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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
Booth Tells a Story.

Booth told u very amusing story.
when he las here last, of q trip he
took to Honolulu when he was young.
er and knocking about California.
Some actor came up from Australia
who had stopped at the Sand wich
Islands. He inflamed Booth on the
subject of that dramatic E Dorado.
He scraped together all the money he
could and went to Honolulu. He had
$50 when he arrived. With that
money he hired the theatcr for five
weeks, at SO a week. He found two
or three people. and made an arrange
ment to give 4 show. 1t was to be
Richard III. The two or three people
played all the parts. One mar played
four, and one woman two, and SO on.
The question of billing the town arose.
He managed to get some posters. but
he had nothing to stick them up with.
He bought n bucket of ''poi' and some
starch, or stuff that would help it,
mixed his paste and sent q small
Kanaka out to put up the bills. H.
didn't see any when he went out, and
investigation disclosed that the small
Kanaka had eaten up all the paste and
thrown the posters away. He begged
some Of his company to stick thom up.
but they were all too ~high-loned, and
Booth had to 90 out himself in the
middle of the night and paste bis bill:
up. He said he came back with $50
lust as he started. and they had t'
live on bananas principally. -San
francisco Chronicle.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
THE AMERICAN MOOSE.
Nature and Habits of the Largest Memher
Of the Deer Family.

The moos, (Alce A~mericanus) is
really an elk. being nearly identified
with the elk of Europe. Is the largest
animal of the deer kind. standing
from fourteen to sixteen feet high ut
the shoulders and weighing eight
hundred 10 ole thousand two hundred
pounds. With a head and ears like an
overgrown jackass, Nide-spreadlns
palmated horns. clumsy, unsym-
metrical body, and long legs, the ami
nal Is yet one of the ~tlcctest and most
untiring denizcns of the forest. IT
will 90 all day at a trot which would
distance a good horse; dash through
dense thickets on a IL as fleet as the
wind, and leap over barriers which
would appal the stoutest steepIe'
chaser. When driven to bay it turns
on its pursuer and is a formidable an.
taponist. These animals are found
sparinglv in Maine. where they may
legally be hunted, without dogs. from
the 1st of September to the LIST OF
| January. and a few sun llhSer Ill thc
great forest region of Northern New
York. where hunting them at any time
is absolutely prohibited.
They are much more numerous IN
the forests of Canada and as far north
as Labrador. Like all other members
of the deer family, they shed their
antlers every winter. and new ones
grow the next summer. Additional
pronrs appear with each years growth
until the animal has passed the period
of its greatest vigor, when the antlers
gradually diminish, year by year.
Efforts have been made to domesticate
the fleet and powerful animals; but
however mild they may be at other
times, a full-grown ''bull' moose
when its antlers are in perfect con
dition, is intractablc and dangerous,
scorning the dominion of man. The
Wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), which is
commonly called an elk in this coun'
try, is in reality a stag, closely re
sembling its European congener OF
that name. american Aqrtcu'turtSL
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
Red the Favorite Color.

1t Is n curious circumstance thatred,
the unseen color of so many. Is the
favorile color. and may be called the
king color, of the normal eye. 1t was
especially SO in ancient times. II we
examine the Bible we shall find that
the He bre VS. scarcely eve use color as
m epithet, as we do when we say 'tho
blue sky" 1.-THE purple hills They
say, indeed, "rhe Red Sea- but blue
Is scarcely mentioned as seen in nat
ure. only in the ''blue and pur-
ME and scarlet" of the taber'
mace hangings, or the hish
priests robes, or the pavement OF the
Kings palace of 'red and blue me
black and white MARBLE in the Book
of Esther. Yellow, excepting as a sign
of disease, is mentioned but once or
twice: cher fe athers like yellow gold
But red is largely spoken of as in later
times, and perhaps as Incorrectly 1or
we did not invent, we only inherit.
The expressions, 'red gold" "red
wine," one of these being merely
orange, and the other a rudy purple.
RED hair" is q modern, or rather
medieval %inaccuracy; 'red cow we
got from the a~ncients. These cpl
thets all appear to show a certain
fancy for calling things red as the
more kingly and costly aolor. Good
Worda
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
KEEP OUT OF e 3
Father Ciarkson, Of Iowa, Talks About the
Mortgage Evil.

