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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
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Leather railway brakes are coming.
Laundry irons are heated by elec¬
tricity.
Cannon projectiles have been photo¬
graphed.
San Francisco has 3000 miles of tele¬
phone wires that are to be replaced by
cables in underground conduits.
A new metallic crosstie has been in¬
vented by a railroad man who was for
mely an employe of the Pennsylvania
road.
One dollar a minute is the charge for
using the new London-Paris telephone
line. This is about double the rate
charged for a similar distance in this
country.
A Limoges (France) firm of porcelain
makers have substituted petroleum for
wood in firing their wares, and not only
find that it produces better results but
cheapens the cost.
The Mexican Government has been ex¬
perimenting witli a machine and process
for degumming and cleaning ramie fibre,
the capacity of the machine being
tons of fibre per day, at a cost of about
4 7-10 cents per pound.
The harbor authorities of Southamp¬
ton, England, the great mail port, have
decided to adopt elastic cranes for the
unloading of vessels, on account of the
greater rapidity with which they will en¬
able work to be performed.
A new appliance weighing only a few
pounds enables cloth dealers and others
to measure fabrics while rolling or block¬
ing them. The cloth passes over and
under a set of four rollers, the last of
which actuates a counter, which tells the
number of yards paid out.
It has been concluded that for any
constant volume the specific heat,
whether at constant volume or at con¬
stant pressure, decreases to a limiting
value with rise of temperature and sub¬
sequently increases, and that the smallei
the volume the more rapid the change of
temperature.
An eight-inch well, which is being
sunk near Wheeling, W. Va., iu a search
for oil or gas, has reached, after several
months of boring, a depth of 4100 feet.
Both oil and gas have been struck
throughout in paying quantities, "veins
of gold and layers of good quartz, iron
and numerous other minerals have been
passed through.
The Lower House of the Prussian
Diet has voted $40,000 for the establish¬
ment of the Koch Institute. Professor
Virchow opposed the grant. He strongly
denounced the treatment of consumptives
with Koch’s lymph. He declared it had
proved a failure. He warned the doctors
that they ran great risk in persisting to
treat patients with Doctor Koch's
lymph.
The consumption of sawdust and
shavings in sawmills effects a great econ¬
omy in fuel. While sawdust is easily
handled, the larger chips from planers
are not so readily disposed of, and are
often so bulky that if manipulated in the
ordinary way much labor is entailed.
An ingenious mode of overcoming this
difficulty has been introduced, consist¬
ing of a system of ventilation and boiler¬
firing that removes all the chips and dust
from the machines, transports them to a
special building and thence carries a
supply to the boilers. The whole sys¬
tem is entirely automatic, and is under
simple and perfect control.
Rain-making.
Charles E. Powers, of Delavan, Wis.,
is working away at the theory of making
rain by firing cannon or otherwise pro¬
ducing explosions. He maintains that
concussions of the air cause rain and de¬
clares that after every great battle during
the last 100 years there have been cop¬
ious rainfalls. Even on the arid plains
of the Rio Grande during the Mexican
war there was no exception to the rule.
Through the efforts of Ex-Senator Far
well, Congress was induced to appropri¬
ate $9000 to be used in making experi¬
ments. These will be tried in Western
Kansas under the direction of Colonel
Dyrenfurth. Balloons will be charged
with an explosive mixture of oxygen
and hydrogen and exploded at consider¬
able elevation by means of a wire and an
electric battery and simultaneous explo¬
sions of charges of dynamite will be made
on the ground. If the plan succeeds, it
will be a great boon to much of the
Northwest; but it seems doubtful
whether any amount of explosion will
succeed in knocking water out of air
that has no water to speak of in it—
which is the real trouble iu most places
subject to drought .—New Orleans
Picayune.
Blue Cranes Nest iu the Willow.
Along the sloughs near Buena Vista
Lake there are, just "at this time, multi¬
tudes of blue cranes sitting on nests of
eggs. The eggs are about equal in size
to those of a turkey, if blueish tint and
spotted. The crane invariably selects a
willow tree, the lower part of which is
under water—and there are abundance
of such at this time of the year—as if its
instinct taught it to guard against preda¬
tory land animals. In the topmost limb
it builds of sticks a loosely woven nest,
about eighteen inches in diameter, and
in that it composes its long legs and
curious body to the patient duty of hatch¬
ing out the twin eggs. Does anyone
know how long it takes for crane chicks
to appear ?—Kern County (Cal.) Enter
prihe.
Motherhood is woman’s throne.
The Resurrection Bone.
