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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

star modestly peeping out through the
dazzling rays of its great brother sun.
The three stars in the Giants Belt are
Of the second magnitude, and the lower one
is also celebrated double, the companion
star, which can only be well seen with
powerful telescope, possessing such sin
gular color that the Russian astronomer
Struve felt compelled to invent word to
describe it. He called it "olivaeeasubru-
bicunda." Hanging from the belt is the
sword marked by three luminous points,
the middle of which is the Great Nebula OF
Orion, although the naked eve does not
distinguish it from star. 1t is hardly pos
sible that the most unimpressionable per-
son could see this marvellous phenomenon
with a good telescope without feeling OF
awe. 1t is a vast mass of greenish haze,
millions of millions Of miles in actual ex-
tent, embracing a number of stars, and
containing streams and riffs and black
gaps of the most singular form, suggesting
the operation of world and sun shaping
forces on the most .stupendous scale
imaginable II has been shown that many
changes in the appearance OF this nebula
have taken place in the last two centuries.
The telescopist viii find that the whole
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Senators Sherman Evarts and
Hoar are cousins.--N Y Tribune. s9J
Horace Greeley is the name of a
leading citizen in Sumteryille,. Fla. He
is nephew Of the great and original.
President Richards, of the Metro
politan Horse Railroad of Boston, is
quoted as saying, after study of cleo
trio motors, that the, day of horses is
past. +~4-'IAA9 4e~
-Jabal A. Early is described as a
venerable appearing man, his long.
white beard reaching to his waist, and
his bent figure indicating the rapid adj
vance of extreme old age. p 'h'
Baron Tennyson's fortune is esti-
mated at $4,000 all of it of his own
making, for the poet is practical and
always makes profitable bargains with
his publishers. Boston Journal
M. Pasteur has his theory of hap
piness 'True happiness he. says,
"appears to me In the form of man
of science devoting his days and nights
to penetrating the secrets OF nature
and discovering newstruths. "rU ryf
'i---Parson John, Jasper, the famous
colored preacher OF Richmond, claims
that he has recently been solicited to
go to England on. q lecturing tour, and
that a man offered him four hundred
dollars to deliver his great lecture on
The Sun Do Move, in q Northern
city. d .e1 ...i.-t ti5.3.{4
1t is said that the wife of President
Adams contributed largely to the State
papers of her honorable and distin-
| guished spouse, and that Mrs. .Madi-
son was often useful in moderating the
temperament of the addresses which
her husband wrote during his. term of
Office Chicago Herald.
-" Mr.. Parnell," says writer in
the Chicago TRIBUNE, ''is a bachelor,
and lives the simplest sort of life-m
lodgings, as rule taking his dinners
at a hotel. His habits are so quiet that
he and his sister Anna were guests at
the same hotel for weeks without know
ing that they were under one roof"
Mrs. Bancroft, the wife of the his
torian. is said to be preparing vol
ume of her "reminiscences and expert
ences, and as she was a belle at Wash
ington sixty years ago and has seen the
best people and places at home and
abroad, she can not fail to favor the
public with an uncommonly interesting
book. >ls-f'i1- -l. le.ol t5hp.
Whittier says; Il have never
thought of myself as poet in the sense
in which we use the word when we
speak of the-great poets. Ihave~ Just
said from time to time the things /
had to say, and it has been a series of
surprises to me that people should pay
SO much attention to them and remem-
Der them SO long" o
John b. Cough re-appeared on the
lecture platform at Melrose, Mass, a
few evenings ago and introduced him
self by explaining the cause of his long
silence. II appear Tonight he said,
"for the first time in three months, and
for the first time in my life with set
of crockery in my mouth. l. have
dreaded greatly appearing before the
public, not under false pretenses, but
under false teeth" Reports say that
Mr.. Cough spoke with all OF bis old
eloquence and vigor." ..,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
Rhode Island Coal Mines.

