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, 1886-01-03

Dr.. Morrell- Mackenzie, the famous
throat specialist, lives in the midst of
almost Oriental magnifcence, and quite
after the fashion of THE Arabian
Nights" Everything in the way of in
struments or suggestion of disease is
carefully hidden away behind exquisite
carvings oil rich hangings; doors open
and shut no~iselessly, patients are sum
moned and dismissed by mysterious
electric bells. In one OF the doctors
rooms no has something clever enough
in device to DO adopted by many a
weary physician in our own country.
Behind the chair where he examines
patients is a heavy portiere, Through
which he yanishes when a patient shows
n disposition to dwell unduly on his
ailments"
, 1886-01-03

SeAAAA - - 1sHAAHa
/ suppose everybody is ready to admit
that two complete born fools are not at
all likely to become the proud father
and happy mother Of a Shakespeare or
a Newton. ! suppose everybody will
unhesitatingly allow that a great math-
ematician could hardly by any conceiy-
able chance arise among the South
African Bushmen. who can not under
stand the arduous arithmetical PROPOSE
ton that two and two make four. such
leaps as these would be little short of
pure miracles. They would be equiya-
lent to the sudden creation, without an
teccdent cause, Of n whole vast system
Of nerves and nerve-centers in the pro-
digious brain of some infant phenome-
non.
On the other hand, much of the COM
m%onplace, shallow fashionable talk
about hereditary genius is itself fully
so absurd in its own way as the idea
that something can come out of moth
ing. tor it is no explanation of the OK
istenee of genius to say hat it is
hereditary. You only put the difficulty
one place back. Granting that young
Alastor Jones is a budding poet because
his father, Perry Bysshe Jones, was n
poet before him, why, pray, was Jones
the elder poet at all to start With This
kind of explanation, in fact, explains
nothing; it begins by posting the ex-
isience of one original genius, abso-
lutely u%naccounted for, and then pro-
goods blandly to point out that the
other geniuses derive their character
istics from him, by virtue of descent.
Just as all the sons of a peer are born
honorables. The elephant supports the
earth, and the tortoise supports the
elephant, but who, pray, supports the
tortoisel If the first chicken came out
of an egg what was the origin of the
hen that laid itl
, 1886-01-03

Gilhooly dropped into the office of
Judge Pennybunker a few Gays ago.
After that they talked about local poll
tics, the weather, etc, Judge Penny
bunker remarked:
"l GU come to me very frequently,
Gilhooly, but there is one thing about
your visits that | can't understand.
what is thati'
well, it is the fact that you have
never yet invited me to call on you"
That's easily explained" said Gil
hooly, yawning and stretching himself,
you see, when | come to visit YOU, if
you make mt tired with your talk | can
get up and go, but if you call on me at
my home | may not be able to get rid of
you without being impolite. Seef'
, 1886-01-03

A correspondent of Tho Atlanta Ca
Constitution interviewed a mar in Ma
con who is an undertaken aud n dealer
in furniture. The reporter asked
whether business was ilourishing. IF
You mean the undertaking line" said
he, lit has never been as dull as it is
at present. | have been in under
taking business in Macon for a number
of years. but have no recollection of a
time when the death-rate was as low as
it is now. 1t you mean TO ask about
the furniture trade, | will say that it
was never better. We have about as
much as we can do all the time, and
what we lose on collins We make up on
bedsteads."
, 1886-01-03

The value Of homing pigeons in coun-
try medical practice has lately been de-
scribed by an English doctor. He starts
upon his daily rounds with a basket Of
the birds. Upon leaving the house of a
patient who needed immediate atten-
ton, he would start of n pigeon with
the required prescription, and the as
sistant in the doctors surgery would
forward the medicines to the patient
long before the doctors arrival home.
A ease is lately cited in which pigeons
regularly carried a morning newspaper
TO their owner. The birds can carry
weight to the extent of three-quarters
of an ounce or more.
, 1886-01-03