It is said in the Imef details of Emma
Abbott’s cremation lites, that the sweet
singer was reduced to two or three
pounds silver of ashes, which were preserved
in a vase.
Now, it is well known that a two, or
even four, hours’ incineration does not
totally consume the bones, and there is
always a mass of these left, which are
thrown away as refuse.
is Among these human bones is one which
believed to be impervious to death or
decay. It is a small bone, part of the
backbone, and is called “Luz.” It is
said thut a learned rabbi demonstrated
to the Emperor Adrian that water would
not steep it, fire would not burn it, a
mill could not grind it, nor could any
hammer break it.
This resurrection bone is supposed by
many to be the nucleus of the immortal
body. Hudibras wrote:
“All th’ other members shall, they say,
Spring out of this as from a seed.”
The question arises, would not it be
more in keeping with the importance of
in mortuary the rights to have the bones buried
cemetery lot, while the ashes find
their repose in the silver urn, and may
be retained in the household? Even a
idea.—[Detroit superstition has weight in favor of an
Free Press.
The Production of Rainfall.
The last agricultural appropriation act
of Congress contained an appropriation
of $7,000 to be used in experiments in the
production of raiufall. The department
at in Washington these is now about to embark
experiments, having prepared to
test practically the theory that heavy ex¬
plosions cause rainfall. A preliminary
trial was made several days ago and a
balloon sent up exploded with great vio¬
lence amid the clouds. Whether the
hours downpour of rain which followed some
after was caused by the explosion
remains to be determined, and the de¬
partment will try the experiment on a
large scale to test the efficacy of this
means of breaking summer droughts.
He Didn’t Wait.
Tramp—“Please, mum, I’m starving.
Won’t you let me have a postage stamp to
lick?”
Experienced Housekeeper — finishing “Why,
certainly. My husbaud is just a
letter to John L. Sullivan, offering to
fight him anywhere, at auy time, for
$10,000 a side, Marquis of Queensbury
rules. Wait until he is through, aDd
perhaps he’ll let you put the stamp on.”
Tramp (hastily departing)—“Thankee
kindly, nnim, but maybe lean git a stamp
at the next house without waiting.”—
i Street & Smith's Good News.
The Great Cramp Reliever.
Kind Lady (in dress-making establish¬
ment)—“Do you not become vc-ry tired
sitting here sewing all day ? I should
think you’d become all cramped up.”
Sewing Girl—“Yes, ma’am, but I get
rested standing iu the elevated cars going
home.”—New York Weekly.
To Dispel Colds,
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system
effectually, yet gently, when costive or bili¬
ous, or when the blood is impure or sluggish,
to permanently cure habitual constipation, to
awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy
activity, without irritating or weakening
them, use Syrup of Figs.
The they trouble is that so few men are as good
as think their neighbors should be.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Debility. Dyspepsia, Gives Ma¬
laria, Biliousness and General
Strength, aids Digestion, The tones the for nerves— Nursing
creates Mothers, appetite. weak best and children. tonic
women
A man’s idea of being good to a woman is to
give her opportunities to be good to him.
How’s This f
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for
any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, the last have known F. him J.
Chene’-for perfectly 15 years, aud believe
honorable in all business transac¬
tions, and financially able to carry out auy ob¬
ligations made by their Vv firm.
West & Tkuax, holesale Druggists, Tole¬
do, O.
Warding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act¬
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by ail druggists.
Van Winkle Gin and Machinery Co., Atlan¬
ta, Ga., manufacture Cotton Gins, Oil Feeders,
Condensers, Presses, Cotton-Seed Mills, Ice
Machinery, shafting. Write Pulleys, for prices Tanks, and Pumps, disc’ts.
Wind-Mills, Etc.
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise Arch and $2 trial
let tie free. Dr. Kline. 931 St.. Phila., Pa.
Weak and Weary
In early summer the warmer weather Is espe¬
cially weakening and enervating, and “that tired
feeling” Is very prevalent. The great benefit which
people at this season derive from Hood’s Sarsapa¬
rilla proves that this medicine “makes the weak
strong.” It does not act like a stimulant, Impart¬
ing fictitious strength, but Hood’s Sarsaparilla
builds up in a perfectly natural way all the weak¬
ened parts, purifies the blood, creates an appetite.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Bold by ail druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
byo. LHOOD & GO., Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
SMITH’S WORM OIL
Fox* "Worms
IS A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold Everywhere. 25 Cents.
■ ■ || I ■ ABOUT East Tennessee's FINE
J1|_I CLIMATE and Grkat Rksocrcss in
Wa.Be KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; 91 dally 1 mo.,
50c.; weekly 1 year, ; samples 5c.
cinv *sftsw’srtarBe
Bed Water in a Tunnel.
