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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor,.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE,
PKICE: TWO OOXJC^AJEfcS A Year .
VOL. XXI.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891.
NO. 19-
THIS SZE_A_SOTnT?
CLOIJD AND SUNSHINE.
E. Kelso Carter, *iii the 0b3ervar. ;
Waiting in gloom, and pain
Weary, oh! so weary!
Steadily falls the rain,
Dart the day and dreary.
The bitterest winds are waging loud,
And the funeral sky is clothed in cloud;
Will the sun ne’er shine again?
Courage! in heart and brain,
■ Though the day be darh’ning;
Waiting is not in vain,
If for God thou’rt heark'ning.
The dreariest weather will change some
day
And never a cloud but what will pass
away,
And the sun must shine again.
Be still, sad heart, ncr mind
The heat of fiery trying,
- The mystery entwined
With sorrow and with crying.
The costliest gold, by a method slow,
Must lose its dross in the hottest glow,
But it cometh forth refined:
Be sure and write us before buying.
We can take care of you.
MALLARY BR08. & GO.,
1 MACON, GEORGIA. ,
GEOBGIA Houston County.
T. D. Warren, administrator of the
estate of C. A. Warren deceased, has ap
plied for dismission from his trust:
T&is is’therefore to cite all persons
concerned, to. appear at the August term,
1891, of the Court of Ordinary of Hous
ton county,' and show cause, if aDy they
have, why .said apqlication should not be
granted:... ..
Witness my official signature this
April 30, 1891.
■ X H, HOUSES, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Mrs. 0. M. Holleman, administratrix
of estate of B. Holleman, deceased, has
applied for dismission from her trust:
This is therefore to oite all persons
concerned to appoar at the July term,
1891, of the court of Ordinary of said,
count., and show’cause, if any they have,
why said application should , not be
granted.,:.;:
Witness iny official signature this the
30th of March, 1891. ‘
X H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
AH persons concerned are lierebynoti-
fied to be and appear at the court of Or-
pinary, to be held in and for said county,
on the first Monday in June next, then
and there to show cause, if any exists,
why W.S.Felder should not he dismiss
ed from his trnst as administrator on the
eBtate of Mrs. C. M. Felder, late of said
county, deceived, as prayed for by him
in petition this day filed in the office of
this court.
Witness my official signature this 27th
day of Feb. 1891.
X H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County: $
W. M. Edmuudspn, administrator es
tate of John Edmondson, deceased,has
applied for dismission from his trust.
Tins is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the June term,
1891, of the court or Ordinary of said
connty, and show cause, if any they
have, why said. application should not
bo granted.
Witness my official signature,, this
March 2,1891. J. R. HOUSER,
Ordinary.
GEORCIA—Houston County:
Daniel M. Vinson, executor of estate of
Elijah Vinson, deceased, has applied for
dismission from his trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the June term,
1891, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not-be
■ granted.
Witness my official signature this
March 2, 1891.
J. H. HOUSER,'Ordinary.
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you? Some ram over 8500.00 a
" — * the work and live
ron are. Even be-'
tniinjr from $6 to
10 a day. All ipr*.-W* show you how
ad start yon- Can work in-t-pnralimo
or all the time. Hip money for work-
_ , era. Failurennkimivn among them.
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Physician and Surgeon,
Pebry, Geobgia.
Office adjoining Perry Hotel. Can be
found at offico during the day, and at
Hotel at night. All calls 7 promptly an
swered day or night.
Z. SIMS,
DZ3IT- TIS T
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Office on Maiii street, lately occu
pied by Hr. W. M. Hayis. "
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ronage solicited. ~ . apl281y
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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
A BASH ACT.
“So you’ve been bounced?” said
Mrs. Popover. - y
Marian-Milman winced at_ the
inelegant word: but she under
stood enough of the P opove style
of dialect to know that no harm was
intended. Mrs. Popover did not
gauge her phraseology by “Web
ster’s Unabridged,” but she was a
good soul, nevertheless.
“Yes;" she answered meekly; “I
have been discharged.”
' Mrs. Popover was stoat and
short, with no visible waist, a black
lace <Sap on the side of her head
and her feet thrust into-carpet
slippers. -
Miss Milman was slight and
graceful, with ruddy brown hair
and pleading hazel eyes, and look
ed every inch the lady in her shab
by mourning.
“Pity, ain’t it?” said Mrs. Pop
over. “This lime o’ year too!”
