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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
GRANDMA-LAND.

There's wonderful country for away,
And Its name is Grandma-Land;
Tis q beautiful, glorious, wltching place
With grandmas on every hand.
Everywhere you may look or go,
Everywhere that the breezes blow,
Just grandmammas. Just grandmammssl
IN this wonderful country for away
Where grandmammas abide,
In this beautiful, wltchlng Graudma-Lan
Tho Good Things walt on every side
Jam and Jelly y-cake heaped In pllesi
Tarts and candy round for miles;
Just Good Things here Just Good Things
therel
In this wonderful country far, aiar,
Where blow the candy breezes,
In this beautiful. glorious ppdding-land
Each child does Just as he pleases
All through the night, ell through the day,
Every single child has his way
Each his own way Just as he pleasesl
In this wonderful country far away
In this gorgeous grandma Cline
When tired children can eat no more,
There are stories OF "Once on Time"
Stories are told and songs are sung,
OF when the grandmammas were young
"Oncc on Timel" well, Let me seel"
To this wonderful country far, afar,
Where only Good Things stay.
To this beautiful { ,rious Grandma-Land
Good children only find the way.
But when they sleep and when they dream
Away they float on the gliding stream
To Grandma Land To Grandma Land
Hayden Carruth, in Harper's Young People
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
One Dollar Per Year =.
ENTERTAINING GAME.
Any Boy Can Make the Board on whioh
Il IL Played.


To play this new game you can either
use the checker board, or, better still.
make the game board complete IN itself.
l viii show you how to make 1t before
describing how to play the game. Ii
you have tools Of your own, so much
will be gained, II not, you will have to
get some one to make part of the game
board at least.
Get six pieces Of wood turned in tho
shape Of checkers. If you have six
spare checkers they will do, but do not
spoil one toy to make another. You
must next have q piece of wood long
enough to allow seven holes to be put
in, little larger in diameter than the
checkers,
Fig. This must be tackled or glued
to a foundation one-quarter OF an inch
larger all round, and the same thick
ness as the other board, one-quarter OF
an inch.
Fig. 2.-The checkers must be colored
to distinguish them, three painted black
and three white. If the whole ia
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
These Ants Keep Slaves.

It Is now a well-established fact that
several species of ants keep slaves,
which are "bondsmen" and bonds
women" in every sense Of those terms.
Sir John Lubbock describes species
which live In the valley Of the Amazon
and which have enslaved neighbor-
ing tribe of ants and compel them to
perform all kinds Of menial labors,
even to cleaning and feeding their
masters These opulent Shareholders
have become 30 hzy that they viii
actually starve before they will feed
themselves, even though food be with
In easy reach.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
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white to the left, neither being allowed
to move backwards.
Q. You can jump over only one man
at time, as In checkers, making, OF
course, succession Of jumps II there
are vacant spaces to do So
8. No piece can jump over its own
color.
Here is the key showing how 1t Ia
done; but 1 would advise everyone TO
try to do it first without looking at tho
key, as there is more satisfaction
gained. For the sake Of explanation
we will letter the pieces or checkers
and number the spaces, as In Fig. 8.
The black are lettered A, B, O, and tho
white D, d, f. l. Move G to 4. ii.
Jump D over @ into 8. III. Move e to
5. ". Jump G over d into Q. V. Jump
B over D into 4. vi. Move A to Q.
VII. Jump D over A to 1. VIII. Jump
e over B into 8. TX. Jump B over O
into 5. X. Move @ to Z. XII. Jump B
over f into 9. XII. Jump A over %
into 4. XIII. Move q to Q. XIV. Jump
F over A into 8. XIV. Move A to 8, and
the game is finished Golden Days.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02

The Japanese language has some
features which puzzle beginners in its
use. In English when one has learned
the name for rice that ends it. Not so
In Japan. Begin with cooked rice,
meshi. When eaten by child it is
called mama. In speaking to another
person of eating rice you call it gozen.
As merchant sells it, uncooked, it is
kome. and as it grows in the field it is
inc. So carpenters foot, or shaku, is
about twelve inches, but a tailor's is
fifteen. A kin or pound of beef is four
teen ounces, of flour twenty-one, of
sugar over thirty. The ri or mile
varies in different pro oyinces, and on the
Fujiyami ascent halt a ri is marked a ri,
because it's so much harder work going
up hill!-Troy Times
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
APsvohologIcal Phenomenon.


