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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

-Watts-"So you don't believe that
the good die young?"' Potts-'That
used to worry me good deal when
was boy, but | know better now
American Review.
--"This is bad habit to get into"
remarked the girl who had gained
fifteen pounds in month, as she tried
to squeeze into her riding habit r
Philadelphia Record
-"Ah," sighed the moralist," lit is
sad to think what a lot of time is wasted
in America playing poker" YES"
: answered the sharp, especially in
dealing. Illustrated American.
-"If you must know, ma'am," said
the doctor, your husband won't live
twenty-four hours longer" Good
gracious!'' calculated the broken-heart.
ed woman, land here you've gone and
prescribed medicine enough for five
days. "-Tit-Bits.
Practical Suggestion. - Another
Playwright-"Gibbs, I'm blest if ]
know how to wind up this third act.
What would you do?" Gibbs-"Why
not put an advertisement in the papers
under the head of Situation Want.
?'"-Chicago Tribune.
Mamma" said Willie, "do you
pay Jennie fifteen dollars month for
looking after me?" mo, sixteen"
said mamma. "She is a good nurse
and deserves it," "Well, l say, ma,
I'll look after myself for ten dollars
You'll save six dollars by THAR
per's Young people.
An Incomplete Affair.-"I is
plain" said the justice, ''that you stole
the hog, and shall send you upfor
twelve months" "Jedge, kin you
gimme bout one hour 10 l goesY'
"What for?" well, sub, pork won't
keep in dis weather, en- wants ter go
home zen salt dat hog down!'-Atlanta
Constitution.
Two Mexicans were standing at
the door of the little railway station,
each insisting, with infinite bows and
flowing compliments that the other
should precede him. "0h, how de.
liciously potter said the tourist lady.
"Why can't our American men learn
such politeness?" at amt so much
politeness, num- explained the resi-
dent American gentlemen, las that no
Greaser don't like to give no other
Greaser chance to git close behind
his back. indianapolis Journal.
Judgment of an Expert. Eel
laire formerly Rusty Rufus)-"How
long have you been working the racket
young fellow" Whining Mendicant-
81 hain't had no regular job fur four
years, mister, an all want is a few
cents SOS l kin git somethin' to-
Mr.. Fellaire greatly disgusted)- Been
at it four years and can't put up bet.
ter job of pulling mans leg for his
crap-shooters than thatl You'd better
60 to work, young man. You haven't
got dsrned bit of talent for this bust
ness"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
THE WOODS IN WINTER.
Beautiful Lace Effects OF the Snow Among


Beautiful Lace Effects OF the Snow Among
the Treetops.
The snow-carpeted woodlands are
best seen toward evening of cloudless
day, when the white silence of the
place is here and there tinctured with
pale rose from the bright horizon.
There is ordinarily absolute silence in
the snow-carpeted woodland, save for
the sough of the winds through the
trees, though one he rs at times the
cry of the hungry redbird, shy
creature that shows like live coal
against the snow. Two things besides
the silence impress one strongly
in the evening woodland-the warm
tint of the horizons all around, from
the red of the west to the shellpinlS
with leaden undertone of the east, and
the variety of lace-like effects yielded
by the treetops against this back
ground. The horizon varies in sugges-
ton as in color. There is a still in
tensity in the western glow undis-
turbed by moving clouds, and varying
srom dark red at the.very base of the
distant trees to a pale, clear, cold
nothingness few degrees above the
horizon and well up among the tree
tops. One sees now and then the top
of the tallest evergreen wagging in
this soft ether, having got far enough
above its fellows to have breathing
space. The shell-pink of the east,
nnnla1 with tho nd -
color is livid at the very horizon and
seems altogether removed from the
human sympathy that g!ows in the
warmer west.
AS to the lace-lilsc effect of the tree
tops, an expertin laces could doubtless
easily classify the delicate tracery of
the several varieties of trees, identify
ing each with some rare school of lace
work, and it is hard to believe that
these effects did not furnish hints for
the early designers of laces. The
birches surely set the pattern for the
most delicate school and the multi
tudinous twigs of the elms must have
given the hint for some school scarcely
less elaborate The birches, by the
way, look as if they might have been
created of the very stuff from which
they seem to spring. 1t seems a mar
BILE floor, grown up with marble trunks
and branches.
The familiar aspects of trees and
shrubs seem altered In the presence of
the snow The smooth, silvery beauty
of the beech limbs is accentuated by
the white carpet beneath, and the ever
green's look denser and more like ink
blots than before. They and the
birches are chiefly responsible for the
subarctic effects. The latter seem to
bear in their bending trunks and droop-
ing tops the record of many wet and
clinging snowfalls. Long after the
woodland in ordinary times would be a
maze of branch-entangled gloom the
dry, cold air and the reflected light
from the snow make it still compare
lively bright When one has finally
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
The Switzerland of Asia.

