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Vol. I.
A STROKE OF GENIUS.
Elicited (lie I'nlionnded Aduii.ru .
tion of flic Fsraier,
Only a few summers ago. among the
any others that visited the wild re
ion adorned by one of Michigan's in
ind lakes, was an artist. He had a
jealth of scenery from which to select
id chose a picturesque view with a
11 of rocks and jack pines as a back
ound. The owner of the property
iinsferr.ed to canvas did not think
ju-:*h ho would of the dawdle enterprise or his of the time man in
away
eh an undertaking, but the artist
id the summer rates without a lunr
ir and never entered any complaints
ainst the accommodations. The next
(sou the painter was again among the
ests.
i i How did that there picter of yours
ne out. anyhow?" asked the curious
id lord.
‘Oh. fairly well. \ T ou know that I
ve, my name to make yet. 1 sold it
' $1,000."
“No.” exclaimed the farmer excited
“not $1,000. You're chafrin me.”
“Not a bit of it. ” laughed the artist,
got $1,000 for that little view before
pre was a frame on it ”
M Shake str-mwr I alien hilt thmvAit lb! f
is purtvs lick on a dicker A n b
ggone if you don t take the pnza •
ju skinned that feller slick and
mo -.owrot ... indignantly, . .. t1 for . , Ins . prid* ..
Urt? uon a t play i inner • cent with ... me.
i t further. But done
won go no you
ju brown A thousand fur that spot
lere j on couldn t raise a bean to the
:e. If the critter that bought that
itcr had seen me. I a a sold him the
U durn farm for $275. —Detroit
ee Tress.
Trained Show Doga,
“Considering the investment, train
dogs are one of the most profitablf
ructions in the vaudeville line,” said
old time showman, here with one
the current theatrical companies. “I
Wry, upes of them scattered over the
” he continued, “and the good
es easily average a couple of hundred
veek end expenses. As there are no
aries to pay for the dogs and no hotel
Is for anybody except the ire proprietor
A one keeper the ’Atoms rather
hdsome. Nowadays they have the
biness down to such a tine point that
i sudden death of any of the animals
l be readily remedied by telegraph
; to New York, where several men
ke a specialty of keeping standard
ik dogs in stock.
‘A dog troupe usually consists of
i performers, one of which is a star.
i star probably costs $150 and the
era about $50 apiece. Mongrels of
intrinsic worth are generally select¬
or training purposes, because they
u as quickly as the thoroughbreds
if anything happens to them the
is so much lighter. There is a
idard series of tricks which they are
Ight to do. so that one can easily re¬
tie another, and a little ingenuity on
I part of the showman supplies the
riety to the programme.”—New Or
Jqs Times-Democrat.
.
Ancient Chains.
Bi an interesting article on the (mb¬
it of chains an English writer points
the fact that notwithstanding the
squent mention of chain in the Bible
e article is comparatively new. The
me author says:
“Some authorities give the Britons
edit for originating the cable chain
cause Julius Caesar is recorded as
.■ling been unable to cut the cables of
fSGnul’s vessels, ‘as they were made
*on. ’ This may have been a chain in
| t it present is doubtful, acceptation because of the the first term, pat
t for chainmaking was obtained in
lgland in 1034 by a blacksmith named
lilip White. The patent whs for 14
jars, and in consideration of it White
d to pay £5 in lawful money yearly
\ ib the Exchequer, Westminster, att
Feast of the Blessed Virgyn and
lint Michell the Archangell by even
:d eual process. ’
|“His patent is described as follows
i way for the wearing of shipps with
bn chayne9 by finding out the true
•ating (pre)pareing and tempering
ron for that (pur)pose and that ho hath
>we attayned to the true vse of the
id chaynes and that the same wilbe
c the great saveing of cordage and
fety of shippers snd will redound to
od of our Comon Wealth. » M
One direct result of the Suez canal
.1 been the introduction into the Med
cranean of sharks which previously
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Statesboro, Ga., Thursday, Aug. 24th, 1899.
lie Sent the Putt.
