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THE IJjaniicr-'l^tssrngcr. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY / -BY- A. Tnr>C 3 -AIl nix;. Some statistician has estimated that 426 , 088,080 railroad ties now rest un¬ der the 161,397 miles of track laid in the United-States at the present time. No road uses less than 2640 tiesamile, and some lines over whichtho traffic i heavy lay 3816 or more. The average life of the tie is about live years, so that the yearly consumption of tics is about 85,217,616. Saye the San Francisco Chronicle: ‘The free zone is a standing nuisance which will perhaps remain unabated until Mexico becomes part of the United Stales. The latter event may not happen soon, but the manifest destinarians are all firm believers that the people of North America will one day find it to their interest to live under one flag, and something is bound to come from the belief.” The Bell telephone patent monopoly in England has expired, announces the Scientific American. The patent there was granted for fourteen years. Cheap telephones will now prevail in England the same as in Germany, where Bell failed to obtain a patent. In this country the Bell patent will ex¬ pire March 7, 1893, having been origi¬ nally granted March 7, 1876, for a term of seventeen years. r A pathetic interest attaches to th« discovery of the new work by Aristotle at the British Museum in London, England. A month ago Moiisieui Jules BarthelmySt. -Hilaire completed, as he thought, the translation of Aris¬ totle, which has occupied him for the last fifty-nine years. If the discovery is authentic, and of that there seems to be no doubt, then there lies before the great French scholar a task which would be truly herculean for a man of eighty-five to attempt. His transla jjxv-fewer, tion, as it stands now, is vdfPF.es. published in than thirty^fiye 4 The opium traffic is troubling the people of California. Within eleven years $8,000,000 worth of the drug have been imported and seven-eighths of that was prepared. The legislature will adopt a resolution calling on Con¬ gress to prohibit ’to importation of prepared opium and limit the importa tion of the crude article. The smok¬ ers use the prepared exclusively. Collector Phelps’ idea is to bar out the drug altogether and then destroy all that is seized. “This- will probably prove a very practical means of bar¬ ring out the Chinese,” observes the Atlanta Constitution. The interesting fact that asplialtum is being made out of crude Ohio pe¬ troleum at the rate of 7600 barrels per day is of great importance to street contractors and others. The refiners of Lima and other grades of petroleum have discovered that although there is but from twenty-eight to thirty-six per cent, of pure white illuminant and ten per cent, of naphtha and benzine in the oil there is sixty per cent, of as phaltum residuum. k Tho Standard Oil Company refine about 8000 barrels of crude petroleum daily and the outside refiners about 4000, making 12,000 ijaily. The output in asplialtum is profitable enough to i;efiiio for that product alone. The dearth of intellectuality among German army officers,- amounting to an almost complete suppression of literary ... aspirations . ,. on ...... their part, . has . . becn made , the subject , . . of , . . acrimonious - discussion. . It T to , , be newspaper seems fact , .„ that German officers a army con tribute , ., . far . ... less to military ... literature . •ihan their English, French and even Russian colleagues. As a reason is given the’ -extreme discipline, which not al6n6 claims nearly all the time of officers for physical exercises, but also subjects all their literary efforts, be fore they can be published, to their superior officer’s approval. There was a time, muses the Chicago News, when the German schoolmaster was looked upon as the best friend of the German army, but since the school¬ masters have become liberals the powers that be may not look as favor¬ ably upon intellectual freedom, and, least of all, in the army. LABOR IN CHILI. Native Laborers are Muscular, Strong and Hardy. Chilian Methods of Working are Primitive, But Practical. From Theodore Childs’ articlo in Harper’s describing a coasting voyage in southern latitudes, we make this interesting extract about tho native workmen of Chili: The next day wo were anchored in the bay of Coronel. The Osiris was surrounded by lightors laden with coal, which was being rapidly shov¬ elled into the bunks by dark-skinned natives. The white mist that hung over us made the water look like dull silver; in the foreground were ships at anchor and small lighters provided with winches and nets for dredging up the bits of coal that fall into the water while the steamers are loading; in the background were the wind¬ ing wheels of tho coal pits; the moles surmounted by trains of coal trucks; the sickly sulphurous smoke streams of the inevitable smelting works; the small town of Coronel clustered along the sandy black beach; and behind, the green hills diapered with mule paths and patches of red or yellow earth. The meals of the coal heavers on the foredeck interested us. Great bowls of beans, lumps of salt beef and fat, piles of biscuit, and gallons of coffe# were served out to them. Each man took what he needed of the solids, chose his corner on the rail, over the hatches, or simply on the bare deck, and ate with no more comfort than a dog. Then each man produced a large violet mussel shell, which he used in lieu of a spoon to scoop up the beans and drink the coffee, Let it be remarked that these coal-heavers earn high wages; as much as five Chilian dollars, or say ten shillings gold, a day, and their food gratis; and yet they remain little better than good-natured brutes, taking no strong drinks while they are at work, but ready for any quan titv of dissipation after sunset, im¬ provident in the extreme, and willing to work, and to work well, only when they have no money left to spend. While watching those strong muscular fellows, I had some conversation with the Russian timber merchant about his experience of men and things in Chili, the subject having been led up to by my remarking tho frequent evi¬ dences of primitiveness in Chilian methods of working. Speaking of the great strength and hardiness of the Chilian native laborer, Herr C. said that this was still more noticeable in tho more