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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
THE PEACOCK.
Another Illusion Dispelled-A Bird With
out Vanity or Brains.

Another Illusion Dispelled-A Bird With
out Vanity or Brains.
ut seems like pity to shatter be-
lief that has existed for years. said a
dealer in pug dogs, pigeons and pea
cocks this morning to news gatherer,
"but the old, old story of the vanity of
the peacock is a miserable myth. l
can not understand why people be-
lieved in it so long. Why, sir, are you
aware that the peacock has less brains
than the chickenp Do you know that
the peacock is practically the idiot of
the feathered tribe, the same as the pug
is of the canine racer A peacock, sir,
hasn't sense enough to go in when it
rains. No, sir. What say is literally
and actually true. Ihave seen 'em stand
out in storm and pick up corn, while
every sensible turkey, goose or duck
would be under shelter.
ut is simply the gaudy plumage Of
the peacock that has led to the story OF
his vanity. suppose in days gone by,
when some parson or other had nc
text, he just lit on the peacock as a
subject and jumped in without regard
to nice distinctions in natural history.
''It is true that when the peacock
hoists his tail and struts around it looks
as if he was trying to show off, and al
the women folks say: Just look at the
vain thing!' The truth is that the pea
cock rarely, if ever, exhibits his mag
nificent circular tail except when court
ing. A male pigeon swells out hi
neck.festhers, while barn-yard rooster
seeks for dainty morsels for the hen
and clucks complimentary clucks. Tn,
peacock takes different style, that
| all.
al don't suppose that peacock ha
sense enough to know that his feather
are gaudy or his feet ugly. It's dea,
sure fact that he has smaller hea,
and less in it than any bird you cal
mention that is half his size in body
Vanity be blowedm = Philadelphi
| NesCS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
CHESTNUTS CONSIDERED.
Does Humor Live on from Generation to
Generation?

Does humOr Live OH from UeuerhtlOn TO
Generation?
Does a joke ever wear outp Certain
gags, quips, puns and smart sayings
undoubtedly get old, bald and toothless
once in while and are relegated to
the shelves of antiquity, but does time
ever come when they crumble away
and are lost or when they become too
decrepit to hobble forth once morep
Any attentive newspaper reader will
observe in the wit and humor of the
present day jokes with which he be-
came familiar when he was a boy,
stories which in new clothes and mod
ern millinery he read when he was in
school, and which his father and grand
father probably read before him, and
puns which were worked off on the sur
vivors of the flood and have been on duty
ever since. Each reader will discover
some combinations in the construction
of modern jokes which will be new to
him, but that does not prove that they are
not musty to somebody else. Many of our
modern humorists have achieved great
success in the art of dressing up the wit
of past generations. They have invent
ed some new situations, and in some
cases they have applied their jokes in
such way as to leave the impression
that they were new, as, indeed, they
may have been, yet the fact that so
much humor lives on from generation
to generation in about the same form is
suggestive of the idea that most of the
jokes which convulse the people of to-
day caused those of the last century to
explode with laughter and are destined
to perform the same service for genera
tions yet to come.
The habitual reader of modern
humor will find in the writings of Ad-
olson, Pope, Jerrold, Hood and other
wits of long ago strangely familiar
ideas, though he may never have seen
these works before, and Irving,
Phoenix, Doesticks, Mrs. Partington
and Artemus Ward and host of con-
temporary writers worked the same
mines in which modern humorists are
delving. 1t does not necessarily follow
that all humorists are delving. 1t does
not necessarily follow that all humor.
lists are plagiarists, but it is question
if the sum of humor increases from
age to age and if it is not under vary.
ing conditions about the same old thing
whenever and wherever it is found
| Chicago Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
A THIBETAN STUDENT.
How De Koros, the Great Asistic Scholar
Lived and Worked.

