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k * - Sttitibo l Osßlliiiiii 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. 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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. 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