Corea may be called the Switzerland
of Asia. 1t is land of mountains and
valleys, of crystal lakes and trickling
streams. We rode for days through
one beautiful valley after another; now
going for miles through fields of rice
lands, laid out in terraces and covered
with water, out Of whose CLASSY white
surface the emerald green sprouts
were just peeping. Such valleys lie
right in the mountains, and the hills
which rise from them are as ragged
and as bare as the silvery mountains
of Greece. They change in their hues
with every change of the heavens, and
they now look like silver, and again
turn to masses of velvet and gold,
spotted here and there with navy blue
pines. The clouds nestle in their hol-
lows, and their tops, in the ever-vary-
ing air of Corea, assume at the edge of
the evening all sorts of fantastic
shapes, st, Louis Republic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
CLEVER PlCkPOCKET.

Tho Grand bake Won His Bet. But He,
g. Too. Lost His valuables.
twas curious thing to brag about,
but 1t is said to be fact, narrated by a
foreign journal, that upon the occasion
ola certain dinner given by Russian
grand duke to the French ambassador
the Frenchinan ventured to say that In
picking pockets no people could surpass
the thieves Of Paris.
II should not wonder if the st.
Petersburg pickpockets could give them
start" replied tho grand duke. And
seeing a smile Of unbclief playing
around the features Of the ambassador,
he added: "Will you wager that be-
fore we rise from the table your watch
or some other valuable will not be taken
from your person."
The ambassador accepted the wager
for the fun of the thing, and the grand
duke telephoned to the chief constable,
asking him to send at once the clever
est pickpocket he could lay his hands
on. The thief was to receive the full
value of every article he managed to
steal, and be allowed to go unpublished.
The man came and was put into
livery, and told to wait at table along
with the other servants. The grand
duke told him to give him sign as
soon as he had picked the pocket of the
ambassador. But he had to wait long
time, for the ambassador, whose watch
was tho article to be experimental
upon, always kept on the alert, and
even held his hand to his fob when con.
versing with the most distinguished
guests at the table. At last the grand
duke received the signal. He at once
requested the ambassador to tell him
the time. The latter triumphantly put
his hand to his pocket and drew forth
potato instead of his watch There
was a general burst of laughter, II
which the ambassador himself Joined
though with wry face, for he was un
mistakably annoyed. To conceal hi:
feelings he would take pinch of snuff
His snuff-box was gone! Then he
missed the seal-ring from his finger
and, lastly, the gold toothpick which he
always carried with him in little case
Amid the laughter Of the guests the
sham lackey was requested to restore
the articles; but the grand-duke's merri
ment was changed into alarm and sur
prise when the thief produced two
watches, two rings, two snuff boxes
etc. His imperial highness made the
discovery that he himself had beer
robbed at the same time.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

