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H A Inland, Pres • 9 C. B. Hudson, V-Pres •9 olin W. J. Eakes, ' Cashier. BANK OF ROCKDALE J Successor to JOHN H. ALMAND, Banker, INCORPORATED under the laws of GEORGIA* ORGANIZED 1901 With the following Board of Directors: Job n H. Alin and’ 0. B. Hudson, H Y. McCord, J. 0. Stephenson, J. J. Langford, R. W. Tucker, W. J. Eakes. Will do a general banking business. Exchange bought anu gold Loans made on approved paper on application. • b STOCKHOLDERS INDIVIDUALLY LIABLE TO DEPOSIT ORS LOR DOUBLE AMOUNT OJ? THEIR STOCK. Accounts of firms and individuals solicited. HOURS 9 a.m. to 3 p. m. AT BEE M’D0NALD‘S YOU CAN GET Mice Fresh Meats Oft Ice. rd&ri'it .• S'r ~*• -'V-- --- YOU CAN GET The Very Nicest and Freshest T1 I SgC&ft n IS roesnes AT Lowest Possible Prices. Give Me a Trial. Bee B. 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English speaking countries, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, have four different miles—the ordinary mile of 5,2S0 feet and IS geo graphical or nautical mile cf (5,085, making a difference of about one seventh between the two; then there is the Scotch mile of 5,928 feet and the Irish mile of G,720 feet —four various miles, every one of which is still in use. Then almost every country has its own standard mile. The Romans had their mil passuum, 1,000 paces, which must have been about 3,000 feet in length, iinlessjve ascribe to Caesar's legionaries great stepping Capacity, The German mile of today is 24,318 feet in length, more than four and a half times as long as our mile. The Dutch, the Danes and the Prussians enjoy a mile that is 18,440 feet long, three and one-half times the length of ours, and the 1 Swiss get more exercise in walking one of their miles than we get in walking five miles, for their mile is 9,153 yards long, while ours is only 1,7G0 yards. The Italian mile is only a few feet longer than ours; the Roman mile is shorter, while the Tuscan and the Turkish miles are 150 yards longer. The Swedish ! mile is 7,341 yards long and the; Vienna post mile is 8,79G yards in length. So here is a list of 12 dif ferent miles, and besides this there are other measures of distance, not counting the French kilometer, which is rather less than two-thirds of a mile. The Brazilians have a milia that is one and one-fourth times as long as our mile; the Neapolitan miglio is about the same length; the Japa¬ nese ri, or mile, is two and one-half times ours; the Russian verst is five eighths as long as our mile, while the Persian standard is a fesakh, four and a half miles long, which is said to he equal to the parasang so fa¬ miliar to the readers of Xenophon’s “Anabasis.” The distance indicated by the league also varies in different countries.—Ledger Monthly. Imitative Tots at Play. Wordsworth’s lines of a child at play, “as if his whole vocation were endless imitation,” were recently re¬ called by a conversation overheard in the children’s ward at a provin¬ cial hospital. role that A little girl whose was tele¬ of nurse rang an imaginary her phone on the wall to talk to companion at the farther end of the room, who played the part of doc tor. “Hello!” said the nurse. “Is that the doctor “Yes,” answered her companion in a deep voice. “This is the doc¬ tor.” “This lady is very ill,” he was in¬ formed. “Well, what seems to he the mat¬ ter?” “She has swallowed a whole bottle of ink,” said the nurse. The doctor, not flurried, inquired what had been done for the patient, but the nurse, too, was ready in emergencies. answered, “I her two She gave pads of blotting paper!” Queer Eating. In 1632 it is recorded that a man named Claudius, a native of Lor¬ raine, a very short, thin individual, used frequently to swallow with im¬ punity pieces of glass, stones, pieces of wood, hay, straw, hares’ feet, pieces of linen, cloth and small liv¬ ing animals, including on one occa sion a couple of mice. Every one is familiar with the magic lantern slide of a man swallowing live mice, but there are few that are aware that such a thing has actually been done. Another man is mentioned who, finding himself hungry, ate sack. a sack of charcoal, including the Flogging Was His Strong Point. Some one suggested during the reiq-n of Dr. Keate at Eton that Christianity was not so much culti¬ vated in his establishment as the classics, and especially tnat the en¬ deavor to be “pure in heart” was not sufficiently attended to. The doc¬ tor accordingly addressed ins bovs upon this point, “Be pure in heart, or (with sudden energy) I’ll flog once flogged a whole class of examinees for confirmation, thinking they had come up for pun¬ ishment there is no doubt that he meant to keep his word. The Sandwich. How many person 5 ^ 0 daily eat . sanawicnes arc aware that it is to an ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich that that popular form of food owes its name? The story runs that the earl in question was very fond of playing cards, and in order to pre¬ vent having to stop to eat he used to have a slice of meat put between two slices of bread and eat these as be played. This got to be called a “sandwich,” but gradually the in¬ verted commas were dropped as the word became an accepted one in the language. What Interested Napoleon. At one of Napoleon's reviews an ckl grenadier who had made the 1 campaigns hearing of Italy and Egypt, not his name pronounced, left the ranks and asked for the Legion of Honor. “What have you done,” said Na poleon, “to obtain this recom pense?” “It was I, sire, who, in the desert of Jaffa, in a dreadful heat, offered you a watermelon.” “I thank you again for it, but that is not worth the Legion of Honor.” The grenadier who so far had been as cold as ice flew into a . paroxysm and said with great volu tility, “Do you count for nothing seven wounds received at the bridge of Areola, at Lodi, at Castigloine, at the Pyramids, at Saint Jean d’Acre, at Austerlitz, at Friedland —1 in 1 campaigns in Italy, in Egypt, Austria, in Prussia, in Poland?” Here the emperor interrupted him, and imitating his vivacious language, said: “Well, well, well I llow you scream! Now you come to essential points; you end where you ought to have begun. This is better than your watermelon.” Why We See People In Dreamland. It is quite possible that impres¬ sions upon the mind and upon the nerves of sight might suffice to con¬ vey the fullest conviction of the actual presence of one whose image appeared in a dream, for the last objects which the dreamer beheld before falling asleep were his bed¬ chamber and its contents. He dreams of these, and also of the figure of his friend, which seems to he in the midst of them, and he will in consequence following assert most posi¬ tively on the morning that “ho was not asleep; he dis¬ tinctly saw the figure standing be¬ side his bed; he could not be mis¬ taken.”