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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
No Drug to Cure Insomnia.

I have recently met with several cases of insomnia due to over taxation of the American nervous svstem, and have been requested to prescribe some drug that would be effective to produce sleep and be at the same time harmless.
 No such drug exists!
 There is not one medicine capable of Quieting to sleep voluntary life that has beer working ten hours at high pressure, except it be more or less poisonous. Con- sumption of chloral, bromide in some form. or opium, has increased in this country to an incredible extent. is still growing, and large number of Ameri- cans go to bed every night more or less under the influence of poison. Sleep thus obtained is not restful nor restora- tive. and nature sternly exacts her pen- alties for violated law, more severe h' these cases than in most others.
 Digestion suffers first-tns Is rarely hungry for breakfast, and loss of morn. ing appetite is certain sign of i'll health. Increasing nervousness follows, until days become burdens and poisoned nights the only comfortable parts of life.-Dr. William F. Hutchiuson in The Anerican 0aenxiue.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Skill of Irish Boat Women.

The women of these coasts and islands arc as skillful as the men in handling the oar and rudder. They know every sunken rock and dangerous current of the intri- cate channels between the great island of Aran and tho mainland, and take the boats in and out in all weathers. For many years Grace Darling of this western coast. the daughter of a pilot who lived on Fights Island, went out in storm and darkness with her old father never trust ing him alone. as she knew his weakness for tho whisky. This brave girl never finched from facing the widest gales, fearing that disaster might befall her father, and the vessels it was his busi
 ness to guide to safe anchorage. if she were not at the helm. Many ships crew beating about between Aran and Owey owed it's preservation to Nellie Boyle. Two sisters have taken the post boat into Aran for many years past, their father. John Nancy. being now old and inirm. -Woman's World.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
A Horso's Deliberate Revenge.

''l will just tell you . story. s;.id s.r. Foster l.. Backus. "about the memory cld reasoning power possessed by hog'o on Cly fathers farm This horse was iii hc habit of making journeys about tho neigh borhood in charge of Q certain groom. V no was coarse, ignorant, low and cruel. The horse had been brought up on our farI and was very good tempered and gentle but the grOomS rOughness and foadncss for laying on the whip confused him so much that he was not prompt ill obeying orders sometimes. Then the groom beat and bullied him The horse never showed the slightest sign of resentment till one day the groom approached him in thu pasture field. The horse was free for the first time in the presence of his enemy and he charged the groom A short halter was around his neck. and the groom seized thh and hung on. The horse tried to strikealim with his forefeet; tried to bite and kick him. The man dodged and shouted for aid
 ''The fight svas desperate and very ex citing The horse fairly roared with rage. The groom was nearly fagged out. and in another five minutes would havo been knocked down and trampled to death, when my father came on the scene. He seized the halter and told the groom to run AS soon as he was gone the horse subsided and was us docile as ever. Now. am satisfied that the horse deliberately planned to kill that groom at the first favorable opportunity. See how carefully he chose the time and place of the assault A lonely pasture field where he had his enemy all to himself. He had never shown the faintest sign of vicious ness before. The groom kept away from him after that, and the horse never after ward was known to exhibit rage. If he had killed the groom it would have been murder in the first degree, for the element of deliberation was there. Yes, sir; horses have reason, and they have memory also. '' Brooklyn Eagle.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Gladstone Fifty Years Ago.

The following is description of Glad. stone, published in London paper of 1858, the date of his marriage: ''Mr. Gladstone's appearance and manners are much in his favor. He is fine looking man. He is about the usual height and of good figure. His countenance is mild and pleasant, and he has highly intel fectual expression. His eyes are clear end quick; his eyebrows are dark and rather prominent. There is no dandy in the house but envies what Truit would call his fine head of jet black hair. It is always carefully parted from his crown downward to his brow, where it is car~- fully shaded. His features are small and regular, and his complexion must be Q very unworthy witness if he does not possess abundant good health. ."-New York Commercial Advertiser.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
The Boom as It Really Is,

Last summer I overheard two men talk Ing as they were digging away in the mines and one said: "Jim, they say thar Is big bum up at Rome."
 "What's that?' said Jim.
 "Why, hits kind of thing whaf one feller gifts nothing for something"
 "Why, that's faro bank or lottery, ain't it?" said Jim.
 "No it ain't. I tell you its bum-a kind of new tradin' business what swells and shrinks, and the sweller and shrinker stays down in a cellar and works the ma chine. They trade in stock"
 "Horses and mules?" said Jim.
 "No, hits all on paper, and nobody can see what he's buyin'. You put your money in and wait for swell. If it comes you are all right, but if shrink comes you are busted, and you feel so ashamed that you don't say anything about it, and 1t never gets into the papers-nothing but the swell gifts into the papers. "--Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Longest Piece of Ordnance.