How De Koros, the Great Asistic Scholar,
Lived and Worked.
Probably there never was a scholar
who, in the pursuit of his favorite
study, was capable of such abstemious-
ness or showed such lofty contempt
for the very necesssries and decencies
of life as De Koros. He lived like an
eremite, barring the use of the hair
shirt and the scourge. At Yangla,
with Lama and one attendant, ne
lived for four months in an apartment
nine feet square. The temperature
was below zero and the three were
regularly showed up. Here De Koros
read Thibetan manuscripts literally
from morning till night, with hands so
numbed that he could hardly turn over
the pages. His food was boiled rice
and tea, favored with rancid butter.
He drank no spirits and would not eat
fruits, though Zanskar produces chest
nuts and spricots in abundance. The
latter, when dried, form the chief food
Of the natives. He cared nothing for
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
One Dollar Per Year.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Thomas James, of Gainesville.
Fla, is the father of tifty-three chill
dren.-St Louis Post.
General Sheridan, it is said, win
write an account of his historic cam
paign in the Shenandoah Valley.
George Bancroft, the historian, is
the only private citizen who has been
given the right to the floors of Congress
at all times.-N Y Journal.
Reuben r. Thrall, of Rutland,
VT, who was admitted to the Rutland
County bar in 1919, has cases on the
docket w.-Rutla,,d Herald.
Maurice Kingsley, son of Charles
Kingsley, the novelist, has made a
fortune in the silver mines of Colorado.
He has found the mine mightier than
the pen.
The Montezuma (Ga.) Record re-
cords the marriage of Mr. Dukes and
Miss Beasley, both living near Granger
vile. The peculiarity of the incident
is that both are paralyzed and neither
has walked step for months
Said Hon. Roswell G. Hoar in
opening lecture at Muskegon the
other night: "No man makes failure
of life if in all his life work he keeps
his affections pure and tender, his head
clear and his heart right" That de-
serves to be written in letters of gold.
Detroit Tribune. i.
Mr.. McElhone, chief of the official
reporters of the House, has been in the
continuous employment of the House
as reporter for the last thirty-tive
years, or since the debates of Congress
have been reported verbatim. He is
now training up his son to take his
place. - Washington Republican.
1t is impossible to publish the
novel Colonel Barnaby, of the Guards,
killed in the Soudan, left behind him,
because no one has been able to de-
cipher the manuscript. 1t has been
examined by one who knew the au-
thor's handwriting well, and has been
in the hands of professional de
cipherest', but nothing can be made
of it.
William Bender, of Cincinnati, has
been sent to an insane asylum because
of the lite eccentricity of throwing in
the fire a package containing forty
thousand dollars in Government bonds.
William had been on prolonged bend
er, and he fancied some of his relations
were seeking his wealth; hence he is
now in bonds as lunatic. - Cincinnati
Times.
The wife Of General Sheridan was
born in an adobe house at Albuquerque,
N. M. The house in which she first
saw the light contained one small
grated window, mud chimney in the
corner, and heavy door hung Oh
wooden hinges. Major Rucker, hel
father, was Quartermaster of the mill
tary post at that time, and the infantil'
years of Mrs. Sheridan were passed
amid the rude scenes of frontier army
camp. Chicago Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
interesting Arctic Relics.

A series of Arctic relics of strange
interest has been carried home by the
Captain of an English whaler and
transmitted to the English Admiralty.
These relics consist of various docu-
ments in cylindrical tin case, which
had been deposited by several of the
Franklin search expeditions thirty
years ago, and statement left by Sir
Allen Young when at Beechey Island
in 1875. The Captain states that he
picked up the documents in Prince Re-
gents Inlet. He is of the opinion that
the natives have cleared out Beechey
Island depot of everything that would
be of service to man in those regions
~ Y. Post
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04

the outer world; wanted neither news
papers nor modern books, but was
quite happy with Thibetan volumes on
religion, astrology, poetry, philosophy
and history, written or printed in
wooden types, and kept in in
destructible bookcases of cedar.
At Titaliya he lived in native
hut, regardless of heat, damp and
mosquitoes. He refused the hos
pitality offered him by Major
Lloyd, who, we believe, commanded a
detachment of Sepoys at Titaliya. In
Calcutta he never even took his ride on
the Course in the evening, but walked
about the compound or limited grounds
of the Asiatic Society, and only saw an
intimate friend or some Oriental schol-
ar. No wonder that English officials
were compelled to describe him as ''a
singular union of learning, modesty
and greasy habits'' A countryman,
who, as an artist, happened to be in
Calcutta and paid him a visit, was evil
IDENTIFY amazed at this "prison life".
We are not surprised to find that he
had some difficulty in expending the
monthly allowance of fifty rupees
granted him by Government that he
left untouched sum voted him by the
Council of the Asiatic Society and that
he repeatedly refused all aid from pri
vate sources. Indeed his retiring and
modest disposition was not incompati
BILE with certain amount of unamiablt
haughtiness and asperity. We coult
wish that he had lived more generously
changed his blue cotton dress oftenel
and enjoyed few simple pleasures
Dominic Sampson was a profount
scholar, but in the ruins of Derncleugl
he feasted with Merrilies, and fairl,
drank her health in a cupful of brandy
A more generous diet and little qui
nine might have enabled De Koros tt
survive the malarious fever of tn,
| Runppore Terai, SatitrdGU ReyieaC,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY,
day for his "helper", who attended ITO the
do, IL


