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7/0 B' DO THE WRINKLES COMEI
Little Bo Peep climbs onto my knee—
Little Bo Peep is four years old,
Ands wlpvt her briatht blue eyes don't see
Would need a mt?roscopo to behold.
She ppi)# my beard—that’s one of her tasks;
Site pokes my cheeks with her little fat
thumb;
Then, grazing straight in ray face, she asks:
“ What is it that makes the wrinkles come?”
Ah, little Bo Peep, yon can not guess
How hard Is the question vou thus pro
pound;
Il calls for greater wisdom (or less)
Than ever philosopher yet has found.
There wn«n time, my little Bo Peep,
\| nen my face was as smooth as yours Is
Wow,
When hover a line or wrinkle deep
Had left its imprint on my brow.
A time when 1 woke from balmy sleep
To find lite always a glad surprise
When 1 lauglied as you laugh, my little Bo
Peep,
And looked on the world with the. tune
.blue eyes.
Ah, wpU, 1 laughed and loved and grew old.
Working away nt life’s hard sum,
And half was dross that I dreamed was gold,
And so the wrinkles began to come!
Vv S tliftt is the wav, my Mtt le Bo Peep—
As near its 1 can tell yon now—
That is the way the fuyrOWs deep,
One byohe, crept over tny brow.
When I saw the glad, bright dream of youth,
Like the rose of snnitner wither away;
When t learned how the fragrant flower of
Truth
By the thla/le of Falsehood was strangled
one day;
iVhen the faith I placed in man was returned
By man's ingratitude, blacker than night;
When the hard and bitter truth hud been
learned
That might., in this world, too often makes
right;
When T saw the good borne down ami op
pressed.
The wicked triumphant in their shame,
The Samaritan scorned an I the Pliariaoo
blessed—
Then, little Bo Poop, the wrinkles came,
Bnt may yon tn the sunshine ever bask,
So that when the years shall have m ul<> you
grav,
some Ho Peen gazin'.- at you shall ask :
What is it. that keeps t.ii» wrinkles away /
The Saxon Domestic.
Nobody can fully appreciate the nu
merous good graces and accomplish
ments, the amiable disposition and the
Imtient and obedient demeanor of the
lalu* servant girl in Saxony -but
those who have suffered from the vices
winch the servant girl in America car
riW with her anti accumulates as she
change* places.
Perham 1 can best describe the Saxon
girt bv mentioning what she is not, and
. giving a list of the things she does not
do. Ta begin with, she does not go to
church at six o’clock every Sunday
morning, returning in time to see her
mirtress and her employer washing the
breakfast dishes. She does not hurry
up the dinner hour on Sunday, making
everybody in the house sit down to the
table without an appetite, because she
his an engagement to call on her aunt.
She does not want two afternoons a week
t< visit her sister, and she is contented
ifshe gets two afternoons a month. She
dors not make as much per week as a
Rkillfnl mechanic, counting her board
and the little things she takes with her
th her brother-in-laws. She does not
dress as well as her mistress, nor is she
angry if her toilet is interrupted in the
morning. If she is corrected in any
work she is doing she does not tell her
mistress to take it and do it herself. She
does not see her company in the parlor.
She doesn’t see any company in the
house. Her brother does not call on her
three'nighls a week, ahd keep her up
timil midnight every time he calls, and
she has apparently no male cousins.
She does not object to doing chamber
work, dr to taking care of the children
when she has nothing else to do. Sho
does not claim that the beefsteak which
U good enough for her employer is not
fit to be eaten. She can not throw up
her place without giving three months'
notice. She strives not to pass away the
time talking over the division fence in
the back yard to the girl next door, but,
on the contrary, is perfectly willing to
do a good day s work like other labor
ing people. She does not receive !®l or
$5 per week, even if she is the very best
kind of girl. Her wages or less than *4
or $5 per month, and sometimes not
more than S 3. She is as honest as she
is industrious. Whatever she does she
does neatly. She is neat herself, and
she is not above wearing calicoes even
on the street. Iler disposition is cheer
ful, her manners are good, her hair is
light, her eyes are blue, her complexion
is fair, and, taking altogether, it A as
tonishing how quickly she can be spoiled
after she lands at Castle Garden.—
Chemnitz Cor. Chieaao News.
