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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-10
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-10
liliLlimern.
PLATSHEK'S.
1873 BROUGH TON STREET.
This week we guarantee TO be pros
nOunced a week OF bargains by
those visiting our establishment.

We have taken inventory and are thor.
oughly pleased with last years earnings.
Habitually many goods are taken in al
% and 1890. on the dollar. or this ouS
customers shall reap the benefit.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS oFTHE TWO STATES
TOI,O IN PARAG RAPHS.

a Negroes House Robbed In ouitmHn
County and Burned-The Cold makes
strange BedfellOws Among animals
in Quitman COunty-FArmers from
PannsVlVania.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-10
The Bow is Curiona.

From the Athens (G0.l Banner Wa lehman.
Papa, who is that man that looks so
cross?
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
DINNER PHILOSOPHY.
The Human Race Divided into Four Dis
tinct Glasses.

The Human Race Divided into Four Dis.
tinct Glasses.
Prot. Sumner, of Yale College. d.
vides the human race into three class
es; people who work to-day to pay for
yesterdays dinner, people who work to-
day to pay for to-day's dinner and those
who work to-day to provide n dinner
FOR tomorrow. But there is n fourth
class quite numerous. those who do not
work at all and eat the dinners earned
by Others.
There is a story of a colored barber
who reformed from hard drinking be-.
cause he observed that while he, the
drinking man, bought two pounds of
liver for his family's dinner, the man
who sold him the rum bought seven
pounds of porter-house steak. He took
the pledge forthwith, and ate the por-
tcr-iiouse ever after, instead of drinking
up the price Of IT,.
This incident illustrates another prin.
ciple of Prof. Summers, which is, tlrn
th" only fair way for u man to get on,
OF the class who work to-day to pa,
for yesterday into the class who worn
to-day to provide for tomorrow is to
practice splf-ienial. ''Self-denisl,"
says the learned professor, '.must be
our gospel if we would gain capital,
AMI almost any II can gain capital II
he practices prudence" So thought
the barber, and acted accordingly.-k.
Y. Ledger. ,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
~PERCHERON HORSES.
40 Years Experience.

To a Tribune reporter, Mr.. A. S.
Chamberlain, who for40 years has been
the proprietor of the "Old Bulls Head
Stables,' New York City, saidi II
keep exchange and sale stables for
horses, thousands of which annually
come to my stables from all parts Of
the country. don't deal on my own
account to any extent. The French
horses have good feet and stand the
pavements better than the Clydcsdales,
and bring a better price on the market:
The ely desdales are ~short-riLbed, slim
wasted and lack action. Compare
lively few of them are now brought to
this market. The demand is largely
for French horses. l would advise the
farmer and breeders, who are breeding
horses to sell on the New York market,
70 breed from French horses in prefer
ence to all others. Chicago Tribune.
Percheron stations of the finest quality
and with choicest pedigrees, registered
in the Perchcron Stud Book of France,
are annually imported in immense
numbers. Within the past two years
1000 have been imported and collected
by n firm alone.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
Fire. Damp Investigations.

The Investigations made by the Prus.
sian Fre-damp Commission to ascer.
tain the causes Of explosions in mines
show among other things that many
explosions attributed to fire-damp. or
outbursts of gas, are really due to the
fine coal dust i'll mines. 1t appears
that all kinds of dust are capable of
exploding violently when ignited by
such NEAR as the electric spark, and
that the explosion extends much fur
Their with coal dust than with fire.
damp. The experiments relative to
this inf1ammability of coal dust are
stated 10 have been devised az nearly
as possible in accordance with the CON
ditions prevailing in practice and were
carried on at the Koening mine, Neun-
kirchen, %Saarebruck. A gallery OF
drift, driven from the surface, was
chosen as the place for treating the
dust, means being also provided for
keeping the particles in q state Of VIC,
lent agitation by currents Of air. To
provoke agitation of the dust, the
electric spark was made use Of, a means
that is far from furnishing that volume
of flame found by the French expert
mentors to be necessary to explode
coal dust. The tests were many times
repeated, more than two hundred
times in all, explosions occring in
every case.-M. Y. Sun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
..What margin do you reauirsl"