A disreputable and yagrant cur, hav-
ing aceosted a sleek looking pug dog on
Thanksgiving day, made bold to inquire
how the high-bred pug enjoyed his holi-
day dinner.
"Oh, it was miserable, replied the
pug with a yawn; 81 don't believe in
Thanksgiving.
well, differ with you - replied tho
cur, licking his chaps; "a ate a whole
turkey.
Turkey sneered the pug unable to
suppress his scorn. why, | hayo
turkey every day."
, 1886-01-03
A COLONY OF FIRE ANTS.
Not to Bn Exterminated---Test of Courage
Horrible Sight

Not to De Exterminated--Test Of Courage
Horrible Sight
Texas Cor. Philadelphia Timesl
My camp was once invaded by fire
ants. 1t was a good place, convenient
to wood and water, and / hated TO leave.
| disputed the right OF occupancy with
them for three weeks, at the end of
which time ] incontinently surrendered
and fed. During that three weeks
dug them out, burned them out and
drowned them out, but they didn't seem
TO mind it in the least. They went on
%burrowing and building and exploring
the surrounding country, and when my
tent got full of them, and ! had been
bitten in about o, 900, 900 different places
| thought il time to move.
The bite Of the fire ant is like the
sting OF the singing lizard. They in
crease with a rapidity that is alarming,
and the more you try to exterminate
them the more numerous they become. 1t
used to be a test of courage among the
Comanche Indians for q brave to
thrust his barred arm into n nest of fire
ants and hold it there without fiinching,
while his companions went through the
movements of a somewhat complicated
~ oAOhAAa IN AtaAN AOhls llt1
don't do it any more.
Once near Pope's Crossing, on the
Pecos river, | reached a village of fire
ants and started to mako a detonr. We
discovered Indian signs of recent date,
and halted to investigate. A band of
Indians had camped on the edge of the
ant village, and a prisoner, who after
ward proved to be a bear-tamer named
Goggin was stripped, bound hand and
foot, and laid down among the ant
hills. You can imagine his horrible
suiferings. We found his bones and
gave them a decent burial. The fire ant
is pugnaeious, and his mode of warfare
is always aggressive. In the aggregate
he will attack any living thing, from an
elephant down, kill him by sheer force
of numbers, and devour all but the
hOnps
, 1886-01-03
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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

Richard Bissell, the naturalist, who
died recently in Cincinnati, was a can.
did man. In his autobiography occurs
this passage, referring to II period of
his life:
subsequently, practiced the hum
buggery of medicine, which is expert
meRting and guess work, like n half
blind man going out to shoot birds OF
rats. | refer to doctors, not surgeons.
, 1886-01-03
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lR II stoddardl
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" any such there be, &
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And by my love for theei ftf
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50 douhly hard TO mol
See, where tho lover stands, -
And stretched forth his hands;
His applications hear.
Dying because thou art too dear,
Come near.
Aud. giving nothing else, oh, give him now
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, 1886-01-03

TnE latest fashion of the sensational
newspapers-tha of publishing startling
pictures originated with the old Police
Gazete. 1t early discovered that picture
papers, for want OF anything better. amuse
children. sports and idiots.
, 1886-01-03
fermentation OF Electric Power.

A French electrician has been con
Quoting some experiments in the trans
mission of motive power by electricity,
and has reported to the Academy OF
Sciences that he succeeded in transmit
ting 30 per cent. of eighty horsepower
a distance Of thirty-hve miles. The ex-
periments were paid for by the Roth
childs, and cost $lGO, 600.
, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03
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, 1886-01-03
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, 1886-01-03

A Harvard student searched for a
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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

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miserable while the pleasant concentrated
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had Of our cnterprsing druggist, w. N
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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03
CAPITAL PRIZE, S75,oo
o 1000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.

