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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
A Great Ouestion Answered

The school teacher had invited his ora
torical friend to visit his school and while
there he addressed the scholars His re-
marks were hstrionic and historic and in
the course of them he ran across Julius
Caesar.
1T was a time of tumult in Rome, the
Eternal City-you all know where Rome
is, children" he said. land Caesar was
away in the north fighting He knew a
strong hand and brave heart were needed
there, but none dared to make the mo-
mentous step, and he hesitated to rush
where others feared to tread. Beyond the
Rubicon Caesar heard the din Of discord
and at last he came down TO the banks of
that classic stream and looked toward the
capital city. To march thither meant vic
tory or death, and Cesar crossed the Rubi-
con. Yes, children, the die was cast and
Caesar crossed the Rubicou. And why did
he cross the Rubicon? l ask you chill
dren, weak and wavering between right
and wrong. why he crossed the Rubicon?
Why did,
Il know" piped youngster, interrupt
ing the orator Il know; he wanted to git
over on the other side detroit Free
Press.
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Mirrors Made of Wood.

In Germany wood with mirror pol
ish is coming into use as substitute for
metal in the finishing of ornamental
york. In order to make the wood sus-
ceptible to polish of this order it mus,
first be submitted to a bath of caustic
sslkah for two days, the bath being kept
IL temperature of IT'S degs Fair. all
tie while. Next it is soaked in solu-
ton of hydrosulphate of calcium fol-
from twenty-four to thirty-nine hours
The third dip is into a bath of concen.
frated solution of sulphur. The final
Dip is into a solution of acetate of lead
at temperature of 100 dogs.
After being thoroughly dried the wool
is ready to have the metallic surface
impaired to it. which is done by giving
* a rubbing with finely powdered lead
tin or zinc. Wood treated in the above
manner. it is said. will take polish al
most equal to that so often impaired tC
steel, silver or nickel.-St. Louis Re
public
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TURF TOPICS.

In 1891 exactly 1913 thoroughbreds were
foaled at Rancho del Paso.
Kansas City will probably furnish a
sixty day racing meeting this season.
Springfield talks of laying out a kite
shaped track, the first in the state of
Ohio
Ed Corrigan has made 6O3 stake en-
gagements for the coming season. Last
year his horses won in stake and purse
races no less than $780, 600
The Bloomington Qlls.) Trotting asso-
citation offers to give a purse of &c, 200
to Monbars, 2:16H; Chimes Girl. 2:26.
and Ralph Wilkes, 2:lS. next fall
James E Pepper. the wealthy distiller,
is the first turfman in the southwest to
fit up a palace horse car for his horses
to travel in during their campaigns.
Professor Landsberger, the sculptor,
has been commissioned by the College of
Agriculture Of Berlin to make a statue
of the celebrated English race horse St.
Gatien.
The rivalry between some Of the for
eign countries in regard to which should
purchase the best American trotters has
furnished market for some of the best
trotting stock this country has ever pro-
duced.
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AROUND THE THRONES.

Queen Margharita Of Italy devotes a
day occasionally to visiting the hospitals
in Rome.
The Duke of. Edinburgh is, after the
queen, the richest and closest member
of the royal family.
Ex-Empress Eugene has still in her
service the woman who was her favor
ite maid in the empire days.
The empress of Austria's name when
travelling is that of Elizabeth Nicholson.
She once had a favorite lady's maid of
that name.
Princess Lise Troubletski is one of
the most celebrated grandes danes in
Europe. She belongs to the illustrious
family of Belosselsky, whose ancestors
date from Rurik.
The Grand Duchess of Baden, daughter
and sister of emperors, is at the head of
a hospital, a cooking school, a training
school for servants, a school of art for
women and mending school.
That highly ornamental parsonage, the
king of Siam, has ordered large and
expensive steam yacht to be constructed
for his own use, which Will be twice as
large as any such craft now ahoat.
King Milan has decided on abandon
ing all his rights, not only as member
of the royal family of Servia, but also as
simple citizen. He considers that he
is acting in the interest of his son and
his country. and probably he is not far
wrong. The ex-king styles himself a
voluntary exile"
The Prince of Wales smokes cigar
manufactured specially for him by a
Cuban firm. The tobacco Is the finest
known in the trade, and a cigar, when
rolled and finished and packed in highly
polished boxes bearing Wales Three
Feathers" represents exactly four Eng
lish shillings each
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What Dreama MAY Come, >,

