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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 15* 1885.—TWELVE PAGES
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SAVED 1)Y SALT AND WATER.
nan, App«
utly
Dytni?, lSfR«n Work Anew,
Now York Tribune.
Briilst'. Connolly, a woman of middle ago,
with a Htrong constitution, w as recently ad
mitted to the Bellevue Hospital an a patient,
ller husband, in a lit of Jealotuv, had shot
her. The ball entered the right aide of her
face, curried a'Say a poriion of tho upper
jaw and lutdly fractured the bone,
Kho had boen in the hospital for a week,
was getting along well, gaining strength,
and was able to sit np in her cot, when
there wan an unexpected chango in her
ease. As tlio nurse, in going tho rounds
afier midnight, came to the cot on which
Bridget Connolly was sleeping, she stopped
suddenly and moral closer to the sleeping
woman. A change had come over the pa
tient's face. It Was stamped by the seal
of approaching death. D iwn tho woman’s
neck, from beneath the bandage on her
face, slowly trickled her heart's blood, and
a large crimson spot on the pillow told that
it had been flowing fora longtime. Second
ary hemorrhage had s,-t in, and from all in
dications the woman would be dead beforo
daylight. The none summoned Dr. 8, H.
Pinkerton, tho attending surgeon. It was
his opinion that the woman would live only
a short time. But he >. t about to tin her
life if possibl
Hypodermic injections of whisky were
given in the arm and chest at frequent in
tervals. Warm Lotties and cloths wero
applied at different parta of tho body, and
the patient's feet were elevated above her
head and body. While these measures Were
being taken to excite the heart and warm
tho body, the surgeon was seeking the lacer
ated artery in the jaw where the hemorrhage
hail come from, lie found it after much
difficulty. Assoon as tile artery was found,
an incision was made near it and it was tied
so ns to i ffectnslly stop the benu rrhage.
The patient did not rally nndcr tho treat
ment.
Satisfied after persistent trial that the
ordinary treatment given Incases where tho
patient was exhausted from oontinued
hemorrhage was useless, the surgeon de
cided to employ heroic measures, as under
the existing conditions the woman would
surely die. Some water was obtained that
«ss a few degrees higher in temperature
Min the human body. Sufficient salt was
dissolved in this L> make a strong solution.
Tho surgeon had detirmined npon a trans
fusion, lint instead of taking the blood
from anotber person to inject into the body
of the patient, bo intended to use tho salt
and water.
V. 1,.!.- 11,.■ nor.. I:. M tl.< n l.t ra , i
woman fixed and steady, an incision was
made in it one and one-half inches long,
following aha ootttaa oflMhe raidtol artery.
The surgeon, making suro that tho solution
of salt and water was of the proper temper
ature, took an ordinary Davidson's syringe
and filled it with the liquid, after the syr
inge hml been thoroughly cleansed, and then
forced tho suit and water into the artery
against the nction of tho heart. Little
liquid was put in at a time, so that it conlil
run oft into tho first branch of the radial
artery thutit came to past) into and through
tho capillaries and find its way to the heart
mixed with the small amount of
blood that was in tho body. Any impuri
ties in tno wnt. r were taken up by tho ca
pillaries, so that there was no danger of
oven the minutest particle of foreign mat
ter getting to the heart On went tho so
lution through tlic veins, and when it
roach* d the In art that organ appear* *1 t**
become excited and oppose the admission
of an intruder for a moment. Then there
waan sudden stimulation to tho circulation
Hint was immediately followed by n re
action and it was thought that the
patient had died. But she rallied
and as the liquid reached the heart in Larger
quantities the he art loaned to tako kindly
to it, stopped its fluttering movement and
sent it tingling through the arteries ns if it
was good, healthy blood. Tho injection was
kept up slowly ami steu.lily for fully five
minutes until about twenty-four ounces
■went transfused. As tho volnmo of liquid
i_ til*' body iner as, ,1 til. lit art took fr- .-h
eourago and gradually beat stronger, until
tho time when the injection waa stopped.
