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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
HUMOROU S.

Hooker Crook Ito chum) Use you've
been getting married during my abb
sence-who was best man?" Hen Peck
(sorrowfully) -"Maria. Time.
Waiter lat the club -"There is a
lady outside who says that her husband
promised to be home early tonight"
All (rising)-"Excuse me moment
Boston Budget.
Noisy Man ION railroad train, going
west)-"Yes, stree, Bob. The place for
the Worlds Fair of 1899 is Chicago, and
don't you forget It'll" Quiet Man lin seat
behind, as conductor enters Conduct
or, does this train stop at Chicago?"-
N. Y. Weekly.
why have you such complicated
lock on your front door? A burglar can
get in just as easily with that as he
could with simpler contrivance"
"That's very true, Any burglar can get
in, but woe be unto him when he tries
to get out. Why, it takes me four min
utes to unfasten that door from the in
side. IN. Y. Sun.
Graduate Ito critic, who has been
looking over his essay)-"What do you
think of it?' Critic-"Well, the first
time read it was favorably impressed,
the second time less so and after the
third perusal put it down as bosh."
Graduate-"That's all right, then. I've
only got to read it once, you know
Lawrence American.
Managing Editor-"Did you pay the
artist who illustrated that great poem,
Chris tmas Chimes on your first page?
Secretary-"Yes, sir. Sent him check
for $3.50" Good. How much did you
pay the engraver?" 81 sent him S75.'
"Yes. Is any money left?" "About
seventeen cents" ''Very we'll; send il
to the man who wrote the poem."-
Philadelphia Record.
-Traveler-"See here, my friend,
noticed the way you threw that trunk
around and smashed in four sides of it. ~
Baggage Smasher-"Well, wot of it? A
Teller amt got no time to handle de
trunks wild gloves" Traveler-''Oh
that's all right; only l would like te
make some arrangement with you.
am trunk manufacturer, and bushes.
is little slack just now. America.
Smith, am sorry, Jones, thai
can't offer you any thing to drink.
Jones-''Never mind me; it's good ide;
not to keep it in the house." "But
do keep it in the house as genera
thing, but Parson Purewater, my wife,
uncle, Prohibitionist lecturer, is Wis
iting us, and" II see. You don't wan
to shock his sensibilities." ''It ain
that; he drinks it all up. The last drol
went last night after his lecture. Tex
as Siftings
Mamma Ito family physician doc
tor, what are the symptoms Of this nev
influenza" Physician-"It begins il
many cases, madam, with q feeling o
languor-an indisposition to any kin,
of exertion." Willie Setting down tn
coal-bucket)-"I can feel it coming on
mamma" Physician-"And total in
ability to eat any thing Willie tpick
ing up the coal-bucket again with grea
promptness)-"But i don't think In
going to have it very bad.--Chicag
Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
DREAMS AND DREAMING.
Some Novel Theories Based on n Number
of Careful Experiments.


of Careful Experiments
To-day in looking through some back
numbers of the Galaxy ran across re-
markable article on dreams and dream
ing, in which the author, Mr.. Lewis,
presents some novel theories. The re-
suit of any number of experiments, no
says, sustain the following facts: Speak
ing ina low, monotonous tone close to
the ear of sleeper will almost invari-
ably cause him to dream of terrible adj
ventures on water, such as shipwrecks
and drowning. Singing or playing on
musical instruments induces dreams OF
dead friends, funerals and other lone
some and gruesome things, often caus-
ing the sleeper to moan or even cry out
right in his seeming agony.
1t seems that sleep soon after meals
does not cause worse dreams than the
simple and very prevalent habit of seek
ing to court the sleepy god with arms
against the headboard. The worry
which may not be caused by the habit
of laying with the arms resting above
the head, according to this experiment.
err, could not be induced by an after
dinner nap after freely partaking OF
sauerl1raut and pickles, Mr.. Lewis also
seeks to explode the old theory that
somnambulism is caused by weighty
trouble on the mind of the sleeper, and
he combats the idea that any great pro-
portion of dreams arc the results Of
trouble, worry and excitement, His
theory that 1.-THE many dreams we
dream" are but the results of waves Of
thought across the brain he thus aptly
illustrates from an experiment.
"While one watched the sleepers and
| the other the clock, the third loudly
slammed the door about ten feet away;
the effect was almost instantaneous, the
man sprang up at the sound, looked
around in alarm, and then exclaimed:
Thank God that it was only dream. >"
/ 1t seems that he had dreamed of being
/ on a crowded street in front of build
I Ing which the people about him pro-
nounced unsafe, but that he still lin
yered near the topping wreck. Then
he tried to elbow his way through the
crowd to a place of safety. But the
people jeered and laughed and held him
fast. He begged, coaxed, threatened
and entreated, still they held him, till
the building fell and the shock broke
the spell. lie must have dreamed the
entire dream in a second, yet it seemed
to him that he was in danger as long as
half an hour before the final awakening
scene was enacted. To put the thought
fash theory beyond dispute many ex-
periments were INDUCED in. Some
times weight was let drop. a chair
struck or the blinds slammed. In every
instance the sleeper had dreamed of
some startling adventure.-St Louis
Republic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27