well. l will generally make a loan
for ninety per cent. Of the face, allow
ing a margin of ten per cent. l do
loan on life policies, but they must be
made out payable to the insured, his
heirs and assigns. in which case he can
assign his interest, but when he makes
it out to his wife, as in the case of the
gentleman you saw leave here just
now, l can do nothing. l have had
men come here to make a loan on such
a policy, who have been separated
from their wives, and when they found
out that the policy was worthless to
any one else to say they were wild
would be mild.
"a number Of insurance companies
are beginning to make loans on their
W policies, which are transferable,
and the business in my line is becom-
ing general all over the country, nota-
bly, in New York. An endowment pol
icy two or three years old, with the
premiums paid, is as negotiable as a
Government bond and l will loan
money on it as readily" Chicago
NeUS.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
APOPLExY.
Symptoms and Treatment of this Terrible
AtHlctien.

Symptoms and Treatment Of this Terrible
AfHlctien.
Apoplexy signifies stroke or shock.
The cause, induced by mental excite
ment, muscular eXertion or intemper-
ence. is bleeding inside the skull,
amounting to drops or pounds, and &C.
curing in one side of the brain. The
hemorrnage is due to brittlcness OF
softening of small arteries. They
break, and hence the sudden attack.
Overfullness of the superficial brain
vessel, or sudden plugging of a small
artery. are causes. The pressure
created stops the circulation of the
whole brain.
Attacks rarely give warning, though
ringing in the ears and flushing may
precede. The full onset may take a
few seconds or a half hour. Symptoms:
Confusion, flushing, lividity, or per-
haps pallor of the face; paralysis OF
half the face and half the body on the
opposite side; snoring, delirium, vomit-
ing, Inconsistencies, more or less pro-
found. Movements, if any, are con-
fined TO one side, Will may be ex-
erted though intellect be gone. The
lips putt; tn" pulse is slow, hard, full;
the pupils are contracted or dilated,
and usually unlike. These symptoms
last minutes, hours or days. If stupor
continue ten hours without improve
ment, and especially if increased, the
attack is probably fatal. 1t may be so
in a few minutes. hours or several days.
Under twenty years apoplexy is rare,
and liability diminishes after seventy.
Some suppose that a short neck and
full habit preIispose to it. Statistics
prove the contrary. An attack is gen
orally repessted, the third commonly
being fatal. Recovery requires months.
Do not mistake apoplexy for intoxica-
ton. Cases of supposed drunkenness
are often locked up and afterward
found dead. Distinguish intoxication
by the ulor of the breath, general liab.
its, dilated, symmetrical pupils, soft,
feeble pulse, absence of snoring. Signs
of drunkenness usually can be forced
from the inebriate. In apoplexy the
temperature is normal or raised. In
drunkenness it is lowered. In opium
poisoning the patient can generally be
reused for a moment. The pupils are
very small and symmetrical. Kidney
disease, which auses Inconsistencies,
is usually known already. In fainting
there is a cold, white face and no pulse.
In case of apoplexy, send for the doc
tor. Keep the head cool and raised.
Apply mustard plasters to the legs,
back and stomach, alternately. Give
injections of oil and warm water and
strong purgatives, after the attack.
Shorten or shave off the hair. A very
strong man, under fifty, might be bled.
-CongregationaltS.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
T,cxl,sb cRoCOpiLEs.
Wounded Gavials Bawl JUST Liz
Calves.

wounded Gayials That Bawi just LII
The gavial is a kind of crocodile that
is very ticklish. although the skin OF
a large gavial is very thick and the en-
tire back is covered with long plates
nearly a quarter Of an inch thick
writes W. I. Hornaday, a noted travel
er. lit is still as sensitive to the touch
as the bottom of a mans foot. Unlike
all the other s%aurians l ever hunted,
they come out upon the sand-bars very
early in the morning. and are TO be
found there at all hours OF the day I'M
til almost sunset. Individuals v
their favorite haunts, and unless dis
turbed the same crocodile will return
day after day to the same sand-bank, as
/ have plainly seen by observing those
that were peculiarly marked. Often
when watching gavials that lay aPpar-
emily sound asleep upon the sand, have
seen them suddenly reach q leg, back.
ward or forward to kick off a fly thai
had lighted upon them. A nine-foot fe-
male which | captured was excessively
ticklish upon the back and sides.
Wounded g~avials often bawl aloud like
calves when seized by their captors-a
thing l have never known any other
crocodile to do.'--Go'den Days.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
lndigo-C armine.