southern forest dis¬ tricts. At Puerto Montt, for instance, which is one of the most important timber ports, the work is done entirely by hand. The ti - ees are felled with axes, sawn into planks on the spot by hand, and the planks carried to the port from a dis¬ tance of ten or twelve miles balanced on the shoulder of a man, who goes along under his burden at a run. None but native Chilians could do such work, and, given the absence of roads, and above all the nature of the work¬ men, all attempts to modernize the methods of getting out the timber have failed. Experiments havo been made in introducing North American machinery, but without success. The innovators have invariably lost their money, and the natives, accustomed to do everything with their hands, have in the end wilfully broken the machinery, in order to have done with it. 1 mentioned the fact that the l , Chilian government, as I had been ’ informed, . „ , meditated , the essay of Nor wegian ° . and , Swedish _ ,. , colonists . in these ■ southern forest regions. Herr TT C. „ was Of , . . that this scheme utter opinion was ly improbable, . _ ,, for the simple reason that Scandinavian colonists would re fuse to live like pigs, as the Chilians live. The present primitive methods are tho cheapest and the most practi ca i. Sir David Brewster, an eminent Scotch writer and natural' philospher, invented the philosophical toy called ^' e kaleidoscope, in 1816. The name comes from the Greek and meaus “I see beautiful images.” This optical instrument is not only a pleasing toy, but it is of great use to patt ern de¬ signors and others to whom it supplies an endless variety of figures. The Best Way to Ventilate. Eight persons out of ten will en¬ deavor to rid a room of its noxious gases by making an outlet for the air near the top of the inclosed space. Tho result is that tho room is cooled, but the impurities remain practically where they wore. The reason is this: As tho air of a room is heated it rises, but tlie impure gases, being generally heavier than ordinary air, settlo to the bottom of tho room. A great amount of harm lias been done, in schoolrooms particu¬ larly, by lowering the upper sashes in windows, thus causing cold drafts upon the overheated heads of the pu¬ pils. A room is best ventilated when the heavy and impure air is drawn gradually away from the lower part of the room through an opening into a chimney, the heated walls of which cause an upward current. An open fireplace is thus one of tho best venti¬ lators known. When this is not con¬ venient, an opening covered by a grate should he made in the chimney near the floor. Low rooms frequently become so overheated as to re¬ quire an outlet near the top, but this should be used simply to cool the room, not to ventilate it. In close buildings occupied by animals, venti¬ lation can be secured by a close shaft six or more inches square, according to the size of the room, extending from within about twelve inches of the floor up through the roof of the building. The wind blowing across the top of this will cause an upward current, which will draw off the im¬ pure air. Interesting experiments can be made by testing the effectiveness of various kinds of ventilation. Let the doors of a room be closed to keep out drafts; then with delicate tissue paper cut in long strips and held by one end, or with a lighted candle, note the out¬ ward current of air through an open¬ ing near the floor into a heated chimney, or from the room. into an open fire. Note also the outward cur¬ rent of the upper air when a window is lowered, and at the same time the downward rush of cold air to the floor near the window. If a sleeping room has been closed all night, as too many sleeping rooms areygo out into the pure air for fifteen minutes; then go back into tho closed room, and note the unpleasant change. The first seed of disease are too often sown in mi ventilated bedrooms.— [ American Agriculturist. How Danny Lost a Coat. He walked down to the end of the pier where the stevedores were work¬ ing, and looked sadly at the water. “How deep is it here?” he asked one of the men. “I dunno.” “Do you think it’s deep enough to drown a man ?” “I guess.” “Well, anyplace is good enough for me,” he said, despairingly, as he began to strip off his coat and vest.* “Are yez goin’ ter jump?” asked one of the stevedores. “Yes, I’m tired of life.”’ “Thot coat an’ wescott will fit my Danny.” 1 “It will, hey? Well,' your Danny can have it if some one doesn’t come along and jerk me out of the water.” “Jerk ye out, is it? Shure, an’ there’s no danger of .that. The Iastfel ley that went over there wuz a gnrrul, and she tv.uz bit in two paces with wan bite ov a big shark so quick that she never let a squeak'outhf her.” The young man who wanted to die walked to the edge of the dock and looked earnestly at the water. Then he put on his coat and vest and walked away. “Ef I had kept me mouth sliut I’d had a foine coat an' wescott fur Danny. It’s me mouth that’s always gettin’ me into (hrubble. Giv us ! a hand wid de bale, Moike.”—[New York Sun. A Personal Reflection. “When I look at our honored guest,” exclaimed the orator of the evening, “and remember how lie rose from a humble position to be the pres¬ ident of this vast corporation I realize forcibly the truth of. the saying that thei e is-always room at tho top.” The president of the vast corpora¬ tion, a gentleman with a large bald spot on the top of his head, made a memorandum in a little notebook,and the wages of that young orator have never been raised.