The "Coal Mines" is the name by
which hamlet and station in Ports
mouth, R. L., are known. Two mines
that are said to have been originally
opened in the present century, and to
have been worked spasmodically since,
are situated there. The product was a
cross between slate and ordinary an
thracite, with preponderancei in favor
of the former. 1t could not be burned
in ordinary stoves, though in war time,
when anthracite was bringing fourteen
dollars ton. Newport people to some
extent bought Rhode Island coal at
eight dollars ton, and managed to
burn it by mixing it half and half. OF
late years the demand for it has fallen
off. and few months since mining was
suspended altogether. after penetrating
to the depth of sixteen hundred feet.
The mines are full of water, and coal
mining in Rhode Island is probably
ended forever.-Chicago Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

great suns blazing in the depths OF space,
and many of which are far larger and
more splendid than our own magnificent
orb OF day. The consultations, too, al
though the practical astronomer does not
think much OF them possess extraordi-
nary interest, because they are among the
most ancient and the most enduring crea-
tions OF the human Imagination. AS
DR.. Seiss says; "Heathen, Moham-
medans and Christians, the Oldest
with the latest, disagreeing in 80 many
things, yet agree in adopting and honoring
these primitive notations of the stars"
More than one learned Investigator includ-
ing the late DR.. Seyffarth, has come to the
conclusion that many, at least, OF the con-
stellations known to us were familiarto the
inhabitants OF the earth before the food.
Yet most of the consultations arc so fanci-
ful that only vivid imagination is able to
picture the figures among the stars which
men for ages past, and in all countries,
have agreed to recognize there
Modern Investigations have also made
the stars more interesting by showing the
existence of many differences between them.
The spsctroscope finds evidence that some,
like Ca2ella and Arcturus, closely resemble
our sIn in composition and age, while
Others. like Sirius and Vega, are probably
much younger than the sun; and some, like
Beteeeuse and Antares, are older than the
sun, and slowly approaching the age OF ex-
tinct'on. From all quarters OF the heav-
ems The stars flash to us IN their light the
information that they contain iron, cal
cium, nickel, lead and many other metals
and substances that we find upon the earth,
and that blaze in the photosphere of the
sun.
To know the stars, then, is to enjoy
the glory OF many suns instead OF one
alone.
Anybody who goes out about ten o'clock
on one OF these clear winter nights to some
open place where there are no electric lights
to dazzle the ewes and obliterate the won
dcrs of the sky, and faces the south, will
see half way between the horizon and
the zenith, and little to the east OF the
meridian, the splendid constellation Of
Orion, which is represented by the first
picture in this column. There is no con-
stelation in the whole armament equal to
this, not even the famous Southern Cross
| As Aratus wrote, more than two centuries
before Christ
Eastward beyond the region Of the Bull
| Stands great Orion; whose kens not him In
cloudless night
| Cleaning aloft, shall cast his eyes IN vain
To find brighter sign In all the heavens"
The antiquity of this constellation is in
dicated by Job: "Canst thou loose the
bands OF Orion?' The first magnitude
star near the right shoulder of the gian,
hunter is Betelgeuse, an orange or topaz
colored sun, which is exceedingly beautiful
when seen through a good telescope. In
the opposite shoulders a star OF the second
magnitude, named Bellatrix. In the up
lifted foot is another first magnitude stal
called Rigel, whose brilliant white ray'
contrast beautifully with the rich COLDER
hue of its rival, Betelgeuse. Rigel is {
famous double star, and If our observer il
armed with a tirst-rate three-inch telescop,
he can see the little deep-blue companion
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
HUMOROUS.

