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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 15* 1885.—TWELVE PAGES Ho 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 low patrons in distant Staten to avail i 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 a Piano daring December. For full particulars send for circulars. 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 organ worth $S() or upwards, and we J) 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 culars. Orders must bo in by Janu ary 1-' li. '. ...... g:;;;r.r:tD**fl money refunded if 4 not satisfactory. Purchasers take no rit^i. Address Luddcn & Bates Southern Music House. Savannah,Oa L. & B. S. M. H. c <4 REYNOLDS’ BBOS WolfKS. Iron and Brass I'oimdrirs and Machine Shops. I l .... Milt- s..r**i K. III. . SB .u*. W*-*- |*w11 ilia, iron VNaUUr fiwU merhfaery at all IfadaUnn kiiiu. it.- pairing n» *m *r,ir • 4 and machinery a -t<..rt,*. Iron *u<1 t amh!>.\4 of . very tlrwcnin:* l Iii f«ct*ny :tt»d everythin that or kept lo H TlM V pvoprietor tea Ini au sipsn—»n i forty v«*r* to tbe ir.*u Lrutatu. <y*W> pinutn toaaOyeu OMmUHi < kaa anybody, and that they wfB ^vt f * > \\ rANTED. ** •-'.vr v S 7*. r* r * lit I I* !*!!.) I t.411.1 C«i 1MM Mr. J. W. Crawford, iiv ille. He day, anil t*>!d tin •port* ,r- til.-nt*. Burvii. ».»*. 1*.- . Pr.-i.l. Vic -•inti* ol toe it Ly death. The i 3-vc.r-ol.l hog L ■' nf hiS It I.'t* I** It. * *•• t in ltniRh when hun lMDpoan.l* net It w** tutsMi end the Ouineo si/*., wind tin* Lots ... U|*. BUll All Sorts of hurts an*', many son; of ails of man and beast need a cooling lotion. Mustang Liniment.