outside part of the business.
All along Baxter street the same system
OF forcing trade is practiced. No sales are
made by the men on the Sidewalk, but it is
their duty to see that no one is allowed to
escape from the store. On several occasions
persons were caught in the doorway and
forced back again into the store. Now and
then fight occurs in the stores, when the
''puller-in" is summoned to take care OF the
man. In the case OF Michael Vim, who
had an encounter with the man in front OF
No. 1SH Monday, he received scratches and
had his coat torn. 1t is frequent occur
renee to have his collar and necktie or.the
buttons Of his coat torn off while struggling
to avoid trying on clothing. The whole
business is carried on by persuasion at first
and then by force The traders rely upon
impressing their victims with the cheapness
OF the goods, and after putting the clothes
on them refuse to give back the old suit,
and in this way frighten great many peo-
pie into buying what they never needed or
wanted.
The custom of "pulling-in" is not con-
fined to Baxter street nor to men alone.
The same business methods are practiced
with great success in Division street, only
here the players in the game are women,
and they work for milliners. The whole
east side Of the long blocks between Catha-
rine street and Market is given up almost
entirely to bonnetmakers, and every door
has its "puller-in" before it, greedily seek
ing what she may devour.
They are curious-looking set, these fe.
male ''pullers-in". They represent almost
every age and nationality under the sun
The woman who walks alone through Di
vision street must have strong mind and
o stronger arm to resist the prowess o.
these ''pullers-in". Very few pass through
the gauntlet without leaving some Of theil
money in the shops. This business has
been so long established that it has beer
reduced to a science. Many OF the womer
have grown gray in the service, but there
are always on hand number OF little girls
in training, learning the tricks of the trade
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
An Octillionth.

. The statement that Mr.. Marsh, of
Troy, purchased one-octillionth part of
an acre of land up in Hamilton County
whose lodes of rich and precious met
ais are supposed to be hidden beneath
the surface, caused not few to go to
work and figure out the purchase Said
one man: THAT amount would be less
than the size of a mans hand. The scribe
thought it would-so did the two clerks
in the Comptroller's office who had
charge of computing the daily sales,
Messrs. Williams and Bishop. They
figured and figured, and came to the
conclusion that the purchase could not
be discerned with the naked eve. II
might with the aid of a microscope.
According to their calculation the one.
octillionth part of the area of the State
of New York is less than half of g
square ineh.-Albany Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
IN ADVANCE.

Now Winter is fighting his battles
With many an icicle lance,
But I'm writing "gentle spring. poem
Which the editors wish "ln advance.
II is full as is usual, of ''violets'',
II alludes TO the robins first peep,
Though blizzard's a daily occurrence,
And the snow-drifts are seven feet deep.
But the editors-singular creatures,
TO whom i ain hound hand and foot
Grasp at Father Times typical forelock,
TIL it's nearly pulled out by the root.
For they get way ahead of the season,
Ia manner most willy and arch;
so that while you are reading December
They finish the number for March.
And he who would hope for acceptance
Must strike up betimes with his tune,
And sing Harvest Home In Mid-Winter
And Jingle his sleigh-bells In June.
30 when my spring poem is finished,
NO rest does my weary pen get;
must write review of novel
Which isn't itself written yet!
bessie Chandler, in Centiup.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
THE QUESTIONABLE ONE.

