anil splinters and retired. He was on
the boat tlireo da; s with us, und dur
ing that time I never saw him but
once. Then ho bail bis head out of the
stateroom window to view the scenery
ou the Arkansas shore. Ono of the
boys yelled "Dock ry I" and tho head
vanished to be seen no more. —New
York Sun.
A New lUnuluny.
A patent has been obtained by M. J.
Dickens, of Bromley, England, for an
invention which consists in placing
wedge shaped or round courses of
stone, brick, terracotta, wood, rubber
or other material (softer than the ma
terial of which the road iscomj>OHod) at
regular intervals, such courses to be
either at nn angle of 90 (legs, or less
to the direction of tho road, according
to tho gradient of the same. These
courses to bo imbedded on concrete and
surrounded with asphalt, comeut or
other paving as preferred, harder than
tlio intermittent courses. Tho upper
surface of tho common paving will
wear slightly rounded, leuving the
softer courses slightly lower than the
general lino of surface; the corruga
tion will then give the necessary foot
hold ; and form depressions for con
ducting tho surface water to the chan
riels at the siilo of tlio road. —New
York Telegram.
Fating Fruit.
Fruits, to do their best work, should
be eaten either on an empty stomach
or simply with bread —never with veg
(.■tables. In tho morning, before the
fast of tho night lias been broken, they
aro not only exceedingly refreshing,
but they serve as a natural stimulus to
tlio digestive organs. And to produce
their fullest, finest effect, they should
ripe, sound, and every way of good
quality; moreover, they should be
eaten raw. What is Letter than a
bunch of luscious grapes, or a plate of
berries or cherries, on a summer
morning the first thing on sitting
down to breakfast? and yet I know a
man who could never eat (fruit except
late at night—New York Mail and Ex
press.
Salt and Nuts.
Salt is a natural digestive when
taken in conjunction with many arti
cles of food; as, for example, with
nuts. Upon the latter salt almost acts
as a natural solvent when once they
have boon taken into the inner system.
There are many people who think
they cannot eat nuts at all. Let them
try salt.—Exchange.
A machine that cuts match sticks
makes 10,000,000 a dav. They aro ar
ranged over a vat, and have the heads
put on at the ratoof 8,000,000 per day
by one man.
Killing » 1t.,11.
Olio of the most curious sights in
Tobolsk was tho lCamaoulio Koloko,
or "brli with tho ear torn off.” It
was koi't in a kind of shod near the
archbishop's palace, and its romantic
history is often Tobolsk. In
the Sixteenth century Prince Dimitri,
tho rightful heir to tho Russian throne,
was deposed by a revolt led by Boris
God uno if, who was then proclaimed
czar. Tho seat 'of government was at
(Jglich, and there Dimitri was sent to
be under tho immediate control of tho
unlawful ruler.
The usurper, fearing that tho popu
lace might awake to the claims of the
young prince, planned his assassina
tion, and he was one day stabbed in a
court yard. None of the bystanders
showed a disposition to aid him.
A priest, however, saw the crime
from the catliedral belfry, and imme
diately began tolling the great bell,
which was held sacred, and only rung
on unusual occasions, such as tlie cor
onation or death of a czar.
Furious at this tacit expression of re
proach, tho czar commanded that tho
priest should betorturodand executed,
and the boll taken down and placed
beside tho body of its ringer. The or
der was literally fulfMled, and the bell
was bcaton with clubs by the entire
populace, with tho Czar Boris at their
bead.
But this whs not all. In those days
Siberian exiles were tortured before
setting out on their journey bv having
thoir nostrils torn off with retf hot pin
cers. The czar now decreed that tho
laill should bo exiled to Tobolsk, but as
it had no nostrils, he commanded with
a certain grim humor that one of its
hangers should lie removed, to indicate
its disgrace.
Tho |>eoplo of Tobolsk are very fond
of this trophy, and one sees bells every
where in tho town; as signs over the
inn doors, toys, workboxes, cigarette
eases, and even sleeve Links.—Youth's
Corri|)anion.
