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VOL. XXVII. NO 19 A SMALL POTATO. A man in Tolland, Connecti cut!;, found a very small potato in one of his pockets when lie came in from his work. “Here,” said he, laughingly, Uu a hoy twelve years old who * " ilh "him, "plant that, avid you shall have all you can raise from it till you are of >) • age." ** The bright little hoy cut the potato into ns many pieces as there were “eyes” in it. and planted it. In tlu» autumn he ling and laid by the increuse of it, and planted that in the fid lowing spring. Next year he planted t he larger crop gathered tho previous autumn. The po tatoes grew healthily and did well, and his fourth year’s liar vest amounted to four hundred bushels. The farmer asked to bo released from his bargain, for lie saw the hoy’s planting would cover nil his land. And yet it is quite common to despise “the day of small things.”—Ex. CURIOUS FACTS. Nearly every castle in Eng land has its underground pas sages, A goose with two hearts was recently killed by a resident of Rhydope, England. # With a single blow of his in significant tail an elephant can knock down the strongest Tuan. The Congress of the United Ulftles has' met annually i Washington in.v N’o\i-mber 17, 1800. The hall of (In- Hogse of Rep resentatives at Washington is the largest legislative room in tlie \\ol id. It is estimated that the shin gle mills of Wliatoom County, Wash., enl'an average’of 2,000,- 000 shingles per day. The Rhode Island House pas sed an act to punish trespassing otj steam railroads, except at regular crossings. The popular belief that the sup of trees goes down into the roots in winter and rises again in the spring- is false. It has been observed that In dians sneeze very seldom, while Chinese sneeze ten times as much, even, as the white race A pocket book containing $40,000, which was lost in St. Louis, was found by a bell-boy in a hotel and returned to its owner. Some Birmingham (England) tradesman has turned loose in the streets a pair of herons with advertisements attached to them. Success has attended the ex periment of some land owners at Orlando, Fla., who undertook to raise Kentucky blue grass and timothy. ‘ The National Museum, in the City of Mexico, has received a curious Aztec map, which shows the boundaries of the canton ol Ciiicuptopee, in tho State of Vera Cruz. ' Plate-glass shelves are being used in French libraries and are said p> give complete satis faction. The wear and tear on tho bindings of the books is said to be very much less. An ancient quadrant bearing the name of Robert Kidd, the celebrated pirate, is in posses sion of a family at Rockland, Mo. It is more than 2(X) years old, and is mounted with ivory, which has now turned dark brmvn'with age. The river Vangtse, above Icliang, China, lias been closed to navigation, not by a decree of the Emperor of the flowery land, but by nature. A recent land slide lias created a danger ous. cataract. The debris has Compressed tbe channel to 80 yards wide with a fall of ten feet. — A north Texas darkey went to a justice of the peace and desired him to arrest his wife. When asked what was her of fence, he said that she ate so much that he could not stand it, and must get rid of her. She weighs two hundred pounds, he said, and in 7 years had borne him eleven children, all with appetites like her own. A neighbor, who was with him, asserted that he saw the woman, unassisted, at one meal dispose of three pounds of meat, a peck oJL beans, five pounds of corn one-half peck of oqiona (tml two quarts of buttermilk- When told that the jusiiee could do nothing for him, the unlucky darky went away very much downcast -Ex. . , I n -a* • tfcr- - Walton News: A jouig mail living in Oconee, whose name •'jEtfailed to learn, went hunt ing Friday morning which will doubt k-i bo his last coon hunt. He climbed a tree np which the coon had gone, and in the at tempt to shake ll e eocn out fell and was attacked by a pack of hounds. The dogs are said to have so badly mutilated the young man’s I ply that no hope pf hi» recovery Is eutertamed. The Gwinnett Herald. ROMEO’S AND JULIET’S ARE TOO YOrTHFtJI, NOW-A-DAVS. The dailies recently told of a marriage in middle Georgia be tween a 17-yeor-old swain and a 15-year-old