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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
Window Plants.

Complaint is often made that window
plants look siclSly, and that their leaves
turn yellow and fall. Insects often
cause the trouble, and in some cases ii
is because leaves are not kept clean.
When the pots are insufficiently drained
the water remains stagnant about the
roots. Roots need air, and when this
is excluded no food is absorbed, the
reserve material in leaf and stem is
soon exhausted and the plant is starved.
Window plants should have no water
when the soil is damp.
A plant is in healthy condition
when it is allowed to dry out until wa
ter is needed, and this demand should
be made twice week or oftener, ac-
cording to the size of the pot and the
plant, the rapidity of Transportation
and of evaporation from the soil. An
9rated soil Is essential to success with
window plants, and it is just rs neces-
sary for the health of shrubs and
trees. Last June dam built across d
little brook which runs through my
meadow raised the water level Of a
POND, half dozen square rods in ex'
tent, about two feet. A thu fifty tulip
tree stood ten feet from the bank, but
in few days every leaf turned yellow
and fell. So many of its feeding roots
were shut on from air by the water
that saturated the soil about them
that the tree died Of starvation. Gar
den and Forest.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
LOSING HER SKIRT.
Social Blunders Made by Persons Ignorant
of the "Stylc."

Social Blunders Made by Persons Ignorant
of the "Stylc."
Many are the social blunders made
by those who are in some minute de-
tail ignorant of 'the style" 1t is diff
cult for the masculine mind to realize
that it is really by intention that a
lady's smaller belongings, her pencil,
vinaigrette anc watch, should swing
from her belt; >the element of reckless
ness in such proceeding scarcely APP
peals to the prudent, who are likely
innocently to demonstrate.
MADAM" said a gentleman, cour-
teously, to lady who was rapidly
passing him, 'your watch is swinging
from your belt"
well, SIR" rejoined she, with a
smile which relieved the words of
rudeness, "let it swing"
1t is said that lady prominent in
Washington society made call, with
bonnet strings flying, on the wife of a
Senator, who said TO her as she left:
Excuse me, but your bonnet is UNI
tied"
''Oh, that's the STYLE" said the
caller, and the hostess blushed at her
own ignorance.
Another lady, wearing dress Of
camels hair, was saluted by an ac-
quaintance with the words: my dear
Mrs. Smith, you must have been play
ing with the cat. Please let me brush
your dress. "
'.You might brush as long as Mrs
Darlington need trundle her mop to
sop up the Atlantic" said the other,
merrily, land it would do no good
These untidy hairs are woven in. F"
In the days when trains were worn
even in inappropriate places, little
country girl, whose mother only be-
lieved in dressing conveniently for
walking, visited fashionable hotel.
20 mamma" whispered she, as she
saw lady sweeping down garden
path trailing some superiluous feet OF
cloth behind her, ''mayn't | go and
tell that poor lady her petticoats
coming off?"-Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
THE MEGATHERIuM.
Censunmate Skill with which This Ex
tfnct Leyiathan Waa Constructed