Cod"sh Curing and Marketing.
To cure a codfish well requires care
and experience: and unless done well
all the fisher s toil may go for little.
The cod is usually pa-sed to a gang of
four men. One rips up the ti-h. a
second takes out the entrails and cuts
off the bead, a third usually the best
man of the lot by a deft movement
cuts out the backbone, a fourth spreads
on tlie salt and lays the tisli in a pile.
Then the heap of cod are distributed on
the flakes, or tiF-strewn platforms,
reared along the shores. Every where
in the neighborhood oi the unnumbered
fishing villages these broad platforms
appear, now perched in a clett of ti e
rocks, now rising in tiers, but alwavs
placed near the sea. in which the otlal
is dropped. During the < tiring, which
lasts two or three weeks, the fish must
be watched carefully. If left too long
on one side, they become “o\er salted. ”
The sun in that case draws the salt to
one side, leaving the other soft or rank,
and the tish is almost unsalable. Then
they must be heaped up at n ght. cov
ered with canvas or oil-clo:n against
rain, and tended almost as sedulously
as bab< a. When ready for market they
are sold to the wholesale dealers, bring
ing at bL John’s, during a scarce season
like the present, only five cents a pound.
Newfoundland finds her chief market
in Roman Catholic countries, where the
fish are consumed during Lent. Lately,
however, the Norwegians have become
hot rivals of the Newfoundlanders in,-
the European marketAmerican'
housewives may be glad to know that
the local tests of a good salt codfish are
a surface hart! and well dried on both
sides, white flesh, and an absence of
salty crystallizations. Efforts thus far
to utilize as compost the thousands of
tons of otlal annually wasted have
failed, and the same is substantially
true of attempts to preserve the delicate
caplin in some permanent edible form.
—SI. John's (N. F.) Cor. N. F.
ran tare or tne .vieaaowiu
It is well, after the crop is taken off,
to look well to the surface, as to its con
dition, as there are few meadows that
yield evenly all over the field. Most
men practice upon the idea that when a
meadow is once started, a sod being
formed, it is finished, nothing being re
quired but to open the gate at haying
time, going in with the machinery, ahd
taking the crop off close down. The
mower is not so easy on a meadow as
the old fashioned scythe was in the
early days. The scythe cut with the
edge directed upwards, while the mower
is usually dropped dose down, shaving
th • surface to the roots; and as the
blade passes over inequalities that are
higher than the general average of the
surface, these higher spots arc shaved
well into the nails, and tho vitality of
the plant, whether it be timothy, clover,
or any other meadow grass, will be im
paired.
The drought that lisiialiy follows
harvest i« very dahiaging to a close-cat
meadow, and the sun’s rays striking
upon the exposed, closely-shaved Sur
face, are exceedingly IryiHg upon ihd
plant. The meadow should be harrowed
thoroughly, but not too roughly, and
well jqunured with fine manure, giving
particular attention bi the spreading to
Buch portions Os the find Its yii'ldlight,
and hence require the ai<l of manure.
The meadow should be cross harrowed.
September is a little late to scatter se d
upon such spots ns feqtiife replenishing
in this way. but if neglected prior to
this time it should be done now, trust
ing to the stirring given the siirfa' h, the
manure, and the fall rains, to rtiake the
seeding effective. Seed in any cast
should be liberally applied, but especially
Bo in this, as with such an opportunity
only a portion will take mot.
Some men who arc lerv good hands
to feed farm stock, are totally negli
gent in the matter of feeding their
crops. A meadow poorly fed is no
more likely to yield a profit than is a
steer if kept on a meager allowance.