1t was Monday evening that man
went into Lewiston club1oom and sat
down on top of a radiator 1t was cold,
there being no steam in it. In two min
utes he was asleep, leaning back against
the wall, his feet dangling over the edge
of the steam heater Some Of the members
saw him and turned Oh the steam. Its
getting warm here, Mary" he muttered in
his sleep; and later: What's in the oven.
More Of them hard shellst" In another
moment be woke up and jumped off the
steam heater and went out the door hike a
flash Those who looked from the window
say that he sat down in the snowbank by
the sidewalk.-Bangor Commercial
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WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Jane Golden, daughter of the
famous Richard Golden, is an indefati-
gable writer on political as well as ON
general subjects
The hospital recently opened at Glas.
Cow by Lady Aberdeen is free to wome:,
only, and is to be worked by staff Of
competent lady doctors.
Dr.. Mary P. Jacob, Of New York, and
the fashionable DR.. Mary Woolsey Hox-
ON, Of Washington, are each said toearn
over 60, 900 every year in the practice
OF their profession.
It now transpires that Mrs. Osborne.
Of London, stole her friends jewels in
order TO pay tradesmen. with whom she
had recklessly run IN debt, and who
were threatening suit.
Mira Parsn Stevens, during her wan
behring's through Europe, has collected
no leB than . hundred miniatures.
painted on ivory, onyx and silver. each
the beauty Of some wen known family.
disposed Of By some improvident men,
be@.
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DRlFTWOOD.

A driftwood fire when day Is doDo5
II Won have dreamed your dreams BY 0nA
Yuu know the sweetest thing there b
In fancy's maze OF mysteries.
Pray light it In the twilight dim.
Just as the sun throws back Of him
Soft shadows DER the snowy fleece
Which wraps the buried earth In peace
The mingiing ights. within, without
With playful beams will put to rOut
The ghosts Of memory. sad and chill,
And with bright forms your vision FILL
While dallying tongues of gold and blue.
OF scarlet, green and violet hue
All blending into rainbow fame.
Fill you with wonder whence they came
And oil II ever In the night
Your eye hath watched the strange, weir
light
That follows In q vessels wake,
Winding along like starry snake
A hint Of beauty, ocean deep.
That to the surface fain would creep
IT'S easy now for you to dream
The drtftwood's iridescent CLEAN
Was caught and prisoned in each sheath
While blowing through it, far beneath;
A phantom presence! held there still,
To dance and glimmer at its will.
At length a stronger fame subdues
In one rich glow the varying hues,
While at its base (ah, legend old
Yet newO we f1nd-the ''jar of gold"
Margaret May in Cape Cod TimeA
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Character Shown in Thumbs.

There is as much character in the
thumbs of people as in their faces. A
long first joint of the thumb indicates
win power; a long second joint indicates
strong logical or reasoning power; a
wide, thick thumb indicates strong indi-
viduality. while broad mob at the end
Of the thumb is sure indication of OBJ
stinacy. The thumb is the character
istic feature Of the human hand, a char
scteristic in which it differs from the
hand of the monkey, and of all parts of
the hand no one is 80 strongly individual
or tentale as the thumb.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
CHATS ABOUT MEN.

One Of the Rothschilds In Weisbaden
b taxed ON an income Of q zoo, GOO
General Butler has q cigar IN his
mouth almost continually, but he rarely
or never lights It
Leopold Morse, ex-congressman, uses
q round dozen Of good and strong
Havana cigars every day.
Senator Conger allows himself three
cigars daily, and Senator Allison also
loves fragrant Havana
General Gourka, governor general OF
Russian Poland, is hale and vigorous
soldier Of sixty-four years, and he Is not
going 10 resign his place, as has been re-
ported.
With a jackknife James Ingram, of
East Bradford, Pa, has carved on a
dogwood cane fox hunt with a dozen
hounds and mounted hunter or two IN
the chase.
Thomas D. Jordan, who succeeds
John A. Mccall as comptroller of the
Equitable Insurance company of New
York, began service with the company
as an errand boy IN 1859.
NJ G. Creole, the owner of the Last
Chance and Monarch mines at the new
camp in Colorado that bears his name, is
native of Illinois, who settled in Colo
RADIO in 1870. He is man slightly above
medium height, lean, and is of sandy
complexion, and is fifty years of age
although he looks much younger.
Bismarck sprinkles his conversation,
which is at all times interesting and
sometimes epigrammatic, with choice
and pertinent extracts from Shakespeare
of whose works he is especially fond
His talk even on commonplace subjects
is bright and entertaining, and he is a
man, despite his reputation, of great
personal magnetism, which casts spell
over the visitor.
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The Film fl am.