A good degree of arterial tension
was established and tho pul
waa manifest at tho wrist. Soon
afn r tlio circulation had been established
the In art 1» ,.t in* r..pi My t'u *n normal
ns if in iking up f r l.*-t lim-, and t>.* body
gradually bocsina warmer, until it fell nnt-
'' ttzol to Use touch. A gleam of intelligence
shot from tho patient s cyo and she becamn
conscious aft r the operation bid bear
finished. She hml no knowledge of what
hod been going on and looked around in
wonder npon tin doctor, hil assistant and
tho nurses. The patient was extremely
weak fur several days after the operation,
lint the nourishment that sha took asslnin-
lated quickly and she made x speedy re-
Tld’s is the first successful case of arterial
transfusion in Bellevue Hospital. In tho
old method of blood transfusion the blood
taken from one body was forced into the
veins of another. In tho prexent method
tho solution of salt and w sfcr is forced into
an artery against the action of the heart,
and acta much quicker than tho blood. It
was formerly snppos. 1 that the patient was
benefited by tliu nourishment in the blood
traiisfiiM *1.' Now it is 1 * li* - 1, I'm. . >■ "
is not thoroughly demonstrated, that tho
heart is stimulated by art, rial tension and
that one iuocuous fluid is as good as au
nt).- r.
lowing the shore line ns far south ns Sandy
Hook. But while this current hugs the
const, not all of its waters pass through the
narrow strait which Mr. Goodridge proposes
to dam. On tho contrary, there is reason
to believe that theso waters for the most
part puss ontwnrd around tho eastern shore
of Newfoundland. The dam would lie a
source of great comfort to the people who
inhabit tho shores of the St. Lawrence Gulf,
hut New England and Now York would still
be in the cold.
LOCKS OF GOLD.
The Cost nt Wbtcll they aro Kuim-ttim-s Ob
tained.
Once I was sent for to n very swell house
in Madison Avenue, said a barber to n New
York Times writer. 1 was ushered in most
mysteriously. The liveried servant never
said a word. He rung a small bell in the
wall, and in about five minutes a sedate
looking female appeared. She motioned
me to follow her upstairs, and I did so. It
war. an oquisitely furnished house, and
everything was of the most costly
description. I noticed, however, that
there seemed to be signs of moving or
house cleaning. I was ushered into a hand
some bedroom, u"on a sofa in which re
clined a young lady, who had evidently
been very ill, and who was thin and ap
parently exhausted. The sedate looking
servant left me alone with her, and shut
the door. I was more than astonished.
“ ‘I have heard of you,' said the young
lady, presently. ‘I have read your ad
vertisement. I—I have need of you.'
She was very weak. I handed her
a glass i.f lemonade which was beside
her; She drank it. ‘I. have he 1 *he
scarlet fever,' she said presently. ‘Siam:
ond papa have both beed away in Europe,
and will not be back until to-morrow. Sir,
I want yon to cut off my hair close to the
head. The doctor said it would be good.’
She shook down the most luxuriant brawn
hair I over saw. I told her it would be n
great pity to cut off such magnificent hair,
und that it conld not possibly o her much
good now if I complied with her revuest,
seeing that the fever had left her.
“ ’Do as I tell you," sho said, imperious-
., ‘and promise me that yon will d
tell yon after you have cut it off.’ I de
clined to make any such promise. ‘You
must do it,’ she persisted; ‘it is simply con
nected with your professional duty, and for
the job I will give yon $500.’ Well, sir, yon
kuow I work for my bread and butter.
This offer tempten me, as it would have
tempted any one, I don’t care whether he
be barber or not, and 1 promised.
I ent off tho exqniste brown hair, and
ied tho remaining locks closo to tho
of the suffering girl. I know Hook
a fright,’ sho, as she <
in a looking glass, ’hot there is a method in
mymadnes8. I shall wear a cap until my
hair grows. I have always longed,’she
wont on, ‘for golden hair. I adore
it. I would do anything in the
world to have golden hair, hut
papa anil mamma thought I used dye of an,
kind thoy would never forgive me. So
thought of a brilliant plan after my fever.
You have eat my hair off. I want yon to
kyo what remains golden, and to tell papa
and mamma when they come bock that yet)
shaved my head, and that the new crop of
hair will bo golden. It might be, too,
mightn't it? I knew of no such physiolog
ical phenomenon on record, and said so.
‘Everyone isn’t as clever os you,* she
said, ’and papa and mamma will believe
what yon say. Mamie S., a friend of min;,
did it, and tells me now that she ulm*&
believes her hair did crow (. olden after it
had been ent off.' Well I hail promised, so
wus forced to comply with my friend’s re
quest. I visited ti.e house n few days
later end saw tho father and mother.
