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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
RenutatiOn.

Reputation is the outer garment of char
acter. Reputation often conceals the char
acter; yet, sooner or later, the characters
form will show itself in or through the gar
ment which it wears An old English ballad
tells of magic garment brought to King
Arthurs court, which could be worn only by
person of right and honorable life From
contact with any other wearer the sensitive
fabric shrunk away, refusing to do its office
of covering the person. Not unprofitably
might we fancy ourselves subjected to SINH
lar ordeals. That if the truth of our lam
guage could be tested, so that words insin-
cerely written by US should vanish from our
page; or if our voice, in its too much protest
ing, were to become inaudible? Would not
the confusion of King Arthur's circle be re-
peated in the society of today9 Such liability
to public conviction would render many
person more heedful of thought and word
than he now supposes himself to be; yet, even
as things are, disclosures like these are con-
stantly being made
A kindly seeming note shows itself void
of the spirit it processes, the assurance of tho
lips is denied by an infection of the voice,
and tho tenor of the inner life is by manifold
signs laid open to the keen observer. There
is no lack of tests whereby our real character
is revealed to others, though we may he all
unconscious when or how the revelation is eff
fected. And so it is that gradually our repu-
tation is adapting its form to the character
beneath it-Sunday School Times
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

Carelessness in not properly securing horses
in the streets and highways of the city often
leads to serious accidents, and the practice is
gaining of allowing animals to remain united
OF unmatched even by q small boy. A gen
tleman who has been sufferer by runaway
horse calls attention to the fact that owners
of property are derelict in not providing
some means in front of their residences by
which animals can be securely tied and the
danger of accident reduced to a minimum
1t would cost very little to have strong iron
ring imbedded in the curbing in front of a
dwelling house, and the staple could be driv-
en- pretty well home SO as to guard against
the occupant of vehicle stumbling over it
in the dark. Such precaution would induce
the owners Of horses to provide themselves
with straps, which would not take up much
room, or he so unwieldy as if they were at
tached to heavy weights, w Washington Post.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
A Diamond Dagger.

There are two tiers Of boxes in the Metro
politan opera house in which the ladies wear
full dress. The lower tier projects further
into the body Of the house than the upper, SO
that any object falling from the latter might
readily strike person sitting in the former.
One night n much-bejeweled woman in one
OF the boxes in the second tier CHANGED to
lean over the rail TO gaze at the orchestra
stalls The movement shook piece of dia-
mond jewelry from her hair, and it fell
swiftly down into the box beneath. Under
some circumstances the ornament would have
been lost, but il so happened that it found q
sweet and safe resting place. A fresh, big
eyed beauty in the lower box suddenly start
led her friends by clutching her pretty neck
and exclaiming: "Ol think I'm stabbed"
Everybody bent solictously toward her,
demanding what was the matter She tapped
her chest and gasped: II felt a sharp weapon
strike me here"
Her mother looked keenly at the girls
throat, but there was no sign of a wound OF
this she strove to assure her child.
st is lower down. whispered the young
woman.
At that moment gentleman entered by
the door at the back of the box.
Aauoi my ihIi usioh, ne SAIL uuI my
wife in the box above dropped jewel from
her hair a moment ago and she said that it
fell in here. Have you seen anything of itF'
The lovely girl who thought herself stabbed
sat upright in her chair and looked a trife
frightened. Then she dashed into the back
room, from which she presently returned, her
face wreathed in timid smiles.
Here is the jewell" she said, holding forth
a handsome diamond dagger-New York
Letter
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Eating a Birds, Nest.