They say those ARTIFICIAL eggs can
not be beaten.-P Pittsburgh Chronicle.
10 Jones must have been pretty sea-
sick going to Europe when he threw
up his engagement with his girl, -
Lo10eH Citizen '''' - ''
Said an Alabama mother: "Never
would | call boy of mine Alias, ifpI
had hundred-to aame.--Men by that
name is allus cuttin' up capers.n
Papa, what is luxury? Father
1t is something, my son, that we can
do without. Logical boy-What lux
ury mosquito must be. Golden Days,
From the prompt and safe way in
which horse-thieves are hung out West,
it looks as if that portion of our be-
loved country was under the rule of
hemp-era.-N Y. Ledger.
--"Why didn't you come when
rangP'' said Texas lady to domes-
tic. Because didn't heah the bell"
Hereafter when you don't hear the
bell you must come and tell me so."
Eyes, mum. "-7eras STtingS.
q speaking of oleomargarine, - re-
marked McSwilligen this morning. 'fit
has occurred to me that there is one
kind of butter which will always defy
counterfeiting ''Ah! what kind of
butter is thatPh asked Squildig. "The
goat. ."-PttSburgh Chronicle.
To show how shamefully particu-
lar some people are, it is related of a
fashionable woman of Murray Hill that
she refused to accept an invitation to
dinner from lady acquaintance, be-
cause she spelled pleasure with q
capital "P. ~. Y. Mail.
Angry Father-Now, confound it,
why don't you 60 to practicing? Just
see that girl across the street how de-
voted she is to her music! Unappreci-
ative Offspring = Stop right there,
father. The girl may be studious and
all that, but that's a typewriter she s
playing on.-Puck.
"A Lowell small boy who attended
the Old Ladies' fair had to be told a
great deal about the chance he would
have to grab" This became the CEN
tral thought in his mind, and he had mt
been long in the hall when he began to
ask: Mamma, when can / begin to
steal somethingP"-Lo,oeH Courier.
Henderson, who recently pur.
chased an alarm. clock, says the thing
is confounded humbug. Il set the
ALARM he explained, "before going
to bed, after taking the precaution tc
stop the clock, so that its ticking
shouldn't keep me awake And
would you believe it, oversight mex
morning whole hour later thar
usualr'-Boston Transcript
-Chatty Passenger" To show yel
what cheats they are, sir. friend o
mine-lots o. money and fust-ratt
taste, give the horder TO one of 'em Il
decorate his new 'ouse in reg'lar slaI
up style, spare no expense, with al
the finest chromios that could be 'ad
You know what lovely things they are
sir! Well. sir, would you believe it
After they was sent, they turned on
, not to be chromios at all, but done b.
! and" with whitening contempt)-
"done bv and. sirr"-Harper's BdSos
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
MEXICAN INDIANS.
The Lake village of the Descendants Of
,a' the Aztecs. -. 80


the Aztecs. -
Clustered in around the body of the
lake are numerous Indian villages,
some of them half in the water and
half out. There are villages and clus-
ters of huts on the little islands far out
into the lake, and causeways lead here
and there from swamp to swamp, from
shore to shore and from village
to village. For miles, the country
in every direction seems to be half
water and half land, and it is difficult
to say just where the lake begins and
the land ends. The inhabitants of
these water towns are mostly fisher
men and duck-hunters. They seldom
go out of their swamps, and have re-
tanned more of the characteristics of
the Aztec tribes, as the Spaniards found
them, than any other Indians of the
valley. They still retain their aborig-
inal tongue, and many of them have no
knowledge whatever of Spanish. They
are shy of strangers, and look with
suspicion and dlstrust upon the trav-
eler who ventures into their haunts.
In habits and manner of living they
are as simple and rude as were their
forefathers centuries ago, and their
bare, comfortless huts suggest beaver
haunts and blackbirds' nests among the
tules, Notwithstanding all this, they
are as healthy and as happy as any
people | have seen. In order to live il
is not necessary to work hard, and they
sing, drink pulque and skip about from
hut to hut in their little boats, as merry
as the mud-larks and as careless of tht
morrow Chicago Interior.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
His Courage Betrayed Him.

Dumley had been out with party Of
friends, and they were assisting each other
in getting him home.
AREN'T you afraid to meet your wife, old
mani" asked one.
"Fraid!' said Dumley, valiantly, "whosh
'fraid? 'Fraid (hic) nuthin' Y jess wait
an (hic) see whosh boss, m wife r ]"
They inclined him gently against the door
and rang the bell. Then they waited to see
who was boss.
Dumley suddenly disappeared, the door
slammed shut, and as they moved away
they said: .s4..- ru
"She's boss. IN Y Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
The Wonderful Design,

Mrs. Quickenalth's husband had given
her a fine dress of a new material and new
design and she had il on at swell rscep.
ton.
That's magnificent dress your wife
wears" remarked a friend
"Well yes, 1 thought So" he responded,
pridefully.
New design, too"
ayes, the latest"
"What is the figure on it?" continued tn,
friend, putting on his eyeglasses for better
examination.
"Twelve hundred dollars" replied the
pleased husband, and the conversation
stopped.-Merchant Traveller.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
No Wonder.

