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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY APRIL/£ 1892.
--[From two }lille Ixovillc 17it Inn-Recorder.]
TUB <4BOBOVA CHAUTAUQUA.
, Ball Telia »r Ilia Vli.it la the Ureal
era laaiitntiafa.
Millkpoeviu.k, Ga,, April 9,1892.
Editors V nion - Recorder.
In response to your request for notes
of my recent trip to the Ger
eorgin Chau
tauqua, I And myself invoke at 8:30 a.
m« when every one should be sleeping
his soundest—except the night police.
It is a pleasant’journey after all, un
less the FI 1 ' '
Flint river is too full or you
' vil
miss your chicken pie at Smithville.
.but I found the famous Flint still
tRhree Inches under the bridge, and
Too mistake at Smithville.
Albany is one of the uleanest,
brightest, liveliest little cities in the
whole South, In my Judgment.
It has some of the linest nrteslan
water that ever reached the sunshine,
from a thousand feet below; broad
streets, modern and attractive resi
dences, some very line business houses,
and best of all some rustling business
men with the nerve to Invest a dollar.
It has the finest Chautauqua meet
ings in the South. The Chautauqua
r has the spirit of “go” In it. Its name
Ip never “Dennis," but Dunning, Dun
can, Davis & Co. Chautauqua takes
the town when it arrives, and the peo
ple are willing to be taken that way.
| The oftener they are taken the worse
I they want to be taken.
If I remember oorreotly the atten-
OUT IN THE
FIELDS.
fluggcstlouii nud Items lof Interest Vor
1 Partners.
lion of some of the original Ohautau-
■ ' Uni
quails was called to Albany by an ad.
vertlsemcnt of the town and its ad
vantages. Dr. Duncan, the secretary
of the parent Chautauqua; New York,
Is. also secretary of the Georgia Chau-
uqua, and is Yankee enough
Fankee enough to know
1 good thing when he sees it, and then
rant some of It. He owns property in
Georgia, and Is at leaBt an acolimnted
Georgian. He is a born organizer, a
splendid off-hand speaker, a keen ob-
server, a first-class business manager.
This year is the fourth, I believe,
and the most successful in the history
of the Georgia Chautauqua.
“ ' itftul
The Institute was a success and It
was a rare'treat to have Colonel Par
ker, of Chioago, and Professor Sanford,
of Macon, present and at work at the
same meeting.
i The addresses On the Chautauqua
| programme were fine, and the leading
I ones during my stay were by Dr.
Lansing, of Worcester, Mass.: Col.
Parker, of Chicago; Dr. Hawthorne,
Lot Atlanta, and flnnlly a superb effort
‘ y Governor Northen on Friday. To
pese add some good short addresses,
Irst-olass recitations, delightful mu-
do and a cordial reception and you
an form some Idea of what a Georgia
lhautauqua Is like,
nu t’
I found the Georgia Normal and In
dustrial College very popular among
those who had relatives, friends or ac
quaintances here in school.
Mrs. A. W. Cosby, member of the
board of lady visitors, Is awake to the
interests of the school, and spares no
pains to bring the benefits to be de
rived from a training here before the
fit'
ad the pleasure of visiting with
r. and Mrs. Cosby at their country
.(tome, four miles from Albany, and
am under obligations to them for cour
tesies extended.
There were also In attendance from
MlHedgevflle Mrs. d: D. Chapman and
Capt. T.F. Newell.
I am personally indebted to Presi
dent'Chappell for tile leave of absence
S -anted and to the local board,
essrs. Lamar and Newell, for their
V approval of same. Yours,
r A. 11. Bkai.b.
LITTLE SERMONS ON A STRING,
1 Golden Houra.
r Never be idle.
Make few promises.
Always speak the truth.
Never speak evil of any one.
Act up to your engagements.
’ Keep good company or none.
Be just before you are generous.
Drink no kind of intoxicating li
quors.
• Never borrow if you can possibly
avoid it.
■ Keep your own secrets if yon have
any.