“Yes,” sighed Marian; “but I am
not the only sufferer. Thirty oth
er girls have gone, too. Business
is so dull after the holidays. Mr.
Meredith says we shall be re-en
gaged when the state of trade war
rants it. But I haven’t much
hope.”
“And what ye goin’ to do now?”
asked Mrs. Popover.
Marian drew aloDg breath.
“I don’t know,” she said piteous
ly-'
Just then the door opened,- and
a blooming young girl came in,
with a satchel in her hand.
“Is this Mrs. Popover’s?” said
she. “Does Miss Milman—Oh,
Marian, you dear thing, 1’ve found
you at last! Oh, how glad I am to
see you!” —
Marian gave a little gasp.
"Juliet Powers,” she cried.
“Yes, it’s I!” -beamed Juliet. “I
got-tired of teaching school down
in Hollbrook Hollow, and the trus
tees were so exacting, and the
children so dreadful, that. I made
up my mind to come to yon and
see if I couldn’t get something to
do in the city.”
“Well, I declare!” said Mrs.
Popover. “Here’s Miss Marian
herself just been throwedouto’
hnsiness. I’d like to know how'
she's to help anybody else?”
Marian gave the' good soul an'
appealing glance. v
I will do the best I can," said
she.
And Juliet, aD apple-faced; san
guine natured young country lass,
nestled close - up to her.
I knew you would help ’ me,”
said she, “because you know all
about the city. ^And oh, Marian
dear, I’m so tired and hungry!”
And thns Marian "Milman be r
came charged-with B the responsi
bility of another beside herself.
And the days went by, and situa-
-tions were harder than ever-to ob
tain, and the little common piirse
was exhausted, and Mrs. Popover’s
account became larger than ever
for the rant of the back bed-Toom,-
witk its hideous green wall paper,
and its dispiriting outlook over_the
roofs and smoky chimney stacks.
Marian,”, said Juliet, “what are
we .to do ?”
Shehad come in tired and weary
after a long day’s- work at the aid
business of looking for employ
ment.
Marian sat gazing sorrowfully at.
a'ciumsy parcel that lay on the ta
ble before-her.
“They have sent back my poor
little screens and plaques unsold;’
said she, “with a polite note inti
mating that the market for that
sort of thing is overstocked.’
“Oh, Marian! And you worked
so hard at them!” with - a. .quick
burst of sympathy.
“The more fool II To' tell yon
the truth, Juliet,” said Marian
with-a forced smile, “I begin to
eluded."
Juliet threw both her arms
around the slight'young figure.
“Darling,you’re"tiled and dis
couraged,” said she.” “Yoifll feel
better after dinner.”
“But Juliet, there is no dinner.
•Jntiet threw open the capb jard
doors,and gave auexhaustiva glance
aroundrits empty shelves. There
were the two china plates, the two-
caps and saucers, the neat knives
and forks, the pewter spoons, the
nine-cent pepper and salts—but
that was all.
“I’ll go out and buy something,”
said she cheerfully —La neck of
mutton to boil, up for soup, or an"
end piece of corned beef.”
“You can’t make bricks without
straw,-”-said "Maria, sadly, “nor buy
soup-meat without money. At least
I’ve never been able.to do it.
“Is the money all gone, Marian ?”
“All but five dirty copper cents,
Joliet."
Juliet clicked her tongue .softly
against the roof of- her mouth.
“Mrs Popover will trust us for
a few of yesterday’s rolls or a loaf
of stale bread,” she suggested,
cheerfully.
’“No, Juliet,” said Miss Marian,
resolutely. “We.are already too
much in Mrs. Popover’s debt. I
will ask no more favors from her.”
- “Must we starve?” resentfully
demanded Juliet. '
“1 would rather starve thau sink
into the quicksands of debt,”
Marian firmly answered.
Juliet’s cheeks flushed; she bit
her lips.
“There is a pawnbroker on Sixth
avenue,” said she. “And I have
got my mother’s old garnet ring
and a mosiac scarf-pin which my
father brought from Florence when
he was a sea captain. I’ll go and
see what I can do.” —
“But—a pawnbroker!” sobbed
Marian. “Oh, Juliet, what are we
coming to?”
“No worse than many 'another
has come to,” said Juliet. “Cheer
up, Marian! Bemember that it’s
always darkest just before day
light.”
And she kissed the pale girl and
went cheerfully out.
