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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
SOCIETY SPORTS AND GAMES.

A Few Sensible Suggestions Concerning
Correct Conduct.
These sports, called innocent, gener-
ally please young persons of both sexes
because they excite an interest, while
they require an exercise of the memory
and of the mind 1t is necessary, how
ever, in this, as in everything else, to
manifest attention, delicacy and pro-
priety. We ought not. to endeavor to
be noticed for our too great vivacity or
freedom. We should be satisfied at
showing our talent at playing in our
turn, and taking part in the common
gayety without pretension or too great
zeal. We should especially avoid throw
ing out any vindictive remarks, bestow-
ing misplaced compliments, or imposing
forfeits which would cause morti6ca-
ton.
A young gentleman ought never to
seize young lady by the arm, catch
hold of her ribbon or bouquet, nor pay
exclusive attention to the same person.
He should be agreeable and pleasant
toward all.
The selection of games belongs to the
ladies'. The person who receives the
company should be careful to vary
them; and when she perceives that any
game loses its interest she should pro-
pose another.
There are, almost always, persons in
society who wish to take the lead, and
give the ton; it is caprice or fault
which should be avoided We may
modestly propose any amusement, and
ask the opinion of others in regard to
it; but should never pretend to dictate,
nor even to urge having our own pro-
posal accepted. If it does not please
generally, we should be silent, and re-
sign ourselves with good grace to the
decisions of the majority.
Never prescribe any forfeiture which
can wound the feelings of any of the
company.-N Y. Ledger.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
HUMOROUS.

--"Well, Nlmrod, how is sport?"
Lively" "Where are the latest birds
TO be found now?" "In the markets.
as usual. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Doesn't Cost Anything. -Totling--
"Why do people borrow trouble SO
much?" Dimling because it isn't
necessary to put up any collateral
n. Y Sun.
-Waiter-"What kind of soup will
you have?" Beenthere-"Justp plain"
Waiter-"What do you mean by that|
Beenthere-"Withou any thumb in it,"
Boston Courier.
-He-"The poet says that ladies' looks
should be our books. VIII you let your
eyes be my teacher?" She-"Thanl1s,
but believe both of them are already
supplied with pupils" - Baltimore
American.
An Heiress. -Finkle-"Wh love.
ly head of hair Miss Northerland has"
Dinkle-"Yes; she inherited it from her
father" FinlIle-"Wash he blessed like.
wise?" Dinkle-"No; he was wig
maker. brooklyn Eagle.
-Teacher-"Johnny Cumso, if your
father can do piece of work in seven
days, and your Uncle George can do it
it nine days, how long would it take
both of them?" Johnny-"They'd never
get it done They'd sit around and swar
fish stories. Epoch.
"A Reproof Lost-Mrs. Cumso-T
love to hear the song of the birds"
Cumso severely one which fur.
nished the feathers for that hat OF
yours will never sing again" Mrs.
Cumso--"It never did sing. Those are
chicken-feathers" IN. Y. Sun.
-Jacl-"Don't you think we could
get along on twenty-five dollars a
week-cight dollars for rent, ten dol
lars for the table, four dollars for the
servant and three dollars for rainy
day." Jessie Yes, provided it didn't
rain very often. IN. Y. Herald.
"A Merited Rebuke-Great Hotel
Clerk-"Well, what seems to be the
trouble?" Finicky Guest-"This towel
isis not very clean" Clerk -"Well,
now, fifty people have used that towel,
and you're the first one that's found
any fault with it."-Boston Courier.
"A Deep Hole.-"What shall I do
with this unsightly heap of rubbish,
Pate" "Dig hole and bury it," an
swered the man OF invention. "Ah,
yes, Pat, but what am to do with the
dirt dig out of the hole?" "Well, sir,
would advise you to dig hole big
enough for the whole of it."-Scranton
Truth.
Not Treating Him Right.-Bell Boy
You gave me an old pair of trousers
this morning that you said you didn't
want, and ! thanked you for them.
Guest-"Well, what of it?" Bell Boy
al want to take back the thanks. |
have just found out that you didn't
leave anything in the poekets."--
! Clothier and Furnisher,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Congregationalist are about to
establish large educational institution
at Olympia, Wash
Twenty London Congregational
pulpits, exclusive of Welsh Congrega-
tional churches, are occupied by Welsh
men.
DE Paugh university has been prom
ised $500, 900 building for its theolo-
gical department in honor of Bishop
Bowman.
-Sixty-fvc cardinals have died dur
ing the twelve years of Leo NILS pa
pacy. The sacred college is composed
almost entirely of new cardinals.
John Jasper, the famous negro
preacher of Richmond, has been pastor
of his church for fifty-one years. He
has three thousand members, and an
average audience of about fifteen hun
dred. In person he is tall and oignified,
with very black skin and scant gray
locks.
The attendance upon the public
schools in San Francisco last year was
374 less than in 1885. For the last seven
years the attendance has been station
airy, owing to the development of pa
rochial and church schools. The city
claims to pay teachers higher average
salaries than any other city in the coun-
try.
Three additional public school
buildings are to be erected in Richmond,
Va, at cost of 5000 Two of these
are for white pupils and the other for
colored children. 1t is said the public
schools of Richmond will bear favora-
BILE comparison with those of much
larger cities. -Charleston News and
Courier.
The latest translation of the Scrip
lures issued by the American Bible So
ciety is the work of colored man,
Rev. Mr. 0usley, who was born slave
in the ownership of brother of Jeffer-
son Davis. The translator and his wife
were educated at Oberlin. The Ian
guagc into which he has rendred the
synoptical Gospels and the Acts is the
Sheetswa, cognate with the Zulu, and
spaken by some 100000 people in south
eastern Africa.
The Methodist Times gives an ac-
count of the oldest Methodist church in
the world. II is at Mount Orfano, Italy.
The pastor of p Roman Catholic church
was converted under the preaching of
Wesleyan missionary, and last fall
the inhabitants decided to become
Protestants, and Methodist class was
organized. Arrangements have been
completed whereby the old parish
church is transferred to the new So
ciety. The church is said to date back
so the year 8l5.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
THE WAGES OF WOMEN.
Facts Brought to Light at a Meeting of the
british Association.

