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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