The garnet ring and the' mosaic
scarf-pin kept them for a -week,
Still they were seeking for work—
still the same old answer was re
turned. For every vacant place
there was at least a score of appli
cants.
They sought from place to {dace;
they traversed street after street,
but iD vain. And on a dreary Feb
ruary night, when the snow was
turning to discolored slush on the
pavements and a dismal fog hung
over the over the - streets, Marian
looked up into her friend’s face.
‘-‘The soles of my shoes are worn
in holes, Juliet,” said she.‘.‘My feet
are soaking wet,and mydiead aches,
and—I don’t think I can go out
anymore. It’s of no use. I think
heaven has forgotten us.”
Juliet, stronger and more cour
ageous, brewed her friend a cup
of weak tea, and produced two so
da crackers from the cupboard.
E-at aud drink, Marian, and
you will feel better,” said she. “I
have heard of a woman who wants
a bookkeeper in her business, and
I must go there at once, this very
evening, before any one els4 has a
chance to crowcPme out.”
“You won’t get the place, Juliet.”
“How do von know?” cheerily.
“I don’t know it. I feel it.”
“Well, you’ll see. Eat and drink,
I say, dear. Don’t sit so mourn
fully there.”
But when Juliet was gone,
Marian rose and put the soda
crackers back into the cupboard.
“She thought I didn’t -know
they were the two last,” said she.
‘Juliet was always a hearty eater.
She is not so good at starving as I
am. But the end’s come at ktsfrHi
She tooklfom the mantle a little
vial of dark liquid, labeled “Lau
danum” (Juliet had had aguerinthe
face a few-days ago, and had. used
a little ; of it,) ancflooked at-it qnes-
tioningly.
1 hope it isn’t very wrong,”
she murmured; “but—but it must
be lia-d to die by jnchesl Harder
still to go to the poorhouSe' on
Blackwell’s Island! Oh, no, I could
liot endure that!”
And removing the cork, she
drank thejjitter draught, i
Surely this would be a dose
stroug enough to silence all the
pangs and woes of a dozen poor
souls! . -
“Will it be painful?” 'she asked
herself, nestling down among tile
pillows of her bed. “Because I
have not much strength to en
dure.”
No, it was not painful. - Heaven
be thanked for that!
A NEW ERA IN COTTON. (.
• Atlanta- Constitution.
A sweet drowsiness, like the
breath of poppies, overspread her
being, and with a half-murmured
prayer on her lips, Marian drifted E-'- A revolution in cotton ginning
into slumber. I J ’ s about to begin—one that Eli
* * * .* * [Whitney- would have rejoiced to
“Didn’t I tell you it was always j see.
HOW TO' MARKET MELONS.
Savannah News.
darkest before daylight? Wake up,
Marian—wake and rejoice with
me!”
Through a sort of cloud, Marian
saw Juliet’s radiant free. ~ She
struggled into a sitting posture,
tried to remember what had passed,
Was it true? or was it only a
dream ?
Who do you think the woman
was who wanted a book-keeper?
Why,- igy .mother’s dearest school
friend! She knew my name at
once, and she says she should have
known me anywhere from my re
semblance of mother. She is in
the perfumery business—ob, such
a nice-big score!—and she manages
it all herself. And I - am- to be
book-keeper, with a- nice salary,
and you are to have a good place
there, too—right away, Marian,
Mr. Brosius fairly won his title
as the Atlanta Edison when he in
vented the sewing machine motor
which promises to lift so much la
bor from tbe toiling women of the
land. Hood’s “Song of the Shirt”
would never have been written if
this automatic affair had then ex
isted. •
But to the point-. Mr. Brosius
has invented a -ginning process
which will not break the fiber of
cotton. It turns oat an unbroken,
Silky staple from upland stains,
which is almost as beautiful as sea
island cotton. For years it has
been a lament of eastern spinners'
that the fiber was so broken. One
of the, most thoughtful of them
uot long ago remarked that, con
sidering its immense cost and
priceless value in the textile arts,
dear! And we can pay good Mrs. cotton was the most roughly ban
Popover now, and live like Chris
tians again; and I’ve brought home
such a nice little supper of cold
roast chicken, and hoc potatoes,
and a pitcher of smoking coffee. A
real treat, Marian. Bouse up, dear,
and enjoy it.”
A faint, sad smile flickered into
Marian’s fade.
Had all the .sunshine come, now
thatit was too late? And yet—
how good the little feast looked—
how deliciously fragrant the coffee.