A correspondent of The Army and .Iavy Journal asks: "What is the longes piece of ordnance that has ever been sue cessfully ared?" and receives the follow ing answer: "If you jlr-ade in the term ordnance everything that carries pro- jectile, we should answer fourteen miles. This is the straight tube conveying natural gas from Murrayv;ie to Pitr- burg. To clear this tube out, projecti,e known as the gum ball was inserted in tue end at the gas well, closely fitting the interior. The gas was then turned or full force and the gum ball fired throrgL Its full length, coming out at the furths' end ip . few EainutsA s.- 2siEl;as4AAs- lcan. .:.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
A Rather Frank Admission.

At recent gathering of Unitarians, on. speaker recited an anecdote which admits c large and varied application. It was ths story of a minister who, preaching on e1- change, said some strong things aboft fast horses He was told after the sermon that ts had touched one of their best members at a tender point. "Well," said the preacher, "I cannot change my sermon for him" In the evening the man was introduced to the min ister, who said: "I understand that what said touched one of your weaknesses. as sure you that Twas altogether unconscious of the weakness when I said it." "Oh, do not trouble yourself" said the man. "It is @ very poor sermon that does not hit me some wlsSre. n-New York Intelligencer.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
He Had q Winning Way.

A few years ago the Episcopal diocese of Kentucky appeared to be torn up with dis sensions about high and low church. The bishop unfortunately allowed his sympathies to be drawn out to one party as against the other, and thereafter becoming disheartened and discouraged, resigned. Tho present bishop, when called to the diocese, was de- termined to ignore these dissensions, and if possible to harmonize his people. For some time no one was able to discover whether his sympathies were with one or the other party until, an occasion presenting itself in social circle, lady with the curiosity of her sex) said: Bishop, what are your viewss We can't find out. Are you high church or low churchp' Instantly the bishop replied: "Madam, am high, low, Jack and the game" There are no dissensions now.-Pitts- burg Post,
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
si Il .Aohd bus sl1maJ WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG.

0vsr the chimney the night wind sang, And chanted a. melody no one knew; And the wotAsb stopped, and her babe she tossed And thought 9f ths one she had long since lost, And said as hSr tear drops back she forced, 'T hate the xiid in the chimney" Over the chimney the night wind sang, And ehanted . melody no one knew; And the children said, as they closer drew, "Tis some witch that is cleaving the black nigA
 through,
 Iris fairy trumpet that just then blew, And we fear the wind In the chimney" Over the chimney the night wind sang, And chanted melody no one knew; And the man, as he sat on hts hearth below, Said to himself, '.It will suiely snow, And fuel is dear and wages low. And I'll stop the leak in tho chimney" Over the chimney the night wind sang, ' And chanted . melody no one knew; But the poet listened and smiled, for he t Was man, and woman, and child, all three. And said, It is Gods own harmony, This wind we hear in the chimney"
 Bret dsrtA.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Recollections of Great Man.

MT. Christopher P. Cranch relates in The Independent his memories of Web- ster, Calhoun and their contemporaries, especially in the great Webster-Hayne duello in the senate. '"rhe impression" he says, "Mr. Calhoun made on me, as he sat there, Sphinx like, in his chair, as president of the senate, was that he had the faculty-like Napoleon-of discharg- ing all expression from his face. He must have had immense self control, and was totally unlike the mobile Benton, of Missouri. Calhoun, whom often heard speak, seemed like man of cast iron. His voice was deep and strident. His personality was very intense. Benton several times heard. He was very stout and forid, with light, thin hair. His manner seemed to me very pompous. He was verbose and grandiloquent, and had habit of interlarding his sentences with Sir to 8 degree that was sometimes al- most comic.
 "I once witnessed tremendously sharp passage at arms between Benton and Clay. They were on opposite sides of the senate chamber-else 1 don't know what might not have happened. Some personal Rllusions had been made by Benton q forget whaD, and then MT. Clay replied. shall never forget his tone, attitude and gesture, as he stood there, his tall, con- manding figure all alive with fire, and rolled off his fluent and sarcastic sen- tences, shaking his long forefinger at his antagonist, and glaring across the room filled with anxious faces. happened to be not far from MT. Benton, and saw him color and tremble, and even heard him mutter with suppressed rage. Some of the audience feared this encounter (which involved question of veracity, I think might lead to duel, for those were duel days in Washington. But never heard that anything came of it."-New York Tribune.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
The Delusion of ss1falaria."