Good character is above all things
else,
Never play at any kind of game of
chance.
1 -^Ceep yourself innocent If you would
( be happy.
When you speak to a person look
him in the face.
lave when you are young to spend
m you are old.
lways live, misfortune excepted,
ithin your income.
. Avoid temptation through fear you
C may not withstand it.
' 'Good company and good conversa
tion are the very sinews of virtue.
A Your character cannot be essentially
^Injured except by your own acts.
If one speak evil of you let your life
so that none will believe him.
Never run in debt unless you see a
very certain way .to get out again.
Make no haste to be rich if you
would prosper; small and steady gams
give competency, with tranquility of
mind.
The American Florist claims to
have found an . Infallible remedy for
the outworui pest. It says use pyre-
thrum powder, making certain that it
is fresh. Distribute it with a fellows
at evening time, and in the morning
large numbers of the worms will be
found'lying on the ground dead.
If bodes arc pounded Into small
pieces, deposited around the trees and
grape vines, and chopped in with a
hoe, they will show good results for
years, ns they slojvly give up their par
ticles. This is better than having
them dry up and decay on the surface
of the ground, where they are useless.
Save and utilize all the dried bones.
A strange cross of fruits is reported
from Baltimore. A fruit merchant of
that olty bought some apples and no
ticed one of a peculiar appearance.
On investigation it seemed to have the
texture and appearance of an apple,
but inside it had the kernel of a peach,
and the flavor of the fruit was similar
to a peach.
Thick-leaved plantBj such as olean
der, orange, Ivy, eto., should be watch
ed for the,flrst appearance of scale Ini-
sects, which should be brushed off
with a tooth-brush, taking care to re
move every scale, if possime, for if any
are left they will multiply.
Fruit men say that when fruit is
barreled, and Is to be hauled several
miles by tpam before being shipped,
the barrels should be laid down on
their sides so that they will not be
shaken closer together, and thus be
left looser in the barrel than when
paoked.
Three successive fires in Borne on
Sunday last turned 2,000 bales of cot
ton into smoke and ashes. Dr. J. B.
S. Holmes’ sanitarium was also
burned. The loss will probably mount
up Into many thousands of dollnrs,
though it is thought to be fully cov
ered by insurance.
Ik one of its un-American
xV—A Baltimore physician attributes
the unusual frequency of ear diseases
to the grip.
Newspaper Sign. ef Coming Spring—
Things Advertised.
Tonics. -
Girous attractions.
V Spring fever remedies.
Country boarding houses.
Winter woolens at reduced rates.
Things good'for that “tired feeling.”
Steamship lines and railroad sched
ules. Xi £ ;i >;
■M Camping outfits and fishermen’s sup-
Blies.
K Face lotions for removing tan and
l^reokles.
secret
sessions on Monday the United States
Senate perpetrated an outrage that
will bring down upon that august
body the righteous condemnation of
the press of the country, and of every
fair-minded citizen. James B. Young,
who has held the position of executive
clerk in the Senate,for ten years past,
was peremptorily dismissed for al
leged betrayal of the secrets of execu
tive sessions, without being accorded
a hearing—and that, too, in the face of
tlie fact that the man protested his In
nocence and demanded an investiga
tion and an opportunity to prove that
the charges that had been brought
agninst him were false. The execu
tive cluck of. tile Senate bound by am
iron-clad oath not to'reveal auything
that transpires in executive session,
and he is liable to heavy punishment
under law for its violation. But the
seorets of the executive sessions lmve
been getting out in some way, and
some of tlie Senators jumped on the
executive clerk as the one who had
been giving them away to the news
papers. The truth of the business, no
doubt, is that some of the Senators
themselves have been leaking; but an
opportunity was given to make a
scape-goat of the clerk, and it was
done in short order. A few of the
Senators protested against such a pro
ceeding ns turning a sworn officer out
without even giving him a hearing;
but all to no avail. It was a reckless
assassination of character by a body of
whloh the country lias n right to ex
pect something better;
Kansas furnishes the neatest and
best leap year story. It is n twin sis
ter story, too, and is really romantic.
