Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1892 — Page 8

c J, ' !C -scnw Will soon 13 in £c ,: We call you x/x. 'ution to cur immense line of r J»■ ■ jyj> c iENS* ■ «■- • -*i ■’■ '■■" r 3 .'”T'd k — : : :FOH ALL: : : F' ■' FOBS !*n_ HauiercMofs We have ohe most complete line in the City. CLOAKS Os 2h.1l Kinds. WE KEEP IX STOCK A FULL LIXEOF Fashion ■■■ Shoots EA oa: month —AT — Boston Store, I. 0. 0. F. Block, Decatur, Ind, Kuebler & Moltz. i -IJCKY ROj EMARY ’ t Plant That Wait Mutt Antidote for KviL -> TV In the south of Europe the has long had magic properties ascribed to it. The Spanish ladies used to wear It as an antidote against the evil eye, and the Portuguese called it the Elfin plant and dedicated it to the fairies The idea of the antidote, says All thr Year Round, may have been due to s confusion of the name with that of the Virgin, but. as a matter of fact, the “rosmarinus"-is frequently mention!', by old Latin writers, including Horace and Ovid. The name came from the fondness o* the plant for the sea shore; here it often gets sprinkled with the “ros” be dew oi the sea—that is to say, seaspray. Another cause of confusion, perhaps, was that the leaves of the plant somewhat resemble those of the juniper, which in medieval times was held sacred to the Virgin Mary. In the island of Crete, it is said, a bride dressed for the wedding stil! calls last of all for a sprig of rosemary to bring her luck. And now we come to find rosemefy in close’association with both marriage and death, just as the hyacinth was. and perhaps still is, among the Greeks. It is interesting to trace the connection by which the •araC-plant came to have two such different U'Se.s. One of the earliest mentions of rosemary in English literature is in a poem of the fourteenth centqry, called, “The Glorious Rosefnaryne,” which begins thus: This herbs is callit rosemaryne, Os vertthat is gope. and fyne;' But all ihe verlui s telflne can, • Nor, J ttowe, no ertlx-ly man. r VENOM OF A TOAD. The Creature Really Does Secrete Polson, Says' a London Physician. A correspondent of a London journal mainta'■ : ■ tire scientific oi Shn spore's i assertion that the toad “sweat 1 voKini.” He says that thii venom is of a tolerably ppwerfm nature, ami that instead of biu:; •ecrctftl by the salivary glands, as to snakes, it is actually secreted by the •kin, so that the word *‘s?.veujted” is most act :i cutely de ariptivez This si ration, Dr. Guthrie states, also occurs i.i the toad through the parotid g.uifds, the venom .being a thick milky fluid, like the juice of dandelion stalks in taste and appearance. When injected tinder the skin, « it kills small birds in six minutes, and dogs and guinea-pigs In halt an bom to an hour and a Half. The symptom! in birds are loss Os co-ordination, fol o lowed by death; in guinea-pigs con ▼ulsions, and in the dog depression vomiting and intoxication. Dr. Guthrie kept a small toad in a cage with some lizards, and one of them,* having bitten the toad, became convulsed and died in-less than; two minutes. His dog, having seised a ... __ toady was iu tacked by inslantam •nd profuse salivation, violent vomit- , lag and co) lapse. He st ates also that his hand was poisoned from handling • toad. ’ '

WILL FIGHT IN THE A t. A Now un«l >rir.hiru» Element I i Ki Uu-eit Inf” Military Sc on< A new elcnn-qt hae elite - 'II mil. • Cary soience, qud one th w >e <■< 'vi •( imporlauee in the vent o' Sure* pu n war in which either Fri-n. . >. G< t- ' many shall be involued. The principle, ! to be sure, is not new, but its adaptation ; has not been perfected until recently, i and thus the Invention or perfection of the invention may indeed be styled new. As far back as 1870-71, during the Franco-Prussian war, balloons were used, chiefly in carrying messages; but inasmuch as they could not be readily managed they wore not of certain advantage. Now this is changed. Balloons can be steered With us much accuracy as a ship on a tranquil sea, and inasmuch as th *y can be stationed over an enemy's fortification, beyond the reach of bullets, an immense importance is attached to them. Recently by means of balloons German officers have made observations of the Russian fortifications in Poland. The balloons were under perfect control and moved from place to place with >U experiencing any difficulty from w n I currents. In one Instance the balloon sailed directly against a strong wind. A few nights ago the inhabitants of Warsaw, the uneient capital of Poland, were startled by an intensely bright light that fell from the sky directly on the city. Observation revealed that tit" rays came from the search-light of a balloon, the officers of which were studying the forti flcations of the city. „ With tnis solution of aerial navigation the system of warfare will be entirely changed. Shells can be dropped from balloons