Another delusion is malaria, SO calleG The word malaria means bad air. The diseases that are attributed to this cause are frequently common in districts where there is TO stagnant water or anything else to taint the atmosphere. It will be remembered that during the autumn of 1881 there was an unusual number of people who were attacked by these dis eases in southwestern and west-central Missouri and also eastern Kansas, when there had been no rains of any conse Quence for months, and that, too, in dis tricts far removed from decomposing water or any other substance. The cause or causes of these diseases were surely not in the air, consequently should not be attributed to malaria. It is more probable that during the dry, hot weather of summer that the heat that is radiated and the electricity that is gen. erated by the sun have an enervating in- fuence on the system-that from the nerve centers this influence reaches the muscular system,- principally through the pneumogastric nerve. and the stomach being the most delicate and intricate of almost any of the involuntary muscles, is the principal sufferer from such enervating influence. Indigestion follows as a symptom, and an increase of bile brings what is called biliousne@ and malaria.
 hope my medical friends, and claim many as such, wip pardon the presump- tion on my part of the discussion of subject that comes more within their province than that of mine. But this conclusion has been forced from observa- tions that reach over period of many years as a surveyor in the west. I have observed that there were more cases of sickness of this kind during. or immedi. ately after. the season in which there were the greatest number of electric showers or electric disturbances as shown by the surveyors instruments. con- clude, then, that heat and electricity are the prime causes of malaria" and that they weaken the stomach and, in a large majority of cases, produce the diseases usually attributed to this cause.
 give the thought to the profession with the hope that it will offend none.- Edwin Walters in St. Louis Republic.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Broadway's We'll Dressed IdIers,

The well dressed idlers who border the sidewalks in front of Broadway hotels Above Twenty-third street every after aoon ought to be regarded as "Poor Joes, :" and ordered by the police to ''move on." Their cigarette smoke, mingled with their often not we'll chosen remarks and criti- fGisms upon ,passers by, and the evident desire of tnany to impress the women. lmhkeMhtrnla nuisance No geIitieTnan should have the leisure to pose in front of hotel or any other public placs.-New York Nsu and Express
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
He Got the Job.

When Amos Cummings arrived in New York, after the war, he had most excellent opportunity to be tramp. All he possessed beside job lot of ragged clothes on his back was twenty cents' worth of postage stamp1 badly glued together. Be wore a pnir of battered cavalry bos. and about three. quarters of pair of trousers. The placl where the missing parts of the Inter should havo been was concealed by sunburnej army overcoat. In this garb he climbed up to Horace Greeley's editorial den md asked MT. Greeley for job. He did not ask to t< appointed to either the position of managing editcr or foreman. He was willing 70 dc any thing.
 "No plaes fcr you," squeaked Mr. Greeley, without turning from his desk to look at the applicant, ''don't you see I'm busya G'wayl Scat! Damit!'
 "But tell you must have a job" Mir. Greeley turned around his revolving chair, and glaring at Cummings, said: "Musti For what reason, young man, do you say must!"
 "For this reason," replied Amos, turning his back on Mr. Greeley, lifting the drapery of his old blue overcoat and exhibiting the vacant places where the wild winds had . swhistled through his trousers.
 He got the job.-J. Amory Knox.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
Two Very Different Relations.

He said that Col. Smith, of Missouri, had twice been an unsuccessful candidate for con- gressional honors before tine people. A local politician of some note, whom the colonel had time and again assisted financially, waa opposed to him in politics, and therefore worked and voted against him. A few days after the second defeat of Col Smith for congress he met his friend, who asked him for a loan of $50.
 "Look here, Sam," said the colonel, Chow is it that when I run for office you always oppose me, but when you mt money you never fail to come to meG'
 'I1l tell you, colonel, replied Sam. "Po- litically am opposed to you, but financially am your friend. Denver News.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
STORIES ABOUT MEN.
The E iI!iant Idea That Strucl , t4ss
 Palmer.

The E .il,iant Idea That Strucl S,1.ssa
 Palmer.
 When Senator Palmer recently took bco:c of prominent men to ths Michigan clus rcunon at Detroit, there were Q few incl GcIts of the trip that the senator has thu, far kept quiet. Among the diversions offered to his guests the senator suggested o trip tc his log house, n few miles from the city. A party was made up, and the keeper of the rnlal retreat was told to get up n dinner for fifteen persons. But in some way the word got round that Senator Palmer vas going tt give 'grand spread" at his log house, and when he and his guests started for thei, drive through the woods they were surprise {! to find other agon loads going in the same direction.
 q think" raid the senator, "that it woult be safe to raj D that dinner order to twenty 6ve."
 Accordingly he stepped into @ store that had telephone and raised his order ts twenty-five When the log house wal reached, tho senator was appalled, Q find about 200 hungry and thirsty individual, awaiting his dinner. They were not inter lopers, but nen of distinction in Michigan attending the club reunion, and the senotor'' natural hospitality inclined him to treat them well.
 "But what shall I dol" appealed the dis tracted steward "Dinner for twenty-fv and here are 200r'
 "Can't you kill a Jersey cowq'
 ''There isn't time."
 But here brilliant idea struck the senator
 UWhy I'll tell you what to do,n he said "We'll call if a lunch, not dinner. Dime, for twenty-five ought to make lunch for POO.
 And thereupon the ''lunch" was spread That it was success is indicated by the re mark of one of his Washington guests.
 "Palmer," said he, .'as dinner this is trife light; but as a 'lunch' it's tb fnes thing ever saw in my life."-Ne> Norl Tribune
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-04
When Turning the Leaves.

