The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
CURRENT COMMENT.
Various Topics of the Day
Briefly Discussed.

AS the head of the republican party,l
Brother Blaine seems to be somewhat aa
sea.
THE fact that Maine is joined to her idols
is not at all alarming. Civilization, conserva-
| tism and common sense lie south of Maine.
GEORGE vrNDELL ACTED very foolshly in
| New York the other night. pretty girl was
| trying to kiss him. Vindell struggled so hard
to escape that ho fell from stairway and was
killed. The girl fell with him and sustained
/ fatal injuries.
A TRAMP WITHOUT a thread of clothing on
| was picked up outside of the Castle Garden
hospital in Now York, at Z o'clock in the
morning the other day. He said that he had
not Worn any garments for several daysd
| Where ho kept himself all that time was o
mystery to the officers.
! A YOUNG LADY at Newark, New Jerseys
| opened her eyes al three in the morning and
found a big burglar with revolver in her
room. She was so mad at having her sleep
disturbed that she jumped on the fellow, PIN
| toned his arms TO his side, rushed him to the
top of the stairway and then pitcned him
headlong down. The Newark girls won't do
10 monkey with,
HERE ARE few recent health facts. DON'T
! drink coffee, tea or alcoholic and malt liquors.
/ Boil your water before drinking. Beware Of
milk as il causes consumption. Don't eat hos
bread. Don't eat ham. Don't walk fast, as
it is dangerous Don't walk slow as it makes
the muscles fiabby. Don't exercise the arms
too much. Be careful about exercising the
legs. Avoid impure air. The strange part Of
! the business is that the people who live up to
| these rules are generally weak and sickly,
While those who eat and drink just what they
want, and exercise in their own way are stoub
and healthy and live to a good old age.
THE DAMAGE caused by the floods in this
state and elsewhere will revive public inter-
est in the matter of forestry. When our hills
and uplands were covered with forests tho
rains percolated through the soil, and the wa
ter did not run off rapidly. The stripping Of
the timber from the highlands has caused tho
| preoipitated rain to rush into the streams and
rivers causing the watercourses to overflow
| Unless we take active steps to reforest the Ats
lantic slope, these floods will become still!
more disastrous. Even now the damage to-
| Augusta is a serious matter, and the incon7
yenience caused by the interruption of traffic
| will result in immense losses to the business
| world
CAPTAIN ANDREWS and his little whaleboat
| were picked up the other day, little more
than half way from Boston to Queenstown.
The captain readily gave up his voyage. as he
| had just met monster very much like o sea
| serpent, and had no desire to encounter ib
| again. He had been sixty-two days without q
warm meal and when found was too feeble to
climb into the vessel that rescued him. Cap
tain Andrews and his brother were successful
ten years ago in making the trip across the.
ocean in boat fourteen feet long and five fees
| Wide, the size of the boat used in the present
venture. With sea serpent following him
the mariner is not much to blame for deciding
to leave his voyage uncompleted
DAVID DREW, OF Plymouth, Massachusetts,
has raised some wheat grown from seed as old
as the Exodus Last year he received FROM
| Alexandria, Egypt, some grains of wheat taken
| from mummy exhQmed near the ruins OF
Memphis belonging to the period of the ninth,
dynasty of 5000 years ago He planted the
seed early in the spring and carefully nursed
it. 1t grew rapidly, and at the time of cutting
measured from six and a half to seven feet
high. The leaves alternate ON the stalk like
common wheat, but the product of the plant is
the most singular part of it,, for, instead OF
growing in an ear like modern corn, there is q
heavy cluster of small twigs in place of the
spindle which hangs downward from it's
weight, and each twig is thickly studded with
| kernels, each of which is in separate husk.
From what is threshed larger crop will be-
grown next year.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE started q story thah
will make Brooks, the prohibition candidate
for the vice-presdency, lose northern votes
| 1t seems that when Brooks was student at
Bethany college, Virginia, young theological
student named Burns preached an anti-savery
| sermon. Brooks and number of others start.
ed a disturbance. After the sermon they got
rope and prepared to lynch the young
preacher but Burns walked out Of the chapel
with his wife on his arm, and nothing was
done. The northern students held meeting
and resolved not TO attend classes until they
were guaranteed freedom of speech and per-
feet equality For this they were expelled
Brooks has been talked with about the affair,
but he merely laughed and offered no excuse
for what he called his youthful vehomence."
Such is the story. Whether it is true or not is
a question.
Mr.. p. l.. SrRGcKLIN, tho union labor can.
didato for prosecuting attorney in the sixth
judicial district Of Arkansas, is a man of
broad views. During the recent campaign he
Issued the following address to his felow-citi.
zenB: "Call mo democrat, republican union
labor, anything; but do not mistake the man
who distributes these circulars for me. ann
candidate for prosecuting attorney Of this
(tho sixth iudicaD district. / have ALWAYS
been democrat, but the republican state CEN.
tral committee recommended that the party
| should support the union labor ticket; then
the union labor party Endorsed me and made
me republican. However, this Office is nom