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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

For nearly half century Ayers
Cherry Pectoral has been the most
popular cough remedy in the world,
The constantly increasing demand for
this remedy proves it to be the very
best specific for cold, coughs, and all
diseases of the throat and lungs.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

DIR. Maxwell makes q speciality Of
all kinds of complicated work, such as
crown and bridge-work, treating pain
lessly diseased and aching teeth.
None but first-class work solicited.
All work done at about one-half the
price usually charged by first-class
dentists. Call early and secure en-
gagements. apr2l,d
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

For the delicate and aged and all
in whom the vital current is impov-
erished and sluggish, Ayers Sarsa-
parilla is the very best tonic. IL re-
stores the wasted tissues, and i'm
parts TO the system surprising elastic
ity and vigor. Price 81. Worth s.
a bottle,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

The LEAF-CHRONICLE has it re-
liably that Jas. Hanratty will shortly
move to his property on Second
street and open saloon and restau-
rant,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Mrs. Drake Burton left a day or
two since to visit her mother Mt Dan
Vile, III. She will be absent two
weeks or more.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Some twenty-five or thirty Clarks.
vile citizens went on an excursion
Saturday to Nashville to see the arr
exhibition and had a good time gen
orally, taking in the sights about the
Rock City. The boys tell good
one on Mike Northington. They
say he tried to out run an electric car,
taking down the middle of the street,
following every jump "Stop that
thing" lie splashed mud on the
show windows of both sides of the
street, and it cost him quarter tC
get his shoes cleaned. This is what
Jonn Fox and Bake Ely tell, and
neither of them ever exaggerate.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Nathan Smith, a little boy in G..
ID. Runyon's family, is very i'll with
measles and pneumonia.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Miss Daisy McComb, of Pembroke,
KY, is visiting Misses Mamie and
Crissie Johnson, Third street.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Dan O'Connor has the agency for
the life of Jefferson Davis in this and
adjoining counties.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

A season ticket to the Booth
Modjeska engagement at Louisville
can be had at this Office.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Miss Lucy Miller, of Lynchburg,
Va, is here on visit to Miss Lucy
Clark, Madison street.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Mrs. A. +. Smith and family hay
moved to the residence corner Of
Seventh and Madison.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Jesse r. Harris and little daugh-
ter, Miss Tennie, of Kennedy, KY,
are in the city.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Mrs, G. ID. Bailey and three of her
children are laid up with the meas
les in mild form.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Philip Lieber Il Son "head the
procession" to-day. Read their adj
vertisement on fourth page.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

James Holland, of the Rudolph
neighborhood, is reported quite sick
with pneumonia.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Wesley Organ and his cookbook
ing family, from the south side, are
in the city to-day.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Jno. s. Miller was on the streets
this morning for the first time since
ne lost his arm.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

MONEY LOANsl On lein notes and
first mortgage on business property.
X. Y, care First National Bank.
apr2S, 1t july 1st
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28
For Rent.

A brick dwelling, nine rooms and
garden, on Madison street.
M20-lmd. l.. BLOCH.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Il. w. Bourne and J. S. Hamlet,
of Port Royal, are in the city to-day.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

A. A. Balsley, of the Calumet
Paper Co., Chicago, is in the city.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

J. j. Norton, of Louisville, is in
the city.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

The Westfall stock was sold at
auction to-day and brought fair prices
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

Mrs. S. Baer has returned from a
visit to Cincinnati.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

For SALE-Two season tickets for
Booth and Modjeska engagement at
Louisville, May /, ., 3. Apply at this
office.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

For SALE-10 barrels fine Apple
Vinegar. w. M. DRANE.
apr22, dat
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28
10 CENTS PER WEEK.
Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

Trains leave GAINESVILLE as follows:
SOUTH:
No.lOl, Fast Mail ,......... ...... 500 p.
Nol03, Fast Express, daily. 7:l3 A. M
NORTH.
Nol02, Fast Express, daily...-".... 1854 P. M
No l04, Fast NAH 5:l5 A.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28