I told them that it was not at all unusual
for a second crop of hair to be lighter
for tho first. They believed mo, and tho
mother was delighted. ’The dear child h
lic.-n wi-hing for golden lmir all her li]
sho said. ‘1 was moro than pleased
think that sho has now attained her detflto
-in 6nch an unexpected way, too.’ I of
ten see that girl in Fifth Avcata now, bat
sho never looks at me. Sho has obtained
what she wanted and will never como near
me again, I suppose.”
THE MOMENT OF DEATH.
I low (lie Worn-oat l!o<ly Sinks In tho Lost
Repoto.
The Medical and Surgical Review says
under the question, “Is Death l’ai:
Tho function of dying i» actually
etativo -wo fall to pieces like a flower.
if
HIS 1’IG WAS STOLEN,
a Incident In the History ol tne Iteil L-vel
I’orU Club.
Tlio neighbors of l!cd Level hail n [*;r!>
club. Each member in his turn fumishid
pig to be divided among tho club. Jim
oglesang wus a stingy Dutchman that e n
joyed tho arrangement finely till it came his
timo to furuish the pig. Ho began to figure
to save both his reputation ond pork. Jim
unfolds his dilemma to Sim Dense, the
practical joker of tho neighborhood, thusly:
“Isay. Shim, I vas in vone pad pickle. It
ish iny dime to kilt von horg fer der klnb.
I dost raise mine horg menlX and dost veed
him too. I vould rudder eat him all meselt
too. I dost not vant to gift mine nice pig
to do klub. Vat must I do?"
After going to the pen and looking at tho
Dutchman's pig. Sim turned toVoglesang.
“I’ll toll you what’s a fact Voce, you can
save your pig and reputation both."
“How vas dot, fren 8b>m?"
"Why Voge kill vonr pig and dress him
and hang him outside of your smokehonso
to-night to get cold. To-morrow tell the
club u’bat yon dono and my somo ono stole
your pig."
“KiipulftL Dot vas de idee. I'll do dot
very ting. Yon den Bhusts cooroes over
and sees me, fren Shim. I makos it nil
right mit you.”
“Good, Jim. Yon mnst be in dead earn
est when you are telling the clnb some one
stole your pig. You must mako them be
lieve it’s so, even if you have to swear to it
like a sailor.”
“All right, I can do dot.” «
Voglcsang docs ns directed. Wakes next
morning aud finds his pig gone. Looks
nbont for a while and grnutH.
“Veil de tarn pig ish gone,” and goes over
to Bee Sim, who had boen np very early,
and made a trip to the meeting place ac
cording to arrangement and returned. Sim,
with a nonchalant air, was feeding his mules
when Voglesang arrived.
I say, Shim, I done vot yon told me.”
That's nil right, Voge. I knew yon
would."
'lint I say, fren Shim, somepoddy stole
mine pig."
‘That's all right, Voge, but put a little
wore vim in it; if yon don't, nobody will
believe your story.”
■’lint I say dot pig vas gone!”
That’s better, Voge. Not quite strong
enough yet.”
“But de devil, fren Shim, I say de pig
vas gone 1"
“Voge, that's talkingit out tolerably well;
bnt come down on it heavier yet.”
‘By bun, my trend, I tolls you shnre
miff, dot hog ia found no vere. lie
dare.”
'That's pretty near the way to tell it, so
the club will believe somebody di 1 j M
your hog.”
“Tam it, I teUs you de hog vas not dere
at nil, at all 1”
'You're coming it now, Jim. A little
more mneher and yon will savo your repu
tation and pig too. How much did he
weigh?”
ve de debbil an' Tom Valker! I tells
yon tie pig vas not dere 1”
“That’s right, Jim; don't let them catch
yon in a trap. Stick to it that somebody
stole your hog ?”
“Stick to dat! Dnnder! Don't I tells
you somepoddy done stole dot pig?"
"Yon talk it out abont right now, Jim.
You will have no trouble in convincing the
clnb that somebody stole your pig.”
