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The Qui^uan Free Press chroni
eled eight weddings last week.La
The Thotnasville Times is mw : -
• sued as a daily. ™
The habit of being a candidate is
one of the very worst habits that a
man can acquire.
The stewards of the Methodist
chnrchjof Elbcrton have fixed the
salary of the pastor at $1,200.
Work on the now iail at Darien is
being pushed right ahead, and it will
not bo long before it will be ready for
the reception of guests.
On February 7, Dodge county will
say by her vole whether whisky shall
come back or not. She has been dry
for the past two years.
The Hebrews of Atlanta will give
a charity ball Jan. 18 in aid of the
Orphans Home.
The Putnam Enterprise is the
name of a new weekly paper started
at Eatonton.
Sandersville cxnects to open a
Banking House on or about the 15th
inst.
The Gainesville Fla., Record treat
ed i s readers to a ten page issue last
Week.
i The Mayor of Athens fined a ne
gro woman $50 last week for selling
whiskey without license.
One of the hotels in Green Cove,
Fla., feasted its boarders on green
peas and new Irish potatoes >Vw
Year's day.
Several liquor dealers in Davien
stopped selling the stuff after las*
Saturday nigh .
South Caiolina has passed a bill
to pension her disabled » du.'oderaio
soldiers. The pension will he$5 per
month.
There are 175 newspaper printed
in Georgia, and,all but lour of them
are opposed to tjiecontinuance of the
Itanding annyietf. the United
talcs, according to fjho late report
P. H. Sheridan), is 24,230, with
5,2Q0 officers. (
Tfco condemned /murderer, Thos.
G.. Woolfolk, Is trying his best to es.
cape jail, and thfo strictest watch has
to bo kept srirer him.
A Milwaukee Wis., manufacturing
coqrjfirny has turned out a prime. "s
composing rule that combines three
indispensable requisites in a punting
office—composing : ule, bodkin and
tweezers. It is said to lie no thicker
than tho ordinary rule.
Senator Vooikees stuffed a hand
kerchief into Senntor Sherman's
trumpet and the blast that Sherman
blew was made to.come out tit tiie
little .end of the horn.
Cigar manufacturers and cigar
makers in New York are eyeing each
other very closely. The proposed
return to the tenement house system
seems certain to bo followed by a
strike, for which both sides are pre
paring.
Lowndes county hus brought to
the froet n while.partridge, and tho
Times wests to know if nnv body
else has ever seen a while partridge.
This is the third one crplured with
in the past lew years.
LaFaycltc Messenger: The master
pine in north Georgia has fallen be
fore tho woodman's axe. It stood
on Rev. J. J. Callaway's place. Sis
stocks were furnished by it. Across
the stump it measured four feet sev
en and a quarter inches, while at the
small end of the last stock it was
three feet in diameter.
Anew complication has arisen in
Atlanta over the liquor ques ion.
The county of Fulton charges $2,000
for license, and the city has put the
license at $1,000. The grand jury
have found a:rue bill against one
jDaun, keeper of a wine room by way
of making a est question of it. They
claim that the city cai't issue a li
cense for less money thnn the county,
as that makes her laws in conflict
with those of the higher powe —the
county.
3!en of Many Millions.
out, the packingking, is itorth
1,00! I.
ackay and Fair are said to be
worth $51,000,000 each.
Editor Abell is said to be worth
$5,000,000. He made it out of the
Baltimore Sun.
The revenue Clans Spreekles de
rives from sugar has been as high as
$18,000 a day. ' ‘ '
Luck v Baldwin's wealth is estittfa
ted at $30,000,000, and his income at
$1,000,000 a year.
Weightm.m, the Philadelphia
chemist, owns $20,000,000 made most
ly out of quinine and mortgages.
Caineg'e of Pi'tsbu’g, is wo~h
$20^000,000,, a u! pays his f.yeman a
s:> -i ■ equal to that of the President
of tiie L’n’tcd Slates.
Le-.nd Stn-> p or.l oaec thought he
was do og wed when lie mauc $1,500
ou of'-»iry«*rs' Now he is worth
f o n $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Tsai-i'i lV't't-i nson,ofPhBade’nhia
the richest lu.che or in tue U'lited
Si des, has made $20,000,000 out of
dry good? ami has an income of $1,-
500.000 annually to dispose of.
