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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
MR.. sPoopENDYKH Is ILL.
He Expresses His opinion of the Doctor
Brooklyn ,Eaele., -. :.

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'How long is il since I've been on
Of this meassly old barracks = ask t
Mr.. Spoopendyke, turning painfully
in his bed and gazing in a vague,
bait daaed way toward long line Of
antidotes on the mantel.
About two weeks, dear, said Mrs
Spoopendyke, coming towards him
with a bowl Of Cruel and smiling
pleasantly. The doctor says you are
not likely to have another attack il
you keep very quiet and follow bis
instructiOns.
'0h, he does, does heS' said Mr..
Spoopendyke, making a vain effor.
to sit up, and falling back with a
groan. HE says | won't have an.
other attack. Now, what do you
suppose that dod gasted, bald psted
pill roller knows about my case any
way. Perhaps you think he could
make an Egyptian mummy dance I
highland fling, and put life into &
cigar sign. All he needs is three
bulletins day and unlimited chin to
become one Of the leading physicians
of the country. suppose if | take
all that stuff up there ! shall be born
sgain, and see the paxs Centennial.
What does that bone saving, blister.
ing. old ape know about the future
any Way How can be tell whether
I'll have another attack or not p
Perhaps he will tell you the name Of
your mex. husband, aud the color of
his hair, for so cents. Perhaps he
10 dod gssted Spiritualst. What's
that z
Cruel, said Mrs. Spoopendyke.
'Gruel, always Cruel, said Mr..
SpoOpendyke, turning bis face to the
wall. do you imagine Pm a Shel>
tering Arms and s.. Johns Guild
excursion thrown into one Why
don't you tie a bib around my neck,
get me rubber to chew on and put
q rattle in my hands
But the doctor says you must not
eat solid food just at pres
'Oh, | am not to eat solid food
said Mr.. Spoopendyke, kicking vi
ciopsly at the foot hoard. A diet Of
cannon balls and scrap iron won't
agree with me. 1t won't do for me
to attempt digesting steel rails and
bridge girdles. He thinks they
wouldn't agree with me, does he g.
The measly old rattlebrained powder
mixer. Here, give me that stuff
and Mr.. Spoopendyke knocked the
bowl out of bis wife's hands, spilling
the contents over the bed clothes.
There, now, ! suppose you arc sat"
isGed, he said, squirming over tO@
ward the wall, and digging his face
in the pillow, while Mrs. Spoopen.
dyke gathered up the pieces and
said it was 80 fortunate the bowl was
only earthenware.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
WATCH YOUR NnIaHnoR

Watch your neighbors; don't give
them chance to move without you
seeing them if you do, they might
do something wrong and you not
know about it. To be sure, you
never knew of them doing anything
wrong, but they might have, if you
had not watched them. Aud if you
see any thing that is not right, be
sure to toll everybody you know all
about it. Do not give them chance
to redeem their failings and if posi-
BILE make your actions and looks infer
that It was worse than you are des-
cribiug, for the blacker you make
your peighbor's char. cter, the more
cOnciOus you will fesl of your own
spotless virtue.
Of course you never did anything
that was wrong, or if you did, you
we're smart enough not to lot other
people find it out THAT is, you think
you were,) and so it is your duty TO
make the most out of your neighbours
weakness, and that will warn other
people to be careful and keep mask
over their sins and failings, and the
worse the story you have to tell the
faster it will spread.
1t 10 said there was silence in
heaven for the space of half an hour,
but if it ever happened here the
world would surely come 20 an end.
So keep talking about everything
wrong you see and try to SEQ ell you
can. 1t does not matter If you neg
lect your owa duties they are Of
comparatively little Importance, and
that will help some one else to keep
the talking going; for then they will
have something to say about you
so, it's your neighbors you must
watch, and not yourself.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
A CAR LOAD OF POWDER ExPLo
DIED.

