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THE HENRY COUNTY "WEEKLY.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Iliis powder never varus. A marvel of
parity, strength and wholcsnmeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot he sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight nlnm or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Powder Co., 10(5 Wall street,
jNew York. novl3-Jy
rnoFEssroxA l ca it ns.
1 <i. a*. CANPHiiUi,
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DENTIST,
McDosoukh (■ a.
Ahv mu- iti-siring work dom- I*llll In* mc-
MUiiiiiorintt ri either by <•:» 11iti*: on me in prr
.iim or iuMri'ssin" me through the limits.
Terms cash, unless speeiul arrangements
sire otlierwi.se made.
■Geo W. Brtan j W. T. Dick km.
lilt VAX A ItltKIA,
AT'IOHNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. api-27-ly
yas. ii. rritxiiK.
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
(fee Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of]
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marlti-l.v
y I! HA WAX,
attorney at law.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
othercollcctions. Will attend all the Court®
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
-J I\ WAI.I,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in I he count ies composing t he
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention i
given to collections. octs-’7 9
A. lutowx.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough. Ga.
Will practice fn all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
Vj A. I'lr.lM.l’S.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
H am uton, 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. Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stkavakt. j U.T. Daniel, j
NTllWAll'll .V IIAXIKI.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Guikein, Ga.
j |ll. IC. .5. AKXOMh
Hami-ton. Ga.
I hereby tender inv professional service to
the people of Hampton and surronmling
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
LA II CARD.
I have opened a law office in Atlanta, l.ul
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending ail Courts regular’v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Wil! he in Mc-
Donough on ail public days.
Office —Room 2l>. Gate City Bank Build
tin", Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L TYE.
January Ist. ISB.t.
ALL
j&n<l accounts of 0. KNOTT A; 00,.
mtis< fettled now. Ptcaae call on me at
«W *tan<i and find out your in ehred-
We need the money and know ll.mt
you cannot ceiiauru us forgiving this, our
l ist wanting- M. LOW E,
Tn\
jlampton. Monday Oct. 28
Sixth, Tuesday
Stockhiidp:o. Wednesday “ 30
Shake Raij. Tlrirpdny “ 31
l»rii!*liv Knoiio. Kriday Nov. I
1/iv. ••»*. > iturd iv “ ~
Monday ** 4
, Mcl>oi'«‘U-h. I uenduv “ •>
Mullen’s. Wednesday (»
llorsheha. Thursday M 7
Sandy Rid*:**, Friday •* 8
1 oeust drove. Saturday “ .0
I n«i s’, Mondav “ 11
‘ SOLOMON K 1 NO, T. 0.
GUI I-FIX FOUXIfIIY
AND
Machine Works.
XAfc annoHiu-e to the Public that we are
II prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers * wid ia&c lor s’* k- —ls of Boil
ers- We are ori-nar- d to do all kinds of
repairing on Engine*. Boiler* end M.ichin
erv. generaUy. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kind- : also Inspirators. In
teriors. Safe tv Valves. Steam Guages.
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of everv Description
ONROUA A WALCOTT,
TO AN OLD BALL SLIPPER.
r>'v ro worn and frayed,
V. ah h« e! forlorn ami bow decayed.
How changed since g runny tirst displayed
Your pristine glory!
You jioor bodragged No. 3,
You ure alive at least to me;
While lying there 1 seem to se j
Your simple story
Lkiilght in rahneut white and pure.
Your mistress tripped of conquest sure;
l or damsels w ho look most demure
Are not uncanny
Praps grandpa came in garments smart
Vast triumph of sartorial art-
With valorous words yet trembling heart.
To woo our granny
Tliose were the days w heu wifo and maid
Ingenious lowers of hair displayed.
When single lufgncttes strove to aid
Defective vision:
When beaus wore kerchiefs girt with straps.
Ingenious coats with many flaps,
VtiJ waisuxxlta which would now |jerha|>s
Lxc itc derision
Waists low, waists high, coats black orgroen
Things now are as they've always tieen
Since first our ow n most gracious queen
The iliroite ascended
Around thee lies full many a to';en
That shows the specious word was spoken.
And hearts irreparably broken
Taut quickly mended
Pai in. rs. i Teliaucc. were much the same—
Some t.. some dull. some fast, some tame:
Soixu* w t<» t.» spurious wit lay claim.
Nor mi w i heir error:
The men w hose charms were scarcely mental.
Ihe yout: Ua'i siiy mid sentimental,
Ti»e “fas. itai'-iiig detrimental.'*
Giv:..-„rauJnms n rror
Aud did the cha;>erons then, as now.
