davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
A Pointer Cor Drug Buyers.

All the large drug firms print and distrib-
ute catalogues and price lists Of their drugs.
Most Of these catalogues contain almost all
the standard prescriptions. The formulas
for the most frequent diseases are printed in
these pamphlets, with the quantities of the
doses and the prices at which the pills, pow
ders or liquids are sold to the trade. Every
doctor has several of these price lists and
every drug store has pile Of them A man
who has any of the ordinary ailments will
find his prescription repeated in one of these
price lists The difference is that the price
list usually gives the ordinary names for the
drugs used, while the prescription is written
out in q way which only doctor or drug
clerk or man who has picked up the knack
of it can understand.
The difference between the prices in the
price lists and the prices at which the goods
are sold is from 400 to 1000 per cent. If a
man gets medicine often and can find q
friendly disposed doctor he can save a great
deal on the price of his prescriptions The
thing to do is to have the doctor write out
the prescription in English, or to give him a
copy Of one of these pamphlets with the pill,
powder, or whatever it may be, marked. He
learns the name of it by heart, then he goes
to drug store and asks for what he wants,
instead Of handing in a prescription for it.
This is a simple thing to do, and will save
from one-half to three-quarters the price,
New York Sun.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
killing soldiers by lightning.

An American inventor has jumped over
the heads of the gunners and proposes to deal
out death and destruction in a much more
wholesale way than they can accomplish.
His scheme is to produce artificial lightning.
"Thus far the experiments have been confined
within narrow limits, but with the use of a
small dynamo attached to my invention" he
says, "a slight shock can be produced effec-
tive enough to kill the flies in a 20x20 room.
With the use of powerful dynamos flash of
lightning can be directed against an army a
mile or more away and without injury to the
party operating the gun, scattering death
and CONSERVATION among the troops. With
powerful dynamos thousands of soldiers can
be killed at flash, and a number Of flashes
are enough to destroy an army. New York
Iournnl
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

One of the oldest things here is the naming
of tho stores and shops, where upon the signs,
instead of the name of the proprietor, appears
some elaborate appellation that often causes
one a smile from its incongruity with the
goods on sale. For instance, THE Electric
Light" is pulque shop, the "Queen of the
World" is a bread shop, the palace of the
World" is boot store, the white Venus" is
a butcher shop, and SO they go.
Several of the grocery stores are called by
the names Of the great cities of the world,
which is very appropriate, for it is from them
that we obtain all luxuries for the table In
stead Of being directed to the firm of So-and-
SO, one is told that certain goods can be had
at the "City of New York." the "City Of
Hamburg" etc The shadow of the Eiffel
Tower has reached and fallen upon the City
of Mexico. A gorgeous new sign, ell white,
blue and gold, bears the tall name and flag
decorated representation Of the same, "The
Eiffel Tower" and within the store one finds
most delicious French confectionery. -Cor
Somerville Journal
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

A demure looking young woman sat in a
Sixth avenue elevated car with look Of alb
straction on her face. Pretty soon there
1oated through the Cur a soft, sweet whistle,
whose melody wandered carelessly for few
moments and then shaped into an air from
1.-THE Gondoliersn Half dozen interested
passengers glanced up from their papers 70
look for the whistler The look deepened into
q stare. For there sat the young woman with
the same far away look ON her face, while
from her pretty red lips the low sounds came
in the most unconscious way. Half the pas
sengers in the car had their eyes on her face
by this time, and the concerted stare brought
her back all at once to a realization of the
situation.
The sound dropped in the middle Of a note,
and the demure face grew very red and EN-
barrassed as it turned TO gaze steadily out Of
the window behind er-New York Evening
Sun,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
A Curious Drawbridce.

zone of the most curious drawbridges In
the world" said an officer of a West India
fruit steamer, lis in the harbor called st,
AIMS bay, in the Island Of Curacao. 1t is
a pontoon bridge, and one of the pontoons is
steamer. The steamer was built in Cam
den, Mo. 1t is a scow 40 feet long, II feet
wide and feet deep. There is a single shaft
that runs clear through the boat, and has a
40 inch screw propeller on each end, The shaft
is turned by two 9xl2 steam engines. When
the draw is to be opened the captain of the
steam pontoon casts Off the lines, gives toot
on the whistle and sets the propcllors a whirl-
ing, and thereupon half the bridge swings
round far enough to let the coming ship pas,
through Then the wheel is reversed and the
gap is closed. Exchange,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
Immoral Books.