A fashionable woman
In fashionable pew;
A fashionable bonnet
Of fashionable hue;
A fashionable mantle
And a fashionable gown.
A fashionable Christian
In fashionable town;
A fashionable prayer-bo0k
And a fashionable choir;
A fashionable chapel
With fashionable spire;
A fashionable preacher,
With fashionable speech;
A fashionable sermon
Made of fashionable reach:
A fashionable welcome
At the fashionable door;
A fashionable penny
To the fashionable poor;
A fashionable Heaven
And fashionable He'll;
A fashionable Bible
For this fashionable belle.
A fashionable kneeling,
And fashionable nod;
A fashionable everything,
But No Fashionable God!
Merchant Traveller
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04
THE "PULLERS.IN"

Employed by Retail Dealers on Certain
Streets of New York = How Hatters,
Shoemakers and Clothiers Drag In Their
CustOmers-The Women Take Part in
Grabbing the Unwary Experiences in
Running the Gauntlet.
From Canal street to Chatham the south
side of Baxter street is lined with MANY
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04

clio thin G stores.
Each establish
m ent has it's
"puller-in" stand
ing in front of the
door, whose busi-
ness it is to allow
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-04

j. Wilkes Booths widow and two
children, now grown up, live in seclu-
sion in Alabsms.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-11-05
LATEST ny TELEPHONE.

Miss. Florence Webb is tho guest of
her aunt this week, having n vacation
from her school ut Five Points.
Miss. Hattie A. Huiburd, who hns
been in ill health for week past, is on
a visit with the family Of George Laskey,
Esq, Toledo.
Mrs. s. N. Poston, of Nelsonville, o. ,
the only sister OF Mrs. Rev. G. p. Taylor,
arrived here last evening for n fow days
visit with her nephew, Mr.. G. @. Taylor,
and family.
Mira. o. J. Hopkins, Perry, and "Ben."
OF Toledo, drove up to-day Tor visit
for brief view OF the dumb animals uf
the JOURNAL Office.
Mrs. Eva Williams, OF Urbana, AMI
Mr.. Jesse Powers. OF Chicago, the only
children Of the late John Powers, arrived
here in time TO attend the funeral of
their father on Sunday. Jesse will re-
main at home during the winter.
Capt. VIM. V. MacMaken, who was
elected Recorder in Lucas County. on
Tuesday by handsome majority over a
good man and str ong candidate, accom-.
panied by his wife and little daughter,
is the guest of Mr.. E. L. Kingsbury and
family yesterday and to-day.
Mr.. Henry P. Averill returned to-day
from a business trip TO st, Louis. Be-
lieving Ohio was safe he took an inter-
eat in the election oil an old friend who
was candidate on the Republican
ticket for Judge in St. Louis, and
thought HIM elected when he left but secs
by dispatches since that lie was counted
out.
Mr.. Will G. Norton and six other
telegraph operators of Toledo, returned
from n two weeks hunt in upper Mich.
on Saturday last. They secured two
deer, and one bear that required rak-
ing shot from each one of the hunters
to down him. The bear meat was taint.
ed too strong with age and strength to he
fully releshed and bear meat is cheap in
Perrysburg and Toledo just now.
The town appears to be all right again
since Ed. Kingsbury's return from
Hoosierdom. His absence for four or
five weeks past, left vacuum around
the corner, good sized one, too, in the
ranks Of business, that would not fill.
The time seemed longer than it really
was. He closed out good sized grocery
stock at Goshen while absent. closed the
books, found an old time friend loctaed
there who al one time gave President
Garfield employment when boy. Ed.
talks little broken hoosier.' but is
home to stay.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-11-05
LIN Il CITY.