IxsLitio h.kppi..e-ss uvow
While watching with utt aching brow
The flitting dancers?
Anil did they, gripped in Fashion's vice.
Receive a girl w ith looks of ice
If she sat out with some one nice—
Convenient Lancers?
Cut, tiny friend, uow must I flee—
A set at tennis waits for me—
For, rapt in pleasant reverie.
The moments fly by;
The hour has come to say adieu,
l make my courtesy to you,
Now% dear, pathetic little shoe.
Go back to “by by”
—Vanity Fair.
King of All Trees.
Fred W. Clough, a well known en
gineer of the Comstock, has been
spending some weeks in the wilds of
the Sierras, about the headwaters of
the Kaweah river, Tulare county, Cal
ifornia. He was accompanied in his
wanderings by Westley Warren, an
old Comstocker, who now resides in
Tulare valley. About the headwaters
of the Kaweah they got into an unex
plored and almost impenetrable re
gion. In one place they were obliged
to cut a trail for almost a mile in or
der to get through the chaparral that
blockaded the mountain pass. Mr.
Clough says that on the trip they dis
covered a tree of sequoia species,
which he believes to be much the
largest on the continent of America.
Mr. Warren, who has seen the big
trees of Mariposa, those of the big tree
grove in Calaveras county, and all the
big trees of the coast range, says there
is in no place in California a tree
which approaches in size that on the
Kaweah.
The men had with them no rule,
tapeline or measure of any kind, but
Mr. Warren measured the tree with
his rifle, which was four feet in length.
He found it to be forty-four lengths of
his gun in circumference at a point as
high above the ground as he could
reach. The top of the tree had been
broken off, but it is still of immense
height. This monster tree stands in a
small basin near the Kaweah, and is
surrounded on all sides by a wall of
huge, rugged rocks. There is so much
brush in the vicinity that the little
valley in which the tree stands is al
most inaccessible.—Amador Sentinel.
Dog* Can Talk.
A curious sight was witnessed one
afternoon on the wharf at Cincinnati.
A gentleman, accompanied by two
fine specimens of the water spaniel,
went down to the landing of the New
port ferry, at the foot of Lawrence
street. Somehow he became separated
from the canines, or rather they failed
to follow him aboard. The boat had
got out iu the stream, when the dogs
caught sight of their master and dis
covered he was fast leaving them.
Standing on the edge of the float, they
both set up a vigorous yelping, which
attracted the attention of the bystand
ers.
Suddenly the older aud larger dog
plunged into the river and began to
swim rapidly toward the Kentucky
shore. He had gone about 100 yards
when he seemed to become aware that
his brute companion had not followed.
Turningaroiiud, he swam back toward
the spot where the younger dog stood.
As he drew alongside the float he
made no effort to get aboard. The two
began to bark at each other —to hold
ail animated conversation in the dog
tongue, as it were. The older dog, as
he floated by the side of the landing,
barked encouragement to the more
timid animal, and apparently was urg
ing the latter to jump into the water.
The barking duet lasted some minutes,
and then the younger dog, seemingly
by his companion's assur
ance, grew bold, and suddenly bound
ed into the river.
The first dog gave a delighted yelp,
and, both turning their noses toward
Kentucky, began to swim straight
across, side by side. Both continued
to bark until they reached the shore,
aud could be heard on both sides of
the river. The people on the ferry and
Kentucky shore saw the strange
race, and, with people on this side and
on the bridge, watched it to the end.
The dogs landed opposite to the bar
racks, where they were awaited by
their owner, who, with several other
gentlemen, had hurriedly walked
| down the bank. There was no limit
to the delight of the two animals as
they rushed up to their master. The
river at that point is nearly half a
mile wide. The action of the dogs
seemed to indicate that they had a Win
guage of their own, and the paternal
manifestations of the elder brute were
most interesting to see —Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Injustice to the Porker.
Miss Prim—That Mr Ixxlown is a
brute. He not only chews and ex
pectorates horribly, but he never gives
his seat to a lady in a crowded street
car. He is simply a pig.
Mrs. Yon Juste-My dear, you are
really haul upon the pig. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
McDonough, ga.. Friday. January, it, rsoo.
HUNTING THE NICKEL IN THE SLOT.
A Peculiarly Honest Tramp Who Lives
by Suction, Yet Is No “Sucker”
While sitting ,in the Fulton ferry
house about 3 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, my attention was attracted to a
seed v individual who had just entered.
I hud no difficulty in establishing his
status in life. He was a member of
that profession who looks upon the
would as its “oyster," and unceremoni
ously opens it upon tfie slightest op
portunity. He was a tramp. His
clothes were cut—or rather torn —to
his calling. Hard times hung from
every angle of his laxly. His nose
was the only bright spot about him.