"Yes, sir; kin remember things
that happened fore any of you fellers
came to this part o. the country" said
the man whose boasting takes the
reminiscent form.
go way" replied his auditor.
II recollect when this here town wus
jes swamp, an land wasn't wuth two
dollars an acre"
"Wall, don't contradict you. But
you certainly are GURUS case. Yer a
mystery an no mistake"
"Ain't nothin' so mysterious in my
rememberin' these things, is they?"
mo. But what don't see-an' l
wouldn't mention it only as matter Of
scientific investigatio9-is how a man
that kin remember years an years
back, like you do, could forget that
three dollars he bc.,ried more'n two
months ago. o."-Washington Star.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
DEATH FROM BROKEN HEART.
Some Singular Cases of the Eject OF
Sudden Emotion.

OOIno biukulhr Odhtb VI tho ANsN'~- -
Sudden Emotion
In the old days, when the practice OF
medicine was according to lot of IL
logical empirical notions, "broken
heart" was often set down as causing
death. Later, in the youth of medical
science, it was declared that there was
no such thing as heartbreak, and it
is not so many years even now since
the doctors found out that excessive
emotion does, sometimes, actually
cause rupture of the marvellous muscle
that, strongest and at the same time
most delicate of the human body, sends
the life blood coursing and pulsating
through every artery of the entire sys-
tenn. 1t seems to be agreed by doctors
that Mrs. Agnes Wolfe, of Brooklyn,
died of broken heart the other day,
for the certificate of death gave "heart
failure and excessive grief as the
cause. Mrs. Wolfe's grief was on ac-
count of the death of her mother. 1t
was in June that relief came to the
elder woman, who had suffered from a
painful illness for months, and the
younger was never herself again,
After her death her funeral was delayed
several days, in order to enable the
doctors to definitely decide upon the
cause of her death. 1t is not often
that heartbreak operates so slowly.
Usually it causes death in few hours,
if not instantly.
One Of the saddest deaths that might
properly be spoken of as due to a
broken heart occurred on September 1,
ten years ago, in Cadiz, o. The victim
was Miss Alice McCiba, young and
exceedingly intelligent girl of rather
nervous temperament. She was en-
gagged to marry James Nash, young
man who was given to joking. On the
Saturday evening prior to his sweet
hearts death young Nash called upon
her, according to his weekly custom.
During the entire evening he allowed
his rather clumsy wit full play. When
he was ready to go, after kissing the
girl goodnight, he turned suddenly
and said:
"Well, Alice, guess I won't come tc
see you again. We've had a good time
playing engaged, haven't we? Well
be friends all our lives now, but that's
all"
Alice looked searchingly in his face
and then sank to the floor in spasm
dying in thirty-six hours. N. Y. Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
BIRDS AS FORAGlSTS.
They Change Localities According to the
Food Supply.

They Change Localities According to the
Food Supply.
Food provision is the object for
which birds periodically change their
dwelling places. The sovereigns, the
bishops the barons of old and medieval
times, when they had exhausted the
resources of one estate, moved on to
another. This was the reason of the
constant journeyings Of our ancestors
in the days gone by, when each dis
trict provided for its own needs
The fashion among birds still prevails.
Hence the great waves of bird life con-
stantly ebbing and flowing high up in
the ocean of air; hence the regular
migrations so wonderful in the dis
tances and dangers little birds COM
pass in their long flights over thou
sands of miles; hence the fitful fittings
which, on smaller scale, distinguish
even the birds that are classified as
stationary species.
There is no food at all left for the
birds in the higher arctic regions in
winter; plants, fish, insects are killed
or buried in the ice and snow; the vast
hordes of jennings, little creatures
near akin to the voles that have made
such ravages on the sheep farms of
southern Scotland of late years, leave
these high latitudes; there is nothing
left even for birds of prey.
In the summer, wild luxuriance of
forest, field and fen, shoals of fish in
the great rivers and the deep blue sea,
swarms of insects flying in dense clouds
over field and ford and steppe, and
birds in teeming multitudes-sea birds,
river birds, sand birds, ,hill-loviug birds,
wood-haunting birds, field birds, birds
big and birds little, myriad hosts of
birds. In the winter, frozen seas, ice
bound rivers, iron hills, snow-clad for
ests, snowy fields, no fish, no insects,
no SEEDS, no berries, no worms visible
even to sharp bird-eyes; therefore no
birds.
In the countries bordering on the
polar seas, where the changing seasons
bring alternately the two extremes of
dearth and plenty, birds are more
numerous in the short summer than
| anywhere else all the world over, and
in winter absent altogether. All are
migrants there by force Of circum-
stance.-N. Y. Ledger.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
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FIG. I.