A Customer-Give me dozen shirts.
Shopkeeper-Here you are, sir. the
best quality.
Customer-HOw much?
Shopkeeper-One fifty each.
Customer-All right, wrap them up.
Now, how much are these socks:
Shopkeeper-Fifty cents pair.
Customer-Well, III take three dozen
pairs instead of the shirts.
The socks are done up and the Gus
toner starts for the door with the bundle.
Shopkeeper - Hold on there, you
haven't paid for those socks.
Customer-Certainly not. Itook them
in exchange for the shirts.
Shopkeeper-Yes, but you didn't pay
for the shirts.
Customer-Certainly not, because l
didn't take them
Shopkeeper-That's a fact, and he
spends the next half hour trying to make
his cash balance.-New York Herald.
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Emile Zolas habits are extremely reou-
lar. He takes walk every morning,
usually leaving his house, whether at
Medan or at Paris, about o'clock. He
lunches at midday, and writes from l
o'clock till 6, receiving no visitors and
transacting no business in the afternoon.
He has particular liking for large and
massive pieces of furniture, so his writ
ing table and his library chairs are of
colossal proportions. as is also his ink
stand, which is in bronze and represents
a lion.-Paris Cor. Philadelphia Tele-
graph
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Public Office in China.

The Chinese system of government
lacks entirely the progressive and uni
flying element of popular election. The
people have no voice in the choice of
their rulers, and the rulers consider the
people as so many sheep to be feeced.
The officials are paid starvingly low
salaries, and many Offices are openly
bought. Corruption and extortion may
therefore be said to be almost sane
toned, the only restraint being the dread
of insurrection and the power Of guilds,
clans and secret societies. There is i'm
perfect protection from robbers and
pirates. many villages preferring to sub
sidize robber bands rather than to have
to deal with the worse form of robbery
practiced by the officials.-Westnin
Review.
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A Comparison.

Mrs. Splicer-It is SD strange to me that
you men can change 50. During courtsEip
you think woman perfect, but after mar
riage all her charms suddenly vanish
Mr.. Splicer-Why do you say you mens"
You go shopping and 90 wild over a piece
Of dress goods. When you get it home you
find it is not the thing after all Things
look so much more attractive before pur-
chase. you know, than they do after you
get them home.-BoSton Transcript.
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LEMON ELIXIR.


Pleasant Lemon Drink
For bilousness and constipation, tax.
Lemon Elixir
For indigestion and foul stomach tax.
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches, take
Lemon Elixir
For sleepiessness and nervousness, tax.
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility, tax.
Lemon Elixir.
For 'evers, chills and Malaria, take Lem
on Elixir.
DR.. Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not fail
you in any Of the above named diseases
all of which arise from a torpid or diseased
liver. stomach, kidneys or bowels.
Prepared only by DR.. II. Motley, At.
lania. Ga.
SOC. and 81 90 per bottle, at druggists
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

AR8lns
William Moore. of Oakland, popularity
known as Billy, has sweetheart. Billy
used to smoke incessantly, and being OF
blue blood always consumed the best OF
weeds. Consequently his clothes smelled
of tobacco, the odor Of which was detected
by the lady fair when William pressed her
to his heaving "buzzum." She asked
Billy to stop smoking-for her sake. How
could he refuse? But though he stopped
smoking he could not help accommodating
cigars, which he stacked away in his vest
pockets.
The sweet one was bent on his reforma-
ton, and every night he called after he
had given up the weed for her sweet sake
she took the cigars from his pocket and
laid them away ON the mantel, 80 that,
Willie, dear, they will not tempt you. :"
William had noticed that his prospective
father-in-law had of late discarded pipe
and gone to smoking fine cigars, so he
thought business was prospering with the
old man.
One night Willie staid later than usual
Just as he was saying goodby ''for the last
time'' he heard the old gentleman, who
thought he had gone, call out to his daugh-
ter from the head of the stairs: How
about cigars tonight? Were there any in
his pockets!"
William said naught, but went his way.
He is now smoking cigars again.-San
Francisco Newsletter.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

