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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18
ABERDEEN. O. Jnlr. 81. 1891.

Nessrs. Lippmdf1 Bros, Sab0nnGh, Ga:
DEAR SIRs-I bought bottle of your p P. p.
at Hot Springs, Ark, and it has done ma more
good than three months treatment at the Hot
Springs
Have you no agents in this part of the coun-
try q let me know how much it will cost to get
three or six bottles from your CRY by express
Respectfully yours, JAS NJ. NEWTON,
Aberdeen, Brown county Ohio.
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D. C. B!anton. Ehomasyille, Ga, writes:
II have used Botanic Blood Balm in my
family as a toaic and blood purifier with
highest satisfactory results. I'D.
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Artists Materials. all kinds, at Il T. TAy.
loir i35 York street. -Ad
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funny thing happened in one
vs., Tue New York churches last
60 owing to that most rare
TsS'elce, the unpunctuality of the bride.
al r rnI,, was SGT, the bridegroom. ushers
hs,"olliug guests were at hand, but the
nm, valle not. Five minutes passed. ten
tsI,ss dragged themselves along, and fif-
Ss,ri liutes were nearly gone, when the
ps gsnaa announced that as he had an ap-
~ 4'9nV elsewhere he could no longer
rms aug SO, saying that be would return
Erss same hour on the morrow. he de-
b. scarcely had he gone when the
Wen ~ IN a blushing appearance.
p.,esna Ile found out what her lack OF
tss sy lad occasioned she melted into
sys s a,t could not be persuaded to dry her
as,sf.aul all present had promised 10
boz again on the morrow at tho same
hs3, .hs ceremony. Then all shook
rea rs ~ departed as gaily as though a
o. Ga tss, ana not merely tho sembiance
iasits la taken place. History has il
o. ta.8 .sAs day the bride was very much
nigl, \ snl that she rose while il was yet
tim 50 'Faer 70 get herself dressed In
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18

We trust the Ladies
will visit and inspect our
beautiful display in large
numbers THIS WEEK, as
last week bad weather
doubtless kept many
away.
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Johnson confessed his crime.


hore 11OJneF.
Mrs. Moore was once at an evening re-
ception when Albert Ross, the author of
the Thou-Sbalt- Not read series, was LED
to her shrine and introduced.
He Frustrated himself there, as men
usually do, and TIE conversation which fol-
lowed was listened to by rapidly swelling
group.
OF course Mrs. Moore was forced 70 say
that she bad read bis che-arming books and
an exchange of repartee followed. Finally
Mrs. Moore said
MIR. Ross. why is it that you have the
audaclty to call your novels the 'Albatross
Series 1t seems decidedly incong .uouS to
me-"
"Audaci)us? Incongruous3-wh muir
INJURED Mr.. r 3ss, "why do YOU think so"
80. because replied the Irish woman,
CHANGING over her shoulder as she moved
away" because the albatross was bird that
never touched the earth.n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18

Memory, the warder of the brain, says
Shakespeare. but with many it would seem
that the full meaning of the aphorism IS
sadly lost. Most every one has some sort OF
a memory, good. bad or indifferent, as the
case NAV be, but one person out OF every
fiftv has some process or other intended TO
aid their memory, hoping in time to be aole
10 retain in mind all matters worthy Oh re-
tenti0n. r-- c,;.,.
This recalls to a writer in the kansas Clty
Times story told Of young lady friend
who has lately taken on the rad OF mem
orv brushing She confided IN a gentle
man acqunintance that she was poor az
dates. a sad failure on place aud weak on
events. -, ILL. A.,
GLOW may | learn 20 retain things 10
nv mind as they should be she exclaimed
as il in disgust az hor intellectual saoF''
comings. ,...it, -o,,
"Oh, that Is easy. replied he las all you
have 10 do IN each case is 70 form some
little G Juplet with anything you WISH 10
remomber and you will never forget H.
Explain. !" she said.
"For instance, the gentleman rspil'l'
Ia fourreau hunIr and nine'yt"o
Columbus sailed the oceea blue
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Cestsr.'.s setablo has been found. aud the
elzflnjr. "a givss u b its readers with a
recommendation. we are always
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18

