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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
SOUTHERN Standard McNNVLE TENNESSEE sATURDAYMAY
Ancient Batterine- Rams.

st. Nicholas.
They exerted greater power than
any gun or cannon invented up to
the year 1860. These hattering-rams
were probably as effective in knock
ing down a wall or staving in the
side of a ship as the best modern
cannon, but for making breach the
guns are far superior. Such was the
solidity and thickness of the walls of
jerusalem that, Josephus tells us, it
took all of one night for an enormous
battering-ram to dislodge four stones!
Vitruvius has left us the description
of a ram weighing 100000 pounds,
but probably the most celebrated of
all the ancient moving-tower rams
was that constructed by Demetrius
Poliorcetes at the siege of Rhodes.
The base of the tower was seventy
five feet square. The ram itself was
an assembly of large square beams
resting on wheels in size proportion
ed to the weight of the structure,
and all riveted together with iron.
The felloes of the wheels were three
feet thick and strengthened with iron
plates. From each of the four angles
of the tower a large pillar of wood
was carried up to height of one
hundred and fifty feet, and these
pillars were inclined toward one
another. The tower had three
stories, communicating by two
staircases each. Three sides of the
machine were plated with iron to
protect them against fire. In front
of each story there were loop-holes,
screened by leather curtains, to keep
out darts, arrows, &c. Each story
was provided with machines for
throwing large stones and darts, and
in the lower story was the ram itself,
thirty fathoms long, and fashioned
at the end into an iron beak, or PROV.
The entire machine was moved
forward by $500 soldiers. But it
can easily be understood that among
SO many men some must be more or
less exposed to the enemy's dart T.
and arrows, and so, to drive the
enemy from the walls and open
places, to break the roofs of his
houses, and otherwise annoy him,
machines were necessary for throw
ing missiles, from small darts up to
huge powders.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
The Slowest Yet.

81 want to go to bed, so give me a
room as soon as you can. l ought to
have reached the city early this after
noon and here it is IL o'clock"
"What made you so late?" asked a
Grand house clerk, as he threw
down a key to which was attached
rough-edged brass tag about the
size of buckwheat cake.
"Oh! slow trains slow trains
They seem to stop everywhere, and
all the little cross roads between
those places"
"That's queer"
81 should say it was. Why, at
one place they stopped about seven
minutes, while half a dozen people
came out of the only house to be seen
in the neighborhood and boarded
the train. Did you ever hear any
thing like it ?"
"Never."
II have" said the little old man
with long, shaggy hair, who hsd
overheard the conversation while
searching the Philadelphia directory
for the name of Boston firm.
"You have?"
eyes you may not believe it, but
it's fact. Some years ago l used to
travel good deal on the Old Colony
railroad, up in Massachusetts,. There
was a place called Wheat Sheai
Lane, where the train stopped nearly
every day for an old woman, who
was always there to send some eggs
into town. Now, would you believe
it? One day the train stopped as
usual for Aunt Betsey, who was
there with her eggs, but she only had
II. She said that an old hen was
still on the nest, and she wanted the
train to wait until she could make
up the Dozen"
eyes"
"Well, I'll be hanged if that train
didn't wait while the hen laid the
extra egg"
The late arrival said he guessed he
would go to bed, the bediamoned
hotel clerk swooned, and the little
old man walked down the corridor
and dropped YEARLY into chair.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
Brains in Business.

The Christian Union.
One great secret of success in bust
ness-the secret, in fact, of success on
large scale-is to conceive of it as a
matter of principles, not merely as
a series of transactions. There are
great merchants as there are great
statesmen, and there are small mer-
chants as there are small politicians,
and the difference between the great
and the small men is very much the
same in both professions. The small
politician works by the day, and
sees only the one small opportunity
before him, the small merchant does
the same thing--he is looking for the
next dollar. The statesman, on the
other hand, is master of the situation
because he understands the general
principles which control events;
this knowledge enables him to deal
with large questions and TO shape the
future. The great merchant does
the same thing, his business is not a
mere money-getting affair, not
mere matter of barter, but science
and an art, he studies the general
laws of trade, watches the general
conditions of the country, investi-
gates present needs, foresees future
wants, and adapts his business to the
broad conditions of his time and
place. He puts as much brains into
his work as does the statesman, and
he ends by being,not a money getter,
but large minded and capable man.
An eminently successful business
man, of the ststesmanlike quality,
said the other day that the more he
understood of life, the more clearly
he saw that it was all done on bust
ness principles, BY which he meant,
not only that the universe stands for
the dollar, but that the universe is
governed by unvarying laws, that
promptness, exactness, thoroughness,
and honesty are wrought into its
very fiber. On these business prin-
ciples all life is conducted-if not by
men, at least by that Power which is
behind man. 1t ought to be the
ambition of every young man to
treat his business from the point of
view of the statesman, and not from
that of the politician.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
"A Bright Bird.
Sunday School Advocate.