Merryboy is young gentleman who
holds down chair and draws salary in
one OF the departments. He is given to
late hours and jovial times with the gang
the gang being band of choice spirits,
with weakness for the same. The other
day Merryboy showed up with that inde-
scrbable look fellow has when he's had a
Jolly time the night before. Settling down
to work, he presently exclaimed;
'By Jove, my legs asleep"
His fellow-clerks looked up sympathizing.
ingly, when one of them remarked, dryly;
mo wonder your legs asleep in the day.
time-you keep it out so late Of nights
Washington Hatchet.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
Equestrian Note,

Colonel Witherspoon used to be very
rich, but OF late he has met with financial
reverses. He has even been compelled to
sell his riding horse. His old servant re-
mains faithful. The Colonel uses a bicycle.
When he returns home on his bicycle, the
faithful servant walks it up and down in
the yard for ten OF fifteen minutes to cool
it CT, before putting it in the stable
Texas Siftinss.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

harsh to awaken people, particularly
women. There is a class of hotel
thieves who coniine their operations to
the time called the sporting season.
They follow the trotting horses and
runners, and make the circuit of coun.
try fairs, baseball games and such
other exhibitions and entertainments
calculated to draw crowds.-N. Y
Sam M
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
Harvey B. Bashore, Yale, class Q

Harvey B. Bashore, Yale, class Of
sc, has recently perfected an improved
surveying instrument by which the
height of objects or their distance from
the observer can be readily obtained.
In ordinary observation the angles are
taken by the use of quadrant. and
then the height of the object or its dis
tance from the point of reckoning are
calculated. In the improved instru-
ment, however. the calculations can be
read off directly from a scale on the
sight of the instrument. in either yards
or meters, as desired. Hartford Post.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
TO A PLUMBER r.

Sweet man, so cool, so calm, so bright,
Owner of earth and skyl
fear it's golngto freeze tonight
It's in your eye. I.5 f
That glitter, that enchanting CLEAN,
Bespeaks your own sweet trust,
And pipes for water. gas and steam
know will burst.
Great mani Some fourteen days ago
Ny sink pipe sprang aleak;
You came aud looked and found II So
And In week
You sent two men to look again.
They came and saw and went,
And came again, and stopped, and then
They stopped the vent.
Your bill therefor, great man, is here,
BY special post IL came,
And resign whate'er was mine
To pay the same.
How could the world move on its way
or your great grasp bereft?
we know, however cold the day,
You're never left.
-Ameriean Angler.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25
ORION AND THE GREAT DOG.
Some Of the Numerous Wonders of the
Heavens.

"Why did not somebody teach me the
consultations andmake me at home in the
starry heavens, which are always over
head, and which do not half know to this
day?' regretfully exclaimed Thomas Car
lyle
There are many persons who, like Car
lyle regret that they have not learned, or
had the means of learning, the geography
OF the heavens. The advances OF astronomy
in our day have been &C rapid, and the
stars have made to the telescope and the
spectroscope so many strange and wonder
ful revelations, that nobody should be ig-
norant of the names and places OF these
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

"A Partisan manager. who has been
led to investigate the matter closely,
has ascertained that no less than 75O,.
600 complimentary tickets are issued
during season by the theaters of Paris,
representing a loss of about $500, 900.
This manager advocates a reduction of
the admission tariff as remedy.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

james r. Randall, who wrote MY
Maryland" when he was twenty-five,
is about to publish his first collection Of
poems.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-25

Chawley-What! you black your own
shoes every morning, Algernonf
Algernon-Yaas, my dear boy. / found
that carrying cane wasn't enough exer-
else for my biceps, so have taken to black
ing my Shoes you know.-Rambler.
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
She tJIasped.

II want to ask your advice about q
novel am writing = she conddienJially
remarked to O. Woodward avenue book
seller yesterday.
Il Shall be happy to give it,
1.-The hero Of my story is wounded by
Indians and comes home with his arm
in sling"
'sThat's good
s'My heroine meets him with great
JOY, and he clasps her in his arms. !"
Perfectly proper, I'd do it myself. :
YES, but don't you see that one Of
his arms is il a sling? How could he
clasp?"
That's Sc. And yet he must come
home wounded
HE must.
land she must be clasped?"
''She ought to be"
Yes, that's so, but you must look
out for the critics. How would it do
to have her clasp him?'
Wouldn't it look immodest9''
mot under the circumstances eaiie'
you can ata a foot-lnsaattsaa that the joy o.
seeing him carried her off her BALANCE
for moment. Yes, let her clasp and
take the consequences. Ii you get the
right kind of covers on a book you
needn't care much about what is in
side
Very well, my heroine shall clasp;
thank you; good day F."
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20