That had been burnished by whisky
until it looked like "a gilded Halo hov
ering round decay.”
“Watch that man,” said an oflieial
to me. “He has got some way of get
ting nickels aud pennies out of those
‘nickel-in-the-slot’ machines over
there. You see, the machines are often
out of order and the money dropped
in sticks in the slot. That man comes
here regularly every morning and
sucks them out. It is none of my busi
ness, so I never interfere with him.”
I watched. The man approached
a tutti-frutti machine, stooped down
and placed his mouth over one of the
slots. A long-drawn-out suction fol
lowed, as if the machine was a delic
ious lemon on Katzen jammer day, and
then ho straightened up with a penny
between his teeth. Down he went
again as a kingfisher goes for a smelt,
and back again with his prey in his
mouth. This was repeated until the
slots had yielded up thirteen cents—
one nickel and eight pennies.
When the tramp went away I fol
lowed him outside and engaged "him in
conversation. I found him to have
more than his share of the grim humor
that characterizes the tramp brother
hood. He drew himself up with a lu
gubrious dignity and said:
“The suction idea came to me about
three months ago. 1 first had to sat
isfy myself that it was a legitimate
business. The nickel, I reasoned, does
not belong to the person who puts it in
the slot, as he took chances with the
machine and got left. It did not be
long to the machine, because it had
rendered nothing for the money re
ceived. Having thus satisfied my con
science I commenced operations. The
business has developed beyond my
greatest expectations. The interest on
the capital invested is enormous. No
expenditures; all receipts. 1 make
from $1 to $2 per day. My hours aro
long, it is true, and most of my busi
ness engagements are at night. But
it’s ’way ahead of being on the road. I
don’t like the country. The haystacks
are too fur apart, and the careless
handling of shotguns by farmers has
always shocked me.
“I am glad to have a metropolitan
occupation,” he continued. “Here
there is a field for ingenuity. The
man with an idea cannot be kept
down. My business is almost too much
for one man to control. It takes me
a long time to get around to all the
ferries and depots, and I am thinking
of letting out part of my territory."
After a pause, he said reflectively:
“I hope this won’t get into the papers.
The slot machine companies might un
dertake to shut me oft’. If thev do, it
will be a severe blow to the trade and
commerce of the country. lam the
inventor of the‘snap, ’ and as such I
am entitled to the profits. Recollect,
though 1 make my living by suction,
lam no ‘sucker.’ And he faded away
in the gloom Williamsburgh ferry
ward.—New York Herald.
Washing In Japan.
Washing was and still is done in
Japan by getting into a boat and let
ting the garments drug after the boat
by a long string. It is an economical
habit of traveling Japs to get a large
amount of washing thus accomplished
by a steamboat excursion, and it has
given rise to the story that once a year
they travel to wash. They ha ve no
instinct for laundry work, like the
Chinese, and think it complete when
the soap is in the garment, and will
not wring it out. Salt water washes
to their taste just as well us fresh.—
Washington Capital.
The DtiHt of Travel.
If you have been traveling any dis
tance on the cars don't wash your face
in cold water the moment you reach a
washstand. If you want to remove all
trace of dust and smoke rub your face
well with vaseline or cold cream, and
wipe it off on a dry towel. The towel
after the wiping will show you where
the dirt has gone. Then you may
wash your face in hot water if you
will. There is nothing like hot. really
hot, water for thecomplexion. It keeps
not only clean, but clear. - Boston
Traveler
History of ll»«* A rah Horse.
Wilfrid Blunt, a noted English
breeder of Arab horses, gives it its his
opinion that the Arab belongs to tbe
original wild races of Africa rather
than of Asia, and was introduced to
southern Arabia by way of Abyssinia,
whence it is historical that be spread
northward, lie was not known in
Europe before the Mohammedan con
quest, but since then his blood lias
spread through all lands visited by
communication with Mecca, through
the pilgrimage. The Barb of north
Africa, the Andalusian horse of Spain,
the Turk, the Persian and the Turco
man have been all largely infused for
centuries with Arab blood. Tbe first
Arab blood in England was probably
brought through Spain and France,
and later from Palestine, by the cru
saders.—New York Times.
The Length of th<* I>uy.
At London, England, and Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has lOJ hours.
At Stockholm, Sweden, it is l;-h hours
in length. At Hamburg iu Germany
and Dautzic in Prussia the longest day
has 17 hours. At St. Petersburg, litis
sia, and Tobolsk, Siberia, tbe long st
is 10 hours ami the shortest 5 hours.