damsel. American youngsters are be coming indeed precocious—they begin to dream of love and mat rimony before they get their eyes. No sooner have they shed their bibs than Cupid impales them with his fiery dart. From •the cradle to the altar is blit two whoops and a holler. Whether the parents of this particular psir of adolescent turtle doves consented to their matrimonial folly we are not informed; but the probabilities are that they played “hookey,” lied about- their age 10 secure a icense and were “jineil’* by some hungry parson who would hitch the Babes in the Wood for a two-dollar bill. If the latter he the true status of the case it is ducats to doughnuts that the parents deserve no pity. Maids are now permitted t<> “keep company” while toddling about in short dresses. By the lime a girl is 14 she. is usually “flirting desperately” with j children of the opposite sex who have just been promoted from shirt-waists and knicker bockers to "long pants.” In stead of laying her across her lap and the mother listens placidly to her prattle of “fel lows,” and how this or the other unlicked cub is bleeding to death with a broken heart because she “cut him cold.” She is permitted to gallop out to parties with youths in their teens, and is soon making eyes at. grown men. She knows more at 15 than her grandma did at 50, while the average boy has “gal” on the brain so badly that lie isn’t half worth killing if somebody would fur nish the club. While racing together with the freedom of four-footed live-stock, they are permitted to read erotic novels in which the relations of (he sexes are discussed with a free dom that would daze a fashion able preacher or a convention of doctors, and their minds be come so foul that- mi infantile marriage is often the least of two evils. Tolstoi declares that while in their teens the sexes should be religiously segregated, but Ainer ican parents seem to think that tho sweet innocence of baby hood will last without nurture until a boy casts his first, ballot and a girl makes her social debut. The uiudnmo of a Chi cago bagnio stak'd a few years ago that a majority/ of girls who go to the bad are polluted before they don long dresses, and that their seducers an* al most invariably boys. All of - which suggests that the Arneri | cans are a very enterprising people, and might, with profit, 1 take a hint ftoui the Freuch, wliq do not perm if quite so much freedom t<> “the young | person. ” As a rule, the woman of 20 j could not be persuaded to mar ly the man—or boy—whom she “ndoredd” at 10; and it’s oven money that after tour years’ reflection her old sweetheurt wouldn’t have her. Puppy love is a very indifferent capital with which to set up house keeping. “Hou'j ripe, soon rot ten,” says the old saw. Probably four-fifths of the unhappy marriages are con traded by people too young to distingush between affinity of souls and a ease of milk-siek liess. Yet in niatlerg material few become too old to play the fool. The boy who is mentally and physically sopud is not likely, if given plenty qf healthy em ploy uieql, to become moon struck before he is legally his own master; the girl who is kept at a sensible mother's 'apron-strings until 18 is quite j likely to merit the loyalty of a I sure-enough man. One greut trouble with the American people is too much | artificial pressure. Fathers are | too busy chasing the nimble niekle and mothers too much 1 immersed in fashion’s frivol-1 lies to give, their children prop- 1 er attention. They bundle them ufl to the public school as they would send raw material of any LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 20th 1897. kind to mill, and concern them selves little with the personali ty, of their t«achers, the nature of their surroundings or the character of their associates. At home they are often con signed to the supervision of ser vants, half of whom would cor rupt a kenni 1 of puppies, yel they are expected to grow up models of probity.