We present above a sketch OF Prof.
II. 0. Dieuis, the author and lecturer,
who arrived in the city this morning
and will give a course of superbly H.
Illustrated free lectures during the
week, commencing tonight. As
there is no admission fee charged, it
was thought best to give the lectures
in the court house, which will be
specially fitted up for the occasion.
Prof. Dieuis is the founder of the
new system of Phrenology called En-
cephalogy, which ignores "bumps"
and is based entirely on general out
line. He has a magnificent colIec-
ton of crania and portraits which he
uses to impress his theories. The
lecture tonight will be preceded by
new analysis of POe's Raven.
The Professor has rooms at the Ar
lington Hotel. 1t.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28
bargains in Envelopes.

The LEAF Job Office has some extra
good circular envelopes, numbers 8 and
81, at cut prices, in lots of 1000 to TO-
600, either printed or plain. There
are $1,000 of these envelopes and bar
gain in every one.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
Luminous Clock Dialsl

There are clock dials so coated with
q phosphorescent preparation as to alb
sorb sunlight during the day, and thus
be in a measure luminous at night, but
in the opinion of cloekmakers, these
dials are comparative failures, inasmuch
as they do not retain their luminous
power for any length of time, while the
effect of the phosphorus upon the move
ment is to tarnish, corrode and seriously
impair its usefulness. Phosphorus, as is
well known, possesses no light in itself,
but absorbs, when placed in the SUM-
light, the luminosity which it afterward
displays IN the dark; therefore, they
must be placed where they can get the
sunlight. There is nc preparation on
the market, so far as we know, which
can be applied to a dial, unless it is
simple phosphorus. The latter is readily
attainable, but whether its use upon the
face of the clock would secure even the
temporary result desired, remains to be
proven. If it is to be experimental with,
care should be taken to avoid touching
the hands or the figures of the dial, the
phosphorus being applied to the plain
white surface only, thus allowing, pro.
viding the illumination is achieved, the
hands and figures to be sharply defined
against the light.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

and precious stones" Elizabeth re-
vivcd the antique love for pearls and wore
erich drops two large ones with a third
depending from them being seen in her
portrait by zucchero. Continual men
ton of them is made by writers in the
seventeenth century, at which period they
were given as love tokens. They were
also worn by men at the same period all
over Europe. George Villiers, Duke OF
Buckingham, wore diamond earrings, and
all ]courtiers wore either gold, stones or
pearls in their ears. Men are not seen
wearing them after the restoration of
Charles II, but there was q singular fash
ion existing at the same time on the con-
tinent which found its way to England
about the time of James I. viz. the wear
ing of two or three strings OF black silk.
The noble red man who once ranged
through the forest primeval was not con-
tent with a simple pair of earrings, but
tied his ears up in thongs of stained skin.
At least that is what George Catlin says
in his HNorth American Indians" from
which the sketch seen in Fig. 5 has
been taken. This species OF fantastic ear
decoration is, however, simplicity itself
compared to that praeticed by certain I'M
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
EARRINGS.
CURIOUS ADDITIONS TO THE
LOBE OF THE EAR.
Barbaric Devices of Torture and An
tique Examples ofBeauty-String,
Trough and B~utton-Odd
Earrings in All Age.

The strange fashion of mutilating and
adjoining the human ear has been prac-
ticed for all ages, and has been in vogue
all over the world. 1t has especially en-
ioyed great favor among the Orlenta!s,
AMI by Pcrsians, Babylonians, Lydians,
Lybians and Carthaginians the earring
was worn as commonly by men as by wo-
men. Figure l, taken from Thomas
Hopes ''Costume of the Ancients, shows
how the monarchs of Phrygia adorned
themselves, and there are numerous evil
dences in gems, ETC., to bear out the as
sertion concerning the vanity of the an
tique male. In the "lliad" Juno is rep:
resented as adjoining himself with ear
rings made with three drops representing
mulberries, and most of the jewels so
worn at that time seem to have come
under the head of what some old-fash-
Toned people still call "eardrops.' From
this period down to the latest the prac-
tice prevailed in Greece, and one finds
the ears of the Venus d Medici to be
pierced for the reception of earrings.
Pliny says there was no part of dress on
which greater expense was lavished
among the Romans, and Seneca mentions
on earring of which a drawing, the lower
right-hand specimen, copied in Fig. 2
is taken from Smiths Dictionary,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
q AZ
New Jerseys Queer Green Sand.

