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VOL. X.
WEST INDIA BELLES.
NOT AS CHARMING AS THEIR SISTERS
OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE.
Pretty Girls Among the Lower Classes
l*]yes VondrouN I’.'ack and lieu itch
ing—Fluster on the Fare- No
Haudsoine Old Women.
[Porto Rico Cor. In • r Ocean. |
The upper classes are eiiber Spanish or
creo i or ‘ Sambos. ” Tne former arc
those who conn- from Spain—naturalized
citizen.-, we cali them in North . inrrici:
the r •■mi ;.!(• uili'-e.s o. lie is.ami. of
Spanish blood, m«»re or less mixed the
th.id are ie;.. ;» is »-l i lie negro lace. re
duced by contact with their I ormer mas
ters to the shade of • uadioons or octo
ro ns f l he Spaniard< tire suppo-1 dto he
ih»- ari-to. 5 .< y. ai L lie y >ci up a
< i.iiiii o that dfalim < ion. wli.ch the
ere lea earnestly dispute They are <ar
p li a ■•■ rs i.-.-y • omc 1 i<nn ( tin to nil
• !<. . - s ami tai up the ia\( s which the
<it e- i .<4 1 Ih- . pa' 1 he)’ live at g«>v-
< • ,:i unio u- and pul on airs, hut the
ecu: eim n u ialij end by marrying a
<-i- • m a ami> « a (I sell ing down into
pci mam i t • iii/ei.ship.
iLe eountiy the negroes arc black,
bui in lhe li-its the mulatto, (pnidroon,
ami <>. I- r > n are nn re common but the
xui prejudice il al exists in lhe stale
•I < • not ( lid an i>s society here. A an
ii ii can marry a 'ambo, as all who
nae negro blood in I heir veins are scri
. railed With ut 10-ing cast'-, ll< as
an m< i!< in <an many a Gt-nnan or an
it sj -girl ILe male “F:: in Los” often
find wivt ai> i the errors but seldom
•J.'.’ oug the |>: ni.i its. Some of Ihc be'l
la . .urn ia ■ uo.i a' well as 1 orio ice
,n. vi • mho ■.•> jin them, 'l ie- pre i
d-. t of »<n< mm is a .ambo, a> the
pre-. d< nt ol .Mexico is an Ind.an.
An- the Indir-, puny? il is purely a
maitri ol Ise ihu writers who have
eXiodeo dlr 1 : :1V o. I.if U an and Other
tropioai Dm’ ha Im, very utile k. owl
• of tin . <>: m ;• ca if <>ne is
loud ol <i> il- I v . ;m .lie lhe I "opu al
piunl. 'I lr i< a;-• m.my < tty girls to be
seen amoir.' lim • - t more in
j'ortu Fico i. m >n ; u-a bright evi-d.
Jo !y, sylph 11.. •• • s 2 aci ’a! .I’. ’
•upp ( is a p .1. ■ inn d and m(L I.
b’.m..i;> : v» ..in.UiiioOd is endow- d wild
at da u ..ys .< u a ■ ;■_• s and in .. I
i.: iaL- . <ih o . n • •
of ibem ever -Hiv '■ ■ Imai oi a < i.ooi
hoc. an ido. . . i n w .u » nee f
have as I.ibr • > , . w h-< a . m* lira
<•4‘ne from . I ... ... . ition oi t..e
you hit/ Io U-< 1..-■ ■im di ><’. droop t..e;r
8U ( P >< d v rlu l hill of- 111 -h V.
I • : < . those
v. ’• ' la i-h II- 1,. x til.l lie . bi. 0 u
have been Inc to i • oi s > much Ltr’aimr
jn pio r ami vci may l r hr .at’ful -ri
nu. 1 ue.. i ’ll • i uJ:r they « aoo-c io
consider uric. ad<. immt tmw arc nm.
Thru •• V's ■ >ll ru m I’Ll k and r
v. !: ■ ' a.. i - b • ;.i c to u~r ih ..
e ly i< a i:-ro; •dm ation I
sam dim I üba;, v; om -n and by tim; .
mean vho . V, ::.dies -can ’h:<
no.:, rxp’.tsx .)!! ; m a . nme of the * -
din an;, 1H e.\o ■ . ■, b .i ’.hr pcoph wi ■
say il have proi ■ o led with them • :
sriii the j o\x (i ■- : I. rt in lovi Io
me t'anr r c ail .ooK 'kc, briiilliluitx
black, st '.xtjoiriy langni hing ano g>m
era i\ md-ralix- ■i a a I tempi i 'mt
ob.r.wi-. <s' <• .. mr- The haven t
La f the c.xpie ■ -n ot the eyes of a thor
oughbrrd horse or dog, and arc simply
dr.’K < x of pa»ion, not of intelligc. re.
gnd w : li.'- .yes ends the ( üban
w«m.!’ r* iiy he wou.d spoil them
jl she con 1 rul as he ran t she daubs
the p •. n r face all the thicker.
; r i hrmixi.s h< a. ~ it a sort of paste
), ,4. of pow iriv-d -L* shells which lhe
w- im n amt l rir luev with unlit they
havr th«- appearance of plaster jinugcs.
d lies take tin '.'ii.i with them in the cars
to < iri; ch. and to the opcr and when
1 •the. ihin . nobody is loot, ng give their
»j V-< • 'Em rr rani, t exi-t in lhe
p nimd ore of term a supposition
6 thii! ia.s , -er of aris comp e -..0n dr
i A- imt h:I;- . think cbaik is
f br.’iuii.m a my.'.uy. ihc nee. and
'ar- oi a '• - niiia Belle are about ten
bhadc- dm ■ r than he:’ m se and cheeks.
i heir .• utbs a:c psuaiiy large, their
lips hi' kei Jinn is conßisle:ii with classic
rules, bn ihmr teeih are usually whin ,
(.veil, pis j?. . a d well preserved. Al
though they male sweet meats or
“dm<a s” a great part ol their diet for
breakfast as well as d inner, you seldom see
a wmmm oi a man without good teeth.