—Exchange. THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER The editor of (lie Fitzgerald Leader, who is a woman, thinks the prodigal daughter should be treated with the same consider ation as the prodigal son, and she is right. Here is the way she views il: If the prodigal son had been a prodigal daughter there would have been n<s fatted calf killed She would have crawled in al the back door, and on her knees begged simply for a crust and a shelter, knowing that these, if accorded at all, would lie given most grudgingly. She would have known that jf the parents were willing to kill the fatted calf the neigh bors would not come to the feast. The opinion of centu ries would have borne upon her with such crushing weight as to cause her to hide upon the ap proach of old time friends had they desired to approach. The women of the neighborhood would have refused to meet her. And of the meu ? The great bulk of them would have met her with the intention of drag ging her still lower. This is a truthful statement of woman’s position compared to man’s. Men are an important factor in the household, ill society and the state. There is much re joicing when a man child is born; he is worth rejoicing for, worth forgiving when ho steps from the path of rectitude, hut. his sister is of less importance. She makes a mistake and is lost. If she attempts to re form what lias she to reform to ? And this condition will re main as long as mothers draw aside with scorn as they pass by the unfortunate woman and the same time welcome into her home, and introduce to her daughter, the man who is part ner in the guilt. A double standard of morals today is not only a disgrace t>> civilization but. a crime against society. Mot hers should teach their hoys •to be as pure as their girls, and to conduct themselves towards every girl as a knight of the nineteent li century,whose sword is drawn in defense of her wo manliness, defending her from her own foolishness even. And the daughters should be taught to demand purity for purity at the marriage altar; then will come the age that demands a “white life for two ” And that age is coming. Never before have mothers so fully realized the falsity of the doctrine that “every boy must sow his wild oats. ” TOLD BY A MOUNTAIN PREACHER. A preacher of this a ction, since deceased, used to tell (lie following, says the Hazel Glenn Herald. He said he was in Letcher county preaching oil one occasion, when ho stopped at a farmhouse to gel his din ner. While eating, the lady of the house inquired his business, and he replied: “1 am hunt ing the lost sheep of Isreal.” She left the room, and in a few minutes returned with her husband, when she said: “This man is hunting some stray sheep, amt I’ll bet that old long wool rum that’s boen around here is his’u.” “No, sister, you don’t under stand me. j sin hunting sin ners, those (or whom Christ died.” “And is he dead !’’ she quer ied . “Yes,” replied the man of God, asicinished at her igno ranee. “And buried, too, I reckon." “Oh, yes; long, long ago.” “There now, old man, 1 told you we’d die in ignorance, for not taking a newspaper.” Dyspepsia Specialist (irrita bly ) —But, madam, v m must chew your food. What were your teeth given you for ? Female patient (calmly) — They wefeu't given to me, 1 bought ’em. the army shoe. AX OM> SORRIER HECARRH HIS experience with Foor • WEAR. I In- first pair of shoes 1 had in the army,” said an old sol dier in the New York Sun, “were two sizes too big for me.'* f wore sixes; my first army shoes were eights. 1 didn’t take t hem from choice—l got the nearest I could to my size. \\ (' were being fitted out from head to foot for the first time; that was when we were mus tered in; and the required 1111 m her of pairs of shoes, of assort ed sizes, had been delivered to each company. When I got at them they had been culled over so much that there was nothing left smaller than eights. “I didn’t think it would bo possible for nit* to wear a shoe two sizes too big for me, but 1 tried a pair on. They were brogans, having flaps, with two eyelets on each side, lacing over the instep with leather shoe strings. They tied snugly, so that the heel and often part of the shoe, and the sole, did not shuck on the foot. The for ward part of my foot felt as though it were out-doors; but 1 thought they might do; I had got to have a pair of shoes, and 1 took them. “I wore those shoes for sever al months, and with the great est, comfort. They were enor mous, or they looked so to me. As soon as I began to wear them the t hick leather of the