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1888. W J kl I :-1888.-< , J pi,Mmrea«ME3"r ~:r- y°"\ THE MBA VEH’U IN Blvd. >G X It is now universally atlviUleu that a Good, Live, Enter nrisiiiff Paper 1 does more for the section in which ■ it 18 printed than ALL OTHER AGENCIES It. the channel 1!. • . 11 i■■ j 'itr' mti ■■ known to the outside world. It helps the schools, encourages and booms enterprises of every kind that go to develop a county, and in short is invaluable in more ways than we have space to tell, forming a weekly medium of ADVERTISING which is so essential in these mod ern days to success in any field. nUT FOR A PAI’E-p -O TO PROPERLY -L’O Advertise its county it must have the undivided support of the peo ple in order to enable it to do so effectually. A County Papee properly supported, will render far more service than can be had in any other way for the same money, or for that matter, for twenty times the amount. Business men and practical people everywhere recog nize and admit this to be true. On this hypothesis— Mutual Interests— Mutual Advantages— WE RESPECTFULLY ASK A CONTINUANCE OF THE SUP PORT THE NEWS HAS RECEIVED, FOR WHICH IT RETURNS THANKS, AND AN INCREASE OF THE SAME. Let every subscriber get one new subscriber, and that new subscriber another subscriber, and so on, until THE NEV S finds its way not only into every household in this county but in adjoining counties also. rpilE PRICE is $1.25 CASH, . A- or $1.50 ON TIME. It is Election Year and everv person should keep posted as to who offer themselves for oliiee so they can vote in furtherance of their own interest. On o-ir part we p: nniso to r,ri’w the NEWS just as ~M JK. r , ls j.,. pie want; ofc mrs u j o 1 the eneduragem. -nt w. 3? f o _- people really want a good ; aper that ’cannot have it hy Hbornj slin nr■ i j this. I|B|B|B. j VERY SLIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. Instances Where They Have Led to Grave and Important Issues. It is stated that when Leopold van Ranke began to collect facts for his history, a singular accident occurred in bis native town. A bridge gave way one morning, and some persons were swept away in the current beneath. Van Ranke, who was absent at the time, on his return inquired into the details of the catastrophe. “I saw the bridge fall,” said one of the neighbors. “A heavy wain had just passed over it and weak ened it. Two women were on it when it fell, and a soldier on a white horse.” “I saw it fall,” declared another; “but the wain had passed over it two hours pre vious. The foot passengers were children, and the rider was a civilian on a black horse.” “Now,” argued Von Ranke, “if it is impossible to learn the truth about i an accident which happened at broad noonday only twenty-four hours ago, how I can 1 declare any fact to be certain which ' is shrouded in the darkness of ten ’cen- 1 turies.” To this trivial incident, which ■ to many persons would have borne nc lesson, was due much of his caution and i impartiality. A few moments’ consideration will I convince any one that some of the most j momentous crises in history have hinged . upon very slight circumstances. A glass of wine, for instance, changed the his ! tory of France for nearly twenty years. I Louis Philippe, king of the French, had I a son, the Duke of Orleans, and heir to I the throne, who always drank only a certain number of glasses us wine, be cause even one more made him tipsy. : On a memorable morning he forgot to ! count the number of his glasses, and | took one more than usual. When enter ; ing his carriage he stumbled, frightened the horses, and causing them to run. in ' I attempting to leap from the carriage his | ' head struck the pavement, and he soon | i died. That glass of wine overthrew the i I Orh ans rule, confiscated their property | • of £20,000,000, and sent the whole fain- i ! ily into exile. i If Mr. Grenville had not carried, in ' ; 17G5, his memorable resolution as to the ' . expediency of charging stamp duties on I | the plantations of America, the western | world might still have been under Brit- I ji h rule. In connection with this mat- ■ j ter. there is another slight, albeit re- , I hiarkablo. circumstance, which may be : ' told in Thackeray's own words. “It , I was strange," says he, •‘that, in a savage 1 | forest of Pennsylvania, a young Virgin ian ofiicer should fire a shot, and waken : up a war which was to last for sixty 1 I years, which was to cover his own c<nintry ; i and pass into Europe, to eost ‘.dance her | , American colonies, to sever ours from us ! i and create the great western republic; to j ; rage over the old world when extin- I guished in (he new; and of all the myr- • iads engaged in the vast contest, to leave j the priz • of the greatest fame with him ] i who s', ruck the first blow/’ j If the nose of Cleopatra had been ! ! blunder, says Pascal, the condition of the ■world would have been different. His i I meaning is, that if Cleopatra had had a i l no e shor:^<• deformity sb.? would have ! cittratt Antony, who woul I not | drawn into the conduct which jat< din Vb.o ln.