Roeknfellc ••tho coal od lm'on is
wo.; It $70,000,000, and as it is poor
Standard Oil s ock wh'eh doesn’t
pa ; more than ten pe" cent, bis in
come must be $500,000 a month, at
least.
Sinful from Under.
A •'»• v. 1 iVco
People who went wi'd a year ago
on Bwm: }“h:>m dbt n.e beginnin
to reali.-.e their liiliy. Probably Mom
gomey is stifle- i.ig rom the collapse
more man any other ci.y, although
neatly everv place in the Son.h in-
vested more or less m the boom. The
reported issuance of a circular bvthe
Ely ton Land Company, to the effect
that all land notes lulling due Jan.
4<h. must he paid, is creating consid
erable excitement among parties in
Mon'-gome y who were seduced by
the speculative lmom last fall nnd in
vested. Matiy of these pa ties who
bought with the c.'peculation of sell
ing at an ndvnnee-bave failed to do
so, and cannot now realize what they
paid for the land. All have made
cash payments npd a-o now unable
to meet the mat uring notes of to-day.
One party over the’e who bought a
certain tract from the Company and
paid $2,500, offered the Company the
property if they would surrender his
notes for $7,500, being willing to
stand the loss of his cash. Tho Com
pare refused, ns it has done in sev
eral eases. It is predicted that tho-
notaries will reap a harvest in p:o-
test fees.
Paper has. w'thin the past few
years, been eon.e:ted into articles,
in uie making o ’ .which nobody
drcaineu it cou d be use». Jte gen
eral utility is really wonder"ul. That
is serves for writing r,nd printing
purposes is stati ’g nothing new, und
paper ra'lroads and cities are not at
all uncommon, but when it is discov-
ereu to.possess peculiiyy excellent
qualities for tie making of car wheels
and pria.'ng type, people are dispos
ed to lift up their hunts in aaiazc-
mcn.. Dm! :g the war of secession
Southern families made very good
coTec out of china-berries, and con
verted a number of herbs into arti
cles of food. This was from necessi
ty. The necessity for making wheels
and type out of paper does not seem
to exist, there ore the fact that they
are being made, as indicated sug
gests that nnp.i.’ is the best commod*
ity that can bo used for tho purpose.
In the age of progress and invention,
nothing seems impossible.
About this time four years ago the
Republican papers all over the coun
try commenced their cry that the
success of the Democratic partv
would parr’yze bnsiness nnd min
the count.y. The business of the
couii.ryi.us never more prosperous
than during the past three years.
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be stronger to live
as well as to think.
PNEUMONIA A GERM DISEASE.
r r'jjgsjgR
Vot Contagious.
serelso.
held that pneu-
il as a germdis-
this opinion is
Dr. A. &. Sfflicrt, a German-American
It was^thonght when the Cincin
nati Southern road, put on a t rain
that made the trip" f.-oiu Cincinnati
to New Orleans in 25j hours, this
would be lively’enotigh for any one.
The Western & Atlantic now : dels a
•‘flyer” to connect with the Queen i physician of New-York, one of tho most
, • , | competent authorities on the subject in
and Crescent s limited at Chattanoo- j America, nnd an indefatigable iniesti/a-
fouVtcen hours | tor on modern scientific methods of the
Causes of pneumonia, and especially tho
degree to which the weather furthers this
disease.
‘•It is my belief, certainly,” said Dr.
Siebert, “that pneumonia is an infec
tious, though not a contagious, disease.
People do not take it from eacli other,
but they may take it from the sam'e
place. In my practice, as a very com
mon thing, in tho same family, two or
more would have it. In a Bavarian
prison, out of 500 inmates, sixty-two died
of pneumonia in one year in one ward.
Not another ward was touched. Dr.
Emmercich was the physician attendant.
He ordered the floor of this ward to be
tom up. Beneath it there was found a
Ailing of refuse, impregnated with moist
ure in the proportion of 27 per cent, to
the whole mass, from tho washings which
had dripped through tho boards. Tho
rubbish \vas' analyzed under powerful
microscojjcs, and in it were discovered
miasms, which a few years ago Dr.
Friedlnndcr had pointed out as being
found constantly in tho lungs of people
who had died of pneumonia. This is one
indication.