It is not expected that on farms in gen
eral any at lent'< n wi 1 !»• |ad to artitb
eial manures; yet there is no farmer
who would not he be lelitcd pectin nrily
by using these in ndditl n to his stock
of manure from Ihe him yard. Mead
ows are so wonderfully improved bv tho
use of nitrate of soda, that It alWats
pays to n-e this article who 0 ally need
of stimulilt ng a grass crop exists.—
Na!ionol Live Stock Journal. ’
Are Women Better Dressed than Ment
One of the signs of advanced civiliza
tion is discomfort in dress; the further
any nation advances in civilization, the
more she tortures her subjects, and,
strangely enough, the Infliction fall#
upon the so-called upper class. The
educated class, the members of the
liberal professions, the denizens of the
city, the merchant and his clerks, suffer
more than the poor laborer from heat if
not from cold. As between the sexCS
there is little difference in this respect.
Civilization even extends its cruel hand
over the babe in its cradle, and would
afflict the dead if they had any feelings
left.
Science has investigated the absorbent
and radiant powers of different fibers
and different colors, but man, in his
wisdom, disregards this, and prefers
the worst instead of the best. Woman
may expose her brain to the direct rays
of the sun by wearing a small, useless
bonnet, but tashion compels her to carry
a parasol to compensate for it. On the
other hand, fashion, not so cruel as she
is painted, is equally in favor of large
hats with useful brims. Not so with
man. Broad brims are tabooed, and
parasols are not permissible. With re
gard to the neck, man has no choice; a
collar he must wear, and one fitting
close to the neck and reinforced by a
cravat or tie. To woman alone is
granted the comfort of low-necked,
nalf-low, heart-shaped or loose-fitting
collars. The body, or trunk,is no better
off. Man must wear a stiff white shirt,
a vest, and a lined and padded coat.
Woman needs wear but one (visible)
garment, which may be made as light
and thin as possible without being trans
parent. It is even doubtful whether the
tightly drawn corset, that object of uni
versal use which is so violently de
nounced by the opposite sex, causes
more discomfort than the numerous
articles with which man surrounds him
self; for physiologists have learned that
woman can breathe with the upper part
of the lungs (thoracic breathing), and
therefore suffers less from tight-lacin<r
than man. As regards the arm, matters
are pretty evenly balanced, with the
odds in favor of woman, who may
shorten her sleeves as much as she
pleases, and in no case wears more than
one long-sleeved garment, where a man
wears three. Cuffs she may dispense
with, but ho can not. Her sleeves need
not be lined'; tiis must, unless of very
thick material —Boston Journal of
Chemistry.
A Change of Base.
It was at a social gathering at Colonel
Percy Verger’s mansion on Austin ave
nue. There was a newly-arrived young
lady present, who was in Austin on a
visit. She was talking to an Austin
young gentleman, when, pointing to an
other young lady, she asked:
“ ho is that horrid fright with red
ha>r and turn-up nose near t he window?”
“ Do you refer to the young lady with
the bine dress?” he asked.
‘■\es, that gawky-lo >king creature
with the blue dress and a cheap pink
sash, and a stuck-up air about her.”
"I’hat is mi sister,” remarked the
young man, gravely.
■’Good gracious! You don't tell me
so? I don’t know when I have seen
such a dear, charming creature lam
just dying to be introduced to her. lean
tell by her looks we shall like each oth
er.”— Texas Sitlini/s.
Ihe Indiana Bureau of Statistics,
estimating the benefits to be derived
from tile drainage, show that land which
yielded an average of nine and a half
' 'ii'hels of wheat per acre for five vears
before drainage, yielded nineteen and
one-half bushels for five vears after I e
ing drained. With coni the increase
was from thirty-one to seventy four
nushels per acre. During the same
period the num! er of eases of malarial
-I kuess was diminish,.J from 1.840
cases to 40U cases after drainage. I
Indiana State Sentinel.