On the 9th ult., Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was shaken to its very centre
by terrific explosion. Instantly u
great volume of smoke was seen to
ascend in the southwestern part OF
the city, which arose like a pail,
heavenward. An investigation dis
closed the fact that on Saturday last
a car load of gunpowder, billed com~
mon blasting powder, reached here
over the Chicago, Rock Island aad
Pacific Railroad, and was directed to
j. o. Reynolds, Denver, Col. The
Union Pacific Company, however,
refused to receive the dangerous
freight, and the Car was returned to
the Rock Island yards, where it ex-
ploded. The conclusion demolished
the company's round house, repair
shops, brick and freight houses, and
about forty or fifty freight cars, and
dug q hole in the ground fifteen feet
deep and forty FIVE feet in diameter.
Large windows in all parts Of the
city we're shattered sheets of plas.
tering were torn from houses, and
damage was done in all directions. -
Even in Omaha, on the opposite side
of the river, large windows were
broken by the conclusion, and as far
as the Missouri valley, twenty miles
north of bere. The loss will amount
to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
A FOG STORY.

A dog in New Mexico returning
one evening with his sheep to the
fold discovered that bis master was
still in the shanty, and kept very
quiet. The next evening it was the
same. But after penning up the
sheep, the dog smelled about the
door, scratched, barked and even
howlsd, for he vas getting very hun
CRY, but his master did not move
The dog, true to his appointed duty,
went on with the sheep on the third
day, but that night when be drove
the flock into their pen the last one
to SItempt to get in became a victim
to the dogs appetite. This method
of providing for his own wants be-
came part of the faithful dogs daily
duty. Every evening the last sheep
to try to enter the fold was seized
by him, aud served for supper aud
breakfast and for dinner the next
day. The ranch to which the dog
belonged was 10 solitary part of the
Territory. and off the track of travel
or visitation. For two years from
the time of the masters death--as
aScertained by date left by the latter
the faithful dog tended the flock
committed to his charge, and had
fresh mutton for bis supper every
night. The flock was not decimaled
by this steady drain upon its resOur
ces. On the contrary, It increased
in numbers, and when at the end Of
two years from the time Of the death
of the proprietor the ranch was visi~
ted and the Rename of tho owner
wero found, the dog was still at his
post Of duty, jealousy guarding his
flock and driving them to the best
pastures every day and to the fold at
night, before which he slept to keep
the wild sheep-eaters Of the plains ut
a civil distance.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
THE TRICKS OF THE COTTON Blu
SINESS,

'How do you dink de cotton pis
meas will come oud dis year, Misdsr
Hoffenstein p said Herman, as he
d0sted off shoe box and arranged
an overeoat on pile Of clothes.
'Vd. dot vas pisness, replied
lioffenstein, vat | don't like to ex,
bress myself aloud, and ven efer |
dink uf do money vat / adv anced,
und vat nefer get any more, gets
so mad dot feels | will die rigid
away mid do aboblexy.'
who vas it swindled you, Mr..
Hohenstein =
1T vas aigger, Herman, und his
name vas lsam. My gr acious, efry
Won says he vas de best nigger de
whole country around, und ! advan-
oed him cloding, shoes, provisions,
und dollar uud helf muskes, for
vich | charged him only $500, und
he vas to let me buy all uf de cotton
vat he makes. Won day dell him
if he gets De frsd cotton uf dc sea-
SOB 10 he viii get a premium on it,
und he says he will half dree bales a
week before any Won else. Veil, it
wasn't long ven Won day lsam, init q
wagon und couple uf mules, brings
one bales uf cotton to my sdore, de
firsd uf de year. A COUPLE uf de
bales Weighed eight hundred und de
oder Weighed nine hundred. knew
de cotton would bring dwenty cents
bound, so | gif lsam den cents for
it, and shuSt as soon as buy it Levi
Cohen offers me fifteen cents, but
only vinks at him und asks him if he
drinks ] vas more grsener as a erase
hopper. My gr.r-a oious, Herman,
vot you dink, after shipped de cot
ton | found out dere was a couple uf
old cooking stove in Won bale, und
aloud seek hundred bounds uf an old
worn oud saw mill in dc oders, und
Isam vas in Arkansas, dc lief Ven
dc heople found oud dey all laughed
und said it vas a shoke, und got
so mad dot | didn't sell dot cotton to
Levi Cohen for Efdeen cents, dot |
vas in bed a week NIT der rheuma-
dism. Herman, | don't want noding
more TO do NIT DC cotton pisness.'
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Mr. George /. seney spends bis
money like a prince and q gentle-
man. The New York Tribune says
he has "made benevolencs This busi-
ness," We rather think be has made
generosity bis happiness. He had
subscribed $1,000 for the Michigan
sufferer, and sent an additional check
for 81, 800 with this letter; "As the
subscriptions to the Michigan suffer-
ers seem to lag, | enclose a check
for their relief. An appeal SO genu-
inc must not DO over looked" II
ell rich men we're like Mr.. Seney
they would be much happier here
and hereafter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

