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BULLOCH TIMES.
STATESBORO, GA.
Seventeen cities iu the L T nited States
are each of larger area than Berlin
with its population of 1,570,000.
One hundred domestic servants are
killed annually in England in the pro¬
cess of window cleaning, An inven
tion recently patented is a window o£
which the outside may be cleaned
without exposing the cleaner to any
ill a nee of a tumble.
Dr. Bertillon, author of the French
eystem for the identification of crimi¬
nals, says that, as a matter of fact, it
is impossible among 100,000 individu¬
als to find two persons with ears exactly
alike, except in the case of twin
brothers. This is one of the reasons
why he was able to start a new era in
police science.
Robert Moore, a Water Works Com¬
missioner of St. Louis, made some re¬
marks at the recent meeting of the
Engineers’ Club of Kansas City, which
deserve more than passing attention
from the commercial men of New Or¬
leans. He said; “You ask me to talk on
Missouri River navigation. It reminds
me very forcibly of the chapter on
snakes in Ireland. There is no Mis¬
souri River navigation, and conse¬
quently I know you will excuse me
from expressing my views on the sub¬
ject.” He added that the freight
traffic on the Southern railroads was
making river navigation even on the
Mississippi almost a lost art.
The polyglot character of the Aus¬
trian army was abundantly shown the
•other day when the ancient custom of
eolemnly swearing iu the recruits in
the presence of the troops was re¬
vived, after having been discontinued
nince 1868. In Vienna alone the for¬
mula of oath to the colors had to be
Administered and read out in nine
languages, to wit: German, Hun¬
garian, Croatian, Bohemian, Polish,
Ruthenian, Roumanian, Servian and
Turkish, while the religious part of
the ceremony was conducted by Ro¬
man Catholic, Greek Catholic And
Greek orthodox priests, Protestant
pastors, Hebrew rabbis and Mahome¬
tan ulema. ,
In answer to a recent inquiry made
of the Secretary of the Interior by
the Commissioner of Education in re¬
gard to a division of the fund to agri¬
cultural colleges in the South, the
Secretary has decided that the division
of the fund as already or hereafter to
be made by the various State legisla
tures shall be approved by the depart
ment, unless it is apparent that such
suggested division is grossly inequit¬
able aud that in cases where the State
legislatures have not yet proposed an
equitable apportionment that the
basis of division now in force shall re
main till the legislative intent regard
iug tne matter is made known. In the
case of South Carolina the act of Con
greaa of July 26th, 1892, applies not
only to the sum duo the State at the
time, but to all sums becoming due
ander the act of August 30th, 1890.
Washington %
A letter says: Surpris¬
ing news has reached the bureau of
ethnology respecting the recent disen
tombment of the conqueror, Pizarro,
jn Peru. It seems that the corpse ex¬
hibits certain abnormalities which are
extremelv interesting from the point
of view of anthropologists. The skull
reveals all the marks of the criminal
fcvpe, as recognized by science to-day.
As shown by it the military hero, so
worshiped and revered even now in
Sohth America, was a murderous and
bloodthirsty brute. The cranium has
even, the so-called “fossa of Lorn
hronoT which modern criminologists
a.™ discovered except la con
firmed and habitual enemies of society,
The skull jg abnormally broad. An
other anatomical peculiarity is the in
step, which is extraordinarily high.
The latter was u feature of his con¬
quering race. It recalls the warrior
indefatigable on the march, whether
on the desert tracts of the coast, or in
the wilds of the Peruvian Cordilleras.
As to his age, reliable evidence is to
the effect that Pizarro was a little
more than seventy ysais old when he
died.
GEORGIA STATE HEWS.
Interesting Callings for llie Perusal of
tire Casual Reater.
General Manager Gabbctt, of the
Sam road, states that the road would
certainly be built into Savannah at an
early date. If the Central was unwil¬
ling to sell the Eden extension from
Meldrim to Lyons, he said his road
would build in. They seem determin¬
ed to get into Savanuah at once, and
they cannot get terminal facilities
‘
from the Ceutiai. Mr. Gabbctt says
there will be no trouble about securing
them from the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad.