As tlie story goes Nana and Nina,
twin sisters resembling each other
even more in person than in name
loved the same man; Nunn took ad
vantage of the leap year privilege and
proposed. The young man was only
too happy to accept; but the parents
of the girl objeoted. In this dilemma
Nana and her beau plotted an elope
ment. Happy In her love and igno
rant of the fact that her sister had
been smitten by the same dart, Nana
told Nina of the plans and asked her
assistance, which was promised. But
Nina formulated some plans of her own
In the short time of her sister’s con
fession. When the time for the elope
ment arrived the prompt lover helped
his prospective bride out of the win
dow in the orthodox fashion, smoth
ered her with kisses, and together they
rode away to a parson and were mar
ried. Now the denouement: After
the ceremony the bride informed the
happy groom that she was Nina, and
not Nana. She had locked the unhap-
py Nana in her room, eloped with her
lover and married him before he found
it out. He has concluded to make the
best of it. Such is life in great Kan
sas.
in
A BIG COTTON FOOL
Which I. About to IN like n Big Pile of
Hooey Oot of the Mingle.
Special to the Atlanta Constitution.
New York, April 13.—Owing to the
purely professional character and ex
treme nnrrowness of the stock market
of late, it now transpires that several
Wall street magnates have reeently
been attracted to the cotton exchange,
nnd are devoting themselves to the
staple. Blessings often come in dis
guise, and such the rcuent big cotton
fire in NewOrleans nnd the prevailing
Mississippi floods are proving; for
these misfortunes have resulted in the
crystallization of a gigantio bull pool
In cotton.
The pool began to nibble at the mar
ket about two weeks ago, and to-day
they are apparently complete masters
of the situation. From the extreme
low point the price of cotton has ad
vanced over n half cent per pound,
which, on the popularly estimated
crop, means an appreciation in value
of over $4,000,000.
Several millions of dollars are said
to have beeu deposited in cash by the
pool as a working margin for their
programme. The names of those com
posing the pool are thus far held In
profound seoreoy, but the evidence of
theirflnanoial strength and vigorous
purpose is both manifest and reliable.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
List of letters remaining in the post-
office at Albany, Ga., for the week
ending April 18, 1892. If not called
for in fifteen days will be sent to the
Dead Letter oflloe:
A
Alley, A. U.
Adunta, 8. P.
Axum, A. J,
Iln)>er, II. C.
Uuolqier, Miiw Maria
lionnott, Mrs. Wm,
Hall, Kobt.
Burdm Lizzln
Burnett, Jus. G.
U Hutiu
Bryanta
Branch, Mrs. Bia
Canady, P. C.
Carter A Douglass
Clinttteld, Miss Millie
Collins, Prenco
Beazley, W. D.
Braswell. W. L. A Co.
Brown, Mrs. llosele
C
Catching, Miss Kmnin
Carter, Miss Mary
Cookler, Miss C. C.
Danile, Miss Nancy ,
~ ‘ rti,Miss Elizabeth Douglass, Miss Lucy
Davis, Miss Lucinda
Dillai-,
Dorman, Mi's. Mollie E. Duncan, J. P.
Edwards, G. W.
Edwards, Miss Sarah
Ed word, Mi’s.
•Juno
Hicks, Douglass
1, Eliza
Hill, Miss Fannie
illio
Horn, Unlit. Jxse
Howard, Miss Mary
Hunter. Mrs. Francis
■HussetLT, J.
vood.U. J.
Jumps, Miss Adur
Jauksou, Mrs. Hazor
Jefferson, Miss Anglo
Jones, Stop
Hawi..—
Holms, Miss Conlia
Hutto, Miss Mari nil
Huntley, Miss Eugenia
J
Jackson, Miss Jennie
Jackson. Miss Lucy
Jones, Miss George
Mathis, Miss Lilly
McDaniel, Mrs. Ida
Mitchel, Miss .Fillin
Mansfield, Miss Clara
Moris, MissMgry
Oliver, Miss Carey
P
Powers, Virginia
Piorcoin, Mrs. Violet
Plagbe, Miss M,
Parrish, Mi's. Hager
Pomoti, Mrs. Emma
I’ittman, J. L.