' Piofeescr Comstock
of Cornell In
fS J, ,ecU , . 111 *° _ ^
' ^ c as!s °’i the trials of
scientists told this authentic tale of the
experience of a professor of invertebrate
zoology in a sister institution, which
hud better be left nanieiess.
■trichinae in pork, the cause of the
frightful disease trichinosis in human
consumers, give a peculiar appearance
to meat, which is studded with little
cysts. It is tb «i known to the trade as
“measly pork. ’ The learned scientist,
wishing some for study, went to the
butcher and .i ked if he ever got any
measly pork.
“Sometimes,” said the butcher can
tiousiy, “bat I always throw it away.”
“Well,"said the professor, “the next
time you have any I wish you’d send
me up some." meaning, of course, to Lis.
laboratory.
The butcher stared at him, but sa d
be would. Three weeks passed, wl.vn
the professor, growing impatient, again
dropped in.
“Haven’t you found any measly pork
yet r
, “Why, yes,” said the butcher. “I
sent up two pounds a week ago. »*
j A sickly grin broke over the pro¬
fessor’s face.
ltVr V\ here , did you send it?” said he.
“Why. to your house, of course, ’’ said
i the butcher.-Kansas City Times.
i The Expert Met hi« Match.
• At a North Side boarding house one
| 0 f the newly arrived boarders, named
Burton, is an expert accountant. The
first evening after his arrival he began
boring the other boarders by talking
“shop" and relating the great feats of
mathematics that he had accomplished
j n i,j 8 tj nie . Smith, one of the star
boarders, made up his mind to rid the
p ar j or 0 f 8}, 0 p talk, at least for that
night.
“I have a little piece of addition
work that I think you would have a
hard time in doing. If you can add it
without the aid of a pencil and paper,
you are a good one. »»
“Name each item, and I wiil add,’
said Burton.
“Five barrels of cider at $4. oO a bar
rel ; Have got th«t down ?
A 68 » ♦
'
‘ Four bushels , , , of , bran , at . nn 90 cents a
h ™% *.“* 1 ,? ave yon got tLat dowD V
“Fifteen , kegs of . , horseshoe , nails at
* two strings of garlic at i>0
<: elds ® Eava * on got that
do ^’5/
A. es; lions on ' of castor oil .. at . $4. 0 .-5. .
‘ lx
T Have , you got that down ?
A es 1 1
‘
Sure yon . ve got . it all down? ,
A “J ! h « How V0 ’ does it all taste?
Chicago Journal,
Fooled the PnnsenKrers.
A man sitting in an electric car the
other day pulled out of his pocket his
handkerchief, when out sprang what
eeemed to be a snake. It wriggled and
jumped around on the floor at a great
rate. The ladies screamed and huddled
together, the men made fer it, and one
stamped his foot on it, but upon exami¬
nation it proved to be a copper wound
bass piano wire, which the man with
the handkerchief had coiled up in his
pocket and. having become uncoiled,
jumped to the floor. How the women
looked daggers at him after they be¬
came quieted down was a caution. He
soon got off, we presume to put it in
the piano that needed it, not because of
the looks of tho women.—Salem Ga
zette.
Once W’a» Enonfuh.
This is one of General Miles’ stories.
In the Confederate army, Longstreet's
corps was making a night march. About
4 o’clock in the morning, when every
one was worn out, a Georgia regiment
stopped. A Georgia soldier put his rifle
up against the tents on the other side
of where Longstreet was.
“Well,” he said, “this is pretty hard
—to fight all day and march all night.
But I suppose lean do it for love of my
country.” He continued: “I can go
hungry, I can light, if need be, I can
die for my country, because I love my
country. But when this war is over I’ll
be blowed if I’ll ever love another coun
tryl”—Woman’s Journal.
Pat Oat a« a Feeler.
Mr. Willingham—What would you
do, Mr. Rockington, if I were to ask
you for your daughter in marriage?
Mr. Rockington—Well, that is some
thing that I hardly want to answer off
hand
Mr. Willingham—I’m glad of that.