Mortgage Evil.
1t is probable the writer Is radical
on the subj ect Of going into debt.
But when a man is right it is difficult
70 DO too radical. We do know, that
with farmers. debt contracting is a
raPidly-growing evil. There are more
than twenty farm mortgages to where
there was one fifty years ago, in pro-
portion to the number of farms And
at that time chattle mortgages were
unknown in the law books, the public
records or in practice. And after the
trouble and misery. the alienation OF
friends, separations Of families, pow
erty and distress, and the suicides, all
caused by the careless contraction OF
debts, which we have witnessed in
sixty years, it is no wonder we are
radical on the subject We're we to
start in life again. if our income were
only fifty cents per week we
would save hall of it. and buy
q peck of corn for ten cents,
parch it, and eat that alone and
provide clothing with the other fifteen
cents before contracting debts to live
on. 1t is better to 60 barefoot when
1t IS warm enough not to need shoes
to keep warm, and make coat and
pants of coarse horse blankets, than
to plant the seeds of debt to harrass
the days, and disturb the sleep. We
do know that the hasty and greedy
practice Of spending all ones wages
or income, and providing nothing for
sickness, misfortunes or laex on EN-.
ployment is all wrong. No matter
how small the income or wages, econ
omy ought to save a portion of it.
The requirements to satisfy the appe.
tite, strengthen the body for labor
and protect the system from exposure
are more or less fictitious. extravagant
and useless. Fashion is the most
tyranical ruler that ever cursed man.
kind. Her power and despotic
way enter into all departments
of society, causing foolish NOR.
tails to contract debts. mortgage
property and render families mis-
cradle for life. A farmer can live
happier in his old house, out of debt,
than he can in a new, fine one with a
mortgage on it. A family can wor-
ship more d~evoutly going to church in
a farm wagon, when they arc not
afraid of any creditor meeting them.
than to go in u fine carriage with a
chattel mortgage on the horses, sub
ject TO be foreclosed at any time.
Hence we beg of farmers to so live
and SO economic that. if in debt, the
amount shall be greatly and gradu'
ally decreased each year Discard
the idea of adding luxurics to house
hold furniture, 10 clothing. o build
ings or carriages. musical Instruments,
etc. until you have the ready cash to
pay for any or all Of them. Come
back to old-fashioned economy. old
fashioned contentment and happiness.
old-fashioned industry and plain iv-
ing until the financial condition will
Justify luxuries, and eve then they
will conduce little to health or happi-
ness.-Des M0ineS ReGiSter.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
~"ROBINSON CRuSOE."
A Work Very Much Like Defoe's Written
in the seventeenth Century,.

A German writer named Grimmel-
shauscn gave an account OF u man be-
ing cast away on an uninhabited
island. This he did in a work emit
tied The ADVENTURE Simplicius Sim
pliscimus,' published in the year
1870, and therefore some forty and
more years before 1.-The Adventures
of Alexander Selkirk'' were known,
and fifty years before the appearance
of "Robinson Crusoe." GrimmGl-
shausen docs not work out his story
in great detail, as Dcfoo did, but in
many ways he anticipates him. The
coin cidences are interesting. His hero
is wrecked on an uninhabite0 island
in the tropics. rich in vegetation. with
warm climate and periodical rainy
season. He builds himself n house,
and has, further, u cave TO retire into.
He makes clothes for himself of skins
of penguins and other birds. He keeps
Register of time by cutting notches
on q stick. He experiences an earth.
quake. He moralizes on the useless.
ness of some money which he gets.
The island IS visited by a ship. the cap
tain of which offers to take him away.
There is a visit from savages in boats.
who carry him off. There is a very
strong religious element introduced
into the story. In one point their is a
marked difference. Grimmelshausen
deals largely with the supernatural,
which Defoc does not. To pursue the
subject a little further. Grimmelshau-
sen in the history of his hero gives
accounts of the Thirty Years War
and of various naval adventures,
which at once remind n of the
memoirs of a Cavalier and of the
Life of Captain Singleton Grim
melshausen was q %multifarious writer.
like Defoe, though not quite so pro-
ductive; Still, he produced eighteen
works within ten years Notes ana
Queries.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
LOTTERY PROSPERITY.
An Instance Which Shows That 1t Is VERY
Hard to Bear.

