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Remarkable and Valuable Diseov
cry#
It has always been easy for house
wives who are troubled with rats to
poison them, but the problem has
been to induce them to die upon the
field of honor, so to speak-to-wit,
the kitchen floor. They have us..
ally preferred to retire to thei. inac
cessible retreats in the wall as soon
as they have felt the symptoms of
arsenical poisoning, and the low
state of sanitary science prevailing
in their communities is such thal
poisoned rats are never buried or in
cinerated by their associates. The
prohlem has been how to kill tiu .
rafs without bringing unpleasant
odors in the house.
Mrs. Benedict has solved the ditli
culty and is entitled to the honor we
give to an inventor and benefactor.
Shu was engaged it appears, in the
d nncstic maiiufai turn of pla tor casts
of various kinds. Complaint having
been made of the fragility of these
waves, Mrs. Benedict began a course
of experiments with the hope of
giving durability to his casts. One
of her devices was to mix wheaten
Hour with her pulverized plaster of
Paris so that the gluten of the flour
might make the paste less brittle.
One evening she had visitors, who
rang the door bell just as she was
sifting the mixed plaster and flour
for the third time by way of mixing
them intimately, as the chemists
would say. She had already set a
dish of water at hand, intending to
make a cast at once, and when the
door hell rang, she hastily removed
her apron and went to welcome her
guests, leaving her materials upon
the kitchen floor. The guests stayed
until late lied time and then they
hid her adieu, Mrs. Benedict went
to bed without returning to the
kitchen.
What happened in the night was
this: A rat, sniffing the Odor of
flour, made up the legs of the table
to the top, where he was speedily
joined by other foragers—his breth¬
ren. The dislt of flour and plaster
was easily reached, and the rats ate
freely and hastily of it, as it is their
custom to do. It was rather a dry
supper, and water being at hand,
each rat turned from the savory dish
of flour and plaster to slake his thirst
with watt*. Everybody who has
had to do with plaster of Paris will
guess at once what happened. The
water drank first wetted the plaster
in the rats’ stomachs, and then, in
technical phrase, “set” i f ; that is to
say, the plaster thus made into paste
instantly grew hard in each rats’
stomach, making a cast of its convo¬
lutions. The event proved that,
with such a cast in existence, it
impossible for a rat to retreat even
across a kitchen.
The next morning thirteen of them
lav dead in a circle around the water
dish. Mrs. Benedict, like a wise
woman, kept her secret and made
profit of it. She undertook, for a
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WRIGHTSVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1880.
consideration, to clear the premises
of her neighbors of the pests, and
succeeded. It was not long before
the town was as free from this sort
of vermin as if the pied piper of
Hamel in had traveled that way.
Then Airs. Benedict advertised for
agents to work up the business
throughout the country, soiling each
the secret for a fair price .—JVeir
York Evening Poet.
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She Beat the Conductors.
The Chatanooga Times states that
a few days ago, a young lady hoard¬
ed the train at Nashville bound for
that city. She was attractive in
person, and well dressed. When
the conductor approached her for
her ticket, her face assumed a mourn¬
ful expression, her eyes became
suffused with tears, and mid her sobs
she succeeded in showing the con¬
ductor by signs, that she was a mute,
a poor, destitute, orphan girl, seek¬
ing friends in East Tennessee. Her
sad talcMwokc a chord of sympathy
in the tender breast of the conduc¬
tor, and she was allowed to remain
on the train.
Soon after her arrival in Chat¬
tanooga * Marshal Lowry learned that
a dwt itute rt e af and dumb girl ° was
1,1 the eit >' an<1 ^ siml transporta
nonto Philadelphia, Tonn., wl.cfc
claimwl to have friemls - The
Lind marslial sought out the young
la,1 v ’ 3,1,1 b v s, S na » Hotos aud othal "
- .
Wls, “ 8,10 800,1 convinced the marshal
ot tlu * U " th ,,f 1,w sto, T- He was
1,kevv,se raovwl a,,<1 m "Z ht con
,1,u lor ,,f tl,c E ’ T - train andrepeat
‘”1 to him the young g.rl’s mournful
,al< ’ wInch touched hi... so that be
^ed to take the girl to her.destin
,l,ll “ l -
Slu ‘ k, ‘l ,t a rc 1 s,,l,,,,iss -
>'e attg.ide during the trip, appear
utti il\ oblivious <>l all sounds,
and looking as deaf as a post and as
dumb as a t oyster.
When the train reached Philadel¬
phia, East Tennessee, tne young lady
arose, a smile overspread her fea¬
tures, and advancing to tin* conduc¬
tor, she spoke to him a few words
of thanks for his kindness, wishing
him a farewell leaped lightly from
the cars, where she was quickly join¬
ed by a young man, who had, to all
appearance, been expecting her.
The young man took the arm of
the “mute” (who oguld hear and
talk), and toge’.her they procured a
marriage license, and in a few mo¬
ments were married.