To obtain indigo-carmine use only a
very good quality Of indigo, preferably
Bengal, which should be washed in a
hot diluted solution of sulphuric acid.
Then n part indigo and five parts
snlphuric acid, &c deg, B.. are mixed
together in a leadcn vessel; the indigo
being first very finely powdered and
dried. The vessel should be kept cool
and the indigo should be added to the
acid a little at a time, the mixture being
well mixed. A,heating of the mixture
should be avoided, AS it would cause
free sulphurous acid, which would I'M
pair the good qualities of the finished
product.--Dry Goods Bulletin
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
FIGHTING COCA.
A Movement In New York to Prevent the
Indiscrimlnate Sale of the Drug.

A Movement In New YORK to Preveht thS
Indiscrimlnste Sale of the Drug.
A bill is being prepared by the New
York Medical Society for submission to
the State Legislature providing for the
addition of coca to opium and other
drugs forbidden to be SOFA except on
physicians prescriptions. Cocaine has
been generally adopted into medical
practice as a local application to pro-
duce insensibility, and its success for
that purpose has led to a promiscuous
and very hurtful use as a swallowed
exhilarant. So great has the demand
for it become that, in the form of chew
jng-pastes, it is on sale in most of the
drug-stores. These preparations are
usually put forward as composed of the
green leaves of the coca plant, with a
slight impregnation Of lime, making
Just such a cud as that which the In
dams of Peru chew to relieve their
fatigue and exhaustion. The disastrous
effects on the Peruvians is a matter of
notoriety, and at times the Spanish
rulers of that country have forbidden
its cultivation. Many New Workers
have become victims to the coca habit
through substituting the drug for to-
bacco, opium or alcohol. than either OF
which the doctors declare it more
deadly. Into the discussion of the
qualities of cocaine, incidental to the
preparation of the bill to regulate the
traffic in it, has entered a powerful
commercial influence. The various
manufacturers of the coca preparations
for lay use have fought hard for non.
Inference, because they see a big bust.
ness ahead if let alone. They are bound
to interpose at Albany against the pas
sage of any law on the subject.-N 7.
Stan
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02

little vile to fetch you, but l knew
you'd come. Step around to our bank
ing 'ouse just in the rear and pay your
money to the cashier, and 'erc's wish
in yer a Apply New Year. And us up
another goose, John. thought sold
the finest goose to the goose-bes
parding, to the gentleman just gone.
but 'ere's the pick of the lot
And thus he went on rafting OF a
continuous stream of talk as tiuentiy
as an a%uctioneer. AT every drop down
in the price he would slap the goose
with the broad palm of his hand with
a report that sounded through the hall
and then he would make a gesture as
if he would throw the bird away.
Now, then. now, then, 'ere's a
goose as is a goose. All, arn't she a
beauty? Now, Yankee, wat do ye
reckon this ere goose is worth, Ell? l
guess
This was to me and the crowd
laughed at the refined wit and the ex-
aggerated nasal twang.
1--WE get 'em for two shillings in
America" | said.
This simple statement seemed to
take the vociferous auctioneer aback
somewhat, and after that the whole re-
sources of his ''h''-less vocabulary were
turned on me.
low much does the Yankee offer
for this ere goose? Wot a pair they
ecould make! Wot'll We give for the
goose, YankeeP'
II want a turkey"
ooh, my eye! e wants 4 turkey, e
does. John, 'ere's a London million
aire as wants a turkey. Goose arn't
good enough for i'm, goose arn't,' and
thus l caught it until l was glad to re-
treat.
l bought my turkey at a less crowd
ed stand down a somewhat secluded
lane away from the main t~horoughfare
of Smithtield Market, for the market
like London itself-has numerous
queer little side streets, lanes and al
leys.
lave an 'amper, sirp" said the
man, when | paid him.
IA WHAT"
Gan 'amper to carry 'ome your tur-
~key-only a penny, sir"
And with this he produced n hamper
with a couple of handles that was GER
tainly very cheap at the price. And
thus the hamper, the turkey and my
self went home to spend New Years
Day.-Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free
Press.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02