—[Chicago Tribune. THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN NERVINE TONIC AND Stomaeh^Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery, ot the Last One Hundred Years. It Is Pleasant to'the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.' It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las onlv recently been introduced Into this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet it* great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬ itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great medicinal powers to cure every form o f disease by which they are overtaken. This new and valuabl a> South American medicine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine ha* completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures all for ms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power* upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy and compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder 6trengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in the treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption for rem¬ edies ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure nervousnes* of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost constantly for the space of two or three years. It will carry them inestimably safely over the danger. This great strengthener and curative is of value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of ma ny of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year. CURES Nervousness and Broken Constitution, Nervous Prostration, Debility of Old Dyspepsia, Age, ^ Nervous Headache and Indigestion and Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Female Weakness, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach, All Diseases of Women, Loss of Appetite, Nervous Chills, Dizziness Frightful and Dreams, Ringing _ in the Ear*, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Weakness of Extremities and Nervous Choking Fainting, Impure and Impoverish d Bloea. Hot Flashes, Boils and Carbuncles, o - Palpitation of the Heart, Scrofula, Mental Sleeplessness, Despondency, Scrofulous Swelling and Ulcers, St. Vitus’s Dance, Consumption of the Lungs, Nervousness of Females, Catarrh of the Lungs, Chronic Cough, of Old Age, Bronchitis and ‘ Nervousness Liver Complaint, Neuralgia, Heart, Chronic Diarrhoea, Pains in the Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Pains in the Back, . Summer Complaint of Infants. Failing Health. this wonderful Nervine .ionic. All these and many other complaints cured by NERVOUS DISEASES. As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless m all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬ ual. Nine-tenths ©f all the ailments to which the human family is heir, are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an, insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, lika starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, As and the a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. nervous system must supply the all first tho power suffer by for which want the of vital perfect forces nutrition. of .the body are Carried on, it is to Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment n pessary to repair the wear our present mode ot living and labor impose* upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food he supplied. This recent production of the South A merican Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous Crawfordsyille, Ind., Aug. 20,’St' To the Great South American Medicine Co.: De. r Gents I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years, with a ven-seri¬ ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine I could hear of until but I nothing ad done me any appreciable South good American Nervine waB vised to try vour Great and Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, since using several bottles of It I must say that I am surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the stomach and general nervous system. If every¬ one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you would not be able to supply the demand. J. A. Hardee, Montgomery Co. SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA. Crawfordsville, Ind., May had 19, 1886. af¬ My daughter, twelve months years with old, Chorea been St. flicted for several or Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton, could not walk, could not talk, had could handle not swal¬ her low anything but milk. I to like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave her up. I commenced giving her the South Ameri¬ can Nervine Tonic; the effects were very sur¬ prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬ vousness. and completely. rapidly improved. I think Four the bottles South cured her grandest remedy American Nervine the recommend ever discovered, and would it to every¬ one. Mrs. W. a L'nsjungkb. fit u Montgomery te of Indiana, County, \... f ’ , Subscribed and to before me ..... this May sworn Fublio. 19 Chas. M. Travis, INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. The Great South American Nervine Tonic Which wo now offer you, Indigestion, is the only Dyspepsia, absolutely and unfailing the remedy ever discov¬ ered for the cure of vast train of symptom* and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of the human stom¬ ach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who » affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands go to prove that this is tho One and only one great cure in th* world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of unmalignant diseas# of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South American Nervine Tonic. Every Bottle Warranted. Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $!.25.Trial Site, 15 cents. 1STEILL Sc ALMOND, Sole Wholesale and Retail Agents FOR HARALSON COUNTY. CA. Mr. Solomon Bond, a member of the Society of Friends, of Darlington, Ind., says: “I havo used twelve bottle* of The Great South Ameri¬ can Nervine Tonic and Stomach bottle and did Liver for Cure, and I consider dollars that every me I hava one hundred worth of good, for because not had a good irritation, night’s sleep pain, horrible twenty dreams, year* on account of which and general nervous prostration, and dys¬ ha£ been pepsia caused the by stomach chronic and indigestion by broken down of a condition of my nervous system. But now lean lie down I feel and like sleep all night as sweetly 1 as a baby, think and a sound man. do not there has ever been a medicine introduced into this country which will at all compare with this Tonic a* a cure for the Crawfordsville, Ind., June 22,1887. My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. We gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Nervine and she is completely re¬ stored. I believe It will cure every case of Si. Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it’in my family for two years, and am sura it is tho greatest rem¬ edy in the world for Indigestion and Dyspep- Failing sia. all forms of Nervous Disorders and Health from whatever cause. John t. Man. Subscribed and sworn to before me this June 22, 1887. Chas. W. Wright, i