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AN ENGLISH LION TAMER’S TALK. Steed of Nerve and Patience —When a Pereon la Clawed —Explanation. "Do you mean to say, Mr. Atherton," asked a reporter of the lion tamer, “that sf I were to bring you to-morrow a inan •ating tigor just fresh brought over from an Indian jungle, that you would under take to train it to . leap through hoops and over whips, and to kiss you, and all tlie rest of it, in two months?” “In two months from the time that the animal was delivered to me I would be able to put it through the performance which you sav. There is nothing which you cannot do with animals if they Aave got intellect and you have got patience." “But is it not frightfully dangerous?” “Dangerous? Yes, if you have not got nerve, and do not know how to handle an animal; but if you have nerve and keep your eye on his, and go the right way about it, you never need fear any thing. I would not hesitate to enter the room in which the wildest animal ever brought to this country was at large. I have again and again entered a cage in which a lion or a tiger has been un chained which had never been broken si> before. A wild animal that has not yet been broken for the show business sever flies at you. When you enter the cage it will show its teeth and growl and perhaps strike at you with its claws; but if you keep your eye upon it and take care that it does not attack you from behind you are safe. No doubt it will claw you, as these cheetahs clawed me many times; but here is a wrinkle if you ever happen to be tete-a-tete with '» cheetah or any animal of the cat tribe. When you are clawed, and you feel the animal’s hooked talons enter your flesh, Ain’t jump back, but go forward. If you jump back the claws will tear away the fleah; whereas if you go forward the animal’s claws only make a prick.” How do you explain the fact that three ferocious carnivora do not spring kt you in a room as they at you in a jungle?” “Well, in tire first case, most wild ani mals are bred in captivity, and as much accustomed to the sight of a man as a dog or a cat. But take the case of a wild tiger trapped in a jungle. Well, the tiger is ferocious chiefly when the tiger is hun gry. If a man has got a full-grown tiger and sends it home from India, he is not ouch a fool as to allow the tiger to go fasting all the way. The tiger is a mar ketable commodity, which will fetch 150 pounds sterling in the market. If you have got 150 pounds sterling in an ani mal, you take care it does not want its dinner. On the contrary, you will give it as much as it will eat, in order to im prove its condition so that it will fetch a better price. The consequence is by the time the tiger has arrived in London from Calcutta he has got fat and lazy. He gets his meals regular, and has no disposition to make a meal off you; hence you can approach him, and if you are patient and study him and humor. him and be firm with him and never take your eyes off him or let your back be itumed, you can do what you like with him. Animals are all alike; there is no animal so ferocious but can be overcome with kindness and patience.” “How is it that every now and then you hear of a lion-tamer being killed?” “Drink, sir," said Mr. Atherton; “drink. The performer gets a glass too much aome day; enters the cage; fails to see that the floor is wet and slippery; he makes a false step and is down on his back before he knows where he is. The lion or tiger,as the case may be, is on his chest; and then good-bye. As long as you are erect, have your senses about you, and keep your nerve, you may do anything with the beast; but if once your nerve is shaken, your eye unsteady, ami you slip, the game is up."—Pall Mall Gazette. Microscopic Organisms in Waler. When it became known that some, if sot all, zymotic diseases are due to liv 3»g germs, the fact was recognized that the microscopic organisms in water might be a source of danger. Filters were at first supposed to be of no value in removing these organisms, but vari umh filtering materials—such as coke and animal and vegetable charcoal—are now known to be very efficient when fre quently renewed. Agitation of the water in contact with similar porous minis has considerable effect, while the precipitation process for softening water with lime produces a reduction of 98 per cent, in the number of micro-organ isms. Natural filtration makes the water of many deep wells almost entirely free from organic impurities. For a number of months the water sup ply of Loudon has been regularly tested, and during the last four months of the past year the purification processes em ployed were found to remove from 93 to per cent, of the invisible life forms crowding the water of the Thames and the Lea.