Hard to Bear.
A very absurd story was recently
told to me respecting the drawing Of
the Nice lottery. The first prize
(sloo. 000) was drawn by a working
man Of the great India rubber factory
at Langalee. neal Montargis, which
belongs to and is under the direction
Of Mr.. Alexander Hutchinson. former.
ly Of Connecticut, but for many years
a resident Of Paris. The lucky prise
winner. on coming into possession OF
his fortune, immediately bought him.
self a high hat and a handsome over
coat. and hired a carriage. in which
he and his family went riding around
the country. Up to the present time
the chief acquisition he owes to his
wealth is a sever attack of dyspepsia,
for the form Of self Indulgence to
which he is inclined is that of good
eating. and he has tried most of the
cele brated dishes at the leading
restaurants of Paris, with the result
aforesaid.
But the amusing history connected
with the Nice lottery is told not Of
him, but of a less fortunate ticket
holder. who was one of his comrades.
This latter individual was a very
ignorant and stupid fellow. a thorough
type of the uncultivated class of the
French peasantry. He could not read,
but on hearing that his fellow-work-
man had won 800. 600. he contrived
to decipher the numbers OF his own
ticket, which bore, as did all those
that were issued, an announcement OF
the grand prize. He became wildly
excited. and rushed about the village
proclaiming TO every body that he,
too. had won 500. 900 francs-it was
on his ticket. But that is on every
one of the Tickets" demonstrated his
friends. He would not listen-every
body was trying to cheat him. he de-
clared, ard he must find out how to
get his prize paid over to him. Take
your ticket to the Mayor of Montar'
gis," was the advice he received.
''and he will tell you what to do"
That was all very we'll, but how was
he to convey his ticket to Montargis:
for, when he first bought it, fearing
that it would get lost, he had pasted
it on tho door of his cow-house. and
could not contrive to detach it. So,
finally, he took the door eff of it;
hinges, hoistcd it upon his back, ant
marched wi h it into Montargis. a dis
lance of some two miles. followed by
q jeering crowd, composed of all the
rabble and all the small boys Of Lang
lee. The mayor could only give the
poor fellow the same information a
had alrea dy been impaired to him by
his comrades. namely. that his ticke'
was worthless; and so he was forced
to carry his door all the way bach
home again. PARTS Letter.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

"A sharp Maine constable opened
a cement barrel the other day on SIS.
picion. He found it packed solidly
with sand, wet down. and in the mid.
ale of the barrel was q twenty-9alon
key Of whisky.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
$93 SEWING Machine Free

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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

SPRING poets should be pitied rather
thar berated: 'mercury" and "thermom-
eter" are two of the hardest words in the
English language to find rhymes for.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

al Ais
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feet, drowsiness after meals, wakeluInessr OF
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undesirable feeling CT dread. or OF impend-
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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

Gl.ENS's Sulphur Soap is infallible for re-
moving dandrutf.
Hills Hair Dye, Black or Brown, soc.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
M Ouarfer Given There.

Savannah has a company Of female mil
tia. The company is composed Of thirty
two women, ~captained by Miss Anna Goeb!e,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

THE woman question-"What reyou go
ing to trim it with?"-St. Adams Messenger.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
CURES ALL HUMORS,

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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09

"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE
Thoroughly cleanse it by using Or. PtercN's
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, 1888-12-29

triple, asst is self cleaning; all the lime scale
falls off, and leaves the tubes as clean as
a gun barrel. Seine people were afraid it
would burn the liquor; but on the contrary
it does not discolonr the syrup at all, and
the inversion is very little. We use
no coal rhatecer; and wood only on Mon
day morning to get up steam. The me-
gass is sufficient for the rest Of the week.
In connection with new sugar machinery,
we may mention that Pin. Belair is about
to be supplied with a double set of DiffuS-
ton machinery, and Pin. Reliance with q
single set. The success of the Diffusion
process at Pin. Nonpariel is now firmly eS-
tablished. In fact the returns exceed the
most %sanguine expectations.-ArgoSy.
, 1888-12-29
ReIIite.

