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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
SAVANNAH TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 1885,
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

in Bangor, Me-, the clergymen
send to the hotels every Sunday invit-
ing strangers to the churches. boston
Post f+a
The altar in the new American
church just completed, in the avenue
de Palma, in Paris, was the gift OF
Mrs. w. w. Tucker, of Boston.
In Southern schools increased at
tention is being paid to the physical
development of the students. A GYM
nasium is now connected with nearly
all the first-class schools.
"A LADY in New York, whose name
is withheld from the public, sent her
check for ten thousand dollars to the
Tulane University at New Orleans.
toward the establishment of a school
for the higher education of girls.
The institutes of New York cost
the State during the year 1885, $1S,-
433 The average expense to each
county was $31IS1, and Is, 295 each
ers attended them. All the expenses
of the institutes were paid by the State.
N r. Times.
in Germany small nursery is at
tached to nearly every common school,
and the children are taught to grow
trees from seed and cuttings, to graft
and to bud, so that they acquire some
practical knowledge of and intelligent
interest in the growth of trees and
| shrubs.
The Indian women of Lower Brule
agency, Dakota, have a sewing circle
which meets every week. They have
| made articles of different kinds which
have been sold, and during the last
year they have realized one hundred
dollars for their labor, which has gone
toward purchasing a bell for their new
church now being built at st. Adams.
In Arizona, according to Chaplain
Pearson, there are children who come
to maturity without ever having heard
a gospel sermon or knowing such a
thing as a Sunday-school. Talking
with family, he found that they never
went to church. The nearest preach
ing-place was twenty-five miles dis
tant! Arizona, by the way, is not in
Africa, either.
AT the recent meeting of the West
Jersey Presbytery resolution was
unanimously passed, giving it as the
opinion of the Presbytery that church
members who required applications for
licenses to sell liquor were proper sub
jects for church discipline, and church
sessions were enjoined to deal with
such persons by censure or suspension
from church ordinance. N J. Sun.
A correspondent visiting from
Aix-les- Bains tells of a teacher who
said he began his duties each morning
with lesson in the catechism. 1t was,
however, a frce-thought catechism in
which the first question, "What is
God?" was answered.; God is n lie;
there is no God" And this, the cor
respondent says, is the style of doctrine
with which they dose the children in
the communal schools of Paris.
"A Massachusetts rascal who hath
no music in his soul has for several
weeks bothered the Congregationalists
of South Braintree by each week dis
aiding many pipes of their church or
gan so that on Sundays it gave forth
very uncertain and decidedly un-
musical sounds. A Waterman discov-
cred the vandal the other night after
he had removed forty or fifty pipes,
but IN his haste to capture him put out
the light he carried and the fellow es-
capped in the darkness. NJ y. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
EARLY DETROIT.
The Characteristics of the French Set
tiers Principal Live Stock