Facts Brought to Light ut a Meeting of the
british Association.
The economic section of the British
association at its recent meeting took
under consideration the relative wages
of men and women, and discussed the
matter thoroughly in the hope that some
conclusion could be reached, some basis
of fixing the pay that women ought to
get where they do the same kind OF
work as men. AS might have been ex-
pected, no definite conclusion was
reached, although the matter was very
thoroughly discussed, and great deal
of interesting information obtained. In
the first place, it was shown that the
popular belief that women do not get
the same pay as men for the same quail
ity of work is mistake They are paid
quite as well in many branches. In
art and literature they receive
the same compensation, and
among the greater singers the
women haYe probably received
more. In the trades or professions they
get the same pay when they organize
and insist upon it. For years the Lam
.cashire cotton mills paid female labor
less than the males, until the women
organized and struck. Since then the
mill owners have not considered the
sex of their employees, but the work
done. A similar strike was that of the
women teachers in Wyoming and it was
similarly successful. Indeed within
the last few years the salar-
les paid female teachers have
appropriated closer and closer to
those paid the men, until now
in majority of the states no differ
ence between them is recognized.
When, however, it comes to
factory work the women get
less, generally because they do less,
Their work is usually different from
that done by the men, simpler, lighter
and easier. Again in regard to type
writer's, clerks, telegraph operators aud
the like, the smaller pay is due to infer
Tor work This is especially the case
with typewriters and clerks, due to the
| fact that when the women go into
these branches they do so temporarily
expecting to leave them soon for some
thing else, where as the men adopt
them generally as permanency. 1t is
this temperatures which makes
much of women's work-especially
where they enter into competition with
men-inferior, and is the cause of their
receiving lower pay. Whenever they
go into any trade which they intend to
keep up permanently, they get the same
pay, and they dose, moreover, when they
are thoroughly organized and insist
upon their rights. But when 1t is a
mere makeshift something to be follow
ed a year or SO until they are married,
the work is inferior and the pay small.
These are the conclusions reached by
the British Association after having
discussed the matter for several days
IN. O. Times Democrat
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
POINTS OF PROGRESS.