Rut the H 'St ’reeable thing about a
Cuban oman is her voice lha: low.
E'.vri t. mu-iral tone which is told about HE
one of the attractions of Turkish beauties
is not heard here, nor is the bold accent of
the I.l igiish girl.noticed anywhere in lhe
V\'c t Imi i - lor v ice of the most rr-
• hu*d lady is usually as harsh and rapping
as lhe cry of a parrot, and she a.wa• s
tales very loud and in a high key.
They mature earlv and fade early, thc<e
tropi- A ■ -■ n. They < i her dry u:> a.;d
wither, or else become very obe u. There
are no beautiful old ladies to bo seen, as
in ad pans of the ' nited Males. When
they reach 0 years of age the. are either
gaunt and >our, like a crab apple, c-r else
i'ai and greasy, d'heir complexions are
rnitivd by ti.e use of the plaster 1 have
dr-a-fibed. and tiie la !< of exercise shows
in their aw kwardness, as well as their
j)hysique. d’be ouiy exercise a ■ est
India woiin- ieve)' takes is in a rocking
chair.
American Designs in Glass.
| Chicago Herald. |
In a letter about the glass factories of
Bellaire, Ohio, where ~'o per cent, of all
the lass made in this country is said to
be produced—naioli of it selling in Eng
land —a Sew York Tribune correspond
ent writes: The English are not expert in
labor saving machines or devices, and
they continue to work by baud. The
American makes a mold with an original
design upon it. often using for bis de
signs the iortns of ourgraius or dowers or
leaves, and lhe molten glass is pressed in
these molds, and a good deal of the en
pr*-. itig on the glass is -lone l»y ma bines
the glass article being held in the hand
ami the emiiellisiier drawing the pattern
from his mind. This Amer can glass
undersells . liiish glass at home, and
many of our patterns are made es-
■ pecially :o capture lhe i.ritisn eye.
A Very 1.a.l Time.
, Vo k S'.
It is a bad, a very bad time, for the
American novelist who lias not already
won ills spurs: and were it not tor the
mamizim and lhe ioreign marker, even
\ the men of great reputation would fare
i preity poorly.
we ought x | sa ] ar j e3 o f the senators in
bautna, hadri , itl , sSSO.ouO; for repre
suppose so, bU y - uOO J
common people '
only stole $13,000.
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
bhe Financiers of —The Yankee
Mind Hanging On—Walting.
(Chicago ’fributie “Street and Drawing-Room.]
“If I were writing an inaugural mes
sage f<«r the president elect i d make an
e i«’Fl to gm iji something on this foreign
relaiions sub eel that might stir up the
anirn ils -don I you see. ”
but the liiLculty doesn’t appear
to be entirely diplomatic, ” said a gentle
man sitting by. "it is commercial and
economic a well. ”
“ iis that is true, and I’ll tell you one
reason lor il They know a mighty sight
mo.i over there than we do hen; I mean
wiih reference to the laws of irade. lhe
great currents of trallic, and so on. The
nrntneiers of 1 jigland, for insiance, are
heavy weight students in their way. Our
American business m m is m »re given io
study ing schemes. That is the bent of the
> nnkee min I In I njland and O’ermany
bix husines' men study the laws and
sciem-e ol the thing, and they aic so used
t > d- aiing in millions that they handle us,
for the most part like chi dren. I say what
I know, for I have been there—only a year
ago. ioo. Their co iim-rc ai and financial
ma. nah * arc inc < with gr< at heads, great
aid great appetites. The*
lb uk big. and cat big. ami live big. I
was inl' iestcd and bene, ted in talking
with some of them to see how they keep
hack o the de.( lopnn ni < f the world.
'I hey know lhe conditions o the c rops
equ-dly well in America. Australia ami
India They can tell you how much
co ••■ there is in Brazil. And they know
whether ‘t will be more profitable to ship
woolen goods to Mexico or to lower Africa
this mon i h is compared with last”
“¥<s,” said ih«- other, “but I here are
some .among them, so I m told, who
land ready to take stock in Wabash
—ch'”
“ ). yes the fonl< are not all dead in
England any more than elsewhere, but as
a rule ihey kn »w pr. iiy well in England
where to make their investments, and
they re not making many ol them here
not at pre-sc i just y ai bear in mind. ”
“llowd. c that idea dovetail in with
youi' n tiou that in busin» ss it is generally
a good thing lo pick up what lhe other
fellow dro x
“ i es. bui wait until it drops. I haven’t
heard any ihii g drop yet not cirar down
lobcclrc rk do '.on mind.’ That s half
wi.a: s the matter. .Most of our smart
fellow's over here a c hair, ing on—biacmg
tiling' up, do ymi see That s anoUier
p (•ulirj'(|ua’.it. of the Aim- ican mind
to hang on. n j.n .ami ihey sit still and
wait In .in ri<a ihey hang oi ami
I) rriio. Al’mmgh i mud say I’m
I -d t> < that here- is so mu h more
• ooj !»e id iae- so muc h less ot the
panicky spirit that e e l during the last
great In ne xdc i ess.on a few years ago. ’’
Hit! Arj» with th. Tooth o he.