B
Bawling, Miss Ellen
** ‘J. G.
Xctterbaum
Heaves. C. G.
Hnbin A Zei
ShearLMrs. Betty
it,l
Smith,Miss Julia C. (2) Smith,
Sneed,Miss Arciunln
Stubs, Miss Floreuco
„.,n, Mrs. Jnno
Itliodes, W. H.
Bussell, Miss Pinkie
H m
Simpkins. Miss Jessie F.
mi tit, Miss Annie
Storry, John
T
Tiley, Til
Turner, Mrs. Enmlin
T irry, L, T.
Thomas, Miss Fannie
Watts, Bov. R.W.
Warren, Miss Emma
Wallace, Miss Vina
.Wallard*MirtLila •
Washington, Daniel / Washington,.Jessie ,
West, Ollia ’ WOlse, T. E.
White. Tildy White, Mrs. Lucy
iaens^J. M. xvhitinv. m,-- uV
Whiducn&J. M
Whayls, William
Willfam, Mrs. Cnllie
Williams, Snndes
Whitley, Mrs. Wm.
Williams, Mrs..!. A.
Williams, Parker
Williams, Mrs. Colie B
In calling for above letters please
;fti -
ay “advertised” and give date.
B. F. Brimrerry, P. M.
A Progressive Whist Party.* .
The card party at whioh Col. and
Mrs. Wight entertained a few of their
friends last evening was a progressive
whist party. Three tables were played
and no booby prizes given.
Mrs. Wm. Lockett received ladles’
first prize, a handsome silvercomb for
the hair, and Mr. Will Pace received a
silver paper cutter as winner of gen
tlemen’s first prize.
At 11 o’clock light refreshments
were served, and soon after the guests
took their departure, feeling greatly
indebted to Col. and Mrs. Wight for
an exceptionally pleasant evening.
Messrs. L. E. Welch and S. B.
Brown started a subscription list
the
—There’s blood poisoning
cheap thimble.
—Cocktails are a favorite remedy
ter the spring fever.
—The Keeley cure is no good for the
“intoxication of love.”
^—Eating uncooked fruit at meals
tends to vigorous health, and conse
quent lessening of doctor’s bill,
—A Philadelphia Sunday-school
teacher asked a little boy: “What
sort of little boys go to Tieaven?” The
laconie reply was “Dead, ’uns.”
THE ONLY ONE EVER FEINTED.
Can ¥fa Vlad the Word?
There is a 3-inch display advertise-
BTORY OF AN EX-BRAKEMAN.
among the young men of Albany to
day, for shares of Georgia Chautauqua
stock. The price of a share is $10, and
it has been so arranged that the shares
can be paid on the instalment plan at
the rate lof $1 per month. In this
way the young men. may easily pay
for three, four or more shares. Every
young man in Albany should sub
scribe several shares of Georgia Chau
tauqua stock, and thus help the new
building along.
WOBS 1 .
word. The iame is true of each. new
one appearing each week, trom the
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house
places a “Crescent” on everything they
make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word, ana they
will return you book, beautiful litho
graphs or samples free.
Driven from HU Position by Horrors In
cidental to HU Catling, .
“1 was .a bruktmmn on the Harlem
road before 1 entered the ministry,’’
.aid a well known Brooklyn preaoher
to me. “but It was only for a little
while. It proved to be u horrible oall-
Ing. It was only n few days after I
had been installed in my position when
I received the first shook to luy nerves.
We were just on the point of crossing a
Bmall bridge that spanned a shallow
stream of water when I heard the whis
tle blown for 'down brakes.'
