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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
RUSSIAN APPETITES.
Eating Forms tho Chief Occupation ol
tho Cars Subjects.

Eating Forms tho Chief Occupation oi
tho Cars Subjects.
The Russian eats on an average
once every two hours The climate
and custom require such frequent
meals, the digestion of which is aided
by frequent draughts of vodki and tea
Vodki is the Russian whisky, made
from potatoes and rye. 1t is fiery and
colorless and is generally favored
with some extract like vanilla or
orange. 1t is drunk from small cups
that hold perhaps half gill. Vodki
and tea are the inseparable accom-
paniments of friendly as we'll as OF
business intercourse in the country OF
the Gar. Drunken men are rare.
Russia and Sweden are the only coun-
tries In which the double dinner is
the rule. When you go to the house
OF q Russian, be he friend or a
stranger, you are at once invited to a
side-table, where salted meats, picked
eel, salted cucumbers, and many
other spicy and appetizing viands are
urged upon you with an impressive
ness that knows no refusal. This re-
past is washed down with frequent
cups of ''vodki." That over, and
when the visitor feels as If he had
eaten enough for twenty-four hours,
the host says, "And now for dinner. "
At the dinner-table the meal is served
in courses, with wines grown in the
Crimea and Bessarabia, where excel
lent red wines are made. The
Arponaut,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
In Search of information.

A woman with profusion OF silk
dress and rhinestone jewelry, accom-
panied by boy about eight years old,
boarded parlor car at small town
beyond Syracuse. and they had scarce
ly got seated when the mother began
to talk about her three trunks, and
papa, and the horses and carriage, and
wonder II they would hit the Cape
May train when they reached New
York. The boy didn't have much to
say, but looked about the car with
the liveliest curiosity, evidently hav-
ing entered one for the first time. BY
and by he blurted out:
"Mal mar
"What, darlingp"
"Is this parlor carp"
Certainly, DEAR"
what makes them call It parlor
carp"
Because it is furnished as grand as
a parlor." "
"Well, should say it wasr' he
gasped as he looked around. why,
they'd be ashamed of the rag carpet
and cane-seat chairs in our parlor,
wouldn't theyP"-Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
PHYSICAL FORCE.
Tho Powers of Mind and Heart Gaining
the Ascendancy Over Mere Muscle.

Tho Powers of Mind and Heart Gaining
the Ascendancy Over Mere Muscle.
At recent woman suffrage meeting
in England. Mrs. Stanton Blatch made
a witty and eloquent speech dealing
with the physical force argument She
said:
As we look back over the course we
have come. we feel how weak is such
power Those who belittle the influ-
ence OF heart and brain are, in fact
deceiving themselves. for they fail to
see how the reign of muscle is doomed.
Psychical development has left physical
power behind it, and the crowned kings
of to-day are mind and heart. MIR.
Labouchere has recently declared that
he would rather live under the Cars
of Russia than under petticoat Gov
ernment in England. He fails TO see,
however, that tho trend OF character Is
given in the nursery under petticoat
rule. Probably in his childhood the
old rule of Spare the rod and spoil the
child prevailed. and his memories OF a
quite other than moral suasion have
perhaps embittered him against us.
But If physical force is to be test.
would rathcr rely on the strength OF a
pit-brow woman than on that OF u MEM
Der OF Parliament. Prince Bismarck is
the high priest OF the ugly old religion
of might, and he said not year ago
that the next war would bleach Europe
white as veal. On whom would that
prophecy fall but on the manhood OF
EuropeP What force did moro in the
Crimean war than that OF Florence
Nightingale, or in the American than
that of Clara BartonP When asking
for the suffrage from the men she had
helped to save, Clara Barton's words
were: When you were weak and l was
strong, l helped you; now that I am
weak and you are strong, ! ask you to
help me- Some woman might say the
same to every man now."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
at was private, F." said Naomi, com.