-s of the battle of ."4 f ?d iS ’ l'* ss made way f<»r (he ‘Vr 11 ' n ’nn republic in the inau- J.A In < f the Roman empire. Wvpria h;» ; been th • <>f many 1 ! ~ <,f is b?vo l i i.p* .i i J.■ I inoiee i:<>n of a duch'.ss aie i •< : , I verl'ial. The great failure of th? pofaic crop in i I Ireland caimot i-o ceded a .digljt circum ttance, yet it was comparatively slight ' ' co:up--fed with the m- inenlous changes ! which it brou ht about J for the repeal of the corn laws was hastened by the potato 1 famine. As Lord Beaconsfield has ob ! served: “This mysterious but universal . sickness of a single root changed the his -1 tory of the world.” Many men have been drawn to their destiny by the most trivial occurrences. Fenimore Cooper became a novelist through his wife's challenge. One ( veil ing, whib- reading a novi 1, he threw it down, saying: “1 heli ve I could write a better book myself.” “Let me see you do it,” said his wife, with a smile. In a few days he had written several chapters of “Precaution,” which, when finished, he published at his own expense. The novel attracted little attention; but it gave Cooper an inkling of his capacity for story writing, and the “Spy,” his • next novel, appealed so strongly to the pad iotic sympathies of his countrynun that it became a great sauce ;. Ilaw- ► I thorno, too, was induced to write the •SScariet Letter” by a remark of his If Cowley had not found the sFagry Queen” in his mother's parlor it i* juA . pe.- ible that ho would iic'/er h.ave b(( n a poet. Giotto, one of the early Florentine painters, might have remained a rude • shepherd boy if a sheep drawn by him upon a .‘■ tone had not attracted the notice ’ of Gimabue. Opie might have perished in obscurity if he had not looked over (he shoulder of his companion, Mark Oates, while he was drawing a Latterly. Had his friend and companion escaped the thunderstorm at Erfurt, Luther might have been a lawyer.—Chambers’ Jour nal. Eigffor Than They T'sed to Be. I have measured a great many Roman coffins, ami my average sho.Vj that the Roman could not have greatly exceeded five feet live inches. In tairing measure ments of ancient armor, I find that the English aristocracy have decidedly in creased in average height within 500 I measured twenty-fire mummies in the British museum as nearly as I could through the cases, making estimate for I found the average height of males sixty-one inches, females Ctty five inches. The mummy of the celebrated Cleo patra measures about fifty-four inches, about the height of the present European girl of 13. The most ancient mummy of an Egyptian king yet discovered meas ured iifty-two inches.—Nature. A Tramp’s Modest Request. Farmer’s Daughter—l suppose you ■want my father to take you in for tha season? Tramp—No, miss; if you will kindly sew a shirt onto this button, that’s all I Usk. —Harf :c r’s Ba::ar. Remedies for Writer’s Cramp. Change all the conditions frequently, the height of the chair or of the table, of paper, using sometimes tlw smoother, sometimes the rougher sort. Have every description of pen and lien holder at hand, and change them fre quently. Don’t try to write a handsome Land, for that is Something that a per son who has writer’s <s.r:imp in perfection cannot do. Be satisfied with legibility, and this there need lie no difficulty about. Tile trouble seems io be a nervous one, and very little things will > affect it. The change from paper that is I ruled to paper that is not. and vice versa, I will often give relief, and even a charge from blacV ink to blue has been known ■ to be beneficial. Os course you must have quill pens in your assortment, but their exclusive use will not help you. A 1 friend who does a great deal of writing has turned to the typewriter for relief, but that is all that it affords. The fingers 1 have got into the cramp habit, and in time the use of the typewriter wearies 1 and stiffens them. Nothing but an in- : finite variety of appliances, constantly | changed, will afford the desired relief.— ‘ Causerie’’ in Boston Herald. Dyeing with the Henna Plant. The lady who is about to undergo the dyeing process is stretched out at full I length on her back, and is not allowed I to stir The paste is put on the soles of the feet, the toes included, about an inch t ■ : of the feet is never dyed. Soft leaves are then applied, as a covering, and the whole is tightly wrapped in linen. The same process is gone through with the palm of the hand and the fingers. To keep the application in place, the lady mast, lie perfectly still all night, for no other parts of the body must receive the dye, and a spot on the back of the hand or the finger joints would be a great dis figurement. At this time she is dreadfully teased by swarms of musquitoes ami flies, but she dare not move to drive them away. In | th" upper classes slaves watch all night to keep away these pests with fans. The same process must be repeated for three rights to obtain the desired red tint; but, once finished, it remains for a month, and cannot be washed out.