"stand back, gentlemen! Clear the
track shouted the police, and as the
quickly -gathering crowd surged back,
steamer No. 4 came up the street, the mag
nifcent black horses striking fire from the
pavement. ,
But holdl A wheel comes of the steam
or is overturned, and the brave firemen are
picked up bleeding and senselessl
An investigation revealed the fact that in
oiling the steamer that morning the steward
had neglected to put in the linch-pin., A
little neglect on his part had caused a loss
of a half million dollars. The busy marts
of trade are full of men who are making
the same fatal mistake. They neglect their
kidneys, thinking they need no attention,
whereas if they made occasional use of
Warmers safe cure they would nerer say
that they don't feel quite we'll; that a tired
feeling bothers them; that they are plagued
with indigestion; that their brain refuses
to respond at cali that their nerves are all
unstrung.-Ffre Journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
A Wise Statutes

The Board of Trustees of Cornell
University have passed a university
statute whereby every professor who
shall have served seven years at the in
stitution may have a years vacation
on half-pay. This action car not fail
to result in great good to the cause OF
education. 1t is a declaration of a body
of business men that the efficient teacher
is not only worthy of his hire, but that
he must not be worn out in the tread+
mill of the lccture-room; that he is, IN
short, worth preserving. 1t is a recog-
milton of the teachers dignity and inn
p%ortancc that can not fail to have. its e-
feet upon the profession generally
Current.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
MONEY FOR F
The Business Of Getting Loans On Insur
ance Policies Rapidly Increasing.

The Business Of Getting Loans on Insur-
snce Policies Rapidly Increasing.
There goes a man who is mad all
over" said a prominent financial agent
to a reporter, as a gentleman with a
perceptibly rufled aspect left his office.
HE called to negotiate a loan on a
life-insurance policy, which l had
agreed to make for him, but his collat-
eral turned out to be a life policy in
favor of his wife, and l could do moth
ing with it,
"Do you have many applications for
loans on life insurance."
Indeed l do, and the business is
growing every year. There was very
little done in it eight years ago, but
since then it has been increasing steadi-
ly, until now it plays a prominent part
in the loaning business
"Wha kind of people generally re-
sort to offering such security"
"All kinds. There are some who
feel ashamed to ask for a loan on any,
thing, but those who do it as a regular
thing think no more of borrowing on
life insurance than on house and lot.
Why, there are any number of promi-
nent men in this city to whom l have
made such loans, and who take out
large policies for the express purpose
Of being able to realize in cas- they
need any ready money"
"What kind Of policy do you pre-
ferPn
THE endowment, by all means. The
President of a city bank took out such
a one which fell due last year, and in
speaking of it to me he said that after
figuring up the whole thing he found
that it had paid him much better
than Government bonds would have
done"
why are endowment policies pre-
ferred9"
Because they have a specific time
for expiring. For instance, the last
loan l made was on a policy of this
kind. 1t was u twenty-year policy.
Fourteen years had expired, and there
were, consequently, but six years more
to run, so that l am certain of my
money in six years. II the holder fails
to pay his premium when due I shall
take the policy to the company that is
sued it and get a paid.up policy for
fourteen twentieths Of the amount, pay
able at the expiration Of the original
policy"
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
THE OLDEST INHABlTAN1.
An Institution without Which No Well
Regulated Town Is Complete.

An Institution without Which No Well
Regulated Town Is Complete.
The oldest inhabitant is O bird of Pc
culiar plumage. Every town of any @.
binary size owns its especial oldest in.
habitant. He or she, as the case may
be, is the SirOracle or the Miss or Mrs.
Oracle of the day. The Oldest inhabi.
tant divides the honor with the oldest
fire engine in the State. The Oldest
fire engine can not speak, for which a
long-suflering people offer up thanks.
But the Oldest inhabitant has a thou.
sand tongues; and each tongue has a
several tongue from whose diverging
tongue other tongues spring up in close
proximity swearing eternal constancy
to the tales uttered by this multidim.
istic tongue of the much-advertised
Oldest inhabitant. Icing to the Oldest
i%nhabitant with that ~tenacity Of purpose
known only to the knight of the quill.
The Oldest inhabitant always remem-
bers about Westinghouse crossing the
Delaware. If the oldest %inhabitant be
a woman, she always tells you about
how she Drained there several redskins
with a meat axe as they crawled, one
and respectively, through the hole their
hatchets had carved in the door. If the
Oldest %inhabitant be a man, he always
recalls that little incident Of having
been captured by st. Leger and carried
to Canada after the battle of Ariskany.
He always brains the sleeping redskin
and returns to the haunts of his child.
hood. In this day of genuine, actual
wants the oldest inhabitants gradually
assuming the guise a la myth. Yet, l
am told, the oldest inhabitant is being
daily born. pity future generations,
st. Louis Whip.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02