One of the most agreeable of dentifrlces
is to be found in few drops Of tinctureo of
myrrh in half glass ot water. 1t not
only cleauses the mouth, making 1t fresh
aud aeet, but 1t IS an eXcel1e4t Tonic ior
the cnms ard arrests decay. 1t also has
the merit of being very inexpensive, as
10 cents will buy enough to iass year or
more.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18

The young lady was in high state of
glee at such practical and really beautiful
manner Of aiding memory, and her thanks
were p-ofuse
Time went by-two days, I believe
whe the two met again.
How ere you getting on with the
couDletsw asked he.
"Capitallym she exclaimed.
"a pound of candy goes that you don't
remember what told you verbatim" he
hanteringly said, and she took the net on
the spot. Then she ratified off the words:
In fourteen hundred and ninety-three
Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.
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woMAN's SUMNER SHIRT FRONT

Lovely woman is now ''rastiin' with the
great question Of the day She asks every
body she meets, who has succeeded in solv-
ing the problem, ex lctly how and where it
was done She is not willing TO give up
her shirt front with the summer months.
She has determined toswear it all winter,
and she hope, that it shall rival the iend
man, and make hlm wither with envy
Somehow, she don't seem to get the starch
in IL; and whether it's because Of the slight
difference in her build, as tar as men are
concerned, or not, it has a way OF doing
it what the darkies call linking
up." She doesn't care to wear
braces, because they make marks on
her shoulders; but she can't keep them down
(her shirts, / mean. by having a button
hole in a rab that fastens 20 button on her
corsets. Il is interesting in a family where
a young wife has the shirt vice, aud her hus-
hand has, Of course, to wear them, not, Of
course, because. they are vicious, but since
the fall Of Adam he has beel encased In one,
aud 20 soc the delight with which a China
man will spread out that wash. Given the
room 70 himself. he will put ons' Of mad
ame's
BEFBILLED And BELACED POINTED Petit
COATS
On the chair, with the hounces spread out
as II she were iubabltlDg II. Above this we
will put . litfls silk shirt, aud over tliS tbs
shirt ,fith that uaFE II THO tai which "a
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-02-14
A Bill That Can't Be Beat.

Lawyer Simon Stevens, of New
York, has a copy of bill said to
have been sent by painter to
an English art collector for repairs
to the latter's art gallery. 1t is
itemized as follows
To filling up chincks in the Red
Sea and repairing the damages OF
Pharaoh's host.
To cleaning six of the Apostles
and adding an entirely new Judas
Iscariot.
To pair of new hands for Daniel
in the lions den and set Of teeth
for the lioness.
To an alienation in the Belief,
mending the Commandments, and
making new Lords Prayer.
To newly vanishing Moses rod.
To repairing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
beard.
To mendlng the pitcher Of Re-
becca.
To pair of ears for BALKAN and
making new tongue for the ass.
To new broom and bonnet for
the Witch of Endor.
To sheet anchor, a jury mast,
and long boat for Noah's Ark.
To painting 81 new steps to
Jacobs ladder.
To mending the pillow stone.
To adding some Scotch cattle to
Pharaoh's lean kline.
To making new head for Holo-
fernes and cleansing Judith's hands.
To giving blush to the cheeks of
Eve on presenting the apple to
Adam.
To painting Jezebel in the charac-
ter of hurtsman taking a flying
leap from the walls of Jericho.
To repairing Solomon's nose and
making a new nail to his middle fin.
ger.-Neao York Tunes.
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Large and Double -YeIked Eggs.


1t is seldom that a double-yelked
egg will hatch, though instances
have been known in which such eggs
have produced chicks. When dou-
ble.yelked eggs are found, it is to be
regretted, as they invaribly indicate
that the hens are out of condition
too fat. A hen in good laying con-
dition will never produce an egg
other than of the normal size pecu-
liar to her breed, and if fat, she is
entirely untitled for laying. If a fat
hen is killed she will be found full of
eggs, so to speak, but they will be
noticed to be of all sizes, and the
poultryman will be amazed over the
fact that she did not lay; but exami-
nation will show that distractions of
fat were the cause, and t he hen is
then more profitable dead than when
alive-Fdrm and Ftreside.
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An Amusing Interview held by Telephone