They were two Vassar girls. They were
talking about immoral literature over a cup
Of tea, and one of them gave lucid opinion
about immoral books. She said: "a nasty
book is not necessarily immoral 1t may dis
gust and have no other effect; book that
gives pictures of vice Is not necessarily inn
moral, because usually the contrast is shown
by the introduction of virtue, and the one is
made so much more beautiful than the other;
then the vice is not hidden behind thin veil,
that while it reveals what seem delights con-
ceals all that disgusts The immoral book, to
my thinking. is the book that upsets your
faith in humanity that makes you question
the world at large, and tries to turn you
away from your belief in God. Another inn
moral book is the one that gives excuse for
sin by claiming that one is the creature of
circumstance, that inherited traits cannot be
battled with, and that if one does wrong ones
grandfather or ones wiclsh nature can be
blamed for it. l will reel you three bad
books--books that are rFobably in every
house in New York. Fl st, DIR. JekyH and
Mr. Hydei that says, Why should one try
to be good if there is another self that rulesf
Next, Anna Karenina,' because it makes
you look out the window on life and every
thing is wrong, everything is dark, there is
no hope and no necessity for hope Third,
Robert Elsmere' No book can be good that,
like this, makes one uncertain as to what is
right or wrong, and suggests that it is ones
duty to cast aside the creed Of ones youth.
These are immoral books Chicago Herald.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
sAg LAID HER HAND ~ MINE.

She laid her little hand in mine,
o, Joy, If might hope to win 1t
And. at the touch n flash divine
Thrilled all along In electric line,
For Just one brief and blessed minute.
And then, again, when at the stile
Her timid steps began to waver,
She gave to me her hand the while,
Nor guessed that I'd walk many mile.
Delighted to repeat the favor
She was as innocent of love
The master passion--who can doubt itS
As any tender hearted dove
That cooes upon its perch above,
And did not vex her soul about it.
She laid her little hand in mine,
With not a semblance OF emotion;
But as the tendrils OF the vine
Uneonsciousy reach out and Irvine
Around the symbol of devotion.
And oh her faith in mo awoke
A sense of knlghthood; she had crowned me;
And though no word of love spoke,
Lest her enmity provoke,
Tender and true she ever found me
And so one day her hand in mine
She laid for just one little minute;
When, joy there thrilled along the line
The sweet assurance, so divine,
That made me know her heart was In IL.
New York Ledger
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

However the matterof-fact may scott at
the idea, there are such things as PRESENT.
ments. Not long ago Boston man received
a large sum of money as treasurer of an or
ganization too late for deposit, so he took it
homo with him to his suburban residence. 1t
worried him, this money, in a way he could
not understand He kept thinking, "Am
going to lose this money which does not be-
long to me9' SO strong was this feeling that
he could not get to sleep. Yethe was ashamed
Of himself Saying nothing to his wife, he
got up took the money from his coat pocket,
put it in his stocking and threw it under the
bed In the morning his wife said to him in
n joking way, 81 wonder what condition you
were in when you came to bed last night!
There's your coat on the floor, your vest is
out in the hall aud your trousers are across
the doorsill" Being man Of steady habits,
it did look suspicious 1t did not take him
long, however, to discover that burglars had
been through the house and his own money
and watch taken.
But the stocking under the bed was safe
Boston Times
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
Art in the Hand.