—“An Arabian Princess.” Grizzly and Buffalo. When there were buffalo on the plains the Manitoba grizzlies were great hunters jof them. When a grizzly and a buffalo i met there was always sure to be a con i test, but it seldom lasted long, and tho buffalo was usually t.ho victim. The buffalo would charge upon the bear, whii-l'i awaited the onset of his foe erect i on his haunches. As the buffalo dashed I upon him the bear threw himself aside, C.:i 1 will) a blow as quick as lightning i with one of las fore paws seldom failed I to break his antagonist’s neck. A grizzly bear has been known to engage in quick ■ I succession four and even five big buffalo | bulls, and to kill every one of them. It j frequently happened however, that some younger and more active bull than his i companions succeeded in evading tho fa tal blow of the grizzly's terrible fore paw i long enough to give in turn a fatal thrust will) his horn in the bear’s side, punctur ' ing the Vitals, and making of tho contest i a mutual slaughter.—New York Sun. Educating Arabian Girls. “Educate a girl!” exclaimed a Mo- | hanrmedan to Dr. Jessup, a missionary j among the Arabs, who was urging him 1 to place one of his daughters in a girls’ ’ school in Tripoli. “Educate a girl! You might as well try to educate a cat!” I i Several aristocratic Mohammedan gentle- i men of Beirut tvei’B induced a fojy years ’ ago to place their daughters in one of I the Protestant schools there, and one of I them remarked: “Would you believe it? : I heard one of the girls read tho other day, and she actually asked a question i about tho construction of a noun pre ceded by a preposition! I never heard : the like of it! The things do distinguish i and understand what they read after all!” Th ’ o:hreplied: “Mashallah! Mash allah! Tliowillof God be done!” —St. 1 ui Repubhca.n. ’’•be Coolies Os Tl'lnidrtil. i The coolies work excellently. They ' are picturesque additions to tho land- I ! scap», a-; they keep to the bright colors a : I ' . neef'.:! drapery of India. Thegrave diguiiy el' their faces contrasts reniark al ly with the broad, good humored, but common features of the African. Tha i black women look with envy at tha I straight hair of Asia, and twist their un | happy wool into knots and ropes in ! vain hope of being mistaken for tho purer race; but this is all. The African and the Asiatic will not mix, and tho i African being the stronger, will and ■ must prevail iij Trinidad, as elsewhere in the West Indies. Out of a total popula- i tion of 170,000 there are 25,000 whites an 1 mulattoes, 10,000 coolies, the rest ■ negroes. The English part of the Eu- ■ rop.eans shows no tendency to increase. —J. A. Fronde. Belief in the Moon’s Influence. Men are not superstitious nowadays. Oh, no' but some of them kill their hogs : only in the light of the moon, and plant their potatoes when it is full. One of our citizens relates a remarkable in- ■ stance in proof of Luna's effects upon ' mundane affairs. 11" says that in Penn ! sylvania, before lie left that state, two ; | men put new roofs upon their houses. , I One house was roofed while the moon i 1 was new, and the other while it was ( either dark or full. Before he name away the roof of the former house had ■ I drawn up till a full story had to be put ' underneath, while tho roof of the latter had pressed tlio building down till the iSwer story was under ground!—Ameri . can Magazine. Curious Deception in Sound. A curious manner of deception in sound was developed the other day through a bet. One man wagered that ■ if blindfolded a person is unable to tell i I the direction from which any sound ■ ' comes. A gentleman was blindfolded, I ' and another, holding two silver coins l«- . : tween his lingers, snapped them together * riuht under his friend’s nose. When . ' called on to locate the sound the gentlc ) I man was positive it was behind him. experiment was tried from every side, i j but the gentleman was not able to tell | correctly just where the sound cams ■ from. —Cincinnat i Enquirer. Self Massage for Dyspepsia. This treatment requires much perse verance and practice, otherwise it may ■ to some extent prove a failure; but re ’ newed vigor will always be in propor -1 tion to tho practice. Be not discouraged. " First thing in the mornixjg and last thing ’ j at night rub the abdomen down the left ; side and up the right in a round circle, . also rub down the breast; now pace • across the room once or twice, and then i ’ snap the lower limbs, like a whip lash, * for exercise. Now twist the lower limbs, first on one side, then on the other, and • rock up on the toes. Now for the lungs I and abdomen; first, take in a half breath, then exhale a.H lue air possible, then fill the lungs to their full capacity, walk ■ across the room and back, at the same time throwing the arms back. Now in a half breath send out every particle of air 1 till you see the abdomen working like a bellows, and you will soon become a deep breather. For more extended practice in deep breathing the morning before i rising is a good time, provided there is ■ full ventilation and that the air inside is i I as pure and fresh as