Dr.. Van Cleve, of Newark, N. j., gives
in the New York Star a brief account OF
one of his States queerest geologic char
acteristics.
"Nearly all the way he says, ''from
Sandy Hook to Cape May is curious bed
of what looks like gravel, but which has
been called Jersey mari, OF green sand
bv the farmers for the last two centuries.
If YOU examine it carefully you find to
your surprise that it is not rock in the or
binary sense of the word, but a mixture
of fish bones and scales, sharks teeth and
other remains of life in the ocean, some
of which is petriied, and some as natural
as if it had been alive the week previous.
At Squankum | have seen little boys and
girls make necklaces and bracelets out OF
huge sharks teeth that were almost as
clean and bright and a good deal larger
than those caught to-day by our fisher
men. Some are SO large as to be mon
strous, being, triangles whose sides were
each three inches long and whose edges
aud points were nearly as sharp as sur
gical instruments. At some points where
the mari comes close to the surface, the
weather has acted upon this vast mass of
ancient dead matter and rotted the bones
into weak acid, which can be smelled for
rods, and which often affects the water
of wells in their vicinity. The green sand
is only utilized for one purpose-fertiliz-
ing-and in this regard it is as valuable
as the finest Peruvian guauo, and far
cheaper. It's judicious use has converted
some land that once was so sterile as to
be almost worthless into some of our best
market and kitchen gardens. The fame
of the fertilizer has spread, and we now
send it by the carload and boatload to
other parts of the State, and even to other
States and counties. The supply is mex
haustihle, and, strange to say, there has
never yet been any attempt to regulate its
production, to control prices, or even to
mine or dig it upon a scientific basis. 1t
is dug by the farmers to-day just ex'
actly as it was before the Revolution"
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

which he says was worth a patri-
mcny. 1t has four pearls, two above
and TIVE below the precious stone in the
center. In the more valuable of the
antique earrings pearls were almost al
ways used; and they were valued for the
completeness of their form, as we'll as
for their whiteness. In place of a ring
the ornament was often attached to the
ear with a hook, a custom which still
prevails in Italy. Many Egyptian ear
rings of very beautiful design have been
preserved, of which the one to the left
in Fig. 2 is an example.
These antique designs have been fre-t
~quently initiated in modern times, and if
the use of this ornament is to be n
tinued it can scarcely assume a more
graceful form than was often given to it
by the ancients. The smallest earring
in Fig. 2 is u sketch of n of a pair
copied from the masterpieces of the
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

she will take a leaf and roll it up and in
sert it in her ear. Gradually the weight
is increased by the addition of other
larger rings, till the lobe often gives way
and splits. Carl Book, in his book on
ssThe Head Hunters of Borneo, asserts
that he has counted as many as sixteen
rings in a single ear, each of them the
size of a dollar. The rings are generally
made OF tin, and cut SO that they can be
removed at pleasure. Sometimes disks
of colored wood running up to an inch
and a half in diameter are used. In adj
dition to this mutilation of the lobe, the
helix of the ear is pierced or slit in
several places, and IN these holes pieces
of colored ribbon or cord are tied, or
buttons OF feathers inserted. In Fig. 3
there is given a sketch made from M OF
the illustrations in Books book. 1t rep
resents the head of a Dyak belle, the
measurements of the ear being as fol
lows: Total length of the ear q inches,
length of the cash in the lobe 4.75
inches, distance between the level of the
chin and bottom of the ear 2.85 inches;
Son Francisco Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