Bees are very commonly kept, and
we're of no small profit. OF course,
among a race whose favorite emblem,
the cock, fourishes on every steeple.
there was no lack of chickens. Ducks
waddled along the shore, and incredible
numbers of tame geese Kissed and
squalled at the passers-by, aided in their
chorus by the yelping of small dogs,
which were also quite common enough.
Turkeys, wild and tame, abounded.
Their cattle were small and not very
good. Two of their oxen could not per !.
form any heavy amount of labor. com
pared with the average of working cat'
lie to be found now. Hogs were nu-
merous, Of such long, gaunt proper
tons and huge heads that they have
been generally distinguished as the
alligator" breed, from caricature re-
semblance 10 that ungainly beast.
Turned into the woods to forage for SUBJ
sistance, they became wild and shy.
Many years ago the island above De-
troit was badly infested with rattle
snakes, and drove of swine were sent
there to destroy them. The hogs soon
thinned out the snakes, but in the course
of time became very numerous and lost
all the habits and characteristics of tame
animals. From these the island derived
the name it has always borne until if
ceased to be euphonious to refined ears
and is now known nd'scriminately as
Belle isle. and lie aux Cochous or Hog
island. 1t is now city park, awaiting
the future of municipal taste or van
dalism.
But the most important animal was
the horse. In most countries physi-
ologists trace out resem blances in char
acter between this intelligent animal
and his master. How far tn s is fancy
and how far founded in truth it il un-
necessary to decide. But there is no
doubt the horses of this region possessed
characteristics quite peculiar. Authori-
ties differ concerning the origin of the
breeds of ponies found here, and the
time of their general introduction.
From the varying characteristics of the
ponies used by the French and Indians,
there is reason to suppose them of very
different origin. The Indian ponies re-
sembled the mule in shape, being gener-
ally thin chested, with dropping head
and slouching gait. He was rarely used
except as beast of burden, the Indians
having no vehicles; and when plow-
ing was to be done, Their French neigh,
bors were called in to do this important
work. The powers OF endurance OF
this prosecuted animal were great, but
if he possessed speed or other snowy
qualities he got small occasion to ex.
hibit them. He was very meek look.
ing beast, Magazine of Western History
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Miss Ada Sweet is spoken of as ''the
leading poetess of America" by foreign
papers.
james A. Garfield, Jr.. and his
brother Henry are studying law in
the Columbia Law SchooL-M T.
Tribune.
Ex-senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
says he is going toprepare lecture on
his experience in the Senate.
William Page, of Newburyport.
Mass, sends out little periodical
known as the Card, written in his own
hand.
The oldest boatman on the Hud-
son river is said to be Captain W. w.
Wood, of the Aida, which piles be-
tween Rondout and Troy. He has
navigated the waters or the Upper
Hudson for sixty-three ars.-Iroy
Times.
When Victor Hugo carried his first
manuscript of poetry to publisher it
was handed back to him unread, ''be-
cause poetry was drug on the mar
ket." 1t proved to be sorry blunder
for the publisher
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton will
pass the winter with her daughter.
She will continue her work on the
"Woman's Version of the Bible" in
which she has been engaged for some
time.
Mrs. F. Groton (''Ida Glenwood'),
the lecturer and serial writer, though
blind and sixty years OF age, uses
type writer for much of her work,
equalling an ordinary person in neat
ness and accuracy OF the writing
Chicago Inter Ocean.
- Glendower Evans Brown, of
Campobelo, N. B., has not only a fine
name, but fine lot of living ancestors.
His fathers father and mother and
grandfather and grandmother are
alive, and so are his mothers father
and mother and grandmother and her
father and mother.
-Senor Don Jose Manuel Balcemcda,
the new President of Chilli, was born
in 1910 and belongs to one of the
highest and wealthiest families of the
republic. He has been for fifteen
years member of the Chamber OF
Deputies and enjoys high reputation
as an orator and debater.
When the Boston publisher of
Uncle Toms Cabin" handed to the
late Prof. Stowe the ten thousand dol
lars which formed the first installment
| of profit on the sale of the book, the
professor quantity observed that ''it
was more money than be had seen in
all his life. "-BoSton Journal
Hawthorne home was a shifting
one. He lived some years in Salem
and Boston, and then wandered away
to Lenox among the Berkshire hills.
| then fitted to Concord near Emerson
and Alcott, then to Europe, and then
back again TO his pleasant dwelling,
"The Waysidc. "-Boston Budget
The final number of the Siam Weekly
advertiser was published on the 7th OF
August. the issue of the paper being
stopped for the usual cause of news
paper suspension-it didn't pay. The
advertiser has been published for
seventeen years. 1t was established
by the American Board of Foreign
Missions, but for the last ten years it
has been the private enterprise OF an
American missionary, Mr.. 5. j. Smith,
native of New Hampshire. MIR.
Smith and his wife have been hard
working and earnest missionaries and
educators in Siam for nearly thirty
wears. M Y. Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
People often laugh at the expression

People often laugh atthe expression
second wind.n In Ordinary respira-
tons we only use portion of our lungs,
the cells at the extremity not being
brought into play. This is the reason
why those who are not sin training, y
and who try to run for any distance,
soon begin to gasp, and, unless they
are courageous enough to perseyeresin
spite of the choking sensation, are
forced to stop. But if they will perse-
we're. the choking goes off, and the re-
suit is what is technically known as
second wind" When the second wind
is fully established, the runner does not
become out of breath, but goes on run
ming as long as his legs will carry him.
Chicago Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
HUMOROUS.