that on the outside. Before a ;■ <-d lire wash the hands and • ; face we‘ ii - L-. ’-x of the neck, arms and i I lowJr linf shgldly, and rub down with I• a coan-e t 1. ” his is suiiiuient for a ( I begi r, entirely inadeejua for tlie . i oh!, chn ;/<■ dv- hl ' i Iler;:kl of He 1 -'nth. Quicklime Instead or premation. Cremation seems to make but slow progress, and comes, indeed, so violently into conflict with popular prejudices and beliefs that there is little chance of its gaining a footing in this country for the next fifty or 100 years. Meanwhile our cemeteries are overflowing, and some im proved method of disposing of the dead is an imperative necessity. Shall I be shocking anybody if I suggest that in all , cemeteries quicklime should bo used, and that strong oak coffins should be dis carded in favor of light wickerwork re ceptacles. The idea is suggested by a curious piece of information communicated to me by an official of Newgate, where, ns is well known, all murderers are buried in quick lime. When Lipski was hanged the other day a grave was dug for him, as usual, within tho prison walls, and, space there being limited, the spot selected for the purpose was that where Wainwright was buried ten or twelve years ago. On the ■ earth being dug intc> only a faint sti'eak i of lime was found to mark the jflr.ee ! where the body of the notorious murderer of Harriet Lane was laid. Flesh, bones, clothing—everything had disappeared, and the soil was, moreover, as sweet as if it had done nothing but grow butter cups and daisies. Imagine what would j have been the result had an ordinary , grave been dug into in this fashion. What a mass of corruption would have .“breath 1 cd forth contagion” to the world. And, be it remembered, the disapj>earance of tho body was, no doubt, as complete at the end of three months as at the end of ton years. Os Lipski himself there is now probably only a streak of lime left. What reasonable objection could there be to the adoption of quicklime as a purifier of our cemeteries? Its only effect would be to hasten the dissolution which we all know to be inevitable. —London Life. A Witty German Journal I fit. Moritz Gotlieb Saphir, a Jewish journalist, is regarded as the foremost wit and humor ist of the German speaking people. Many ; examples are cited of his readiness in retort. ' While living at Munich be incurred the I displeasure of King Ludwig by criticinhig | the royal author’s jiarty. An opportunity ■ subsequently offered for expelling tho offend , ing journalist from the Bavarian capital, and ■ bo was ordered to leave within four and , twenty hours. The court chamberlain, com i missioned by tho king, waited on him and ' asked if ho could manage to get away in so i short a time. “Yes,” replied the unabashed journalist, “and if my own logs can't take me quick enough I'll borrow some of tho superfluous feet in her majesty’s last volume of verse.” When introduced for the first time to the prompter of the Leipsiger Stadt theater, a pompous personage too much in evidence at I times, Saphir remarked: “I heard a good ’ deal of you, Herr A ’’—the prompter : bowed his acknowledgments of the exj?ccl ed j compliment, while the wit added —“in the 1 course of a jjerformance last evening.” I Driving out in the suburbs of Vienna one day, his coachman, a peppery miethkutscb.cr, I got into an altercation with a rival Jehu. Words Soon led to oathSj mid oaths to 1 flows, and the pair set to in good earnest to j decide which was the bettor man. Popping his head out of the fiacre window, Saphir mildly implored the pair to oblige him and drub each other as quickly as they could, for he had “engaged the carriage by tho hour.” A young couple, newly engaged, were fa vored with a letter of introduction to him, which they duly presented. Now, the gen tleman was notorious for his effeminate hab its and ways, and his apjjearance at once struck the eye of the observant journalist, who had heard about him. He said nothing, received the pair with empressement, insisted upon their being seated in his must comfort able easy chairs, assured them how pleased he was to hear of their engagement, mid wound up with: “Now, pray, you must, I you really must, tell me which of you is the j bride.” He once described a theatre as being so full that people were obliged to laugh perpendic ularly, there was no room to do so hori i’.on tally. Gs a dull townlet he visited, he re marked it was so quiet that but for an occa sional death there would really bo no life in tho place.