Sunday School Advocate.
He was an English starting, and
was owned by a barber. A startling
can be taught to speak, and to speak
very well, too. This one had been
taught to answer certain questions, SC
that dialogue like this could be car.
ried on:
"Who are your"
"I'm joe"
"Where are you from?"
"From Pimlico."
"Who is your master?"
"The barber"
"What brought you HEREOF
"Bad company"
Now it came to pass one day that
the starting escaped from the cage
and flew away to enjoy his liberty,
The barber was in despair. Joe was
the life of the shop; many a custo-
mer came attracted by the fame Of
the bird, and the barber saw his re.
ceipts falling off. Then too, he loved
the bird which had proved so apt a
pupil.
But all efforts to find the stray bird
were in vain.
Meantime Joe had been enjoying
life on his own account. A few days
passed on very pleasantly, and then,
alas! he fell into the snare ofthe fowl.
er, literally.
A man lived few miles from the
barber's home, who made the sharing
of birds his business. Some of these
birds he stuffed and sold. Others
again were sold to the hotels near by
to be served up in tid-bits for fastid.
ious guests.
Much to his surprise, Joe found
himself one day in the fowler's net
in company with large number Of
birds as frightened as himself. The
fowler began drawing out the birds
one after another, and wringing their
necks. Joe saw that his turn was
coming, and something must be
done. 1t was clear that the fowler
would not ask any questions, so Joe
piped out:
"I'm Joev
"Hey! what's thar" cried the fowl
er.
"I'm Joe," repeated the bird.
care you?" said the astonished
fowler. "What brings you here?"
"Bad company" said Joe prompt
ly.
1t is needless to say Joe's neck wa
not wrung, and that he was soon re
stored 10 his rejoicing master, thu
barber.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To THE EDIToR-Please inform your
readers that have positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured shall be glad to send
Two bottles of my remedy FREE to any OF your
readers who have consumption if they will
send nue. theirexpress and postoffice address.
Respectfully, \. A. SLOCUM, NJ. c., ISL
Pearl ST., New York.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
It is a Curions Fact

That the body is now more suscepti-
BILE to benefit from medicine than at
any other season. Hence the impor-
lance of taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
now, when it will do you the most
good. 1t is really wonderful for pu-
rifying and enriching the blood. ere
ating an appetite, and giving heal
thy tone to tn whole system. Be
sure to get Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
is peculiar to itself.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
MEANWHILE IMPROVED SOAP CO.,
MEANWHILE, TENN.

BOONE Iowa, August 7th, 1888.
gives pleasure testing Tho A Kasey New Process for
washing that perfect in all respects and far
other found washing all kinds goods cold
water and Frightening and renewing No boiling required
d. A WEST,
Proprietor Steam Laundry.
We the undersigned citizens of McMnnvle and vicinity have used
Thomas Kasey Improved Soap take pleasure recommending it
to Others We find does all that claimed for it, and find simple
cess and easy adopted any ordinary intelligence
W. II, FLEMING
MRS. SUE II. MADDUX,
G. r. STAINBACK,
MRS. E. G. MEAD
MRS. NJ. b. HARWELI,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25

Mr.. Ingersoll says he is warmly in
favor of cremation, and desires to be
burned after his death. His friends
believe he will be accommodated.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25

SIIlL0H'S CATARRH REMEDY pos
tive cure for Catarrh, Diptheria aud Can.
ker-Mouih. For sale by ". lI.Flcmiug.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
FAMILY, COUNTY AND STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE.