pat! pat! pat! outside, and cautioned
him that the tiger was abroad. The
cunning beast had not come by the trail
we had prepar d, but had made cir
cult and struck into the upper or
southern end of the village. AS we
afterward ascertained, he had been
prowling around for an hour, softly try
ing every door in succession. Our OPEN
ings we're on the south side. The
cunning beast seemed to be
posted as to this fact, and lin
gered on the north side. We plainly
heard him push at our door and rear up
and claw the bars of the window, and
we hardly breathed for fear of frighten
ing him away. There was crevice
under the door through which one could
have showed his hand, and the tiger got
down and shifted and snuffed at this
opening for fully five minutes. Then
he got up and remained very quiet He
must have had the scent of the fresh
blood only two rods away, but it was
plain that he had his suspicious We
stood at the openings, each one with his
gun thrust out and ready to fire, when
the beast suddenly made up his mind
to act. With one bound he emerged
from shelter and covered half the dis
lance to the other cabin. At the second
he went bang against the door, pushed
it in, and was hidden from our sight be-
fore we had had show to pull trigger.
Take him when he comes QUIT" whis-
pered the Major, and both of us watched
and waited.
The beast no doubt expected to find a
victim in the hut. He seized the dunn
my, gave it shake, and the discovery
he made broke him all up. Instead of
coming out with bound he sought to
play sneak, and was just clear of the
opening, head down and tail dragging,
when we fired and keeled him over.
He proved to be an old tiger, having
lost many of his teeth, but he was big
and strong, and would doubtless have
made many more victims but for ouI
interference. IN. Y. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
QUARRYlNG ONYX.
How 1t Is Taken from the Mexican Mines
in Blocks.