“1 pat on the brake ns hard ns 1
could and then looked ahead of the
train. I was Just In time to see n man
running for his fife across the bridge on
a narrow board footway. The train
was slowly losing Its momentum, but
it was too late to save the man from
death, for just os he had about reached
a place of safety the engine hit him
and he was knoaked over Into tlie
water.
“When the train had been stopped
we went down and reoovored the poor
fellow's corpse. His skull bad been
oleanly split In two and the water had
washed out hla brains. TJie body was
placed In the, baggage, car, on whloh I
worked, and I was forced to gaze upon
the ghastly spectacle until we readied
the next station, where the dead man
was turned over to the authorities.
“As if that were not enough to pro
duce a lasting horrible Impression upon
my mind, I received another and per
haps luore frightful shook two weeks
later.' It was un the same bridge. I
agalq heard the dreaded signal lor
'down brakes.' This time I put all the
|th'I could command Into my ef-
id keyed the brake up to the last
I was able to tone it to. The
There Is a 3-inoh display advertise
ment In this paper, this week, whieh
has no two Words-alike fexcept 'one
fort
next nstantthe chain broke, and the
train;
whieh was gradually being
halted,, bounded forward with new Im
ps tuiond another man was killed.
“1$ seems that he had tried to save
himself by clasping his hands over one
of U)B ties and hanging below the train
-antijit had passed. He had succeeded
in locking his hands around tlis timber,
but did not have time to duek his head
befoie the cowcatcher struck his neck,
out off bis head elose to the shoulders
and. tossed it Into the water. When we
wont book to recover the body we
found,. to our surprise, the headless
corpse of the man with its hands still
linked in the grip of death around the
railroad tie.
“ThAt settled it with me, and 1 re
signed my place forthwith. I have not
touched a brake since that day.”—New
York'Herald.
Sorting and Cleaning Wool
Thg wool comes Into the mill dirty,
greasy,;, burry, sometimes washed by
the fanner, but generally Just as It Is
sheiux^ from the sheep, a filthy an dun
wholesome thing, giving little sign of
the beautiful, white and flossy sub
stance Into which It Is soon converted.
It iiliist first be sorted, each fleeoe con
taining from six to eight qualities of
sorts, which the careful manufacturer
separates, devoting each quality to the
purpose fdr which'It Is'belt suited. -No
•kill In ceMIrtg, spinning, .wearing or
flnlstypg eon possibly produce a soft or
Hue pipoe pf goods from a coarse, hard
iWrab a woolen thread Is to be spun to
the length of 15,860 yards to a pound,
or In’ the ease of a worsted thread
to twice that number of yards to the
pound, everything depends upon care
In t.hAselection ot the fleeoe and In the
sorting. The sorts are Impregnated
with a greasy substance called the yolk
qr snlnt, caused by the animal seoro-
tions nnd the perspiration of the skin,
a compound of potash and animal fat,
which must be completely eradicated.
The elimination of the yolk, dirt and
foreign substances common to oil
wools results In a shrinkage of from
60 to 70 per cent—S. N, D. North in
Popular Science Monthly.
What Htti>pe»a If You Take Ainenlc.
When a single dose of arsenio in suf
ficient quantity to ha felt has been
taken, colicky pains, bowol disorder
and perhaps nausea result - In tho
course of an hour after a poisonous
dose hns been taken an intense burn
ing pain is felt in tho (esophagus nnd
stomach. This spreads to tho entire
anterior portion of the lower part of the
trunk. A sense of constriction' at the
throat and an acrid, metalllo taste ao-
company the pnln. Then vomiting
and relaxation of the bowels begin. As
tlie case progresses tho symptoms In
crease In Intensity. Then comes a
thirst that water will not allay, although
It apparently Increases tho stomach dis
turbance. The victim groans und
writhes.
Now he Implores tlm doctor to save
him. Then lie begs to bo killed»and
put out of pnln. The extremities be
come Icy. The putso Is small, feeble
and frequant, nnd tlie breathing Is
labored, euibarmssod and painful be
cause of ubdomlnal tenderness. The
surface of the body becomes dark and
ot that bluish color that medical men
call cyanosod. Violent nntmps add
their torture, exhaustion Iwimmes col
lapse, convulsions or coma ensue, and
death ends tlie agony. Tills torture
lasts sometimes from five to twenty
hours.
