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JU'S KING, President T. J. BIMPBOS, Acting cashier
V . P. biMi'SuX, \ ice president
Merchant Mioual Bank
Ct* I. b E GA-
nteresT allowed on time deposits.
All Accommodati i » Consistent* with Safe Banking Ilx
ende 1 our Customers
nBBODSI ■■rezara •
Every one in the city of Rome
knows that the P escription
business is a vt ry delicate one
and
TREVITT&JOHNSON
203 BFOAD STREET,
Are prepared to fill your Prescriptions
r cat efully wi 4 h competent help and
pure drugs.
The; also have a beautiful line
of Pei fumes & Toilet Articles.
TREVITT& JOHNSON
The Leading Prescription Druggists of the’eity
Paul Reese has change of the Prescription
Department. # o 4- 4- 4- 4- & 4- 0 4-
Mrs. J F. Wardlaw,
Nw stock, and a complete lino of all the very
latest Nove tie s. New goods arriving weekly.
No. 208 Broadway, Rome Ga.
OPPOSITE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
73SBBMW J«IIM HUB MIII 111 111« ■i«i r i«rS’.SKS-
LLTLIBER;,
All kinds of Rough
Lumber sawed, to or
der on short Txoti.ee,
Call on or Address,
JOIIA C KOSTER
Foster's Mills Ga.
h. C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN,
MANUFACTURERS OF
t IRCITTjAK, BAND, GANG,
CROSS CUT AM) BARB
&AWS, ETC.
WHOLESALE
hinery, Mill Supplies andaw Repairing a Specialty
A BRAN NEW ENTERPRISE
Any up to date Enterprise should be encour
aged. Great care will be taken to please my
customers.
Call at the Annex Bathing and Tonsorial
Parlors, if you Want to be treated right.
312 Broad Street-
Special attent'on given to Ladies and Children
•HARRY CHAPMAN,
Wh te Barber.
’ ROME BAKERY~
AND
R ESTAURANT.
J. I’. Wilkie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Street.
FRESH BREAD am! CAKES MADE EVERY DAY
estaurant supplied with the best the market affords
"uecial attention to wedding orders and ornamental cakes*
F JSH OYSTERS RECEIVED EVERY DAY.
P »lite waiters, Satisfactio guaranteed, give me a call
Leather and Shoe Findings.
F< r d made Shoes built togorder,
a speciality, at
Temple Store.
THE HUSTLE' OF ROME FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 1894
SNAKES IN CAPTIVITY.
Dow the Reptiles Are Taught, Tamed and
Cared For In Circuit** and Museums.
Nearly all the snakes you see in
museums and circus exhibitions were
I sent to this country from Africa or
South America. The boa constrictor
comes from Africa and some very
large specimens from Brazil. It is
seldom that we can secure an ana
conda.
In both Africa and South America
the snakes are captured by the na
tives, who very often, however, are
afraid of them, and do not under
take to secure them unless they are
accompanied by an American or Eu
ropean who will take the lead in the
expedition.
In Brazil the large snakes are some
times captured with nets, which are
thrown over them. The smaller ones
are caught with a big stick, shaped
at one end like a two pronged pitch
fork. The man approaches the snake
after the animal has partaken of a
good meal and when he feels heavy
and sleepy. The fork is placed over
the snake’s head, and he is thus
pinned to the ground. Then he coils
himself around the stick, and in that
manner is carried away and put in a
strong box, ready to be shipped to
some foreign country. Even large
snakes are often captured in this way.
Boa constrictors are obtained in
the forests near the Amazon and
Platte rivers. They are sometimes
20 feet in length and weigh from 50
to 100 pounds. Tree boas are cap
tured from 12 to 14 feet long, but the
majority of them are 7 or 8 feet long.
The Indians of Brazil capture this
variety of snake while they are en
gaged in their vocation of gathering
rubber. They put the rubber and a
lot of snakes in canoes, take them
about 4,000 miles up the Amazon
river, where they sell them to the
traders, ■who in turn ship them in
steamers which take the raw rubber
to the coast.
Anacondas also come from Brazil.
They are highly prized because they
are so handsomely marked, but the
specimens we are able to get here
are smaller than the boas.
Snakes will not eat dead food. We
feed them on birds, chickens, pigeons
and rabbits and white mice. But
the large snakes will not be content
with a meal of mice. The bait is en
tirely too small for them, and the
little creatures could run around
their cage without being harmed.
