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THE HUETIER OF « Aecona-class Mai) Matter. PHILG.BYRD, j E t„Tg« d ■JMBtBKECE,* E ,X OAILY AM) SUNDAY. *34 gents a week or $5.00 per annum I ■ CSLY OFFICIAL ORGAN’ t tee city of Rome, and Floyd, the “Banner county" of Georgia. FOR CONGRERS JON W. MADDOX, • Some bright boy Or girJ. Through a little effort, Is going to Become the Possessor of The greatest Reference {Library !Ever compiled Or Published It may be Your child Will be the Successful one; At any rate You oughtto Give him an Opportunity To try. See th at he Is provided With a copy of The Hustler Every Evening This we°k. He will take Greater pride in, And make Better use of The books If he has had Something To do with Procuring Them, Than if you Purchased The set And gave it To him. .And the Proper use of This great work Will make Os him an Educated man- Trolleys go in 500 Ameriean *4, owns. t .. . Tea is cut every forty day a the year wound in Japan. - . —ar J-i The Peoria Indians furnished a ■xiame to the Illinois city. Fort Wayne, Ind., was named after Ctenera lAn th< >ny Wayne. There is one milch cow in this country to every four inhabitants. Shakespeare's original edition of 1'323 ie held by Quaritch at $6,000. Corbett has added a new Bob to ‘the tail of his advertising kite. China seems to have a bad case •as “business uncertainty” also. Senator Wait is the leading vox populist of this country. Phoebe Cousins has joined the }K)pulists but they are not to blame To. Washington Post complains. tLatdu.tchtg men are scare* at the . tjital. Where is Senator Peffer, whirling derv his from Kans s W hU _ - A \ _ - Jp v *•** *• p “ i. ** THE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY OCTOBER, 28 1894. ! A house that was built at Can -1 ton, Conn., in 1760 is still occu pied as a dwelling. Over 8,000,000 cases of influenza occured in Europe during the epi demic of 1889. It is estimated that two-fifths of the total area of New Caledonia contains nickel. InG.rman orphan and found ling asylums 50 percent of the children die of scrofula. During the last Turco-Russian war the Russian army lost 40,(K0 men by measles. Scrofula i» most destructive in Petersburg, and least to be feared in Turin, Italy. In the United States in every 10,000 deaths, there are 300 annu ally from typhoid fever. In the cities of Germany there are 9,Bso,(XX)population, of whom 257,OCX)die every year, InAnost countries diptheria has nearly doubled the number of vc tnns in twenty years. It is estimated that 20,000 tons of candy are consumed annually in the United States. In Java as a part of the mar riage ceremony the bride washes the feet of the groom. After being abolished for twenty five yt-ars, the death penalty has been resumed in Switzerland. Diamonds so small that 1,500 go to the karat have been cut in Hol land. St. Alban’s book, 1486, owned byQuaritch, London, is valued at $3,700. Orlando Furioso, first edition, Ferrara, 1516, was purchased by Quaritch for $2,500. Monstrellet, edition of 1500, on vellum paper, brought $6,500 at the Techner auction in 1887. Qeen Lil may not be insane, but she has been very mad for the last year or two. A cablegram from Shanghai says that “The Chinese government has just taken steps.” I ■■ 111 ■ The gentleman who would refuse to ride on a Pullman pass will please stand up and be counted. It is claimed that Boss Croker forced Bourke Cockran to with draw from politics this year. Mr. Croker never forgets his friends. Pittsburg boasts of a reporter who is 80 years old. He is hale and hearty and his worst dissipation is limited to cigarettes and whiskey. The wife of Qhief Justice Fuller has been robbed of $1,200 worth of diamonds. What a theatrical ad vertisement goes to waste there. A Buffalo man aged 76 years has just married a girl of 17. Eligible men must bejsctrce in Buffalo. But hurrah for the spirit of ’76! In this hour of train robbers in the West and East and South, it is a great comfort to know that Bill Dalton is still dead. A dispatch from Topeka conven tion says that “Mrs. Lease next made a few brief remarks.” We don’t believe it. The miners of Chairman Wil son’s district hold the balance of. power. Thus far their support of! his candidacy has been quite coal ed. | Young Husband (in a low tone! to his wife, who meets him at the railroad depot with her mother) — Didn’t I telegraph you not to bring | your mot her to the station? Young Wife—That’s just why mamma has come along. She wishes to speak to you about it. She opened the telegram. Speaking of the registration books, is your name written there? Probably the oldest bicycle ri der in New York state is Mrs. Mar garet Ploster, of Schenectady, who is said to be ninety-three years of age. The reign of the “bike” is