—New York Sun. ’ It Pleased a Man From St. Louifi. Since Mashall Field moved into his great new store Market street has in some respects degenerated. It is a fact that there are a few tufts of grass growing in front of the big red building in which two fortunes have been made. Perhaps these are the only grass blades to be found in the streets of Chicago. They are growing, too, directly under the window at which the Western merchant prince used to sit and watch his many wagons and trucks driving hither and yon. To the patriotic Chicagoan this sign of tho decadence of a once busy district is not pleasant. Not so, however, with a St. Louis man who came to Chicago several weeks ago. He knew no one in the city, and his heart yearned for tho quiet of his native town. While wandering aimlessly about the city the other day, be happened to pass the little tuft of grass which crept up between the stones on Market street. He stopped, gazed at it attentively, and then sat down upon an empty dry goods box, while a smile illumined his face. “Colonel,” said be to a man who was wash ing one of the windows in the big warehouse, ' “that tuft of grass is like an oasis in the do -1 sort. It reminds me of St. Louis, and I want lto sit here and look at it. It's the most home like thin-Bl’ve seen since I’ve been in Chi cago.”—'Hwtago Herald. C Train’s Omaha Hotel. I was 1 hoping at the Herndon house, now tho Union Pacific headquarters. With mo, i as guests, were James Brooks and a dozen ; congressmen. We went down to breakfast, | : and during that early meal a window pane [ was broken, and one of those wild, bleak, bitter Nebraska winds whistled through the hirsute appendages—this expression was rot in vogue in those days—of the guests. The proprietor never made any effort to fix tho 1 i defective window. It was genius on my part ' —a brilliant idea, I thought—when I called ■ i to an Ethiopian to brace himself up against ’ ' the hole and stop the breeze. I didn’t fancy 1 ; such a hotel and immediately went out and > I purchased the ground where the Cozzens I house now stands. 1 also went to a contractor and asked him if he ever erected a building larger than a chicken coop. I bad him con struct the hotel in sixty days. I afterward rented it to Cozzens, of New York, who took ‘ the management of it and paid me a rente lof ■ SIO,OOO a year for it.—lnterview in Omaha . World. | A Russian Prince’a Practical Joke. Rosa Bonheur, the artist, was one evening ’ placed at dinner next to the Grand Dake ’ Michael, cousin of the present Czar. The two 1 got on very well, and even ate a vielliebcbea ’ together after dinner. Owing to the pressure • of business the Russian visitor forgot the j<»ke i ' aud lost the bet. On asking Mme. Bonheur 3 i what he might offer her as a forfeit, she said » i jestingly, “Any pretty little animal I might 1 use as a model.” - For some time after ths ; grand duke went away nothing was heard of ? him, and the artist had forgotten the affair, 1 when only a few days ago the forfeit arriviti r in the shape of three gigantic white bears. Y —Pall Mall Gazette. A Good Story About Lincoln. President Lincoln said once that the beat story he ever read in the papers of himself was this: Two Quakeresses were traveling on 3 I the railroad, and were heard discussing the ’ probable termination of the war. “I think,” 1 said.the first, “that Jefferson will succeed/ ‘ “Why does thee tlnuk so?” asked the other. 1 “Because Jefferson is a praying man,” “And ’ so is Abraham a praying man,” objected tht second. “Yes, but the Lord will think Abr&> i ham is joking,” the first replied, conclusively. I —Boston Budget. A LITTLE BUNDLE OF RAGS, A little hungry mouth; A tiny shaking form; Two little naked feet, Out In the bitter storm f A tattered bundle of rags and stains, • A beggar from door to door, 1 A freezing bundle of aches and pains, A starving child of the poor’.’ Two pleading, tearful eyes . That none will ever miss; Two little sunken cheeks i That never knew a kiss; I A tattered bundle of rags and stains, , Who whines for a crust to eat: A freezing bundle of aches and pains, ( A homeless child of the street! Two tiny purple hands; A shock of tangled hair; A littlo weary head Asleep on the pavement bare; < A tattered bundle of rags unblessed, Whose strife is forever o’er: A wretched bundle of woes at rest, A frozen child of the poor! —Donizetti Muller in Frank Leslie's* *TliHr Work Was Worth Something. Th- cows of a Georgia farmer got into the pea field of his neighbor and de stroyed about ten bushels of peas, There upon the latter farmer presented an ac count claiming $0 for ten bushels of peas at Sixty cents per bushel. The owner of the cows examined the account and then said: ‘ Look here, my cows ate up ten bushels of your peas, but you know tha rules in gathering peas is to give one half for the gathering. So you see my cows were entitled to five bushels of those peas for picking them. Therefore I only owe you for five bushels at sixty cents, and that makes $3. Here's your money.” And at $3 they settled. —Chi- cago News. The Psychology of Handwriting. The North American Review prints a series of the autographs of Napoleon, written at various epochs in his eventful life. Starting in his early years with a bold and clear signature, it retains most of these characteristics in the days of his greatest successes; but parallel with tho declining fortunes of the great man is a degeneration of his autograph, until at the end we have nothing more than the rudest, characterless scrawl, The auto graphs cannot but suggest the ravaging changes in the nervous system that were the physiological concomitant of tho tur moil raging in the hero’s mind.