When the i eth come, they come with
pain and p« iand ... - p tiie poor ch id
n.ixi a<> c, ami w .en they go they no willj
a t-rt re ibal no j a .oso[)ii, can emlurri
' ii. .ay poor jtxv u-t look how it s
swollen. lam a sight. A j iliful pro •
peen i look eke a bloated bondholder on
< nr side of my arc an i no bom Is jo com
foil me 1 wonrLruii.it would comfort
a man ;i my lix 1 ha r suMY-rcd more
mor ia. agony fr m m. troth than fr -m
evm dung else- pm logciher. >anison
cotii Ln’t pu . tin m har lly, for ihey arc all
rix ted lo thr 'awixme. 1 have been liv
in.: ,n di’rml l.>ro>'rra montn, for 1 knew’
11. i’ r 'tc cjih w.:< fixing up trouble and
s<* i ;ay mm m it sprung a leak <
lhe in- ikfast table, and I jumped out of
my cl.:;lr. i’hr h' li raved in, lhe nerve
w rx t..i;elh d, ami in m\ atTony 1 gave one
groan and iriired like I was a funeral.
Live miles from town and no doctor.
I 'on t j ut down what 1 suffered all that
day and the night fo.lowing, for you
< an Mush pouilirf ' and camj-hor am!
paregoric ami bromide and chl> reform,
and Jill lhe procession moved on, and lhe
jumping, throbbing agony sent no Lag o
truce- no cessation of hostilities. What
do 1 care for anvtiiin r.' Don't tell me
about j'.emlricks Icing in Atlanta. 1
don t cai e where he is. \es I do. He is
a good m m, but 1 ve got no time to think
a' o t him now. ! a-asc give me some
m >rc of that canipl:-r 1 \c b .rned all
tiie skin oil my month now, but it is a
counter iiri ant and sorter scatters the
pa n ar-'itml. If 1 na I some morphine 1
W( uld trke it. for 1 want rest. 1 am
tiled, uii' for one short hour of rest.
The S ndan Desert Tribes.
H)< irni' E'ree Pros’.]
It is customary io sneak of the oppon
ents of the i Jiglish in the : omiun as Arabs.
This is < hic y due io the fact that they
are desert tribes, and the best known oi
the desert tribes arc Araos. But most of
tin- population are no more ' rabs than the
3lc.nans are American Indians. 'lhe
Soudanese are negroes Nubians chiefly,
sonic, mixed with other races. ihey are
ii t the negroes of the ( ongo, but a more
tierce an i warlike race.
For a U edd h- Bfeakfaxt.
Ii appears lhe latest wrinkle in the way
of ornameoiaiion for a wedding break
fa- t table is to have the photographs of
tiie bride and gn»oni inclosed in a block of
tiansparcnt ice. This display of cool
ne s b l ween tiicni would be much more
appropriate about a year later.
A Host of Shining Marks.
In!er Ocean. I
An Lnglish astrologer having predicted
the death in the autumn of tiie foremost
American -.talesman, it is uuder-tood vis
ions of lhe grim destroyer disturb the
multitude, and insomnia is again becom
ing a fashionable malady in Washington.
A l ire on the Gold.
The English chancellor of the ex
chequer is considering the propriety of
placing a thin, steel tire on the gold coins
of the realm, to prevent loss by detrition.
It is alleged that 5225.000 is annually
rubbed away from the coin in circulation.
Another View of It.
[The Current. |
It is well that the millionaire’s daugh
ter, who married lhe coachman, and who
sought a position upon the concert stage
by virtue of- the fact, should have failed.
Such adventurers bring art into disrepute.
A Xian’s Growth.
Investigations made by a committee of
the i ritisti association show that a man
really grows in stature up to his flOth
year, although the growth is very slow
after 20.
Heavy Da den.
The fully equipped Swiss infantry
soldier is tlfe most heavily loaded of any
nation. He lugs enough on his back to
weary a camel.
Kansas City Times: In America all
doctrines and shades of belief live side by
side In the eifete civilizations of the
east there is always the triumph of one
belief, one religion, or one idea of govern
ment.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA SUNDAY MORNI <G. MARCH 29. 18S5.
IN TIIE TURRET.
ABOARD THE 'MONITOR (WHILE SHE
FOUGHT THE MERRIMAC.
A Novel Situation and a Desperate Com
bat- Imperfections of the Machin
ery—Shut Up in a Revolving
Drum—Damage Done.
IPorn. S. D. Greene in The Century.]
The drawbacks to the position of the
pilot-house were soon realized. We could
not lire ahead nor within several points of
the bow, since the blast from-our own
guns wmild have injured the people in
lhe pilot house, only a few yards olf.
Keeler and Toifey passed lhe captain s
orders ami messages to me, and my in
quiries and answers to him, the speaking
tube from tiie pilot house to the turret
having been broken early in the
action. They performed their work
with zeal and alacrity, but, both
being landsmen, our technical com
munications sometimes miscarried. Tiie
situation was novel, a vessel of war was
engaged in desperate combat with a
powerful foe; the captain, commanding
and guiding all. was inclosed in one place,
and the executive oliicer, working and
. lighting the guns, was shut up iu another,
and communication between them was
ditlicult and uncertain. 11 was this ex
perience which caused Engineer .Newton,
immediately after the engagement, to sug
gest lhe clever plait of putting the pilot
house on top of the turret, and making it
cylindrical instead of sqtfare; and his sug
gestions were subsequently adopted in this
lj pe of vessel.
" As the engagement continued the work
ing of the turret was not alt gether satis
' factory. It was ditlicult to start it re
volving. or. wljen once started, to stop it,
on account of the imperfections of lhe
novel machinery, which was now under
going its first trial. was an
iit live, muscular man, and did bis utmost
to control the motion of the turret: but,
in spite of Ins eTorts, il wa- ditlicult if
not impossible to secure accurate tiring.