With a grant of disgust, Voge tarned and
went homo muttering, “Dot bun fool dost
tink I vas playing off till der last”
B. H. L.
Colorado for 50 cents, tho purchaser think-
ing hi was fortunate in wearing it nt any
pneo. Farim-m and ranchmen came to
town and carried homo nn apple or two a*,
curiosities, somctiiut s to children who saw
them then for the first time. It was not
until the Union Paeiflo reached Cheyenne,
in 1868, that apples or any other fresh fruit
begun to arrive in Denver in any consider
able quantitle s, nrul even then they were
sold nt retail for 12} cents each,
with higher prices fo’r extra large
and lino oneB. Tho following year,
when communication was opened by rail
with California, oranges, pears, grapes and
other semi-tropical fruits became moderate
ly plentiful in market, and prices fell, but
were still large enough to score eastern
people. Twenty-five cents n pound at
retail was tho ordinary price for peaches,
grapes and pears.
Strawberries from the Eas^ began to
reach this market when tire Denver Pacific
was completed to Denver. One dollar per
quart wus the ordinary price, nnd for sev
eral years it scarcely ever fell below 50 cents
per quart. It is only within tho post two
years that tho nvernge retail price for straw
berries has fallen below 25 cents per quart.
NEW JERSEYS SALOONS.
HOT WATER.
The Portions of Ike Otobo that OeU the
Item-lit of It.
l«cw York Tim**;. , ,
A well-known en tm.-.-rof tins city lias de-
viK, ,11. plan for mitigating the severity of
winter ami spring in the North Atlantic
States and warming tin-blue noses of onr
friend-* in Novn Beotia. The great warm
. i;rr. nt calh *1 the Gulf stream surges by us
on its northeasterly course, hut it is com-
twalv believed that the British Isles and
rrulKesrisin Itirnne girt t*“ *-"*"♦ "* w*
WUh this stream almost within onr waoh
v*„,,!*.r mid tr*-•-’.e through tho winter
anfl that horrible season called
,., r . i ,. n-.-.i river of ice water from
t ie L’l-u-i, is * f tne pole pushes It away from
_,wslt Mr. Good ridge, the philanthrop
ic sMtnear to whom we refer, IMNM* to
^G|h|k river in the strait Belle Lde
|U waters eastward into tha wide
aSmHc. Tbto stroll, which separate* New-
feandlinri from Labrador, la at one Mint
nn i v n mile* wide iod 1*>•) wt «!• •
SSL bo would invent $40,000,000 »•’ *
dam. . , . .
\\. sll ' Sl.lt ?.*
0 l,„t 1" V».-Ul l Ml •
const from N* Af.i.iicih-nd l-‘
Inralt.N *•* u',.l p.* - their
the .1. tlectnl p-
ofthi
of th
death, under the question,
■ * m
vegetative—wo tall to pieces use a uower.
This very fact, that the process is chemical,
confirms us in the conclusion that tbo
final throe is as painless as the inconveni
ence is nothing to the ffetal pilgrim when
he touches on daylight. A moment's ex
amination of the way we are to dio will
show marks of goodness in oar taking off.
The degree of sensibility is proportioned
to the integrity of the tissues. All inflam-
mstion heightens it; age depreciates it
Any defect in the nutrition disturbs tho
comfort of the inpividnsl until the car
bonic acid generated in tho devitalization
of the blood becomes fixed in the cells, or
is no longer displaced. Tho sensory gan-
f lia everywhere part with their irritability
y virtue of this poison and cease to con
dnet currents. The criteria of death are be
ing satisfied and the process is consum
mate! when the extinction of sensibility
prevailaat the ultimate filaments.
Daring the progress of the dissolution of
the nerve force, this creeping on of the
nnmbneas of dcsth, the individual is rapid
ly passing in a condition of repose, anti
instead of torture or pangs, a degree of
self-sstisfaction oft approaching to enthu
siasm is realised. The sensations peculiar
to the therapeutical operation of opium,
hasheesh, ether, etc., are not improbably
skin to the mental activities of tho dying.
Barring the hallucinations experienced in
the stupor as it gains JcO the subject, the
moribund ia familiar with naught that
borders on suffering. Thu earbonio arid
has poisoned or narcotized tho several
ganglia and infloz productions are inter
dicted. A consummate analgesia prevails.
In short, the notion of pain to forbidden
the instant that any stimulus foils to excite
a response. The condition to this irrita
bility to that the nerve centre and the track
be sound. If this figure vanishes,
reflex phenomena are at an end, and suffer
ing, physiologically speaking, i* impossible,
because of tho arrest of the function of the
sympathetic. Fortunately, for a whole
some study of one's domtoe, there are as
surance* abundant from vivisection, the
testimony of those who have been restored
to consciousness and the affirmations of the
dying, that there to no physical recoil from
dead*.