"It was private" said Naomi, com.
posedly.
Naomi" said Mr. Bagshot, plung-
ing headlong into the subject, I'm
thinking of getting married"
"Are you?' said Naomi. somewhat
amazed.
"I'm tired OF livin' solitary and
alone, and / don't know OF nobody l
like better than you," added Squire
Bagshot.
"Much obliged to you, I'm sure"
said Naomi
''Do you think you could learn to
love meP" said the squire. his hard
features galvanized into unwonted
tenderness.
Il dunno whether ! could or not" :"
said Naomi. "but don't t mean to try"
"EhP" jerked out the squire.
I'm engaged already" explained
Naomi.
ITO that-shiftless oung Scarsby?"
He amt particularly shiftless as l
know Of" observed Naomi "But il
amt to him. as it happens.
IF you're really engaged" said the
squire, of whose character delicacy
was by no means prominent trait,
"what on earth are you running the
dairy business forP"
10 earn money. to be sure" said
Naomi. "pm to marry rich man
and don't choose to go to him empty.
handed, or without decent wardrobe,
such as other women have"
"Who is it?" still further demanded
the squire.
"Well. don't mind telling you,
since you ask me up and down." said
Naomi. Him that owns the new
Mountain iron works, Joseph Alden"
The squire made a little gurgline
sound, as il he were Intellectually
trying to swallow something. Joseph
Alden, the handsome, middle-aged
Englishman, the best match in
Cherry County, engaged to Naomi
Nutting, whom he-Squire Bagshot-
had mentally characterized as "a
poor, solitary, friendless creetur!'
"Well." said he, heavily rising, 81
s'pose I'd better 60"
Il don't know as you'll gain any
thing by staying" Naomi coolly re.
marked.
The squire was driven to hire 9
stout Vermont woman at eleven dol.
lars month. Mrs. Scarsby still con-
tinued to do her own housework, In
spite Of the remonstrances Of her sor
John. Naomi Nutting does as she
did before-minds her own business
And the violet and strawberry bust
ness has proved a success, and the
wedding-day is fixed. - Saturday
Night
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

--George Parsons Lathrop has writ
ten a story dealing with an imaginary
tima in the distant future when it will
be as much OF n distinction to be poor
as it is now to be enormously rich.
"A volume of the poems of Mr..
Frederick Tennyson, eldest brother OF
the poet Laureate, is among the re-
prints in contemplation. They have
become scarce and difficult to procure.
DIR. Joseph Taylor, of Kennett
Square, Pittsburgh, lately finished the
task. begun over seventeen years ago,
of reading through Webster's Una
bridged Dictionary, something which
only one other man has done, and he
a Georgian.
---lIere is picture of Tenn yson by
Edward Fitzgerald, the translator Of
Omar Khayyam: I'VE have had
Alfred Tennyson here; droll and
wayward; and much sitting up Of
nights till two and three in the morn
ing with pipes in our mouth; at
which good hour we would get
Alfred to give us some of his magic
music. which he does between growl-
ing and smoking; and SO to bed
One of the first public libraries OF
New Jersey was founded in 1896 in
New Brunswick. The librarian book
has lately been examined, and it does
not bear out the notion that in those
days nothing but good solid literature
was read. 1t is found that over third
OF the reading done was of fiction, pure
and simple. though only one-eighth OF
the books was devoted to that branch
of literature. During the first two
months "The Fool of Destiny" was
drawn eighteen times and Desmond
eight. Independent.
The Prussian war minister re.
Gently published in two volumes a
history OF the colors OF the Prussiar
army from 1907. 1t appears that in
the campaign OF 1861 and 1866, nine
ty-nine standards were pierced by
balls. In the campaign of 1870 the
number of regimental colors pierced
was Isl The flag OF the Seventh
Regiment Of Infantry was hit by
twenty-t three balls in the single battle
of Mars-la-Tour. In the entire
Franco-Prussian war thirty-eight
Prussian standard bearers were killed
while holding their colors.
John Eglington Bailey, Of STREET
ford, Manchester, who died last year
accumulated the best shorthand collec
tion in England, and it has been bough
and presented to the Manchester Free
Reference Library as the 'Bailey Short
hand Collection. Wherever bool
or MS. on, in or about shorthand il
any language was to be had Mr.
Bailey would secure it II he could. IL
several instances every edition of th
same work was bought, the entire lis
finally amounting to one thousand vol
umes. He was himself an exper
stenographer He possessed singu
lar insight into the most grabbed @
shorthands. He succeeded with cas-
in deciphering some of tho most az
parently bewildoring, including tina
used in Samuel Pepy's diary. His col
lection began with "Bright's Charac
: teric" of the time of Elizabeth,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Their Presence Promotes Peace and Good
Order.