The peculiar character of the hand is SC
earnestly considered by the artist that he
places it in good light and natural position
with no less care than he gives to the head
of his sitter To give phlegmatic hand to a
clever and active person, or nervous, in
telectual hand to lazy one. would destroy
the value of the portrait. This is instanoed
very finely in Bonnats portrait of John Tay-
lor johnson, and in st, Gaudens' recently
finished statue Of Abraham Lincoln, in both
OF which works the treatment Of the hands is
in the highest degree mastery and suggestive
of the personality of the original. Cor, Kate
Fields Washington.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

One of the most interesting sights at an
electrical factory where railway motors are
made is the testing of a new car truck after
the motors are attached and the frame is
ready to receive the box. The truck is placed
on suitable rails and chained down, in order
to prevent its running away, which it surely
would do under the powerful electric current.
Experimental wires are attached to the two
motors on the axles Of the trucks, and the
wheels we'll smeared with grease, in order to
prevent friction. When the current is turned
on the wheels begin to move, and as the cur
rent increases they revolve with lightning
like rapidity, consuming the lubricating mat
ter on the wheel faces almost as fast as il
can be poured on. After this thorough test
of the motors the truck is run off to receive
the car box Philadelphia Record.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
Gordon Locates Eden.

The general was very laxative one even
ing, explaining to us his pet theory, viz. that
the Seychelles islands, which are situated TO
the northeast of Madagascar, are the site of
the garden of Edenl He gave many reasons
for thinking so-one being that there was a
tree found there that is not to be found in any
other part of the world. This, he is confident,
is the forbidden tree" 1t is called the
Coco-de-Mer, or nut Of the sea, " and has
many pecularities The nut is shaped like a
heart, but with its huslS taken off it is like a
mans body from the chest to the knees. To
raise a tree he explained, a nut is laid on the
ground and covered with leaves. By and by
a shoot comes ont and runs along the ground,
and when about twelve feet long it takes root
The root is in the form of a bulb four feet in
diameter. The tree itself grows to the height
of 100 feet, and is only about nine inches
thick. 1t is AZ years old before it bears fruit,
and its nuts grow seven in bunch, from the
end of the extended arm, each weighing per-
haps forty pounds, They take seven years to
ripen. The leaves are twenty -four feet long
and fourteen feet broad, and can bear a
mans weight! II must indeed be a wonder
full tree -Coutemporary Review.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
ean c. auaIeaLIon, . whIeh IL iaaIlor

gan COZ aunication, to which the janitor
listened attentively.
Eyer see, y said he, II jist come daown from
Macwahoe, and I'm a-goin' to make bricks for
Fuller n Coney, over yonder, and ez heern
tell that the loontic 'sylum wuz in 'Gusty, l
med up my mind I'd see sum o them crazy
fellers. Hev ye got amy Of 'em in naowY'
The janitor took him to the door and let
him look in upon session of the legislature.
An angry member was making a violent
speech at the time, while large contingent
applauded loudly.
Country took just look. Then, grabbing
his hat, he lined it for the open air The
janitor overlook him and tried to detain him,
but twas no use.
Lem me 60" he said. "They's all fools,
hain't theyl But, sor, tibet man is a vi'lent
one. Good-by, sor, much 'bliged, but he
mout be comm out, yer know" and his long
legs rapidly carried him out of sight.-Ban-
gor News
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

He was great, green, gawky looking
specimen Of humanity.
He appeared Ike a man who had been
transported Ia his sleep from some back
woods dell, many miles from the sight OF
civilization,
His ewes borc the look Of Que who had just
awakened to gaze upon wonderful and
startling scene.
He edged up to the janstor Of the state
house at Augusta and stood staring at him in
open mouthed awe, like child gazing at a
giraffe
The janitor spoke 70 him pleasantly, which
seemed to al him with a Joyous shock, and
after a few minutes he edged nearer and be
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
New yorl,'s Thirty-two cities.