Now, if I could be sure that you would
not answer with your foot I would feel
free to go ahead.—Chios,o News.
A SCENE OF BUTCHERY.
-
1he slaughter That Came With the
Ks,d of tlie Ja»l*apiea.
Gn the 15th day of June, 1820. the
whole corps of tiie janizaries in the
capital assembled, overturned their
camp kettles (the signal of revolt) and
advanced upon the seraglio. With his
own Land the sultan unfurled the
sacred “sunjak sberif” and called upon
the true believers to rally round their
dischab and caliph, and the zealous
Mussulman citizens rushed from all
quarters and rallied under the sacred
symbol. The rai}ks of the janizaries
Wert by “ caked with Jtape and solid shot
“Black Hell’’ (a nickname for Ibra
him. general of artillery) and his gun
ners a9 they pressed through tho streets,
compelling them to fall back to the
Etmeidan. where they defended them-
8clvt ' 3 with extraordinary fierceness,
slaying great numbers of their assuil
ants. The artillery, supported by the
marines and the bostangi. pressed for¬
ward and compelled them to retreat to
their barracks, where they offered des¬
perate resistance to the assault,
From every street cannon thundered
on the walls without intermission, the
building was soon in flames, the walls
tor ” » nd Ottered down by grape-shot,
and the janizaries, overwhelmed b£
shot and flames, perished in their
burning and blood stained barracks.
For two days the gates of the city re
mained closed, and with relentless vigor
every corner was searched for such
janizaries as had escaped the general
massacre, and when found they were
hastily executed. Nearly 20,000 jaui
zai 'l ( -’ s were destroyed on this memora
Me day, and many thousands were aft
erward put to death in the various
cities of tho empire, and thus not one
of the number under arms was left to
tell the tale.—Self Cultura
Too Well Imitated.
It is no easy matter for a violin maker
to rival the famous Stradivarius Instru¬
ments. but this an American maker did
and did so effectually that experts jiro
nonneed his violin a genuine Stradi¬
vari ns.
The successful man was the late
George Gemunder, a famous violin mak¬
er of New York. Ilis remarkable ability
as a preparer of violins was known to
many a distinguished player, such as
Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj. But
he made, so runs the story, his greatest
success at the Paris exposition of Eiffel
tower fame, To that exhibition he
sent an imitation Stradivarius, and to
test its merits had it placed on exhibi¬
tion as the genuine article.
A committee of experts carefully ex¬
amined the instrument and pronounced
it a Stradivarius. So far Mr. Gemun
der’s triumph was complete. But now
came a difficulty. When he claimed
that it was not an old violin, but a new
one made by himself, the committee
would not believe him. They declared
never uiade * !ie instrument and pro
lj p iiricet l him an imposter. He had done
work too well. Youth s Compan¬
ion. __
Tired Eyes.
A correspondent of Popular Science
News tells of a party of Alpine climb
erswho, having spent live hours among
the snows cf the mountains, returned
to their homes after dark. A great
change had to all appearance taken
place since the night before. Instead of
being illuminated in the usual way,
the place was supplied with green
lights.
It took the travelers a little time to
realize that they were suffering from
Daltonism, or color blindness, superin¬
duced by eye fatigue. The intense light
caused by the sun shining upon the
snow bad for the time rendered them
unable to judge of colors and given rise
to their curious mistake.. Three hours
elapsed before the eyes regained theix
normal condition.
Chevreul explains that the eye can¬
not gaze long upon a given color with¬
out tending to become insensible to it.
When the eye looks long upon a color,
it should be rested by the complemen¬
tary color. Thus an eye that has grown
tired with green should be rested by
red, which is green's complementary
color.
legal of Repartee.^ the jury, said the
pompous lawyer, assuming his most im
posing mien, “I once. sat upon the
judge’s bench in ni wa -
“Where was the judge? quickly
inquired the opposing attorney, and the
pompons gentleman found the thread
Of his argument hopelessly entangled.