With a feeble gesture, she point
ed to the vial on the mantle. Juliet
would"know what she meant.
Why,” cried the girl, “where is
all my cough medicine? I gottbe
bottle filled only yesterday, for I
knew that I kept ycu_ awaiie,
coughing at night. Mrs. Popover
gave some out of the children’s
bottlejshe’s such a kind old wo
man. Laudanum? Ob,- yes, I
know that’s what the label says, bat
the vial got tipped over long ago,
and all the laudannm leaked out!
Never mind, dear—we can. easily
get more now- We are not beg
gars any longer. Here, sit np.
Drink this hot coffee before it has
time to ehill. And eat the chick
en—and teste this dear little teeny
glass of current jelly. You see I’m
getting extravagant; Jbut we Have
been starved so Jong.”
“What a coward I have been,”
said Mariad to herself. “Oh; thank
God that He has saved me from
my own-rash will—saved me to be
gin life anew—saved me for new
strength and hope! Oh, I never,
never will abandon myself to de
spair again, no matter how dark
the future seems!”
And Juliet never knew how near
Marian had come to the solution
of ail life’s problems. .It / was a
secret between herself and heaven!
^-[Saturday Night.
John W. Hamilton, of-New York,
has a peculiar letter from the late
P. T. Barnuai, in which' the great
showman advocates a policy dia
metrically opposite to .that with
which his name wa3 ever associ
ated to the public mind. “What I
particular admire,” Barn urn-wrote,
“is your refraining from bombast
and exaggeration. The simple
truth, told in a candid manner, is
more effective in securing the per
manent respect, confidence and ap
proval of the public than hyper
bole. The people are not fools,
and will not patronize those who
deceive them. Dr. Franklin' was
right when be said, ‘Honesty is
the best policy.’ Let that be our
watchword.”
The blackened teeth of the Ma
lays and Siamese are not pro
duced, as has been supposed here
tofore, by coating them with a
mixture of betel and. lime, but by
rubbing tbe teeth with a pasete
made from - charred cocoannt ker
nels. This is carefully applied to
teeth again, and again, until a black
varnish hides the natural white.
A bill is prepared in England to
strike at the adulteration of ma
nures and feed staffs.
La Grippe Again.
Daring the epidemic of La
Grippe last season Dr. KingVNew-
Discovery. for Consumption, Colds
and Coughs, proved to be the best
remedy. Deports from the many
who used it confirm this statement.
They were not only quickly reliev
ed, but tbe disease left no bad af
ter results. We ask you to give
this remedy a trial, and we guar
antee that you mil be satisfied
vdtlrresults, or the purchase price
will be refunded. It has no equal
in La Grippe, or any Throat, Chest
died of all the raw products of the
earth. Pig iron is almost as ten
derly treated.
Mr. Brosius saw the need and
went to work in March. Since
then he has matured a treatment
for the uuginned cotton which will
cause it to come off the seed whole,
without a break in the fiber. Not
only this; the process, which, by
the way, is physical, not chemical,
leaves the fiber in such soft, glossy
condition that it begins .to rival
silk. What if it should transpire
that cotton, treated as it should be,
is really a finer staple than silk?
The results of a few hasty experi
ments point in this direction. -
The beauty of Mr. Brosius’ in
vention is that it does not necessa
rily do away with the gins in use.
It simply makes their work easy
and perfect. Fifty dollars added
to a good ordinary gin will equip
it for this work.
Another point is that the seed is
stripped stark naked, so thatit
would blush if it were not already
black. This saves a large item in
the cost of getting out the oil.
As usual, Mr. Brosius is enthu
siastic and sanguine of large re
sults—which he-also usually gets.
“I have showed it to practical
men,” said he, “experts in hand
ling the staple, and they tell me it
sill work a revolution. Mr. S. M.
Inman says the staple ‘like this is
worth from 1 to ' 2 cents a pound
more than cotton treated in the.or
dinary way. __ This staple before
you is from mi!dewed cotton. That
is what I showed Hr. Inman. I
wonder what he would think if he
saw middling ginned by this pro
cess.
“Think of the results. Why, at
a cent a.pound, the improvement
is worth $40,000,000 to the south!
I have already been offered §40,-
000 for an inte.rest in the process,
but I refused _ it. Goy. Northen
suggested that I let about forty
of the leading alliancemen get to
gether and make a company to run
it. I think we. will make that ar
rangement. I want the south to
get the'benefit of this, invention.”