uppers humped up into big, rounded edges, with valleys between, giving to the top of the shoe a sort <>f fluted or corrugated ef fect. These corrugations re mained always jus!, the same as long as 1 wore the shoes. They were not what you would call a handsome shoe, but, as 1 said, they did not shuck around on my feet, and they were mighty comfortable. “But it doesn’t follow that after that I always got shoes two sizes too big for me; as a matter of fact. I didn’t; but I always did get shoes plenty large lor me; plenty; and found comfort in wearing lliem. “Sometimes we used to draw boots; cavalry boots. And it was kind o’ fun to get boots. 1 remember very well the first pair of boots J drew. I think 1 felt about as much pleased I over that pair of boots as I did i with.my first red-tops when ]! was a boy. “To get mi a pair of cavalry j boots sort of made a man feel a | little bit less like a plodding infantryman, and a little more like a cavalryman; it gave him j a sort of a horse-aml-subre I touch. But this was only ns he walked down the company street after drawing the boots from tin* quartermaster; the limit day, on picket, the boots were about the same to him as shoes would have been. “Still there were men wlioi preferred boots and always I drew boots when they could get j them. But for myself 1 likej shoes better. A mounted man, | of course, wants boots; but ac cording to my notion the meat emu fort aide tiling for an infan try soldier to wear is a good, roomy shoe that can he made snug enough somewhere so that it won’t shuck around on the foot. DID YOU EVER Try Electric Bitters us a remedy for your troubles ? II not, git a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Com plaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If yon have Loss of Appetite. Constipation, Headache, Faint ing Spells, or are Nervous, Sleephws, Excitable. Melan choly' or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Hitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and sl.in* at A. M. Winn & Son’s Drug Store. ———— —— A clever workman in a cut lery factory ill Sheffield, Eng land, has recently made a dozen pairs ot shears, each so mmole that they all together weigh less than half a glam. That is about the weight of a postage stamp. Each pair wus perfect and would cut if sufficiently delicate ma terial could l>e fun ml Lying on a piece of white paper they Seemed no larger than fleas. •*>— -«>«• ■ ■■■- tin(*u» Tabula* Lsuisli v»m ! t’OLl HI'ICK ANDSI lIDEN “Northers,” said the oldTcx -1 as sheep man, “come up mighty j quick in our state. I’vo seen tome right sudden changes in :ln- weather dow.ii in Atascosa county when I was runnin’ sheep along about ’7l* and ’80.” “Saw the thermometer in Boise City,” said the man from Idaho, “drop 00degrees in eight hours. I guess you can’t beat that ir Texas.” “That’s a good drop. I don’t know v bother she dropped more than that or not, for we didn’t carry thermometers in Atascosa county. Of course we don’t have any extrem-lv cold weath er down’ thore, but w hen a blue norther dois come up it conies so quickly that we feel it more than you felling do. Some limes, though these whizzers do the country good. They blow away malaria and mosqui toes. I ought to feel kinder grateful toward ’em, for one of ’em saved my life one day.” “I’ve heard of northers losing people’s lives,” said the Idaho man, “hut never of their ever saving ’em before. Would you mind specifying more particu larly, mid give us the details of the act performed by this phil anthropic norther ?” “None whatever,” said the sheep man. “It’s a short story, and there ain’t anything re markable about it. There was a big lake about twelve miles from my ranch that was full of buffalo fish, and 1 used to go out tin re a good deal and shoot ’em. I kept a little boat oil the lake, and I’d paddle along slow j in the water and drift about un jtil I saw a big fellow, and I’d shoot a little under with a Wiu ! Chester, and he’d come to the top and roll over on his back, nil ready to he scooped out and fried. “One broilin’ hot day in Sep tember 1 was paddlin’ around on Charco Largo—which was the name of tho lake, I think it. was tho hottest day wo had all summer. The air was close and stiilin,’ and I was pretty sure we was