Individuality.
In asserting your own individuality,
do it with becoming modesty. How?
Oh no Telemochtis, “cheek” is not
“ better than wisdotn.” It is not better
than anything. It is too brassy to be
mistaken for anything else. All the
triumphs of cheek are only apparent.
The world knows the Cheery man, and
assigns him to his proper level. It is
true, that sometimes the man of cheek
bores his way along through the crowd
to seats and places intended for better
people, and for the time we give way to
him. But so we give way, my boy, to a
man carrying a pot of paint in each
hand. Not because we respect the man,
but localise we want to take care of our
clothes. AVojd cheek, because you can
Fell gnods Withbut it, ahd Vour custom
ers won’t run away and hide in the cel
lar when they see you coming. Re
member, my boy. the world it> older
than ybutsfelf by setehal tfiousahtl year*;
that for centuries past it has been so
full of better and smarter young men
than yourself that their feet stick out of
tho dormer windows, and when these
yolihg mfeh died, th** old globe went
whirling right along, and not one man
in ten million went to the funeral, or
even heard of the death.
Be as smart as you can, of course.
Know as mubh aM you cah, without blow
ing the packing but of your cylinder
heads. Shed the light of your wisdom
kbrbftd in the world, buj- try not to daz
zle people with it, and don’t always ex
pect people to believe that a thing is so
s mply because you say it is. Don’t be
100 sbfry for ybur old father because he
knows so much less than you do. Re
member, my boy, he hasn t had your
advantages. The world has great need
of ybung men* but no greater need than
the young theh havC of It; Young nu n
are useful, and they are ornamental;
we all love them and we couldn’t engi
neer a picnic successfully without them.
But they are no novelties, my son. Oh
no; nothing of the kind. They have
been here before. Now, mind; I don’t
want you to be sb modest that you will
shut yburstdf e'.Uar oil*; but dbh’t be sb
fresh you will have to be put oh ice to
keep from spoiling. Don’t be afraid
that yolir merit* will not be discovered.
I’eOple tdl OVet Ibe State atte huntiiig
fol* yoti, ahd if you are woith finding,
they will iihd you. A diamond is not
so easily found as a flint pebble, but
people search for it more earnestly, and
shout and show it to the world when
they find it. If you are a pebble, mv
boy, you'll help macadamize the road,
and if you are a diamond, you’ll go into
the crown jewels or travel with a min
strel troupe, the Fates only know which.
/ urliiai on llamki w
tire on Cattle*
The suggestion was recently made in
this paper that our National and State
entomologists could not do a better
thing than to investigate the subject of
the external parasites of cattle and (0
deVise means that will itlsure their de
struction. Every person is presumed to
know a louse when he sees it, but very
few can identify the different varieties
of this numerous family of insects, or
Can tell whether the kind that is found
oh one class of Animals or fowls Will live
And thrive on another. Comuarativelv
few know how to destroy them without
injuring the creature they molest. Au
lowa farmer thinks that lie has found a
remedy that is at once harmless to the
animal and harmfid to the parasites. In
a communication to The Homestead he
gives it:
‘‘lake common larkspur seed and
steep it,and wash thoroughly every part
of the body. I have known one appli
cation to destroy every in-eet and egg.
Two will suffice if done thoroughly. I
give in addition two remedies that 1 con
sider more efficacious than the other:
mercurial ointment, kerosene and lard,
tobacco smoke, a wash of tobacco, or sul
phur in salt. These all will sometimes
injure the stock. A good remedy is dry
dust gathered from the road, and sifted
and put in a box for winter, (nature’s
remedy); rub it well in, and as they
hatch repeat. Also pulverized charcoal
mixed with dust is still better. 1 have
heard that fine Indian meal or shorts
were good, used in the same wav. 1
know they are good to apply inside.