Tho infectious diseases begin with a
sudden chill. So does pneumonia. Pneu-
m
of Birds. '
r the birds correspond
to those of human be-
ga. taking less than
from the Queen City to Atlanta, but
lit tle over seventeen hours to Macon,
anil from there down through Alba
ny and Waycross to Jacksonville, in
28 hours. This run is to carry the
fast mail through to Cuba.—Daily
Mississippi Journal.
HAS NEVER YET FAILED,
And Now Stands at the Head as
the Hest Wood I’urilier.
' Evelyn, Near Brunswick, Ga.,| *
May 27,1887. j
B. B, B. Coin//any, Atlanta, Ga:
My blood had been impure for a
number of years, I broke out in ugly
sores over my head and body. I
could get nothing to heal them or
purify my blood (though I had tried
other so culled blood purifiers) until
I found that most valuable medi
cine, Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.)
I have been using it for nearly a year
now, and in that time have taken
about twelve bottles and the sores
me all healed and I am nearly cured.
My health is good and I ean eat any
thing I desire. Respectfully,
Edward Gloveb.
For sale by Lloyd & Adams, Cro-
vntt & Co., Hodges & McCauley.
*-—♦♦♦—•
Over-Dressing or Children.
A spirt of unwholesome rivalry is
engendered in children by the absurdly
rich way in which many paints over
dress them. They sacrifieo Weir own
appearance in order to lavish money on
tho little ones, and the only rdsult is to
make tho children proud, vain, selfish,
and, when old enough, disappointed with
tho position in life in which they find
themselves. Not long ugo I noticed in a
car a pretty little girl, clad ia a coat of
silk plush, trimmed with chinchilla. She
had pretty new lxiots nnd silk stockings,
ono or two rings and a gold necklet and
chain. “A pretty child,” I said to the
conductor. “Yes, sir. She is mine.
That's Iter mother,” ho answered, point
ing to a common looking woman rather
poorly dressed in a dingy brown suit
made of sorno cheap goods.—Julian
Magnus in Tho Epoch.
Tfhe yijmnals of Japan.
Somo of tho animals of Japan aro quits
different from tho same species which
arc seen in America. The cats, for in
stance, have the shortest kind of tails or
else none at all. Being deprived of t^ij
usual plaything, they are very solemn
pussies. An American oneo took ono of
these tailless cats to San Francisco as a
curiosity, und it utterly refused compan
ionship with the long tailed feline si>eci-
mens there; but, finding a cat whose tail
hail been cut off by accident, tiie two be
came friendly at once. Japanese dogs
aro almost destitute of noses, having tho
nostrils sot directly in the head. The
smaller the nose, tho' rnoro valuable the
breed.—Boston Budget.
Drink of tho Russian..
It is stated that very littlo drunkenness
appears on tho surface in Russia, where
the kind of brandy known ns vodkl is
consume.; to an enormous extent. It is
tho drink of all, from tho infant to tho
old people, who Attain in that country on
extraordinary age. In the whole Rus
sian empire, with no less than 20,000 ot
tho number dying annually, a third part
of tho obituary aro upward of 80 years of
ago; 000 aro abovo 100 years of nge,
from 60 to 65 are nbovo 120 years, 20 aro
upward of 180 years, 8 aro moro than 135
years of ago, and 2 or 3 aro reckoned on
to ranch from 140 to 155 years.—Now
Orleans Picayune.
monia lasts generally from seven to nine
days, disappearing with a crisis and a.
profound sweat, and when the crisis id* like a flute. The red bird’s vol
Mrs.
i Langtry*. Moonstone.^
Langtry is particularly partial to
tho moonstone, nnd owns ono of the most
beautiful of its kind known to connois
seurs. It is largo and of oval shape,
almost transparent, and flashes tho colors
of tho opal under certain lights. Its
beauty is enhanced by a setting of small
diamonds, which brings out its tran
sparency, and its owner asserts that sho
always succeeds best in her play when
she wears this ornament, which is used
is a pin amid lace rutiles.—Public
Opinion.
A ginger'. Advice.