Here are the names of the thirtytwo cities
of New York; Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn,
Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cohoes,
Corning, Dunkirk, Elmira, Gloversville, Hor-
nellsyille, Hudson, Ithaca, jamestown, Kings
ton, Lockport, Long Island City, Middletown,
Newburg, New York, Ogdensburg, Oswego,
Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Rome, Science
tady, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown and
Yonkers There are several villages in the
state each with a population larger than that
of some of the cities, and when the city am
bition moves them the municipal circle will
he further enlarged. Herald.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
Hnw Names Grnu.

How names grow receives an odd illustrn-
tion in the Congo country. White people
are known in the upper Congo districts as
Batendele. Tendele was as neer as the Congo
nature could get to the pronunciation Of
Stanley, "ba" being the common prefix for
people. Batendeie is the Congese for white
people. In a somewhat similar way the In
dians of the northwest coast bestowed the
title of Boston men on all white people, as
ships from Boston were those most frequently
seen by them in the old days when the Ore
gon coast was bowling wilderness. Boston
TRANSCRIPT
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
NnfuiilIsfnnalinr.

The Daily Telegraph has adopted peculiar
views on the efficacy of prayer, II the follow
ing paragraph from London Day by Day
is TO be taken as a criterion: Earl Sydney's
illness became very acute on Sunday. Prayers
were offered on his behalf at the churches
and places of worship at Sidcup, Foot's Cray,
and Chislehurst. Lord Sydney, however, on
Wednesday appeared much improved The
"however1 is GOOD
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
rrnrrnng rarmer.

Twenty years ago Mr.. P. r. Penny, while
at work in a mill in Minnesota, was caught
in a shaft and his arm was broken in thirteen
pieces, his right leg broken in three pieces and
three ribs fractured, injuries that crippled
him for life. Notwithstanding this fact, he
has cleared up 100 acres of land in Aroostool,
from the green woods, and in ioS9 raised
4, 100 bushels Of potatoes from twenty three
acres frs. crop, and eight acres Of which was
in standi y trees the 4th day Of May Of that
year. --Presque Isle Star Herald.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

For human food olive and cottonseed oils
are far superior to lard, or 10 any other ami
NAL fat. Olive oil has held that rank in the
estimation Of scientists and medical men from
the earliest period Of recorded history. 1t is
only of late years that analyses by chemists
experiments in diet 10y eminent physicians
and practical use by skillful housekcepers
have combined 10 demonstrate that in every
respect and for all uses the oil of the cotton.
seed is equal to that Of the olive Mauufac
tuners record
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

We reiterate for the benefit Of other CORE
spondents advice frequsnty given before to
inquirers anxious 10 overcome bad habits
in brief Sleep ON a hard mattress, try cold
sponging night and morning, avoid iluids
late at night, live plainly, avoid stisnulants
and take plenty Of open air exercise. No
need for any electrical apparatus. Herald Of
Health
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

A Florida fisherman recently baited his
set hooks with small green frogs lie left bis
hooks in the water all nicely floating, having
been told that this was the best Of bait, ex-
pecting to return next morning and find fish
Ay the dozen. He returned, and to his sur
prise all his baited hooks were sitting ont or
the banks looking at him, and as he came
close 10 them they wopld jump back in the
water "kcrchunk"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

Almost all the paper exported from Sweden
Is made Of wood pulp. A recently compiled
list comprises total Of ninety-five works,
some Of which may not yet be quite COM
ple;ed, aud, Of eourss, . few more have to be
added, but this viii not materially influence
the total
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

The car, upon receiving the report Of a
recent duel between officers in the army, said;
'Duels in the army are absolutely necessary,
and I desire that reports Of such escapades
shall not be brought to my notice
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
Rheumatism.