When an animal is affected it should be
immediately removed from the other
stock and thoroughly treated, and not
allowed to run until the whole herd is
covered. The old-fashioned larkspur is
the best, as it bears the most seed and is
perennial. A small patch will supply
all the seed you will or ought to need
Chieaao I'inies.
The Effect of Stock Fluctuations.
“ Guess 1 won’t take in the school to
day,” said a Carson urchin with an
Appeal in his hand. “Why not?”
"Concordia has fallen oft ten cents,
and I don't dare show up until it picks
up again.’ "What have the fluctua
tions of Concordia got to d > with y.uir
studies.” “A good de d,” ansiveicd
tlie boy "My teacher has a hundred
shares of the stoeß, and when it falls of!
a few cents we all catch it heavy. I
keep my eye on the list, and when
there’s a break you bet I don’t go t,>
school. 1 play sick. Golly! how she
basted me the time Mount Diablo bust
ed down to two dollars. When it was
cellin’ at twenty she was as nice as pie.
1 was the first feller that got on to the
break, and told the boys of my class
that if she didn’t sell there’d be the
dickens to pay. 1 heard Uncle Fraser
say it was a good short, and I never
s ept a wink for a week. I grabbed the
appeal the first thing every morning;
when I saw her keel down to sixteen I
skipped to the hills. Oh my! How she
did bang Johnny Dobson round that
morning. 1 was in hopes that the
I lasted mine would pick up. but the wa
ter got in the lower levels: and 1 knew
we were in for it. She licked some-
I ody for every dollar it dropped. After
it struck eight it picked up a little, and
we hid time to get. My mother’s been
•atchin’ my pants now ever since the
big break in Sierra Nevada, and if th •
market don’t take a turn pretty soon
l.’m goin’ to quit the public school and
•ro to work on a ranch.”— Carson Citi,
—ln Arizona, wnen a few bands of
In liaus leave their reservations and kill
tiv citizens, the Governor reports that
a “feeling of insecurity exists.” This
tat ■nient at ba.-.t seems plausible.—
( 7</> yo Herald
L D. E. Southworth is re
sponsible for sixty-four novels
He Saw a Sea-Serpent.
“Say” ejaculated a man as he rushed
up and grabbed a Herald reporter by
the arm, “have you interviewed the
man that saw the sea-serpent?”
The reporter replied that he had not,
and asked to be immediately taken to
the fortunate individual. .
Now, if there is anything which Chi
cago has been backward in it is the
production of sea-serpents, and while
such towns as Boston and New Bedford
and Cincinnati and St. Louis have been
giving out tales of monsters of the deep,
Chicago, with ample lake facilities and
an ” quantity of the breed, has been
strangely sliefit. The reporter conse
quently made haste xb interview the
gentleman who* it being a sea-soryv
stdfyi will be hereafter referred to a?
“a gentleman of Undoubted, veracity.'
The man who had seen thd tfiOnstei'
was interviewed by the reporter in tnß
hot over Commodious quarters which he
occupied. He had a Wild, startled looky
from which the reporter surmised that
he had not recovered from the terrible
sight. His name was James Smithing
ton, and on being requested to detail
his experieflfies,' he pt once proceeded to
business, first casting a ftittivtl glance
around to make sure that the aninlAl
was not in the apartment with him.
“i left the lake front about 7 o’clock
last evening, in cortqiafly with a friend.
When about two miles off the north end
of the Government pier at the enti’dnco
to the Chicago River, my attention was
called to a singular looking object
which was advancing upon me at a
i terrible rate of speed. When within a
i.few thousand feet of us it seemed to
I raise its immense body, or neck, some
ten feet out of the water, and at th?
I same time twenty feet in the rear, its
fail was seen to rise up, and at times
lash the water. All at once the fish or
serpent vanished from sight.