Two hundred women are employed
by Edison in working at the more
delicate details of his electrical inven-
tons
Mrs. w. w. TAYLOR was superin-
tendent of the poultry and pet stock de-
partment of the Larimer county (Col.)
fair.
HELEN CAMPBELL says that 20O,O
women work in hundred different
trades in New York city, and of
that number $4,000 support their hus-
bands.
Rev. MARY L. LEGGETT, the pastor
of the Unitarian church of Green Har-
Dor, Marshfield, Mass, is very sue
cessful She came from Beatrice,
Neb, where she preached for three
years.
THERE are more women workers in
the United Kingdom, Great Britain and
Ireland, in proportion to the population,
chan in any other country in the world.
Twelve per cent of the working classes
there are women
DR.. EMMA GUNKEL, of Newport, KY,
a graduate of Cincinnati college, and
who completed her studies in Germany,
has become one of the most successful
physicians in her state. She is the
daughter of noted homeopathic
THE political equality club of War
rem, o., has been investigating the
number OF women engaged in the vari-
GUS industries of that city and finds
that outside of domestic industries
there are S5s women employed in gain
! ful labor,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
Miss Marsden's Mission.

Miss Field, the travelling companion
of Miss Kate Marsden among the Rus
sian lepers, has returned and is giving
thrilling accounts of the perilous jour
ney to Omsk accomplished by the two
women 1t seems that herb which
gives promise of being an efficacious
remedy for leprosy has been discovered,
and it was to find this herb and to ex-
anime into the condition of the wretch
ed lepers that Miss Marsden undertook
the 5000 miles journey. Part OF the
distance was travelled by the two worl-
en- lying fat ON their backs on their
luggage slowed in the bottom of an
open sledge. Their shelter at night
was sought in huts where there were
no beds, their food was of the plainest
description and their recreation visiting
the sick and prisoners in hospitals and
prisons, which are abundantly recruited
from the exiles constantly on the
march toward Siberia.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
MISS LIZZIE THAYER,
The Capable and Trustworthy Train Dis
hatcher of an Eastern Railroad.

The Capable and Trustworthy Train Dis
patcher of an Eastern Railroad.
There are many women who occupy
more imposing and better paid posi-
tions, but there are few, if any, who
incur every day in the week such vast
responsibilities as devolve upon Miss
Lizzie L. d. Thayer. This young lady
has been for two years the train dis
patcher of the New London Northern
railroad, whose tracks extend from
New London, Ct, to Brattleboro, VT,
q distance of 121 miles. Not mile Of
the entire road is double-tracked. There
are forty-eight regular trains on the
time table along with any number of
extra ones, both freight and passenger.
During the summer excursion trains are
run at frequent intervals. All these
trains are moved by telegraph, and the
safety of lives and property involved
depends largely upon the nerve, fore
sight and promptness of the young
woman whose finger tips are on the tel
egraph instrument in the New London
office.
Miss Thayer is said to be the only
woman in the world who holds such a
position. From seven a. IN. to nine p.
m. she is responsible, and for the prin-
cipal part of the time she is hard at
work receiving and dispatching mes
sages She keeps one of the telegraph
wires hot with train orders and instruc-
tions to conductors in regard to the
work at the many stations. She side
tracks freight trains to let passenger"
whiz by, or, perchance, she sidetracks
passenger train for few minutes to
prevent freight loaded with perisha-
BILE stock from getting laid out"
1t was somewhat by accident that
Miss Thayer became train dispatcher.
Three years ago she joined the office
for short time as assistant to the regu-
lar official Within year he resigned,
and for seven months the young lady
performed all duties without any as.
sistance. The superintendent hunted
up and down the road for the proper
person to fill the place. Meanwhile
the road was running on all right, and
finally, having grown tired of looking
for the proper man, it was decided that
as Miss Thayer's work had been per-
fectly satisfactory she should be re-
tanned in the position. Chicago Post.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
Practical Philanthropy.