Yery startling was the mistake,
says Harper’s Magazine, made by
a'queen of Denmark daring her
visit to the Danish colony of Ice
land, where the good old ikhop
exerted himself to the utmost to
show her everything that was
worth seeing. The queen paid
many compliments to her host,and.
having learned that he was a fam
ily-man, graciously inquired how
many children he,had. Now, it
happened that the Danish word
for “children” was almost identi
cal in sound -with the. the Icelan
dic word for “sheep;” so the wor
thy bishop—whose knowledge - of
Danish was not' so complete as it
might have been'—understood her
majesty to ask how many sheep he
owned, and* he answered, “Two
hundred.” “Two hundred chil
dren!” cried the queen, astonished.
“How can you possibly maintain
such a number?!’ “Easily enough,
please your majesty;” replied the
hyperborean prelate, with a cheer
ful smile.” “In the summer I
torn them Out upon the bills to
graze, and when winter comes I
kill and eat them.”
The following facts and fignres,
The watermelon growers 'in this paesented by the Atlanta Consti-
state are already beginning to die- tution,are sufficient to put the toil-
enss the question of how they can ing classes of this country to think-
market their crops to the best ad- ing, ancf thinking seriously. Un
vantage. The shipping of melons less there be reforms and changes,
to commission merchants has.not these facts and figures do not
proven wholly satisfactory, and the promise very good results to this
distribution of the melons by an class. The Constitution presents
exchange has its defects. It is an the facts and figures thus: '
easy matter to grow, melons, but it From 1S80 to 1890 the wealth of
is not so easy to market them at a this country increased 50 per cent,
reasonable profit. A great diffi- It increased from $44,000,000,000
culty is to avoid overstocking aDy to §66,000,000,000.
one of the principal markets, and This increase was the result of
thasxeducing the martlet price be- labor. It was produced by the
toilers of the country.
But what became of the in
crease? A'thoughtful writer in
the San Francisco Argonaut pro
ceeds to answer the question.
Careful estimates show that on
low the profit line.
Cannot the melon growers get a
hint from the orange growers
The orange growers have never
been so successful in marketing as
they have during the season that
is about closing. They tried ship- January 1, 1890, of the $66,000-
ping to commission merchants, and 000,COO of wealth in the United
they tried the exchange, and still States, 30,000 leading capitalists
they -didn’t get- such returns as possessed $36,250,000,000, leaving
they were entitled to expect.
Filially, they decided to try the
plan of selling tbeir oranges to
buyers who visited their orchards,
and who relieved them of all trou
ble connected with picking, pack
ing and distributing the oranges.
And they say their returns have
never before been so ^satisfactory
as they have this season.
Those who buy tha oranges on
the trees know how to handle the
fruit, and just where the best
prices are to be obtained for them;
and, being-fruit merchants in the
cliards, and it is quite certain that
they will not return to the old
methods of distribution.
Why cannot the melon growers
have their melons handled in the
same way that oraDges are? It
may be a little difficult at first to
get those who handle the melons
in the markets to go to the melon
fields and purchase the entire crop
at so much per melon,'or so much
per hundred, or so much per car
load, but any difficulties that may
be encountered can be overcome,
doubtless, by^a reasonable amount
their melons
prices.
at remunerative
From Bad to-Worse.
THE TOILER FOOTS THE BILL.
$29,750,000,000 for the remaining
63,000,000 inhabitants.
It will be seen from these, fig
ures that, although our farmers,
artisans and other toilers produced
the increase of' $22,000,000,000, a
few capitalists absorbed most of it.
If this thing is to go on, in about
twenty-five years a few thousand
plutocrats will practically own the
whole country. ^
The toilers of the country pro
duce - all that we eat, drink end
wear in a year, and in addition add
4 per cent, annually to ohr wealth.
large cities, they do not run - the Bat the capitalists own the facto-
risk of being fleeced by middle- tories, machinery and appliances
men. The orange growers think usec l by laboring men. Capital
they have solved the problem of should obtain a fair share of -the
marketing the product of their or- increase qf wealth. As it is, it
takes the entire increase, and ex
acts so much that the laborers
have.to mortgage their little prop
erty and live on the proceeds.