This the best selling enterprise anywhere be found The supply and
demand the value patents and enterprises and this the
supply nexhausbe and the demand universal soap sdspne
and of every day For particulars address
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25

a country youth who desired to
know how to become rich, sent twen-
ty-fve cents in answer to an adver-
tisement, and received the following
valuable receipt: Increase your re-
ceipts, and decrease your expendi-
lures. Work eighteen hours day,
and live on hash and oatmeal Cruel"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
-+Reasons Why it Should be Adopted.

1. Simplicity, cheapness and ease of preparation.
Economy much less required to do the amount of wash
ing and cleansing and yet do it more perfectly
Your clothes will last much longer does with all the hard
rubbing on the dashboard
Any kind of water be used hard soft, cold.
Yarns silks ung hardening
them.
No necessity for boiling Clothes thereby avoiding the expense of fuel
and the unpeasanns ofheat the unhealthy necessity
inhaling steam arising from the wash tub in winter
T. Goods that fade washed their retained
s. 1t admitted to be the best mode for washing bed clothes dis
covered
1t will grease spots from Clothes fabrics any kind with cold
and 1t also great value be
buckets all kinds by simply using cold
TO- 1t devoid the objections heretofore existing against all the
liquids compounds and powders heretofore offered to the public
chemicals used this the simplest and cheapest and had
drug store and are known not be injurious to the f fabrics
health We only give this improving trial
its merits which will satisfy and beyond doubt that it will do
than claim for it, and when tried afford be with
thousands unsolicited testimonials prefer
invariably introduced and sold it on its merits alone.
Call at d. L. BROWNS Warren House Corner McMnnv Tenn and
he will furnish with sample Soap prepared this and
will give any information you may desire concerning it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25

THE rev. GEO. IT, THAYER, Of Bur
bon, Ind, says: Both myself and Wife
owe our lives tn SIIlL0HS CONSUMP.
TON CURE. Sold ~ " II Elem ines
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-25
Patented ,4uGust 81, 1883.
The Great Time, Labor Soap, Money and Clothes Saver

Washing and cleansing duty that has to be performed in family
of the will beadmed the heaviest
dageabe duties incumbent the
indispensable performing this duty admitted
that the better the less will be the time labor and required in
performing this duty BY this simple and cheap mode all
improved cleansing qualities increased that
ing cleansing with very much me soap
will the skepcal that the
discoveries of times the relief of labor
ing cleansing given could
whout Its will become general family and household it
has every community where has been introduced practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12

s.,oHsh Admiral ID. D. Porter, General John Sew.on'
~ FRANKLIN, General W. s. RosocfanS' nu@.
r.anar Henry W. slocum, Alfred Pleasantoh' "oN.J'
,,orr1t, George Crook, Roger A. Pryor, in"n,o7 -
|r,,,nnden. Colonel John A. Cockernl, j. n huoN'
chauneey NJ Depew. Edward F. JONES' 'Suloe =.
rbomAs l. ochIltree, James s. fraser, |t
Dana Hugh J. Grant, Fred aSs Rev John n Paxton,
aDd n NcNulty. The cast Of the pay t,snpstt
Julia whaeler Virginia Bncaans tnn aeSye Charles
Nilsson Iss %uham Herbert GeOrgs De ysrs, ' 8en
Kellegd, George i. Tucker ana H"""'N
Teal Is the stage director 80,
a, Midnight BelI' remains at the Biou' ana VIII
- thcre for several weeks more. The ono
pvndpedih performance will DO given on MAY ~
,,o-rrorrou night Edwin Booth and Lawrence BareV'
lin open the new and magnificent California Inea'ro
n San Francisco which has been ouht Al an GA
rense NJ 100000 when the tragedans were pay 'ue
IN that city last season Mrs oBrien, the WAC" VI
~. honapza king attended performance, aiter "h'n
ho ,yos introduced 10 the actors In the course On
sue omnS S Mrs O'Bneu said to Mr.. Barrett ;
Mr. Booth and yourself will dedicate II VIII p9l ha
tho haDdsomest theatre ON me ta ,ntsr,SoT
Miss Agnes Hcrndon started yesterday for Mime,
o,o,is n MAY the heroine in play called tho EA-
Convict, 10 be produced the las Of this month a.
tho Grand Opera House in that city. The piece "~s
u,attcn IN nrson by Hal. Reid, who, for crime Vi
which he was innocent, had been sentenced on cH
cumstantial evidence He served his ume sb ana. time
being liberated could get no;ing TO do snort u h
Sso the real cnprt confesss Mr. Reid now ON b 9Ss
che sympathy of large number %I Ke0pi0 ~''"
pIay will be produced for his oehoh''
The ]. C. Duff Comic Opera Company will give tne
arst performance Of "Psoia7 by the authors "a
Erminie, Harry Paulton and Jacobowski, to-morro"
evening At tho Grand Opera House, Phlladelphis,.
The cat includes Adelaide Randall, Celia Elils, MaIS
smith and Harry PaultOn'
Mr. Duff has arranged with the London Gaiety Com
many for q farewell week, beginning May ~. al tho
standard Theatre. Esmeralda7 will be given three
,Ioh,s and Monte Crtsto, Jrn three nights. This
viii positively DO the last appearance OF this company
I'm America during the present season ana possoy io
scyerA years All the seats for the companys ~
appearance in london next september have been son.
Howard Carroll, the author of "The American
Countess to be played at Palmer's next thursday
afternoon for the benefit Of tho Confederate soldiers
Home yesterday presented TO Miss Julia wheeler VINO Is
10 play the part of the Countess handsome eorone'
whtch onoe the property Of the great RaohoL
Miss Wheeler will wear tho coronet In The ballroom
scene Thursday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12
REAL ESTATE DULL.
PRICES LAST WEEK WERE LOW!
SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL sALEs-THE RAPID
TRANSIT PROBLEM.

