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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03

If your wife suffers with indiges-
tion try "Renovine." Sold by E.
c. Chapman.
The cotton factory has been haul
ing bales Of cloth to the Mobile and
Ohio depot for several days to fill a
big order from a wholesale firm in
Memphis, Tenn.
Misses Gussie Roane, Bessie Fox,
Gertrude and Lena Smith, Eloise
Woodward, Katie Clisby, Mabel
Beckett, Edna Lowe and Pearl
Whitehead were at home from the
I. 7. and G, few days last week.
West Point Leader.
Mrs. w. Fl. Youngblood and Mrs.
Goodby have been visiting the fami-
ly of Mr.. John Drake. Mrs. Young
blood is Mrs. brakes mother. They
returned to their home in Columbus
Tuesday, attended by Mrs. Willie
Drake.-Starkvllle Times.
Sheriff. has had such a rush on
screen doors and windows that he
is compelled to make another order.
Anyone wishing odd size doors or
windows can place their orders with
him until Tuesday, May 5. Don't
forget to buy your fruit jars from
him when in need Of them.
Mr.. J. G. Hackleman had a diff
Guilty with negro near Mayhem
few days ago and was compelled to
shoot him in self defense. The case
was tried before Squire Joe Prov
ell and Mr.. Haekleman was found
justifable. The negro only receiv-
ed a flesh wound and is in no dan
ger from it.
The eagle has ever been regarded !
as the 'king" among the feathered |
tribe, the Eagle bicycle has won for
itself like title among the wheel |
men. This bicycle can be had at
Banks, Sherrod Hardware company, /
who sell Simmons wheels and BIZ |
cycle sundries. The Erwin attach
ment can be furnished purchasers.
4-30-tf
The following locals about Co
lumbus people were taken from the /
West Point Gazette:
Col. S. M. Meek, of Columbus, /
was in the city Friday and caller
at the Gazette ofice.-Miss Ger
trude Willard and E. c. Chapman, |
Of Columbus, were guests Of the /
Holt Sunday.-Mrs. Sykes, ofCo-
spent day or two Of last
week in the city as the guest of
Miss Susie Strong.
Beauchamp & Beach, Eufaula,
Ala, writes; We have handled |
your Japanese Pile Cure for two |
years now and can conscientiouslv
say it has given entire satisfaction
and is a good seller. We regard it |
as being the best thing for Hemor-
roids or Piles that we have ever
sold. For sale by E. c. Chapman.
Is.
Miss B. B. Clay Will hold a sum-
mer school of music at Deerbrook. /
Noxubee county, Miss. Branches |
taught: Voice culture, piano in
ensemble playing, sight |
singing, psycho-physical culture
and harmony. A limited number Of
boarders. For particulars apply to
Miss CLAY,
9S Fifth Az, New York City.
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The Lee Guards, from the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college,
gave a splendid exhibition drill in
this city Friday evening. This is a
fine company Of soldiers, and one
that would do credit to any state.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03

The regular meeting of the city
council viii Be held on Wednesday
night next instead Of Tuesday. The
postponemenr was made to give
the members % the council who de-
sire to do SO an opportunity to at
tend the meeting Of the Odd Fellows
lodge in Aberdeen.
The dramatic club of the Agricul-
tural e Mechanical college played the
beautiful little drama, "Ben Bolt,
at Concert hall last Thursday night
to a well-hlled house. Every mem-
Der of the company rendered their
part well, and everybody were well
pie lsed with the play.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy viii meet tomor-
row morning at the armory at
1890 o'clock. "a full committee on
finance is especially desired, and an
who have not yet added their names
to the roll are invited to be present.
The dinner given Friday BY the
Daughters at the Confedcracy was
a complete success, over $50 being
realized.
All Of the cotton has not been
brought in from the country yet.
Last Thursday, at one warehouse,
over 20 bales was stored.
The "Silver Link" of Kings
daughters meet Tuesday morning
at 8 $50 O'Clock, at the residence Of
Mrs. Tom Franklin.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03

QuAk a number of young ladies'
and young men had a dance at Con-
cordia hall Friday night. Among
those present were Misses Eva
Nash, Bessie Lanier, jamie and
Maude Craddock, Sue and Annie
Gresham, Lucy Banks, Annie Rich
ards, Mr.. and Mrs. Roe, DR.. and
Mrs, r. R. 6tockard, Mrs. T. G..
Owen, Messrs, Brooks, Galceran,
Armstead, Rodenberg, Wiley john
ston, Wiley Banks, Billups Harris,
J. r. Maxwell, Il. c. Eimore, w.
Ottley and others.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03
HOME NEWS.