The young lad v is the daughter of
respectable parents of Springfield,
Ill. She ran away from home to
marry the young Philadelphian, who
is a school teacher. In hurry to
leave, she forgot to procure travel¬
ing expenses, and “heat” her way by
the “deaf and dumb racket.”
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lee for Teething Children.
The New York San has the fol¬
lowing bit of good news for worried
mothers and tortured babies : “The
pain of teething may lie almost done
away with, and the health of the
child benefitted, by giving fine
splinters of ice, picked off with a pin
to melt in its mouth. The frag¬
ment so a drop
of warm water before it can be
swallowed, and the child has all the
coolness for its feverish gums with¬
out the slightest injury. The avi¬
dity with which the little things
taste the cooling morsel ; the instant
quiet which succeeds hours of fear
fnlness, and the sleep which follows
the relief, are the best witnesses to
this magic remedy. Ice may he fed
to a three months’ child this way,
each splinter being no larger than
a common pin, for five or ten min¬
utes, tlic result being that it has
swallowed in that time a teaspoon¬
ful of warm water, which, so far
from being a harm, is good for it,
and the process may he repeated
hourly as often as the fretting fits
from teething begin,”
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A Model husband in Deleware
thrashed his wife fearfully because
their baby didn’t get the prize »t the
baby show, and wound up by offer¬
ing to swap the baby for a pig.
“ SCIEXCE AXl) RELlGtOX; THE GVARhIAXS OF LIBERTY,"
Scolding—Wliat Is the Use?
A friend who had spent a couple
of months in the family of an ac¬
quaintance, assured me that the
husband brought nothing into the
house during that time that the wife
did not find fault with. The muslin
would he too light or too coarse;
the calico too plain or too large
figured; brooms too heavy; shirting
too wide striped or too narrow;
shoes too big, or expensive; the
flour was poor and the sugar was
damp; the firewood was too short,
or too long, or fine, or large; the
blacking would not polish the stove,
and the soap would not clean the
paint! Is it strange that as years
have passed he tired of constant
fretting, and now allows his wife
not only to order but to carry home
the family provisions, while he
scolds over the prices? . Of course
she frets now more than ever, for
the shopmen cheat and her husband
neglects her. The entire family
are made miserable, and her husband
who, witli a kind diplomacy, would
have made an excellent man, is grow¬
ing more and more reckless.
I wonder if any one beside myself
can gain a moral from this? I be¬
lieve if there is any one thing more
than another that will discourage, it
is constant scolding. Of course lives
and judgment are often amiss, but
we need not pour out a torrent of
hitter words to show our disapproval.
A smile and a kiss and—“I’m sorry
to speak of it, dear, hut this isn’t
just what I want; can you not alter
it a little without much trouble?”—
will go farther than any amount of
scolding.— (kmntri/ Gentleman.
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A Toilet Display fur Revenge.
A couple of weeks ago a little wo¬
man and two children made their ap¬
pearance at the Grand Central, in
Tahoe-city, Lake Bigler. The wo¬
man was plainly dressed and so were
both of her children. They were
not taken much more notice of, and
no one cared to make the acquaint¬
ance of the modest little lady in
plain clothes. Then the woman*who
saw herself snubbed every day, got
her dander up and sent down to
San Francisco for the balance of her
clothes and likewise the children’s.
They came. Next morning she ap¬
peared at the breakfast table with a
toilet from Worth,and Iter diamonds
dazzled everybody.
“Oh, good morning, Mrs. Smith,”
came from all sides.
But this was only the beginning
of .the toilet boom. At lunch she
was simply magnificent, and at din¬
ner overpowering. She had nine
Saratoga trunks to draw from, and
her little daughter’s evening dress
created a regular furore. Now came
her term to put on airs. She simply
treated everbody with the coolest
kind of politeness. Of course she
was'civil,hut didn’t overdo cordiality
to any extent. After overwhelming
the place a few days with an aval¬
anche of style, she sent them back to
San Francisco and resumed her plain
$25 suit.— Car non (Nie.v.) Appeal.
Tun Woman* in Red. —A woman
in red was seen at Coney Island by
a fashion correspondent, who furn¬
ishes the following description: She
was outwardly clothed in red from
top to toe—from her red plumed hat
to her red leather slippers. The ma¬
terial of her costume was velvet and
satin in the main, and the color
throughout was a bright scarlet,
which glowed and glistened in the
sun like a big live coal. Her slip¬
pers were low, showing red silk
stockings of the finest texture; her
jewelry was red carved ivory; her
gloves were red, too; not a glimpse
of anything hut red could he caught
about her except her face, neck, and
hair.
A gentleman was complimenting
a pretty young lady in the pres¬
ence of his wife, “It’s lucky I didn’t
meet Miss Hopkins before I married
you my dear,” “Well yes it is ex¬
tremely—for hpr,” was the dry re¬
joinder,
W. A. TOMPKINS,
New Palace Wholesale House
OF
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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