—Science. Condiments Promote Digestion. The value of the various condiments in the preparation of combination dishes is great. Used with discretion they'stimu late the appetite and promote digestion, red pepper being specially valuable in this connection. The various herbs and spices are exceedingly valuable; salt is absolutely necessary to health, despite all contrary assertions of the food cranks, and tho condiments employed in making I salads promote the digestion and assimila tion of ail food eaten at the same time. —- Chicago Times. Spiders Tlisit Capture Birds. The tarantula of South America is so large and powerful that it attacks birds Bell, the naturalist, found a web stretched across a tree in which were entangled two birds, one in the clutch of the spider. In some places they often bite the feet of horsesand cause their death. A natural ist in the Amazon country reports seeing tho native children leading about the huge spiders by threads of fibre wound .about their bodies, as boys do dogs in our own country.—C. F. Holder. 'Paper Made from Wood# Making paper from wood pulp Is one of the greatest of modern inventions. Paper was formerly made of rags, but the demand for paper greatly exceeded the supply of rags, and it is not many years ago that poplar and other soft woods were ground up into pulp to take the place of rags, in all but the finer kinds of paper. Yet tho wasps had been setting an example in doing this for un told centuries. —American Agriculturist. Bonbons Jnntead of Love Betters. Engaged couplee in France do not ex change love letters as we do; you never see a French girl with a box containing daintily tied package of letters, of which the key never loaves her possession; such things are unheard of, but l>oxes of lon bons and exquisite flowers are sent each day with the card of the future husband. —The Argonaut. Ribs Broken by Couching. A London coroner has raised the ques tion whether a man can cough himself to pieces. A broken rib was found in deceased lunatic, when medical evi-fenco was brought forward to show that Under certain abnormal conditions Ixsnes may be broken by muscular efforts, or even by a violent fit of coughing.—Arkansaw Traveler. London Houses Growing Moro Modern. For a long while the London houses never changed their appearanc. Now, when a house needs rebuilding, the front of it is apt to he remodeled, not in tie* staid old style which has prevailed hitherto, but according to modern fashion. —New Orleans Timcs-Democrat. A Narrow ISscape. Jones was so awkward the other even ing as to sit down on a gentleman’s silk hat, crushing it Hatter than a pancake. I “And to think.” was his comment, ( i “that it might have been the new one ; • I’ve just bought!”—Judge. ’ Sj,<»<'<! of the J'lectrJc Current. ’ Experiments on the speed of the electric j current prove that if a proper conductor ' could be wound around the globe a signal ( parting from it at any point of it would . return to the starting point in one-half a . second.—Chicago Herald. Provoked Iler Syniy-a'hy I | Husband (groaning)—Tho rheumatism : I in my leg is coming on again. f j Wife (with sympathy)—Oh. lam sc ‘ sorry, John. I wanted to do some shop ping today, and that is a sure sign ol rain.—The Epoch. - During the past season two naturalists, 3 G. W. and E. G. Peckham, have fom.ic J that wasps remember tho locality of theii e | nests for ninetv-six hours. r I i There are in the country nearly -IOC t i colleges, with about 3,00 U profasors am G 35,000 students. t An Introduction In ZJcxlco. i When two people are introduced ir i Mexico, if 1 ct'i r.ro women, they ex change a light embrace and palmadita ci little pat <■:: the back; where cue or I oil are men, a ’.and shake is in order. A:.< * beside the formula, “Let me present,’ * i etc., of the officiating party, each cl 0 I those introduced gives his name am! bi: • ' address, with the formal. “Your obedier.: , servant,” “At ycur orders.” or eom< , I such stir: otyix-d phrase. By those v.-h< • have sulrer:.-! from not hearing the nari. t of stranger, r-uivill dor slurred ov<. by h: i. .t.'mh’e-.’r, tins custom v.-Jl -. seen to have its merits.—Cor. San Fran I cisco Chronicle. * "THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.” COPYRIGHTED 1817 - r# ?*_ -3s warn? i■ i -i/T 11 > ,< . . .>■ •• .‘. - V L .- ... \.V - A- - ro. -- '1 ; '- - A *’• lUi’-tr'itr 1 ’ v the «r.e of n Eugrv made by T. T. Haydnrk. which ir not nnlv the Leading ■ -u picture, but LIhWIW. CS AFIEHH’A. Ilns F! Fine Bolt nnd Fihh Wheel. Ask ynur dealer for the T. T. i rt\: CH rt c.i.v. with the lluydock Safety King Bolt and Fifth Wheel. Lift js i pscfurc ridir.jz over any ollxt. z , h .- fc rrnikhodin alsrsocwd, prltitr-l tn clcpxDt ntrl?, tc any one who will aprec to framo It.) ST-„C I T- T. H./I.’TDOCK, li ’ Cor<T e.-'r.iji-H" P'"’ Cor. Flnm Mil Twelfth Sts., CINCIXTATI, O. AGESIS wiWrij Wk'eßß WE DAVE EONEI BO IHVESTMENT SO PBOFITABLE, ft MW Itailtt Cl . YoE want to sell Real Estah' of anv kind? Place in our hands and we will advertise it. No sale, no pay, and then only a small commission. YOE want to buy? Ih nd the following des.