In some coses these symptoms oocnr,
but in a modified form, and the doctor
will apparently got the bettor of t' , '>
disease. Tlie rnmimlnn will be but for
a day or two. Then tlie abdomen will
swell and Icy coldness wilt pervade the
frame. Shivering will bocome pro
nounced trembling. Then oramps, con
vulsions and death.—Kansas City Star.
—“I think it is too bad," said Mrs.
Brownsmith, “that I have to slave all
day Sunday |ust the same as any other
day in the week, while you just sit
around the house and do nothing but
smoke and read.” “But you forget,
my dear,” replied Mr. B. in his bland
est tones, “that the Sabbath was made
for man.”
Tlis IlsUful But Wind.
That wind from any one of the four
cardinal or intermediate points should
have a more depressing effect upon the
human system than that from any or
all of the other points seems like sheer
est nonsense. In these days, however,
-we cannot forego selentlflo testimony.
Dr. Richards says: “Th4t oil nervous
conditions In whieh, for want of a
more correct term, we say the nervous
tone Is lowered,’ are much Intensified
by the east wind. Indeed, the special
action of this peculiar wind is to pro
duce ‘wont of tone,’ or debility. Under
its influence almost all sick persons say
they are depressed; they do not com
plain of reduced appetite nor of pain
intensified, but they declare that thoy
are rendered prostrate both lh mind
and body. 1 -In brief, if ’a' single' Word
were wanted to exprees the morbid ef
fect of an east wind on a siek man that
word would be .'(Mrostratibn.’ ” — "Bt
Louis Republic.
Bslplag ths Recording AngnL
'.‘Please light your cigar well ,
leaving, so that' the recording
have less work to do,” raids a sign
posted in front of the cigar lighter in a
tobacconist’s store in Whitehall street
I asked the man behind the counter
to explain the sign.
“It means,” sold he, “that you
should see that your weed is perfectly
lit before you leave the store, so that
you will nbt have to stop a man in th^
street ond'osk him for a light Rvery
man that hands his cigar to a stranger
to pull at 1 for fire is supposed to swear
inwardly, at the annoyance and the
probable damage .to hit own cigar.
That makes work for the reoording
angeL”—New York Herald,
An Apt Rebuke,
There is a Unitarian elergymon who
to not without a powor of keen retort,
and who to none the lees gifted with
the grene to command Ills tongue
rather than allow his tongue to com
mand him. He has In his congregation
one of those women who make a pre
tense of frankness an excuse for rude
ness, nnd who are given to boasting that
they are plain spoken, when the truth
to that they nro simply ill bred and In
solent. Tilts especial lady to wealthy,
and there nr* not many in the list of
liar acquaintances who dare rebuke
her, albeit they do together console
each other fur the wounds they suffer
from her tongue by abusing her
roundly.
It chanaed that one evening the lady
and the clergyman were partners at
whist id the house of a common friend,
and so successful wore they that they
won almost every game tor the even
ing. Like peoplo who are fond of hav
ing their own way, tho ludy was In high
humor over the succoss, and when the
play was over silo pushed bock her
chair from the table with the char
octeristio and graceful remark to her
partner
“You do play a good game of whist,
Mr. Blank. If you only preached as
well ns you play whist it would be a
treat to go to ohureh to hear you.’’
The clergyman was quite equal to
le oaeaslon. Ho kqpt Ills tomper and
s face under perfect control ns he re
lied:
‘Thank you, Miss Bharpt.but you
know anybody eon learn to play wlilst,
while genius and good breeding come
by grace of God.”—Boeton,
Bfrnnlngr of tho Word “Kongo.*
It lias beeu generally ncceptcd that the
of the imi
trnnBlntioTi of the lmino “Kongo” is
the country qf leopards,” the’ root ko
meaning “the country,’’ and ngo “leop
ard.” J. Janko, in Petermann’s Ml!’