stained or vanished 1t will look much
better. You can, II you wish, make a
lid or cover, as shown In Fig 8. 1t is.
Of course, the same size as Fig Q, al
though it must be little deeper than
the board having the holes in, as it has
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
lOOOOOOO|
FIG. III.

to allow for the height Of the checkers,
and so must be made one-eighth OF an
inch deeper inside than they are in
height. If you do not want to go to
the trouble of making board, you can
either use seven squares Of a checker
board, or else draw the pattern on your
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
Transparent Water.

In the fiords on the Norway coast tho
clearness of the water is wonderful.
Objects the size Of hali-dollar may b
seen at L depth OF twenty-five or thirty
fathoma
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
FIG. III.

slate or paper. The game is played in
this way; You place the three black
checkers at one end, and the three
white ones at the other, there being a
vacant hole between, as shown.
Fig. 4.-The game is to get the three
black checkers to change places with
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
RoYaltY,s Bad Pun.

"No," said Sultan Abdul Aziz, 81
shall do no more marrying for day or
two, anyway.
"But, my son." argued the queen
mother, 'you have no time to lose.
Your father, the late Muley Hassan,
had no fewer than two thousand wives,
while you have but scant hundred" p"
His serene highness shrugged his
shoulders.
II trust" he exclaimed, "you don't
expect me to i'm itate the harem-scare-
him existence of him who was my pre-.
decessor or this throne"
And the sultan laughed hoarsely, as
was his custom when he thought he
was funny.-Chicago News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02

Sailing vessels in the Australian
trade frequently carry only one or two
passengers, who share the saloon with
the captain and chief officer Aboard
one vessel recently there was only one
passenger, and the captain and mate
generally contrived to get the most
and best of what was on the table. One
day there was roly-poly pudding,
with sweetmeats in the middle. "Do
you like puddin' ends, sir?" asked the
captain. mo, l don't like pudding
ends, sir" said the guest. "Well, me
and my mate do" said the captain,
cutting the pudding in two, and put
ting one-half on the mates plate and
the other on his own. n.-Household
Words.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
FIG. ~.

FIG. ~.
the three white ones under the follow
Ing conditions'
/. You must only move one way-i.
O., the black move to the right and the
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02

"a had long argument with Jiniz
this morning" said the controversial
man, land l convinced him" 80 he
told me-" "Ha! He acknowledged it
to you, did hep "Yes He said he'd
rather be convinced than talked to
Heath any day."-Washington Star.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02

- OF see what this has to do
tn the subject on which was
q" he said, and the doctor only
s,llis quiet sinils. Pail Mall Bud
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
PERSONAL MENTION.
Those Who Go and Those who Come.

Those Who Go and Those Who Come.
Miss Margaret 4. Vansant, is visit
ing friends in Baltimore.
Mrs. Frank deS. Bensinger, Of Balti-
more, is visiting friends in Annapolis.
Miss Ola III. Abbott. of Baltimore, is
visiting the Misses Linthicum, Main
street.
Miss Barber, of Washington, ID. c..
is visiting Miss Bertha Gardiner, Con-
duit street.
Mrs. Harry j. Kinds, of Baltimore,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Ms.
James III. Vansant, West street.
Misses Eva and May Crandell, of
West River, are visiting their aunt, Mrs.
John III. Busch, Market street.
Mrs. Floto, of Pittsburg, Pa, and
Mis-. Laben, of Toronto, haYe returned
home after delightful visit to friends
in Annapolis.
Miss Annie Marshall and Miss Marie
Kimball, of Baltimore, who have been
visiting Miss Margaret +. Vansant,
West street, have returned.
Mr.. Edward p. Banks and wife of
Philadelphia, Pa, who have been visit
ing Mr.. Bank 3 parents, at Fort Madi-
son, opposite the Naval Academy, le-
turned today.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.