WHAT IS AN INcn OF RAIN AN
inch of rain is that quantity which
falling upon O level surface and not
absorbed or allo we'd to run off would
stand an inch in depth. The amount
of water falling upon an acre OF land
when the rainfall is one inch would
assonish any one who has given no
thought to the subject. On each
square foot of surface there would
be IA cubic inches, and on one acre
which contains 43, 700 square feet,
would be G,27a,d40 cubic inches,
which reduced to imperial gallons,
each containing 10 pounds avoirdu
poise, would be 22,623 gallons,
weighing 22G,23O pounds, sOme>
thing mora than ia tons weight to
the acre. The annual average rain
fall 10 this locality spProximstes 80
inches, consequently each acre re
ceives about 5,6552 tons weight OF
water in g year. This amount OF
water would require train Of 500
freight cars to carry it. If one had
to water a GAO acre farm at this rate
il would requirs figures like. those
of the distance to the nearest fixed
star.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
A HORRIBLE Story OF CRUELTY

A HORRIBLE STORY OF CRUELTY.
An extraordinary and almost in~
credible story of cruelty comes from
Jersey City, where q mother is
charged with deliberately starving
her child to death, and announcing
it's death, providing a coffin, and ac>
tually arranging the body as if for
burial before it had breatbed it's last.
When it's condition was discovered,
starvation was so far advanced that
life could not be saved. This re.
mar able parent is charged by her
own sister with having lost three
other children in the same way.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
SUCCESSFUL SKIN GRATING
Gazette, Newburgh, n. Y.

DIR. John Deys has successfully
performed the operation OF skim
grating upon Mary Foster, aged ten
years. Several months ago she ac>
cidentally scalded herself. Her
body was badly burned, particularly
the right arm, the skin of which.
from the shoulder to the tips of the
fingers, peeled off. The arm was
slow to heal, and caused intense
pain, while the discharge from it
was very weakening. On the first
day Of May DR.. Days decided to
perform the skin>grafting operation
Pieces of skin were taken from the
ar ms of four or five young men and
we're placed on the scalded arms
About three fourths of the gratis took
root and slowly grew till they cover~
cd the intervening space, and, join
ing together, afforded that pr election
which the scaIded arm needed. The
arm was neerly healed in ak weeks
and il is now well. There is
not scar and the skin is soft and
smooth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

A kindIing wood factory is being
erected near Newbern, N. c., where
billets of wood will be cut in the pro
per length and dimensions, bundled
and shipped to Northern markets.
The parties having the enterprise in
charge will build three large boats,
suitable for canal navigation, to be
used 10 transporting the kindlings tc
their destination.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