Tneir presence PROMOTES Peace ana GOO0
Order.
The Big Horn Sentinel, published at
Buffalo, Wyoming, has the following
good words for woman suffrage:
1--WE have witnessed the practical
and everyday workings of this ques-
tion for the past eleven years in 'front.'
ier town. remote from railroads, where
for number of years the country was
full of desperate class ofmen who
neither respected nor feared the law;
we have seen it in later years, when
the country was settled and occupied
by the most law-abiding people who
can be found in the country; we have
seen it in this same frontier town
through its years OF progression and
development, until now better order is
preserved, and life and property are
safer than in most New England viii
lagos; and under all these various con.
ditions, naught have we witnessed but
wholesome effects on tho elections oi
this Territory. Never have we heard
ribald oath or profane remark made
when woman was at the polling
place. Quiet and orderly elections are
the result. 4 lot OF hoodlum and ruff.
fans do not crowd round polling
window where ladies are constantly
coming and going. The women are
not driven to the polls by political
boss, nor bribed nor bulldozed like the
lords of creation. They unerringly and
unlinchingly vote for the best mar
morally, nor do they follow the politi
cal path OF their husbands. unless they
can present sound argument for theil
course.
''ln voting. women pursues and fol
lows that keen sense and Judgment O
right that characierizes all her action.
in life. Is a man of decency to sa,
that his mother, who has modelled hi
early life, who has watched over ant
cared for him in sickness and health
has not the intelligence to cast ballo
and assist in shaping the destiny of tn,
nstion' All law is now tending to
wards placing her upon an equal foot
ing with men In the care. OWNERSHIP,
and disposition OF property. The mai
with the Don Qaixote notions VIII,
wishes to see her placed in glass cas-,
and kept IRON contact With the world
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
CAROLlNA'S FAT BOY.
In the Summer Hc Is Skeleton, In Win.
tor Monster.

In the Summer Ifc Is Skeleton, In WIN.
tor Monster.
There were several side shows COLI
nected with the North Carolina State
fair, and was much taken with sign
regarding fat boy. 1t was stated
that he was only fourteen years old.
and weighed about four hundred
pounds. l paid my nickel to go in.
and found lad of that age, but his
weight was not over one hundred
pounds. lie was dressed in costume,
and sat on platform, while the show
man delivered a short lecture at in
tervals.
"See here" / said to him after look
ing the boy over. ''are you deliberately
swindling the publicP"
"How?"
"By passing that kid of as fat
boy"
mo, sir"
"You advertise that he weighs abou.
tour hundred poundsp"
"Yes."
That's u falsehood. He won't weigh
one hundred"
"When?"
"To-day; now; this minute"
"Oh, l see. An explanation is due
you / run museum in New Orleans.
That boy is one of my freaks. In the
summer he is my skeleton and in the
winter my fat boy. 1t takes him abou,
six weeks to make the change, and he
just began to pick up flesh last week.
He was the most beautiful skeleton you
ever saw. and if you can only see him
two months later you'll be delighted al
his rotundity. He'll weigh all of !our
hundred in two months from this"
"Ycs, but came in here to see fat
boy"
well, there he is"
"But he's no fatter than any Other
boy of his age. 1t looks to me like q
fraud"
Good heavens, man, but do yor
want all the earth at oncew he gasped.
'Give him time to change, won't youl
Here, look at this lock of hair cut from
the head of George Washington. It'i
my own property. and not on exhibi
tion, but want to satisfy you that
am square. A skeleton weighing
forty-,wo pounds can't change to .
acknowledgement fat boy in an houl
or a day. We expect the public to bs
lenient with US. GoingP Well. good
bye. Come in with your family and
III make reduced rates. IN. J. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
HUMOROUS.