One Drinking Place to Kverjr 170 of the
State's Population.
Patcrvon Press.
Tho statement has somehow got into dr-
eolation that New Jersey lituf moro liqnor
saloons, in proportion to her population,
than any State. This is n mistake. Now
Jersey has C.GU saloons, or one to every
170 people. Hut this proportion is vastly
l.-d by all \V.-*t-rn States and Terri
tories, in Montana, for instance, thoro be
ing a saloon to every forty-seven people.
New Jersey comes twelfth on the list. It is
a fact, however, that Now Jersey stands at
the head of all the “original thirteen” and
of all tho Northern States in the number of
saloons to population. New York, even,
coming below her, with a saloon to every
18J people. The standing of the Southern
States in this regard to rtally credit able to
them, as, beginning with Texas, the
highest, which has n saloon for every EGG
people, tho proportion gradually descends
along nlmost the entire Southern
line, until wo comn to Sonth Carolina
which has a saloon only for every 1,180 of
her people. Indiana has the best showing
of all the Northern or Western States, wit i
a saloon for every 1171 people*. Tlio only
Southern States which have more saloons
per capita than ahe are Maryland, Dela
ware (both of which praeticaUy belong to
the North), Louisiana and Missouri. This
showing to a startling one, for New Jersey
and all the Northern States.
But after all, we aro not so bod os
were the people of the “good old times. "
In 1785 whisky and rum were regardod ta
among tho necessaries of life and were
almost as free as water. In farm labor
ardent spirits were a regular doily ration.
It to related by writers of the period that
■ ‘in the country clergymen drank as hard
as their parishioners; that women and
children joined in the revels, and that it
was no more uncommon to a meet a tipsy
clergyman than it was to nee a woman or
half-grown boy staggering nndcr an over
load of spirits, or a farmhand lying blind
lying blind drunk by the roadside.” fn
Fennsylvatiir* there were in 171)0 5,000
stills in operation in a population of 434,-
373, or ono still for every eighly-aeven of
the inhabitants. And what waa truo of
Pennsylvania was also true of New Jersey,
the lend of “apple jack."
FRESH l-'UUiT IN DENVER.
High Price* Formerly Given for Apple*,
RUSSIAN UNBELIEF.
Doleful Picture of tlio State of Religion
in the Land of the Czar*#
William Westell, writing in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, asserts that the Russian
ucated classes believe nothing whatever.
Identifying religion with despotism, they
abj are both. When I say they believe noth
ing I mean, of course, that they are not
even deists; they are cither atheists or ag
nos tics.
Of this a striking and significant, though
indirect, proof occurred while I was en
gaged in tho translation of “RnsBia Under
the Czars." Those of your readets who
have not seen the book itself may have
seen the touching story of “Poor Thirty-
Nine,” and her imprisonment in tho house
ot preventive detention. The substance of
this sketch was written some time ago, but
had not previously appeared in print in
its present shape. Thongh literally truo
in tho sense that it describes without
exaggeration things which have actually oc
curred, the heroine can Le identified with
nobody in particular; there have been hun
dreds of thirty-nines. Tho narrative is
based on facts drawn from a variety of
sources, and is so far historical; but tho
minor touches—that which gives it life, col
or nnd movement—sro more or less the
ork of art and the imagination. ItAis true
i Uncle Tom’s Cabin is true, only moro
so, as there is probably a closer adherence
to fact than in that world fomons book.
Thia by way of preliminary explanation.
Well, when 1 was turning into English that
part of the story which deals with Thirty-
nine’s arrest and removal from her parents'
house, I made tho mother "offer up a silent
prayer to heaven,” and the expression ap
peared in the first proofs. I should not
lave imputed such a sentiment to the he
roine, for sho belongs to n revolutionary
generation, but I thought that, without any
violation of probability, tho mother might
bo supposed to retain some sort at belief in
in a personal God.
But Stepniak objected. To impute to a
Russian mother of the educated classes even
so much belief as this expression implied,
would, ho said, be overstraining tho troth.
So the expression was struck out nnd does
not appeur in the book. It seemed to him
almost lmlicrons that anybody should deem
a typical Russian parent capable ot enter
taining the thought which it formulated.