in deed over all the land, when wo men nearing the century mark take to the wheel. African whalebone is now being made from leather, which is soak ed for two or three days in sul phate of potassium, then stretch ed, slowly dried, subjected to a high temperament and then to a heavy pressure, which makes it hard and elastic. UREAT THINGS OF THE WORLD The largest nugget of gold ®vej found was taken out of the Byers & Haltmann mine at Hill End New South Wales, ou May 10, 1872 It weighed an ounce or two over 640 pounds. It was elab-shaj ed, 4 feet 9 inches long and about 3 feet 2 inches wide and of an av erage of 4 inches in thickness .Tbs finder sold it for $l4B 000. The largest advertisement in the world is in the shape of immense flower bads ou the side of a hi 1 near Ardenlee, Scotland. The bed are each gigau tic letters. 40 feet in length, the whole forming th<- words “Glasgow News. ” The total length ot. the line is 123 feet; area c jvered by the letters 14,845 feet The letters, can be distinctly seen from a distance of four and ont half miles. The organ in the old Morman Temple at Salt Lake City is one of the largest, if not the very largest ever constructed in this country It has 2,704 pipes, each 32 feet long and large enough to admit the body of a man of ordinary size. It also has two towers at »i her side which rises to a height of 42 feet. The largest painting ever pro d ced, (not including panor mic: views) is now iu the Grand SuTuii oi the Doges at Venice. It is by the renowned Jacapo Robust), and is 84 feet long and 34 feet wide. A p noramic view called the “Frost King,” dow in Westminster, Len do i, covers 20,000 square feet of canvas. The largest hammer and anvil in the world are iu use at the Krupp Gun Works, Essen, Germany. The hammer, which was made in 1886, weighs 150 tons, and the anvil and block 191| tons, Iu 1889, before being reduced to its present proportions, Custer County, Montana was the largest county in the United States. Its area at that time was 46,000 square miles, being greater than the com bined areas ,of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Dela ware and Rhode Island. The largest book ever made at he Govoinmant Printing Office at Washington weighed 140 pound ß was 16 inches thick and contaiued 10,003 pages. The three tallest trees in the world are believed to be a sequoia near Stockton, Cal. (325) feet and two eucalypti in Australia, estima ted at 435 and 450 feet respective ly. LUCK IN NUMBERS. To see uiue magpies is extreme ly unlucky. Iu France a seventh sou in di rect succession is called a inarcou Virgil tells us iu the eighth ec logue that the gods esteemed odd □umbers. The seven days of creation led to a septenary division of time to all ages. There were seven wise men in antiquity and seven wonders of the world. Nine grains of wheat laid on a four-leaved clover enables one to see the fairies. It is an ancient belief that a change in the body of a man oc curs every seventh year. Falstaff says: “They say there isdivinity in odd numbers, either by nativity, chance or death. The number 3 was the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, who -aid it represented the beginning, in idd If and end. Iu the Faroe Islands there is a uperstitiou ibai seals cast off heir skins every ninth month and .ssunie the human shape . Miraculous powers are supnoted to jl e possessed by the s viu'h laughters,bui, as usual in tliocnbu 4 woman, it has an occult power. When a servant maid finds nine pease in one pod she lays it Ju the window sill, and the first iimii ' h -u'ers will be her“beau,” Amoi.g the Chinese heaven is odd,earth is even and the numbers 1,3, 5,7, 9 belong to heaven while the signs ot the earth earthy. There is a well-known supersti tion,current siL.ce ibedays of Ovid ihat particular virtue, strength or danger lies iu the ninth wave of a ■leries. The ancients not only noted the importance of seven as an astron omical period,but also connected with the seven planets the seven metals then known. The second digit acquires au es pecially evil reputation among the he early Christians, because the second day hell was created along with heaven and earth. The number 9, besides being re garded as « lucky one is possessed ■>f mysterious properties, intenisfi ed from its being the pioduct of three times three. The Siamese hs'" a “regard for odd num e of d or . vii.d wa ind rooms in lueir houmS, and mat all •naiicases must have an odd num ber of steps. —N. Y. Mail and Ex press. Country Produce A Specialty. Fresh Butter on hand all the time. New goods arriving daily, We Keep the best the market affords. COME AND SEE US, L. A. Dempsey, 409 Broad Stree W. L. Douglas <4*! is THE BEST. NO SQUEAKINCk CORDOVAN, ENCH& ENAMELLED CALE . t 3. 