For years the editor OF the Burlington
Junction, (Mo.) Post. has been subject
cramp collie or fits Of indigestion, which
pros rated him fer several hours and I'm
fitted him for business for two or three
days. For the past year he has been using
Chamberlain's Colo, Cholera and Diarrhe1
Remedy whenever occasion required, and
it has invariably given him prompt relief.
Is and so cent bottles for sale by NJ. Lively,
druggist.
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A Difference of OninioD

Dashaway-Helln! old Slan, aren't you
back from the west sooner than you ex-
pected!
Billboard (the trasedian-Yes, my man
ager and the audience didn't agree and /
left
Dashaway-IVhatw was the matter?
Billboart-He wanted me to finish the
act, and they didn't.-Truth
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The Arabs, when they wish to pro
nounce their most forcible nalediction.
say, May thy soul know no more rest
than the hat ON the head Of European
The hats Of kings and emperors must
have been specially in their minds when
they framed this curse.
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When the se.lsitiveness to pain of the
negro, compared with that of the Eu-
ropean. is but one to three. as DR.. Eel
kin concludes it is, what relation to the
latter is, borne by the sensitiveness OF
the monkey: of the bird? of the reptile
and the fish? of creatures lower still?-
London Sunday Magazine?
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MIR. A. K. Hawkes.. Dear Sir have
tn ,roughly tested the glasses you ad-
justed to my eyes some time 40, and
And them to be unsurpassed in clearness
and brilliancy. In fact, they are the best
glasses have ever used.
w. D. BLoxHAM,
Ex-Governor of Florida.
All eyes fitted and the at guaranteed a.
the Drug Store of II. LIVELY,
Tallahassee, Florida.
De Wits SaIsapaSilla c'eanses the blood
increases the appetite and tones up the sys
tenn. Il has benefited many people who
have suffered nom blood disorders. II Wfll
help ron. Sold By j. Lively.
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An AutOma attic AnDlauder.

A Frenchman has perfected al inven-
ton by which managers Of theaters can
ascertain ON first nights, in practical
manner, the feelings of the public. The
cOntrivance is an automatic applauder.
set in motion by five centime piece
New York Journal
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Why He Staid Home.

Dashaway-I thought you said you were
going to Chicago on pass. Didn't you
get it?
Travers (sorrowfully) Yes But [
couldn't get one to come back WITH
Truth.
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Cures all Coughs. Colds. Horseneee. Sore
Throat, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Hemor.
image end all throat and lung diseaseA
An elegant and reliable preparation.
% cents 81 druggists. Prepared only by
DR.. 81. Motley. Atlanta, Go.
April / 6m
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itWhO knows that the time may not yet
,cQEne when small boys in this country
Nz gobble sunfower seeds at the circus
- they now consume the festive
odmiferous goobere
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

The man who never went to the thea.
ter in his life is usually the man who
declares loudest against the immortality
of the stage.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

William Kinstone, an Englishman,
kepe his own accounts, shaved and
Axessed himself, saddled and bridled his
bOF3e, threw sledge hammers and did
other seemingly impossible things with
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Careful Investigations show that in
E1iuary flames charged with common
III tbs yellowness is due to too free
metallic sodium and not to the undecom-
Hosed molecules Of chloride Of sodium.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Several women have been permitted
to practice dentistry in Denmark after
having passed the regular examinations.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
GODEY'S FOR 1892.
YOU NEED MAGAZINE IN YOUR FAMILY, GET ONE THAT
GIVES THE BEST SATISFACTION FOB THE MONEY