How happy our neighbors might
be If they would only do as we think
they ought to do. Boston Courier.
Patient Cat Christian scientists Of
ficc) the healer IMP" Attendant
Yes, sir; but she is sick to-day and
can't do any business. boston Her.
aid.
Bessie" whats the mattJr in the
sitting-room, Tommy?" Tommy
"Oh, the usual contest between pa
and ma over the speakership of the
house. Huntington Free Press.
Mrs. Cumso-"Jimmy's always
getting into fights with other boys.
I'm afraid when he grows up he'll be
professional pugilist. t." Mr.. Cumso
Il see you don't know much about
pugilists. IN. Y. Sun.
First Shopping Lady-''Was that a
clerk or the proprietor we traded
with?" Second Shopper-"A clerk,
certainly. Didn't you notice he said
II have this and that line OF goods.
The proprietors always say WEI
Omaha World.
Deceived the dog--Laura-"How.
did you get to the door? I'm sure pa
pa turned the dog loose at sundown ="
Cholly IL just sprinkled a little
whisky OH my clothes and the dog
thought l was the old man himself +"
-Terro Haute Express.
Where the work comes in: Min
ister's wife-"You haven't been out Of
your study an hour this week. What is
the matterp" Minister-"Some of the
congregation say my sermons are too
long, and I've been trying to write a
short one. IN. Y. Weekly.
Physician" "Now. Mrs. Small
talk, will you let me look at your
tongue" Mrs. Smalltallk (two min
utes later) well, doctor, why in the
world don't you look at my tongue il
you want to, instead of writing away
like newspaper editor. How long do
yVu OApCSe diA SoAuS w oteuC Nltn
my mouth wide opeu?" Physician
Just one moment more, madam.
only wanted you to keep still long
enough so that could write the pre-
scription." ."-Somerville Journal.
-Irate husband = For heavens
sake, cant you talk about something
besides dresses?" Wife-"Certainly
my dear. You ought to see the bon
nets they are making nowadays al
Smiths i stepped in to-day and saw
beautiful thing in pink for only thir.
ty-seven dollars, and others we're, oi
course, a good deal more expensive.
A fifty-dollar gem just took my eye
but thought / wouldn't get one tha'
cost as much as that before saw you
Of course / can talk about something
besides dresses, you dess 2ld hubby,
Time,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
GOOD WORDS FOR WOMEN.

Mrs, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON pre-
diets that in ten years woman's suffrage
will be an accomplished fact in every
State in the Union.
A woMANLY woman always attracts,
and if she has truth to teach she will
find that when she has made favor
able social impression the battle is half
woni her cause in pleasant guise has
gained foot-hold. and converts are
made before they are aware.
REPRESENTATIVE GRINDLE voted
against woman suffrage in the Maine
Legislature in 1875, but the other day
he declared his conversion. II be-
lieve." said he, ''there are few men in
this House who, in matters Of morals
and conscience. do not rely more upon
the Judgment OF their wives than upon
their own" They are off the track il
they don't.
SPEAK for the enfranchisement of
woman, reminding the sceptic that the
Father is so good an architect that He
creates nothing He wants wasted. A
first-class soul or mind with only
secondclass chance is piece of cre-
alton wasted. Therefore God must
mean that tho right to the largest
chance for the largest usefulness shall
be open to all. j. Clement Ambrose.
EVERY wise woman buildeth her
house. AS no boy ought to be brought
up without learning some business at
which he could learn livelihood. so
no girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science of self-support.
y" His advice to all girls and all
unmarried women, whether in affluent
homes or in homes where most strin-
gent economies are grinding. is to learn
to do some kind of work that the world
must have while the world stands
Talmage.
The evil that has caused the down.
fail of every nation in the past, tho
evil that is gnawing at the foundation
of all nations to-day. is the result OF
keeping the mothers of the human race
in ignorance ard subsection. A stream
can not rise higher than its source. but
the reservoir lifted on the hill shows
that men have it in their power to elc-
vate the source. For their own i'm
provemcnt and welfare. men should en-
courage and stimulate women. Mrs
Ellen B. Dietrich.
GooD municipal government can be
had only by putting control into tho
hands of the intelligent and enlighten-
ed portion OF society The most intel
ligent and enlightened class of our
citizens are, as rule. the men and wo-
men of American birth who have been
educated in our common schools. The
problem is how to give to this better
element its fullest legitimate control
without doing injustice to our natural
lied citizens. This can be done by ex.
tending municipal suffrage TO women
who can read and write Henry b
Blackwell
The pursuits of men in the world. ts
which they are directed by the natural
aptitude of sex, and to which they mus
J devote their lives. are as foreign from
political functions as those OF women
To take an extreme case; there is moth
ing more incompatible with politica
} duties in cooking and taking care o
children than there is in diggin,
bitches or making shoes. or in any 9th
er necessary employment while Il
every superior interest OF society grow
} ing out Of the family. the stake o
} women is not less than meh's -Georg
William CurtiS
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
A DRowsY DAY.
The butterflies fiit here and there