Play ball, Chapman sells them.
Mr.. H. Penticost is in the city.
Base balls, mits, bats and mask
sold by Chapman, the druggist.
Acorn stoves and ranges at Banks,
Sherrod Hardware company.
Mr.. Wiley Johnston, of Birming-
nam, is in the city.
Lemonade, milk shake, coca cola,
kolaphate, at o. P. Browns. If
It is nice. Everybody likes it..
Ice cream soda at o. P. Browns. If
A number of Starkville wheelmen
were in the city Friday.
Try the new sarsaparilla for the
blood, guaranteed, at Chapman's.
The ladies' shirt waists at john
ston's are holding a great levee
now.
Mrs. R. A. Crump is sick at her
home in South Columbus.
Those dainty shirt waists for
ladies, have you seen. them at
Johnston's?
If you can tie a shoe string, you
can tie a "Club" tie. Try a tie for
25c at Johnston's.
DR.. H. L. Williams, of the Dun
bar neighbour BOD, was in the city
Friday.
Get the best. A fresh shipment
of fine chocolate bon bons at
If O. P. Browns.
Ladies shirt waists, latest pat
terms and colors, 81 to $3.50 at
Johnston's.
Misses Annie and Rebecca Bur-
gin, Of Mayhem, are visiting Mrs.
Browning.
You can buy poultry netting
cheaper at Sherrill's than anywhere
else.
All the best drinks of the season,
pure and cold, can be had at the
soda fount Of o. P. Brown. If.
Mrs. A. V. Simms has returned
from visit to her daughter in Biz
mingham.
"Renovine," the great female
remedy is sold and recommended by
E. G. Chapman.
Sheriff. sells good crockery as
cheap as anyone else. Beware of
this cheap crockery.
Mr.. Robert McCaskill, Of Okolo-
ma, an old Columbus boy, is in the
city visiting his mother.
Go to Mayo & Viewers drug
store for Kansas orange cane seed.
Seven pounds for 81.
A nicer, finer quality Of fishing
tackle has never been displayed
than can be seen at Banks-Sherr0d
Hardware eompany's. 4-5-tf
Maj. Young has Just received
seven gray foxes which will be turn
ID loose upon his plantation at
Waverly.
You may have chased after
smooth talking tailor's drummer
md got a misht for a big price.
lend it back and try home folks
johnston. for instance.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03
Strawberries ! Strawberries

On and after the 25lh Of April we
VIII be ready to receive orders and
deliver Strawberries. Orders through
postofioe, telephone No. 60, or left
at my Office in Merchants block
viii receive prompt attention.
4-i9-Sw TT. PRICE.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03

The Lee Guards, from the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college,
gave a splendid exhibition drill in
this city Friday evening. This is a
fine company of soldiers, and one
that would do credit to any state.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

families. The noise aud hustle about one
of these compound nests must be heard to
be appreciated.
The real bird tenement house, however,
is contrived by the socable weaver bird
Imagine a structure built by birds that
measure but six inches from the ends of
their tails to the tip of their skillful little
beaks, which is as large as natives hut;
large enough to shelter five or six men
large enough in fact to break down, as it
sometimes does, the tree in which it is
built.
a single pair of birds often set to work
on nest of this kind, carrying the grass
to tree and commencing in a wonderful
manner to weave it compactly into little
rain-proof roof. The next season the pro-
geny of the parent birds come back, select
mates, and the old homestead is enlarged
to suit their convenience, much as we have
seen some little cabin built about with
wings end additions to accommodate mar
ried sons anu daughters who came home
to live with the old folks. The narrow
structure now widens, and beneath the
compactly woven shelter the nests close
their ranks and hang shoulder to shoul-
der like the cells in the comb of wasp's
nest, and accumulate all the more rapidly
that the birds refuse to use q last years
nest. leaving it to various rather disreput-
able tenants in the way of bats, Insects
and reptiles while they move into cleaner
apartments. In fact the place is in every
respect a tenement house, noisy and
thronged with miscellaneous multitude
of all sorts and conditions of folks, each
family keeping house on its own account
and often quarreling not only with other
households but among its own members
The roof, however, unlike that of its hui
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
Trees Struck by lightning.

1t has long been known that lightning
seems to have a special fascination for par
ticular kinds of trees, and strikes such
trees with far greater frequency than
others, the oak being the tree to which it
shows the greatest partiality. Some in
teresting observations on the probable
cause of this striking fact have been col
lected by DR.. Carl Muller from expert
ments and observations made by various
observers, chiefly by Jonescu. In some
observations Systematically carried out
since 1874 in Germany by the Lippe Det-
mold Forest Board it was shown that from
1879 to 1890 lightning had struck ffty-six
oaks, three or four pines, twenty to twenty
one frs, but in no single instance had
beech been struck, although about 20 per
centof the trees in the district were beech,
against II per cent of oaks, 13 per cent
pines and per cent frs. In some particu-
lars published on the subject in Prone
theus, it is shown that in the neighbor-
hood OF Moscow out of 597 trees struck by
lightning, 302 were the white poplar,
showing that this tree has also very
great degree of conductivity. The pyra-
mid poplar is also another tree to which
the lightning flash is known to have a
great attraction.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