Censunmate Skill with which This Ex.
tinct Leyiathan Was Constructed.
This leviathan of the vast plains OF
South America, which were once oc-
cupled by immense numbers OF the
race, now entirely extinct, partakes OF
the generic character of the existing
dlminutive sloths. 1t rivaied in size
the largest rhinoceros, was armed
with claws OF enormous length and
power. its whole frame possessing an
extreme degree of solidity. With
head and neck like those of the sloth,
Its legs and feet exhibit the character
oil the armadillo and the ant-eater.
Some specimens OF the animal give
the measurement OF five feet across
the launches, and the thigh bone was
nearly three times as thick as that OF
the elephant. The spinal marrow
must have been q foot in diameter,
and the tail, at the part nearest the
body, twice as large, or six feet in
circumference. The girth OF the body
was fourteen feet and half, and the
length eighteen feet The teeth were
admirably adapted for cutting veg
etable substances, and the general
structure and strength of the frame
for tearing up the ground in search of
roots, wrenching off the branches Of
trees, and uprooting their trunks, on
which it principally fed.
Heavily constructed, and ponder
ously ACQUIRED" says DR.. Buckland,
in his eloquent description of the
megatherium, sit could neither run,
nor leap, nor climb, nor burrow under
the ground; and all its movements
must have been necessarily slow. But
what need of rapid locomotion to an
animal whose occupation of digging
roots for food was almost stationary?
And what need Of speed for flight
from foes to creature whose giant
carcass was encased in an impene-
trable cuirass, and who, by a single
pat of his paw, or lash of his tail,
could in an instant have demolished
WHO SOuSUt VI CIOCOQllGg bOCCuEb
within the panoply of his strong
armor, where. was the enemy that
would dare encounter this leviathan
OF the Pampas, or in what more pow
erful creature can we find the cause that
has effected the extirpation Of his racer
His entire frame was an apparatus of
colossal mechanism, adapted exactly
to the work it had to do. Strong and
ponderous in proportion as this Great
ure was heavy and unwieldy, it was,
nevertheless, suited to its pristine con-
dition, and in many other respects was
it calculated to be the vehicle of life
and enjoyment to a gigantic race OF
quadrupeds, which, though they have
ceased to be counted among the living
inhabitants of our planet have in
their fossil bones left behind them i'm
perishable monuments of the consum-
mate skill with which they we're con.
structed. IN. Y. Ledger.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
----e -
HERE AND THERE.

-Old sod that has been pl0wed up
for corn usually contains cutworms.
Look over the field daily after the corn
is up and destroy them.
The Emerald gem is small can
teloup, but probably the best Favored.
The gain Of size in the melon family is
often at the expense OF quality.
For stock the mammoth long red
mangel wurzel is the best on light
loamy soils that have been deeply
plowed. The globe varieties are best
suited for stiff soils.
"A hen and chicks in garden
sometimes prove beneficial, as they
destroy many insects, but they should
be kept away from plots that have been
recently seeded.
Thin out all surplus plants in the
hot-beds If they are crowded, and those
remaining will become more stocky,
The hot-bed may be left open during
the day at this season.
Outdoor cabbage beds may be pre-
pared. Have the bed rich and fine and
sow the seed in rows so as to keep the
grass out. Transplant as soon as the
young plants are large enough.
Popcorn is a valuable crop in some
sections. 1t is sold by the pound,
grain and cob together. The rice pop
con. which is uniformly clear and
bright, is the favorite market variety.
Owing to the low price offered for
tobacco there will be none raised, in the
Pleasant Hill section, and from what
your correspondent can learn there
win be very little raised in this county.
-Gallatin Glenn. Tennesseean.
1t is understood that the commit
tee appointed by the Mississippi State
Alliance to look into the manufacture
of pine straw bagging have decided to
locate one factory at jackson and an
other at Meridian.
-Cotton-seed meal will not do for
hog feed, as the lint balls in the
stomach, and can not be avoided. This
objection to cotton-seed meal is not APP
plicable to domestic animals other than
the hog.
If the space between the rows of
grape-vines is occupied by strawberry
plants, currant bushes or weeds, dc
not wonder that the grapes do not
ripen early. The suns rays must
reach the earth and keep it warm il
early ripening is desired.
Berry baskets stored in crates in
the same manner as when filled with
fruit are almost certain to be damaged
by the gnawing OF mice il the mice
have access. II the boxes are nesteC
together and packed in the crates they
are seldom attacked.
-Artichokes become a pest after
they once get stand, as the small
tubers remain in the ground all winter
and shoot out in the spring, gradually
spreading over more ground every
season. They serve well in a field
where the pigs can be turned in to roo
them up.
Most of US make mistake by feed
ing at the wrong end OF the hogs ex
istence. We don't get down 10 bust
ness in the way of feeding until ;
month or two before we sell him TO
pork. This is all wrong. The mail
secret is in giving the piggy goo'
send-off during the first two or tire
months Of bis sxistenee
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
FACTS LEARNED OF LATE.