McElmurray. Deputy Revenue Golleoters Johnson,
Elder and Wizards cap¬
tured a blind tiger distillery in the
northern portion of Wilkes, on the
line of Elbert county, a few days ago,
and arrested on the sped a man who
gave his name as John H Dunaway,
and carried him to Augusta, where he
will answer to Judge Speer for his of
fense. The officers destroyed the dis¬
tillery, which they said w as a most ex¬
cellent plant of ninety gallons daily
capacity. They captured 100 gallons
of whisky and about 2.000 gallons of
beer.
The details of the joint debate be¬
tween General Evans and Mr. Atkin¬
son, the two candidates for the demo¬
cratic nomination for governor, have
been arranged at a meeting of repre
sentatives of each side. The place
and date of each meeting is as follows:
Griffin, Wednesday, the 21st of March;
Athens, Friday, the 23d of March;
Rome, Monday, the 26th of March;
Hawkinsville, Thursday, the 29th of
March. The debate at each of the four
places shall begin at 11 o’clock a. in.,
at places to be agreed upon by the lo¬
cal representatives of both sides.
Judge J. L. Mershon, of Brunswick,
lias filed a bill in the United States
court at Savannah against a large Dum¬
ber of the stockholders of the Ogle¬
thorpe National bank, of Brunswick,
which failed last May. The hill is
filed in the name of J. W. Bennett, re¬
ceiver, appointed by the comptroller
of the currency, Mr. Eekles, and states
that certain stockholders have failed
to pay the assessment of $75 per share
on their stock as required under the
order of the comptroller. The amount
of the assessments thus unpaid is $39,
000. Receiver Bennett asks judgment
against all those who have failed to
pay. Savannah stockholders have had
to pay nearly $30,000 in assessments
on aeount of the failure of this bank.
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Dr. J. L. M. Curry and Dr. D. C.
Gilman, trustees of the Slater fund,
visited the Georgia State Industrial
college at Sav'aunah recently. They
were in charge of Chairman P. W.
Meldrim, of the college commission,
and Chancellor Boggs, of the univer¬
sity. In the party were Commission¬
ers W. R. Hammon and P. J. Cline.
Dr. Gilman and Dr. Curry were favor¬
ably impressed with what they saw r ,
and questioned the instructors and
teachers closely with regard to the
principles and methods they adopted
in teaching. There are now over one
hundred boys at the college, and they
made a splendid show ing. Dr. Curry
said that he was favorably impressed
with the work and that the college had
great possibilities. He said there was
one thin S lacking, however, which the
trustees of the Slater fund required as
a precedent to making a donation, and
that was a state appropriation. This
college is given a portion of the land
scrip fund, but no direct appropria¬
tion from the taxes collected. “We
help those who help themselves, ” said
Dr. Currv, “and what we do depends
largely’ on Avhat the state will do for
the institution.”
• C'otton--Jla«ter or .Slave.
Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, state commis¬
sioner of agriculture, contrityites an
article to the April number of The
Southern Cultivator , from which the
following is an extract:
Cotton has been, for years, emphati¬
cally* our “money crop”—that is, it
not only brings in most of the cash,
but absorbs every dollar of it, and of
ten the little gleaned from other re¬
sources of the farm. It has gradually
become a rapacious and unrelenting
master, but can y*et be reduced to a
most subservient and profitable slave.
It has been conclusively shown that,
outside the cotton grown and consumed
in other countries, that is, in Asia, Af
the cotton of commerce. In other
words, the world is dependent on the
j southern farmers for three-fourths of
the cotton which it uses and which
cannot be produced elsewhere. From
this simple statement it will be seen
what a power Ave hold among the na¬
tions of the world, and what a lever to
lift ourselves and our section into pros¬
perity. But Avithout home supplies of
food and forage, we lose the immense
ad\*antage which this monopoly gives
us. Abundant home-raised provisions
must be the fulcrum on which our le
ver rests.