Mr.. Peter j, Brigham, q native OF
Vermont, leng resident in Boston, died
eighteen years ago, bequeathing ST, OO0,-
900, the principal and interest at the
end of twenty-five years TO be used in
erecting and maintaining a free pub
lie hospital in Boston. The fund now
amounts to Sc, 100000.
Queen Victoria has not opened pa
lament in person for nine years and
her physical disabilities are such that
she is never likely to open it again, as
she could not ascend the staifcases.
She is now restricted to functions
which do not require any eXertion or
to which she can be carried in o bath
chair. it
1t is current gossip that book col
lector was prompted to decide upon
notable recent sale by the fact that
when his daughter came to him asking
for one of SCOTS novels she found that
Sir Walter was not included in her
fathers library. 1t suddenly seemed
to the collector that he should have
some of the books that his children
were likely to read.
Irene Soma, who lately died at
Smyrna, and Adelheid Wagner, who
passed away at Hamburg, were extra
ordinary women from the fact that
they had lived respectively liz and
104 years and had all their faculties to
the last. Marguerite Bouyenval, on
the other hand, is remarkable because
she has lain in a trance for twelve
years, and thus has no faculties at all,
so far as anybody knows.
Theodore d. Weld, one of the
original anti-slavery agitators, died
Sunday in Boston, aged 81 years. He
had national career, having been
contemporary with John Brown,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and
William Lloyd Garrison, and survived
them all He was prominently identi-
fled with the Unitarian society, being
one of its founders, as well as that Of
the Public Library and Historical
society.
One still finds here and there in
the cities an old engraver struggling
to maintain himself by his art in the
face of an irresistible competition with
mechanical processes. One such oc-
cupied garnet room in New York
not many years ago, and found
time in the intervals of business to gos.
| sip of early and better days of the
| drunken engraver who was held a
| prisoner for weeks while counterfeit
ers made him engrave bank-note dies,
| of the locally famous men of the art,
and of its joys and temptations.
"A curious anniversary dinner was
eaten the other day in Baltimore. II
was the fifty-6fth birthday of friend
ship which has attained this ripe age
between two women, without break OF
mar of any sort. Fifty-five years age
on the day of the recent feast the two
ladies, then little girls, cemented q
short acquaintance by eating play
dinner togetheiSp Both recalled the
date and occasion, and, at this second
dinner, the old iron kettle which had
figured in the preparation of the first
meal, more than half century earlier
was resurrected to serve, less capably
| perhaps, but with infinite distinction
along with the modern pots and pans
The old kettle should be perpetuated
in canvas in duplicate, that the poster
ity of each of these faithful frie nds
could preserve at least the counterfeit
prescntment Of the historic vessel.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
One Dollar Per Year.
BRUINS BOXING MATCH
Evidently the Boar DID lot Understand
tho Laws of GravItation.

Evidently the Boar DID lot Understand
tho Laws of Gravltation.
"A couple of us were splitting slabs In
the MadawaslSa woods along in the
fall, when, all of sudden, the head OF
the maui flew OF, The maui struck
tree glanced, and took Bill on the side
of the knee. 1t keelcd him over SO he
couldn't do any more work that day,
and l had to help him back to the camp.
Before we left, took bit of cod-line
out of my pocket, ran 1t through the
eye of the maui, and strung the maui
up to branch so it would be easier to
find when wanted 1t. "
at was maybe week before went
for that maul-a little more than q
week, should say; and then, it being
of Saturday afternoon, when there
was no work to do, and Bills leg being
so much better that he could hobble
alone, he and thought we'd stroll over
to where we'd been splitting, and bring
the maui in to camp.
"When we got pretty near the place,
md could see through the trees the
maui hanging there where we had left
it, Bill all Of sudden grabbed me
sharp by the arm, and whispered; Keep
stillr
"'What is it?' said 1, under my
breath, looking all around.
"'Use your eyes II you've got any,
said he; and l stared through the
branches in the direction he was look
ing. But there was trunk in the way.
AS soon as moved my head bit, l
saw what he was watching. There
was fine young bear sitting back on
his launches, and looking at the maui
as if he didn't know what to make of it.
Probably that bear had once been hurt
in trap, and SO had grown suspicious.
That there maui hanging from the
limb of a tree was something different
from anything he'd ever seen before.
Wondering what, he was going to do,
we crept little nearer, without maxi
in any noise, and crouched down be-
hind q spruce-bush.
1.-THE bear was maybe couple OF
yards from the maui, and watching 1t
as if he thought it might get down any
moment and come at him. A little gust
of wind came through the trees and set
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
NOVEL MOUSE TRAP.
It Is so Simple That Each of Our Boy
Readers Can Make One.


Readers Can Make One.
Mice are very knowing little animals,
and are often too shrewd to be caught
by even the best steel traps. To make
o very effective mouse trap take a large
: jar--the kind used for jamand preserves
and tie over the top piece of stiff
brown paper In the center of this cut
q cross. Set the jar in closet, and
suspend by string q piece of toasted
cheese or bacon rind over the center.
II the mice cannot easily reach the top
of the jar runway may be constructed
by placing one end of board on the
edge of the jar, and allowing the other
end to rest on the floor If there are
any mice about the bait will attract
them. Just as soon as the first mouse
reaches the center of the paper he will
drop through into the Jar, and the
paper will fly back ready for the next
conner.
The same kind of trap may be used
for catching rats, only barrel must
be substituted for the jar. A rat will
soon gnaw out of such trap If not
prevented. The best way to avoid
this is to fill the barrel partly with
water. This trap is d great favoritc
with country people. They lay u good
sized stone or brick in the bottom of
the barrel, and pour in just enough
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
FOR, YOUNG PEOPLE.
A TROUBLESOME CHILD.