A LITTLE lighsapPesrs in the dark
ness Of want and short crops. An
exchange says that the corn crop Of
Iowa will run up hundreds of mill
ions of bushels. Eighteen counties,
which in 1880 yielded 60,000,000
bushels, will this year produce 70,'
100000. We like to chronicle such
40 outlook.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

The Valdosta Times says some
parties went alligator huoting iu
nearly dried up lake near Staten
vile, last week, and killed between
forty FIVE aud fifty, some Of them
measuring ten feet in length. The
nsxt day another attack was made
and twenty-five killed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

The Courier Journal says: "By
one of those inexplicsple cOinciden-
ces most common in politics, the dis
patches have not mentioned Arthur's
name since Garfield died without in
cid .ntally noting the fact that behind
him stalked Grant. Of course, it 10
only u political coincidence"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Eliphalet E. Brown, Jr., young
est son of Judge Brown, Og Browns
National Hotel, of Macon, was acci-
dentally killed Wednesday night,
while on the top of caboose car as
1t passed beneath the Flint River
bridge near MOntezuma, on the Eu|
fsuls railroad.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Two heirs of a Virginia farm
quarrelled over thirty seven cents.
They went to court and at the end
Of six years, when q settlement was
made, the heirs received nothing,
the farm being sold to pay legal ex-
pensss.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

10 oil the wars 10 the United
States previous to the late rebellion,
not more than = dozen men bearing
the rank Of general we're killed 10
battle. How great the difference in
the last grest struggle, when over
one hundred generals fell On both
sides. More than than this, 10 ell
previous wars there were not "a
many lives lost as were given up ia
a single battle of the last one.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

An unpleasant sensation has been
caused 10 Bristol, England, by the
discovery that q cargo Of 800 tons
of human bones had been landed
there to the order of q local firm Of
manure manufacturers. The bones
were shipped at Rodosto and Con-
stAn.inople, and are the remains
principally of the defenders Of Plev~
na. Hair still sdheres to some
skulls.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
Bogus Certificates.

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pre-
tending to be made of wonderful
foreign roots, bsrks, &C., and pulled
up by long bogus certificates of pre-
tended miraculous cures, but a sim
pie, pure, effectivs medicine, made
of we'll known valuable remedies,
tina. furnishes its own certificates by
it's cures. We refer to Hop Bitters,
the purest rnd best of medicines. -
Republican.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Whatit costs to drink occasionally
For one year, three glasses per day
at ten cents, 500 so. For twenty
five years. compound Interest at 10
per cent, $ll,845.l9. Costs about
the same to smoke occasionally" for
twenty-five years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

A black bear in Idaho undertook
to hug a young lady, and she punch
cd out one Of his eyes with her par
asol. Hooray for the girl She's
ready TO protect q mans rights from
infringement, when be len. there 70
do il himself.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

A bona dde be. of 1000 was
made by q prominent cotton factor
Of New Orleans, September 23d, that
the cotton crop this year would not
be six millions Of bales.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Gat6eld's boys will start life with
100000 each. Il may be q fatal
gift, so fer 90 their ambition 10 con.
cerned
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
Ths @arietta ssaraal.
Marietta. Ca, Thursday, Oct. Q, 1891.

Though Mr. Arthur ~ the son Of
q Baptist minister, he attends the
Episcopal service, to which denomi.
nation his wife belonged.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

Mr.. Edward Atkinson, Of Boston,
will send Chinese beans for distribu>
ton at the Atlanta Exposition. An
acre of beans yields twenty tive gal
Ions Of oil.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

A burglar entered the house 0
Ellery Prescott, banker of Topeka,
Kansas, which contained only two
ladies. One was successfully chlOrO-
formed, but the Odor of the drug
awoke Mrs. Prescott, who reached
under her pillow for revolver and
inflicted q mortal wound on the fel.
low as he sprang through the win.
dow.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06

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Tie C3rmplites.