To an American the idea of eating birds
nest, which of necessity cannot be otherwise
than filthy, is repulsive; when it is known
that the nest to be eaten is composed of the
birds saliva, the thoughts of using such a
thing for dessert causes a nausea. The bird
building this edible nest is species of swift,
not unlike the American chimney swallow,
nesting in the caves and under shelving rocks
along the coast of China and Japan. In some
cases the nest is composed of a groundwork
of twigs or seaweed but the best and clean
est 10 nests, which, of course, bring the high
est price, are composed entirely of pure mucus
from the salivary glands. The material in its
hardened state is brittle, fibrous, white and
transparent, very like pure gum arabic, or
even glass. With the Chinese the edible birds
nest is most appetizing delicacy, and they
will eat it when two-thirds of the entire struc-
ture is composed of framework of hair,
feathers and straw.-St Louis Republic
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

A chat with the keeper of a vegetarian
restaurant revealed the fact that he fed
about 200 people every day. There is some
thing enticing about the appearance of a
vegetarian restaurant Whatever may be
thought of the fare the place is always clean,
and there are none of those very suggestive
smells that are often too prevailing in places
where the carnivori meet. The mattresses
are generally neat and trim, too. The GUS
toners at this restaurant are chiefly dress
makers and shopkeepers' assistants. Perhaps
% per cent. are women. The manager said
he did not think there were many among his
customers who were yegetarians from con-
viction, ''They come here for cheapness and
change" lie said. "Some are here every day.
Others come three or four times week. The
average price man pays for vegetarian
dinner is 10d., but tho women only average
Gd."-Pall Mall Gazette.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Scientific Paradoxes.

The water which browns us, a fluent
stream, can be walked upon as ice. The
bullet which, when fired from a musket, car
ries death, will be harmless if ground to dust
before being fired. The crystallized part of
the oil of roses, so graceful in its fragrance,
solid at ordinary temperatures, though
really volatile, is a compound substance CON
tanning exactly the same elements, and in
exactly the same proportions, as the gas with
which we light our streets The tea which
we daily drink with benefit and pleasure pro-
duces palpitations, nervous tremblings, and
even paralysis, if taken in excess yet the
peculiar organic agent called theme, to which
tea owes its qualities, may be taken by itself
las theme, not as teal without any apprcci.
able effect Blackwood's Magazine.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

A sensible lady at tine South End told me
that riding in the electric cars had cured her
of rheumatism, and had cured another lady
also.
The ordinary electrician il not the ordi-
nary man who is not an electrician, might
smile incredulously at the above and say;
"Pure imagination" Perhaps it is, and then
again perhaps it is not. To begin with, the
imagination is naturally excited by mystery,
which is only another name for lack Of
knowledge-for ignorance, in fact. Now, if
we sec an effect without knowing the cause,
we might guess for a year without guessing
correctly. Hence, the Imagination is ex-
cited. Cases have been known where bread
pills have effected cures of stomach troubles.
Whyl No doubt because the patient believed
they contained some potent drug. In dealing
with hypnotic cases French physicians found
that steel magnets seemed to have a peculiar
effect upon the subjects. One of the expert
mentors, more skeptical than others of his
brethren, had u magnet made of wood and
fixed so as to resemble steel magnet, and
found that it had equally as potent effects as
the steel magnet on subjects. Cor. Boston
Herald
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

Of war since the days Of SAKE, Cassendi, the
French savant, proves that the great mar
shals philosophical remark still holds good
At the battle of Solferino, according to Cas-
sendi's carefully deduced calculations, com
parison Of the number of shots fired on the
Austrian side with the number of killed and
wounded On the part Of the enemy shows
that 700 bullets were expended for each man
wounded, and 400 for each man killed. The
average weight of the ball used was 80 grains,
therefore it must have taken at least 1876 kilo-
grams or 227 pounds of lead for each man
killed. Yet Solferino was most important
and bloody battle. In the Franco-Prussian
war the slaughter caused by the needle gun
among the French soldiers shows how much
superior that gun is to the Austrian carbine;
yet with that deadly weapon 800 shots
were fired for every soldier destroyed in the
enemy's ranks. Verify there was good founda,
ton for Bogerts ungrammatical remark:
"War is awful, but the noise of warfare is
awfuler. st. Louis Republic.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Future of Glass In NIeobanIcs.