nOW HI IN ldhtn from Nne MtNlCdu
in Blocks.
Some rare specimens of Mexican onyx
and mosaic agate from Southern Mexico
may be seem in one of the Coleman House
parlors They are the property of Will
lam Cooper, gentleman who has trav-
eled almost the entire globe. He has
passion for exploring, and he found this
beautiful collection in the volcano of
Zempoaltepetl, in the extreme southern
part of Mexico, one hundred and eighty
miles south from the nearest station on
the Mexican railroad.
Mexican onyx is form of stalagmite,
and its colors are formed of oxides OF
metals in the earth over the caves
through which calcareous water passes.
Gold is represented by purple, silver by
yellow, iron by red, copper by green and
arsenic and zinc by white. Volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes have almost
destroyed the caves in which onyx ex-
lists, and the native Indians who mine
it have to cut through masses of ruins.
Blocks of the material are quarried in
a primitive way, in order not to shatter
the substance. Deep round holes are
drilled by hand on a line. In each hole
is inserted snug-ftting piece of wood,
which has been grooyed from end to
end. Hot water is poured into the
grooves at night This swells the wood
and the block is split along the line
without damage. The natives then saw
the block into slabs and polish the sur
face by hand. Each piece is transparent
and when placed between the eyes and a
strong light presents sremarksbiy beau
tiful effect in form and color.-N Y.
Times
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mark Twain, in his home life at
Hartford, finds great comfort in the
society OF an amiable black cat that he
has named Satan.
The garden collection of 5000
volumes, written and published at the
South, has been given to the Southern
Society of New York.
Mr.. Gladstone celebrated the APP
proach of his eightieth birthday by plan
ming public library for Hawarden, TO
number about $4,000 volumes.
"A copy of the hymn-book Of John
Wesley published in Charleston, S. c.,
in 1877 sold recently for $50 10s., the
largest price ever paid for any English
hymn-book.
Mrs. Kate Tannett Woods is author
ity for the statement that in 1880 there
were eighty-two women engaged in
newspaper work in Massachusetts, and
that to-day there are 1,112 women in
Boston and vicinity making their liveli-
hood out of magazine and newspaper
work.
1t may not be generally known that
Sol Smith Russell Is son-in-law OF
William T. Adams (''Oliver Optic'O,
whose writings are familiar to every
child in the country. Russell and Adams
were in business together ten years ago
at Minneapolis, where they ran pub
fishing house.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is
said, will not follow in the footsteps of
Tennyson and Browning and publish a
volumn of poems in his old age. He has
not given up his literary pursuits, but it
is said that he now destroys whatever
he writes. This is modest but not wise.
His muse is still young, whatever may
be his age.
The late Henry Grady, it is told,
was q rapid newspaper writer. 1T the
time OF the Charleston earthquake he
did not reach the stricken city until ten
o'clock at night, but by two o'clock next
morning he had report eight columns
long on file in the telegraph Office for
transmission to the leading Northern
and Southern newspapers
M. Paul Andral, who died the other
day in France, was the guardian Of
Talleyrand's Memoirs, the publication
of which would make a greater fuss in
Europe than any published in this cent
ury. When Talleyraud died in 1885
he tabooed their publication until 1868,
and NJ Andral has held out twenty-one
years longer, against most seductive
offers. A Leipzig publisher offered
$40, 600 for the first five volumes of them
there are fifteen in alD not long ago.
An artist who has just died in
France formed connecting link with
the past of which Beau Brummel was
the Oscar Wilde. This was william
Wyld, an Englishman who took up his
residence in France half century ago
and died at the age of eighty three. HI
has left many letters by Beau Brummel
whom he know intimately. Wyld wa
water colorist, and is said to hav
, shared with Bennington and other En-
, glish artists in the honor of reviving il
France tho taste for that branch Of tn
fine arts. Two Of his works are in tn
, Luxembourg.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are forty-two Congregational
churches in the limits of Chicago.-Re-
ligious Herald.
The two-months-old son of Salem,
Ore, Chinaman was recently baptized
in the Presbyterian church of that CITY,
The Massachusetts savings-bank
commissioners suggest school savings
banks as means of teaching the young
idea how to save.
| "A Methodist church was recently
dedicated in Whittier, CAL, at which
hymn written by Mr.. Whittier for the
occasion was sung.
Kansas City has eighty-four
churches, representing twenty different
denominations, besides numerous small
societies that are without regular
places of worship.
Switzerland has 1,162 Sunday
schools, with $3.50 teachers and $4,000
scholars. Sweden has 3,340 Sunday
schools, with Is, 900 teachers and 220, 600
scholars. Austria has 40 Sunday
schools, with 312 teachers and 4,519
scholars.
The Presbyterian Theological Sem
mary in San Francisco has recently re-
ceived donation of $250,0O0 from Mr..
Alexander Montgomery, of that CITY,
The money is held in trust, and can not
be used until an additional $50, 900 shall
have been raised by the directors.
"A fitting memorial window has been
erected in the Sage chapel at Cornell
College by the students in civil engi-
neering, in memory of Edward S. New
ms, the hero of the class of 80, who lost
his life last winter while endeavoring to
save that of young woman who fell
through the ice Ex-President A. d.
White suggested this when in Egypt.
The students and teachers of the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitue, Tuskegee, Ala, are raising
wholly among themselves and the
colored people OF the State a permanent
scholarship of one thousand dollars for
that school to be called the "Olivia
Davidson Washington Memorial Schol'
arship." Each student contributes one
cent week and the graduates are tc
give one dollar year.
The Catholic population in this
country is estimated at S,8O1, 367, and
the number Of priests is placed at SAC;
3, 1876 regulars and G, 337 seculars They
attend 1920 churches, ais stations and
1889 chapels. There are 202 orphan
asylums, caring for, 1t Is estimated
%, IS; orphans There are 80 theolog
ical seminaries, with 1851 students, 12'
colleges and 632 academies, and 800!
parochial schools, with G54, 1913 pupils.
"A novelty in church architecture wa'
dedicated at Milwaukee recently in the
new Plymouth Church. The plan, by I
curious coincidence, is to be that lait
down in Robert Elsmere." The churcl
proper, or auditorium, is, merely an in
, cident in the general scheme. Nor
prominent are the club rooms, reading
room, dining-room, amusement hall ant
, gymnasium, which surround 1T. Thes
; will be used as the steps by which thu
Gentiles are to be led to the cove repre-
scented by the auditorium. The build
, ing in exterior appearance resembles
fashionable clubhouse more than
]
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
WOmanly Principle.