Situated on the Toledo, Columbus and
Southern r. R., nine miles from Toledo,
Is the village of Lime City.
No. by its imposing business blocks, nor
by its magnificent residences. not by phat
il is, but by whai il wiu be, docs It merit the
name OF CITY" The fitness OF the appel
lation, Lime" is very obvious il you con.
slider the stone and lime interests now being
developed here.
This little town Of the qunrryman and
the farmer, is now well prepared TO COM
pete with its larger and older rivals in the
industries Of life. One of the prominent
business men is Mr.. Fred Shovar, whose
energy and lair dealing has built him up
n large trade in groceries and general mer-
chandise.
Just north of Shovar's Supply House, on
the main street, (Which is to be) is the
stone quarry OF Sawyer & Scott. Here,
under the direction OF II. Hamilton, is EN- :
ployed from fifteen 10 eighteen experienced
men who, with hand and steam drills, turn
out about ten car loads of building stone
per day for the Toledo market.
The quality OF the stone has proved
most excellent for lime, and there are now
being built by the owners OF the quarry.
two patent kilns. Itnexrected, ! believe,
that from 100 TO 200 barrels of lime will
be shipped daily. Fourteen cords OF wood
consumed every twenty-four hours by the
kilns will undoubtedly make the demand
for fuel good. The manufacture OF lime
barrels will constitute an important indus
Try OF the town.
Directly north from the Sawyer quarry
is another one, lately orened, which Is
owned by the Hanal,an Bros, OF Toledo.
This under The excellent management Of
MIR. Joe. Heiferman, has proved great
success. Twenty men are kept constantly
employed, furnishing the owners Of the
quarry with splendid stone Tor their eI-
tenSive contract work at Toledo. large
house is now being built tor the accommO.
dation OF part OF the workmen. IN the
Spring. steam diills will be used, and the
quarry thus enlarged and beltered.
Blacksmithing, that most indispensable
business OF every growing village, is carried
on by Mr. i. Winslow, who 10 snit his in
crensing trade has jus, hnilt new shop.
Dos'nl the cityt?) grow?
i learn from very good authority that a
grain irnde.will be started, il lot on which
to build an elevator can be bought. May
this good enterprise be carried out and
meet auccess.
With the progress of those things which
are rraire. worthy and helpful! 10 a COM
muniiy. keeps pace ll,oae which nre di,-
graceful and injurious. refer to the sa-
loon, and am sorry to say that the build
ing Of one is now contemplated.
expect the quarries will he re'y busy
soon, furnishing stone for the New Depot.
which, hear, President Brown, (ihat gem
ero,l- man, the farmers' and lnboiers'
frien'D OF the 7. C. 4 S. X. r., expects TO
erect. The Depot, we understand, will be,
when completed, quite large--a waiting
loom in II new grocery store.
A traveller passing through the city on
the cara, wonld readily recognize it-ycs,
when the conductor calls ont Lime
City yW EVERETT.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-11-05
Tho Lady and The Mouse.

A lady once. when busy with her do
mestic duties, encountered mouse in a
-four barrel. Now, most ladies', under
similar circumstances, would have ut
tered few shrieks and then sought ref.
uge in the garret. But this one possess
ed more than the ordinary degree OF
feminine courage.
She summoned the hired man and
told him to get the shotgun, call the
bulldog. and station himself at a con
venient distance. Then she climed half
way up the stairs, and began to punch
the hour-barrel vigorously with pole.
Presently the mouse made its appear
ance, and started across the floor. The
dog at once went in pursuit. The man
fired, and the dog dropped dead the
lady tainted and fell down stairs and tn,
hired man. thinking she was killed and
that he would be arrested for murder
disappeared, and has not been heard OF
since. The mouse escaped.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-11-05
nnd as tic Tclenl,nne GIRLS Trick

buu us INV icitpu"ht uHl iTlCk'
She stood beside the telephone and
turned the little crank, evaporation in
her tone and rage in every "yank."
"Hi, there. when will you resurrect,
you unresponsive knave2 Will some
old fossil please connect this business
with the grave?
Now, then. old corpse, just hold your
breath, while time the chance affords.
I've nearly tired myself to death, and
snapped my vocal chords.
"Please give me DIR. Liverpad oh,
Doctor, is that your My little boy is
feeling bad please tell me what TO do.
He ate cucumbers. apples, too a
most uncommon lot, and now he's turn
ed bilious hue, and doubled in a
knot.
"Beside-" Just then the central fiend
switched to another wire, and then the
tail that intervened filled all her mind
with ire.
1t must have been some barrel man,
with leaking casks to mend here's
what she heard as he began upon the
other end
"Hnmmer the head ntil its tight
tighten the middle band water will
swell it up all right if it is left to
stand.
apply coat Of pitch without, and
when it starts to swell, you needn't have
the slightest doubt but twill do very
we'll"
You should have seen that doctor
when the wires once more ran right,
and madam got her wits again and rid
died him with spite.
"You nasty, nasty. horrid beast
Paint Johnny up with pitch, You are
either mad or tight, at least cannot
tell just which,"
He stood aghast and wondering said
"Did you ever, now A woman Is the
blamedest thing living anyhow."-Lou'
issiRe Couier-Jou,ndl.