At this point in the narrative the gen
tleman of undoubted veracity suddenly
stopped, and, pullingoff his boot, shook
it, and then grasping it by the straps he
suddenly sprang forward and crushed
Un inofferisivO tobacoo quid which lay
upon the floor.
“It had become quite dark by this
time,” he resumed, “and when I re
turned I agitin saw the terrible thing
advancing upon me at a great rate of
speed. When about twenty-five yards
from me it stopped, but in an instant
it shot ahead with a ringing and rum
bling noise. Its single eye, of a blood
red color, was directed upon tile, and I
was powerless to move from beneath its
baleful glare.”
The reporter shuddered a first-class
shudder.
“ The rumbling noise increased, the
glare of its single eye became fiercer,
and 1 seemed paralyzed. Its body was
about ten feet high and equally wide,
and it was nearly fifty feet long. It was
a bright yellow, and the head resembled
that of a bull-dog. A large flat prong
extended out from either sideof its jaws,
and—it was terrible! terrible!”
At this point in the narrative, which
corresponded exactly with that of the
New Bedford sea-serpent, a man tapped
the reporter on the shoulder and drew
him aside. He wore a star upon his left
breast.
“ Well, young feller, I guess I’ll have
ter take him along. He’s got ’em pretty
bad, hain’t he?” remarked the facetious
personage with the twinkle on hrs coat.
“I found him a-wrestling wid the red
light on the grip-car last night. Gio
Wallace gave him sixty days at the
House.”
The reportei silently folded up his
notes and stole away, and the last thing
that he saw when he looked back was
the “gentleman of undoubted veracity”
extracting an imaginary sea-serpent
from the back of his neck. The reporter
wonders if the men who saw the New
Bedford serpent are getting better.-
Chieaao Herald.
Attempts upon tjucen Victoria’s Life.
The most blameless sovereign Europe
has ever had—Queen Victoria—has not
been free from the danger of assassina
tion by lunatics. Her death could pro
duce no change in the established order
of the Government. She has barely the
shadow of political power. If royalty
were abolished, Great Britain could not
be a freer country than it is. Yet the
Queen has been three times shot at.
ouce struck in the face, once threatened
with a loaded and with an unloaded
pistol. The first attempt upon the
Queen’s life xvas made June 10,
1840, by Edward Oxford, a lad of
17. He fired two shots deliberately,
but missed. His xvas much the same
kind of a character as Guiteau’s. He
was half-crazy with a longing for no
toriety. He was pronounced insane by
a jury, and sentenced to be confined in
a lunatic asylum during her Majesty’s
pleasure. John Francis, son of a ma
chinist in Drury Lane, fired at the
Queen May 30, 1842, from the very spot
where Oxford had stood. He was but a
few feet from the carriage, which fort
unately was driving at a rapid pace,
and missed his aim. He was condemned
to death, but his sentence was com
muted to imprisonment for life. The
very day after this mitigation of punish
ment became known, a hunchbacked
boy named Bean made another attempt
on the Queen’s life. He presented a
pistol at her carriage, but was uot per
mitted to fire it. The pistol was loaded
with powder, paper tightly rammed
down, and some scraps of clay pipe.
Bean was imprisoned eighteen months.
An Irish bricklayer named Hamilton
fired a pistol loaded oulv with powder
at her Majesty May 19, 1849, on Con
stitution Hill, where two previous at
tempts had been made. His sentence
was seven years’ transportation. Robert
Pate, a cashiered Lieutenant of hussars,
struck her Majesty in the face with a
stick May 27, 1850. His sentence also
was seven years’ transportation. Arthur
O Connor, a boy of 17, presented an
unjoiuled pistol at the Queen, Feb. 29,
1872. He was whipped and imprisoned
for a year. The mixlitied law, which
authorizes whipping to lie prescribed in
the discretion of the Judge, is thonght
to have had the effect of discouraging
attempts upon the Queen’s life.