—Arkansaw Traveler. An Idea In Teaching Children. The setting aside of the will of the late A, D. Ditmars, of Lancaster, who left SBO,OOO “to ascertain what children were created to do,” leaves it for some one else to try to develop his curious idea. One of the features of the institution -which he hoped to found was a room sontaining musical instruments, tools ased in the various trades, and other ap pliances. When a child was brought to ke entered into the institution it was to be taken into this room and its actions airserved. If the little one’s inclination led it to the musical instruments, it was to lie educated as a musician. If its de sires tended toward the plane and the saw, a carpenter’s trade would be taught it, and so on through the list of occupa tions.—The Argonaut, Street railways in 233 cities and towns rs this country are said to have in usa 5U.5000 horses and 18,850 cars. THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1886. A Nestorian Bishop at Washington. A Nestorian bishop was one of the lions on exhibition at Washington early in President Tyler’s administration. Coming from a country of which we knew little, and to a country to which he and his countrymen were entire stangers, ignorant of everything apper taining to our laws, customs, religion, and, in fine, even our name and lineage, it was by no means strange that he should excite a deep and lively interest amongst the intelligent and learned of our land. He received much kindness and attention, and several parties were made on his account. He pleased all, and seemed pleased and gratified with the hospitality extended to him. His appearance was entirely oriental, but he well sustained the high and holy char acter of the office which he filled. The bishop was about five feet ten inches high, well proportioned, and wore his beard long, with a curling moustache on the upper lip. His head was covered with a turban composed of a cashmere shawl wound gracefully round his head over a scarlet cap of a conical shape, with a huge silk tassel falling over the side. His outside garment was a black silk gown with large flowing sleeves, and underneath, not visible in front, was to be seen a silk dress of a scarlet color, ex tending nearly as low as the bottom of the outer dress. His complexion was of a dark olive, with jet black eyes, but when in repose or animated affording the most agreeable and benevolent ex pression. He exhibited an antique Bible in the Armenian language, written be fore the art of printing was known, on parchment, and read and translated out of the same. It was a beautiful speci men of chirography, and illustrated with marginal notes in red ink. He gave illustrations of the manner of writing the Armenian language to all the young ladies who desired his autograph. He wrote from right to left, and used the reed instead of the pen commonly used with us. He had acquired a sufficient knowledge of the English language to speak it with considerable ease, and so as to make himself understood. —Ben: Perley Poore. Zoology *of Sumatra and Papua. The interspace between the mainland of Australia and the southeast point of the Asiatic continent is almost bridged by a close-set string of islands, leaving not a single gap half as wide as the nar row straight dividing Hayti from Cuba. Two-thirds of that chain is formed by islands of such enormous size that their flora and fauna might be supposed to have been gathered from the drifts of a thousand ocean currents. Papua, Bor neo, Sumatra the smallest of them three times as large as the state of Illinois —are all densely covered with the finest arboreal vegetation of the tropics. But while Java, Sumatra and Borneo are perfect zoological gardens of nature, Paqua, with the same climate and the sanw granß forests, has the scantiest fauna of any inhabitable region of the earth. In Sumatra, for instance, there are wild elephants, Malay bears, tigers, leopards, rhinoceros, musk deer; elk, ta griss, and not less than eleven different species of monkeys. In Paqua there is no quadrumanus anima) of any kind, no rhinoceros, no elephant, and not one of the larger carnivora, not even a deer, but only a wild pig, resembling a degen erate variety or