In America, certainly, most of the
prominent advocates of equal rights are
themselves married women and mothers
of families. They are far enough from
setting up as the goal of their wishes
state Of society in which the majority of
women shall be spinsters and bread-win-
ners. They believe that every girl
should receive training which will en-
able her to be a bread-winner in case of
need, because matrimony is uncertain,
and also because, as Margaret Fuller
said, "In order to give her hand with
dignity, she must be able to stand
alone" They regret the social condi-
tions which make it impossible for so
many women to contract an honorable
and happy marriage. But they DO not,
with Mr.. Grant Allen, regard an unmar-
ried woman as necessarily 'unsexed," y
determined" IAN abnormity," etc.
On the contrary, they hold that the
woman who prefers to live unmarried
rather than to marry without love gives
proof OF her good principles and her
essential womanliness. --Woman's Jour-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
One Dollar Per Year.

that women feel no interest in politics
and would submit to disfranchisement
with indifference, is wholly incorrect.
All the women with whom / conversed
expressed great interest in politics, and
showed an intelligence in regard to
local affairs and officials which ! have
never met among women who did not
vote. They were eagerly interested in
the hope for Statehood, and their many
meetings held this summer to enforce
their demand for the guarantee of their
freedom in the new constitution is proof
of their jealous care of their own in
terests.
Other statements are that women as
jurors were unsatisfactory" Whereas
Judges Hoyt, Kingman, and other iur-
lists in whose courts women have served
as jurors, are emphatic in declaring that
they were admirable in their conduct.
Indeed, the next assertion Of the anony-
nous writer proves his ignorance of the
whole question, for he describes jury
women as weeping for the babies from
whom they were separated, when every
one in Wyoming knows that women
with young families were never called
on for jury duty. Mrs. Esther Morris,
the famous woman justice of the peace,
| is quoted, not over her own name, but
only by her title, as not favoring woman
suffrage. Now l saw Mrs. Morris and
had long talk with her while in Chey-
enne, and she emphatically approved of
all that has been done for her sex. She
wished that women were more active in
| politics, but admitted that where they
were so outnumbered by men they were
not likely to do very much.
The article closes by declaring that
the laws are no better for women in
Wyoming than in adjoining States In
some respects this is true, since the laws
in many of the Western States are so
liberal for women that they could hard
| ly be improved; but the Territory has
one law on its statute books which has
no counterpart in any State, and thai is
the law securing equal pay for equal
work to women and men as school-teach-
ers
The final slur is an intimation that
women are no better off industrially
there than elsewhere. In any State
where there are so few women among so
many men, it is natural to find nearly
all the women occupied in their domes-
tic duties; but, as fact, women do hold
high positions. They have been clerks
in the Legislature, State Librarians,
etc. The clerk in the Secretary of
States Office is a brilliant young lady,
and women hold other positions not
filled by women in less favored States.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
IN WOMAN'S WORLD.