1857 Prizes. amounting %. ...........-....- s2B5. 500
Application for rates 10 clubs should
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New Orleans.
For further Information write clearly.
giving full address.
Postal notes, Express Money Orders, or New
York Exchange In ordinary letter. Currency
by expires Qtll sums OF IS aud upwards
at our eXpenhel addressed
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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

DAILY LEADER. all transient advertisements
10 cents per line each insertion. Q consecutive
Insertions X cents per line one month 8 cents
per line.
Minor mention notices. among local reading
matter. IS cents per line each Insertion.
MEFKLN LEADER. all transient advertise
ments - cents per line nrst Insertion one
month, % cents per line SIX months 10 cents
per line one year o cents per line. Marriage
and birth notices St.0p each. No advertisement
inserted for less than . cents.
II. GIAPcKE. Publisher.
, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03
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, 1886-01-03

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, 1886-01-03

Its Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly. and the Extraordinary Draw
ings regularly every three months instead Of
Semi-Annually rs heretofore. beginning March.
1886.
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NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY. JANUARY IL
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, 1886-01-03
Louisiana State Lottery COMFY


We the undersigned Banks and bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn In The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun-
j. II Ogleshy, Pres Louisiana National Bank.
Samuel II. Kennedy. Pres. State National Bank.
A.. Baldwin. Pres. New Orleans National Bank.
Incorporated In 1868 for Is years by the Leg
lslnture for Educational and Charitable pur-
poses-with a capital OF 81 O0O.0OO-to which a
reserve fund CT over $4,000 has since been
added
BY an overwhelming popular vote Its
franchise WAS made n part OF the present
State Constitution adopted December ID. A.
d. 1879
The only Lottery euer voted on aud cadorsed
By The people Of any STATE.
, 1886-01-03

Courtesy of Eyo. Archives & Historical
, 1886-01-03

81. q. BAIRD and A. G. C~AMpBEIL). Al.
torneys-at-Law and Notaries Public, Chsy
second floor, Strhbins x Post bank bloch
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-10

thereupon all their contracts
should become enforceable. The
time within which payment may
be made under this act will expire
on the 10Th day Of June, 1886.
Three full years must be paid for
to secure the relief contemplated
by the aet.-State Ledger.
Especial to the Avalanche.
Huntington. April "a heavy
snow storm commenced here early
this morning and continued until
near noon when the snow was the
heaviest at this season of the year
since 1857. The river here has
risen two feet in the last %
hours and now stands 80 feet
above low water. Great fears are
felt in Arkansas City on account
of the threatened caving in of the
levee in Cypress bend.
The election here for town off
GERS passed off quietly, resulting
in the election of w. w. Shelby
for mayor aud a full Democratic
council.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-10
Economy Illustrated.

Economy is a very beautiful
thing, but it's like a dynamo-its
dangerous thing to fool with. A
great many people have been alb
solutely ruined by economy. Mod
ern economy may be described as
the art of buying a thing you don't
want cheap IN preference to pay
ing a decent price for the thing
you do want. Real economy is
getting the most you need for the
least money. Economy is the bet.
ter part of extravagance. | think
extravaganza ought to be encour-
aged. | believe it can be with
safety, because there are so few
who have money or credit enough
to be extravagant. The chances
are that when u fellows rich
enough to be extravagant he does
not need to be economical. Econ
omy is, like virtue, its own reward,
for | never heard of anybody who
got anything but perhaps o little
credit for being economical out OF
economy. There's no fun in it.
There's a depressing sense OF suf.
fering in economy which lasts all
through, but extravaganza has a
splendid time, lots of fun, and
when you are "bust up again,
recollection aud anticipation are
both lively and enjoyable. When
you have been economical for O
year and stinted yourself with
great self-denial, it doesn't add
any comfort to your reflections
when you reach o hard mp stage.
"You wager your solemn exist
ence,' said a fellow, "I'm going to
have as much fun as | can out oi
this s10OO.u
"Now don't be fool" said his
friend. "Invest it, live easy, and
you may find this the beginning
of a fortune.'
"My dear boy, you listen to me
| was a hard. working man once
making good income. | stintet
myself, lived quietly, and savet
every cent l could. | wanted tt
be a millionaire. Every dollar
made | put into speculation, an,
| carried stocks for months.
made $4,000. / did not touch II
| went on saving and saving an'
doubling things up. My broke
J was a bowling swell. He ha'
teams and swell rooms, and CAV
r champagne lunches and elaborat'
dinners and wore magnlficen
clothes. / said to myself: 'Wha
! a darn fool that fellow is. He
spending all his money, and som
: day he'll need it, ] Iwent on plod
ding and plodding. | was wort
100000.
] swell, see, that's just what
) say. Then the broker went u
and my money with him. | sal
TO myself: You made q mistak
a in the fool, Young man. The brs
ker was the wise man. Now, III
. going Id have the champaign
breakfasts aud let the broke
starxo
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-10
PitifaI Story.
Commercial Herald. /