—Blackwood’s Magazine. Butchers and Consumption. About once a year a story goes the rounds of the daily press to the effect that butchers are immune from consumption. These stories have been permitted to go uncon¬ tradicted for so long that they have got to he generally believed. Now the truth is that the per¬ centage of butchers who die of con¬ sumption is quite as large as the percentage of those engaged in any other ordinary line of business. My reason for giving space to this is that some butchers might be led to bc-lieve that they really are im¬ mune from consumption and there¬ fore become careless of their health. —Butchers’ Advocate. Baked Potatoes. The naked potato is more easily digested than the boiled because its starch is partly converted into dex¬ trin by the high heat of the oven. The sweetness of the baked pota¬ to is an evidence of this. If, how¬ ever, baked too long or allowed to stand after it is done till cool, the starch becomes waxy and loses its delicious quality. The invalid and the dyspeptic should eat baked po¬ tatoes rather than those prepared in any othe r way. ___ Some Household Superstitions. The gift of a knife cuts friend¬ ship; in handling a needle the eye and not the point must be extend¬ ed. The dropping of a dishcloth betokens a visitor, and he or she will he an entire stranger should a cock crow in the doorway. It is unlucky to cut the nails on Friday, although the Arabians, on the con¬ trary, religiously observe that day for the purpose. If you sing be¬ fore breakfast, you will cry before supper, and if you stumble up stairs you will not be married during the year. Putting on the left shoe first is regarded as an omen of ill. Augustus Caesar put his left sandal on before his right one, and nearly lost his life the same day in a mu¬ tiny. That had nothing to do with it of course, and Butler in his “Hudibras” scores him frr tte frilly Botina, -, ---------------------- THE WILLOWS. With trunks aslant the wil’owa Btaml I And o’er the river lean: TJiey seem to pour their foliage down, A cataract of green. Tlioir wind swopt branches downward flow To mingle with the stream; The leaflets bend to kiss the waves, The dearest friends they seem. And this is why the willows weep And mourn, n> well you ken; The little waves all ray goodbv, But n.’er come back a.rain. —Ernest Harold Uavnes in Boston Transcript. TRICKS OF BROWNING'S DOS. Ways In Which He Showed His Devo¬ tion to His Master. Robert Browning's mother had an extraordinary power over aui mats. \V. J. Stillman says in bis “Autobiography” that she could even lure butterflies to her by some unknown means, and that domestic animals obeyed her as if by the aid of reason. Robert had received a present of a bulldog of a rare breed which tolerated no interference from any person except him or his mother, and would never allow strangers to he in the least familiar with her. When a neighbor came in, he was not allowed to shake hands with her, for the dog at once showed his teeth. Not even her husband was allowed to approach her too closely, and if Robert was more familiar with her than the dog thought proper the display of teeth was very evident. One day, to subject him to a sc¬ vere test, Robert put his arm about his mother’s neck as they sat side by side at the table. The dog went round behind them, put his fore feet on a chair and lifted Robert’s arm away with his nose. There was a favorite cat in tho family and her the dog hated. One day he chased her under a cup¬ board and kept her there, besieged until Mrs. Browning gave him a severe lecture, and charged him never to molest pussy more. The creature obeyed her implicitly. From that time forth he was never known to touch the cat, although she, remembering past tyranny, bore herself most insolently toward him. Y r et when she scratched him he only whimpered and turned away as if to avoid temptation. An Amendment. “Some years ago,” says a writer in Anecdotes, “when the new lands in Indian Territory were opened the small towns which sprang up were filled with a very mixed population, and the theaters and traveling the¬ atrical companies were bn a par with the towns they visited. “One night the writer was in Oklahoma City and stepped into a theater where ‘Trilby’ was packed being played. The house was with tough from top to bottom characters, and the charm : r of the actors and their acting was, if any¬ thing, tougher, so that even tho audience became restless. “The play finally reached the point where Little Billee is sup¬ posed to clasp Trilby passionately in his arms, instead of which he held her at arms’ length, with as much ardor as he would havgjdiown. to a bale of hay, and exclaimed, ‘Oh, Trilby, nothing can come be¬ tween us!’ whereat a six foot cow puncher in the gallery leaned over the railing and shouted in tones of supreme disgust:‘Aw, git out! Y*er could t’row a cow between yer!’ ” Ruined by His Stomach. The first Napoleon’s fondness for mutton and garlic is contended, generally known, and it lias been and possibly with some reason, that the had lie been more abstemious at time of the battle of Leipsic that tremendous conflict might have end¬ ed differently. The emperor cer¬ tainly had to quit the battlefield, an ugly rumor says, from a severe at¬ tack of colic brought on by over indulgence in one of his favorite hut indigestible dishes. More merciful critics see in his illness that day the commencement of the cancer of the stomach which seven years later brought his life to a close, but can¬ cer of the stomach usually runs a far more rapid course, so that the disease could hardly have begun in 1813 . CASTORIA For Infants and Children. n»n+ * *