upon a city with almost unerring .certainty, and no fortification can be made proof against such an attack. No small rifles can send a bullet far enough to puncture the floating ship, and modern cannon is equally ineffective, as they cannot be fired perpendicularly, and, even if they should, the falling shot might prove disastrous. Germany is not the only nation that has solved aerial navigation. Prance, too, is said to have balloons that can be steered at will. What an Interesting encounter it would be if two of these hostile floatihg monsters met and fought the battles of earth far up in the azure blue, the only place of God’s terrestrial creation which man has not yet crimsoned with the life-blood of his fellowmen! A Victimized Conductor. A bank cashier tells the foUowing story of how a street-car conductor was victimized: “The otherday,” he said, “a.conductor came in here to get S2O worth of nickels. He keeps a little account here, so I gave them to him and asked him what he wanted with him. He said a man on his line had been riding free for a long time by offering a S2O bill in payment of his fare, and he was going to load him up with nickels the next time he got on the car. He put them into a tin bucket, keeping live cents out, and went away laughing. In a few days he back triumphant. He stood at my window and told me how he bad worked it. He laughed long and hard as he told me how the man had handed hifn the bill as usual and how he had opened the locker under the seat and pulled out his bucket of nickels, and despite the expostulations of tie man had poured them into his hands and walked away. The fellow would never try that oa him again, he said. He made out a savings deposit slip and handed me the bill. I didn’t like to do it, but I had to give it back. It was a rank counterfeit ’ of Americans. British contempt and' jealousy of Americans fire largely responsible for (very exposure of misbehavior among our people sojourning In Eurqpb, said a Southern gentleman, recently. I have spent many years in the old country, and know whereof I speak. The arts’orralL’ English have the most unutterable contort l or Americans and their institutions, an<F of every little Opportunity to expo.. oui , to thev rld. The wretched nui.. ' +-> rtb J'ton scandal is an excell: nt oaSe in ’ point. G* 1 foolish bluster of the two callow duntE^ n °f reached the' ever- . listening ears of the haughty British i aristocrats the world would doubtless never have heard of the miserable affair. ' Every lamentable scandal of this kind that has come to light in any of the many American colonies in Europe is ! traceable directly to the arrogant but babbling British old dames, «uo delight i in dealing with these salacious morsels , of gossip derogatory to the probity and ' rectitude of pur people. And yet Americans’are sufficiently sycophantic to beg I and plead and buy tfcelr way into Eng- , I lull society, An Architectural Triumph. The leaning tower of Pisa is one of 1 the most remarkable buildings of the ■ world. It is 179 feet high and inclines I 13 feet from the perpendicular. Begun in the year 1174 by Bonannus Pisa, it i was finished by Tommaso Pisanus in [ 1350. The architect’s design was that ' it should be built in an inelined post- I tion, and so it was. There are several I of these leaning towers in the south of Europe, one being in Spain, an ther in Portugal, and two in Italy, besides the tower of Pisa. The latter, however, is the largest and most imposing. It is in eight stories, and at the top has several heavy bells, which are so placed as to counteract the weight of the tower, and to steady rather than to increase its inclination to fail. It was built as the campanile of a church. When Victoria Opens Parliament. When the Queen opens Parliament in j person she proceeds in state to the House of Lords and commands Black Hod to let the commons know “that it is her majesty’s pleasure that they attend , her immediatery in this House.” Black • Rod proceeds to the House of Commons and formally commands their presence, on which-the speaker and the commons go up to the bur of the House of Lords, and the Queen delivers her speech, which is read by the Lord Chancellor, kneeling on one knee. < listing Out Evil Spirit*. If any one is ill or annoyed in any way in Thibet, the evil spirits are'responsible and the only sensible thing is to go tin 1 hire a priest to frighten them off. lor this purpose the lama reads aloud from his sacred writings, blows • horn made from a human thigh bone, beats a drum manufactured out of two human skulls, rings a bell and tells over • rosary of disc-shaped beads, cut outof hwman skulls; Taki; things as they come and give them up as they go. A Wpm *n> In'luence. Dogs are used nearly everywhere in the Netherlands and the French provI Inces as ’beasts of burdeq by the peasants, and are so i+uolly treated that travelers are ofte There is , one town, however, where donlo ys are k£mpluvu<4-+‘M.teft<l;,-and this rtSTivrertzrta; I woman’s influence. She, eeeing the I pea'-un’r’ y to th •'if d, gs, I: uqlit a , donkey m.d of-•"•nd it to a m?n if he i would ie»ive oh’ »wwng 4ns rfeg. The , peasant ; I, a. 4 g , , . .ijnplt i spread u'ltir no more 'jogs arc used ia I that village. E. <A y ■