The conditions were very dilierent from
thov of an ordinary broadside gun,
under wh ch we had been trained on
wooden ships. Jly only view of the
world outside of the tower was over lhe
muzzles of the guns, which cleared the
ports by a few inches only. When the
guns were ran in lhe port holes were cov
ered by heavy iron pendulums, pierced
with smith i.o.es to allow the iron rummer
and sponge handles to protrude while
they were iu use. To hoist these pendu
lums required the entire gun s crew and
vastly increased the work inside the
turret.
Tiie effect Upon oue shut up in a re
volt.tig drum is perplexing, and it is not
a simple mutter to keep the bearings.
V, line marks had been placed upon lhe
stationary deck immediately below the
turret lo indicate the direction of the
sta: board an I port sides, and the bow ami
stern, but these marks were oblitered
early in the action. 1 would continually
ad< the captain, "How does the .Merrimac
bear?" lie replied, "On the starboard
beam, ”or “Ou the port quail er. as the
case might be. Then the difficulty was
to determine lhe direction of the s*tr
board beam, or port-quarter, or any other
bearing. It finall; resulted, that when a
gun was ready for firing, the turret would
be started on its revolving journey in
search of the target, and when found it
was taken "on the lly.” because the
turret could not be accurately controlled.
nee the Merrimac tried to ram us: but
TV < rden avoided the direct impact by the
skillful use of the helm, and she struck a
glancing blow, which did no damage.
.\tthe aslant of collision I planted a
sol d 1 D-pound shot fair and square upon
the forward part of Iter casemats.
Had the gun been loaded with thirty
pounds ol powder, which was the
charge subsequently used with similar
anus, it is probably that this shot would
have penetrated her armor, but lhe charge
being limited to fifteen poimds, in accord
ance with peremptory orders to that elfect
from the navy ilepurtmeut, tiie shot re
bounded without doing any more damage
than possibly to start some of the beams
of her armor-backing.
Mort-raaes on Farms.
[New York Tribune. |
“Do you know,” he added, changing
the immediate topic, “that it is a fact that
the largest volume of money invested in
securities of any one kind is in mortgages
on farms?” 1 confessed to surprise. "The
total is greater than the debt of England;
several times greater than our own: and
larger than the sum invested iu railways,
pome \ ears ago the farmers got prosper
ous and paid off some mortgages, and the
total was considerably redu eJ; bv* I
notice that it is again annually in
creasing. ”
The .Eartli as a Magnet.
(Scientific Journal.]
Gaus, the illustrious German astrono
mer, hits computed (taking as a .unit a
magnet 14 inches long, one inch wide,
one-fourth inch thick, weighing one
pound, made of the hardest steel and of
the strongest magnetic force possible, (the
earth’s magnetic force as equal to 8,464,-
000,000,000,000,000,000 such magnets.
The attracting or lifting .power of such a
magnet is about ten pounds, which would
make the attractive power of the earth
42,810,000,000,000,000,000 tone
For Medicine-Takers.
[Exchange.]
A New Grleans doctor calls attention to
a very simple fact which merits attention
from medicine takers. If lhe medicine is
mixed with very cold water, and a few
swallows of the water be taken as a pre
paratory dose, the nerves of the organ of
taste become sufficiently benumbed to
make the medicine nearly tasteless. The
method will not disguise bitter tastes, but
acts well in oils and saliues.
Wood Will Sink.
[Chicago Herald.]
It is common to suppose that a ship
loaded with wood cannot sink. Yet ac
cording to the latest returns of the British
board < f trade it appears that during the
past three years no fewer 140 ships laden
with timber were totally lost, with 457
human lives.
A Profitable Paper.
[Chicago Herald.]
The London Daily Telegraph nets its
owners 5i,000,000 a year, and runs ten
Hoe presses. Os the four original pro
prietors the sole survivor is the owner of
a country weekly and another died in a
poorhouse.
A Straw House.
[lnter Ocean.]
An Indiana man has patented a model
for a si raw house. The walls are to be
made of bales of straw or hay, and then
plastered and bolted down. It is said to
be preferable to brick and as endurable.
The desire for Egyptian curiosities has
assumed the proportions of a craze in
London.
FROST PRESERVES THEM.
Facts About 1r« Z'*n Apples That Are
('out- try to the General Relief.
|N. v. Y uk . mi.
“If your garret or loft fa only cold
enough there isut any reason in the
xvor-d why you shouldn’t tn*at your
friends with plump, full i'avore 1 .vhode
Island ( rcenings Baldwins, or any other
choice apples, ,ust ns we.l next une as
you did last Christmas, said a Wasnii !’•
ton street commission merchant, “ill
have last years 1 aidwins and 1 don t
know Lui last year'< 1 ireenitgs, as sound
as a knot, in my hous’* next summer, in
the same dish with I us year’s harvest
apples; yet nine out of ten people would
have thought these .same apples wore
ruined two months ago and would ha.e
treated them accordingly Why.' Simply
btxa iso ihe.y •were fro en. "
“la.osii t the freezing of apples spoil
them, then?” asked the reporter.
“The general opinion is,” replied the
mer. bant, that after an apple freezes its
value is gone, but the fact is that just the
contrary is the truth. let a barrel of ap
ples freeze in the fall, and keep th**m
frozen, or, rather, do not disturb them
a d in the spring they will be in the very
condition they were when taken froi.i the
tree. Baldwins, and in fact all favorite
c iting apples, do not have their full flavor
nor mellowness when first packed in the
fall. 'I hey ripen in the barre . and are, al
their best iu anuary. After that they be
gin to decay, and when March comes tl ey
arc lew and tar between, those that arc
left being the result of especial good care
and attention.