Tho incident is significant alike
of Stepniak's conscientiousness — he
would mako no statement, how
ever apparently insignificant, of whose
accuracy ho had tho slightest donbt—and of
tho extent to which skepticism has perme
ated Russian society. And what a sad,
hopeless, nay despairing society it mnst lie]
It is bad enough that n government should
have the power and tho will to break into
people's bouses nt dead of night nnd carry
off innocent children to a doom worse than
slavery or death, bnt how shall wo gaugo
the nnspeakablo misery of the
bereaved mother, unable to offer
a whispered prayer for consolation
and help? And in Russia there are many
such mothers, sorrowing for their children,
not knowing whether they were alive or
dead, yet suro Hint, if living, they nro
wretched beyond tho power of words to ex
press. No wonder that Russia is a melan
choly country; that its poetty, its novels
and ita legends tako thi-ir tone from tho all
pervading sadness. Aud thus it will be,
so long as tho dark shadow of a despotic
throne broods over the land, *•**! the spirit
of tho nation to crushed and tho flower of
its youth destroyed by a military tyranny
INDIAN FAIRY STORIES.
Talcs In ulili-h Illg *ui*l Italliy Is Heaton
by W* . and Wise.
FoO'lbeing the first object of the Indian's
life, it is not onlv natural that eating and
that which leads up to it namely, the
chase—should It perpetually promt net in
their popular tabs, says a writer in th*
San Francis o Ingli side. In one form or
another, therefore, they are constantly re
current and Bom* tim* - with considerable
humor. Thus a giant, who lindstoltn the
magio white feather from the youth to whom i
it belongs turns tho lad whom he has
wronged into a dog, and pretends t*> bo tho j
heto of the White Feather himself. But
tho virtue.*, of tho magic plume remain with
its rightful passe *sor (a very curious depart
ure, by the way, from the ordinary
rule of fairy stories), and the giant |
is made a fool of at every turn. Tho
enchanted dog goes and pulls a stone J
out of the river, aud it turns to a fine fat
ln-aver. The giant docs the lame, drags ,
homo a fino healthy stone. The dog
breaks off » charred branch from a treo and
rejoices tho chiefs daughter, who is keep
ing house for him, with a largo juicy bear
11,0 giant does tho same, mid roaches homo,
sweating under tho loud of a clialf-burnl
tree-trunk. Eventually, of course, the im
posture betrnys itself, nnd tho dog, resum
k B. S. I_1L
fer
i ferocious police.
POWERFUL LIQUOR.
Tortured With Needles suit Soap.
Caiio A Philadelphia apodal says Peter Reek-
.(ill!; 1 m m wn* before Judge Fell this morning to
ouch- | answer a charge of cruelty preferred by
nt* r. I ),i- wifo, Elm testified that ho hod beta In
'll the habit of jabbing nesdles Into her
*• sees shoulder in order to teach her not to let
- #i. i ti, t„ Re about the floor, and if ahe cringed
"l i , t| l4 torture he rould fill her month
■ it t,’-1 with so *|> l’l ter <1. aied the soap imp' ach-
Su- I Baent, alihowth he odmittod that he bad ot-
, tamDtsd to tother bar month fox irritating —- .
U>< * T lumiHi wM In wonted to be boss but those days. For several
idam- dhe wouldn't fit him, and that a hooee I tim* fault wea rery eeweb,
■aana i *SitU4 ifeetf cannot He I peeled, when it hod to be
a piaeuabtoa of htoIthsMianuiiriverocCaHfoe
n t!i*- ' \*i'- it - - r-I-i'-i j*; r 1L-- r-Mn.g pn*-*- f**r ;*} pi
-d f.d p-iialW-'f going t > I , *, : *,,.n I t.““V a !*•*.“" 1
The first fresh fruit that ever entered the
Denver market for sole, say* the Denver
Tribune-Republican, came from California
on the 17th of September, 18G2. It consist
ed of pears nnd grapes, and came by stage,
the only mean* of rapid conveyance in those
days. Previous to that time o few apples
ami lemons had croused the plains froth tho
East, bat as they were consigned to parties,,
or onlered for parties who wonted them for
their own nse, it can hardly be ooi*l
that they were in the, market
for sale. Whisky sours, at
dished oat over Colorado bora in those
days, got their acid from some other source
than lemons. The shipment was received
by John IL Martin later in the same year,
li cam* from the East and consisted of
apples, which sold for 75 cents per pound.