When workmen were engaged in the
tunnel of the Daniel Webster mine at
j Virginia City, Nev., at a depth of 800
I feet beneath the surface, they struck a
“flow” of water of very strange character,
l't boiled up through the floor of the
mine, aud in the flickering light made
by the miners lamps presented an almost
blood-red appearance. After flowing for
a few yards down the floor of the tunnel
it was again swallowed up by a crack or
seam; not, however, until it had turned
to a dark blue color and had begun to
smell like creosote. Miners who tasted
it said it was the most disagreeable dose
they had ever taken in their lives. On
the skin it left dark brown stains; sam¬
ples of it taken from the first opening,
bottled and sent to the surface had a rich
burned sienna color. Exposure to light
had the same effect upqn it that air had
—turned it to a dark blue color. —[St.
Louis Republic.
Prison Statistics.
In 1890 there were 27.88 per cent more
convicts than in 1880. This shows that
the number of convicts ha9 increased 2.42
per cent faster in a decade than the pop¬
ulation. Of the 45,233 convicts in peni¬
tentiaries in the United States in 1890 the
whites formed 67.53 per cent and the
colored 32.47 cent. Of the 30,546 white
convicts, the native born represented
75.60 per cent and the foreign born 23.79
per cent, while the place of birth of
69-100ths per cent was unknown. The
men formed 96.1 per cent and the women
3.9 percent, showing 24.64 times as many
male convicts as female.
A Dog that Catches Suckers.
Lost River Gap has a dog that pays for
his keep by catching suckers for his mas
ter, says the San Francisco Call. The
intelligent canine catches the fish in fyis
teeth and it is immediately a gone sucker,
as with a toss of his head he flings it
high and dry. Each sucker yields nearly
a pint of oil, which sells readily at eighty
cents to one dollar a gallon, so a dog that
can catch a thousand or more in a season
is worth owning.
Safety Assured
Mr. Winks (solemnly)—“A noted phy¬
sician says that deadly bacteria lurk in
bank-notes, and many diseases, especially
small-pox, are spread that way.”
Mrs. Winks—“Mercy on us! Give me
all you have, right off. I’ve been vacci¬
nated you know.”—Street & Smith’s
Good News.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
riches system the by blood, Brown’s Jron Bitters, which en¬
tones the nerves, aids diges¬
tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general
ill health, giving new energy and strength.
When a man fights in bis mind, he always
comes out victorious:.
You Ought To Know
Tho continued use of mercury mixtures, poisons the system, brings on mercu
rial rheumatism, and causes the bones to decay. The use of S. o. S.,
forces impurities from the blood, gives a good appetite and digestion,
and builds up the whole human frame.
Cood Advice.
Three years ago I was compelled to throw
; place because of blood poison. Hot
up my did
Springs’ physicians and mercury me no
l good. Through the advice of another I be¬
gan taking S. S. S., and to-day I am well and
at work again. What more can I say for
the medicine, except “go aud do likewise.”
Jasper Nocht, Liberty, Tenn.
BOOK ON BL00O 4 H D 8 KI fl DISEASES f IJ E E .
The Swift Specific Co , Atlanta, Ga.
it, Mild, RED EYE” TOgASSfL
a Sweet CHEW. No HEARTBURN nor
HEADACHE. Send 10 cents in Stamps tora SAM¬
PLE, BROS., if your Manufacturers, dealer does not Winston, KEEP IT. hi. TAYLOR C.
m WASHINGTON, JOSEPH H.HUNTER,
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AUCTION SALE
of LOTS at
HIGH POINT,
CUMBERLAND ISLAND, GA.
Thursday, Friday & Saturday,
JULY 9 th, 10th and llth, 1891.
High Point, the coming “Long Branch” of the South,
surrounded by salt water, Atlantic ocean on the east
Bide of it, has been beautifully laid out with Parks,
wide streets and avenues, and is being made very at¬
tractive by improvements. Never before was Buchan
opportunity offered for investing m L<ts for bummer
and Winter Homes. Low excursion rates on all rad
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Fornlats, circulars and further particulars, address
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Auctioneers.
For Sale!
SECOND-HAND TWO SAFES.
Must be Sold! Cheap for Cash.
Address JOHNSON, PARKER <fc CO.,
013 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, Tenn.
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n wnUll nuiw ■ HaM ng^ cured at home with
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The hand of time
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leave their mark. You needn’t
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your rescue as no other medi¬
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periodical pains, prolapsus and
other displacements, bearing
down sensations, and all “fe¬
male complaints” and weak¬
nesses, it is a positive remedy.