REING due TO the presence of uric
- acid in the blood, is most effectually
cured " the use Of Ayers Sarsapa.
rilla. Be sure you get Ayers and no
other, and take it till the poisonous
acid is thoroughly expelled from the
system. We challenge attention to this
f, testimony -
About two years ago. after suffering
for nearly two years from rheumatic
govt, being able to walk only with great
discomfort, and having tried various
remedies, including mineral waters,
without relief, | saw by an ADVERTISE
ment in q Chicago paper that man had
been relieved of this distressing COM
plant, after long suffering, by taking
Ayers Sarsaparilla. / then decided to
make trial of this medicine, and took
it regularly for eight months, and am
pleased to state that it has effected a
complete cure. / have since had no re-
turn of the disease. Mrs. r. Irving
Dodge, ITO West l25th ST., New York.
cone year ago / was taken i'll with
intiammatory rheumatism, being con-
fined to my house six months. / came
out Of the sickness very much dehili-
tated, with no appetite, and my system
disordered in every way / commenced
using ayers caFSapdTllla anu began 10
improve at once, gaining in strength
and soon recovering my usual health,
1 cannot say too much in praise OF this
well-known medicine = Mrs. L. A.
Stark, Nashua, N, ii.
Ayers SarsapariI|a,
PREPARED BY
Dr. ]. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price 81; six bottles, s.. Worth IS bottle
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-10

sky above her and winds tearing by, and
realizing that death might be in every
wave that beloved toward her, she did
not shrink her hand was in Harold's,
her head lay restiully upon his shoulder;
she could die so content,
There, between the sky and sea, all
that had seemed great enough to part
them in the old days was explained away
and found very trine.
"Too have lost all those years of hap
piness, and now to meet only to touch
hand with hand and die was the
thought in Harold's heart, as their frail
support was ever and anon swept by a
mighty wave
But death was not to come to them
there the God who cares for the sparrow
turns not His eyes from the castaway at
sea.
In the noon-houl Of the following day
a stately vessel sighted and picked them
up; and a fortnight later, Lucille and
Harold, whose severed lives the storm
had once more linked in love, were made
man and wife in the parlor of New
| York hotel
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-10

" Perhaps, said the fresh young man
as he pumped himself down on the sofa
between two giddy girls, perhaps you
were discussing some choice secrot?"
ooh no, said one Of them. II was
just saying to Minnie that nothing
should separate us, but really didn't
expect it so soon. And the beating of
his own heart was the only sound he
heard. -Tere Haute Express.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-10

High Priced Doctor" You are now
convalescent and all you need is exer-
else. You should walk ten, twenty, OF
thirty miles day sir. Mt your Walking
should have an an ect." Patient
" All right doctor. In travel around
trying to borrow enough to pay your
bill New York Weekly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-10

John Fl. Mcdowell has not been fol-
lowing the fortunes of J. p. Buchanan
Tor nothing. He has his weather eye on
the comptrollership. It viii be a cold
day when he fails to feather his nest. =
jackson Times.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-31
THE sNow-sHEps.
Arthur Brown Declares They Were Never
stronger Nor in Better Condition.

Arthur Brown Declares They Were Never
stronger Nor in Better Condition.
TRUcKEE. January 30th.-Arthur Brown,
Superintendent and Engineer of Bridges
and Buildings for the Southern Pacific
Company, when asked by the RECORD
UNION representative this evening if there
was any truth in the statement published
in certain San Francisco papers that the
snow sheds, on account of the weight of
snow on them, were unsafe and in dan
gerous condition, replied
The dispatch conveying that informa-
ton to the public was sent from Reno,
thir;y-five miles from the east end of the
snow-shed system, and therefore came from
someone who was absolutely ignorant of
the situation and does not know what he is
talking about hope" said Mr.. Brown,
you will relieve the public mind in that
matter. The snow sheds were never in bet
ter condition or stronger than they are at
the present time.
1t may not be known to the general
public that 1 began building this snow
shed system across the mountains twenty
years sgo. During all this time 1 have
kept watch over them, and have just con-
cluded personal inspection. No evidence
Of weakness could be found anywhere.
may add, in this connection, that before
winter set in large force of men, under
the direction Of my ablest assistants, went
over The entire line, as they do frequently,
for the purpose of finding the weak spots,
il any, and making all repairs required.
Part Ct that force have remained OF the
hill ever since, rot as matter of necessity,
hus as a pEecaution, go that if any treuhls