goin’ to have a norther before night, an it was about the season they usually begun. “The pitch in the #ieams of the boat was bubblin' like greasi. in a hot skillet, and my gun wui so hot that I had to keep dipping it ill the water to keep it cool enough to handl-:. It, was so hot the sun seemed to go right through my hat ami in to ihe middle of my head. “1 guess it must have been about 1 o'clock when I saw a tremendous big bufl’alo near the top of IHe water about ten feet in front of the boat. 1 rose up right quick and let hiir. have it, when everything turned dark, and I tumbled square full length out of the boat. I re member that as I was failin' 1 knew 1 wus suiistruck, and that the water was at least twenty feet deep where 1 was, and 1 w as certain I was gone for good. “It was just about that time that tlx* norther struck the lake. It was mighty lucky for me that it did, otherwise I would cnrtaiuy have been (bounded. As it was, when 1 fi ll I got a l-ig bruise on the side of my head that didn’t get well for a week.” “What did you fall on ?” asked the Idaho man, with a look of startled but unflinching expectancy. “Ice,” said the old sheep man, “three inches,thick all over tlie lake, ami 1 walked ashore. If lhut norther had been two minutes late I’d have I been droumted certain and I sure.”—Detroit Free Press. (’ON DK NSED TES TIM ON Y. Chas. H. lb od Broker and Manufacturer's Agent, (Joltiui bus, Ohio certifies that Dr. King’s New Discovofy has no equal a* a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown,-Prop, St. James Hotel, Ft. W ayue, Hid., testifies that he was, cured of u Cough of two years standing, caused by Lb Grippe, by Dr. King’s .New Dis covery- B. F. Merrill, Bald wiusville, Mass., says that he lias 'ised and recommended it and never knew it to fail and wi uld rather have it than any doctor. Ix-eause it always cures ■Mrs. ljt-mmmg, j'J'J E. 25th St. Chicago, always kci ps it at baud and has no dear of Croup, be cause it instantly relieves. Free Trials Bottles at A. M. Winn & Sou’s Drug Store, PI TH AND POINT. Many a man has overtaken Success only to find it, traveling hand in bund with disappoint ment. Don tgot the notion that you are the greatest person in crea tion. There are plenty of ot h er people who are just as small as you are. Blanche—George, isn’t this a love of a bonnet ? George-1 suppose so; it doesn’t look as if it would last longer than six weeks. 'How many bicycle riders'do you suppose there are in the country V 'I don’t know, hut I meet them all every time I cross the street. ’ \\ lien you hear a man talk ing about a ‘tip’ that he has received, it is not only always easy to determine whether he is a waiter or only a hTcyclist. Alice-—Why did she refuse him—because they were of dif ferent faiths ? U.ara—Yes. Alice—And lie refused to change his religion ? Clara—Oh, no; his wheel. ‘A man is never safe.’ ‘What's the matter now ?’ “I answered an advertisement offering ‘light home work’ and ran upon my wife hunting a man to heat carpet. ’ Me Lubber ty (hearing a sus picious noise in the kitchen) — Moikey, pliwot are yez doin out dlieie ? Little Mike—Nawthiu’ sor. McLubberty (sternly)—Well, stop it at wance! Little Bess (so much accus tomed to see bahv creep thnf she thinks it is his normal mode of traveling)—Oh, mamma, come quick! Baby is standing on his hind legs. Wife (hysterically)—l am sure I cannot he mistaken. Four times in his sleep he lias cried out that he put it in the corner pocket. Can it. be that he lost it afterward, or is he in tent ionally deceiving me in his sleep?—Judge. Smith—Penman is suffering from writer's cramp. Perkins —In the hand ? Smith—Yes; where should it ue ? Perkins—l have known if to affect some writers in the stom ach . Flasherly—Such a joke! Kit ty talked to a wax figure for half ail hour, thinking it was Cholly Saphead. Ikisherly—How on parth did she discover her mistake 7 Flasherly—Bless you !' she didn’t ‘You won't be wanted for two more days yet,’ said the chief purveyor of Mbwpka to his prisener. ‘Your mate promises to last longer than we anticipa ted.’ ‘Bill,’ said the sailor in the cage, ‘was always a hard man to down.’ Mrs. Seldom Singed I—Thanks Jack: but it wouldn’t look well for me to dance. I lost my husband today. Jack—Divorce? Mrs. Seldom Singell—No; a real, geniiiiio death That’s honest. I have the undertak er’s certificate in my pocket.— Judge. Two years ago.a man known in St. Louis business circles wen to tho wall, owing to the bad times, and everything in his homo was sacrificed to satis* fy his creditors. The auction eer was selling out the house* holdfurniture with rasping voice that cut deep down into the heart of the woman who stood by. says the Republic. Presently he held np a rock ing horse, battered, scratched and paintless. It had been the favorite plaything of their little golden-haired boy, who was now without even the shelter of a home. The woman turned pale and the man started forward. “Not that, not that,” he cried hoarsely. Silence fell upon the crowd of frivolous buyers. Kven the auctioneer looked quizzically, and dashed away a tear from his eyes, lie handed the toy t > the man who claimed it w ith quivering lips. He had no soon er seized it than he hurried with the pale, trembling woman from the room. Not long ago the man was heard of again in a far western state. He was doing a thriving business. “Where did his cap ital come from V” a friend ask ed. to whom the story was told. Th“ woman, as ia her way.' told the secret to a friend, and the friend told it in confidence to someone elee. The ruined business iquu had hidden in the in-ck of the battered and bruis ed rocking horse ten s|,uzi bills In the hurry of the auction he forgot to take the horse aside before the crowd came, and it took well simulated grief to get it out of the hands of the auc tioneer. Tabidai iUi k*4 UnlA, „ KOOPER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE MISSIONARY COL UMN. | This column is devoted to the missionary cause, and ised ited by the W. F. M. Society, Lawrenceville auxiliary. | The committee appointed to arrange lor the public meeting, . F. M. Society is requested to meet at the Methodist church, Friday afternoon, July 28rd. there are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burn ing pen, In tracings of eternal light 1 | >oii the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds en viron now, And glndness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadows from thy brow— No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where’er tliv bark is driven— The calm’s disport, the tern peat’s mirth— Knows this—God rules th" hosts of heaven, The inhabitants of eart^ Have Love. Not love alone for one, But man as man, thv brothers call, And scatter like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul— Faith, Hope and Love—and thou slialt find Strength when life's madest, surges roll, Light when thou else went blind. —Schiller. To make no more sacrifices for the work of missions than many of ns are accustomed to make, is not simply to play with missions; it is to turn tl e whole stiqiendous enterprise nf bringing humanity into loyalty tixGod into a solemn mockery. —The Advance. SICKNESS IN HEATHEN I,ANUS. What does sickness mean- to millions of our fellow creatures in heathen lands? Throughout the East sickness is believed to lie the work of demons. The sick person at once becomes the object, of loathing and terror, i“ put out of the house, is taken to an out house, is poorly fed, and rarely visited, or the astrol ogers, or priests, or medicine men, or wizzards usseiulde, j beating big drums and gongs.' blowing horns und making t In most fearful noises. They light gigantic fires and dance around them with their unholy incanta tions. They beat tlihni with i clubs to driee out the demons, j They lny him before a roasting fire 'till his skin is blistered, and then throw him in cold water. They stuff the nostrils of the dying with aromatic mix tures or mud, mid hi some regions they carry the cJironic sufferer to a mountain t<>p, placing barley balls and water, beside him and leave him to, die alone.—Review of Missions, j ' Did you ever notice how, in! that wonderful ninety-ninth Psalm, David in the midst of a torrent of praise, makes tin practical suggestion that they bring an offering as they come into His courts. How cun we come into His presence, know ing the need of His world, and withhold what we might give? j —Helping Hand. A LARGE MITE. The Morning Star tells this story to show that it will not do to jest nbout the widow’s mite unless you are prepared to stand by the consequences: “A gentleman once called upon a rich friend for. some charity. •* ‘Yes, 1 must give you my mite,' said the rich man, •‘‘Doyou mean the widow's mite?’ asked the solicitor. “ ‘Certainly,’ was the an swer^-., ‘{‘l shall tie satisfied with half as much us she gave,’ said his friend. 