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL sALEs-THE RAPID
TRANSIT PROBLEM.
In the real estate market there was nothing striking
during the last week. Prices ruled low, and In the
case OF vacant lots particularly there was marked
falling off in the prices OF a few months ago, and
some lots went for about the same as they were
bought in 1887. There will probably be contest
over the sale OF Pythsgoras Hall, which was knocked
down on Tuesday 10 Newman Cowen for 10000,
which was considered much less than the real value
OF the property. A bid Of $4,000 was made by a
person who was afterward found to be responsible,
but who unable at the moment 10 comply with
the conditions Of sale. He has since come forward
and filed afdavfts and Is seeking to onoln transfer
on the ground that he is ready to pay the amount
of his bid II IS thought that his offer cannot now
affect the real purchaser, but that he may be com
pelled 10 make good the difference TO the sellers
Of the property. Experts claim that 10000
would be cheap for the place, situated
As It is in Canal-sL tho Bowery.
At Kingsbrdge thirty nine lots which brought an
average Of 900 in 1873 went for about 800 each
on wednesday. They part OF the Jacobus
Dyckman farm and wero bought at the partition sale
In 1871 by Charles Fox. The sales for the week
amounted TO S1,l9o,37o, against sl,o70,ss1 for The
corresponding week last year. Tho properties sold
wore scattered In nearly every part Of the CITY, No
l52 PorSythst, s!xstOry brick tenement with stores
in the first story sold to Isaac Cohen for S4loOo
No. 100 Mou-st., a nNesuOry pI1Ch shu 0"oHO WIZ
mont, went 10 Charles Gross for $4,000; Douglass
Taylor bought the throestory attic and snck dwelling
At No 333 West Twenty -second-st. for s27, SIX
throe-story brick dwellings In Ninety f0urth-st near
Eighth-ave, went 10 George W. ouintSd
for s135 ,ooo Nos. 1.l06 and Jos Parh
ave-, four-stOry brownstone dwellings, went 70 20
r. w. Freedmen for s32 600; vacant lots, 0oHlO9
feet In West Ninety ninth, OnebuDdred: and'nrst anu
One hundred and second sts- went for nom Sl2oOo
to S14 900. .,, $500. ..s,..
The delay of Mayor Grants rapid transit measure
aad hy RIA asta
terms, as the drawback to great apprecisHon 10
values above and below the Harlem River Is inc
transit problem. Until that Is setued Is housnt
there cannot be much activity IN the marhet 80 Ia
as suburban property Is concerned, but gr- boom
looked for In such property the moment Ae
OF accessibility Is Satisfactorily settled
The reveSue of the Real Estate Exchange from mo
s,ctIon room was about $1,000 in April the larsc'
ever realized In a single month. Al the mecuhg OF
the Board of DIroc tors on Tuesday eight ahnua,
members wcre elected, and the report OF zoe h.nu
Committee was submitted. Should the stoc khohoIs
agree the mortgage Of $4,000 win DO converted sto
per cent bonds which be retired In hNe years,
Among the offerings for the present weck VII De
siIty-four lots At Woodlswn Heights, on wednesday
and thirty -four lots on Mor-ave. on lhursoa!'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12
1.-THE o0LAHp At THE BROADWAY.
FRANo1s WILSON TO PRODUCE THE OPERA HERE
TOMORROW NIGHT.