Many useful and wonderful things
are accomplished by the telephone.
One of its most important functions
is the enabling of patients to COM
municate promptly with their physi-
clans. Sometimes the instrument
may be of doubtful service to the
doctor.
One afternoon a city doctor was
called from the dinner table, just as
he had finished his carving for the
family and begun to eat or his own
account, to answer the telephone.
"Hello Hello" came sharp
eager call over the instrument.
The doctor recognized the voice
of a very nervous man of his ac-
quaintance.
"Well, what is it 2" he asked.
"Oh, I am not we'll at all, doctor,
but | haven't got time to come and
see you, and I want you to cure me
by telephone, you know"
We'll"
"But," the doctor began, 81
anti
swell, just hear this cough: ahum!
alum! alum! Isn't that pretty bad?"
"And what do you think of my
breath. Now, I'll breathe into the
telephone? Fhwee! Do you get
that?"
"But l can't judge your breath
through the telephone ?"
"You can't, eh? So you can't
that's a fact Well, | haven't any
time to come and see you, nor to
wait here until you come down, so /
guess I'll call in at DR.. Handy's on
my way down town, and get him to
prescribe for me. Oh, say Don't
put this in your bill, now !'
AS the doctor goes back to his
cold roast he speculates as to wheth-
er the absurdly thoughtless and ner-
vous man or the telephone is the
greatest annoyance.-Y Youths Com
pGnt0n.
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BIG SALARIES IN NEW YORK,

Richard King, president OF the
Union Trust, receives $4,000 year.
Frederic P. Olcot, president of the
Central Trust Company, receives
100000 yearly.
D. 0. Head, president of the
Home Fire Insurance Company, gets
yearly salary of $4,000.
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, president
of the Mercantile Trust Company,
receives yearly $4,000 salary.
John W. Murray the vice presi-
dent of the German-AmeIican Com
pany, receives $4,000 per annum.
Col. W. L. Trenholm, president of
the American Surety Company, re.
ceiyes an annual salary of $50, 900.
John r. Hegemna, the vice presi-
dent of the Metropolitan Insurance
company, receives $35, 900 year for
his work.
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A Chinaman, who died recently at
Portland, Ore, left property valued
at 100000

A Boston Girls WAY.--We have
all heard of the woman who depends
for her spending money on the odd
bits she chances to find in her hus-
bands pockets. But who ever heard
of the clever device a certain young
spinster in Boston has of getting
some pin money without earning it !?
She goes weekly to all the public
parlors in the large hotels, and, with
the pretense of waiting for friend
wanders from seat to seat, and when
unobserved runs her hands between
the back and sides of the luxuriousl'
upholstered easy chairs. She makes
most alarming finds, once $40 bill;
oftener, however, small pieces OF sill
yer are nestled in the cavernous
cracks. She has suddenly become q
Regular customer at the secondhand
Jewelry shors, as rings ana SUCK
pins are frequently exhumed from
their Desdimonian hiding places.
This may be tempting tip to the
unfortunate girl whose January bills
have caused papa to vow that she
shall have but meagre allowance,
which would have seemed fortune
for spending money when he was a
boy. But be it not too Sanguine
Our clever spinster considers Bos-
ton well secured for a month and
has invested some of her pilfered'
pennies in ticket to New York,
where she is now, | suppose, reaping
o harvest at the same trick.-Boston
Traveller.
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Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield,
ILL.,, makes the statement that she
caught cold, which settled on her
lungs she was treated for month
by her family physician, but grew
worse. He told her she was hope
less victina Of consumption and that
no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption; 8 b e
bought a bottle and to her delight
found herself benefited from first
dose. She continued its use and
after taking ten bottles, found her.
self sound and well, now does her
own homework and is as well as she
ever was. Free trial bottles of this
Great Discovery at E. G. Williams,
Jr. & Co.'S. Drug Store, large bottles
so cts. and $1.00
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The Custom of Treating.