GODEY'S will save you in Dress Hints
ten times the cost in one year.
GODEY'S will give you better idea
Of how to dress and what materials to use
than any similar publication.
GODEY'S will give you better reading
than most of the high class $50 called)
magazines.
GODEY'S will give you choice of ~
cut Pater Patterns during the year, alone
worth double the subscription price.
GODY'S will give the best illustrated
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! fashions, both in colors and black g.
lected from the Partisan and Berlin
models.
GODEY'S will continue the Children,s
Corner, which has been so favorably 70
ceived and enjoyed by our younger resa
ers.
GODEY'S will give you in fact the best
of everything within its covers. Ineiud
ing as it does Literature, Fashion, MUSE
Engravings, Dress Hints, Home TaIh
Etiquette, ETC., etc.
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And simple pleasures fnat always please"
To get and keep q healthy body, use DR..
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery, a
remedy designed to not only cure all
diseases of the throat, lungs and chest, but
keep the body in thoroughly healthy con-
dition. It eradicates all impurities from
the blood, and overcomes Indigestion and
Dyspepsia. Blotches, Pimples and erup-
tons disappear, under its use, and your mind
can be sat ease" as to your health.
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! Ins,'' "a Minister'S Outing" 4 Year
Well Spent" etc, etc.
AUGUSTA SALISBURY PRESCOTT, s
we'll known from her writing for the great
New York papers, the World, Advertise,
| ETC., continues to write for us and during
The year " i'll furnish a series of articles
that will be we'll worth the price of the
magazine, entitled New Year Recep-
TONS" AN Afternoon Tea, Jennyb
| Going to be Married. wedding Pres
ents," etc.
BELLE c. GREENE,
" ht Sc numerous sketches, The Hawkins
Family, have made her famous in tbs
way, will give US some new features
which Eve are assured) will be mors
mirth-proy oking than her previous q.
forts.
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! Washington have met with so mueh
favor from our readers. The story b
located in the Capital, and as the ar
thoress herself resides there it is full Il
real incidents. We predict for MarjGA
Lee warm reception from our subsczik
ers, who will be- sure to find her ~
winsome, ard feel that the authoress II
worked for them a fairy web that has
many beauties and real interest woven b
its meshes.
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THE DISCIPLINE OF PAIN,
BY Edgar Fawcett
A story Of New York life, written in
his best vein and manner. His national
reputation is at any time a guarantee of
an ipter sting novelette,.
MARJORIE LEE,
By: Margaret Spencer,
Whose bright and attractive letters from
For the Latter Months we will
Short
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-02-01
THOUGHT To BE DEAD.
Report That Ten Miners Have Per-
ished From Cold.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. Jan. ST.
The steamer from Alaska which arrived
Friday night reports that ten miners are
supposed to have perished of hunger or
cold. Last April Messrs. Orton and S.
o. Wheeler, of Junaeu, accompanied by
eight other miners, left Juneau on the
shore Charley for Lituya bay, taking
eight months provisions. The party
was to return in November. Nothing
having been heard from them great un-
easiness is felt, for they were in the
frozen regions. where it would be i'm
possible to get food,or help. The peo-
pie appealed to Capt. Maynard, of the
United States war ship Plnta, at Sitka,
to 20 to the relief of the missing men.
Maynard declined on account of the
great risk to the ship, and because he
thought the men were beyond reach of
human aid. At mass meeting held in
Juneau the governor was appealed to.
and relief expedition was organized
and sent out in sailing vessels with sup
plies in search of the lost miners. but
with little hope of reScuing them. The
winter at Lituya bay is long aud severe,
and probably the ten missing men have
perlShed,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-02-01

1888 of embeZzlement. He had also been
on trial for fraudulent banking and for
arson. a woman named Helene Gold
stein was accused by the police of aiding
Loewey in his latest swindllng
schemes, and she was taken into
custody soon after the bankers
arrest. The latest development
in the case is the announcement just
made that Loewey and the Goldstein
woman, who it has been alleged had
lived together for years out of wedloci-,
have been married IN prison. The ac-
cused eX-banker hopes by this marriage
to escape the clutches of the law, as he
claims the protection of the statute
which eXempts wife from the compul-
sion of testifying against her hus6fnd
IN criminal court. There is division
of legal opinion as to the likelihood of
this scheme proving successful. The
point will be raised by the prosecution
that the exemption applies only to
wife who was such at the time of the
offense. and that subsequent marriage
cannot be allowed to have the retro
active effect which in this case is
sought to be secured for it.