——lt is said that some Boston women
got lost up in the Catskills the oth-r
day, and this is the way they called for
help : “ Will some refined and educate i
jwrsou of the male sex kindly dirt ct us
t > the road communicating to the Grand
Hotel ? ’ —„V. K Graphic.
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X>x*. K- F. WRIGHT,I
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
Dealer in I
IDIRTTGrS, nVEELT)TOIUTE2S, CHEMICALS,I
Perfumery, Soaps. Hair Dyes, and Toilet Articles generally; White Lean, Mixed Paints, readt I
for use. Colors in Oil: Dry. Linseed. Tanners’. Machine and Kerosene Oils; Varnishes, I
Putty, Window Glass, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures: Surgical Apparatus, such
as Abdominal Supporters. Trusses, Lancets. Pocket Cases, etc., etc. ■
1 Ins firm also deals in Smoking and ( hewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, and have the ■
elusive Drug trade in fine Wines, Whiskies and Brandies in Dalton. I
( all and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga. Prices guarantcrl I
compare with Atlanta. iclff W ■
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A Remarkable ( uriosity,
A recent steamer from the Orient
brought to San Francisco a remarkable
curiosity, in the shape of a live sala
mander, which is confined in a large
wooden trough, and daily supplied with
fresh water and live fish at the Palace
Hotel. The salamander comes from
Japan, and was captured in a fresh
water lake in the mountains. The
specimen is thiee and a half feet in
length, has four feet and an extensive
tad, the head be ng I road and fiat, and
shaped like a heart, and the eve’s so
small as to be hardly discernible/ The
mouth is not unlike that of the croco
dile, and the novel guest at the hotel is
known to b *at least seven years old. It
is dark brown in color, the epidermis
tie: ng covered with excrescences, which
arc watery glands, secreting an acrid
viscid l.uiii.
—The Hom, Farm, of Augusta, Me
gives an account of an experiment in
fig-growing m that State, which it ap
pears has proved a success. The fiO-s
were grown by Mr. F. (). Frost, of Mon-
< alls them brown Turkey
. 1 Wy g'’“Wn on trees set in
i< garden, whu h were given the same
rare as one would bestow on an apple o?
pear tree. They yield two crops in the
x< ar, and Mr. Frost showed at an exhi
bition of the State Pomologieal Society
specimens of both erops-one fully ripe
and one about a quarter grown The
it diaken oil. when they are placed in
the < ellar amt receive no care till again
set out in the spring.
Evaporating Fruit With Profit.
Fruit growers who contemplate P'I*' 1 *'
ting up expensive evaporators and car
eying on the evaporation of fruit on ■ 1
large scale are advised by one who has
had an extended experience in the bust'
Dess. He says that in order to insure
profitab e results one should not only
have a large orchard of his own, saj
one thousand trees or more, but ough l
to be in a neighborhood where there
are many large orchards and fruit to he
had at low rates. This experineed cor
respondent estimates that one bushel of
apples makes about five or six pounds
of dried fruit. He allows eight or te“
persons to run one evaporator, and,
to the profits, adds ten cents per bush'
for preparing and drying the appl® B . 11 ’
tiie cost of the fruit, - ' and he has th ®
profits, as, for instant e: Say the api’‘ e ’
are fifteen cents per bushel and the cos
of preparing and drying ten cent*
making twenty-five cents. 'l'hi-nino" 1 ’ ,
of evaporated fruit from one Ini'lid <’
apples is, ay five and one-half po |lD ' ’
al. ] erhaps, eight cents per pound. 2 1
ing a profit of twelve and a half cent’
per bushel. Os course if the skins a’ ll
cores are converted into jelly or vUll '£\
it would add three cents per bushel 1° 11
nrolits. -A’. FKor/d.
—One Vermont town of less th l
1,500 inhabitants is represented ’-D (
fornia by nearly fifty of her young n* , ' c
The farms on which some of the
worked in boyhood have become m'*”
pasture land, and the old homes are »•
serted.