THE 810 LAGOON. One of the Mo-r. In tire it Ing Natural Forni'itlon* in the I'ouiitry. On the northern coa tits t nllfornla some thirty miles below tho mouth of the Kltimmnth river, is one of the most Interesting natural (urination* to be found in this country, known the Big l agoon. Horo tho eoa«t which runs north and south up to thia point Hikes a sntirp turn inland, bordered by very high hilla running to a distance of about threa miles, then turning out again makes a sharp bay almost V-shaped and for ages past a ■and-bar has been washing itself up •cross this bay until the bar has raised up outof the water some tenor twelve feet having a width of about 100 feet and a length of four miles, reaching across the entire buy. This bar is in tho slmpo of a roof. When there is a storm Wio breakers; will roll up one side of it break over and run down into the bay inside, and it is a novel sight to stand there and watch the waters, mountains high on One side and perfectly, culm on the other, the line between the two at intervals hidden altogether. This bar is a sort of short cut and can be traversed on horseback. In a storm the horseman will one minute be high and dry ou land, the next minute a large wave will roll up and running under the horse's feet to the depth of a foot or mora the rider will ba for an instant, four miles or so at sea on horseback. with no land nearer than the high bluffs of the mainland in sight. Moss agates may be found in abundance on the pebbly beach, and when the sun shines they glitter with dazzling brightness. The wild duck that frequent this part of the coast literally fill this inland bay. aud the passing hunter, should he take a shot at them, will raise such a cloud and such a quacking that he will think all the ducks of the earth have gathered there Occasionally some wild beast, like a bear or a panther, will be found crossing this bar. and pie Indians have much sport when such a thing happens, the animal rarely escaping capture or death. Here the Digger Indians abound, living on the shell fish which they catch along the beach, seldom going over the ridge of hills to capture a deer, which are plentiful It would astonish a Yale or a Harvard football man to come upon this scene some bright m.mning at low tide and see the squaws and children playing lacrosse on the beach. They get so excited with their sport that they keep it up until the tides drive them from the beach, often staying there until they have to chase the ball down into the surf. HE CAUGHT HIM. How to Lure a Big; Trout Into Trouble and Death. Fred, who had often been here before, wanted big trout and knew how to get them. He cast very near where I did, but gave the little fellows no chance. So rapidly 'jas his "single fly trolled across the water that in a few minutes he had collected the whole school away from the spot where he expected to find a big trout. His fly was so large that I laughed when he mounted it, telling him he would find salmon a few hundred miles farther north, in Canada but rather scarce in York state. But my banter was unheeded. Fred knew these waters better than I <lid those Pennsylvania streams where many years ago I learned to cast a fly. and where such a fly as he used would be considered a bad want of judgment, A’dozen times he swiftly trailed his —'sr the water, getting a rise at liy '* letting them have every cast, but n». ' -’"ht he it Twenty feet away to tne . seemed to have drawn all the small trout in that hole, says a writer in the American Angler. Then lengthening bis line he it again and slowly drew his fly with a quivering, snakelike motion. There was a rise of a magnificent fish, but Fred struck too quickly and missed him. though I thought the fish felt the steel. “Wait a moment Frod." said L "Change your fly and you will get that big fellow.” • 'N°t ft bit of it ” yelled John. Let him have it pow. quick.” Fred’s fly struck the water before John had done speaking, and had not trailed three feet when the trout took it, showing his head and shoulders out of the water and making the surface boil with the sweep of his broad tail. As his capacious mouth closed on the fly Fred struck so sharply that the leader sounded like the twang of a violin string struck pizzicato. •You’ve got him, Fred.” yelled John. “Keep him away from the bushes. I’ll paddle you out and give you plenty of room to play him.” Indigestible. Young Farmer Medders (at supper) —Ouch: Wonark! Kah! Jeeminy jeeswax! What in heaven’s name ia the matter with this cake Glortosa? Bride (a city girl)—Why. darling, there can surely be nothing the matter with it I followed the recipe exactly. • Tastes as if it was made of clam shells. Eah!” •Oh dearest! May be it was tho fault of the eggs 1 always thought eggs were soft and yellow inside: but these were white and brittle all the way through, and I had to powder them with iiat irons, and—” “Where did you 1 nd them?” “In the hen house, darling. There was only one egg in each nest, and—” •■Gloriosa. you have used my new china nest eggs!”