The butterflies fit here and there
About the tawny. dust-deep road.
l. kes fakes OF gold, In quvering glare.
Heatshriveled vines, and leaves that shov,o,
Life in each leaf all,breezy juno,
Droop ianguidly along the way;
And lone bee, with mlffied Groom.
Seems moodiiy to say:
'Iti is drowsy, drowsy day."
No silver ripple stirs the brook
Whose CLASSY flow slips noselessly:
There seems no life where eyes may look
The clouds and ships becalmed at sea
The song lies hushed in painting throat
OF BIRD; grasshoppers tire OF play;
The cricket seldom shrills It's note.
And only then TO say:
1T is q drowsy, drowsy day."
SO noontide lapses unto eve.
The farm-h house panes flash ruby-clear.
And bats their secret places Leave,
And katy again we hear.
The fire. flies gem the gathering shade:
The swallows cheep, In circling play;
And weary flowers, in field and glade.
Seem whispering to say:
ut was drowsy, drowsy day."
George Cooper, in N. Y. Independent.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
Why He Looked Troubled.

Tucker-Why do / look so troubled
Well, last night dreamed died and
was buried, Parker, and l saw the
tombstone at the head Of my grave.
Parker-Saw your tombstone, ehf
And what Of il?
why. I'm trying to live up :oo 10 IL the 6
epitaph saw on IN. Y. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Seven ministers of the Church OF
England have recently been admitted
by Cardinal Manning TO the Church
of Rome.
There are one thousand Christian
Cinnamon connected with the Con-
gregational missions in California
and Oregon. Spirit of Missions.
in all, one hundred and thirty
four Congregational churches have
been organized in the State of Mis-
souri,. of which eighty-two remain.
The shrinkage has been nearly thirty
nine per cent.
Chan Chu Sing, converted
Chinaman, has been licensed as a
local preacher in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and will engage in mis-
sion work among his own people in
Los Angeles. Cal.
Albion (Mich.) College is to have
a public college lectureship" for the
discussion before the public OF the
bearing of college work on the inter-
ests Of the people-social. political,
scientific, industrial.
Judge Keatley, of Iowa. who has
made personal inspection of the
schools OF Alaska, reports that there
are about fourteen schools in the Ter
ritory, three of which are for white
children, the rest being for natives.
"A citizen of Lynn. Mass recently
entered protest before the school
board of that place against the use ol
a certain text book, on the ground that
the smallness of the type in which il
was printed proved injurious to his
daughters eyes.
"A larger proportion of the boys
and girls OF New Jersey than any
other State in the Union go to Sunday
school. 1t appears by statistics re-
Gently taken that there are just about
2SO, 900 children in the 1897 Sunday
schools of New jersey.
The First Church OF San Fran.
cisco is, in every sense. home
church, and very attractive to young
men. The Y. M. c. A., n free read
ing room open every evening, inviting
parlors, and meetings OF praise, arr
some OF the accessories.
The Austrian Archbishops ar
probably the most highly paid in th'
world. The Cardinal Archbishop o
Vienna has only about f6, 900 year
but the Cardinal Archbishop Of Oh
mutt has f4O,00O, the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Prague has f35, 900 and tn,
Archbishop of Erlru 100000. And tn
Primate OF Hungary, the Cardina
Archbishop OF Grau, has fS0,000
year.
Cardinal Gibbons is reported a
expressing the hope, in "a recent after
dinner speech in Philadelphia, tina
the day may never come when W
shall be obliged to call upon the Stat
to build our churches, for If they bull
our churches they may dictate to u
what doctrine we are to preach or wha
we are not to preach. As for myself
believe in the union of the churcl
and the people. P"
The Presbyterian church in Sout
Australia, that of Millicent, has distin
guished itself by adopting new meth
cd of paying its debt. Having &c
the loan from q friend Of sixty acre
of good land, the minister, the Rev
T. Cunningham, and some twenty {
his flock, plowed and sowed theground
and the crop, which found u purchase
as it stood, realized $775, sufficient t
meet the bank overdraft.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12
One Dollar Per Year.

and holds up his hands In horror when
the question OF having the ballot is
broached, usually is poor provider for
the family. and attends tho theater and
circus alono. allowing his wife to take
care of the children and do the work.
while he enjoys himself to the fall OF his
bent Wyoming has lod in this matter.
found it good. and when her star IS
added to the flag, among its glittering
rays will ever come beam OF promise
for the full protection and right OF
women"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-12

Did you ever notice when the ira
gedian cries: Fly for your lifer how
naturally his companion takes to the
wings9-Yonker's Statesman.