'Huw much aro you worth?' “ ‘Seventy thousand dollars.’ “ ‘Give me, then, your check for thirty-five thousand dollars; that will l>e half as much as She save; for she, you know , gave her alb’” The rich man was cornered. Covetous people niton try to I shelter themselves behind the widow’s mite.—The Christian Advocate. &AkiH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. < elebrated for its great leavening san-i'gili and henltbt'uJnoss. As sures the fond against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Hoyai. Hakinu I’OWDKI! COMPANY, XkW VoilK. •SCIFXTIFK’ SCRAPS, f - Medical experts are of the opinion that shyness is simply a form of insanity. The new naval observatory at Washington is one of the finest scientific plants in the world. Aluminum, in plates a quar ter of an inch thick, has proven a very durable roofing material in Berlin. A German statistician esti mates that 7, ooo,ooo■human be ings lost their lives from earth quakes between the years 11(17 and 1886. At Berlin tie vAerinary school has found that out of 17)1 sick parrots fifty-four were Buffering from tuberculosis. The disease is hereditary in the birds. A late mysterious raplosioMl in a colliory in South Wales appears quite certainly to have resulted from a spark caused by a heavy fall of the gritty sandstone roof. The world’s production of coal has almost doubled within the last fifteen years. In 18H0 ti)' aggregate output was .864,- 17U7, 0tX) tons. In 1897) it had risen to (i‘!B,BGf>,ooo tons. The dust collected, from the i smoko of some Liege furnaces, ! burning coal raised from the j neighboring mines, produces, when dissolved in hydrochloric | acid, a so'ution from which ; considerable quantities of arse nic and several other metallic salts may ho precipitated. r A Danish scientist, Dr. Johan son, of the Agricultural High School of Gopenhagen, lias dis covered that chloroform and ether hr*vo a wonderful power in awakening tint vegetable kingdom,- while they put tile animal world asleep, a closed flower can be reopened instant ly by either of these agents. A queer sigiil was the ladies’ night of a London microscopi cal club, where the guests sat around HU microscopes listen ing to a lecture. One of the curiositiis shown was a chapter otSt. John written on the tw*- thoußundth part of a square inch, on which scale the whole Bible would cover just one square inch of Space. A remarkable adulteration of saffron has been disco’vered by a German niicroscopist, who hits found barium sulphate within the cells, and concludes tlmt the drug was first soaked in a solution of barium salt and then in a sulphate solution. Barium sulphate was thus pro- • cipituted within the substance of (he drug as well as on tho surface, rendering detection ditlicult. t WORDS OF WISDOM.. Reason always walks, but lovo runs. The soul fed upon husks, nev er gets fat. ' The best men are mother made men. bear of offending, enslaves us to other’s evils. A poor free lunch coats more than a good dinner. The cause of our not being es teemed is in ourselves. Gml pity the man who mur ders his own innocence. The true life is the life we live wilhiu ourselves. WRATHER NOTES FROM liII.LYILLK. There is not enough money in the country to make a tambou rine jingle in a minstrel show. The only way to keep cool in tins weather is to dress in a cel luloid collar and palmetto fan. The only notes that are not being protested at the liunk now are the notes of the mocking birds—and. they are melting notes.—Constitution. ISt < l\ I .KN’S AftNlt A SAl.Vhi Be:S Sakve ill the world for ! Cuts, tiruisea, So.es, Sal Khemu, I'ever Sore», Teller, ( happed ll.out i(Sliilblains, corns slid all skin Kroptions, and iiosilively cures [ Piles, hr no pay equired, I is guaranteed to give perfect satislae tion,or money refunded Price cents n box for sale by A. M.Winu Lawreuoevillo Ga. Hipatit) Tabulea cuts InUeuaucs*. __