At Tornea, Finland, June 21 brings a
day nearly 22 hours long, and Christ
mas one less than 3 hours in length.
At Wardbury. Norway, the longest
day lasts from May 21 to July 22 with
out interruption, and in Spitsbergen
the longest day is 3i months.
At St. Louis the longest day is some
what less than la hours, and at Mon
treal, Canada, it is 10. —St. Louis He
miLl i c
A BOOD STORY*
How a PrettJ Hook Agent Got Ahead of
a Newspaper Man.
There are more than two newspaper
men living in Woodsburg, L. 1., and
of one of them the boys told the Ram
bler a good story. It seems that the
newspaper man in question had been
annoyed by a persistent book canvass
er. She was young, pretty and talk
ativo and hail for sale a gaudily cov
ered book entitled “How to Be Good. "
The newspaper limn was busy when site
first called on him and he told her to
drop in when he had more time. She
did not succeed in selling the book on
the first attempt nor on the second.
[ler visits, however, became so fre
quent that the newspa|>or uiun told his
wife of the matter. Fhe was struck
with the title of the Ixiok and told her
husband that he ought to buy it, as lie
needed instruction on the subject
treated. The book agent called the
next day, us usual, and the newspav r
Ilian said: /i
“Well, I'll take your bixik. but 1
would not buy it only uiy wife has
taken a fancy to the title.”
The lady canvasser had not closed
her purse on the $2 which she received
for the book before she learned where
the newspaper man lived, and that
afternoon found her in Woodsburg.
she sold a second copy of tin
book to the newspaper man s w ili
lie reached homo earlier than usual
that evening and with lighted pipe
was enjoying the comfort derived
from roomy slippers which adds to
the prospect of dinner when Iu: wili
said :
“I forgot to tell you I bought that
book, 'llow to Be Good.’
“The compositor you did,” said he.
“Now we’ve got two copies. I bought
one of the book agent today.”
“Well," said his wife, “we can”
“No, wo can’t. That's selling books
on false pretences and I’ll have tliat
woman arrested. The train is just
getting in, but I have my slippers on.
There’s Lyug going to the train now.
Say, Lyng, stop that book agent at
the station until 1 see her.”
“What ilo you want to see her
about!” asked Lyng.
“Never mind, now. She’ll bo oil'
if you don't hurry. You just keep her
talking until I get there.”
Lyug reached the station as the fail
book agent was boarding the outgoing
train.
“Excuse me,” he said, “but Mr. Dash
wants to see you.”
“Mr. Dash wants to see me!” saiil
the book agent, demurely standing on
the car platform. “Oh, yes, he wants
to buy one of my liooks. 1 must have
cash for it, though. The price is $2.”
Mr. Lyng, happy to oblige bis
friend Dasb, paid the money, took
the book “How to Be Good,” aud the
train started as Dash, out of breath,
reached the station.
“Don’t hurry, old fellow,” said
Lyng, “I’ve got the book for you,
‘How to Be Good.’ ”
“By thunder,” said Dash, as ho sat
on the baggage truck anil sliodic his
list at the train. —Brooklyn Eagle.
A Historic Old Clock.
There is in the establishment ol John
McDullic, in Albany, one of the finest
specimens of antique clocks ever seen.
It was procured at Amsterdam, Hol
land, by Mrs. McDuffie. The timepicee
was made at Amsterdam in 1680 by
Andrian Baghyn and is a marvel of
mechanism. It stands twelve feet
high. The case is of bird’s eye black
walnut and on the top of it stand three
golden statuettes. The central figure
represents Atlas bending beneath the
weight of a miniature globe. The
right and left figures are counterparts
of Gabriel in the act of blowing his
trumpet. When wound the clock runs
eight days. It gives the day of the
month with the phases of the moon as
well as the hour, and strikes every’
quarter. Considering that it has been
ticking away tbe hours for over two
centuries, it keeps remarkable time
ami is in a wonderful state of preser
vation. It has an air of past ages
about it and is undoubtedly a histori
cal landmark of past centuries. —New
York Telegram.
A Hoimet for it Text.
There have been many preachers
whose pulpit jokes are the only re
membered portionsof their harangues.
Michel Menot, reproving the ladies
for being late at church, told them
that it would take less time to cleanse
the Augean stables than to stick in all
a woman’s pins. The story is told of
Rowland Ilill that lie once began a
sermon with the words, “Look at my
wife there, with a chest of drawers on
her head.’ The congregation stared
at the poor lady thus pointed out but
only perceived that she wore a new
bonnet. “She has sold a chest of
drawers and bought a new bonnet
with the proceeds.’’ Then he went on
to inveigh against female love of dress.
San Francisco Argonaut.