In ard to , long .. J®
«- and r at ®« .^ e h0ad jL* ® v J, wjfnm y
huW
Th* floninet* of a Theater,
A prosperoft* theater in the city ot
Now York may in a favorable season
do a business of more than $250, Ooti
and keep m employment 150 persons.
There are 37 theaters, including the va
riety houses, in active operation in the
boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx,
while the borough of Brooklyn adds a
score or move. Everything which affects
business in general affects the theater
immediately.
A man will reduce his expenditures
for tickets to places of amusement long
before he thinks of cutting down his
supply of cigars, for the
to that class of luxuries which subtly
become necessaries, while the theater
habit, as any observant manager will
toil you. requires constant cultivation,
The management of a theater is there
fere an occupation requiring business
sagacity in a greater degree than it
calls for artistic taste.—W. J. Hender
sou iu Scribner’s.
Proud of Her Work,
He looked with forced admiration at
Bhe slippers—forced because he already
had half a dozen pairs.
“You don’t mean to tell me that
they are all your own work? What a
talented little wife I’m going to have!’
And she smiled, . though the plain
truth was that she had bought the up¬
pers. paid a man to sole them and then
managed to sew the bows on crooked
after her mother had made them. Yet
she was very proud and really wonder¬
ed how she had managed to accomplish
eo much.—Detroit Journal.
Queer Thing, Chance.
“I was at Monte Carlo last year/'
said a New York turfman, “and was
amused watching the gamblers in the
casino playing systems. If red would
win. say. four times hand running,
everybody would double up on black.
The more times one color showed in
succession the bigger were the bets on
the other, which was mathematically
an error, although you couldn’t con¬
vince a gambler of it. Once while I waa
there red won 12 times, and over 40,
000 francs were staked on black. One
lone player had the nerve to put 50
francs on red. It won, and he let the
bet lay, and it won again. Then every
body got a sudden idea it would win
once more, and it was played to the
limit. That time black showed.”
“Did you ever hear about runs of
color?” asked somebody.
“I did over there, ” replied the man
who had been to Monte Carlo. “It is
generally believed that when one color
wins the odds are in favor of it win*
ning twice more. There's no ssnse lxl
it, but the records of the game do a
good deal to confirm the superstition.
Queer thing, chance.”
Couldn't Chill Ilia Wit.
Mme. Modjeska and her company
were playing one winter in the extreme
north, much to the discomfort of Count
Bozenta. the Polish star’s husband,
who hates the chilly northern climata
But at that time the show business waa
at a very low ebb in the south. One
particularly cold duy Mme. Modjeska
found the count shivering from head to
foot in spite of the steam heat in the
hotel.
“Oh, my dear, my dear!” he Im¬
plored. “Let us go south for the rest of
the season. This climate will kill us. ”
“But, my dear,” replied madame,
“the south is dead. ”
“Yes, ” said the count, “but she Ifl
such a be-autiful corpse. ”
Time to Waite.
Judge Wheaton A. Gray was hearing
a criminal case in Fresno, and on a
warm day, at the end of a long har¬
angue by the prosecuting counsel, h»
noticed one of the jurymen asleep. A»
eoon as the argument was completed,
the judge addressed tho jury in this pe¬
culiar manner: “Gentlemen of the ju¬
ry. the prosecuting attorney has com¬
pleted his argument. Wake up and lis¬
ten to the instructions of the court/’—
Argonaut
A New One or None.
Mrs. Proudfoot—Yes, Mrs. Mala prop,
that’s an heirloom. It’s been in Mr.
Prondfoot’s family over 100 years.
Mrs. Malaprop—Do tell 1 I’ve been
nagging at John Henry to get an heir¬
loom ever since we moved to the city,
but he can’t find any, except second¬
hand ones, and I won’t have them.—
Jewelers’ Weekly.
its The power Chinese to check government the opium does habit, all th 3
punishments common in the Chinese
army for this habit being extreme. FflV
the first offense a man may have his
upper lip cut; for the second he may be
decapitated.