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hasc,,a aosio,s. otbara .,ra - tna f1,rro
of larra hoar : .rd avas
f,av,oo ~, sns 49,, ~ i, ov;a;zaa II,
IA sf,,dde,4 MIN Toha,,;.,, st1,ras
beaH trimmings ~ TWO zones W1ill
maSch the spring sultlngs ~ Two shaues-
Indigo blue and flame color are to be
worn in the spring. Jackets OF these
colors are braided with black in points
from the shoulder to the elbow and
from the WHIST to the elbow They are
lined with some contrasting color.
The spring Jackets are very iaunty.
They are short in the back. and some of
them have the college hood reaching to
tie waist.
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~ obaol.ad .bo,ri.l r. as 4, a,i,st
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The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
photoeraphing Fifteen Million Stars.

A london Times correspondent
writes: a magnificent suggestion has
been made by French astronomers,
Already in your columns TIM work done
BY the photographic eyes Of science, IL.
rected toward tie heavenly bodies, has
been dealt with, BY the power OF Ill
Simultaneous vision which the photo
graphic eve. unlike the human eye,
possesses, the sun 5 cloud-laden surface
has been delineated, despite the COM
slant fluctuations Of the air through
which the sun has 10 be viewed. by
the power Of selecting special olors
wherewith TO work, the Photographic
eve has drawn the corona when no
trace Of that solar appendage has been
visible to ordinary eyesight. Ihe del
ieate features of the star-clouda have
been depicted through the power winch
the Photographic eye possesses OF see
ing more and more by iong-cCntlnued
gazing upon family luminous objects.
And now it is proposed to do what as
suredly no astronomer nor any band OF
astronomers could nope to affect even
If working for the whole Duration OF
the longest life. 1t is proposed TO chart
IN their true positions all the twenty
millions or so Of stars which are in
Guided in the first fifteen nagnitudes,
90 that the astronomers Of future gen
erations may know for certain the as
pect of the stellar heavens--to that
vast depth, at ieast--toward the close
Of the nineteenth century.
The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE,

WHEREAS, default has been made In the
w conditions Of certain mortgage, made
and dated on the Sth day OF April, a. ID. 1882 by
4. Y. Davidson, nlortgngor. to Celeste w. Lane,
mortgage, and duly recorded in the office II
the Register OF Deeds of tlenpepu County and
State Of Minnesota, OH tbs 18th day of April,
A. d. 1882, in book 81 OF mortgages, on page 2o6
thereof, conveying and rnortgaging the follow
ing described premises situated In Hennepin
County and state of Minnesota. and described
aG follows, to-wit: Lot numbered nineteen (l9),
in block numbered thirty f30), in Sibley's nddI-
ton TO st. Anthony. according to the plat
thereof now on file in the Office of the Register
of Deeds. in and tor said Hennepin County.
And whereas said mortgage and the debt
thereby secured was on the 9Th day Of March,
A. u. 1856, by an instrument in writing bearing
that date duly assigned by said Celeste w. Lane
TO II. H. Mouton, which said assignment was
on tho Goth day Of January, 1885, duly record
ed i'll the office Of the Register of Deeds afore-
subsequently the debt thereby secured was on
the 9Th day of December, A. d. 1885. by an in
strumeut in writing herring date duly assigned
by said il. II. MGuaon To Daniel OConneil
which said assignment was on the 10th day OF
january, a. ID. 1896, duly recorded in the 0flce
OF the Register OF Deeds IN book Id0 of mort
cages, on page 263 thereof.
AndAphereas there IL claimed TO be due on
said mortgage the sum Of three hundred, tar-
ty-onc and Gf-lGp dollars, including the pfin-
cipul and interest aforesaid, together with atr
t0rleys' fees af therein conditioned and no
proceedings at law having been instituted to
recover any part thereof.
Nov, therefore, notice is hereby given that by
virtue of the power IL sale in said mortgage
continued, and herewith recorded and pir-
suant 10 the statute, the saia mortgage viii be
foreclosed by sale of Said mortgaRed premises
at pubic auction, at ths front door or the
Court House, IN the City Of Minnea polls, In said
county and state on Saturday. the eth Gay of
March, A. ID. 1875. 81 10 o clock in the forenoon,
10 satisfy the sum herein claimed 10 be DUE TO-
gether with costs aud charges of foreclosure,
DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Assignee.
JOHN r. ByEEEs,
Attorney for Assignee.
Dated February 9Th, lS36.