The first consignment of California fruit
waa consigned to some firm on Blake street,
possibly Subbins A Porter, who were then
the heaviest dealers in the city. Th# lot
was small, and just what price it brought i» —
not known. But the froit was a rarity, I office, and se 1
attracted a great amount of attention, and I dential and Y
probably brought fancy prim t, even for Adams, Ws-1
“ ' ~ ' after that I *•* -i-albiui
Wliat the Indians Drank ttetore They
Tasted Whisky.
Hath to New York Tribune.
Gen. Georgo A. Sheridan to ono of tho
moat entertaining conversationalist* in the
country. I met him uptown tho other
night when ha was discussing intoxicants.
Said he; “It ia a singular state ol affairs
that there to no nation on the faco of the
globe, so for a* known, that has not an in
toxicant of aome kind. I had cariosity
once to go into an investigation of that
question in a very thorough way, and my
statement is tho result of careful study.
The Indians, before we began to fnrnish
them with fire-water, knew of a plant
from which they made n drink that was
intoxicating. It liad a bulb in the
center at the root and long leaves from
which the sap concentrated in the lmlb. It
was then expressed from tho bnlb and
drank. Thu natives in Louisiana, as far
back as 1580, raised n sugar plant from
which they expressed the juices and mode
sugar, anil from that a sweet rum. It was
the most powerful iutoiicant of which I
have ever heard. Tho Mexicans havo a re
markable driuk. It to made from aidant
that grows in the country. They skin a
pig and tie up the hide at the ends. They
fill it with the juice from this plant and
then saw np the belly and let it ferment
It makes a delicious beverage. Yon might
drink a gallon of it at night wiihout feeling
more than a momentary exhilaration, but
when yon woke np next morning you would
be more gloriously drunk tnan ever beforo
in yonr life, and it would take forty-eight
hours or so to get over it”
Tbe Fatal November.
Olevalaad Leader.
There are many curious facta in Au
history. Ilcre we hare the thre
Pnaidfli
ncan
\ i -
President*, Geny, Hendrick* and Wilton,
dying in November at dates which might all
como in a single week. No President, eiiher
in or out of office, has died in November,
thongh eix have died in July ami four in
Jane. Garfield died in September, Lincoln
in April, Taylor in Joly and Unrrihon in | their
April. Two Vicc-Pwsi lenU hare been in
dicted for tr* .won. Theao were Aaron llurr
and Jaim C. Hr*--k* » . Om Vir«:-Pr« *-
ident, John 0. Calhi un, hax rorigiu-d his
n men have held botfi Presi-
e-Prehldontial chain*. John
ngton'a Vice-President, hoc-
the White House. Jeff* non,
*r* ddrnt, did like* ist, nnd
ing hie proper shape, comes to bin own
again. But it is worth, noting how the idea
that giant* must of necessity be fools, which
is common to* the fairy tales of all other
countries, is also an axiom of tho red man’s
folk-lore- In every story under tho sun
tho hero, though, small of stuture, elwavs
geta tho better of tho colossal, bat simple-
minded giant.
Another illustration of tho magical pro
duction of food is the delightful explana
tion of the reason why squirrels cough.
Mnnabozho caino ono day to the lodge of
tho red-headed woodpecker, and being in
vited in, nnt down. Now there was noth
ing for tho guests to eat, so the bird llew
on tlio lodge-polo (which was the bolo of
a tamarack tree), and after a few pecks
with his beak found a crevice, out of
which ho pulled something, and lol it was
a fino raccoon. This feat ho performed
half a dozen times in sneoeshion, and
then tho squaws came in and prepared tho
feast. Next duy the^red-hcaded woodp eker
returned tho visit,* and Mnnabozho, who
was not going to be beaten by a bird, had
taken caro to havo n new lodge built
around a tamarack tree; so, apologizing,
just m tho woodpecker had dono, for hav
ing nothing in tho larder, he hopped up
toward tho polo, and, clinging to it
as ho had seen the bird do, began rapping
his nose against the wood. Unable to
find any raccoons, he got so angry that
ho knocKcd liis head too hard against the
polo nnd fell down on tho floor stunned.
And tho woodpecker went off in a huff
A few days later Mnnabozho was standing
at his door, wondering how ho could get
even with his neighbor, especially as it
was tho depth of winter and tliero was
nothing bnt roots to eat, when he saw two
men carrying a bear. Ho got into a con
versation with them, nnd speaking of his
own magical powers, was asked to give an
exhibition of them. This he did at once by
turning one of tho two men into stono.