-ripl‘.on •• <>l Property we have for sale, on time to good parties. Eigbtv acres, 1’ . miles from Summer ville; 12 acres open, balance well timber ed with White Oak, Hickory, Pine, etc. Good it; good for larming pur poses. Ift mile from church and school. Ninety Four acres,about ”»t) acres open, in good OMidition. 20 acres t-rst class bottom on Chattooga river, ft level, re mainder broken. Well v» atered, gooct | dwelling with two t<nant houses and i good out houses, orchard of choice peach . and ap’de trees. 0 miles from Suinnu r- I ville. Ift mile* church and schools. | Town property S a.'T.- s- in the sub-■ urbs of Sum-m rvilie. JxiVel; a niort ; l desirable site for residence; goodjiniall . ! dwelling with out houses, wcJf and; spring affording an abundance of the > best water; good y(»ung orcb.ard of choice I fruit trees: also a' large number of choice . grape vines. Eighty acres lying partly within tho | town of Suminerville; K> acres cleared, | remainder well timbered; 25 acres level, balnm e broken; good clay inundation; in good fix. Fino for farming purposes amt also well located for tesidcTiues; also contains large quantities of Iron ere. Town property •• lots C/)?:120, 2 front ing on Main street, one fronting on (’hur<*b st reel. Level; goo<! wagon ami blacksmith, simp on corner bit. Most sniiaol;* in town for busievs:- house; also ♦’.••sirablc locality lordv.e’d ing. Best firm in th-.* '-<mnty for it; in< h< s and nr; •■. 2e»'; ;><• r*. •:<; let) op in, other well timber* d . it h pine, o?«k. v a.lni:*, etc., on Chattooga river, ftj.i first < lass hot tom; well at< ■■ • and ■ ••• ry way tlmoih-.-r i-P.:. :.:iv !• dli in ’ iiX. : 'oi ' ’ ’ : inaises: also <;uant iti«-s of ri«-i> ir«m o’*c on porl i ”:s bf it. Eight mites from I .‘Somme! v.lh . Farm-PH acres; 50 acres lino creek Bottom. I pland tine for cotton and A’hcat, and in high state of cultivation. In every way suitable for stock farm, fwo good new framed dwt iliugs; free stone wafer in abundance; church<i. .schools and post office near. Farm 100 acres; red and gray soil, 20 acres first class branch bottom, 70 acres cleared!’ urll feu-cd mid in good state o! cultivation. P.-dunce heavily timbered. Thousands of lino tan bark; tlspiings, 1 well, 2 framed housf-s and tenant hom es, a.II in good fix. Seh-'-t orchard ; and vim yard, s miles from hummer ' ’ ville; 2 miles from poslop.ice,schools ami , . Town pronerfv - I lots G(‘xl2o: 2 front ’ | ing <m .Main street : 2 rear lets, level; i i good small dwelling, framed, new, 2 , j good l i i'-k chimm-ys, good garden,patch for business lumsos in Summerville Terms easy and exceedingly low price. 5 Farm- 140 acres red bairn and gray ’ soil: 00 acres open,well fenced. Rcmain ’• der well timbered and well watered. ‘ flood 5 room dwelling, with good barn, 1 etc., on LaFayelte and Blue Fond road, 1 mile from Alpine, Ga. Farm lIS acres, just across tho Ala., line, red and gray soil; well watered, (f> acres open, other covered with finest | quality of timber, affording great quan < titics of tanbark, inexhauslr.ble Him <piarrv ; p.iso supposed qualities of other yaluable minerals, (tend orchard,grapes ’ etc; good i’« r<«.m dwelling, tenant house, barns, etc, being msir Leukoiil is suita ble am! (••mvcnici.i for stuck raising. 1 mile from Menlo, (in. c I'arm IB’> acres, red, gray and sandy r [soil; line siock farm: well watered; S( acres cleared, 20 acres first class creek j bottom; large quantities of line timber: I ' good Iroom Ing dwelling,2 tenant houses a i stables, etc.. I mile from Foster’s Store. | Farm of I:’-') acres in Floyd county II miles from Rome, 2 miles from ILA 1‘ ' R. IL; led r.nd gray soil, well watered II [S acres chared: conftims them-aml cl I tine timber,also rich deposits of iron orc ;o * Town property, about two acres, ii >f suburbs of Summerville, good smai framed dwelling, with two rooms am: kitchen; good garden, patches, etc. d Farm of 169 acres on Sand mountain ir two and a half miles from Kartali. f . open and in high state of cultivation | l>a!ancc heavily limbered. Adapted i growing anything raised in this county *0 csnecially fruits, etc, good dwelling, ! <1 i tenant houses, out houses, etc. Improve I ments now ami in good condition; : > good urchards, 2 good springs c-f free stone water; churches, schools, am ! postctTice convenient. 11 l- 2?.— Toyvn ]>r< perty lib. Acres on sub ?r urbs of Suminei ville, love’, yvell fencer h and in good state of cultivation, gooi 7 voting orchard apple and peach, gone ~ • framed six roomed dwelling not quit< ' complete, prettiest location in Summer ■f ville for residences. ft ! 29-- Town property—lot !in block h :e '-'.ith rood well upon it. Healthy am :o • desirable lo- atim: n»r ci welling. 1 ‘ i For -.al or rm.., farm of -P-: a/n s t moos from S:;mjuervHlo; acre! “ uieaiod, rftrwres g. —l . .'w 1: ' <-•;<.m: wo] [ watered, mod dwell-:-- <mi ! s, et- I Will sell aH <,y a per:km as <h . d. 31. Farm 213 aercs* 2L, miles froiiti Summerville, Ga.; 50 acres red mulatto balance gray. 125 cleared and well fenced, in high state of cultivation, splemlid framed house with six rooms. 