the domestic breed, a small wild-cat, and various marsupials, akin to our opossums. If the forests ever harbored any larger game the natives have preserved no records of the fact, though they have a tradition that their ancestors lived for ages in a larger and warmer country, western Australia, perhaps, whose droughts and famine at last forced them to emigrate—Dr. Eelix L. Oswald. Excessive Drinking on Shipboard. I doubt if ever a steamer leaves Liver pool without carrying away passengers in a state of hopeless drunkenness. I crossed not long ago on the City of Ber lin. When we were four days out the doctor came to me an 1 said: “Well, he is dead.” “'Who?” I asked. “The man with delirium tremens,” said the doctor. “He came aboard in a lively condition; he drank to the health of every person who came to see him off; he obtained wine surreptitiously after we had cut off his liquid supplies, and in a couple of days he was raving. I’ve had a dozen patierits of this same sort during the year. Seasickness induces the delirium, and they almost invariably die before the end of the voyage.” I went on deck that night at 11, and the passenger’s body, sewn up in canvas, was thrown without a word into the moonlit sea.— Commercial Advertiser. Bad Digestion in Fashionable Ute. I venture the statement that the cause of one-fourth the cases of disordered digestion in fashionable life is a lack of sufficient water in the dietary. It has become customary with men to substi tute at their mealswines and liquors,and women, if they do not indulge in these, draw the line at a sew sips of ice water, fearing, as they say, that water freely indulged in will produce obesity, or, by diluting the digestive fluids, induce dyspepsia. lam aware that such doc trines have been promulgated by high authorities, but am nevertheless firmly convinced that they are pernicious fal lacies."—Dr. Fowler in Journal of Con structions. Goes Well Enough for Poetry. Somebody went to Stedman,the banker poet, the other day and asked the use of his name to some sort of a statement which was to appear in print. “You are welcome to iny name," he said, “on one condition —you must print it *E. C.‘ and not ‘Edmund Clarence.’ Edmund Clar ence goes veil enough for poetry, but anywhere else it rather sticks in the throat.” —“Halston" in New York Tinies. Forest. In the Planet Mrs. A French philosopher, M. Maurice Les piault, who ranks high among astrono mers, has lately broached the theory that the people of the planet Mars, having been put to discomfort by the want of regular rains, have undertaken the af foresting of their globe on an extensive scale. Every one is. familiar with the broad bands which seam the surface of Mars, and which it has been the fashidh to consider canals. In Proctor’s map the name of seas has been given to these canals. One is marked Phillips sea, an other Beer sea, another Tycho sea, ail other Schroter sea. and so on. But M. Lespiault, who has studied Mars through telescopes more powerful than his predecessors used, concludes, first, that the mathematical regularity of the outlines of these so-called seas forbids the idea that they are natural phenom ena; and he rejects as absurd the notion that the people of that planet can have constructed canals over 1,000 miles long and over fifty miles wide. He thinks it more likely that the Martians, who in habit a much colder world than this, cut down all their standing wood for fuel, that droughts ensued, and that to obvi ate universal starvation the emperor or grand tycoon or president of the Martian realm compelled the people to plant lines of forest trees extending quite round their globe, and spreading from thirty to sixty miles in width. It is these forests in his notion, which we have denom inated canals.—San Francisco Chronicle. Numerous Mineral Springs in Russia. It is not generally known that there exists in the region of the Transbaikal a multitude of mineral springs, the waters of which are said to possess many medic inal qualities salutary in the treatment of various diseases. It is to be desired that these waters were properly analyzed and made known to the world, if the scientific report upon them at all agree with the popular local belief in their efficacy. The only points where any prepara tions are made for visitors are at Daras ourisk and Tourkinsk. But even here the accommodation falls far short of the luxurious, and is supplied by a person who rents the two nearest springs from the government. At