Ana now turn him hack into a man,”
said the other.
'Oh 1” said Manxbozho. “I cannot do that,
I only know tho first half of tho trick.”
So tho second hunter, unnblo to drag tho
bear all by himself, left it at Manahozho’s
door; whereupon that rnscal at once invited
ell his friends to tho great feast, and. was
prodigiously important and fussy at being
able to ask them to come nnd eat good
hcar’tt meat at a timo when everyone was
living on roots. But alas! oh each one filled
his mouth, tho bear’s incut turned into
okLch, and, ono after tho other, tho guests
bognn coughing oh if they wero going to
choke. Tho moro they ate tho worse tho
coughing grow, nnd at loft tlio host in his
indignation tarned them into squirrel*, and
that is why squirrels cough so much.
A Talk with tho Cauily Man-C!uu»k* h ai
Noveltw** In Confectionery, etc.
Washington HUr.
"What ncT candies arc yon making tli
year? ’ asked tho reporter.
"Now candies?” echoed tho dealer, with
laugh, "there is not much novelty in our
business. Wo make the saino candies y«'.ir
after year; perhaps thero is somo change in
tho form, or in tho combination of mate
rials, hut I am making bon hons, tallies,
just as I did when I first went into busines?
In this city. Of course thero aro new com
binations. For instanco two or three years
ago the mint drop creams cumu out, nnd
wo are selling them still. So with tho but
tercups aud tho lime-jaico drops. Then
thoro aro the glaces, which havo be* n for
sale some four or five years. The feature of
candies, however, just now in tho nso*of
fruits in various ways and fruit syrup*-.
The latter is used largely with bon bon*.
But, as I havo Haid, there is not much 1
chango in candies, and tbe only improve
ment that can bo devised is in th*- * diame
ter of the materials and the skill with
which they are combined.”
"Do tho prices remain unchanged also?”
questioned tho reporter.
"Wo aro selling better candy fer less
money than was formerly the case," replied
he candy man. "My prices, for instance,
range from twenty-five cents to eighty
cents per pound. At the former figure you
get broke candies, ta files and a very
good article of bon bon, and at
tbo latter pri<*e all those candies that are
made by hand. As, for instance, theglaces,
wnii-h have to bo dipped in the boiling
liquid by hand and taken out again in the
same way. For such candy I charge HO
cents a pound, and it U well worth it”
"What have become of the soar halls and
jujue paste of onr schooldays? ’ interrupted
tho listener.
"You will still find that class of goods in
tho same places where you used to buy
them,” replied the dealer. "All th" little
candy stores in tho vicinity of school-hous* s
aro stocked with such articles. Because
you don't find them on my counteiu you
must not suppose that they aro no longer
manufactured. Thero is no demand for
! them on tho avenue, and consequently I
| havo none in stock.”
I havo heard of candies that sold for
I fight, ten nnd twelve cents per pound?”
' usually remarked the listener.
"Yee, to have I,” rejoined the dealer.
‘'You find them at variotm festivals, in the
pooka of the Hanta Chus tnat appear on
such occasions. Bnt if you eat some of
this kind of candy you will think beforo
! long that you most nave swallowed a plas
ter of Faria image by mistake. They put I
t‘ h i ivlut in it • i:.■ 1 v 1 *i. ' ■ .iii I <*tit* r m.i-
teriola of that kind, which in cheaper than I
sugar, lint then the children don't know
it, and so there ia no harm dono except to
Important to Piano buyers. Our
GOLD WATCH SOUVENilt OFFF.lt
extended another month. To ai- j
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them selves of this GRAND OFFElt,
we hold it open until January 1st
next. Positively no further exten
sion given.
THE OFFER.
I preset]
ovory SPOT CASH PURCHASER of
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Koll in Cash by January 1.
To Organ Bayers.
- Hi
An Elegant Clock
Presented Free !
A chance for Organ buyers also.
Send cash before January 1st for an
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will give with it nn elegant Clock of J
beautiful design. A real art gem, j
costly and beautiful, that will ho es
teemed a valnablo Bonvenir by ail
who receive it.
Send quick for catalogues nnd cir
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money refunded if 4 not satisfactory.
Purchasers take no rit^i. Address
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Music House. Savannah,Oa
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