Mrs. Alice Lincoln is the owner of a
number of small houses at the north
end of Boston which she rents to poor
people. She enforces stringent rules
of cleanliness and sanitary living
among her tenantry, many of whom
have an hereditary aversion to soap
and water Encouraged by her sue
cess Mrs. Lincoln is now trying to in
duce moneyed men to buy a certain
short street and erect thereon neat
homes for the poor which would in
sure to them at cheap rates not only
greater breathing space and opportu-
nifty for expansion, but degree of gen.
teel comfort which Of itself would in
spire them to look upward and to feel
more ambition. Mrs. Lincoln is the
daughter of Mrs Towne, well remem-
bered for her philanthropic and gener-
GUS deeds, and, therefore, comes natur-
ally by her broad vision of the claims
of others. Mrs Towne bought and
preserved for public woodland drive
a number of miles of forest on either
side of her home in Essex
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
An Insect Goliath.

The bird spider of tropical America
grows to be three inches in breadth,
and as much as four and one-half inches
in length, being the largest of the sew
eral hundred species of spiders known
to naturalists. Its nest resembles those
of the large caterpillars of France and
Spain, and consists of beautiful white
silken tissue Of several thick layers,
and strengthened by very strong
threads capable of arresting the fight
of any small bird. In the center of this
nest are placed the eggs, one thousand
five hundred to two thousand in num-
Der. The creature is very powerful,
and is provided with formidable instru-
ments of attack, enabling it not only to
destroy small birds and the young OF
larger species, as some writers have
maintained, but large lizards and rep
tiles. st. Louis Republic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
IN THE NAVY.
Apprentice Boys Get Good Training, Then
Ienya the Seryleo.

Apprentice Boys Get Good Training, Then
Leave the Service.
The United States government an
nually educates almost two thousand
boys for the navy, but ridiculously
small proportion of them ever become
Jack Tars. The United States has fewer
native-born sailors in its navy than has
any other nation on the globe. Some
of her brightest boys enter rs naval APP
prentices at ages ranging from fifteen
TO eighteen. OF these perhaps forty per
cent. desert before they reach the age
of twenty-one, at which time their APP
premiership expires. Those who remain
are eligible for examination for mem
bership in the class in gunnery,
and at least ninety-five per cent. could
pass the examination if they would
try. Many do not try, but as soon as
their term expires look for other en-
ployment. OF those who pass and who
go through their six months term in
the gunnery class greater proportion
do not go back to the navy, but seek
and readily obtain employment with
some of the great electric concerns The
training these boys have had, and the
education they have received by the time
they are competent to handle gun has
also made first-class electricians of
them; for to handle piece of modern
naval ordnance, one must be an adept
in electrical knowledge. The managers
of electric light and power companies
know this so well that the presentation
of discharge papers as gunner in the
United States navy insures its holder
immediate employment as an electri-
clan, and he is sent at good salary to
manage plant in some small town.
The apprentices are not slow to find
this out, and those who have any object
at all in remaining think more of be-
coming electricians than they do of be-
coming either gunners or sailors.
"We have no inducements to remain
here, anyway" said an apprentice on
the Chicago the other day. ave have
no chance to get anything higher than
gunner's warrant with salary of one
thousand eight hundred dollars year,
and but little chance toget that There
are few gunner's warrants, and po-
litical pull" is always necessary to Sc
cure such berth. Time was when we
had at least a ghost of chance to go
to Annapolis, as three OF us were chosen
for that berth every year. Then we
were more ambitious, for man who
gets through Annapolis may become
an admiral. Unless he does he never
can. The late Admiral Porter had that
provision abolished, however, and we
have never been able to get congress to
land now than we do at sea. Detroit
Free Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
One Dollar Per Year.
MORE SYSTEM DESIRED.
A Comment on the Lack OF Method In the
WAY Women Work.