most of the other springs visitors are obliged to lodge in the huts of the natives. Visitors are sufficiently numerous in the summer, and have been so for many years, but they do not come from great distances, for the reputation of the waters, though well established among the people, has not yet spread to the great world. There are no doctors and few comforts. The natives use the waters, not only for themselves, but for their cattle. Thou sands of sheep, oxen, and horses, suffer ing from cutaneous maladies, are brought to certain of these wells every spring; the custom is an immemorial one. —Chicago Times. i Biggest Book in the World. “Just outside of London they are at work on the biggest book in the world,” said a New York publisher the other day, who has recently returned from a trip to England. . “It will be more than four times as large as Webster’s dictionary, ane will contain something like 8,000 pages. It is to be the ideal dictionary of the English language, and will supersede all pre-existing authorities. It has long been realized by scholars that the English language is deficient in this respect. The French have two dictionaries, that of M. Litre and of the academy, that are far tuperior to our own. The Worterbuch pf the German brothers Grimms is still more exhaustive and authoritative. Even the Portuguese dictionary, by Vieira, de cidedly surpasses anything in English. But the British Philological society pro poses to fill this yawning gap in our reference books. They hold that a iictionary should be an inventory of the anguage and that its doors should be rpened to all words—good, bad, and in different. This new work will not be xmfined to definitions and cross refer mces. The life history of each word will be fully given, with a quotation from some standard writer, showing its shade of meaning and the variations in ts usage from one generation to an >ther.” —New York World. When we Demoralize the Stomach By excesses or imprudence in eating, we cannot hope to escape the consequences for any great length of time. The most, robust digestion must succumb to abuses of that important function. But supposing that we have been foolish enough to enfeeble the stomach, is the damage irreparable ? By no means. The dyspeptic has only to do two things to insure his ultimate recovery. Fiost, he should addopt an easily digestible diet. Second, he should use with regularity and persistence Ilos’etter’s Stomach Bitters, the leading gastric invigorant of the age. The multiform symptoms of dyspepsia and the almost invariably attendant disor ders, biliousness and constipation, will assuredly cease to persecute the sufferer if the above advice is attended to. Who that has suffered the torments that chronic indigestion inflicts will neglect to take advantage of a remedy which, if the most positive evidence of the medical profession and the public is to be received with due credence, is an absolute specific for the complaint. NOW HAS FAITH. I had been troubled all winter with cold and pain in the chest and got no relief from remedies recommended by Druggists and Physicians. At the same time I was adver tising Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup I had little faith but thought to try it as a last resort, and now I believe even more than they tell me of its curative qualities. [From The News, Elizabethtown, Ky.] Sold by E. J. Kieffer, Solomon & Co, O. Bu ier and Lippman Oros. JUST WHAT THEY ALL SAY. Hon. D. Haynie, of Salem, 111., he says uses Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup in nis family with the most satisfac lory results in all cases of coughs, colds and croup, and recommends it in particular for the little ones. Sample bottle free at E. 3 Kieffer’s, Solomons <Si Co.’s, O. Butler’s, and Lippman Bros. ECKSTEIN’S List of Unsurpassed Bargains FOR THIS WEEK. LAWNS. ROBES. Alt our vard.wlde Lawns and Batiste A few more left of those elegant White and beautiful styles and colors, regular price ^ 8 ’ 1 Embroldere<l Robeß, closing out choice of the entire stock irom 73/4 CENTB ' JERSEYS. SUITIN'GJ’S* Ladles’ Black and Colored Jerseys, perfect goods, Boncle Lace eff-ct Dress Goods, in White, 50 CENTS. Cream, Tan, Pink and Light Blue, regular Tersevs Black and Colored verv price 25c, closing out at pretty style® 7 ’ colored, very 14% CENTS. ’ CENTS. Plain and Figured Nuns Vell'ngsln Cream, HOSIBRY. Pink, Light Blue, Navy Blue, Garnet and Black, regular price 25c, reduced to Fine Lisle Thread and ■ Balbriggan Hose, Black and Colored, and in,new fancy styles, 12>4L1<.N1». reduced to 42-lnoh Boncle Suitings in White. Cream, CENTS. Tan, Light Brown, Seal Brown, Navy Blue, Summer Merino Gauze Undervests, fine regular price 81, now selling at finish, reduced to • 48 CENTS. , W% CENTS. The Tick we advertised for Feathers Is White Goods. great r ““ : every ° ne 18 Burprlsed at ' ’ 12% CENTS. 