The sporting department OF
newspaper generally contains some
racy reading matter Merchant 1rar-
eier. E.,.
The girls will be pleased with
uniform marriage law if the uniform
is pretty and there is man in it,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
-"Why are you going into that dry
goods store when there are so many
pretty girls on the streetP' my. dear
boy. / find counter attractions there, "
N y. Herald.
Mrs Gubbins says she never al
lows her boy, Jim, to eat any jam, for
her husband died of the jim-jams, and
she don't propose to run any chances
with the boy.
Eyes yet they see not-potatoes.
Ears yet they hear not-corn. Mouths
yet they speak not-rivers. Handsyet
thew feel notebooks. Brains yet they
think not-dudes. -New Hduen Neos.
The Old Mans Shoes
All, Angelina,
Your smile serene
Is dearer far than life TO me-
But unto you
bid adieu-
Your dad wears number tens you see.
lyon know something about music.
don't you, Joggins?' "A little, Snoop-
err" '.Then what does this paper mean
when it speaks of the higher kinds of
music?' '.Must mean upper-attic, |
think. VI Pittsburgh Telegram.
Brown IL thought you hated
Jones'" Smith-"So | do. Why do
you askgn Brown heard you gave
him q five-hundred-dollar piano the
other day. That don't look as though
YOU hated him much" Smith-''That
shows what you know about it. His
wife thinks she can sing. IN T.
Graphic.
-"Oh, lions don't trouble me much"
remarked courageous Frenchman.
II met one once in the desert, SPLEEN
did fellow, and what do you think |
did, Simply whipped out my PEN
knife and cut off his talr' "And why
not his head?" ooh! a hunter had
saved me that trouble by doing it the
day before. French Fun.
-Grandma-.' CLARA, do you think
your mother would approve of your
sitting up so late?n Clara-''Why,
grandma, it was only half-past ten
when Frank left last evening" Grand
ma-"Clara, your grandma happened
to be awake just as Frank was leav-
ing, and didn't she hear him say:
Now, Clara, just one?' boston Bed-
con.
-"How are you coming on, old boy?"
'Im not coming on at all. I'm going
on. Hold up! I've got a fearful
headache, and an awful taste in my
mouth. Don't you know some remedy
for the misery I'm suffering from this
| morning7f Eyes. 7 know a good
cure for it. Don't get drunk last
| pight Good-bYe. '-gszas syssRss,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
NOT EASILY FOOLED.

A Policeman Who Knows Something
About the Ills That Boys Are Heir To.
An old policeman seldom gets fooled
on street gamin. Yesterday, when
a woman ran out of her house on Fifth
street and informed II passing officer
that boy was lying dead in the alley,
the officer didn't hurry any. If the
boy was dead hurrying wouldn't do
any good. If dying the officer couldn't
save him. He walked slowly around
and found the boy stretched out on the
ground, very much alive but still max
ing no effort to get up.
Somebody run over him, and the
wretch ought to be discovered and pun
ishedr' exclaimed one of the crowd.
"He may have shot himself" added
a second. ''
II think he fell from that she'd" put
in a third.
"Or some larger boy has almost
killed him. chinned a woman.
The officer paid no attention to these
remarks, but after look up and down
the alley he bent over the boy and in
quired:
"How long have you had it?''
Half an hour
"How many did you eat''
1.-TWO"
"Well, you'd better get up and keep
moving and it will 60 away the
sooner"
"What- is itP'' asked five or six
voices.
The officer crossed the alley and
picked up half-eaten turnip and held
il up to view. Every body nodded and
said UNI" and the crowd quietly
dispersed. Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
CAPE COD CHARACTERS.
A Remarkable Close-Fisted Mans Bill
Against the Government.