The custom of treating is one of
the most pernicious and foolish that
ever cursed society, and it's abolish
ment, if it were practicable, would
be one of the greatest of public
boons. The custom is said to have
originated in the primitive days of
the nation, when the settlers had to
resort to the mutual help plan, and
and when the neghbors gathered for
barn raising or log rolling the host
set 'em up for the boys, and upon
similar occasions the compliment
was returned. But. whatever it's
origin, it is distinctly an American
custom. In no other country do
men stand up to bar and buy
drinks alternately for each other
until they both become "tired."
Two-thirds of the drinking done,
two-thirds of the money spent for
drink, two-thirds Of the resulting
wretchedness, are due to the treat
ing system. Men take drink after
drink that they do not want, and
spend money to pay for drinks for
other people, oftentimes men they
hardly know or perhaps dislike.
furthermore, the custom, looked at
in the proper way, is degrading and
unmanly. 1t assists in forming bad
associations, habits of 'loafing
around" and precludes a person
from his most sacred privilege-that
of choosing his own associates. Peo-
pie who join in the social drink
should be those who are on the clos
est and most intimate relations.
There is no more hospitality or gen.
erosity in the American treating
than there is in the giving of an In
dian who takes his present back.
Every man keeps a mean little tab
in his head on his fellows, and the
score is kept even all around. There
is comparatively little solitary drink
ing among our people. The number
of men who go to drinking places and
buy drink for themselves alone is
comparatively few. Abolish treat.
ing and the saloons will be shorn of
three -fourths Of their revenue, and
their number would be reduced in
the same ratio. 1t was upon these
facts and principles that some years
ago a club was formed in Brooklyn
with the object of making it discred-
liable for any gentleman to give or
accept treat. But it accomplished
nothing, and was short lived. The
custom-expensive, absurd and mis-
chievous as it is-has taken too strong
hold 10 be easily oprooted, and W 4
probably last as long as the saloon.
Minneapolis Times.
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HEALTH IS WEALTH

DR.. E. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT
MENT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dir
illness, Commissions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgis !,
Headache, Nervous Prostitution caused by
the use of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness,
Mental Depression, Softening of Brain, re-
sulting IN insanity and leading to misery,
decay and death, Premature Old Age. Bar
renness, Losses and Spermatorrhoe caused
by over-exertion of the Drain Self Abuse or
Over-Indulgence. Each box contains one
months treatment. SlO0 box or six boxes
for $500, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of
price.
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Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appetite
is poor, you are bothered with Headache,
you are tidgetty, nervous and general out
of sorts and want to BRACE up. Brace up
but not with stimulants, spring medicines
or bitters, which have for their basis very
cheap, bad whiskey, and which stimulate
you for an hour, and then leave you in a
worse condition than before, What you
want is an Alternative that will purify our
blood, start healthy action of Liver and
Kidneys, restore your vitality and give
renewed health and strength. Such medi-
cine you will find in Electric Bitters and
only 30 cents bottle, at E. c. Williams,
Jr. & Co., Drug Store
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Perhaps no local disease has puz-
zled and baffled the medical profess
sion more than Nasal catarrh.
While not Immediately fatal IL is
among the most distressing and dis
gushing ills the flesh is heir to, and
the records show very few or no
cases of radical cure Of chronic ca
tarrh by any of the multitude Of
modes OF treatment until the intro
duction of Ely's Cream Balm few
years ago. The success of this pre-.
paration has been most gratifying
and surprising.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-02-14

MILLIONS OF SHEEP IN AUSTRALIA.
One hundred million sheep-such,
roughly speaking, is, according to
W. A. Temperley, the total wealth
Of Australia invested in those bleat
ing focks which were the standard
and outward token of riches in the
PASTORAL communities in the ancient
world. In his paper read before the
Tyneside Geographical Society, Mr..
Temperley gave curious picture of
the operation of sheep-sheering at
model Australian sheep station of
100000 acres. For system and econ
omy it appears to be far ahead of
anything known in this part of the
world. Such holding should sup
port, We are told, $4,000 sheep, be-
side few hundred head of cattle and
q number Of horses for station work.
The farm described possesses $4,000
to 10000 breeding ewes of the me-
rino type, the remainder being what
are called "dry sheep"
In New South Wales the destiny
of the sheep population, so to speak,
is estimated at about I49l animals
to the square mile. The total of the
worlds net export of wool is l,O00,-
100000 pounds per annum. OF this
vast total ssh per cent. comes from
Australia, 90 per cent. from the Ar
genuine Republic and 81 from the
Capes. Thus "a per cent, comes from
the sheep zones of the southern hem
isphere. 1t is noted as curious
geological fact that all the great
wool-exporting countries lie south of
the fifteenth degree of south latitude.
- London Standard
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How ceIIuIoid is Made.