, Tlws Meanest Man That Kver Lived.
A flutter of excitement was created
here by the arrival of Obey Grif
fin with a large trunk containing the
wearing apparel of his dead wife, a
very estimable lady, who died several
months ago. He immediately mounted
a dry goods box in front of the post
ofiice, and in a shrill voice urged tho
liegrcHsand loungers around to come
forward and give him a hid on tho
dresses and underelothing of his wife,
and the negro women of the demi
monde attended in droves, purchased,
and arc today Haunting around ar
rayed in their second hand dresses,
and grinning from ear to ear at tln-ir
luck in cheap bargains. Akrpaha
(Ga.) Cor. Savannah News.
Call Off Your Do*.
A tramp was arrested in Woodcoun
tv, 0., the other day, for cruelty to
animals. In tho course of one week
he clubbed thirty-two farmers’ dogs to
1 death without receiving a bite in re
} turn, and several loads of buckshot
fired at him failed to take effect. He
i hails from Michigan, of course.—l>e
| troit Free Press.
The great crested fly catcher and
j several other birds adopt an exceed
ingly novel method to frighten away
other birds or Lizards that would prey
1 upon their eggs. They wind into their
nestioneor more of the old skins which
. have been shed by snakes, so that these
appear to be live snakes coiled about
j the nest*.
Nol>le>hf Obn fc «\
An accurate remembrance of names
and faces has been called a gift of
princes; another gift, showing the no
bility of Ixttli heart and good breeding,
is that of punctilious courtesy toward
the humble as well as toward the great.
“Why,” said a rich and vulgar wo
man, who was walking with a rela
tive who could claim better breeding,
“is it possible you bow to your cook !"
“I nope I shall always be found
worthy,” was the quiet reply; “my
cook is a very good woman.
“Ah, hut I’d go out of mo way and
back ag’iti, to mate wid him,” said an
old Irishwoman, enthusiastically, in
speaking of the rich man of her town ;
“he's the only gintleman that takes
oil' his hat to inc."
A young Englishman, staying at
Fontainebleau in the time ot Napo
leon 111, chanced to fall in with the
royal party while hunting in the for
est, and made a pleasant impression
on the emperor, who invited him to
dinner. The young inrni tmirred to
accept so signal an honor, but he had
previously made an engagement to lx>
with some oid ladies at Geneva, on the
appointed day. Doubtless they would
have released him from his engage
ment under the plea of dining with
the emperor, but lie did not ask tliat
grace. The emperor received his ex
cuses, and the old ladies his presence.
A modest, but exceedingly punctili
ous gentleman, an English clergyman,
one afternoon took tea with the poet
Tennyson, who, as his guest was about
to leave, invited him to taken walk.
Much as lie desired further con versa
lion with his host, the clergyman was
obliged to excuse himself and hasten
away to meet one of his humblest par
ishioners.
“I should have been greatly pleased
to go with him,” he said, afterward,
“hut you see 1 had promised old
Thompson to take a wall: with him,
and of course he came first."
“Why should you thank a servant!”
asked a father, who was fond of the
Soeratie melhod of teaching, and loved
to qm-.-J.ioii liis little son, until (lie lad
reached wise conclusions by his own
wit. “They are paid for what they
do. Do you owe them anything but
money!"
“I owe them money,” said the lad,
somewhat perplexed, in expressing
what lie really felt, “and I thank them
because—because l owe it to myself to
be polite!”
lie had learned the meaning of the
old, grand motto, “Noblesse oblige.”
Youth's Companion.
I)aii<'iit£ (iiaiitK of tin' !>i**«»rl.
Curious atmospheric conditions of
the desert and high plateaus at certain
seasons of the year produce strange
phenomena hut little understood ex
eopt by persons who have long lived
in those regions. The dry weather in
Nevada has produced a host of giant
dancers there. Formerly tln-y ap
peared only in the spring, the Peranc
gat and Humboldt valleys being their
rendezvous. Now they are down in
Lyon county, far to the southwest.
“These dancing giants, or waltzing
sand augers,” said Judge Kelly of
Pioche yesterday, “are puzzlers to all
scientists. Ilow they brace up and
hold together so long is what gets
them. On a quiet, sunny day you sue
a little handful of sago brush soar
aloft on a light breeze. Some more
joins it, until it is as big as your hat
and then your body, and then the
sand and rocks and soil by (lie bushel
begin to roll into the mass from the
ground, ascending upward like a col
limn. It is soon as big as a telegraph ’
pole, and all the time gaining, and ere
long its top maybe readies 1,000, may
be 5,000 feet. While you are watch
ing this one probably three or four
others will spring up, or a half dozen
will conic waltzing down from the up
per end of the valley, having traveled ,
probably twenty-five miles and torn
up the soil like a steam plow in their
waltzing anil zig-zagging.