5 good tenant houses, and good barns and other out houses: healthy h»<‘ati< n: contains large deposits of iron ores, wit h largo quantities of various ami line limbers. 32. Farm 26 acres, well improved, lirst-class bottom on Chattooga river, 1 mile from Summerville; good 4-room • , house, stables, etc; well, orchard, Ac. 33. Farm SO acres 2 miles from Sum merville; red mulatto soil, level,6o acres open; well fenced and in high state of cultivation, balance heavily tindiercul, i good substantial improvements; 5-room 1 house, barn, stables, orchard etc. ' 34.- For sale or sent, spleml id tan vard i led directly from a spring; all necessary fixtures and tools for tanning; good twb i story tan shop; about ten acres good level land 6 acres cleared. Very cheap : and terms easy. : 35.—Farm, 160 acres, gray and red mu- i lat t<> soil;50 acres open, balance heavily ' timbered, (wood dwelling, tenantjiouse stables, well, etc. (’heap, and on ox [ eeedingly easy terms. 3G.- Farm, 500 acres, red mulatto and gray soil; 125 open ami in high cultivation, balance heavily timbered; j about 00 acres first-class bottom on ('hnt- I tooga river, well watered and in every ; way suitable to stock raising. Four ■ good dwelling with good and convenient barns out houses, etc. Supposed to eon i I tain large deposits of iron and other val -1 uablc minerals. 3 miles from Summer ! ville, Ga. i 37. Town property, 12ft lots, 4 lots I t : !)x 150, balance 50x 120, :dl in one body; in the healthiest and most desirable i part of Summerville, ('an he divided [ into several beautiful building sites. <;ood two-story building, six rooms, . i m atly and comfortly finished; n good barn and good water. Price low and ! Ono half interest in a corn grist [ milt on Te’oy;! creek, 6 miles from Sum- I mcrvillp, <»a., 7 1-2 foot fall, giving an j average ofi2 horse power. 3 acres of land, good mill ami gin house, good four L room dwelling ami out houses, in good i ' neighborhood, convenient to schools, . eel. Price low and terms easy. Farm lf>o acres, 30 acfcs open, tho remainder covered with finest ti'ibor the county aftwrds, consisting of pine and all vai iet i< s of oak,especially inoun ) tain oak; good tenant house, stable, etc; < good weil; also contains large deposits ! of the richest quality of magnetic iron . orc. 4 miles from Summerville: convc- I nit nt to churches and schools. 28 acres, mostly level, just outside the I ; (•orjxA’atc limits of Summerville; 17 open I ami in high stale of cultivation, other I well timbered. Re<l and grav soil: good [ spring. Fine farming land ami well - ! adapted to fruit raising, etc. 7 Best vineyard in the county, 1,000 select hearing vines, in good condition; also first class orchard of select apple am! peach. I mile east of Trion Factory. SO acres, 40 open and well fenced,balance well limbi rod ; about half level; all suit- 1 able for a*grh ultural purposes, and es- - pccia'ly for fruit growing. Hood spring . and fine freestone yvell. 2 good small . houses. Also contains largo deposits of . rich iron ore. Cheapest farm North Ga. Farm- 100 acres, mostly broken, 15 •• cleared, balance yvell timbered. Firay •’ and red soil; good five-room framed 5 dwelling witli outhouses. School ami ‘ churches convenient. r Farm- 200 acres, 100 open; well fenced f and in good state of cultivation. Well ’’ wafered. .’ls acres tine creek bottom, rod and gray soil, good dwelling, 4 rooms, bar::, fish-pond, on hard, etc. Situated j east of Taylor’s Ridge. w- 1 Farm 82 acres, 70 open, yvell fenced, >0 ' and in high state of < ultivation line u ! creek bottom, well watered; good dwoll ■; i ing, 5 rooms, stable, etc; also good gin q, ! home, and tenant house. Located in ... Dirttown valley. , j Farm, 300 acres, mostly level, 115 npen; , : in good state of cultivation; remainder ,ft \ cry heavily timbered. Dark mulatto '.j -j and gray soil; well improved; good 8 room dwelling. 2 tenement houses, barn, slrJdes, etc. Well watered; 1 miles from Summerville. n Toyvn property for .‘.ale or rent. Good ** framed 4 room dwelling. Situated in the healthiest, most desirable locality in Suminerville. Ample garden, etc. Town property for sale or rent. Neat , framed storc-liouse, ample and yvell q f urnished, tronting on mam street. 2 Stock farm—3l9 acres, 130 open in good p- cultivation and well fenced. Contains a 2 great quantity of timber of all varieties, t - dark gray and red mulatto soil, running d water oh all parts of the place; fine peach and apple orchard that never fails to hit; house and other improvements l ; _ good. ‘j • Farm. 21 acres : 1 mile from Summor ' I ville, mostly level, red mulatto soil, . about half first class creek bottom, well watered, 12 acres cleared and fenced, balance well timbered; good building If. l-’arm- 150 acres; 100 first-class river : i bottom, 65 onc-u, balance well timbered. Good 3-rom':i framed dwelling, good ' stables, ote. s For further particulars as fn ciescrip :• ti’-.n and terms, call upon or address Chattooga Ehtath.Co., ’imn crville, Ga