THE United States have bout half of the
swine of the world.
IN 1875. 81, 100, 600 of proper ty was destroyed
by boiler explosions.
THE Eiffel Tower, Paris, is finished. Its
bird cage hat is 925 feet from the ground.
The President has reserved Monday to
himself, and on that day sees those only
with whom he has engagements.
THE United States furnishes by far the
larger part of the electric wire to be used
in the Paris Exposition Building.
THE tower EIffel in Paris at the exhibition
grounds is capable of holding in its differ
emit landings 10000 persons.
SEEDS of the most valuable varieties of
cinchona bring s., 600 per ounce in Ceylon.
There arc nearly 100000 seeds in an ounce.
SEVENTY per cent, of the emigation from
the British isles seek homes in this country
in spite of encouragements and induce
ments to go to Canada aud Australia.
If all the freight cars in the United States
were in a line they would extend from New
York to San Francisco and back again tc
New York.
"PARApIsE," by Tintoretto, is the largest
painting in the world. 1t is eighty-four feet
wide, and thirty-three and half feet high,
and is now in the Doges Palace, Venice.
MOSES LYMAN, of Waverly, N. Y, pleads
not guilty TO the charge of inventing the
pigs in clover puzzle. The real culprit is
now said to be Charles Nj. Crandall, mana
ger of toy-works at Waverly.
THERE is rival to the pig puzzle-"Chick-
-, la md -tUith tho .
"Drivc them in the coop If you cam" aud
tho person who gets to work on it will re.
joicc that the flock is not larger one.
IT is figured out that the railroads Of this
world are worth $300, 600, 000, 900, or nearly
one-tenth of the wealth of the civilized
nations, or more than quarter of their in
vested capital, and that all the ready
in the world would buy only about one third
| of them.
ACCORDING to the Montreal Witness the
French language is at present, as was OBJ.
yious from the last census, rapidly gaining
| on the English, not only in the Province Of
| Quebec but in the other provinces, notably
New Brunswick and Eastern Ontario. A
similar movement is going on in the New
| England States. The census Of 1890 will
startle people in this respect.
The "pigs in clover" puzzle has brought
inspiration to a Bridgeport, Conn, inventor
who has conceived another clover device
for amusement. The toy includes rail
road switch and a combination of cars and
engine. The engine must be reversed
leaving the cars in their Original position
The new puzzle Is said to require GOODNESS
and moro calculation than "pigs in clover.'
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
A Magnanimous Lawyer.


1t was in the town OF Stoneham
that thero abode lawyer thrifty and
keen in his pursuit of the root of all
evil. And of him it is told that on
one occasion he was employed by a
poor widow to collect debt of $2S. AZ
which was due her.
The lawyer succeeded with little
difficulty in securing the money, the
person who owed it being ready
enough to defraud the poor widow,
but having wholesome fear OF the
law before his eyes. The lawyer sent
for the widow to tell her of his sue
cess. and great was her joy, since
sorely did she need 1t.
al suppose, she said, with hesita-
ton, after he had related his success.
.fhat | owe you something for your
work"
WELL" he replied, with an air Of
the greatest magnanimity, II ought
to charge you s25; but ] know you are
poor. and you need not bother about
the other Sl.5S"
And the widow went home sorrow.
full, but wiser than she had been be-
fore.-Boston Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
A Common-Scnse letter
EIchnnns.