—Puck. Fine Threads of the Spider. A scientist has eomputed that 10,000 breads of the web of a full-grown spidef are not larger than a single hair of • man’s beard. He calculates that wh«o young spiders begin to spin, 400 of their threads are not larger than one from a full-sized insect. If this be a fact, 1,000,M0 webs of a young spider are not as large as a singl* hair from a man’s face. • 5 The Queen‘s Cream-Colored Donee. Quern Vlctoila’s state tehm of creamcolored • horses have a history. The present stock are in'ellige'nt., gentle beasts, fond i.f bdng mrt'ent I.y st, angers. The cregm-i ol re I hprses were brought over from Ca:iQVcr origihally by George 1., and from tint t m-, w. hthe exception of the period betw.'en L 03 aud 1 813, when Napoleon I. was in p.isjegrr>n of Hanover, until 1837 they w ire regularly supplied from the electoral stud at Hanover. -

DO YOU WEAR FALSE HAIR? ■ — Thu Will Toll now II Obtained. The bust false hair comes from France, where it i’ s«ld by the giitiume at prices which vary accordinff to quality an i ce'ur, says the New York Herald. The most expensive salsa hair is the silver-white varletv, which is In great demand and very dim ■ult to find. This is due to the fact that men grow bald in a majority of cases before their hair roaches the slher-white stage, and women, whether bald or not, are not disposed to sell their white hair at any price. They need it themselves. Still women growing bald must have white hair to match the scant allowance advancing age has left them. The chemists h ive taken the matter in hand and are able to produce by decoloiai ion of. hair of any color a tolerable gredo of white hair, which, however, lias a bluish tint not at all approachin in beau!y the silvery qpftness of hair which has» been bleached Isy natur •. y False Ji.jr of the ordinary shade* N obtained .In two way.s. The better and more expensive kind is cut directly from the heads of peasant women, who sell their silken tresses sometimes for a mere song and sometimes for a fair price, according as they have learned wisdom. Every year the whole territory of France is traveled over by men whose business It is to persuade village maidens, their mothers and their aunts to part with their hair for financial consideration. These men are known as *‘cutters, ” and there are at least 500 of them in the country always going from- house to house, from farm to farm, and through all tho villages in alt the departments, seeking subjects for their scissors. A good cutter averages from two to five heads of hair a day, and be pays from 2 francs to 10 francs for each. It is estimated that a single head of luxuriant growth weighs about a pound. The false hair thus obtained—at the cost of tears and regrets of many foplish maidens —is the finest in the market, and sells for an exaggerate!] price, which puts it beyond the reach of the ordinary purchaser. Besides, it is evident that the supply of genuine ‘‘'cuttings” must fall far sho?t of the demand for false hair. So the majority of this wavy merchandise is obtained—yes, ladies, I am exceedingly sorry, but it is the fact—from the rag- iekers. These busy searchers of asn heaps and garbage barrels collect every day in thte ctyy of Paris alone at le.,st 100 pounds of hair, which some hundreds of- thousands of women havs combed out of their heads during the preceding twenty-four hours. This hair, aM mixed together and soiled, one would think, beyond redemption, is sold to hair cleaners at $1 to $1.50 a pound, which shows simply that the fair sex in one city alone throws away annually about 300,000 francs worth of hair, for which they afterward pay —and it ,is the same hair, mind — considerably over 1,000,000 francs The cleaning of this refuse hair is an operation which requires careful attention. After the hair has been freed from the, dust and dirt and mud and otner unpleasant things with which IS has come in contact in gutters and slop-buckets, It Is nibbed in sawdusv until it shines once more with’its pristine gloss, and then the process of sorting is begun. In the first place skillful hands tlx the individual hairs in frames witfi the roots all pointing the same way, and then they are arranged according to color. Finally, when a sufficient number of hairs of one color