Picked Up Here and There by Oar UbIqui-
tous Reporters
What is the matter with the hydrant
water today?
Mayor Latrohe of Baltimore, is
learning TO ride bicycle.
There was another big haul of rock
fish today 10y the purse net fishers.
The Weather Bureau man predicts
generally fair and slightly warmer
weather for Friday.
Mr.. Joseph S. NJ. Basil has made
big cut in the price of coal. See adver-
tisement.
The Annapolis base ball club played
the Mill Greek team this afternoon OH
the College grounds.
There was an unusual demand for
the Baltimore S1tn this morning and
the supply was soon exhausted.
"A large delegation went to Balti-
more today to wait OH the Governor in
the interest of Mr.. j. Ill. Bells for
supervisor of election.
Mr.. Thomas ID. Lee, WAS the only
one present at the meeting vest erday
voting against the resolutions condemn
ing the Misrepresentation of the San.
"A large number of persons were in
Annapolis today on business with the
State board of appeal, including III. M.
Murry and President Eliason, of the
Colchester Steamboat Company.
Selling Off Summer Millinery below
cost. Trimmed and Untrimmed
Hats and Bonnets. Some as low as
Gets. and upwards. AT Miss
lNAA1Inxv A rtt,aAol RnflHfnO o9N
Capt. w. L. Finley, United States
Army stationed at the adjutant. generals
office, is preparing his annual report,
when will be submitted to the adjutant-
general of the army in September. 1t
will give detailed report of the opera
tons and conditions of the Maryland
militia, and will cover about fifty pages.
AS the Goth of August approa che $
you should fortify your system with
DR.. Humphreys Specific "77," and es-
cape Hay Fever. Price 25 cents at all
druggists.
The Peoples Meat Co. have opened
their new store Oh Market space under
the management of Mr.. s. Z. Cheese
man.
WatermeIons-''Ic Cold, delivered
any hour on Sunday. Cheapest in town.
Peoples Meat Co., Market Space. *27
The Short Line will run special train
to Bay Ridge, leaving Annapolis at 10
a. M, on the following dates, August
eth, 10th and oath. 9. A. CooSIBs.
Hardware, Tinware, Carpenter
Tools, Gasoline and Oil. Feed, Hay,
Grain, &C., for sale by JOHN II. RAW
ILNGs, West ST., opp. A.. w. q B. Depot
The Peoples Meat Co., on Market
space, S. p. theseman, manager, have
the best quality of meats and vegeta-
hleR.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
THE "sUN" DO MOVE.
DR.. George Wells and the Baltimore
"Sun."

AT the meeting of the regular Demo-
Gratis yesterday at the Court House, DR.
George Wells. in response to the call of
district representatives, ,after saying that
the Annapolis Democracy was daily
growing more solid and would do its
duty in November next, declared that he
would not he doing his duty To the
Democrats of this county il he did not
denounce the course Of the Baltimore
SuR for its mis-, representations of the
Anne Arundel emocracy. This was
the signal for burst of enthusiastic ap-
plause. Il don't want to he elected by
the votes of such people, said he. ru-
multlous cheering and cor ptinued ap-
plause. "'rneY have attacked me sew
eral times. and if they do it again / in
tend To make it a personal matter with
them. They are now trying TO inter-
fere with the appointment ofsupervisor
of election in this county. / consider
it a piece of funwarrantable impertinence
This paper has never done the Democra-
cy of Anne Arundel justice. | recog-
nize no man rs u bass. Applause.
When Mr.. German does right, Iapprove
him. When he does wrong, disapprove,
like do to any other man. | don I
want the support of the Baltimore San.
[Applause.l / desire the approval of my
fellow citizens" lAppiause.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
Cycling News.

The Annapolis Cycle Club had run
TO Camp Parole last night, where the
wheelmen enjoyed themselves at the
German picnic.
The next run of the Annapolis Cycle
Club will be held on Sunday to Sandy
Point. Wheelmen will start from the
Annapolis Bicycle Agency.
Rambler wheels 1895 model new,
guaranteed, 800. Sold on easy terms.
Crawfords, wood rim, fully guaranteed,
$50. Terms to suit the purchaser. An
napolis Bicycle Agency.
A number of members of the Annap-
oils Cycle Club expect to go to Cambridge
on the 18th to witness the races to he
held in that place by the Eastern Shore
clubs.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
A cure for every disease
Tour to the North via the Pennsylvania
Railroad.