FRANo1s WILSON TO PRODUCE THE OPERA HERE
TOMORROW NIGHT.
Francis Wilson will be seen manager and star
in the hrSt PRODUCTION Of Tho OOlah" at the Broad
way Theatre MORROW night. This opera with music
BY Charles LooocQ first brought out In PaTss In
1875 under the title Ia Jole Pcrs anne' Tho book
20 DO used by Mr. Wilson has been prepared at his
suggestion By sydney ROsenfeld. Several times The
OoIah- has boon announced for production az the
Casino but tho Success Of other operas compelled its
poStponemcnL Mr.. Wilson, therefore, finally deter
mined to make Il the first venture Of his career as
mararr Tor which he had long been preparing II
IS said tha, he has made liberal outlay tho setting
and dressing and pleasant surprises arc reported
10 H. IN siure for the first nj ght visitors.
Tho OF the Opera arr laid in Persia, and this
elaborate effects All the fabrics and designs OF the
customs A. The wearing Of tho face coverings among
rich colnrs will 10 10 our stage, Tho story OF
Tho uoIah" Is simple, dealing chiefly with the humor
Gus sspoctA OF PcrNia's marital lawo.
Tho urm oolsh' Il The professional uuo Of q mar
who..n vocation n assist divorced wives 10 rrtur
TO their rcpontant husbands BY marrying hom In
porfunctnry WAY and divorcing himself from thnm
thus fulfilling tho peculiar requirements ot the Law
which prOyidcd ulai \ divorced woman could not 10
turn To her first husband unM she had bern married
by and had bccu divorced from another man.
II u easy "a imagine that many perulE compHca
tons may Ar+so from this extraordinary state OF Affairs
have the assistance OF Nane JAlscn, Laura Moore
Pima uelaro Mr. Phnkett Hubert Wiki, Harry Nc
ponough and other people OF proved ability.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12
SOME RECENT STYLES IN SHIRTS


Fashions sometimes set by accident as hap
pened lately when window dresser of a furnishing
store In Twenty thri-st. displayed lot Of colored
fancy shirts with white collars and offs above each
the white linen merely put there because tho
coorcd goods showed them on but the dudes caught on
to the idea that white collars with ooored shirts wero
the coming novelty, and great was tho demand for
hem The shirt maker vas amazed AZ tho pro-
ccedngs, but a Il proved profitable he said nothing
Millonarrs Lghtshirts are legitimate objects OF
curiosity when, like dozen sets ordered for five Of
the richest men IN NewYork lately, they are OF surah
and Chinese silk, Ia the softest shades Of azure,
rose aud lavender stripes, pretty enough for tea
gowns. They could hardly be called expensive at s2s
each or $50 with embroidered collar and cuns and a
handsome nlghshrt is handy thing in case OF fro or
burglar alarms. 1t Is a fact that woman not con.
nrrtcd with any decorative society has made large
numbtv c sachct bags from pieces Of these celebrated
shirts one special bag combining relics OF the Lorari,
Vanderbilt and Gould shirts The latest fad is to make
very thin SQUARE sacheS, 10 be worn inside tho
waisIcuat. The ownership OF the white SILK night
shirt trimmed with point lace Is left discreet secret
ncvcr hccss sun shirt was ordered, and made by q
nrm Of fashionable Outrtcrs. Tho tennis suits for
the coming season made IN fine SILK and wool.
nanacl, in the same delicate cOorS tho Surah for
nigh shIr,s and tho bAors7 will longer daZLlo
hs field