Mlttol-
lungen, shows that this translation is not
satisfactory, os', according to the rules of
tho Bautu language, these two words
combined Into tho word
facilities by subscribers wliose bualhi
with their correspondents at distant
points will .hot warrant the expense of
a wire for their own use exclusively.
The new system transfers a wire simul
taneously at both ends from one pair
of subscribers to another every five
minutes if desired. The service to di
vided into segments, and if a subscriber
and his correspondent are connected at
one segment they ,eon communicate for
five minutes each hour by paying the
minimum fixed yearly rental for these
facilities.
Should they find that their business
required ten minutes oaoh hour thoy
oould be connected to two adjoining
segments, or, If preferred, to one seg
ment on each side of the segment 'cir
cle, whloh. would enable them to com
municate for five minutes every half
hour. Other subscribers would have
the line for whatever portion of the
time they arranged for, the objeet be
ing to accommodate subscribers with
whatever facilities they choose to pay
for.—New York Telegram.
cannot he
Kongo.” He discusses the various forms
of this wont as found among the tribes of
the Lower Kongo—the Bakongo, who
Uve on tho river, from its mouth to Stan-'
ley Pool; tho Betake, who occupy the
' Ko
regions between tlie Kuango and Kongo,
and the Kongo und Alima; the Babtium,
northwest of tlie last tvlhe; uind tho Bny-
anzi, .between Leopold luke and tho
Kongo. The Bakongo name of tho river
Is “Kongo,” that used liy tho Batcke is
‘Songo,” and thoBayunzl Bay “Rongo.”
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All theso names nro dialectic variations
of tho sumo word, tho k of ono dialect
becoming r and s in tho others. The
meaning of the word in tho Baynnzl dia
lect is “8i«nr,” and, accordingly, Janko
explain,- tho name of Bakongo as “the
mini with tlie spear;” tho name of tho.
liver, ns “fast ns n spear.” If this trans-
Intlon should be correct, It scemB more
prolmblo that the name of the river was
derived from thatof the tribe. Janko
remarks incidentally that the root ku
infers a motion, and that It to contained
In the names of numerous rivers; tiuch as
Kuilu, Kuuene, Kuango, Kuanza, which
therefore must not ho spelled Kollu,
Kwango, etc. It seems probable that tho
same root lunv be contained in the word
“Kongo,” und that tho meaning ”s|
“Kongo,” und that tho meaning “spear,”
whioh to, according to Janko, confined to
tne Bayanzi, to also derived from this
root.—Science.
Hs Miami on It,
“Got a pencilt” asked a farmer on ths
market the other day of acitizen. “Now,
then, let's figure a bit, ”
“What on!”
“Well, I come in most every day with
something, and generally start for homo
about Rusk, One boy in particular up
Grand River avenue has bothered me a
great deni by ■hitching on.’ Ths other
ght I thought I'd give him a
ot e
ion he got on I grabbed hto cap,”
“And tho boy!”'
“He sat down on some hogs of oats I
hadn't Bold and waa taking baok home,
and didn't seem to care much about it.
He rode about a mile and then got off
without bis cap.”
“But what about the Aggers!”
“I'm coming to them. He threw out
six empty bags worth thirty-five cento
each. IIo sloshed into throe bags full of
oats with hto kulfa and* let 'em run out.
He throw away u new tea ketflo whieh
cost mo eighty cento, and he dropped
overboard a horse blnnket for which I
paid $1. 'Add up these sums, subtract a
two shilling cap and see how- muoh I
camo nut ahead.—Detroit Free Press.
X hIiw Dealers
The v.-eoteni nnd southern shoo trade
dcwumlH a wider lust than to used in tho
east. This is not altogether due to dif
ferences hi tho pedal structure. - There
nro notions that provall among dealers ns
to how a shoo should be fitted, which are
peculiar to sections. Tile eastern retailer
prevails'^on a Indy to wear a shoe that la
often a full size longer than her foot.