Tour to the North via the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
The last of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company personally-conducted tours
10 the North will leave on August 10th.
These tours traverse more than seven
teen hundred miles of the most magnifi-
cent country, and "A participant III the
last tour, an extensive traveller, states
that in his experience he has found no
other tours of equal distance so replete
in points of genuine interest, every one
of which in itself is well worth the trip.
The stop at Quebec, il new feature, add
ed greatly to the success OF the last
tour.
The names of the places to lie visited
are familiar 10 all aud suggestive OF Won
derland. No matter how much may lie
expected, one cannot be disappointed in
Watkins Glen, Niagara Falls, Thous-
and Islands, Quebec, Montreal, Au Sa-
ble Chasm, Lakes Champlain and George,
Saratoga, or the Highlands of the Hud-
son. The round-trip rate of 800 from
New York, Brooklyn. Newark, Tren-
ton, Philadelphia. Harrisburg, Balti-
more and Washington will cover all the
necessary expenses during the time alb
sent. A beautiful descriptive itineracy
can lie procured from the tourist depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1876
Broadway, New York, or Room All,
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
just What's Needed

Exclaims thousands of people who have
taken Hoods Sarsaparilla at this season
of the year, and who have noted the sue
cess of the medicine in giving them re-
lief from that tired feeling, waning APP
petite and state of extreme exhaustion
after the close confinement of a long
winter season, the busy time attendant
upon large and pressing business dur
ing the spring months and with vaca-
tiOn time yet some weeks distant. Its
then that the building-up powers of
Hood Is Sarsaparilla are fully appreciated
1t seems perfectly adapted to overcome
that prostration caused by change of
season, climate or life, and while i. tones
and sustains the system, it purifies and
vitalizes the blood.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
NAVAL NEWS.
Orders issued - Armor for Torpedo
Boats

The following naval orders have been
issued Passed Assistant Surgeon +.
r. Stitt has been detached from special
duty and ordered to the New York as
the relief of Passed Assistant Surgeon
J. +. Uric, VINO has been detached with
two months leave. Lieutenant Niblack
of the navy, has been instructed to in-
struct the naval militia of Pennsylvania
at Augustine Park, where they will as
semble August 18th TO 24th.
There has been received at the Navy
Department a sample of steel : of an
inch in thickness which had been pierre
by rifle bullet of a caliber less than
that of the present army rifle, or about
so. The sample is interesting in that
it shows that the torpedo-boats may be
rendered useless by good shots from such
rifles. The distance at which the steel
sample was pierced was about two hun
dred feet. A torpedo-boat' S armor. her
boiler and explosives might easily be
pierced at this distance or before she
could make her projeetile dangerous to
ship. The bullet WAS of steel and
pointed. 1t made a remarkably clean
hole i'm the steel.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
state Board of Tax Appeals in session.


At the session of the State Board of
Tax Appeals held here yesterday after
noon a number of changes were made,
with the concurrence of the State Tax
Commissioner.
Action was taken as follows: Auto
matte Switch Company, of Baltimore
City, assessment affirmed; Aughinbaugh
Company, assessment affirmed; +. Eel
Der & Co.; assessment reduced from $50
per share to $50 per share; Robert g..
Griffith s. Co., of Baltimore city, reduced
TO $50 per share; Baltimore Methodist
Publishing Company. affirmed; Roland
Park Company, of Baltimore county,
assessment squared by credit of mort
cages: Standard Brewing Company,
under adyisement; Baltimore United
Butchers Association affirmed ;Denmead
Mailing Company, reduced to 800 per
share; Home Permanent Mutual ana
Land and Building Association, affirmed
in part and reduced in part; Baltimore
Dredging Company, reduced to $50 a
share; Boyden Brake Company, of Bal
timore City, under advisement. The
board resumed its session today.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-08
Youthful Robber at curtis Bay.

Walter Mumford, aged eighteen years,
is held for hearing in Baltimore, charg-
ed with the larceny of a steam gauge be-
longing to the Curtis Bay Rolling Mills.
Mumford was seen by Round-Sergeant
Peter Riley, of Baltimore, offering the
instrument for sale. He arrested the
boy. Later it was learned that two en-
gines of the company which have not
been in use for some time had been TAX
en- apart and nearly 81 900 worth of ma
chinery taken. 1t is thought by the po-
lice that the boy is one of Il gang which
has been in operation in the vicinity for
some weeks past.