NJ. Thivrier began work in the coal
mines at Co~mmentoy, France, when
twelve years old, and for twenty years
remained in them, handling the PICK.
Afterward he became a vine grower and
dealer in wines. He is a Socialist, but
not a Communist, 'for, having as q
French paper puts it, acquired his capl-
tai by his own hard work, he cannot
easily understand how that capital should
belong to all the world" Through all.
his career he has stuck to his working
mans blouse, and it was largely upon
the strength of that popularity that ne
was elected a Deputy. He is SAID to DO
a man of unusual intelligence and a good
speaker. When he came to Paris to take
his seat, his blouse, which he wore not
only at the Chamber, but at receptions
and all other functions that he attended,
made him at once famous.
The garment, it will be seen, is similar
to the outside shirts worn by Cinnamon
in this country and would doubtless bring
the Deputy ridicule rather than honor OF
popularity if worn here.-Ne0 Horb Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
A Brave Prince.

Prince Oscar Bernadotte, the second
son of the King of Sweden, who acouple
of years ago renounced the rank and
privileges Of his royal birth to marry Miss
Ebba Munck, performed an act of gal
lantgy recently which will go far to in
crease his popularity throughout his fa-
theirs dominions. A small boat with
three men had capsized near the head of
the pier at Karlskrona, where he resides.
Without hesitating a moment the young
giant-his statue is six feet thee inches
Jumped. fully dressed, into the sea and
succeeded in rescuing two of the drown
ing men. The third disappeared be-
meath the waves, and his body was found
Ia the surf a couple of days later. Prince
Oscar is about to receive a reward for his
courage in the shape of the little medal
''for saving life" the same which Prince
Bismarck prizes above all his other or
ders and decorations,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

burial mounds, but both in England and
on the Continent, after the commence
ment of the tenth century, the fashion
appears to have declined and earrings are
neither found in graves nor discernible in
paintings or sculpture. NJ. Violet Cedric
observes that the style of head-dress and
wearing the hair may in some measure &C
count for this. In the thirteenth century,
however, the fashion evidently revived,
mention being made of earrings in the
"Roman de la Rose" but there is no
graphic description Of their form, and
neither monument nor miniature is found
to assist us. In the sixteenth CEN
fury earrings were in high favor except
among the purists, who denounced
the "women who were not ashamed to
make holes in their cars whereat they
hang rings and other jewels OF gold
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

Of this object is assigned at $50 B. g.,
the place of its discovery being TareRtuD,
in Calabria.
The earring seen in Fig. 3 is also OF
the nature OF a votiye offering to Venus,
the design being that of two doves. It
is sketched from one of the illustrations
in the Gazette DIES Beaur-Arts, the original
having been discovered in Etruria and
dating probably to the ffth century. 1t
is of gold and enamel, the national colors
of the plurnage beng most faithfully re-
produced.
That the earring was used in Britain
during the Bronze Period has been
proved by DIR. John Evans in his "An-
cicnt Bronze Implements. In q bar
row at Cowlam, in Yorkshire, touching
The temporal bones, he says, which were
stained green by the contract, were
two earrings Of bronze. They were
made by beating one end of a piece of
bronze fat and forming the other
into a pen-shaped termination. The
pen had been passed through
the lobe OF b ear ana rsen bent
round, the other and fab end being
bent over it. Thus the earring must have
been permanently fixed in the ear. This
scoop or basket form of the ancient
Briton's earring was sometimes carried to
d ludicrous size, as witness that repre-
sented in Fig. 4. This was taken out Of
q stone cist at Orion, in Moravshire, Scot
land. In this case, however, the earring,
Or rather the ear-trough, was Of gold,
and might have been worn BY some I'M
snbdued Celt who caused the Roman
many an unhappy quarter Of an hour in
his home. Earrings Of silver have also
been found IN the British barrows 81
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

civilized nations in other parts of the
world. Take, for instance, the Kafir,
whose ears are pierced at a very early age
and the hole continuously enlarged un-
til it is capacious enough to hold a snuff
boz, an ivory knob or q lions tusk.
But the boss people of the world for
slashing and distorting the ear are the
Dyaks of Borneo. The lobes are pierced
when the child is only six months old,
and from that day the hole is forcibly in
creased in size till it forms a loop from
one to four inches, or even more, long.
At first wooden pegs are placed in the
hole; these are afterward replaced by a
couple OF tin or brass rings, while if the
Dyak belle cannot afford such luxuries
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
A Legislator in q Blouse.