“These are some of the things I saw
lust week ten miles below Pioche.
Horses siiill the air and get wild when
they see them. The augers te;u- up
the hillsides, smash houses like a cy
clone and suck up men like a water
spout. Then when they have spent
their force, quit sashaying and have !
lost their cohesive powers, they go all
to pieces in as strange a way as they j
were formed, and there is nothing ;
but a pile of sand, sagebrush, stone,
loose boards and what not, to tell j
what they once were. Strange tilings,
these dancing giants.” - San Francisco |
Examiner.
Tli« l'rogreu c»f
The progress of languages sicken
by different nations is said to l)c us fol
lows: English, which sit the com
mencement of tlic century was only
spoken by 22,000.000 of people, is now
spoken liy 100,000,000. Russian is
now spoken by 08,0(0,000, against
30,000,000 at the, beginning of the cen
turv. In 1 >OO German was only
spolcen by 3r>.*Xß),ooo of js-ople; today
over 70.000.000 talk in tl.- same lan
guage that \yilliam II does. Spanish
is now used by 44,000,000 of people,
against 30,000,000 in 1800; Italian by
32,000,000 instead <>f 18,000,000; l’ur
tugueseby 13,000,000 instead of 8,000,
000.
This is for English an increase of 312
percent.; for Russian, 120 percent.;
for German, 70 per cent.; for Span
ish, 3t5 [H-r cent.., etc. Ip the case of
French the increase has been from
34,000.000 t 040,000,000, or 30 per cent.
Boston Tieraid.
Somewhat Mortified.
A number of book men v.-ro relat
ing professional anecdotes tiie other
night. “About twenty years ago,"
said one of them, “I was employed
with the lippincot' >. Thornes !i' plies
was being lionized very extensively,
and when became down to Philadel
pliia became to sec the publishing
house. After he had ins; sled the
whole establishment and expressed his
surprise and gratilication the h .id ol
the house took him by the: i and
said: ‘Now, Mr. Hughes, I want to
show you one of our greatest pi. Vi a
tions —"Aiiilxme's Diclionaiy. It
contains sonic information a' <. • < very
authorof any account in England and
America. Now, let us sec for example,
what it ?a.i • about Thomas Hughes.*
So he turned to 11, and lot the name
of the authorof "Tom Crown's School
Days’ wasn't there.” Philadelphia
Press.
< 01. Ijfl’”’s Aiirctloto of J>oiu Pedro*
He told mo a short but interesting
story apre xisof Dom Pedro's enforced
retirement from the imperial throne
of Brazil. “Dom Pedro,” ho said, “is
a thorough democrat, aud I have
many reasons for believing that if lie
did not .actively connive at liisown re
tirement, he was at least aware tliat it
was about to be forced upon him, and I
took no steps to prevent it. He was I
so much of a democrat, in fact, that I
can boast, of the fact tliat even when j
he was emperor of Brazil he owed me |
fifty cents. The maimer in which I
this enormous debt wus incurred is |
amusing. When the Brazilian cm- ;
pel-or visited Egypt, the khedive, in |
whoso service 1 was then engaged, ap- i
pointed me Dom Pedro’s chief of staff,
it was part of my duty to see that the
royal chariot, drawn by four mngnifi
cent horses, should be every morning
at the doorway of the emperor’s hotek
Dom Pedro had a deep rooted dislike
to this display and evaded the chariot
• whvnevw possible. One morning 1
arrived in front of his apartments in
time to sec the emperor jump into the
most disreputable looking hack in
Alexandria. 1 followed him on horse
back to liis destination, but he was so
desirous of being able to roam about
without the companionship of royal
ollicials that he sprung from the queer
looking conveyance and hastened
away without paying the driver his
fire. The jelni, unaware of the em
peror's identity, was with loud cries,
running after him when ] intercepted
him and paid the fifty cents which
was owing. The incident is interesting
simply as showing what a profound
contempt Dom Pedro has for ceremo
nial form.’' - Philadelphia Inquirer.
Steamship Sloker'a I.lff.
The stokers on one of the great ocean
steamers work four hours at n stretch,
in a temperature ranging from 120 to
100 degs. The quarters are close, and
they must take care that while fceiling
one furnace their urnis are not burned
on the one behind them. Ventilation
is furnished through a shaft reaching
down to the middle of their quarters.
Each stoker tends four f'urnuees,
spending perhaps two or three minutes
at each, then e -lies to the air pipe to
take his tc u . t cooling off, anil waits
for anolii r call to his furnaces.