Ny Maud Louise is Paris doll 81
With the cupningost turned-up noso,
And four white teeth. and q parasol,
And lace oil over her clothes
And, goodness, isn't she just tho worstl
She's never moment still
She sucked my red balloon till 1t burst
OF course she was deathly H.
She's always running away to hide
On purpose to mako me search;
She jumps on wagons to steal ride.
And giggles aloud in church,
She broke tho blade OF my pocketknifei
Haven't o dish unoracked
Why, every day OF her naughty life
She has to DO simply whackcdl
I'm Just discouraged. Won't some Of you
Whose dollies arc good and mild
Please write me. telling me what to do
To manage this dreadful childS
Juliet w. Tompkins, In Harpers Youn
People. ia
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
AN ,AUTOCRAT OF CLUBDoM.
Cockney Attendants con the Door" Make II
Pleasant for yisitOrs

Cockney Attendants con the Door" Make 1t
Pleasant for Visitors.
A noticeable feature of the Anglo
mania which prevails in some parts of
Chicago is the employment of coo kncy
attendants by some of the clubs They
manage to surround the admission of
an unintroduced stranger to the club
precincts with an amount of ceremony
that would suffice for the vestibule of
the Grand Llama. A gentleman from
Boston called to see friend, who is
member of one of the swell establish
ments.
SIS Mr.. F. IMP" he asked of the
brass-buttoned flunky who sat in an
Observation-Disclosures arm chair near
the door.
Hi cawn't say, sir"
Cant you find out?"
"Hi was not 'ired to make inquiries
hove the sort"
"Can l go upstairs and find out for
MYSELF"
my horders is, see that no strangers
goes hup-stairs."
HAS the club any superintendent"
''llit as, but 'e's hout"
"Well, what does stranger do who
wants to see member"
"E waits until member of the 'ouse
committee comes or C calls agin.''
perhaps you'd condescend to take
my card and give it to Mr.. +. when you
see him?"
Hits not my place. Him not con-
descendin' to nothink."
Whereby the exasperated caller made
his final appeal.
Can l sit down on the curbstone
outside and rest myself?'' .-
"You can hasls the porter; 'e's good
'arted chap, an perhaps therell be no
hobjection, Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
SAVANNAH COUNTY, THURSDAY

left its skirts and come out into the
open it is to find the moon striving
with night and day to ethereahze both,
the few stars looking unutterable
things from downy depths of Heaven
and the horizon etched in blaclSness
just below the broad band of varie-
gated lace that marks the line of the
tree-tops. IN. Y. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
A Dusiness Proposition.

Mamma" said Willie, "do you pay
Jennie fifteen dollars month for Look
ing after me?'
mo, sixteen" said mamma. "She Is
a good nurse and deserves It,"
swell, say, ma, I'll look after my
self for ten. You'll save six by it,
Hsrper's Young People,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14

water to come level with the top of
this. The first rat which tumbles in,
of course, climbs on the brick to get
out of the water, AS soon as another
victim arrives there is fight for pos
session of the only dry spot. Tho
noise attracts other rodents, so by
morning dozen or more may be swim
ming and squealing and fighting for
dear lifo.-N. Y. Recorder.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14
Didn't Like to Be Called Names.