In recent attempt to determine the place
that will ultimately be occupied by vitreous
substances in mechanics, it is stated that M.
de la Bas.ie, a French chemist has during the
past few years conducted series of expert
ments which have resulted in method of
rendering glass sufficiently tough for use in
molding many articles hitherto made of iron
1t is promised that the huge sub-Atlantic
pneumatic tube, for the connection of the old
with the new world the suggestion of which
was received with indifference and increduli-
ty some time ago, may eventually turn out
to be not so chimerical as at first glance it
was judged to be. A glass car fitted into n
tube of the same material would spin away
at an incredibly fast rate. No appreciable
heat would be generated and the great hard
ness and smoothness of the material would
greatly lessen the retarding influence of fric-
ton, which will be one Of the most important
considerations in all systems of future rapid
transit.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

The smiles that covered the faces Of trio
of little children in dresses seen on South
Eighth street one afternoon emphasized the
truth of the saying that children are happi-
est when in mischief All three were in
grocer's coal bin; one had coal shovel, the
others using their hands, and they were so
industriously engaged in mixing up the coal,
throwing the small into the box with the
large, that great beads of sweat stood out on
their little foreheads. Ledger
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
AI,out NcurnIpia,

As to neuralgia, from which probably as
many persons suffer all the agonies of gun
shot wounds as fall in battle every ten years,
and which is a settled modern scourge of the
human race, DR. Gray gives in The Medical
Annual a very good summary OF the latest
methods of treatment In twenty
cases of obstinate neuralgia chronic constipa-
ton was regarded as the cause of the disease.
Against this the treatment was principally
directed, in shape of moist, warm packs
about the abdomen, massage, rubbing with
cold water and enemata. This was carried
out continuously from two to six weeks, the
diet being carefully regulated and aided in
some cases by galvanism, massage and nerve
stretching. Out Of the twenty-seven cases
fifteen were cured by these means and nine
improved
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
The Favored Bachelor.

In some respects, the typical bachelor leads
a charmed existence. Meals come noiselessly
up to him, they are set daintily before him;
at the lifting of his finger, they depart in like
fashion, or they await his departure instead,
lest the process of vanishing might disturb
his nerves. Messengers appear and carry his
commands wherever he may designate, or
bring him all that New York can afford.
When he is ailing, watchful genii in the
shape of nurses come at his CALI doctors con-
coct for him the most recondite prescriptions.
All humanity in mis- neighborhood holds its
breath when he is asleep, and moves about
on tiptoe when he wakes Kate Fields Wash
iuutou
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
THE OLD CLOCK.
Dingy and brown is the well worn case

Dingy and brown is the well worn case
Where the busy wheels go round;
On the mantel old, in its memOried place.
Ticks the clock with noisy sound.
How the FURNISHED hands DER its homely fac
Once moved with leaden ereepl
Twas a sluggish pace DER itskireled space
But now It's a dismal sweep
1t clicked all day with steely ring,
1t clicked in the midnight hour;
The steady swing Of the well worn spring
Uncoied its iron power.
The hands still move with welcome noise
While softly purrs the cat;
A buzzing fly the dog annOys
AS he growls from the deerskin mat.
The golden hol0s that made youths day
One dream of bOyish fun
Are shorter now, and the shadows play
Ger hfe's declining sun.
The clock ticks on, in its soulless race,
While the busy wheels go round;
The years are traced on its lettered face
AS it clicks with a soberer sound.
New Orleans Picayune
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
A nIenn unsbnna,s Revenge.