Against the Government.
Down on Cape Cod some years ago
there lived man named Watson Free
man, who's was famous for his near
ness,v even in region which has pro-
duccd its full share OF close men, as
well as of generous ones. The cape is
country that never does any thing by
halves, and when it sets out to make
an economical man it makes no mis-
take. The story runs that this Wat
son Freeman once had q couple of
boys employed in connection with his
country variety store, and that he as
tonished them on one third day OF July
by calling them up and saying:
boys, I'm going to give ye one dol
lar apiece to celebrate with" 81
As soon as the boys had in meas
ure recovered from their stupefaction
they pocketed their dollar and departed
in great glee. OF course they spent
a good deal, having such an extraor-
binary streak of luck, for fire works,
and, as their employer had the only
store in the place, they bought the fire
works OF him. Saturday came around,
and when the boys stepped up to get
their weekly pay they found they had
been locked one dollar apiece for abb
sence from work on the fourth.
Watson had asingular reputation for
giving generous measure in molasses.
He always sold the gallon measure
heaped up little, as molasses can be
heaped up in cold weather, and always
drew attention to it. No one could ac-
count for it until some one got hold of
the empty measure one day and found
that the bottom had been knocked in
in such manner as to subtract a good
deal more from the capacity of the YES
sci than the heaping up added to it.
When the triangulation and survey
of the cape by the Government officials
was being made the lines were run
across great many estates, of course,
and among them that of Watson Free
man. In the course of the work three
rails were taken from Freeman's fence
to serve as sighting stakes, and when
the work was done the stakes were put
back in their places Freeman hove in
sight just as the rails were being re-
placed. and said to the oliicerin charge:
"See here, | don't see as ought to
furnish the United States Government
with the use O them rails for nothing. J"
The officer laughed. "lf you have
suffered any damages through the use
| of the rail" he said, you had better
put in bill in regular form, and !
will pass it in. v
"All right" said Freeman.
He went over to his store and pres
emily came back with the following
bill:
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
Her Idea of Soaking.

al wish you were good and helpful
around the house like Mrs. Jones' hus-
band" said Mrs. Smith.
THAT drunken fellow JonesP'
Yes that drunken fellow Jones.
He's kind to his wife any how, so he is.
He helps her on wash days ever so
much. >ae 1ES IL 80 So
.s0h, he does. does he?'i .
s.Yes. he does. does he The other
day Mrs Jones was telling me that he
didn't have any money to get drink
with and he took some of the clothes
and put them to soak. and that's more
than you'd ever dofor me so it is"
And Smith just sat and grinned.-
Merchant Trdreler.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
DOGS EARS.
Some Good Reasons why They should
Never BE Cropped.

Some Good Reasons why They Should
Never BE Cropped.
Sir Edwin Landseer, one of the judges
1t the dog show in London, England,
cndeavored to exclude all dogs that had
been mutilated by ear-cropping or 9TH
crwise. The principal reason Tor Sir
Edwin's protest is that the cropping of
ears is most cruel and hurtful to the
dog. The cruelty complained of is not
in the operation that, after all, is a
small matter. 1t consists in depriving
the animal of q defense which nature
has given it against the entrance of
earth and sand into the ears. The en-
trance of these into the ears distresses
the dogs much, causing deafness, alb
scesses and cancer. All dogs, more or
less, require to be protected from sand
and earth by overlapping ears but es-
pee ally do terriers literally "earth
dogs" the species which, of all others,
is most prosecuted by cropping. They
go into barrow, their ears get full of
sand. and they suffer ever afterward.
Surely Sir Edwin Landseer is right in
saying that judges of dogs ought not to
sanction such gross treatment of
the animal, and that the
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals should look to the
practice. The only excuse that can be
set up for this system is a delusive one.
1t is said that fighting dogs fare better
with their ears cropped, and the ext
gencies of fighting dogs have set the
fashion for all others. 1t is true that if
an ear be gone it can not be torn, but
then it is forgotten that even for fight
ing purposes the ear is often protec-
ton. All these fighting dogs have what
are termed points, One has his way
of Selling the leg, another fixes upon
the throat, and yet another makes a
dash at the large gland behind the ear,
which, in the dog, is as sensitive as the
most sensitive gland in the human body.
Deprive the dog of his ear and the as
sailant san get good bite at it and lay
his adversary low. Leave the dog his
ear and the assailants grasp of the
sensitive gland is impeded by the folds
of the ear and rendered much more
feeble. Thus, even to thu fighting dog,
the long ear is positive defense. =
~ 0. Picdyuae. .....
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP.
You think | am dead"
fl'ho onnlg-traa gaid