0tuinCIJldl ncAaiu.l
A young woman committed suit
eide and murder "Wednesday eve
ming about dark, by jumping from
the Mobile and Ohio railroad
bridge into the Sowashee creek.
half mile from Meridian, after
strapping her infant to her breast.
She was seen by a colored man,
and was soon recovered from her
watery grave by the Meridian
officials. On the bridge we're
found her hat, shawl and port
monnie. Among other things in
the portmonnie was 1885 IN sill.
yer, one 50 greenback bill, and the
following note:
"My name is Annie Lee Wilson.
and live on Poplar street, Mem
phis. | am twenty years of age,
and my father, mother and one
sister, seventeen years old, are
living there. | was a happy and
contented girl up to two years
ago. | need not tell why | am ur-
happy now, and why want to
die. When my body and that of
my darling child are found, if they
ever are, the story of a dishonor.
ed girls life will be told. Hating
between resolution and irresolu-
ton for the past six weeks, too
cowardly to hive and afraid to die,
spurned by friends and outlawed
by society, my life has been shad-
owed by unutterable grief, and
that brief period has seemed an
eternity of woe. know it is wick
ed, ordinarily, 10 take ones own
life, but if in this instance | sin.
God knows | have been more
sinned against than SHINING. |
recognize the fact, that in a little
while, | shall have to stand at the
bar of judgement to answer for
my life and death, aud | have no
thoughts of censure to write upon
this page against the author of all
my misfortunes. | love him and,
as | hope to be forgiven, | forgive
him. God have mercy on his soul,
and deal as gently with an erring
and broken.hearted girl, and her
innocent little baby, as you can"
The remains were taken to the
undertaker's office, where mum
ber of Meridian ladies prepared
them for burial and notified hel
parents. The News says she hat
been in Meridian two days and wal
registered at the st. Elmo hotel
the proprietor of which said sh'
had been bright and cheerful al
day and had told him when sh,
left that she was going out to yisi
q friend in the city.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-10
AN ACT in relation to the rate O

AN ACT in relation to the rate of
interest in this State.
Section |. Be it enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Missis
slppl, That hereafter no person,
bank, corporation or association
of persons, except building and
loan associations, shall demand or
stipulate for greater rate of in.
terest than ten per cent, per an.
mum for any money advanced or
loaned, or on any note, account or
other Evidence of debt.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That every provision Of any Act
heretofore passed, creating any
corporation or amending any Act
creating any corporation, which
authorizes any such corporation
to take or receive more than ten
per centum interest per annum, or
which is IN conflict with section
1141 of the Code of 1880, Is hereby
repealed.
Sec. 3 Be Il further enacted,
That this Act take effect asd be II
force from and ailef IL passage.
Approved aisrch - Issss
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-10

AN ACT to provide for amend
ments in criminal proceedings
in appeals from justice courts.
Section 1. Be ii enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Missis.
sippi, That where, upon any ap.
peal to the Circuit Court, from
any judgment or sentence of any
justice of the peace, or mayor of
any incorporated town or city, in
any criminal matter, any of the
pleadings or proceedings therein,
including the affidavit charging
any offense, may be deemed in
sufficient or defective, ii shall be
lawful for the district attorney, or
any prosecuting witness or attor.
ney, at any time before the sub.
mission of the cause to the jury,
to make any amendment of such
pleadings or proceedings, so as to
bring the merits of the case fairly
to trial on the charge intended to
be embraced in the affidavit, and
such amendment shall be allowed
by the court upon such terms, as
to cost and delay, as it may deem
proper to prevent undue advant-
age or surprise; and the defend.
ant may except to the decision of
the court allowing such amend
ment, and the same may be assign.
ed for error.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take
effect and be in force from and af-
ter its passage.
Approved March 10, 1886.