ance. The Aluminia will generally travel
under sail, the naphtha motor in the stern
of the vessel being intended only as an
auxiliary to be used in case of calm. The
tank, which is also of aluminium, holds
sufficient napbtha to run the vessel under
fnll headway for five hours, or distance
of thirty-seven miles, without the help of
sails.
In the bow of the vessel there is an ele-
CANT and most comfortably arranged little
cabin, finished in Indian mahogany and
yellow pine. The wooden part of the deck
is Indian oak. The little saloon can be
changed in very few minutes to sleep
lng-room for four or five persons. For
protection from storms and high waves
, the cabin can be closed alright by means
Of rubber strips at the doors, so that it will
be like an air bubble, and it will scarcely
be possible for the vessel to sink.-Scien-
tifc American.
The Queerest of Human Ailments.
If you will carefully read the statistics
of the late war between the States you
will find that, according to the statements
which have from time to time emanated
from the adiutant-general's Office, 199, ,72O
Union troops died of disease during the
years 1S61-65. We give the statistics for
the Union troops only simply because
nothing more than partial record of Con-
federate disease statistics was kept. AS we
were saying, upward of 100000 Northern
men died of disease during their sojourn in
the South, or more than three times as
many as were killed in battle, the total num-
ber of those killed outright amounting to
but 67,04S. OF the 199, 720 who succum bed
to various maladies during those terrible
years, q, 1877 died of disease that was not
classified, simply because of its varying
symptoms.
The majority of readers have never
heard of this malady, but that it existed
among the troops on both sides during the
Civil War (and in other wars, for that
matter) will not be denied by any OBJ
server who took the trouble to look little
beyond the havoc caused by shot and shell
and the long catalogue of well-known and
well-marked diseases incident to warfare.
We refer to the maIady known as nos
talgia, which is the medical term for
inconsistencies. When this queer dig
ease seizes its victim with strong grip
he is almost as sure to die as though his
malady were cholera. Persons who die
from nostalgia apparently die without
dead as though their aiment had been
characterized by the eruptions of small
pox or the black vomit of the yellow fever.
Nostalgia is not strictly an American
disease, but has been known in all coun-
tries ever since men first became able to
distinguish between physical ailments and
cases of literal pining and fretting ones
life away. Bismarck once said that for
every 100 deaths in the army seven were
due to nostalgia, or homesickness. st.
Louis Republic
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
IN SALADIN'S TIME.
The Learned and the Wise Gathere
From All Parts.

The Learned and the Wise Gathered
From All Parts.
The ranks of the learned and the wise
were recruited from all parts of the Mo-
hammeden empire. It was a professor
from Nishapur whose lectures at the Da-
mascus colleges SO delighted Saladin that
he commissioned the fortunate pundit to
indite textbook of religious instruction,
which the Sultan impaired to his chill
dren. 81 saw him myself" says Baha-ed-
din, Saladin's secretary and biographer,
with the book in his hand, and his
boys repeating it to him from men,
ory." Another learned man whose ad-
vice, it is said, Saladin never re-
jected. was ElHakkary, the Arab jurist,
who treated his master with an uncere-
monious familiarity which none other
dared to use. His quaint figure, with the
lurists turban surmounting a soldiers
uniform, was seldom absent from the
Sultan's councils. Learned men were
attracted to Egypt and Syria from distant
lands. Ibn Firro of Xativa, for example,
who wrote mighty poem Of 1173 verses
upon the various readings of the Koran,
simply ''for the greater glory of God"
iourneyed from Spain to Cairo in 1I76
burdened as he modestly confessed, with
a memory stocked with enough sciences
to break down a camel. Nevertheless in
lecturlng to crowds of pupils he never said
an unnecessary word; no wonder the
Kady El-Fadil set such store by him that
he lodged him in his house and buried
him in his own mausoleum.
Another celebrated doctor, with whom
Saladin became especially intimate at Da-
mascus, and from whom he must have
learned much, came from Ispahan. This
was the Secretary of State, ImaG-ed-in,
commonly called Aluh Eagle "a poet,
a master of style, doctor learned in the
law and deep in the mysteries of astrology,
and formidable gladiator in theological
problemics. From being merely q pro-
fessor at the college at Damascus, to which
he gave his name, "The Imadiya," he be-
came president of the Council of State.
His admirable skill in conducting dipIo-
matte correspondence in Persian and
Arabic. in the turgid and inflated style ad-
i mired by Orientals, added to his learning
Sultan. Imad-ed-din became Saladin's
constant companion and most indefatiga-
bic Minister, and retained his entire con-
fdence until his death. Nor must Ibn-
Abb be passed over, zone of the
leaders of his age by his talents and legal
learning"
He accompanied Nur-ed-din to Damascus
in 1154, where he opened class in the west
corner of the great mosque, and became
administrator of the "Wakfs" or religious
endowments. But he was not long suffered
to stay in one place. So famous was his
erudition that Nur-ed-din built colleges at
Aleppo, Emesa. Hannah, Baalbekk and
elsewhere, for him to lecture in; and he
even sat in court at Sinjar and Harran in
Mesopotamia. Later on Saladin took the
greatest interest in the man of learning,
and when blindness afflicted him in old age
the Sultan would not let him be deprived
of his iudgeship.- Review.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
A Yacht Built of Aluminium.