Ripans Tabules.
Disease commonly comes on with slight symptoms, which when
neglected increase in extent and gradually grow dangerous.
If you p(-|>»ia Suffer from or IndiKi'tttioii, Ifrorlorlie, Dy». take bipans tabules
If you liavi; are n nUion«. Disordered Constipated, Liver, or take EIPANS tabules
If you your sillier Complexion Distress after Is Sallow, Luting, or take BIPANS tabules
For Offensive ders of Breath the {Stomach, and .411 Disor¬ take EIPANS tabules
Ripans Tabules act gently but promptly upon the liver, stomach
and intestines; cleanse the system effectually; cure dyspepsia,
habitual constipation, offensive breath and headache. One Tabule
taken at the first indication of indigestion, biliousness, dizziness,
distress after eating or depression of spirits, will surely and quick¬
ly ’ remove the whole difficulty. widely used
Ripans Tabules are prepared from a prescription
by the best physicians, and are presented in the form most ap¬
proved by modern science.
If given a fair trial Ripans Tabules are an infallible cure; they
contain nothing injurious aud are an economical remedy.
One gives relief.
A quarter-gross box will be sent, postage paid, on receipt of 75
cents by the wholesale and retail agents,
JACOBS PHARMACY CO., Atlanta, Ga.
Local Druggists everywhere will supply the
Tabules if requested to do so.
They are Easy to Take, Quick to Act and Save many a Doctor’s Bill,
Samples Free on application to the Ripans Chemical
Co., New York City.
When our cotton crop is made we
can neither eat it or wear it until it
passes into other hands, but if our ne¬
cessities in these points are such that
we are obliged to part with it we are
compelled to take whatever price the
dealer offers. Hence the crowding of
the cotton crop to market as soon as it
is gathered, though the price be
the cost of production, and though the
new' year finds us with only the paper
receipts to show for our twelve months’
labor. If a man has plenty of home
support he can afford to wait. The
world is obliged to have liis cotton.
During the civil Avar the enforced sus¬
pension of cotton production caused
, . to J , h the ,, foLulcms . . . „
J? r 2S e reac guie
of $2.8o per pound. . J
Knowing these facts, if the farmers
generally are fortified with ample pro
visions for family and stock, they can
quietly await a renumerative price for
,their cotton. It will not do for a man
here and there to adopt this policy -
lt must be imiversal, and when our
bal'ns and cribs and smokehouses are
full, we can afford to look calm y on
while, the dealer endeavors to secure
our cotton for less than it cost us to
produce it. Is not this the situation
in a nutshell? Does it not conapre
bend : reduction of the acreage, les
sening the cost of production, the
prosperity of agriculture, the very ex
istenee of our state and section as a
healthy portion of the body politic?
What more powerful appeal can be
made to the interest, the common
sense, the patriotism of our southern
farmers? And the decision rest swith
them. Unlike the agriculturists of
many other countries, there is no pow
er which can dictate their course.
They must decide whether they will
still further risk the bondage of a large
cotton crop and possible,nay probable,
debt, or less cotton, ample provisions
and certain independence.
These “thoughts” are suggested and
emphasized by the fact that the final
decision must now be reached, as to
w'hat portion of our crops shall be
planted in cotton. In deciding this
question let us remember that it is not
the number of bales, but the profit in
these bales which most nearly concerns
our welfare. Let us also keep in mind
that with the same labor we can, by
judicious selection of land and manur¬
ing, nearly' double the yield, while all
other expenses, except flicking or gin¬
ning, remain about the same. Remem¬
ber, too, that the better the land, the
m?re manure it will bear, hence it fol
Ioavs, that we can, in a measure, sub¬
stitute fertilization for labor. We can
manure good land with less risk, and
by employing, as far as possible, im¬
proved and’ labor-saving implements,
render ourselves in jiart at least, inde¬
pendent of that most uncertain factor
in the farm problem. Again, let it be
repeated, don’t waste labor and ma¬
nure on dead poor land. Where there
is so much to choose from we can con¬
centrate both on the best spots. Leave
the rest, either to be reclaimed kindly by ju¬
dicious treatment, or by mother
nature.