While everybody has heard of, or
seen, or used celluloid, only few
know what it is composed of, or how
it is made. A roll of paper is slow
ly unwound, and at the same time
saturated with a mixture Of five
parts of sulphuric acid and two
parts of nitric acid, which falls upon
the paper in fine spray. This changes
the cellulose of the paper into propy-
lin gun cotton. The excess of the
acid having been expelled by pres
sure, the paper is washed with plenty
of water until traces OF the acid
have been removed. 1t is then re-
duced to pulp and passes to the
bleaching trough. Most of the
water having been gotten rid of by
means of a strainer, the pulp is mix
ed with 90 to 40 per cent. of its
Weignt IN camphor, ana the mixture
is thoroughly triturated under mill
stones. The necessary coloring hav-
ing been added in the form of pow
der, a second mixing and grinding
follows. The finely divided pulp is
then spread out in thin layers on
slabs, and from 90 to rs of these
layers are placed in a hydraulic
press, separated from one another
by some sheets of plotting paper,
and are subject to a pressure of $50
atmospheres until all traces Of mois-
ture have disappeared. The matter
is then passed between rollers heat
ed to lao to $50 degrees Fahrenheit,
whence it issues in the form of elias
tic sheets.-THe Collaery Engineer.
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For Longer profes.IOnal Training.

1t is easy TO see that if ten of the
leading universities Of the country
should now issue edicts that on and
after 1895 no students would be re-
ceived in the schools of law and med
icine that should not have complet-
ed the sophomore year in some re-
putable college, the first step toward
great reform would have been
taken. The second step in this di-
rection should be the announcement
of rule that no student can receive
the professional degree in less than
four years from the time Of admis-
sion to the professional course of
study. 1t is not difficult to find in
dications that the country is ready
for a change Of this kind. ! believe
1t to be a great mistake to suppose
that all, or even majority, of our
students are in precipitate haste to
enter upon professional life. In De-
troit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland
and Buffalo, are to be found medical
schools in which the degree of doc
tor of medicine is granted at the
end Of two terms of from four to
eight months each. And yet in the
small city of Ann Arbor, which is
favored with no such clinical advan-
vantages as are afforded in a metro
polls, there are at the present time
nearly 400 students pursuing med
ical course OF four years. So it
would probably be elsewhere.--Pres.
c. x. adams in The February For
um.
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Millions of Railroad Ties

Some statisti clan has estimated
that 426, OSS, $50 railroad ties now
rest under the l61, 397 miles of track
laidin the United States at the present
time. No road uses less than 2,640 ties
a mile, and some lines over which the
traffic is heavy lay 1916 or more. The
average life Of a tie is about five
years, so that the yearly consump-
tom of ties is about S5,2l7,616.
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A Reflection On Adam.

'Tis a wonder Father Adam could
Have peached on Mother Eve;
For him in such wilted mood
One scarcely can conceive.
For he was builded out of clay,
The mixture being thick,
And any man that's built that way
Should surely be brick
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Happy HOLSTERS.

VIM. Timmons, Postmaster OF
Idaville, Ind, writes. Electric
Bitters has done more for me than
all other medicines combined, for
that bad feeling arising from Kidney
and Liver trouble" john Leslie,
farmer and stockman, of same place,
says: /" Find Electric Bitters to be
the best Kidney and Liver medicine,
made me feel like a new man." j.
w. Gardner, hard ware merchant,
same town, says: Electric Bitters
is just the thing for man who is all
run down and don't care whether be
lives or die; he found new strength
good appetite and felt just like he
had a new lease on life. Only Soc.
a bottle, at e. C. Williams, Jr. Il
Cos. Drug Store.
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Agnes Repplier, one of the very
cleverest Of living essayists, has pre-
pared paper entitled "Three Fam
GUS Old Maids for the March num-
Der of Lappencott's Magazine. The
three famous old maids are Miss
Austin, Miss Edgeworth, and Miss
Milford.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-02-14

Mrs. Anna G. Fall and her hus-
band are lawyers in Boston. 1t is
pleasant to see folks keep up their
counting after marriage.
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Guarantee Six Boxes

To cure any case. With each order received
by US for six boxes, accompanied by $500,
we will send the purchaser written guaran-
tee to refund the money fthe treatment does
not effect cure Guarantees issued only by
McLAIN BROTHERS, Druggists, sole agents,
McLsin Block, corner Market and Twelfth
streets, Wheeling, W. Va. aug .2'9o,1y