Ilavo plenty of room' In that direction,
the foot can then be fitted with a nar
rower shoo, with a' slimmer -and more
clogant appearance. On the other Hand,
western,UH'I southern dealers moke the
fit snug lis In length, mid often after tho
shoo Is worn a fow days the great ,t
protrudes over the sole. Belt
longitudinally, the foot must
Sits
some way, and the wider
used. Tin
i rooiit ’
Bow Some Words Wm Dsrtvsd. -
A stentorian voice to that ot one Uke
the Grecian herald in the Trojan war,
whom Homer deeeribe* as “great heart
ed, brazed voiced Btcntor, accustomed
to shoot ns loud as fifty other men.”
A region to a loose overeoat with
long sleeves, such as Lord Raglan wore
in the Crimean war. Wellingtons are
boots named after the, Iron Dnke.
Bluchers are also boots, named afti,
the commander of Wellington’s Prus
sian allies at Waterloo.
Any magnificent tomb to called a
mausoleum. Mausolus, the' Carton
king whose name It bears, had nothing
whatever to do'with (he original ex
cept to Ue in-it when he was dead. The
piety of lito wlfe, Artemisia, gave hto
name to the tomb add Immortality to
her husband’s memory, because the
monument she built over hto body
gave a word to language. The meg-’
nolio bean the name of Pferre Hagnol,
professor of medicine at Montpellier,
France, in the Seventeenth century,
and Dahl, a.Swedtoh botanist, has bis
name embalmed in the dahlia.—Har
per's Young People.
eastern to tho c
of fitting, being leu injurious to tho f
and tho shoes will wear better and look
better after a fortnight’s wear,—' ‘Dealer”
in Globe-Democrat. . ,
Tho Next Comas.
Already i plans aro in outlina for tho
collection of the' eleventh national ccn-
-Aim Ifoa.. Atwo ' 1 • .4. 4 1. .. -
bus. Many of the .shortcomings of the
methods' of 1880 aro to bo remedied. '
That centos was more complote than any
rauob 1-
previous one, but the work wee so i
^renter than the sum available to pay for
it that its day of greatest use was over
before it was put in a shape to be availa
ble. Gen. Francis A. Walker, who was
superintendent of the last census, advo-
tho collection of the statistics two
years henco by the national bureau of
tatistics, which
statistics, which has Carroll D; Wright'
at its head. He also suggests that the
statistics of population be taken by one
set of enumerators and published as early
as possible. There to a disposition to
make tho census of 1890 even more com-
ileto than that of 1880.—Philadelphia
pleto t
limes.
Onutery In Tangier,
Not for from the market place,
the hillside, to the publlo cemetery—a
‘ * ilace f “
forlorn and’ dreary place full of sprawl-
id brambles.
ing cacti and brambles. Some ot the
graves are Inclosed with rp<Je low walls,
a few have stones of turbaif shape, but all
look crude und cheerlem, We saw two
slept below. True to the tenderneesof
their sex the world <
below. ,,
sex the world over, they had gone
to tho graves of their friends “to weep
there.” Near by, and also close to the
dd citadel, we saw tombs of former
sliereefs—low, square structures, sur
mounted with domes, nil of dazzling
Trom frequent ^.Itewashlng.—
a in Boston Transcript,
Depth of Wavs Action.
The depth to which wavo action- ex*-
tends has been differently estimated, but
it varies from seventy feet to 150 feet, as
shellfish Which are known only to lire at
depths are thrown upon the shore
; heavy
during
uas-
icavy gales, and it I
that shingle, to. moved in a.
depth of, fifty feet. For all. practical
purposes, however, so far as harbor-
works are concerned, it is found that
there Is littlo movement of ,ma'
under eighteen to twenty' feet
water, the foundations of bre.- ..
hitherto constructed hot having been c
turbed below , these li
man. . ... :
Safe advice to stock
verbially expressed: “I;
suocced, don’t try again I”-
Record. . ‘ ■
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