Gurlf.y, in the Point Rock Valley
North Alabama, has a prodigy in the
shape of a 9-year-old white child. Her
name is Lizzie Beale, and her parents
are among the best people in Jackson
County*. She weighs 192 pounds and
is possessed of enormous strength.
She can with the greatest ease lift
and carry off an anvil weighing 225
pounds, and carry off a big man who
could scarcely lift her from the
ground. Her hair is very long, and
she lias regular, beautiful features.
CORBETT ACQUITTED.
fll6 JOr? BlUlM ill S VffliiCt Of NCt
uUlltY . SnOPl , n UluGF, ,
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Slugger Mitchell Jiituieii is is Greatlv l*rea ly Pleased i eased
With the Turn of Affairs.
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A Jacksonville special says: Once
more the prize fighters have gone up
against the “peace and dignity” of the
state of Florida as Governor Mitchell
would phrase it, and once more the
«<p eace an( j dignity” has beentknocked
out in short order.
At 3;15 0 > clock Friday afternoon the
• * n cage a g a i ns t James J. Cor
^ett, charged with violating the laws
Florida by engaging in a prize fight,
re ^j re( j make up a verdict. At 4:07,
or sixteen minutes later, the jury re
turned and the foreman handed the ver¬
dict to the state’s attorney, who read:
“\y e the jury, find the defendant not
»
A broad smile spread over Corbett’s
f aceas ke beard these reassuring words
and the sports who crowded the court
room would have cheered had they not
been informed by Judge Phillips w'hen
the jury came in that he would send
an y person *to jail for contempt Avho
dared to express audible approval or
disapproval of the verdict.
Charley Mitchell was present when
the verdict was announced and he
leaned over and grasjied Corbett by
the hand and whispered congratula¬
tions. Mitchell, of course, considered
the verdict in the light of a practical
acquittal for himself, as a case against
him of a similar nature is pending.
There were four women in the court¬
room at the time, two of them mem¬
bers of the “After Dark” company,
and they braved the w'rath of Judge
Phillips to the extent of airily waving
their hands to Corbett.
The proceedings leading up to the
verdict were very tame. Court con¬
vened at 9:30 o’clock a. m. and the
state resumed the examination of its
witnesses. The attorneys for the
prosecution tried to elicit testimony
to show that the fight was brutal and
to make the witnesses admit that from
the very brutality of the contest Cor¬
bett and Mitchell must have harbored
malice against one another. The state,
however, did not make much headway
on this line, and it then attempted to
bring in the check for $20,000 which
Corbett received in public after the
fight. All of the witnesses had seen a
piece of paper handed Corbett, but all
were innocent of any knowledge of its
character.
TO BE HELD IN APRIL,
Fourth Annual Ilennion of United Ton*
federate Veterans.
The general commanding announces
that the fourth animal meeting and re¬
union of the United Confederate Vete¬
rans will be held as stated in General
Order No. 115, current series, from
New Orleans headquarters, in the city
of Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday
and Thursday, April 25th and 26th.
All confederate organizations and con¬
federate soldiers and sailors of all !
arms, grades and departments are cor¬
dially invited to attend the reunion of
their comrades.
So live that you will not strain the
conscience of the one who writes your
epitaph.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Dust is responsible for many ex¬
plosions in coal mines.
Granite is the bed rock of the world,
being the lowest on the earth’s crust.
Dynamo machines were in 1878
ordered by the British Government
tor the Lizard light.
The planet Neptune has the longest
year, consisting of more than sixty
thousand of our clays.