GLOW do yos like that little French
girl next door, Polly?"
Don't ike her at at all, said Polly.
"She calls me names. She called me a
ma'amselle yesterday, and amt
Harpers Bazaar,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-14

ras an old man then, he
d one now. He is regarded
tain reverence by the native
He still wanders to the
I'd, with feeble stops, and
tewiththe quiet inmates.
rather faded from his
Ies but little interest
&ud musk-stented soil
ne hopes that some
Some day, he will
md then all win be
Hall. in NY. hide
ua is Portuguese for
ne district inabited by
as named in honor Of
led head dresses,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-16
ORDNANCE NO. 10.
It's Validity Called Into Account
Mt This Late Day.


ut This Late Day.
The case of Henry Thiel, charged
with keeping a disorderly house on
Robert street, was before Judge Orr
yesterday afternoon, on a continuance.
The legal aspect of the case seems to
hang upon the validity of that portion
of the councils proceedings, Familiarity
known as Ordinance No. 10. The point
was argued at some length by the at
torneys yesterday, and again contin-
ued until Monday at p. M, when it
Is expected that the case will be ter
minated
The keepers of fourteen houses of
questionable repute were fined $1OO
each in the police court yesterday.
Charles Dixon, a driver for the Min
nesota Milk company, was fined $25 for
violating the dairy laws.
c. H. Philips, charged with petty lar
ceny by Officer Carroll was discharged.
Yesterday morning aus Officer Cru
ber, who was off duty, was walking
down the street, he noticed two sus-
picious-looking individuals whose nom
chalant attracted his attention. A lit
tie investigation developed the fact
that the men were trying to dispose of
valuable revolver at the pawnshops.
They could give no satisfactory ac-
count of themselves, so Officer Morse
was called, and the strangers invited
to take a ride to the central station.
They are now behind the bars charged
with vagrancy. The cases were con-
tinued in the municipal court yester-
day afternoonuntil Nov. 16. G. w.
Aban and ]. ]. Malone are the names
of the prisoners, who claim to be rail-
road operators. Aban is fifty-two
years old and Malone a youth of nine
teen.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-16
ROW IN THE FIRM.

The dental firm of DR.. J. G. Corcoran
and Dr. Hiram L. Sumption is engaged
in civil war, the upshot of which is
that Dr. Corcoran yesterday filed
complaint In the district court in which
he asks for an accounting and the ap-
pointment of receiver to settle up
the affairs of the firm preparatory to
the dissolution of the partnership. In
the complaint he alleges that the part
nership was formed in November, lsS4,
and was to last five years. But that
for the past six months the defendant
has persistently violated the agree
ment; that he collected money and re-
fused to pay his share of the debts or
his share of the work; that he has been
telling lies about the business WIN
view to forcing plaintiff to buy MN
out. and threatens to destroy 1t unless
plaintiff does so. The assets OF the
firm are placed at $1,000, with $500 la
bilities.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-16
THREE ARE NOT VALID.
Gen. ChiIds Passes on More In.
surance Riders.

surance Riders.
Commissioner Smith, of the state in
surance department, received another
opinion yesterday from Attorney Cen
eral Childs upon the legality of four
forms. of riders relating to additional
riders which the insurance men propose
to attach to their policies. Mr.. Childs
holds that three of the forms sub
mitted are Illegal, and that the first
rider, providing that the company shall
be liable to the assured for the actual
loss of rent ensing from a destruction
of rented property by fire, not exceed
ing the amount of the insurance is
valid. Provision No. g. which the
companies desired to attach, was to the
effect that the assured must carry in
surance to the amount of not less than
rs per cent of the actual annual rents
of the premises, and the third provided
that the company should be liable only
for the proportion of the loss which
the insurance bore to the actual annual
rental of the premises at the time of
the fire.
The attorney general holds that this
provision makes the assured CO.
insurer, which is forbidden by the law.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-16
SUPREME COURT ROUTINE.
Cases Heard Yesterday and Those
for Monday.

The supreme court heard the follow
ing cases yesterday:
State of Minnesota VS.. j. r. Burns.
Stricken from the calendar.
A. N. Nelson VS.. G. L. Becker. Sub
mitted on briefs.
Sarah E. Swift VS.. H. B. Withers.
Submitted on briefs.
Brown & Haywood Company VS.. c.
N. Chadbourne. Order entered and ap-
plication for reargument denied
The supreme court will hear the fol-
lowing cases Monday:
Adel:ne Gurney ct al, appellants (65
VS.. 9500, The Minneapolis Union Ele-
vator Company, respondent.
Duluth Investment Company, re-
spondent (S9 VS.. 9522), N. H. Witt, ap-
pellant.
State of Minnesota, respondent GIG
VS.. 9792), Crossley Park Land Com
pany, appellant.
Farmers National Bank of Owa-
tonna, respondent (266 VS.. 977Ol, Hiram
Backus ct al, defendants; c. w. Bur-
die, appellant Order to show cause.