A TYPE-wRITERs Union has lately
been organized among women in Lon
don, to prevent the lowering of wages.
THE browning glory of the gains of
1889 is, that Wyoming has ratified her
Woman Suffrage State Constitution by a
vote of eight to one.
The Kentucky University, at Licking
ton, has just opened its doors to women,
owing to the efforts of the Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. 1t has now
twenty young women enrolled.
THE World was Made for Woman.
Also" has been adopted as the motto of
the Sorosis Club of Bombay. The club
was recently given reception by Mrs.
Scott, wife of the Chief-Justice.
THERE are thirteen societies of work
ingwomen, or Women's Trades Unions,
in London. OF these the Matchmakers',
established July, 1888, is the largest. 1t
has 700 members. The Bookbinders',
the Oldest union, has about 200 mem
bers.
THE Association of Collegiate AlumnG
Has nOW INV HltluDtIo. 4ntl dIt ulo-
tributed among thirty-fve States of the
Union, as we'll as England, France, Ger
many, Burmah, China and Japan.
Verify, the college girl is abroad in the
land, and will soon be abroad in all
lands.
MISS LIZZIE BLACKWELL and Miss NJ.
B. Mckenzie, two fine type-setters,
found their paper, the Scott County
Register, of Forest Miss, suspended,
and their town without local journal.
They have bravely seized the oppor-
! tunity, and, as editor and publisher,
send out as good county paper as there
is in the State.
A SOCIETY has been formed by the
women in Ceylon, to promote education
among the women of that island. Its
chief aim, however, is the formation OF
bond of sympathy with the women of
ali classes. Owing to the caste system,
many intelligent women find it difficult
to obtain footing in native society.
This new association attempts to offer
one platform where all women may
unite.
THE women of Milford, Me-, began
building town hall two years ago, and,
as result of their labor, a new struc
ture now stands nearly finished, and i:
supplied with all the necessary room:
for the town government, with we'll
equipped kitchen beside. They raised
most Of their funds by fairs. oyster sup
pers, and other entertainments. Tn,
Springfield Republican says: Nothing
is known of the men of this town, bu
il is certain that the women have
hand in the management % affairs
even II they do not possess the bal
lot"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
Willing to Find One,

Bank Cashier-I can't discount that
note unless you get responsible man
to indorse it.
Mr.. Bagley-Say, you don't know OF
any responsible man around here, do
you, that wants TO indorss . note9-
Judge
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27
THINGS NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.

Tripping down the oaken stairway
Went the dancing little feet
Ofmy boy OF four short summers
Summers happy-sunmers sweet.
Pattring right into the kitchen
For the "tookies'' that were there
Eyes as blue as Gods own heaven,
Like sunbeam was his hair.
But he stood aghast in horror;
Then retrcated to the door
With his tiny finger pointing
To something on the floor.
"Auntie Clara! Auntie Claral
Come this minute twick m sec
What's allyn by the table
Oh it's trawlin here by me-"
That is but caterpillar;
You're not frightened, sweetheart miner
Why is that caterpillar?
Fought it was portypine."
Albany Argus.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-27

In the Methodist Tabernacle at
Spokane Falls, Wash, an endowment
fund of $50, 900 for Spokane College was
lately raised in short time.-Nashville
Christian Advocate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-08
In M'KINLEY'S DISTRICT.
A Returned Voter Tells Some Stories
of the Campaign.


Dr. R. Fl. Graham has just returned from
Ohio, where he took part in the campaign in
eX-Gov. Fosters district He says that the
campaign in the Mckinley district was the
most exciting one he has ever witnessed in the
state. All sorts of tricks we're resorted to by
both sides and money flowed as freely as water.
The democrats, however, were out early and
got in some effective work before the republi-
cans learned of their operations and it was
then too late to do enough effective
hedging. The democrats sent out q
number of young men with wagon loads
Of tinware to peddle from farm house
to farm house and ask exactly twice the value
Of the buckets, pans and kettles ''The house
wives" said the doctor. lifted their hands in
holy horror and wanted to know why a ascent
bucket had doubled Its price In such short
time. The Mckinley bill did it, was the cry
in every instance, and it is, of course, not nee
essary to say what the women thought Of both
Mai. Mckinley and his bill They naturally
told their husbands. On the other
hand, the republicans had printed con-
tracts for the purchase of all the sheep
in the district, the purchase being made condi-
tional upon the election of Maj. Mckinley.
The price offered for the sheep was 81 or SS In
excess of their real value. but this move was
made too late and after the tin peddlers had
pretty well covered the district and made the
first impression"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-08

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