50 pieces fine White Lawn In Plain, Stripe, Check and Plaid; sold up till now at 15c, re- Bleached and Unbleached Shirtings again duoed to this week at 8 CENTS. 5 CENTS. S T 3 C I A. L ! 500 Fine ENGLISH BRISTLES HAIR BRUSHES, with Black Celluloid Backs and Fancy Woods, choice of the lot for 2 5 CENTS EACH. Ladles’ Fine Muslin Walking Skirts, wide Chemise, good Muslin, corded and ruffle and 4 tucks, hemmed, 39 CENTS. 27 CENTS. Walking Skirts with wide Emdroldery . Chemise, well made, corded, tucked and Flounce and Tucks, very handsome, trimmed, 75 CENTS. 40 CENTS. Night Gowns, full length, trimmed, Fine Chemise, Embroidered Yoke, fine Muslin, Mulln. at very nandsome, Muun.at 49CENTS . 59 CENTS. Night Gowns, trimmed with Lace, 16 tucks, i . Chemise, elegantly finished, fine Embroi wldeband dery, best Cambric, 59 CENTS. I 75 CENTS. CwllyVlXl) OFFER. The choice of all our fine stock of the best standard makes LIGHT CALICOES, SATEENS, SHIRTINGS and CAMBRICS. This is decidedly the best drive of the season, 5 CENTS YARD. ALL THE WEEK. KROUSKOFFS Mammoth-Millinery-House. EARLY SPRING OPENING of immense lines in Children’s Straw School Hats in all the new spring styles. Ladies’ Hats, new Elowers, and Montures for evening wear. Eu.ll line of new Beads. The largest stock of new Millinery Goods ever opened south of New York. Also the first lot of the laiy Bsautifier; or, Patent Spriog Veil. We still continue to sell our very fine all ik Satin Ribbons Nos. 7 at 10c., 9 at 12 1.2 c., 12 at 15c. e. KROTJSKIOFF 145 T Broughton Street. The Latest Styles ad Best Makes. Ladies’ Low-Quarter Shoes Of the following celebrated Manufacturers: CURTIS & WHEELER, Rochester N. ZEIGLER, Philadelphia; J. C. BENNETT & BARNARD, Lynn, Mass. A full line of those fine Shoes of J. 8. TURNER, Rockland, Mass., for which I am agent. OPERA SLIPPERS IN ALL STYLES OF LOW-CUT GOODS. C implete line of Gents’ and Children’s STRAW HATS. First-class goods and low prices. A.. MCIIOLS, Ao.l’JH BROUGHTON STREET. SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, Wooiea Mantels, Altars, bn, Aud all Styles of Church and School Finish and Furniture in Cypress, Pine, Oak Ash or Walnut, Mouldings, Newels, Door & Window Frames, Office R-ailing-s, Desks, Etc. With our own Saw Mills and controlling the product from the stump to the consumer’s hands, gives us advantages that few possess. We have one and a half mllllou feet ol cypress on sticks, and two of Sturtevant s Dry Kilns, each 22x100 feet long, which Insure thoroughly seasoned stock at all times. WiE M 188 CDM. Keg al JOirectorg. H. B. JACKSON. J. L. WHATLKY JACKSON A WHATLEY, Attorneys and Counsellors atJLaw, U 8 Bryan Street. 8. L. LAZARON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 107 Bay street. Over Savannah Bank and Trust Company. W. S. CHISHOLM. B. d. EBWIN CHISHOLM 4 EBWIN, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, jf Abercorn street, oor. St. Julian and Bryan. Wm. Gabbard. F. W. Mkldbim. Emilk Nkwman. GARRARD & MELDRIM, Law Offices, 135 and 137 Bay street. Bures E. Luster. Thob. P. Ravenel. LESTEB 4 BaVENEL, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, B. A. Denmark. S. B. Adams Wm. L. Gignilliat. DENMARK 4 ADAMS, ' ttorneysand Counsellors at Law, 105 Bay street. GEORGE A. MERCEB, Law Office, C< —jr Drayton and Bryan streets, over Southern Bank. G. Charlton. W. W. Mackall. CHARLTON 4 MACKALL, Attorneys at Law, Office, corner Bull and Bay streets, Up stairs. GAZAWAY HARTRIDGE. Attorney-at- Law. Office 118 Bryan street. A. MINIS, JR. Law;Office, 5 Drayton street. " HENBY MCALPIN, Attorney at Law. 135 Bay Street. J. W. WILSON H. B. WILSON WILSON & WILSON, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Office over Southern Bank. W. HAMPTON WADE, Attorney-at-Law, Over Southern Bank. Alex. B. Hawton. Henry C.Cunningham Alex B. Lawton, Jb. LAWTON 4 CUNNINGHAM, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Office, 114 Bryan street, Bp stairs. ISAAC BECKETT. Attorney-at-Law and Conveyancer. Compiler of Chatham County Ab stracts and Titles. 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