An ideal explosive for engineering pur-
poses would naturally require to he flame
less, perfectly safe in handling, and, al
though slow in action, ~eXertivr Of extreme
energy, so as to bring down huge masses of
rock or coal without SCATTERING, as I'm.
avoidably results from using quick ex-
p~losives such as dynamite and others of
the uitro-glycerine group. The expert
mentS we had the privilege OF watching
recently at the Clarence Iron Works,
MiddIesb0rOugh. were mainly intended to
demonstrate that in the new Swedish
compound, bellite, the invention of NJ.
Carl Lamm, the managing director Of the
Rotebro Explosive Works, Stockholm,
science has secured what practically
amounts to an ideal explosive. For the
manifestation Of this point the programme
drawn up 10y Mr.. Napier Hake, FIG,
who conducted the trials, was excellently
conceived, ard the numerous civil engi-
neers, owners of cOllieries, and chemists
present appeared to be pleased. OF
course, we possess explosives of far
higher potency, and others that are fairly
safe to use, but hitherto the complaint
against the formerhaS been thatthey actt o.
rapidly, destroying locally all adjacent
while, with one or two exceptions, the
safer compounds have not exhibited any
phenomenal descriptive force.
The first test to which bpIlite was sub
mitted was almost crucial, as regarded
the problem of security, half a ton weight
of iron being dropped 20 fit. on to a packet
of cartridges, resting OH a thick iron slab,
without producing explosion, while, be-
yomd causing breakage, the ignition of l
ID. of gunpowder inside a paper parcel
containing naked cartridges proved SINH
larly harmless. Nor was the fire expert.
ment less successful, q lump of bellite
thrown ON cinders blown to u white heat
merely melting or fusing away with
, 1888-12-29

and have them driven from the continent.
The first thing, according to Father Lour.
del, Which Europeans will nave to do who
seriously intend the establishment of colo.
Mes III Africa will be to make a clean
sweep of the Arab and coast elements.
10 succeed 1t will be necessary to rem
der trade on the coast impossible for
the Arabs, and iuterlict them under
the seVereSt penalties from importing guns
and powder. This is a step which ought
to have been taken long ago. An enor-
nous number of firearms is at this moment
to be found in the hands of the natives.
In Uganda alone there are many thou.
sands of every type, and it is this which
explains the naughty attitude of Mwanga.
A few more years of this traffic and ira.
Yelling in Africa will become impossible
for white men, unless accompanied by a
well-diSciplined army. 1t is this also
which aids the success of the daily ~increaS.
ing slaYe.traffic. All these guns serve to
arm the ScOundrelS who accompany the
slave-hunterS, and the calamities which
they carry into Central Africa far beyond
Lake Albert are incalculable. 1t should
be said that while P6re Lourdel is abSo-
lutely trustworthy, Mr.. Gordon does not
speak of amy difficulty with Mwanga in
his most recently published letters.
In the month Of April, 1888, they were
without any news of Stanley in Uganda.
"Is he living or is be dead r. asks P6re
Lourdel, and he asks in vain for an an
swer. What is certain, he states. is that
at the moment of Stanley's departure
from the Congo, they in Uganda heard of
his march and his projects. Mwanga was
in such Il state of terror that he thought
the end of his reign had arrived. They
were all in fear of being maSSacred the
moment Stanley set foot in UganIa. But
for Il year there has been not another
word as to Stanley's dOings, which Pere
Lourdcl thinks very strange, seeing that
the King has evident means Of know
ng what is going on all round his territory.
People who had been to Wadelai, and had
returned to Uganda before the P6re wrote,
state that Stanley was not with Emin
Pasha. Still, it Is satisfactory to know
from P6re Lourdel that it appears to him
impossible that Il small army of several
hundred armed men can have disappeared
without any one knowing where it has
gone, as it would be to conceal the newS
of Stamley'S death if it had really arrived.
We may say, in conclusion, that we be
litve some of Emin's friends havG received
letters from him of more recent date than
November, 1887, but, as usual, they are
surrounded with mystery and secrecy.
What purpose is served by shrouding Ger
tam African matters in mystery it is dI-
tticult for the interested public to see.
Times.
, 1888-12-29
The European Situation.

VIENNA, Nov. 2S.
At the recent celebration of the
anniversary Of the Battle of Sliv-
nitza by the Bulgarian officers in