Way Women Work.
A newspaper in commenting on the
lack of method in the way women
work, says:
From remote generations men have been
taught 10 do their work by rule, No man hires
q laborer without engaging his time for q GER
tain number of hours, The man servant KNOWS
distinctly when and what time he must devote
to his work. The female servant alone IS ex-
pected TO do her work in a happy'goeasy way
At one time she is seriously reprmanded Tor
what is overlooked at other times. The trouble
with servants is largely due TO want OF order IN
laying out their work ana making them adhere
rigdy TO II. The average maid-of-all'worK mas
some reason in rebelling against her posluoh
when her work depends, rs II often does upon
the whimsical iancles OF tho mistress, who
drives her from one thing TO another without
system or order,
There is grain of truth in this, and
women are finding out that the work
of running house must be brought
under more system than it has been in
the past; but the hap-hazard methods
complained of are not essentially femi-
nine. The conditions under which
women work have fostered this way OF
doing, and household work can never
be brought under the rigid discipline OF
the workshop because people can not
live by machinery. She is the best
housekeeper who can get best control
of conditions so as to minimize the
friction of the various occupations
that go to make up the sum of house
work.
A frail, delicate woman, with four or
five young children, small number OF
rooms, only an incompetent maid OF all
work to rely upon for help, and hus-
band who expects all the comforts that
he had in his bachelor days, should not
be criticised for lack of method because
her house is good part of the time in
disorder. Give the same woman
house roomy enough to have place for
every thing, help enough TO give each
one time for doing thoroughly the task
allotted to her, and leaving the house
wife time to think of something besides
the necessity of saving some expense at
every turn, and the lack of method
might not be so prominent feature OF
her household By faulty training, and
too large demand upon time and
strength, women have been forced into
the unsystematic ways complained OF.
More leisure and more mental training
will correct the fault, and the next gen.
Grafton of housewives will have a
chance to retrieve the reputation OF
women in this respect Springfield
Mass Republican.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
Az n Translator She Excels Hugo.

A woman vel. known in the French
literary world, Nine S. Arnaud. has
Just completed the formidable task of
translating Shakespeare's sonnets into
French verse. Victor Hugo had al
ready translated them into prose But
critics give Nine. Arnaud's work the
PRE- 'erence as being of course less liter
al, but vigorous and rendering with &C.
curacy figures of speech familiar to
Shakespeare, but foreign to the i'm.
agery of the French poets, and also she
has kept we'll to the form of the origin
al sonnet though it is not at all in &C
cord with the French ules.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
In Days Gone BY,

There was time when it was con
sidered a part of woman's duty to
spin the thread and weave the cloth for
the use of the family, to wash and iron
her husbands linen, and to have no
thought about the cellar and pantry,
the kitchen and her accounts. Times
have changed. The invention of labor
saving machinery of all kinds has left
women with hours of leisure upon their
hands, and the employment of that
leisure has led them into new fields, to
the creation of new industries and to
taking the place of men in the depart
ments of the old, which they are ca
pable of filing Chicago Graphic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
A LESSON IN PHILOLOGY.
How Some Domestic Words Have Lost
Their Original Specification.

Ineir orlRinai SiEniHcHtlon'
The origin of WORDS is an interesting
study even to people who are not
philologists. Take the homely word
diaper" for example. TO what depths
has it descended. 1t is like high-born
gentlewoman deprived of her broad
lands and fair towers and compelled to
do scullion's work for livelihood.
1t is, in short, like the story of Cinderel-
la reversed. For diaper was term
originally applied to silken fabric
and is mentioned as early as the
eleventh century. Its special charac-
teristic was that by the arrangement of
warp and wool, both of the same tone
of color, design could be produced on
the web which had the appearance of
being raised in relief above the seem
ingly dusky ground. Cloth of gold was
diapered with designs in this way.
Exeter cathedral had, in an inventory
dated 1877, cope of white diaper with
half moons, and st. PauPs cathedral
one with parrots done in green.
The meaning of the word diaper
gradually widened, so that it came TO
be used when the pattern or ornament
was repeated, or when the pattern was
sprinkled or powdered over the surface.
Embroidery to initiate diaper in gold
was general in the middle ages. The
beautiful golden ground of the Opus
Anglicanum was usually dotted all over
with a repeating pattern. This ap-
parently mechanical mothod was capa-
bic of infinite variety, and formed the
most effective backgrounds, and it is
remarkable that in different examples
of old work the same diapers ssldam
appear Chicago Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12

There were five hard-looking men
seated on bench in City Hall park yes
terday and while four of them were
asleep the fifth sat looking at his own
toes By and by along came man who
halted to ask:
''Do any of you men want work?"
whats the pay?" asks the fifth, after
long silence.
"Why, I'll give one dollar and fifty
cents day."
"What's the work?"
Digging cellar"
81 don't want it."
Don't any of the rest want a job?"
~ think not; but if you'll make the
pay two dollars day and the work
picking Strawberries I'll take the
chance of waking them up."-N. Y.
World.