5 - o FINECALf&KANGAROII 3.5 P POLICE. 3 SOLFS. L’UJBoys’SchoolShoes, -LADIES- SEND FOR CATALOGUE W-L* DOUGLAS, 3ROCKTON. MASS. Yob can aavc money by purchasing W. I Doaglna Shoes, Because, we are the largest manufacturers of advertised shoea in the world, and guarantee the value by stamping the name ana price on he bottom, which protects you against higk ■ : ices aud the middleman's profits. Our shoes ;ual custom work in style, easy fittiug and aring qualities. We have them sold every here at lower prices for the value given than •other make Take no substitute. If you: • n , -an. Sold by Cantrell & Owens, Dr. M. A. THEDFORD'S LIVER MEDICINE. /Tur / £ig>£iiflL 'Tosriv/rficSS dysp£psia\ , W I Sick oft 1/fCJCCSTIUN \NEKVOUS- Bh/OUSH£SS\ I i Jaundice DCUKNESS OSS OF STOMACH Appetite None Genuine Without Ths Likeness ..no Signature orM A.Theoford on FrontOf Each Wrapper. M.A.Thedforo Med.©- ' • R O ME. G A . BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FORCA TAKRH THATCONTAIN MERCERY as mercury will surely destroy th sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when en uring it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, 0., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure ba sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free fWhSold l»y Druggists, price 75c per bottlej i /■:. 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W\utfTp°X« ALL DBUGGTBTS SELL IT. ’ $ cheerfully say it has do«e me more _ -in r- X good than anything I bavo ever taken. L J [•» W® Sk .D 1 can recommend your medicine to all afiWQ, AM avSerers ot the above diseases. PROPRIETORS X MRS. M. M. YEARY, ... Bpringfield, Green Qoknty, Mo. Mppraan’a aUook,S*vMiiaab, Ga t FOR SALE BY D.W. CURRY. Will W sill wiMPffl MANUFACTVRER£|A.NI|DEALERS IN Win anfl Granite, Monuments, CouM, Wire am IMI Im Fbbw, taaVffl, Footed IST’Ordcir What You Want and|Get .Wbat YouJOrder. S. HEMSTBEE' 7 ' Mgr, Chattanooga Tenn. 1116 Market Street. ! A. J. BANKSTON General Agent Ringgold Georgia BLOSSOM Is as safe and harmless as a flax , seed poultice. It acts like a po'd. tice, drawing out fever and pain., and curing al’ diseases peculiui to ladies. “Orange Blosj >n” is a pas tils, easily used at any time; < is applied right to the parts Every lady can treat herseb with it. Mailed to any address upon re ceipt of Sr. Dr. J. A. McGill & Co. 4 Panorama Place* Chicago, Hi. Sold by D, W. Curry Druggist. Western & Atlantic, AND N„ C. & ST. L. RAILWAYS —TO — Chicago .Louisville Cincinnatti St.. Lous Kasas City Memphis —AND— The West Quick time and Vestibuled trains carrying* Pullman Sleeping cars. For any informatior call on or write to J A SMITH General Agent, Rome Ga. . J L EDMONSON Traveling Pass. Agt. Chattanooga Tenn JOS. BROWN. Traffic Manager Atlanta, Ga. C EHARMAN ~ General pass Agt.Atlanta Ga. ■i ' i ~ -* *— $25 FOR MERCANTILE COURSE IN BOOK-KEEPING Including Hooks Cal) at office for particulars J G HA RM ISON rving W. Larimore, physical di rector of Y.M. C A.. Des Moines lowa, says be can conscientiouely recommend Chamberlain’s Pain Balm to athletics, gymnasts, bicyclists, foot ball players and the profession in general for bruises, sprains and di»j locations; also for soreness and etifl ness of the muscles, when applied before the parts become swollen it will effect a cure in onehalf the tuns usually required. For sale by Lowry t*"* s Druggis ts MAGNETIC NERVINE. ceSlv-nieofOpi® Tobacco and AIC T* hoi! Mentally BEFORE; - AF-TEF - «i°n. he Brain, oauaing Misery, j n either set larrenetw, Inipokency, Ll’t row ' •remature OK A«e, In A°rUo?of the Brain an y over-indulgence, o , v *'j ßX ,“ weak (>«■•»» tlier errors of Youth. It#™’* Vatural Vigor and doulrtoa thejoy month’" «>“*; i.uoorrbren and Fem* « Weakna-*. addre"".* 1 ikbs »»» Good Advice. tfl We advise every reader of this P»P write to the Gazette Co Clneinnau. a free sample copy of that g. fished The Cincinnati Gazette. It is no w p for twice a week—every Tuesday, and Irm only one dollar a year, and it seen better with each K« quite a feature, being edlU'd ®" stun ies. It describes the very borne dress, as well as the plainer, every-• Y „ es , s tory Its news pages, home and . P an dconr* pages, market pages, ® tc ‘* Ipnie visitor to plete. It will always be a wtlro wantfid every intelligent family. Ag ( ] o ]iara y eiir ' in every neighborhood- On y l 0 o f agi* a ‘ twice a week. It takes th I on e-tentb metropolitan daily n‘’ WsiJ 'important tele the cost. It has tldng fort ll0 * graph news, and is J" st , ffO r n g on in a " who want to know what I g aj f or d to parts of the world, and can ' fw)d3t * pay sl4 a year for the paper . .. V eA ft»r *• - V ■ ,:.b. n u .MU 1 '-'.I ' "CL? ’ "** ■ ‘: "'.' "miV“l ■ ■. ... - i.-* : • r‘-t ." I • ’ i. 4- ■ W ’ ‘