“If they are frozen in the fall, however.
Lite ripening process is checked. Tiie
vitality of the apple is simply suspen led,
and it only needs proper treatment to re
store it to its natural action. The trouble
has always been that when a barrel < f ap
ples was found t ) be frozen it was rolled
off at once to a warm place and subject'* I
to a rapid thawing, some people take
the apples out of lhe barrel and plunge
them into Id water to di’aw the frost out.
The r-suit is a flabby, flavorless fruit,
ical y no! worlh the room it occupies, and
sub eet to speedy decay—all because of
jx puiar ignorance. A frozen app;e is one
of the most sensitive things in the world.
Touch your linger upon it, and when the
frost is thawed from tiie apple the spot
louche I will be a mark of decay which
spread- lajiidly over lhe fruit.
“Therefore, if you ever find that your
barrel of • al wins is frozen, heat it gently.
If tiie a; pies arc thoroughly frozen the
barrel will not be full by nearly a peck,
so much has the fruit contracted with the
fr.»t. It would De im osstble, now, to
im vc th" barrel withoui ruining every
a pie in it. So. if it stands where it wilt
n ■: be sub'ect -d to sudden warmth, and
thus thawed out rapidly, let it stand
1 over the apples up so they will be kept
dark. Then go away and let them alone
in.til spring comes and draws the frost
Out of everything. Then uncover your
app'es. it may startle .you, but you will
find the barrel full to the head with the
p’iiimp fellow x. that were rolled into your
iiou- • i'i the fall, and which were a so. - v
looking lot of wrinkled, shrunk-up tri:
the last time you saw them. If they were
assorted apples when packed you need
not pick them o er, for they will be just
as sound and bard as they were in No
veiobcr. ’’
What to I>«» in an Emergency.
, Domestic Journal. |
Here is the lies method of aetion when
the clothing of any friend is on tire. Seize
■i shaw . or blanket, or any woolen fab.ie,
hold the corners as far apart as yon can, |
stre.ch them out higher than your head,
and running boldly to the person, make a j
motion of clasping in your arms, mostly |
above the shoulders. This instantly
smothers the fire and saves the face. The
next instant throw the person on the floor.
This is an additional safety to the face
and breath, and any remnant of flame can
be put out more leisurely.
The next instant immerse the burnt
part in cold water, and all pain will
cease. Next, get some common flour, re
move from the water and cover the burnt
parts with an inch of flour; if possible,
put the patient to bed and do all that is
possible to soothe until the physician ar
rives. Let the four remain until it falls
off itself, when beautiful new skin can
be found. Unless the burns are deep no
other application is needed. Dry flour
for burns is the most admirable remedy
ever proposed The principle of this
action is. that like the water, it causes in
stant and perfect relief from pain by
totally excluding all the air from the in
jured parts.
A good authority prescribes the follow
ing remedies: Eor severe burns cloths
wet in a solution of soda should be
quickly applied. Eor slight burns a i
mixture of lime water and sweet oil ;
brings speedy relief.
The Goose Livers of France.
[Paris Cor. Philadelphia Caterer.]
The foie gras, which makes the cele
brated pale, is nothing more than a dis
ease, that of a large liver. The birds are
imprisoned in small compartments, where
they anti not turn, only room being left
for their heads and tails to protrude. Be
fore them is a trough filled with water, iu
which powdered charcoal is’mixed; the .
birds are literally stuffed with food, of
which maize, moistened with poppy oil.
is the base. Pending the last day of fat
tening, all liquid is suppressed.
The presence of a ball of fat under
euch wing indicates that the psychologi
cal moment has arrived —to extract the
liver. The bird is then so obese that it
respires w.th the greatest difficulty. It is |
then killed. A goose weighing twenty
pounds wili yield six pounds of fat and a I
liver from two to two and a half pounds.
The price of a liver—that luxury es
teemed in old Home by Ctesar and Cris
pius—varies from 3 to 3 francs. The
special liver fattening increases the size of
that organ fivefold.
Bogus Butter in England.
' A mericaa Agriculturist. ]
Under the names of “Oleomargarine,"
and “Butteiine, ” vast quantities of bogus
butter are consumed in England. < >nt
firm, the Messrs. Jurgens, send from their
factories at Oss. in Holland, 150 tons each
week, of this compound fat made over to
imitate butter. This amount, large as il i
is, is but part of the whole quantity con I
sumed, as others on the continent are en- !
gaged in making imitation butter, and
iind their principal market in England. ,
There is no doubt a considerable quantity
of false butter made in Great Britain.
Every now and then, in England, as here,
there is an excitement over bogus butter,
and the matter is discussed in the papers
and in meetings.
The Deepest Mines.
[Alta California.]
The deepest gold mine in the world is
the Eureka, in California, which is do-.vn
2290 feet, or 500 feet below the level ol
lhe sea. The deepest silver mine is tin
Mexican, on the t omstock, which is dowu
6300 feet.
Uncle Esek: Wisdom doesn’t take awaj
our folly; it only helps to hide it.
ANCIENT CHINESE TELEPHONES.
A Rudimentary Instrument—The “Thou*
sand .Mile Speaker" of 1662.
ci *ntlfic American.]
Ai a re ent meeting of the Royal Asiatic
s< ciet m hangbai, a paper by Dr. Mac
gowan was read on the subject of the
c.iri , i<se of telephones in ( hiua. This
puj er being very brief, we give it in its
entirety.