"You think am dead"
The apple-tree said,
"Decause ! have never leaf to show
Because stoop,
And my branches droop,
And the dull gray MOSES over me growl
But I'm all alive In trunk and shoot:
The buds of next May
fold away
But | pity the withered grass Mt my root"
"You think am dead,'
The du ok grass said,
Because | have parted with stem and blade
But under the ground
am safe and sound
With the snow thick blanket over me laid
I'm all alive, and ready to shoot
Should the Spring of the Year
Come dancing here
But pity the flower without branch or root. .
"You think am Dead"
A soft voice said
Because not q branch or root | owni
] never have died,
But close hide,
In plumy seed that the wind has sown.
Patient wait through The long winter hours,
You will see me again-
| shall laugh mt you, then,
Out of the eyes OF II hundred flowers!'
Edith NJ. Thomas, in st. Nicholas.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02

The following is complete census
of the Sioux Indians, as taken and for
warded to the Government at Washing
ton: Total number of inhabitants,
1896; males over twenty-one years,
S12; males nnder twenty-one years, SOC;
females over tweDty-one years. AIS; fe-
males under twenty-one years, $40.
The population has fallen off since the
last census, taken in 1885, when it was
l,540. Washington Post,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02

AT a second-class restaurant gen.
tleman was hastily called out of the
room. as an acquaintance wished to
speak to him. To keep off intruders
be placed scrap of paper over his
plate and glass of beer, with the
words: Il have touched all this with
my fingers" On returning he found
every thing as he had left it, only the
paper had these words added in pencil;
so have TN J. Telegram,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02
: The United States Govt, Dr., to
Watson PREGNANT:
To the use of 3 rail1nA cents, -. 500
Rec d 'payt.

The bill was sent to Washington as
approved by the officer in charge of
the survey, and went through the cir
cumlocution office, until it was dis
covered that it was informal in that it
lacked date, and it was sent back to
Freeman to have the omission sup
piled. All this involved great deal
of correspondence and red tape, but
in the course of a year or so Watson
Freeman got his thirty cents.
Now, it happened that there lived
on the cape another Watson Freeman,
public man, with reputation for
free-handedness as decided as his
namesake's for the other thing. This
Watson Freeman was candidate for
United States marshal, and had excel
lent assurance of getting the appoint
ment, when some political enemy at
Washington turned up the bill for
thirty cents for rails used by the Gov
eminent II was great discovery, of
course, for 1.-The joke against a man
that had n reputation for generosity
was so good that it might be depended
upon to make him the laughing-stock
of the country. Before two weeks
were over the bill had been scattered
broadcast over Cape Cod and every
body was laughing at it. 1t took
Freeman all the rest of his time up to
the end of his canvass to explain the
story, but he managed to pull through
and get the mars halship.
And when he got through it was {,
question which of the Watson Free
mans was the most famous on Cape
Cod. Boston Record.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02

Samuel L. Clemens MARX Twain
goes to a different hotel each time he
visits New York. He says that by do
ing this he finds that he receives better
treatment
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-02

Seven million boys and girls at
tend school daily in this country. ~
Y, Tribune,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-23
PenItentIarx Frauds.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The Times this
morning prints special from Columbus,
Ohio. which states that grave official mis-
conduct has been discovered in connec
uIon with the management of the Ohio
penItentiaTy in the past two years. The
dispatch says the secret service of1ercr
have been tor SINE time past investiga-
ting the matter and state that a thousand
dollars worth Uf goods and material has
been purchased that never came
TO the penitentiary but were
consigned elsewhere and realized on by
the officers while state vouchers paid for the
same. In addition TO the ordinary methods
of stealing all sorts of schemes were
resorted to run the prison for revenue
only. 1t is said certain convicts will
testify to having been taken out at night
to burglarize stores and houses and that
shares of the bo0ty were distributed i.
There Is plenty of evidence showing that
easy places were sold freely. II convict
was In the blacksmith chop and
wanted to be put on light and pleasant
job it was put up acc JEdiDgly. The
parole law is also said 10
have been utilized as q great slurce of
revenue under which 800 was potent
factor for release on good behavior. It lie
also learned that q contract was taken to
alter election returns at night IN the pris.
on. Much evidence Is already submitted
showing that the celebrated forgery by
which 209 was raised to sos on one of the
tally sheets of Columbus was done in the
penitentiary by ccnvicts serving for for
gerry and experts in that line of business