The young of the polype grow from
the body of"the parent like buds, and
when almost grown are separated by a
sudden jerk.
Two Scotch scientists have figured
out that power equal to 145 horses
would be required to propel a whalo
through the water at the rate of twelve
miles an hour.
Professor Dolbear says a
searchlight could project a beam
Mars in four minutes which could be
seen and responded to if they have the
apparatus that we have.
A current of electricity does not
always kill when it appears to do so.
It simply produces an appearance of
death, from which the subject may in
many cases be restored by artificial
respiration.
In water in which decaying vege¬
tables have been infused the micro¬
scope discovers little animals so minute
that ten thousand of them would not
exceed in bulk a grain mustard. Yet
these creatures are supplied with
organs as complicated as those of a
whale.
It is believed that whales often at¬
tain the age of four hundred years.
The number of years these huge crea¬
tures have lived is ascertained by
counting the layers of liminse forming
the horny substance known as “whale¬
bone.” These laminae increase yearly,
just as the “growths” do on a tree.
The prevalence of crimson colors in
certain fishes on the New England
coast on portions of which scarlet and
crimson seaweeds abound, is explained
by Professor J. Brown Goode by the
red pigment derived by the crusta¬
ceans from the seaweeds they devour,
and which in turn form the food of
the fishes.
A Tacoma (Wash.) man, George R.
Cowls, is said to be the inventor of »
process for making illuminating gas
out of wood. From one cord of wood
he gets gas and products w orth $48, so
it is claimed. If this be true, then
Washington State can use up all its
long tree stumps in the manufacture
of gas and get so much clear gain out
of them.
The thinnest part of a soap bubble
is where the black, or rather gray,
tint appears just before it breaks.
This thickness has been calculated by
the laws of optics to be less than one
one hundred and fifty-six thousandth
of an inch. From this minute amount
the thickness of the bubble may in¬
crease up to quite a perceptible
quantity.
Bricks are now being burnt by elec
tricity. This promises to revolutionize
the industry by greatly reducing the
labor and cost. The kiln-drying pro¬
cess is entirely dispensed with. The
wet clay is put into a sort of covered
iron mold, w r hicb holds about 1001)
bricks, and a strong current of elec¬
tricity is then turned on, and in a
very short time the bricks are dried
and burnt and all ready to be turned
out for sale.
The Humming Bird at Home.
While spending the winter in Cali¬
fornia, writes Frank Ford, in the
Magazine of Natural Science, I made
my first acquaintance with Madam
Hummingbird “at home.” In the first
place the location could not have been
improved on. Just picture in youi
mind a lawn dotted with orange,
lemon, fig and palm trees, with here
and there a giant century plant, or
bunch of pampas grass, and no end oi
flowers. While a cypress hedge, over
shadowed by stately eucalyptus lawn and
pepper trees, separated the from
the street. One day while gathering
oranges, I was startled by the rapid
and angry darting of a humming bird
near my faee, which led me to look
closely in that part of the tree, which
resulted after a little search in the
discovery of my first humming bird’s
nest. It Avas placed on a twig not as
large as a lead pencil, on one of the"
low'er limbs of the orange tree, and it
was so covered with lichens the same,
color as the bark of the tree that it
was difficult to find it again even after
I knew about where it was. The nest
is about the size of the burr oak acorn
cup, built almost entirely' of the
feathery plumes of the pampas grass,
covered with green lichens, and all
held together, and to the limb, with
something greatly resembling spider
web. Within this “marvel of con¬
struction” were two semi-transparent
eggs, almost too small to describe,and
my efforts to use the blowpipe on
them blew* them all to smithereens.
Before taking the nest, I visited
Madam Hummingbird several times,
and nearly always found her at home.
3he never left the nest but a few min¬
utes at a time.
The jealousy of physicians is re¬
markable. No sooner does one of their
discover a disease than half-a-dozei
more concentrate all their energiei
upon its suppression.—Puck