No. 30
THE DYING SUN.
When tls Tlenl l!«-(>raf* Extinct, the
Earth 1VI1I Freese Solid.
Our son is now a yellow star similar
to Capelin, and hence it will eventually
become bir.ish white like Sirius and
Vega, says Professor T. J. J. .See in
The Atlantic. The secular shrinkage of
the son’s radius will cause, a steady rise
In its tempera tine, and when the body
has reached the stage of Sirius, whoro
the temperature is perhaps doubled, tho
light emitted will become intensely
blue. The temperature may be expected
tained, and finally, when the dense
mass, intensely hot, becomes incapable
of further shrinkage, on account of in¬
crease in the molecular forces resisting
condensation, a cooling will gradually
ensue, after which the body will liquefy
and then rapidly decline in splendor.
The sun will thenceforth be wrapped in
everlasting darkness, and the chill of
death will overtake the planetary sys¬
tem. A condition of darkness thus fol
lows close upon a period of intense bril
liancy, and hence the obscurity of such
bodies as the companions of Sirius.
Procyon and Algol. The most obscure
satellites are thus associated with some
of the brightest and most intensely lu¬
minous stars in our sky, and here the
smaller of the two masses, as in the case
of the planets of the solar system, have
developed most rapidly.
In view of this approaching extinc¬
tion of the sun’s activity it becomes
a matter of interest to inquire how long
its heat will sustain life upon the earth.
Though it is difficult to submit the sub¬
ject to accurate computation, it is easy
to see that the exhaustion of the sun’s
light and heat certainly will not occur
for several hundred thousand, and per¬
haps not for several million years. Thus
the ultimate doom of our system need
occasion no anxiety among those now
living, but the result is philosophically
interesting to those who look several
million years into the future.
As experiment has shown that the
sun’s vertical rays falling continuously
upon terrestrial ice would melt a layer
three centimeters in thickness per day.
it follows that a similar shell of ice
would form over the earth in case the
sun’s light and heat were cut off. Thus
in a month the whole earth would be
frozen like the polar regions, and only
the deeper bodies of water, containing
a great amount of heat, would remain
in a liquid state. The oceans themselves
would freeze over within a few years
at the latest, and the winds and even
the tides would cease to agitate the ter
restrial globe, which would henceforth
spin in its orbit as a rigid, lifeless mass,
“Hod BleHM the Duke of Ar(tyll. M
“You Americans.” said the Scotch¬
man. “suffer from an itch for notorie¬
ty”
“An itch for notoriety, ” responded
the American with spirit, “is bettor
than a notoriety for”—
But at that point they clinched.—In¬
dianapolis Journal.
Some boys in an English school were
requested to write a short letter to the
master. One youngster added a P. S.,
which ran. “Please excuse bad riting
and spelling, as I avent been taut any
beter. ”
Gar.elle Rluutlngr.
Gazelles in Nubia are hunted by a
powerful breed of hounds, in build
somewhat heavier than a greyhound.
In spite of being far swifter than the
hound, the gazelle falls a victim from
the nervous habit of constantly stop¬
ping to look back to see if it is pursued.
It also expends its strength by taking
great bounds in an almost vertical di¬
rection. thereby not only losing time,
but exhausting itself, so that it is over¬
taken without difficulty.—Harper s
Weekly.
Torpedo Boats.
The average distance of discovery of
a torpedo boat by the searchlight from
a battleship has been calculated to be
781 yards and the greatest distance
2,000 yards. Thus, taking the distance
at which the torpedo can be fired with
effect at 500 yards it will be generally
found that a torpedo boat will have to
cross about 800 yards under tire from
the ship she is attacking, and it will
take the little craft about half a minute
to do this.
Gallant.
“A man is as old as he feels, ” said
the gentleman of the old school, “and s
Woman as old as she says she is " :
iianapolis Journal.
The Englishman, it is calculated
pends on the average $250 a v<
sustenance; the German $215 the
Frenchman $210, the Italian $110, the
Russian $95,