Mrs. De Pride anxious that her daughter
shall make rich match)-I wonder why Mr.
Richfellow doesn't come to see our daughter
any more.
Mr. De Pride-I don't know. The last
time he was here he borrowed my clock.
work monograph to have some music played
into it. He brought it back TO my office the
next morning, saying that the musician was
sick or something, and that's the last I've
seen of him.
WAS the monograph emptyp
"Uml now | think of it, believe it did
have in it your reception of me when came
home late the night before. Maybe he's
changed his mind about marrying. New
York Weekly.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

'We have the queerest kind of prescrip-
tions called for sometimes, said pharma-
cist few days since mot very many days
ago reputable physician sent to ask me if
could get him some Of the virus from bee
sting, to be used, think he said in scarlet
fever. And another physician once told me
that he had secured marvellous results in a
case where powerful opiates had failed by
using virus from the bite Of a rattlesnake. "
New York Evening Sun.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

A slight conception Of the extent of the
British empire may be gained from this The
fastest liner afoat would occupy a longer
time in traversing the space covered either by
the length or by the breadth Of the Indian
empire than it does at present to cross the
Atlantic; yet, after eliminating India, Egg
lands possessions in Australasia and North
America alone are sufficiently large to make
four and half more Indian empires, still
leaving territory enough TO cover the area Of
Great Britain and Ireland five times over
Current Literature.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

No doubt every reader has seen the state
mcnt that IL takes mans weight Of lead TO
kill him in battle, and they may have cousid-
cred it 10 be merely rhetorical hyperbole,
suggested 10y the fact that comparatively few
oat Of the whole number Of shots fired in
heat Of battle take effect Marshal SAKE, we
believe, fist made the assertion which forms
the base of the above, when be said 1t would
take - pounds Of lead and IS pounds Of
powder Go put each Of the enemy IN the long
trench Wild and visionary as this may
SEEM it appears that there was more truth
than poetry in the remark. With all the i'm
pruvemcnts which have been made IN the art
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

II can tell the state of the financial world
by tho character of the luncheon some Of
Wall streets moguls order" remarked an OBJ
servant young man who is in a position to
know. "Collis p. Huntington invariably or
ders bread and milk when there are any kinks
Ia bis projects that refuse to unravel, and
several other men could be named whose
luncheon is of the most simple character
when the market is not going right for their
schemes. New York Sun.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
About Smoking,

1t may be mentioned that persons leading
an outdoor life can, as rule, smoke with
much greater IMMUNITY than those who spend
most of their timo indoors 1t is further
worthy of remark that the inhabitants of
warm Ct mates suffer less than the dwelers
IN wLh: is, probably on the n non lucendo
principle, called the temperate climate OF
England. This is doubtless due to the greater
resisting power Of threats less harassed by
fogs and east winds, and partly, perhaps, TO
the use of milder tobacco.-Sir Morel Mac
kenzie
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Wanan In Afriea.

trail Africa the women outnumber the men
three or four to one, the men being killed off
in the wars and forays that are constantly
being made by one tribe on another and by
Arab slave traders on all. The women are
almost invariably slaves. Usually there are
not more than three or four free women in a
village. The price q women is less than the
price Of pigs or goats. There was until re-
Gently one district ruled by a woman, aud
there that sex was supreme Within the last
few years, however, that tribe was cxterni-
mated, and now the degradation Of women ell
over central Africa is universal.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

The alleged immunity of smokers from in
fictitious disease is not mere fancy, as it is
shown the tobacco smoke destroys microbes
or delays their development Attention is
called TO the injury to the infants of the poor
in their crowded apartments by tobacco
smoke, the symptoms being sunken eyes, list
less ways, restless nights, nausea and loss of
appetite, which disappear on removal of the
cause Washington Star.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Cures for Chronic Neurnlcln.