Mario Rozo addressed the pupils at the
Royal Academy of Musio at Liverpool a
few days ago,- after tho mayor had pre
sented certificates to thoso who had
passed the examination for entrance, and
said that no ono better than on artist
knew the value of early training, and
that in looking into tho past of her life
she recalled with tho greatest gratitudo
tho efforts of those who first molded her
voice.—Chicago News. '
Experience In Dream*.
There are some very remarkable things
about dreams. In the first place they ora
twice as real as reality. Did you Aver
fall down stairs in dreams? If you have,
you must have observed that it is a much
more terrible experience than falling
down stairs when you are awake—except
that you don’t have the bruises to nurse
afterward. But the mental experience
of falling down stairs in a dream is some
thing awful.—Cleveland leader.
past, tho patient, though weak nnd ex
hausted, is otherwise perfectly well.
This is tho character of fever and the in
fectious diseases. Again, among people
exposed even to the severest conditions of
winter weather in the open air pneumo
nia is a thing almost unknown. Tho
Arctic explorers in tho extremes of ice
and' snow and in pure air iiad no pneu
monia. They had many other diseases,
though, incident to cold and hardships.
Pneumonia occurs in summer as well as
In winter, proving that cold is not an in
dispensable cause. All physicians of
much practice have found cases of pneu
monia originating in the same house at
different times of the year, and it is fre
quently tho case that thoso who have it
once, liavo it again. The latter fact is
well known. An explanation of this,
which is at least allowable, is that the
locality is the cause of the disease rather
than special susceptibility in tho people
attacked by it.
“Pneumonia is a house disease, as is
the case, according to my belief, with
inflammatory rheumatism and diphtheria.
In the warm air of tho house thfe system
is made sensitive to tho cold, but tho cold
is only the producing cause. It prepared
tho coddled lungs for the pneumonia poi-
jon which had its real origin in damp nnd
dirty rooms or cellars. -.
What Is tho cure? Well, the gjpps to
the cure have unhappily advanced -but
little. But tho relief and tho prevention
are—no medicine and plenty of fresli air.
If you have consumption, a dangerous
sold, or tiie fear of pneumonia, I should
say, if you cannot fresh air anywhere
else, go to tiie Arctics for it; but get that,
at all events, if you want to live. A con
sumptive who followed my advice lived
two years longer than any expectations
had been held that he could live. What
was tho advice? No medicine and a voy
age in September down tho Atlantic
const, with directions to keep on deck ns
long as was up, rain or shine, and to
deep with tiie porthole open, pxcopt when
it rained. His friends prophesied that he,
being seemingly in tho Inst stages of con
sumption, would como back in three
weeks a corpse. In threo months ho
3ume back with an added weight of fif
teen pounds. He lived two years longer,
pursuing the fresh air regimen. On his
leathbed ho told mo that tho open air
bad given him thoso two years. His was
a genuine case of tuberoulosis, too.”
“What, then, is the connection between
tho weather and the cause of pneumonia,
if, as you believe, pneumonia is a germ
disease?”
“No poison can enter the blood except
through a raw surface; and it is only
where the respiratory tract lias been irri
tated that the poison germ can qpter tho
lungs.”
“What weather, then, prepares tho
lungs for tiie reception of tho poison
leed?”
“Whenever yqu find three things—
humidity, cold8%l a wind of over fifteen
miles an liour—look out for pneumonia.
February is pneumonia's carnival month,
and by actual sfhtistics, I hare compared
the weather constituents for each day for
a space of threo years, with 600 cases of
S neUmonia occurring during that time.
i this couqurison tho facts aro that regu
larly on tho days of humidity, cold and
high wind the pneumonia statistics reach
their top mark. This is not theory; there
is the record. Tiie worst pneumonia ac
count is not necessarily on tho coldest
days, for with extreme cold there is very
probably no extreme humidity. It is tho
two together that ravage. Dry cold
makes no such score. Consumptives w^p
thrive well in the high and dry cold of
Davoes, Switzerland, in winter, suffer
most in May.”—Chicago Times.