It det rue s nothing from the merit of
the ingenious physicists who have con
ferred on mj ’kind the boon of the tele
pho .e ilia vx principles are familiar to
iincivi.i ’ed oples, several of whom are
in posse siun of rudimentary telephones,
it was, 1 opine, when the < hinese were in
their youth that they constructed the rudi
mentary instrument, a specimen of which
I herewith transmit for lhe society s
museum. It consists of two bamboo cy-
Imders, one a'd n half to two inches in
diameter, and four iu length’ one end of
each is closed by a tympanum of pig blad
der, which is perforated for the transmit
ting string, the string kept in place by
being knotted This rude instrument is
styied lhe “listening tubes,” and is em
pio\ed for amusement as a toy, conveying
wnispers forty or fi.ty feet. It is unknown
in many parts of tiie empire, Chih-kiang
and Kiangsu being the only provinces so
lar 1 can ascertain/ where the listening
tube is employed.
Besides this toy. Chinese ingenuity p:o
duced, about a century and a half ago,
tie “thousand mile speaker.” The im
plement is described as “a roll of copper,
likened to a fife, containing an artful
device; whispere I into and immediately
c osed. the confined message, however
long, may be conveyed to any distance;
and thus in a battle secret instructions may
be conveniently communiclited. It is a
contrivance of extraordinary merit ” The
inventor of the “thousand mile speaker, ”
( hiang Shun hsin, of iluichou. flourished
during the reign of Lang hsi, A. I>. 1062
1712. He wrote on occult science, as
tronomy, etc. The above account of his
invention was taken from his works by
the author of a Fuhkien Miscellany. At
that time—reign of Kien Lung—there
was no longer an instrument of
this description in that province. It seems
to have perished with the ingenious scien
tist who contrived it.
Here is a line opportunity for the organ
ization if a new telephone .company, with
a legal department to hunt up the lofct
evidence, and take a whack at the Bell
telephone monopoly. Doubtless many
heathen Chinee might be found glad to
testify the;, had often used the old tele
phone in talking from the great wall to
Rekin, and further if necessary.
Drying Clothes in the White House.
Wash ii 'ton ( <»r. Cleveland Leader.]
'l he \\ hite House covers about one
third of an acre, and it has cost up to the
present time about ),UDO. It is
modeled after a castle in Dublin, and the
arch Acct, who was a Fouth Carolina man
named Hoban, got >S)O sci drawing the
plans. When it was first built, away back
in the nineties it cost $30U,000, but the
British burned out its insides and its cost
has since added to that sum ifbout
UOJ. In it all of the presidents since
Wa hington have lived, and each has
added to its beauties and expenses. 1
think it was John gurney Adams who i
bought the first billiard table which was
used in it. But in John Adam's time it
was oniy half furn.shed, and Abigail
Auams used to dry her clothes in the big
east room, fear by vear, however, the
furnishing has gone on. until now it is a
sort of a museum of art and beauty.
A New Point ot
[New York Letter.|
A novel incident which o curred to a
stenographer of a New Y oik. court the
other day will raise a new point of law for
the judges to decide. The stenographer
had taken the o . c al notes of a case tried
in li s court, trans nbed them, and placed
the transcript and lhe notes in his over
coat pocket. That night he went to the
theatre, threw his overcoat over the back
of the seat, and the notes and transcript
fell on the floor and were lost. There s.
therefore no record of the testimony of the
witnesses from which to make up an ap
peal, unless the parties can agree to make
il up from memor\;. The case is unprece
dented, and the unfortunate stenographer
is in troub.e lest he be mu.cted in the costs
of a new’ trial, should one be deemed nec
essary.
A Shrewd* Wig "Wearer.
[Philadelphia Bulletin, j
The cleverest man heard of for some
time is he who, becoming bald, had four
wigs made, the hair of one short, the hair
of lhe next a trine longer, lhe hair of the
third longer still, and the hair of the
fourth quite two Img for beauty, lie
wears each a week, beginning with the
former. The effect achieved is the same
as though his hair was growing. When
he gets to the long one and has worn il a
week he changes to the short one again,
and his friends and ac plainJances not in
the secret believe he has visited a barber's.
A I’uzz.l.n 4; I’i oblfiii.
[Exchange.]
A curious and patient individual han
worked tor an indefinite period on the fol
lowing problem: When walking against
it heavy rain and some wind, will I get
more wet by going fast or going slow? If
1 move rapidly 1 certainly encounter more
drops in a given space, but I arrive at my
destination sooner. If 1 could make tho
journey, say a quarter of a mile, in one
second, I would have to encounter all the
rain between the two points. Would I
eu< ounter any more if I walked leisurely
over the ground ?
Pipe and Fan.
[Chicago Herald.]
The bowl of the pipe used by the
Japanese smokers in the London colony
is hardly as large as a thimble, and the
pipe is exhausted in three or four whiffs.
No Japanese costume sterns to be com
plete without a fan. Soldiers, civilians,
and women alike carry them—in fact, no
one possessing the slightest claim to re
spectability would be seen without one.
The fans are about a foot long, and often
supply the place of memorandum books.
India Hoarding Gold.
[N *w York Tribune.]
The consumption of gold in India,
where gold is not used for money, but
only for ornament and hoarding, appears
to be so large and so rapidly increasing
that it cannot fail to effect the monetary
interests of the western world. In eqjht
months ended Nov. 110 there were im
ported into India, in excess of all exports,
gold bullion and coin amounting to $20,-
696,980, or at the rate of about $30,600,000
a year.
Hawaii's Leper Children.
[Exchange.]
Hawaiian newspapers are appealing for
popular subscriptions in aid of leper chil
dren. the number of whom is said to be
largely on the increase, ’l hegovernment,
it is explained, is so nearly bankrupt that
it has no money to appropriate toward the
home for leper children which it is pro
posed to build. _
SHOEING THE MARE.