TO THE EDITOR: see that newspaper
articles are again making their appearance
calling attention to matters pertaining to
health as well as to the means whereby dis
ease may be removed and good health pre-
se,ved. / am thereby reminded that have
received from time to time, pamphlet publ
cations issued by the well-known firm of II.
II. Warmers & Co, which dwell upon the his
tory and growth of kidney diseases; show
ing how such is the cause of consumption,
heart, brain and nervous disorders, which
can pnly be successfully treated by remov-
ing the primary disease from the kidneys.
At the same time care is taken to remind
the reader that Warmers Safe Cure is the
only means whereby the physician or the in
dividual can successfully prevent and cure
this class of disease
Whilst have personal cause to feel CRATE
full to Warmers Safe Cure, for the benefit
which derived from it when suffering from
kidney troubles last spring, can not see,
since that remedy is already so well known
in every household, why the parties inter
ested in its manufacture should continue to
expend money in calling attention to what
the public already knows so well. l am
aware, MI. EulUOT, tudb INC iutHlDcIS VI buc
medical profession are seldom disposed to
give due credit to proprietary medicines,
but public confidence is likely to be even
more shaken in those learned gentlemen
since the startling disclosures in the Robin
son poisoning cases were made in Somer-
vile, Mass.
Here it was discovered, through the Of
forts Of an insurance company, that eight
cases Of death from arsenical poisoning had
occurred-seven of them in one family, and
within five years and the other that of q
relative-wherein the true cause OF death
had not been even suspected by prominent
physicians who were in attendance, butwho
treated the cases for other causes, and
finally, when death occurred, issued certif-
Gates for such causes as pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, etc.
After such an evidence of the utter in
competency of those physicians who were
regarded as experts in their profession,
can not conceive why it will be longer nee
essary for further advertising to be done in
behalf OF Warmers Safe Cure, since deem
the Somerville disclosure TO be the best pos
sible endorsement of the good sense mani
Tested by those who take matters of health
in their own hands and use a remedy which
experience has shown to be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of trust
ing themselves in experimental hands.
EXPERIENCE
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

On time or for cashP What is the
difference between the two ways of
doing business? Let us see. A good
commercial fertilizer containing from
IL to q per cent. of ammonia sells, on
time, practically at about $SS per ton.
The same fertilizer can be bought now
for cash at about $27 per ton. Here is
a difference of about Sc per ton in favor
of the cash buyer. What per cent of
interest is that on the cost price? The
cash time with sellers is May l. That
is to say, If you pay by that date you
get your fertilizer at the cash prices
Reckoning from May l, it is six
months till November, or seven
months till the LIST of December, by
which time the bill must be paid, or
you will be looked after closely and
sharply. Say seven months. The in
terest the farmer pays on $27 for seven
months, say $6, which is fraction
over thirty-eight per cent. per annum.
Cipher it out for yourself. The figures
are correct. Can farmers ever prosper
in that kind of businessP
Or suppose the farmer buys on the
cotton-option plan. He agrees to de-
liver in November $40 pounds OF mid
ding cotton for ton OF fertilizer.
He gives his note for SS75O-S75
pounds of cotton at ten cents. In due
time he takes his cotton to market
If it classes middling, he pays
his bill with S75 pounds, no matter
what the market price for the day is.
If middling cotton is worth nine cents
on the day he settles, he pays $3.50
with $SS.75 worth of cotton. Justhere
is where some farmers are deluded-
dumfuzzled with the idea that they got
ten cents for cotton when the market
was only nine cents, utterly oblivious
of the fact that they have paid S. more
than the cash price of the fertilizer. or
thirty-eight per cent. on cost. Granted
for arguments sake that the farmer
ought TO pay interest on his debt. len
per cent is very high rate of interest,
but say ten per cent. That rate on $27
for seven months amounts to $l.57}
Take this from Sc, and it leaves S. 42l
which the farmer pays over and above
the current money-lending rate OF in
terest on so small transaction as S27
for the short space of six or seven
months.
Another point: II the farmers cot
ton does not class middling, he gets
only the market price for it The cot
ton must be middling grade. or the
cotton option contract falls to pieces
and he must pay the difference between
the price of the lower grade cotton an6
that of middling. which amounts TO ;
half cent or cent on the pound. Of
from two to five dollars on bale. Fol
instance: If middling cotton is wortl
nine cents, and the farmers lowe
grade which be brings TO pay hi
note Is worth eight and quartz
| cents here VIII Be the settlement
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

THE Ia often felt in every joint and mus
Gle of the body by turns, by people who, ex-
periencing the earliest twinges of rheuma-
tism neglect to arrest the malady, as they
may easily do, with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, professionally authenticated
remedy for the agonizing complaint. Rec
ollect that rheumatism unchecked often
lasts lifetime, or abruptly terminates it
when the malady attacks the heart. Tho
Biiters also remedies chills and fever, dys-
pepsia aud liver complaint.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