When thev. tell is over the men go
perspiring through long, cold passages
to tiic forecastle, where they turn in
for eight hours.
One man, 28 years old, who was in
terviewed by a reporter, had been em
ployed at the furnace since he was 11
years old. 110 weighed 180 pounds,
and was ruddy and seemingly happy.
He confessed that the work was terri
bly hard, but “it came hardest on
those who didn't follow it regularly.
But if wo get plenty to eat,” he sayl,
“anil take care of ourselves we are all
right. Here’s a mute of mine, nearly
70 years old, who has been a stoker ail
liis life, and can do as good work as 1
can.’.’. Stokers never have the eon
' sumption, and rarely catch cold.—
New York Journal.
T!io Man In No. «.
One night when three or four of us
boys boarded a sleeper on the L. und
N. road going south from Cincinnati,
a passenger in lower 7 began to snore
us soon as wo were in bed. He hud a
terrible snore for a human being, and
after several of in had called to him
and failed to stop it one of our crowd
sliil out of bed, reached into No. 7,
and with great deftness affixed a
spring clothespin to the sloopor’s nose.
It was, of course, expected that he
would wake up in a few seconds, but,
to our surprise, ho did not, while at
the same time he suddenly ceased to
snore. ,
By and by all of ns dropped off to
sleep, and every on iu the car was up
before No. 7. in fact, he slept so late
that the porter part d (lie curtains to
arouse him. After one look he jumped
back with a yell, and when we hurried
uj) wo found the man cold and dead,
lie was lying on liis back, hands
locked under his neck, and the clothes
pin had -pinched his nose all out of
shape. The body was taken to Cincin
iiati, and most of us bail to attend the
inquest. It was there testified to by
the doctors that the man had died of
heart disease, but 1 tell you wo didn’t
hanker to do anv more joking fora
full year.—New York Hun.
T<*ii Hindoo Com maud muni*.
There are ten commandments hung
on the walls of the Hindoo theological
college in Madras. Homeward Mail
reproduces them: “(1) Pray to God as
soon as you rise from your bed — 5-5:10
l a. in. (2) Wash your body and keep
your surroundings clean 5:10-5:30
a. iii. (3; Prostrate yourselves before
! your parents or guardians, and take
! good exercise- 5:3d to 0:30 a. m. (4)
i Prepare well your school lesson — C:3O
-a. m. (5) Attend school regularly
and punctually, and do the school
work properly. fC) Obey and respect
your teacher and the teachers of the
other classes, and other respectable
persons. (7) Read till 8 p. m. at home.
(-J Pray to God and go to bed—9 p.
in. to 5 m. (9) Keep good company
and avoid bad company. (10) Practice
righteousness at all times.”—London
j Standard.
Nt w Outdoor (.aim; for J.Hdies.
Ringoal is a new English out of door
game for ladies It is played with
gracp hoops and sticks and two neks
eight fi-et high and toil feet square. It
is proposed to make it rival and rule
out tennis, if possible, as it exercises
both arms, both shoulders, both hands
and the whole body in the running
and turning necessary to catch the
hoojs before they reach tho goals or
nets. —Washington Star.
A Needed Precaution.
Little Ethel—Please, Mr. Tooscore,
why didn’t you have suspenders to
your hair!
Tooscore (bearded, but bald; —What
dix s my little friend mean?
Little Ethel—’Cause, you see, your
hair has nearly all slipix-d right (Town
round your neck.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Preaching Venom Practicing:.
"Upon my soul!" exclaimed Mrs.
Flyuround, “I never saw such a gad
der in ail my life as that Mrs. Never
hoine 13! Actually, yesterday I
seven times at her house and couldn't
get In once! ’—Epoch. *
GRAY HAIR.
The ClHlin Tliat It Is Canned by Hut Four
Things—The Frenintitrely Cray.
One groat question which the men
of the present day ask, which has been
propounded frequently, is how can tho
hair be prevented from becoming
white. The case is generally urged
that the' inquirer is too young to yet
havo gray hair and wishes only to
have hair in accordance with his age
and facial appearance. To quote from
one letter verbatim will give a clear
view of the disturbing matter:
“There arc a great many men in St.
Louis who note with dismay an abun
dant amount of hair and even the
mustache or beard becoming gray,
when tho fnce is yet youthful. A nat
ural desire, with nothing of vanity in
it, would lead most of tho men to dye
or color the hair were it not that they
are afraid to use the dyes generally
known, bceuuse usually they contain
i substances of a poisonous nature.”