Stretching the nerve is recommended for
cure of chronic neuralgia in place of the more
acute operation of severing the nerve, which
last leaves a degree of paralysis and want of
all sensation in the nerve so treated The
hypodermic use Of antipyrin for neuralgia
and sciatica is also highly commended. Doses
of fifteen to twenty-five grains injected at a
time, only five grains in one place, render
the skin insensibie for fifteen to twenty-four
hours and gave great relief Medical Annual.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

II is sometimes said that the branches Of
very old trees are, properly speaking, roots,
and that il planted upside down the trees
would flourish. Herr Kny, German botan-
list, has recently investigated the matter by
planting vines and ivy with both ends in the
ground and subsequently cutting them at the
arch. The experiments were fairly success
full, though not in every instance, and Herr
Kny intends to continue them with other
plants and trees, such as willows, poplars and
roses.-New York Telegram.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Innnrtnnt Lazy Point.

Law STUDENT notice that in selecting a
jury you always question them about their
religion. Why is that, Mr.. Hardnuttl
Mr.. Hardnutt great criminal lawyer)-It
is always well to know what juryman's re-
ligion is, you know
Law Student-Are you afraid they won't
have religion enough?
Mr.. Hardnutt-Um-no afraid they II have
too much. New York Weekly.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

The government of Saratoff Russia, sells
each year to the people an immense quantity
of tar for use in their business All the sales
are on credit, and as the peasants can neither
read nor write, the account Of each is kept by
means of certain signs made with the tar upon
his door post Pay day comes every fall, and
then only are the door posts Of Saratof
washed clean until new account is started.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
Tho rotrnlcnm Outnut.

Since 1861 America has extracted from
well petroleum and its resolvents to the value
of 1886, 300 The highwater mark was
reached in 1877, when the product was valued
at SCI, 7S9, 43s, though the quantity that year
was but IS, 052, 155G barrels of AZ gallons each.
In 1887 the value of the product was $IG,s 1924,
933 and the quantity 2l,SlS,037 barrels, a de-
crease of about 100000 barrels under the
product of 1886. The supply is gradually
decreasing in the developed fields.-Louisville
Times
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

An autograph letter of Richard III was
sold in England recently for about 1915 per
inch Of surface. 1t was written at Barnard
castle, in Durham, Aug 4, 1850, Tor about
three years before the crookback duke Of
Gloucester, then constable and admiral Of
England, came 10 the throne.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

Two children playing upon a grassy slope
at Auchmithe, Scotland, slipped and rolled
down to the edge of steep precipice, l4j
feet high, over which they fell to the beach
below. Those who ran to gather up their
msngleA remains found them on their feet in
the sand in n general state of mental bewil-
derment, and with no worse injuries than
few scratches.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

The origin of the word sterling is very GU
rious. Among the early minters of coin in
northern Europe were the jewellers of eastern
Germany. They we're so skillful in their call
ing that numbers of them were invited to
England TO manufacture the metal money of
the kingdom. These strangers were known
as "Easterlings." After a time the word be-
came sterling, " aud in this abbreviated form
IL has come TO imply what is genuine in
money, plate or character.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

The question OF the wholesale destruction
of swallows by electricity has at last been
taken up in France, and report on the sub
ject was presented at a recent meeting of the
Geological society. In the south of France
long wires are Systematically erected along
the seashore, and when the tired swallows
alight on them they are stunned or killed by
an electric shock. The birds are then sent to
Paris, where they are used for decorative
DurDOSes
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
TRAVEL FOR CONSUME TON.
Beneficial Effects % Open Air Life ON 8
Hereditary subject.

Dr. Henry l., Bowditch has given the Gil
matological association an account Of the
treatment which seems 10 have counteraCted
a strong tendency TO consumption in his own
family. In 1905 his father, then 50 years old,
was undoubtedly threatened with consump-
tion. On August - OF that year, when thus
i'll, he started from Salem Mass, with a
friend as his companion and driver, in an
open one horse chaise, for a tour through
New England The trip lasted thirty days
and covered - miles During the time he
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01

Thirty seven French soldiers under com
mand Of captain, lieutenant and q sub
lieutenant, are said TO have marched from
their barracks at Vannes to q railroad sta
ton twelve miles distant in one hour and
fifty minutes to salute general whose train
was TO stop at the station. Not man fell
out on the march.