TIE latest fad is a silence party. The pro-
iectors do not avow its purpose Till guests,
one By one. are within the threshold. Then
silence in the COURTS enjoined upon all, and
the ceremony of sealing all lips is gone
through with, the iigsaw tongue of the big
gest gosling in town being put away with
The rest. States are then placed in the laps
of each, and Communication goes on an hour
or so by slate writing.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

Shallenberger's Antidote for Malaria is
the cheapest remedy in the world in proper
ton to the work it does, because it is GER
tain to cure even the worst cases il taken
properly. One bottle of thirty pills will
cure any ordinary case, and one dose will
stop the chills, but a number of doses and a
little time are required to drive all Malaria
from the system. Sold by Druggists.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

A NEW York correspondent notes the 70
markable increase of flaxen-haired little
toddlers to be seen on Broadway nowadays,
and attributes it to the latest fad among
would-be fashionable mothers TO bleach
their little ones hair, which has sprung up
since the advent of the Little Lord
Fauntleroyn craze.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

THE leading newspaper of Scotland lately
contained in one issue over five columns oil
reports of Burns dinners, concerts and
club meetings, held in more than fifty towns
and villages of that land in celebration OF
the poets birthday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

A MEMORIAL fund was lately collected by
the friends Of the late Phillip Ii. Welch, tho
humorist, to be devoted to the education OF
his children. Edward Clark, of the New
York Post, is acting as trC asurer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

His note is due for ton OF fertilizer
375 times nine cents. To pay this
amount with eight and a quarter cents
cotton it will take 400 pounds. Wheel.
Enterprise and Stockman.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenberg, who
was refused the hand of Emperor William
sister, didn't lose his appetite and pine
away and die. BE told the woman who re
iected him that there were as good fish IN
the sea as ever were caught, and went and
married an opera singer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

IT is a waste of breath, besides putting
an unnecessary strain on -patience, to ask
some people for money for benevolent OBJ
jects. One might as well go cunning for
coons in the middle of the Atlantic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

WHEN ironing any dark stuff never use O
linen cloth to put between the iron as the
lint will come off on to the stuff, and 1t will
be almost impossible to brush it OF again
always use a dark cloth or tissue or news
paper.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

THE newspapers and periodicals OF all
kinds issued in the United States and Can
ada now number IL, l07, showing a gain OF
797 during the last twelve months, and of
Use in ten years.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

ALL disorders caused by bilious state of
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

Mux contains all that Is required BY the
body, and the best proportions OF mineral
matter: il less irritating than ether ioocs
snd better digesied-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
with Haions Honey of Horchound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

MONTREAL man has patented device
by which he claims he can make a years
supply of ice for seventy-tive cents.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

IT is no longer necessary to take blue pills
TO rouse the liver to action. Carter's Little
Liver Pills are much better, Don't forgetthis.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

BLooD-BLIsTERs should be plunged into
spirits OF camphor, and kept there five
minutes; this prevents the blister and
eases pain.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

A MISSISSIPPI company have received an
order for 100000 wooden butter dishes
from st. Louis house
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

Sow TIC parsley seed Us early as
possible. as itrsqaiFss . leSg time iqr
termination
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

AT Troy, N. Y, 10000 persons work on
collars and cuffs, and their wages are
Si500,00O annually.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

A CHICAGO man was lately fined five dol
lars for snoring in church.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

10 tpas surprised
after using EIy's
Cream Balm t,po
months 10 find The
right iostra, iphich
tcds closed for 20
years, tcds openuand
free as the other. !
feel very thankful
II. II. CreSsenghdm,
18th Sire ct
Brooklyn.
A particle Is applied
able. Price 80 cents Mt
80 cents. ELY BROTH
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16
MgAMTEn LIVE ~, &C, oAny Y,

BRYANT G STRATT0N h hsnS ssha shH e.
Louis, Mo. Has 500 Students Yearly Graduates are
successful In getting positions. Send for Circular.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-16

No Sleep. drssnvils, Q. Sans ~, tsso.
walked the floor At night suffering with rhsu'
m.ti,m no relief tried st. Jacobs oil; half bot
Tia cured me- No return In years. J. O. WkAskh-