It is a powerful, restorative
tonic and nervine, imparting
strength in to the whole system
general, and to the uterine
organs and appendages in par¬
ticular. It keeps years from
your face and figure—but adds
years to your life. It’s giiar
anteed to give satisfaction in
every case. If it doesn’t,
your money is returned.
$8000 GIVE A/ AWAY
THE CANADIAN AGRICULTURIST'S FOURTH
GREAT HALF-YEARLY
LITERARY COMPETITION!
Closes Oct. 20,1891, when the following magnificent re¬
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“Home Magazine.”
First reward, $1,500 in gold; 2nd, $1,000; 3rd, $500; 4th,
$750 Grand Piano; 5th, $500 Organ; 6th, $300 Team of Pon¬
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Ladies’ Gold Watch; 50 prizes $25 each, China Tea Set,
50 Hunting Case Silver Watches, 100 Boy’s Silver
prizes Watches $2 each, (all fully warranted), 25 prizes $10 each, 100
and 200 at $1 each, making a total of 569
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The words must be constructed only from letters con¬
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or obsolete words not allowed; neither will
singular The and plurals of same word be allowed.
words must be numbered 1, 2, 3, aud so on. to
facilitate the awarding of prizes.
The list containing the largest number of words will
get Each first list prize, the he next second, and so on.
subscription must The Cax accompanied by $1 for six month's
to aw ax Agriculturist, one of
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His
Mr. W. H. Hlnman, of Mount Vernon,
IU., writes as follows; “One bottle of Swift's
Specific (S. S. S.,) cured my son permanently
of a stubborn case of blood poison that de¬
fied the best medical treatment available. I
have recommended S. S. S., to others tor
the blood troubles and diseases of the skin
and have never known it to fail to cure in
any case.”
Is Life Worth Living?
No—Not if Your Bowels are Out of Order.
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WILL FIX YOU ALL RIGHT.
Cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps, Summer Complaint
and all Stomach Troubles of Man, Woman or Child.
Take no substitute. It has no equal. Your druggist or merchant will order it for you.
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Send six cents in stamps for our 100-page Illustrated Catalogue of (
Bicycle Catalogue FREE Guns ’ Rin<s ’ Revolvers, Sporting Goods ot All Kinds, etc.
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Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Phy sicians.
Cures where Children all else take fails. it without Pleasant objection. and agi-eeabl By druggists. e to the
taste.
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Syrup
“ I have been a great
Asthma. sufferer from Asth¬
ma and severe Colds
every Winter, and last Fall my
friends as well as myself thought and
liecause of my feeble condition,
great distress from constant cough¬
ing, and inability to raise any of the
accumulated matter from my lungs,
that my time was close at hand.
When nearly worn out for want of
sleep and rest, a friend recommend¬
ed me to try thy valuable medicine,
Boschee’s German
Gentle, Syrup. I am con¬
Refreshing fident it saved my
life. Almost the first
Sleep. dose gave me great
relief and a gentle re¬
freshing sleep, such as I had not had
for weeks. My cough began immedi¬
ately to loosen and pass away, and
I found myself rapidly gaining pleased in
health and weight. I am I
to inform thee—unsolicited—that
am in excellent health and do cer¬
tainly attribute it to thy Boschee’s
German Syrup. C. B. Stickney,
Picton, Ontario.’ @
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The French Crown Jewels were distrib¬
uted and sold to the public; tboir peculiar
cutting and shape enables one to easily recog¬
nize them. We have some of these jewels in
stock, and will be pleased to exhibit them. In
monds, Rubies, Pearls, by Opals, far the Sapphires largest stock and in Dia¬
we have the
south, and quote the lowest prices for really
J. tine P. stones. Don’t buy before seeing our Whitehall goods.
Stevens & Bro., Jewelers, 47
St., Atlanta, Ga. Send tor catalogue.
EWIS’ 98 % LYE
B Powdered and Perfumed.
H* (PATENTED.) mad®.
Strongest and purest pSrftiiCit'd Lye elan*
Makes the bed
Soap in 20 minutes without boil¬
ing. It is tho best for softening pipes,
water cleansing waste
disinfecting sinks, closets,wash¬
ing bottles, paints, trees, etc.
PENNA. SALT Phila., MFG. Fa. CO.,
'®l Gen. Agents,
IT’S WONDERFUL,
THE “NEW TREATMENT” FOR
CATARRH.
es a Bull Breath in live minutes.
FREAKS UP A COLD IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Cures Chronic Catarrh amt nil Diseases
ot Throat and Nose. YOU EEALLY MUST
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put up In plain packets in i ho form of a
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