Tl»« Veritable Fonutaln of Youth.
Patrick Dunn, the locator of the
fountain of eternal youth, writes its
follows to an intimate friend in rela
tion to his succoss in renowing the
youth of a veteran four time loser of
above three score years, whom he re
cently took to what he terms his magic
spring, located somowhero in the north
east cornor of Btorey county, to further
test tho rejuvenating virtue of the
water:
Tim tost on old Jeff is succeeding
yond my most sanguine expectations.'
It is scarcely u month since he left the
Comstock —a venerablo, gray haired
patriarch, whoso form was bowed with
iho weight of 65 winters, and hard
ones at that. For the first two weeks,
after bathing him four times daily in
tho spring, and having him drink
copiously of the water, Ids snow white
beard and hair began turning dark at
tho roots, and tn« wrinkles at tho
corners of hia eyes and mouth began
to
and his step as elastic as that of a
youth of 20, and hia cheeks are assum
ing tho roscatic hue of perfect health,
and I am now confident that I have
made tho most important discovery in
tho history of the world. I will bring
old Jeff to tho Comstock about tho
middle of September looking os youth
ful as a man of 20 years. I will make
my next teat on a millionaire, who
must ugreo to give me 75 per cent, of
his wealth for restoring his youth.—
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
A Dclgliiia OuaL
A canal lias been constructed In Bel
gium in whioh, instead of locks, the
boats are hoisted by elevators from
one level to another. The canal ex
tends from tho coal region in the in
terior of Belgium to Brussels, crossing
several other canals at the same grade,
so that Belgian coal can be brought
directly by boat to Paris, as well us
tho principal towns in Belgium and
Holland. As the Jine passes over a
rather hilly country, various ascents
and descents must oe made, and to
savo tho long delays incidental to pass
ing tho locks tho oliango of grade is
made by means of hydraulic ele
vators. The boats, which measure
about seventy tons, are towed at the
low level into an immense tank, witli
gates, whioh is submerged in tlie ca
nal. Tho gates are then closed and
tho tank, which rests on the pistons of
a iiugo hydraulic elevator, is raised to
tho upper level, when connection
is made with tho next section of tho
canal by means of double gates and
tho boat prooecds on its way.—Fire
and Water.
A Perplexed Preacher.
An old preacher after servico one
Sunday, announced his reading for the
following Sunday. During the week,
sonic mischievous boys obtained his
Bible and pasted two of the leaves to
gether, right where he was to read.
Sunday morning coming, the aged
divine opened his book, and read as
follows: “And Noah took unto him
self a wife who was” —and here he
turned the leaf—“forty cubits broad,
one hundred and foity cubits long.”
With a look of astonishment, he wiped
his glasses, re-read and verified the
passage, and then said: “My friends,
although I have resd the Bible many
times, this is the first time I have ever
seen this passage, but I take it as an
other evidence of the fact that man is
most fearfully and wonderfully made. ”
-Sau Francisco Argonaut
The Onestion of Burial.
The lower classes, especially in the
north country, are often accused of a
lack of tenderness in their domestic
relations. One of the saddest of Dean
Ramsay’s stories is ‘.hat in which the
Highland wife, when on her death
bed in Glasgow, beseeches her husband
to let her be buried in her own country
among the hills, since she is sure her
bones will never rest in that hateful
town, to which he replies: ‘Til bury
you in the Gorbals first hinny, and if
Vou don’t lay quiet there I’ll see about
It"
But it is not always so. A poor wo
man in Scarborough the other day ex
pressed a similar wish to be buried in
her native place, and her husband,
haring noolner means of transporting
the body, wheeled it on a hand cart
seventy miles of hilly road to carry
out her wishes. Their little son ac
companied him ofi that miserable jour
ney, which was accomplished in wet
weather.—London New*.,
NO. 41.