The Carmelites. who constitute one of
the four Roman Catholic orders of men,
dicant friars, claim Elias rs their found
er, and take their name from his cave
on Mount Carmel. Historically they
date back to about 1909, when the Pa
triarch OF Constantinople gave rule to
the order of monks. A female branch
was instituted by John Soreth in the fif.
teenth century. BY the rules of the or.
der the members were confined to their
cells, enjt incl to continue day and night
IN prayer, prohibited from holding prop.
erty, commanded at all times to abstain
from flesh, and to fast large part Of the
year, to labor constantly with their
hands, and to hold little converse with
each other. This rule becoming after
ward greatly relaxed, about 1862 the
celebrated Carmelite nun st. Teresa in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-11

Sun dials were invented $50 B. @.
The sextant was invented in 1850.


THE sextant was invented in 1850.
THE first locomotive built in this
country was at West Point in 1880. 1t
was named the Phoenix.
CALICO received its name from Cali
cut, a city of India, which was discov-
cred by tho Portuguese in 1893
THE English is the most difficult of all
modern languages for foreigner to learn
with accuracy. The German comes
next. The French is easier TO acquire,
and the Italian easier still.
Foo is caused by the union of two
masses OF vapor of different tempera-
ture. The sun heats the earth in a
much shorter time than it does the
ocean, and when the warm air of the
land unites with the colder air of the
sea the vapor is condensed and rendered
visible.
DURING n time of scarcity the ancient
Lydians invented several games, among
others that of dice. One day they would
engage in games so entirely as not to
feel any craving for food; the next day
they ate and abstained from games. In
this way, according to an old historian,
they passed eighteen years.
The following thirteen States formed
the Union ut the time of the Declaration
Of Independence New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. The last six were slavehold-
ing States.
THE gift of red rosebud means,
"Thou hast stolen my affections :" of a
white rosebud, CT am to be won," or
81 shall win you if 1 can" Both are
declarations of love, differing only in
intensity. "One is hint, the other a
dead 'give-away,'" said a recent writer
The moss rose means, "Thou art one Of
thousand ;" the white rose, "My
heart is free;" the damask rose, "Blushes
augment thy beauty" the cinnamon
rose, "Without pretension;" the wild
rose, simplicity withered white
rose, Transient impressions" with
cred red rose, "Our Irritation has
ended"
The average daily temperature or
daily mean temperature is found by add
ing the temperature at 7 a. NJ, 2 p. m.
and twice the temperature at 8 p. m.
and dividing this sum by four; to find
the monthly mean temperature, the
daily mean temperatures of each day are
added and divided by the number of
days of the month. The annual mean
temperature is found by taking the'sum
of the twelve monthly mean tempera-
lures divided by twelve, and the mean
temperature of place is asccrtained by
adding the annual mean temperatures
and dividing by the number of years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-11
Our Mothers.

In the formation of our characters we
owe to our mothers more than to any
other human agency, for it is their
hands that first Irvine the tendrils Of our
hearts, guide our footsteps Alright, lead
us in the path of virtue, and in the
dark, dreary night of pain, their watch
full vigils keep beside the couch of their
dear ones. Whose but the all-seeing
eye of Jehovah can fathom the depths
of anxiety they feel, and who can tell
of the ceaseless prayers which they offer
for their sin-stricken children?
Their influence ever shines with an
unsullied light which softens and purifes
the maynard impulses of the youthful
mind, and guides it onward in its course
toward heaven. How, then, can we pay
just tribute to orr mothers-with what
measures of gratitude and affection shall
we requite them for their maternal care
To those who have lost their mothers
in early life there is hallowed spot,
sacred to memory, where they retrospect
the past-recall days and nights when
when their mothers kept watch over
their sinless years, and where they may
look forward, with faith and hope, to the
blessed reunions of the everlasting fu-
ture.
Friends may be torn from our hearts,
hopes may be blasted, and our love for
others may grow cold, yet every princi-
pie of gratitude and every feeling of
virtuous sensibility requires that we
should cling to our mothers and love
them still.