Large snakes demand a chicken, a
rabbit or a large rat, and they take
particular delight in killing the food
they are to eat. They do not eat so
much in captivity and consequently
are not so long lived. Some of them
will not live over a year, while a
snake who is a good feeder will live
10 or 12 years.
This question of food would be a
very expensive item in keeping a
snake if it were not for the fact that
he only eats once a month, and some
times not that often. It is rare to
find one that will eat oftener than
once a week. Snakes are very quiet
and docile after they have been fed.
The fat in a snake is in layers, and is
found in greater quantities than in
any other animal I know of. One
reason, I suppose, why they can go
without eating for such long periods
is because they can live off their own
fat. Some say that snake oil or fat
is a cure for rheumatism. I know
many people who have faith iu this
remedy, but I do not believe iu its
efficacy myself, and I cannot say
that I have ever heard of a cure by
its use.—Washington News.
After the Wedding Wan Over.
I could nut help overhearing them,
because I was walking behind the in
teresting young couple as they came
down the gangplank. He said:
“Odd, isn't it, my dear, that we
should have seen Jack and Fanny off
when they sailed before? You can’t
forget it. You came in town for the
day. Don’t you remember ? And aft
er the ship sailed we went to Delino
ico’s for luncheon.”
“Why, so w’e did, Bob,” said the
young wife, and then with appar
ent innocence added, "That was be
fore we were married. ”
She seemed to be quite innocent of
sarcasm, and so was Bob. . Evidently
the little “luncheon at Delmonico’s”
was a delightful reminiscence of
courtship. Why do not more hus
bands still play the role of lover?
New York Press.
Lincoln’. Irishman.
Abraham Lincoln once remarked
of the people who wanted emancipa
tion, but w’ho did not like to lie called
Abolitionists, that they reminded him
of the Irishman who had signed a
pledge and did not like to break it,
yet who sadly wanted a “drink.” So,
going to an apothecary, he asked for
a glass of soda water, adding, “An,
docther, dear, if yees could put a lit
tle whisky into it unbeknownst to
me, I'd be much obliged to yees.”—
“Memoirs,” Charles Godfrey Leland.
Georgia Counties.
Nine counties of Georgia were
given the names of distinguished
South Carolinians. They are Brooks,
after Preston S. Brooks; Calhoun,
after John C. Calhoun; Jasper, after
Sergeant William Jasper; Laurens,
after Colonel John Laurens; Lown
des, after William Lowndes; McDuf
fie, afrer George McDuffie; Marion,
after General Francis Marion; Pick
ens, after General Andrew Pickens;
Sumter, after General Thomas Sum
ter.—Journal of Education.
$18754.34.!
Represent fc Oiginal Purchases
FORTH? FALL SEASON SHOE TRADE
QUR DUPLICATE ORDERS AMOUNTTO
MORETHAN
h)5,ooo, ,00'I.
And the Shoe Trade Season, just
Opened.
e can Account for this very flat
tering; TRjX_BE m no other way
than for the reason that the people
are out for the best values possible
for the least outla vof CASH!
WEARELEADRES
IN LOW PRICES
-+ U» DABB MAY F«II0« +-
SISLi
RSI Our Specialties includes the Entire l> ne -W
LjSWename only a few, ■ Jal
S'a Our Ladies Grain Button at 75c equals HighW
$ 1 OO
® “Dongola ’’ Pat Tip, Opera Toe, All Solid j
gpjforsl ,25. Same shoe in common sense is nc t|«
ffijequaled in this market at $ 1,50 WL
Li Our Ladies Fancy Dongola, $2,50 Shoe forßjj
!$ 1,50 is creating Panic and Consternation a tOR
“High Price’s” headquarters. sy
Dont neglect 0ui53,50 and s4ooLadies Ex-BJn
tra Fine Dongola Kids at $2,1 O t. - s>,6o. eu
Our mens line represents everything from a»n
Machine Pegged to a hand sewed-at 60c togy
$5,00. .
A full linechildrens, 40c to $2,00. Always giv-ia
ing you big Valuable and receiving only smallg
Profits.
Our Dress Goods Dept is full of choice Patterns
latest goods and lowest prices,
Dont forget that we carry an immense stocK
first Class Clothing, Childrens Boys and Mens suii&
and Over Coats. A large Invoice of the latter boug
25c per cent under regular price. See them-at
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19 <Sr ‘2l Broad St. Rome Gra.