THE OWNER OF MAUD S. GIVE 3 A
LESSON IN FARRIERY.
IVhat Is the Matter with the Famom
Trotter’s Feet —flow the Malform
ations of the Hoof Are Cor
rected—The Future.
[Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.]
“Now, ” said Mr. Bonner, "we will be
gin with the mate’s hind feet. You ob
serve that only the imprint of her toes ia
visible. The bee's scarcely touch the
ground. She is literally walking on her
locs. That arises from two causes. First,
the anterior part of the hoof is too long
u>d th- heels arc 100 low. Iler foot in
front is what Dr. Koberge and 1 term the
wheel-shaped hoof.' It is too convex.
That throws the apex of the coffin bone
too close to the inferior journals of the
lower coronal bone, and destroys at least
one-half of the articulation of the coffin
joint. The hoof must be foreshortened,
and when she is shod the heels must be
raised by a medium heel calkin. But thia
is not all. (in the oil hind foot she has
been more or less lame for years. That
arises from an excess of growth on the in
side branch of the hoof, which must be
pared down to a level with the outside
branch.
I “The abnormal shape of three of the
feet of Maud arises from the fact that
they grow mon rapidly on the Inside than
on the outside branches. This is observed
in both hind hoofs and the near fore boot
, \\ hile her hind feel are too much wheel
shaped, meaning convex, her front feet
are too much bent, meaning concave, in
the anterior part of the wall. These mal
formations directly interfere with the ar
ticulation of the coffin bona For in
stance. the heels of the hind feet are too
low. while the toes require foreshortening,
and the heels ot tiie front feet are too
, high, which necessitates their material re
' duction. This sialo of her feet has
’ arisin from injudicious paring. She
was foaled with perfect feet —now they
are misshapen from mismanagement
Moreover, the articulatioh of lhe coffin
joints in all four feet is not only seriously
injured, but, by reason of the excessive
heels in front, her forward stride has been
materially lessened. This made the use
of toe-weights more imperitlve. At Lex
ington her front shoes weighed fourteen
ounces, and her toe weights each live
ounces. She will eventually attain her
full stride without the use of toe weights.
The o(terations performed to day will not
only prevent the soreness in the off hind
foot, and take away the enlargement of
the near fore limb, but materially lengthen
her stride and make her now almost per
fect action, in fact, absolutely faultless.
" Now lor the proofs of the correctness
of my positions. When the hind toes
were foreshortened, the impress of the en
tire hind foot upon the ground was plain.
Before, only the quarters and toes left
their imprints. In front Maud S has been
troubled with severe corns. The heels of
the front feet bore an undue shock at
every footfall, in consequence of their be
ing too high. That produced the corns
and shortened her stride. Now the heels
have been lowered the corns will disap
pear, and the length of her stride will be
extended in front to harmonize with the
change of stride behind, produced by
foreshortening her bind toes and raising
her hind heels by calkins.
“But there is another far-reaching con
sequence of the undue height of the inside
branch of iter off hind foot, to which I
wish to call your attention. In order to
relieve herself of the undue pressure of
this high inside, she not only pointed the
near hind foot inwardly, but she carried
the entire off hind limb rather sidewise,
more perceptibly under the carcass, than
she did the near hind limb. In other
works she favored the oil hind limb, and
did not force it to do as strong work as
the other one. The muscles of the off
hind limb are not so fully developed as
those of the near hind limb. The differ
ence was more perceptible when I bought
her than now, owing to the medical treat
ment she has since received. This differ
ence will still grow perceptibly less
as the hind feet are kept level. In time
the muscles of both hind quarters will be
equally prominent, because they will both
equally share the burden of propelling the
carcass. Lor these reasons, lam satisfied
that the speed of .Maud 8 has not yet
reached its limit,
“But the treatment indicated must be
persistently administered. Every month
the rasp must be skillfully applied. Then,
in the spring, when Maud 8 is more cor
rectly shod, she will be more balanced
than she has ever been before. With this
treatment she was able to make as low a
record as 2:9} as late as the 11th day of
November. In the coming season, when
her feet are perfectly restored to a normal
condition, when the weatiner and track
and everything are favorable for speed, I
certainly’expect her to improve upon her
great record. ”
Plants in Money.
[American Agricultur Ist.]
A number of persons have tried to find
money in plants, and failed. On the
other hand a Hungarian scientist tried to
find plants in money and succeeded. The
money was in tbe form of bank notes,
even those which had been in circulation
but a short time. To be sure, the plants
are so very small that a powerful micro
scope is required to see them. Neverthe
less, they are as much plants as is a
pumpkin vine, or an oak tree. What is
lacking in the size of the plants, is made
up in that, of their names. One of them
is Saccharomyces cerevisse, another Pleu
rococcus monetarum, and so on. These
little plants with such large names, can
grow and multiply in the substance of a
bank bill, and the matters that adhere to
it, without its owner being any the wiser
for it.
Not the Kight Answer.
'Chicago Tribune.]
“Darling, ” he said, as he tried to tickle
his wife under the chin, “why am I like
the moon?”
“ You are not like the moon, John
Henry, in any particular. ”
“Why, how do you make that out, my
dear?”
“ Because the moon has been full but
twice this month. ”
He says that isn’t the right answer.
Workingman ami Naturalist.
[lnter Ocean.|
Henry Strecker, who is a stone-cutter
at Heading, works for bread during the
day and in the evening pursues the stu
dies of an expert naturalist. He is known
as an authority on butterflies. He makes
his own drawings on stone, writes his
own descriptive matter, sets the type, and
does the printing himself. He has the
largest collection of butterflies m the
world.