This is a true statement. Da
ring the last ten years the capital
ists lived in luxury at the expense
of the toilers: During the same
period our farmers and other work
ers lived very plainly, although
they increased the wealth of the
country 50 per centr Now, simple
justice demands that the increase
should be equally divided between
the two classes.
of skill and persistence. Once get The expression; “The Scots sold
the buyers to go tlm melon fields their king for a groat,” originated
growers of melons will)^ tIlis way; D aring civil
the
and the growers of melons will
have little trouble in marketing wars in England between
Boundheads and the Cavaliers,
Charles 1., after the battle of
Naseby, in 1645, in which theEov-
alists were defeated, was forced to
seek refuge in the Scottish camp.
On August-8, 1646, they gave him
up to the English Parliament for
$2,000,000. . Some industrious
mathematician computed that this
was just a groat apiece for the
whole population of Scotland, and
hence arose the saying quoted
The ordinary treatment C con
tagious blood poisoning is to drive
one poison from the system by in
troducing another. The result, ir
most cases, has been that which
usually follows a leap from the
frying-pan in the fire. To put it
mildly, mercurial and other min
eral poisonings have disadvanta- above,
ges which are hardly less serious
than contagious blood poison.. In
either case-the system is wrecked;
and yet there is no reasod why hu
manity should continue to suffer.
It is tbe office of S.'S, to cure con
tagions blood poisoning. For that
disease the medicine is surely a
specific. And it is- also its office
to cure mercurial and other miner
al poisoning. In short, S. S. S. is
the great blood "purifier. It de
stroys the germs of the contagious
disease, and expels from the sys
tem all forms of mineral poisoB-
ing. It restores health, and strength
to the sufferer.
A “lantern” fish was recently
caught in the Columbia river,
Washington, a!though its proper
home is in the deep sea. Its - pe
culiarity is transparency; by hold
ing it up to the light every bone
can be easily counted. It has a
reddish tinge, and -this one -was
about seven inches long, although
they have been canght in drag
nets off the cost that were eighteen
incbleslong.
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Senator Higgins, of Delaware,
says that the whipping-post and
the pillory are still retained in his
state, owing to . the fact that tbe
state lies in the neighborhood of
three great cities, and that it has
to adopt unusual means to protect
itself from becoming the asylum
of criminals from these great cen
tres. He is himself opposed to
the preservation of these forms of
punishment, states the New York
Tribune, although he concedes
that their preservation has a ten
dency to make criminals give the
state a wide berth. The whipping
of to-day, adds the Tribune,, is
merely nominal, arid in no way re
sembles tbe brutal punishment of
the past when the cat-o’-nine-tails
as a form of punishment was first
established.
—Mr.- S. M. Solomon, Macon,
Ga., says: * rbelieve that Brady-
crotine is the most wonderful
medicine, for the cure of Headache.
I have ever tried.
A Polish drink prepared from
honey is seid to he growing great*
ly iii favor in England. A large
consignment has just been dis
patched from Warsaw to London.
“If the fact be true that honey as a
Henry Hayue writes from Paris drink is becoming popular, then,”
or Lung trouble. Trial bottle tre:: that nearly e\ery good singer on observes the San Francisco Exam-
at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s 'Drag the lyric stage there was born in iber, “we are returning to tbr sim-
Store, Large bottles, 50c. and $1 the United Sjtat.es.
pie tastes of our Saxon ancestors.” Swiss Legion.
Some one asserts that in nine
cases out of ten, ships leaving
New York, Boston or Philadelphia
for distant^ ports are provisioned
so closely by their owners that if a
shipwrecked crew of ten-men .were
picked up and fed for three days,
it would put- everybody on short
rations: A loss of four days on
sailing time would do tbe same
thing. •
-The sb-called “bowed piano,”
invented by an Austrian manufac-.
tnrer, is really a case resembling.a
pianoforte frame and containing
six violins, two violas' and two.vior
loncellbs; the strings of which are -
tuned to different notes. Circn'ar
bands connect the instruments,and
are brought into contact with the
strings.by means of the keyboard.
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The custom in executing a mili
tary sentence of death has beenio
load with ball all the rifles of the
firing party except 6ne,.which is
charged with a blank cartridge.
As the rifles were taken at ran
dom, no one knew who had the
blank charge: Thus each might
flatter himself that he had no
hand in killing tfie condemned.
The army of the Pope for 1891
is made np as follows: Two gen
erals, two colonels, two lieutenant-
colonels, a major, two captains,
four lieutenants and sixty men.
This number includes the famous
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