It is stated upon medical authority that readers should refrain from damping their fingers in turning over tho leaves of library books, as this is sure way to at- tract any stray bacilli that may be Turk. Ing around.--Chicago Herald .A"'~
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-21
LAND ofFlcH BUSINESS.


The lultcd States Land Office
m this city has al the work on
hand llwt II ctn stand up to. as
peemlly ancc the luuds along the
line Of tue Gull aud Ship Island
railroad ttom Huuesbulg Is
Brandon were thrown open 10 set
tlcment 5y The pis-aga oflhe For
toituc mIIou September %, 1890
By TINT act preference TO right &C
entry WIS gwen for six mouths to
an persons Who on suid date were
actual stttlofs upon any Of the
lands restored Notice was gwen
that the lands ltstguaied " even
numhris North of llattcsburg had
been restored to tho government
aud Thar they 1Yer opon 70 home.
stead entry the consequences be-
ing an overwhelming accumulation
of business al th lunl office, over
one Thousand applications beiug
now on lilc.
On March 1tl tle Commis-
siouer al Washington instructed
the register aud receiver al Jack.
son 70 extend nc pe1iod within
which sclacrs purchasers and
others nay mike application TO
] .t. ID,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-21
THE FARNfR's JoY.

The poetry Of farming exists
chi Ny in the mind Of him who
looks on, rather than in the toll
itself. There is poetry in the SUM
mer see g where the clran shaven
meadow is thickly studded with
green cones Of hay, aud the OK
wagon creaks under the weight oi
! It's liagrant load; but il is prose Of
/ the baldeSt sort to tue persplriug
farmer Who is strainiug every
muscle TO ger ~ his crop before thu
shower mes mp over the hill. u
is thc doll rs in the hay, aud not
! It's fragrance, that he is thinking
abou'; nor is it any discrcdIt 70 his
common seusr that he should be
mole occupied with the money
yalur involved than with the pic.
tnresqueness Of the situation. VIZ
must not expect q p0 m on the
golden rod from the man who
spends hours Of hard work Ia at
elntIi g to exierminate it.; nor
can We look fnr from him amy eX.
pres ion ofadmirdtion Tor the daisy
when its presence il his grass
means pecuuity loss. Ia him the
hr i cry Of The hen hawk conveys
but one mess &c. aud hat is that
his chickens are IN danger.
The hal artiruli ed cultural Of
the Young crow is merely a re-
minder Of the corn pulling AID
ewing propensltirs Of that bird,
The sta cato Whist OF The wood.
chuck ha.no charms for him, for il
il promise that his yoang apple
trees shall b gnawed and threat
that his clover shall be trodden
down 10 make paths for this lum-
beting lrcebOoier 10 travel home
IN lie loves Tho cuckoo only in
times Il drought, and seea braut,
in The rainbow only when his
pareh q fields liavr qusnched heir
thirst His love fir the robins
even can lever be unqualified, for
do they not peck at his cherries
aud steal his eally peasg The wav.
ing ot the fiprning grain aud The
rustic OF the cOrn would be pl az.
antrr to sef and swceter 10 hear
We're it not for his apprehension
that the rust would get into hi,
wheat or cary frO>ts cut short his
cror.-Arthur X &c in Nature 5
Realm.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-21

The oaly thing at Bala Chitto
TINT seemed To be not Well up TO
the present demand was the sun
dnv School labors of the day
TN, seemed very largely behind
what it should have heen, o.
what this correspondent expected
l'he re lglous instruction of the
Young should be among the tore-
most things rsquircd by parents.
and laborin this direction should
be very largely pressed
Wuh such conVenlances as
exist IL l}ala Chitio church, and
with such d large surrounding of
religious people, u is a matter Of
surprise that tie sabbath School
interest Is not found in a none
advanced condition. gWhen this
interest Is advanced as il soon
will be. this church ia It's work
and i aung, will be second TO
none in the county.
Que great eyil under which
they labor is the deep unbrijged
creek at Mr.. Coney's, which
though upon large public road
that runs from Osyka TO Holmes
wllc, Is left in this condition. 1t
Is probable no other public road
ia the county that unltes two such
important towns has to labor un-
der such a telrrle Inconvenience,
a petition To thc Supervisor,
would soon remedy this want
but somehow neither llolmesvtll,
or Osykq seems sufficiently dyslr
Gus to preserve their facilities oI
transit, to trouble the Board with
\ 4 petition. MEMO.