Arkansas Traveler: People can be slyly
drawn into mirth, but you can not shove
them into it We can persuade men to
weep, but we cannot force them.
NO. 287
OSTEntft,
CELEBRAB.D ** || \
For tever and ague, and remittents, are the de->
bihtatad, billiou- and nervt ua. Oo aneb i er
■oua, <r’d bton.sell Butera aff'rea ado
)uat> protection by increasing vital stamina and
tha r*Biatant power ot the coi stitntioD. and by
oaeoking irr» gularitiee o» the hver, stomach
atd bo ela. JdOHuVer, it eridicaka malarial
c n n plaints ol »n o atliiale lye. and etanda
aloi e unequalled among our national rpouediaa.
Fur tale by all and Dea aia
c aneraliy,
(JEOB.GL& dKCUKII'IJLb.
Corrected by John Blackmar,
Dealer in all i-tocke and Bonds
UOtlMlitß.
•Br * a JUwnda.
Bid Acted
Georgialoo 10l
Georgia fla iuT 108
Georgia 7a, 1898. 122 ia>
Ge-rgia ib. Hi 112 X
City Mauda,
Atlanta 6b 104
<L . l.u
Ai.an.. lib 11-0
ia iu b • LIO 1.6
3i.-gU<kix ....■•«•• .... i< 6 ib?
-V.>ra ta a....™ 107 109
Oolumbuß n9 .19
UoiumbUi 5t tg
Laiirangt 7s .... ....Km.. W*
on fir 1-5 iff
da van nab «a 9 ill
Kall rand KS
Atlantic A Gua7s ill US
Central con mtge Va..— .. m 113
Georgia li 106 IWi
Georgia fi K (Ja 104
Mobile A Girard 2d mtge end ORB 107 10b
Wostern B B Aia. Ist mtge end OB R.. 110 ill
Western AJabamt 2d mtwe end ne* ill 112
Kailrea.6 siockt
Uentral, common w .. 74 7®
Georgia 11 per cent,............. 163
Southwestern 7c, pr ot :i® 116
ORB sorii't « per cost 9 9J
raetary Ctaeki.
Eagle A Phenix 97 98
Oolnmbub 23 M
Muscogee b 0 to
Insurance Mtock.
Georgia Home Insurance 00, 12 pr ct .12 130
Bank Block,
UhatUboochee National, lb per ©t.... 166 170
Merchants & Mechanics, lUperot .. ibQ 86
Mlscellanci»u&.
Pioneer 00-Operatlve 00, 10 per ct. ~ V 96
For Mala.
10 chares MuaC< geu FaoUry brock.
5o t bares P.oneer Company Uu-ope ratlve Sloot
90 sbarea South Western il, R., 7 per cent,
guaranteed stuck.
mhares Central R. B. stock.
Iu shares Chatiahooobee Loan tsseciatloa
stock.
10 shares Muscogee Loan Associate n block,
at a discount.
In Bharas > ccrgia Home Inscranoe Co.
10 Shares Commbus Factory block.
1,900 Mobile A Gira'd railroad fl per cent
bunds.
Wanted
60.000Uontederate Bonds. Or any part.
U. b. Land Warrants,
6,000 City 01 0 iuxnbuß bonds 6 per cent,
bonds,
•IOHN
DBALEB
iu ku the above dtocxs and Bonds. Ah securi
otiesplsoed In my Bauds for aaie advertised free
of ha»we
PI fcSrTFLKStI PIUKiH
_ Bute cure tor Blind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Pllee. Oue box hae cured tbe worst
oaeee oi 20 yearn’ standing. No oue need
suffer five mlnutee alter using William’s
Indian Pile Ointment, it übsm be tumors,
allays l,cltli.g, acts us poultice, gives In
stant rellet. Ptepared only tor Ftlee,
itenmg ot the private parte, nothing elee.
Hon. J. Ai. Uotteubury,ut Cleveland, eaye.
“I nave used tvotes oi rile tu.ee, and It
atfoide me pleasure to say that 1 have
never found anything which gives such
;m mediate and permanent renet as Dr.
William’e Indian Pile Ointment. ’’ bold by
drurglets and mailed on receipt ot price,
il. ..oi sale by Brann-n <t Oarson, B.
Carter, John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford. Cotumbue. Ga.
Dr. Frasier*. Kent Bitter
Frazier's Boot Billers are uci| a dram
shop beverage, but are strictly medicinal
m every sense. 'They act strongly upon
lhe Liver end Kidneys, keep tee bowels
ipeu and regular, make the weak strong,
seal the lungs, bulla up lhe net vet, ana
cleat xe the Hood and tyekm ot eveiy Im
purity. Sold by druggiete. si.uo.
For eale by Brannon A Oareon land J no.
F. Turner, Columbus, ua.
Dr. Frailer’a Magic Ointment. tgS ,
A sure euie tor Little Grutvß in tbe skin,
Bougn Skin, etc. it will remove that
roughness nom the bauds and lace aim
make yuubeautliui. Trice 6<jc. bent by
mail. For sale by Brannon A Oareon and
Jobn P. Turner, Columbus, Ga.
Cha E G.t ver, be im< rai l io, Mexico.
•July 16, 1063, tays; **l take p. nature in
adoietrlng you once moie, ;oi you nave
been ol great benefit u> me. I wrote to
you ab> m one end cue-half yiare ago,
Hom tt z na, lor Di. WtiiLw’e Indian
File OiUiUient. 1 ncelved itai d It cured
me cut re:y. 1 still bad some Ointment
remaining, with wnlcn 1 have tuied seven
or eigb tune it is wouderiui.
Bnralogi High Kock B'pHug Water tor
*ulr by n druggists. n.i weoi! Aw
THE.
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