A young clergyman who had come
to supply the vacant pulpit of the church
in a New England village, had an OK.
tremely boyish appearance, and made
his way almost unnoticed into the pull
pit, where he was concealed from view
by the reading-desk in front of him. But
an old lady who sat close on the right of
the pulpit in consideration of her deaf.
ness, was much concerned to see a boy
in the place of the expected clergyman.
So she arose very softly, stepped on tip
toe to the pulPit-stairS, and, beckoniDg
with her forelinger, whispered loudly in
coaxing accents: Come down, my boy;
you mustn't sit there; that's the place for
the ministeri'
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
A REM NtSCcNCE.
4 frus History of tho Once Famous "koh.
ePt Heller"

CIT neAoTs
Robert Heller the noted magician,
was really William Henry Palmer, a ma
tive Of Canterbury, in England. At the
age of ten years he was a musical pro-
dizzy, and at sixteen he appeared in con
cert, and had composed several brilliant
stndies for the piano-forte. His musical
career was hindered BY his boyish fancy
for the illusions Of magic, at first a mere
recreation, afterward an infatuation.
While still a student he left the ROYAL
Academy, in company with another
young and noted artist. and at the Thea
ter Royal. Rochester, he gave his first
magical entertainment. The result was
not brilliant. The friendly confederate
sat in a front box. with greatly waYed
mustache, eye-glass and other disguise,
but owing to anxiety he lost his presence
Of mind at critical periods, to the discom"
future OF the wizard and the disgust Of
the audience, from whose missiles the
two young adventurers escaped through
. window at the rear Of the stage.
In 1852 Robert Heller came to the
United States. and soon afterward he
drifted to Washington There he became
a professor of music, was organist at DIR.
Halls church, became a lion in the dip
'omatlc society presided over BY Lord
and Lady Napier, and married Miss
Annie Kicckhofer, a daughter of one OF
the firm of Riggs & Co., bankers. But
mis- mfatuation for a Bohemian life was
not overcome. His marriage was not a
happy one. and he persuaded an old
English gentleman named Philips, the
father of q Washington bookseller, to
furnish the funds for a new necroman-
GERS outfit. Soon afterward he OBJ.
tanned the services of his step-sister, Miss
Ada Palmer, as a confederate, and with
her he travelled around the world. Re-
turning to the Atlantic coast, he died at
the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia,
November p, 1S7S.-Ben. Perley Poore.
mBoston Budget.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
THE bowels may be regulated, and the
stomach strengthened, with Ayers Pi's.

"A correspondent writes: I noticed
in the Evening Post a specimen of Ger
man translation which brought to my
mind u sentence | took from an old
German grammar some time ago, which
perhaps may be new to you: "A blind
become hen, who to The scratching
accustomed was, after that she blind be-
came ceased not to scratch. Of what to
the poor fool availed itP Another seeing
hen, who her tender feet wiz h d to spare
this observing, yielded not from her
side; and as often as the blind-become
hen a grain upscratched had. ate 1t the
seeing n away.-N. /. Evening Post.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-02
Velocity of Gunshot.

Both sportsmen and scientists will be
Interested in some experiments made
by Mr.. Alfred M. Mayer on the velocity
of shot discharged from fowling
pieces. The guns used we're twelve
and ten gauge of the choke bore pat
tern with rebounding locks. For the
benefit of those IMMERSED it must be
stated that the ten gauge gun has tho
larger bore. The same amount Of
powder and shot vas used in the two
guns and the result showed marked
superiority in the ten over the twelve
gauge gun. A charge of four drachms
of powder and o%ne-quarter ounce of
shot fired from ten gauge or larger
bore gun gave a velocity of n hum
dred feet per second more than the like
charge from a twelve gauge piece.-N
y, Herald.