Why a person Lwming gray prema
■ turcly should dosiro jto change the
hair seems an enigma. Silver hair
with a young and fresh face is only
nn added beauty, especially if the eyes
are dark. Novelists have chosen their
i favorite heroines and heroes with the
prematurely gray hair as tho most
1 pronounced and distinguished in ap
pearance. “Vashti"iu her first youth
with silver hair was supposed to win
all hearts, and to become very local
and practical some of the very best
looking men in St. I/ans, as well as
women, have their faces crowned by
silver hair.
There are three things which cause
gray hair; they are brains, neuralgia
and old age—oh! and a fourth, too;
fear or distress. One of the brightest,
sweetest faces in this eity is that of a
gifted woman whose wealth of hair
turned white in one single night. She
was to have been married;‘the guests
arrived, tho beautiful girl, in her bridal
robes, awaited the coining of the
bridegroom; hours passed by and the
bridegroom eiuno not. Tho guests de
parted and the brideshut herself ill her
room alone. In the morning her dark
hair had become perfectly white. Such
a strange, strange sight; the beautiful
girlish face with its wealth of spotless
hair. Sho has never since that night
mentioned tho subject. Whether she
lias heard from her delinquent fiance
cannot lie ascertained, at least outside
her il lative*, but she is brave and
beautiful and took up her burden of
lifo fearlessly.
There is no way of intercepting gruy
hair except from tho absence, as before
said, of brains, neuralgia, fear or old
age. When it does come, only an ar
tificial means can change it to the
former hue, and dyes are mostly dan
gerous. 4
Gray hair at least is not tho sign of
decreasing energy, uud tho gray huired
beaux of society aro usually the most
active and often tho greatest favorites. }
Another feature of gray hair is that ‘
it is generally fine hair, and a silver ,
head of hair is generally an abundant -
one. —Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch. j
A (iold Slug W orlt*r.
“This thing of trying to crowd big j
gold pieces onto street car conduc-J
tors by people who hope to ride freo
because the conductors can't always]
give tho proper change reminds me]
how that kind of a game used to ho
worked in early days," said Capt.
(Jeorgo 11. Mcßride, of Portland, to a
Han Francisco Examiner man.
"Old man Applegate lived on tho
road between Oregon and California
in those days, and just for accommo
dation he would provide meals and
lodgings for such travelers as chanced
to travel his wuy. It was an annoying
custom with a certain class of spick
dealers who frequently went over tho
road to offer a SSO slug in payment for
a night’s entertainment, and if the
change could not lie given they would
settle in full the next time they stop
ped.
“One day u fellow whom Undo Ap
plegate hud spotted otFered a slug in
the usual way, saying ho was sorry,
but really that was the smallest com
ho had about him.
“ Ttn sorry, too,’ said the host, ‘for
l haven't u hit of clianro in the house.’
“ ‘Oil, never mind,’ replied tho
guest, I'll bund it to you as I come
hack.’
“ ‘But may lie I’ll never see you
again,’ suggested Applegate, ignoring
the hand outstretched for the eight
cornered coin.
" ‘Yes, you will. 11l Ixo ulong here
in about a week,’ said the other.
“ ‘Oh, well, in that case I’ll just
keep the slug, and when you come
back I’ll have the change for you,’
replied the old gentleman, nnd put
ting the piece in his pocket he bade
the stranger good morning, with best
wishes for a prosperous journey and
safe return.
“That man didn’t try to fool with
old man Applegate any more.”
lUf« Swindled.
Several years ago Miss Kate Field,
the authoress, visited Atchison, says
The St. Joseph Herald. While there
sho made the acquaintance of a promi
nent business man, who believing that
sho had some ready money, portrayed
to her the profit she would reach by
buying a lot in that city. He induced
her to purchase, the price being $3,000.
She paid SI,OOO down and the balance
was to come in payments. It turned
out afterward that the lot really be
longed to the man V. ho induced her to
buy, although lie had represented dif
ferently. The editor of The Herald
met Miss Field in Sun Diego nearly
two years ago. when she related tho
story of her Atchison purchase, de
scribed tho location of tho property,
and said she had received a letter from
a friend not to meet the second pay
ment, as the pr< >pertv was not then and
never had been worth more than
SI,OOO, the amount she had already
(>aid. We were requested to investi
gate the matter for her and did so.
We had fivo of the best reliable men in
Atchison value the property. One
placed the value less than $1,000; the
other thought it might be worth $1,200.
We advised Miss Field to lose tho SI,OOO
she had paid down rather than pay
the $2,0u0 yet due. ’Hus is the true
story of Miss Field's real estate deal in
Atchison. The deal was a clear
swindle for which the city of Atchison
was in no way- responsible, but perpe
trated by a man of prominence who
claimed respectability.
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