“Do tho"
in their reg
lings?” €
“Decidedly; although ''this bos never
before been stated. For instance, the
nightingale is a rich contralto, the mock
ing bird a soprano sopracuto, the -wood J
thrush a fine soprano, the skylark a ci
ous .combination of the mezzo and
soprano, with tiie odds in favor of
mezzo. Tho stake driver is a basso j
fundo. Ilis notes are deep and sonorofl
and iiis song is: ‘Punk-n-gonk! A-g
a-wunck.’ Tiie cedar bird or the
wing lisps. He tries to sing in ;
and canot sing in any. Tho bv*
a musical hybrid of meters. 1|
jingling song. He is tho only bil
the mocking bird can’t imitatj
bobolink be shut up in tho
with a mocking bird the mod!
will not infrequently die
months of a broken heart, becau
failure to imitate the boboliif
winter wren is a crystalino ,
tenor. Tiie rapidity of its
lightning und consequently
The blue bird, as Mr. Beeclie
always seems to bo about to sig
thing, but never quite gets
vulture is tiie musical discord i
family. Its voice, which is
hoarse than that of the blue
ceptibly vitiated by its intemp
its. Tiie vulture is the drunka
birds. Tho bell bird of Florid
voice whose gamut of sounds
the higher and lower tones of
bells. Tho voice of this bird
heard distinctly for three-fourth
mile. The voice of tho oriole soufl
though tiie bird were sinking
Latin. The voice of tho wood dq
Oar Oldest Canal.
The oldest canal in America is for sale.
It is called the Union canal, and extends
from tho Schuylkill river, near Reading,
Pa., to the Susquehanna at Middletown.
The route was first surveyed in 1762, but
the canal was not completed until 1827.
It is eighty-nine miles in length and cost
$5,000.000.—Chicago News.
Many a youth has ruined himself by
forgetting his identity and trying to be
somebody else.—Good Housekeeping.
semblca a piccolo. The scraping
tho whet saw resembles so exact!
sound of a saw at a log mill that wli$
scrapes its song out at night moro
ono sawyer has been waked from-]
sleep supposing that tho mill w:
motion. Tiie canary has a zither
Tho catbird imitates a violin,
monotonous voiie of the blue jayii
a Scotch bagpipe.”—New York
Sun. '
Stalking; tho Moose.
For winter stalking, while the snowj
from four to six inches deep, the dr
tho hunter should bo made of a
light colored woolen fabric, with
socks and stout, soft moccasins, as <
nary leather foot gear makes too nj
noise in passing through brush or 1
snow. . j
There must be no frozen crust upon
snow and tho harder the wind blow.|
better, as this tends to prevent the
of tho hunter’s footsteps fpm i
the sensitive ears of the animal, a’J
tho same reason, tho stalker shq j
variably move against or across tlid
as his prospects of success would -
ccedingly precarious should he lm
tho wind, when tho keen smq
hearing faculties of tho anin
in all probability, apprise hitnj
long before the hunter came t
The moose is not only won?!
ilert in detecting the proximity;
tors, but he seems to bo instinqt
dowed with tho faculty of diseij
between tho sounds produced
hunters’ movements and those
the elements, or other natural I
such as the loufi cracking or fa|
branches from trees, which give
alarm, whereas the breaking of
twig by the step of a man will sorl
startle the wary beast so as to emj
to run for miles at his utmost
Brig. Gen. Randolph B. Marcy in
An Artificial Larynx.
Gussenbauer, of Prague, invl
artificial larynx, through wlf
roth’s first successful case w./
breathe, nnd by means of wl]
ing could be done, and, strung
tlio words were intelligible^
ficial larynx consists of tub
ing membranes within, thfl
tiie air must pass to and fri
Tiie natural voice consistt|
sounds produced by the vib
vocal cords in the brynx,
by tho throat, tongue,
teeth and lips# So it is i
that articulation does no'J
larynx. In tho artificial ,
membranes aro stretched 1
when the air is passet|f
with some force a tono :
these membranes cant
tense or lax, tho tone ia
an unnatural, monoto
tho organs engaged in
able to produce the n<
tions in it to be understo
definite meanings,—Glol
In a paper on the heall
by Dr. Starin, extended r<j
to the prevalent habit j
many wraps on the skinl
which tho author declare!
skin, or woman’s cither,
thoroughly clean and heall
too much clothing upon bin
It is a fact, ho rays, thal
itself has no property in its!
inglieat, but is chiefly useful
ing the dispersion of the tea
the body, and in some install
tending it from the atraosl
this power of .preserving heal
tho samo principle, that of j
and non-conduction, whatej
raiment may assume, whj
healthful and
manufacture <
birds and i