have been obtained—nor is this number so immense as ! generally supposed—they «re made into the beautiful braids -'•nwn so seductively fn-’the which are ‘ If . windows of fashionable . as the Good Book says, wisdom goes , with the hair, she who places on her head one of the conglomerate braids might be said to receive a portion of the wisdom of hundreds or thousands of other women who had worn those hairs before her. It is said that the cutters in France have plied their trade so industriously that at present it is inydly possible in the whole Republic to find a woman who will sell her hair. The business has been done to death, and now the enterprising dealers in false hair are sending their representatives through Switzerland, Belgium and Norway, canvassing for unsophisticated lasses who will allow themselves to lie robbed of their hair, which is half their beauty, for a few pieces of silver. A wuesllon Chut Puzzles. The question whether stolen goods ought to be charged to the thief at wholesale or retail rates is one that has more than onoe engaged the attention of the courts, says a lawyer. It Is often a serious matter for the prisoner whether the goods are estimated at wholesale or retail, for the dlfferenoe sometimes •mounts to that between grand and petit larceny. In several cases • the courts have allowed me prisoner the benefit, of wholesale rates, and thus rated his crime as petit larceny, but, as a rule, thefts of gooils from a store are estimated at retail, for, as a judge said not long ago, “Considering the way the prisoner came by the goods, we can hardly afford to wholesale them to him.’ Buddha Canonized. Doan Stanley stated onoe that Buddha was canonized as St Josaphet, who ia commornorated Nov.'27, by the church, and tho statement caused mush discussion in England. A certain mon|; —St. John of Damascus, he says—was credited with a religious romon-e called “Life of Barlaam and Josaph.” It has been most distinctly proved that tlie story was derived from the storyot Buddha. The moral tone of the book made it very popular in the Middle Ages, and eventually the hero of the story was canonized. The facts are vouched for by many clerical participators in the dis".UßsiOil. So Paft«e» the World’s <llory. Seldom now does tho world hear of the French ex-Empfe«w Eugenie whose name once was a household word. It is reported that she will spend the winter In Cairo. Twenty-throe years ago shr was In that city at itho opening of th - g z ■ i. il. the dny«.of h t r splendor and the world was at her feat Ino Khedive claused a carriage roa’d to •const nictodjactosa the desert all the way from Cairo to tlie in order that the Empress might have no difficulty in reaching thosftjOfchmpiring mementos of a lost civilization. Her stay In Egypt was triumph imfi now aha U lorgottM.

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MOSTLY MEDICAL, A German pbysloinn, Dr. Krug, makes a nutritious cake for cattle out of weed fiber by chemioally Lr-iimforudng the eellulos-; o* the wood Into grape sugar. Now H«qiN to save your old newspapers to protect clothing against moths, for the Ink on the newspapers is nearly as repulsive to them as Is camphcr or coal tar. A MKuiOAX news letter from London, dated Jan. 80, to’.clof 50U deaths in London in a week due to the grip. London has been hiving a tough w n’er aud s very serious visitation of the epidemic. I Ths Jamesburg (New Jersey) Reform School has a boy six years old having the manners and maturity of a man ot twenty. Hols altogether too precocious, too strong, too self-willed, and seemingly too dangerous to l*e at large. Small doses of sulphate of magnesia taken internally are curative of that state of the system which favors and permits tho growth of warte. Throei grain doses of Epsom salts morning and evening have c .red several ehiTdnn trouble I with warty growths. Dh. \V. Gilmax Thompson has been trying bananooi, i: food pre; ared of batons Hour, In bos >ital ena e of acute gastritis, and ho Unde that, it has done better than any other form of farinaceous foo-1. He praises it for its nutritious properties, its ready digestibility, audits e nvenienoe in a conoentrated dry form which ie not likely to deteriorate. Dr. F. Dbewby reports a great inorease of insanity among colored people since the abolition of slavery. From 1880 to 1890 the negro population increased only 1.46 per cent., while the number of insane negroes doubled, so that nqw there is one to every 800—due, it is thought, to the of freedom by a people who have been accustomed tc discipline aud regulation. In cases of membranous croup the steam from vinegar gives great relief to the patient, but It should be kept up continuously by plaeiag the vinegar in an ordinary bread pan and putting hot flatirons from the stove into it, It is not pleasant for the attendants, and it Is some trouble