When an American workingman IS
elected to a representative office OF any
sort he usually puts on the best clothes
that he has upon going to occupy his
place, the idea being, undoubtedly, that
such a proceeding is q proper manifesto
ton of respect for the constituency that
has bonored him, and of appreciation Tor
the dignity conferred upon him: Across
the water a different course has been
pursued in at least one instance, and NJ.
Thivrier, a worklngman elected as such
to the present Chamber of Deputies IN
France, wears all the time in public the
blouse which is the badge Of a laborer III
that country.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

Il It was intimated the other day that the
famous Strauss orchestra of Vienna was
to visit this country. 1t is now an
nounced that the organization will sail ON
Che Sd of May. The Strauss orchestra
has been under the direction of the
Strauss family of wsitz and light opera
composers for many years, II having been
brought into being by Joseph Strauss,
and successfully led by his three sons,
Joseph, Johann and Edward, for more
than thirty years. IT'S present leader,
Edward, has been in charge of the
orchestra for fifteen years, and by him
the orchestra will be conducted in
America. To hear the Strauss music, as
interpreted by its authors, will, without
doubt, give to it a hitherto undeveloped
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

Centennial Exhibition" where it was
shown among the Castellani antiques.
The original is about two inches long,
the pair representing the dolphins,
which were emblematic of Venus. The
eyes, fins and other details of the figure
are executed in the professional materials
of the jewelers. art, instead of by en-
craving OF molding, that is to say, they
are sketched upon the smooth surface by
lines of rope-wofk applied and soldered
on. The minute gold cords of which
this rope-work consists, so delicate yet
SO even, and SO firmly soldered as to be-
come homogeneous with the body of the
object, constitute the grand technical
superiority of antique jewelry. The date
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

The Indian seems, to the New York
Commercial Adrertiser, IS hard to pre-
serve as the bison. Asa savage he was
rapidly disappearing from the face OF the
earth, destroyed by the mere contiguity
Of the white race. And now it appears
that the attempt to educate and civilize
him hastens rather than retards his de-
cadence. The Sioux chiefs who visited
washington recently were profoundly
dissatisfied with the Indian schools at
Hampton and Carlisle, and for the very
sufficient reason, among others, that
from 30 to 10 par cent. of the graduates
Of those institutions die within four
years after their return to their parents.
An old Indian says it il the Hampton
sogs that poison the young braves. #
that were all, the remedy would be-easy
to ind. Butt is not the damp breath
ST the James River that slays the red
man. II u something more potent, more
persuasive than any fog. # is the breath
civilization that IS sweeping away
erestiDg but doomed race.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29
Of.Days Even for a Watch.

Watches are funny things. Do you
know that there are times when a watch
will not run regularly / have had rail
way engineers say that locomotives are
much the same way. When a watch has
one OF these irregular spells it is almost
impossible to make it go. Many a watch
is ruined, too, at times when carelessness
is the prime cause. Some men will wind
a watch too close, and then if It refuses
to run shake it until everything is out Of
place. A large per cent. of the repair
ing done is brought about by persons
who do not know how to take care Of a
watch.-Phsladezphia Item.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

; The runor that the young German
Emperor's chronic earaches are affecting
his brain is revived. The. newspapers Of
Germany are as profoundly silent on the
subject as Bismarck himself, but private
adyices received in London are to the
effect that the Emperor has been acting
queerly since he caught cold while shoot
ing near Stettin, and that those close to
him are Gin great apprehension"
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

Z The consumption OF 1ood per head IN
Victoria is in excess of that in America
and Europe, and yet the climate of Aus"
tralia requires that a man should cat less.
The. increase of hepatic and nervous dis
eases in Australia is thought to be due
largely to the amount of meat consumed
by it's inhabitants. Thus it seems that
The s~heapness Of food has its cons as wei
rs its --c