to keep up the steam this way, but a physielaa who has tried it thoroughly finds It very effective. Db. R. H. Harrison, recalling some ways ip which people go crazy, cKes a few cases seemingly due to isolation or too much centering the thoughts upon •elf. His conclusion Is: “To have a sound mind and keep it, have some interests outside yourself. If you have no family and home, do something for somebody. There are compensations connect d with self-denial which the preachers have never told us of." Modern football is rather a warlike sort of pastime, and the Loi lou Lancet has been reviewing the acci nts of the last season in England. It I s reported twelve cases of death directly attributable to injuries received in football matches, some of the causes of death being qcute bronchitis, rupture of the inti stince, rupture of the kidney, injury to tho brain. If it be said that such accidents are the result of unuecessar.ly rough play, (he reply is that the game il nsv ny other way.—Footo’l He THINuS WE CAN’T EX-PLAIN. Two English workmen, while sawing • huge block of stone near Bath, cut through a nest of live bees almost in ths center. A six-yeab-old son ot George Harger, who lives just south of Kiowa, Kai)., is an infant Jupiter in his way. He is so fail of little thunderbolts that whenever he approaches any conducting substance, animate or inanimate, one of them springs to It from his fingertips. He always has a larger load just before a storm and all the apimals about the place run from him In terror. Near Olympia, Wash., is a well that is coming gradually to the surface. It is between twenty and thirty feet in depth. For some time tho brick wall ot the well has been protruding through until now it sticks up into the air like a funnel to the height of ten or fifteen feet. The bricks are undisturbed and th" wall is intact. The bottom of the well, too, is rising with the wall. Near the Red Hill echi ol house, in Oxford Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, is a little boy, not quite three -—old, who woke to the middle of -‘ J v and colled to hie ye-**~ ~ — to-tno the night father in the next room: “l ap,., row you will have to go to Bonneauville, 1 because your uncle has just died." On the next day Mr. Rlckrode was informed of the death of his relative, which upon Inquiry was found to have occurred at the exact time the night before when the child had announced it to his parent, A stranger who tarried at the houss of Jaco'b I’rinkey, a rich farmer living near Uniontown, Pa., told how for three nights he had dreamed of a free on the farm that was filled with money. Prinkey recognized the tree from the description and cut it down, vrhen heape of shining coin fell out to the amount of ; $4,000. The stranger could not carry his share. Prinkey gave him paper foi , it and as he rode away pressed him to ( come again. Ths next day <m expert I pronounced the coin to be a’ tine quality of pewter. The inexplicable tiling about this tale is the idiocy of Mr Prinkey. ‘ Thn Feannt Crop. It has been reported that the peanut crop is in fair condition. It will be about 65 per cent of last year’s zrop, which was about the largest i ever grown, 5,000,000 bushels being harvested. But the peanut are far from t>eing happy. The present price at first hands varies from 2} to S cents. That Is b low the cost of production, and growers want 4 to 5 cents. Peanuts grow in a few counties in southeastern Virginia, middle Tennessee and North Carolina, and the crop Is uncertain and expensive. There Is a national peanut union which is urging sundry measures to protect the growers, one of which is the advice of the Farmers’ Alliance, to hold their produce and not let •peculators gobble all the profits. A Prosperous Southern City. Augusta, Ga., is a typo of the new South, with its canal seven miles long,, built by tl e municipality to supply power at cheap rates to any one who will build a mill. That canal has paid for itself, There is now $12,000,000 invested in cotton mills there, a new town has been laid out on the other side of the river, a big Iron bridge built, and thirty miles of electric railroad put In operation on Its streets, besides many other private enterprises. Augusta wants to know whether any other town, East or West, can beat such a record. Theory of the merchants and the people, though, is for cheaper money, and thia seems to be true of ail parts of the l-’.outli. In Georgia the legal rate of Int«r st Is 8 per cent., end by the time It the hands of the borrower it Hus.cost h m It) per neat., aud he is glad First Duke—\Vhy don’t you travel inebgnito. a- I do? It’s far pleasanter. ■ ? Seednd Duke—Yoa- but my wife always goes with me, and 1 married an American— Llj. 1

The Land of the Mlkato. Probably uo whore In eithsrheml. are ie there more general happlnes’ an among tho subb ats of the Mikado, ’or civility, genuine good-heartc'lr.c observance of general eoorum, in ry, sobriety, friigaißy and healthy t... we may look in vatu for a parallel : the people of 1 •'pan. The soulal oh> oter of these antipod< a is as planished us the long centuries of interchanging humanities could make an ingenuous people, albeit the mild teachings of Buddha ana the gentle philosophy of Confucius have made them heathens. Russia Perpetrates more pure and undulteratea diabolism in any one day than does the dense empli'e of Ohlaa in one year. FARM AND GARDtoe A ooRttnsFONDKNT of an exchange says that In saving seed corn there arc five points to look at— length of ear depth of grain, smallness of cob, wellfilled eudu and a good place to keep It, Two excellent results of life oi the farm, as compared with life on the street, are the humanity and economy engendered in young people who help tc feed tho many dependents on the farm, and who find no other way of gathering needed pennies but by that of slow earning end careful saving. One of the new applications of ■ waste product to a useful purpose is the manufacture of paper out of cedar wood pulp, for underlaying carpets, wrapping of wool, furs, etc. The paper makers procure the cedar chips of pencil manufacturers, and paper made of this material will, It is claimed, preserve articles wrapped In it from the moths. Bban is not so nutritious an shorts but mixed with cut hay Is very much relished, and makes a good feed. Barley contains 920 parte of nutritive matter to 1,000 pounds. It is the cotnm n food for the horse in some parts of the continent of Europe. It Is very stimulating and laxative. It should be bruised, an< given with cut hay. Boiled barley is e good laxative. A Rp-sker Who Door Not Spook. 7 he speakership is a curious inotlte Ron in America and has a peculiar origin. A speaker is one who speaks, and naturally it is puszling to know that our speaker is one who doss not speak. If be wishes to speak he must abdicate the chair, thereby abrogating his functions as speaker. But by glancing at the,origin of the term speaker the inconalstenev is understood. Our legislature Is modelled upon that of England. In British Parliament ft has been cuetomary from the time of Edward 111. and is customary to-day for the presiding member of the House of Commons to speak for that body in addressing the crown. At the meeting of a new parliament the Queen summons the House of Commons to the bar of the House ot Lords and signifies her pleasure that they ohooee a speaker who may speak for them in matters on which she may desire to address them. When chosen by the Co mmons the speaker Is approved by the Queen and he then addresses her, claiming those “ancient and undoubted' rights and privileges," Ac., which had been granted by other royal predecessors. Inasmuch as we have adopted the forms of legislative procedure of tbe mother country we have also adopted tin: title of speaker, and we still cling te it, although its original meaning Is gons Baldnaxa. An English medical paper Bay? that boldness, not due to previous disease or exciting causes, can be prevented, or at ioast mddifled, if people would taken few sensible precautions. A head covering should be used as little aspomiible, and never Indoors, in trains, or in closed carriages; In summer and still weather straw hats are best; in winter light felt, ventilated and unlined. Too constant washing of the hair is unnecessary, as well as harmful. Once a week is quite enough for cleanliness as well as for maintaining the strength of the hair. The same remark applies to constant brushing; continual brushing, especially with hard brushes, should be avoided. There Is a common notion that greasing the hair is vulgar, and it is now regarded as “bad form.” The consequence Is that many people fall into the other extreme, and never apply any pomade at aIL After the hair has been washed it |s qvi£e beneficial to apply a moderate quantity of some form of simple grease ar ail. • ABOUT GOLD. A Very Little Gone a Long Way in *M Various Arte. • — Anle believe that there is no *• *• <n v efleot I Most, known chemical that quo upon particles of gold. This is a mistake. Lelenic acid will dissolve it sa readily as aqua Mortis does the baser metals. A mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids (aqua regia) will also dissolve it, forming chloride of gold; so will a solution of chloride gas ia water. Chloride of gold is the only salt of importance obtained from the yellow metal. This chloride is used for coloring glass, also in photography. When used by the glass-worker he finds that the hundredth part of • grain will deeply color a cubjc inch ot glass. By beating out between two pieces of membrane, gold may be flattened into leaves of such thinness that 282,000 of them may be laid one upon the other in order to make a pile 1 inch high. Gold beaters have succeeded in | spreading a single ounce of gold over a surface of 100 square feet. In making gold threads for embroidery it has been found that six ounces of gold can lie drawn into 200 miles of wire. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notice 18 hereby given u> the creditors, heirs and legatees of Isaac Ktndel. deceased, to appear In the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur. Indiana. on the Bth day of December lW2,und show cause.lf any, why tbe final settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved: and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof sf heirship, and receive their distributive shares. , Albert Kindel, Adm’r. John Anderson, Attorney. Decatur. Ind.. Nov. 16. 1892, 35-2 Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Michael Heffner, deceased, to appear In the Adams < lircuit Court, held at Decatur. Indiana, on the 7th day of December 1892, and show cause, if anv, why tho final set* tlemont accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. John Schurgrb, Administrator. Decatur, Ind., Nov. 16, 1892. 85-2 Notice oj_Survej. To all parties interested; _ Notice Is hereby given that I wilj, on Tuesday Decembet 6.18te commence the survey of section twenty-seven (27), township twentysix (26) nerth, range fifteen (15) east, In Adams county, Ind. Beginning on said day at the northwest earner of said section. By order of Hsnrv Stacy. 353 John W. Tyndall. Co. Surveyor. » Soldiers Attention —Now is the time to apply for increase, under present laws many pensioners are entitled to larger pensions than they are now receivings No pay unless successful. James T. Merryman,

JL \A wßk IT. 1 / JL ■RS, ELMIRA HATOH. HEART DISEASE 20 YEARS. Dr. JM-Uw C.. JO>:harl,lo4. Diab Bibs : For 20 years I was troubled with heart dliease. Would frequently have'falling spells and smothering at night. Had to sit up of get out of bed to breathe. Had pain: in my"toft side and back most of the time; at last I became dropsical. I »u very nervous and nearly worn out. Ibe least excitement would cauee tne to THOUSANDS troubled with fluttering. For the tart fifteen years I could not sleep on my leftside or back trntil began taking your Jfew Meers Owre. I bad not taken it vary long until I Mt mnoh bettor, and I cu now eleo on either side or back without die least discomfort. I have no pain, smothering, dropsy, no wind on stomach or other disagreeable synu'toma lam able to do all my own housework without any trouble andoonilder myself eured. Elkhart, Ind.. 1888. Mas. luma Hatcx, It is now four years slnoe I have taken any medicine. Am in better health than I have beau M .STL. 1 iasys CURED Heart Cure saved my life *7 ** * ~ and made me a well woman. lam now 8» yesss of age, and am able to do a good day’s work. M V nth, 1892. MBS. rnxiaa Havcrt. •OLD ON A FOtITIVK OdARANTKg. IRY DR. MILES’ PILLS, 50 DOSES 25 CIS Sleeo'eMneM cured by Dr. Miles’ Nervine. BUTTS WANTED I - The Briant & Berne Manufacturing Company will pay the highest cash price for the following class of timber delivered at their factories at Briant and Berne: Gray ash hesding butts Black ash “ Sycamore “ “ ' ■Maple “ “ Linn a Cottonwood “ “ ~ Hackberry “ “ Elm “ Red Oak Stave Bolts Whiteash “ “ Elm “ “ . , Also elm, sycamore, cottenwood, red oak and maple logs from to 19% feet. All the above timber must be free from knots and other imperfections. Call at the factories for full particulars. Briant & Berne M’fg Co. ' -W A.TI Merryman’S. IFACTORY Yon can get all kinds of ] Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets* Molding Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. ' ■ ■■ In tact aD kinds of building ma terial either PI finished on short notice. r -•- '• - Notice to Those who are Afflicted. Those afflicted with Chronic or lingering disease. Dr. D. B. Snodgrass, for 23 years a constant practitioner of of medicine in Grant county, Ind.; founder of the Curtis Physiomedical Institute and Sanitarium, of Marion, Ind.; having filled the chair of chronic diseases in three medical ’colleges; author of a new and unprecedented system of treating chronic diseases, assisted by Dr. Joseph Duefee, have permantly established a branch office over Stone’s hardware store, Decatur, Ind., for the treatment of all forms of chronic disease. Drs. Snodgrass and Dunfee will treat with great success all forms of chronic disease. Dr. Dunfee will be in the office every Friday and Dr. Snodgrass each second Friday. Examinations free and terms reasonable. D. B. SNODGRASS, M. D. JOSEPH DUNFEE. M. D. — JZ ,Sucb f 'll neat Makes an every-day of an I old-time luxury. Pure and xiwiesome. I Prepared with scrupulous care. Highest I award at all Pure Food Expositions. Each I package makes two large pits. Avoid I imitations-and insist on haying the ,1 MERRELL & SOULE Svrseui N Y