We publish herewith an engraving of
the Aluminia, yacht recently built for
the Prince of Wied by Escher, Wyss &
Co. of Zurich, which gave most satisfac-
tory results during its t1ial trips on Lake
Zurich and on the Gulf of Genoa, its future
home. AS the hull, which is divided into
five watertight compartments, and the
frames are made of aluminium, the
vessel is very light, and, of course, the
lighter a vessel is the faster it will
travel Therein lies the advantage
of using aluminium, especially where the
cost of construction is not of great import
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

ing citrus fruits. AS will be seen in the
accompanying illustration, the apparatus
consists of combination of a sack and a
flexible tube, whose lower end is attached
near the mouth of the sack and whose
upper end is provided with straps for at
taching the upper end of the tube to the
wrist of the operator, thereby leaving the
hand and the wrist, to which the tube is
dropped in the tube is saved from bruising
by falling into cushion within the upper
part of the sack and Immediately below
the bottom opening of the flexible tupe,
and thence being dropped gently to the
bottom of the sack.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
Some New Inventions.

A watch for accurately timing photo
graphic exposures.
Wheel and chain guard for bicycles in
one piece.
Bow-facing and self f-feathering oar.
Vehicle combining hearse and funeral
Attachment which makes pianos mouse
proof.
Rocking chair with pneumatic tires in
the rocker.
DuStless ash sitter.
metallic railway tie filed with COM
pressed paper pulp.
Revolving sand screen for builders.
Novel lightning icecream freezer for con-
fectioners and families.
Pneumatic churn; produces the butter
by rapidly forcing pure air jets through
the cream.
Wlndow-fastener; an ingenious device
which prevents rattling and keep out wind.
A nursing-bottle support; holds the
bottle in place while baby is nursing.
Headrest to be attached to backs of seats
in railroad coaches. Can be carried in the
pocket.
Pan-lifter; takes pans of meat or bread
from the oven without burning fingers or
using cloths.
Wall desk; handy, compact writing
desk to be hinged to the wall.
New lathe chuck: takes automatically
round or tapering rods or tooi-shanks
without manipulation.
Icecream mold: porcelain mold with
| cover for serving icecream to consumers.
Flue cleaner; enabling one to effectuaily
clean stovepipes without removing pipe
| or making dust or dirt.
Folding streteher; an invention for am
bulance service and hospitals.
| Miners drill; will bore hole larger at
the bottom than the top.
| Engine draft regulator; an improved
draft method for locomotive engines.
Saves fuel, increases power and prevents
smoke.
| Pocket stamp-holder; compact, con-
| venlent holder for fifty stamps, without
| sticking together
| Money envelopes, for mailing money or
| valuable papers; does not disfgure con-
tents and cannot be tampered with with
! out detection.
| A device to prevent keys from being
turned from the outside of doors.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
A Tenement House for Birds.

An orioles nest hanging over the little
bracket upon which is placed my miniature
bust of Audubon is an unfailing source of
interest and delight to me, says J. Carter
Beard in Popular Science News.
And yet this is but simple structure
compared to those of some of the tropical
orioles, which, in turn, must yield the
palm for excellence to the nests of those
most skillful of all feathered architects,
the weaver birds.
Some of these birds build double nests,
one apartment OF which is occupied by the
male, while the mother and her little ones
are in an inner chamber. The Buffalo
weaver bird builds from three to eight nests
combined into one huge structure from
TO feet in length, and from to 5 in
breadth. This may be considered a sort of
apartment house, occupied by several
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
The WorId,s Telegraph wire.

The total length OF telegraph lines in
the world is 1,o62,7oo miles, of which
America has 545, 900 miles; Europe, $50, 700;
Asia. 81, 400; Africa, q, 500, and Australia,
1880 miles. The United States has a
greater length than any other country,
4O3 900 miles, and Russia comes next,
although European Russia has only
$1,000 miles. The other countries
follow in this order: Germany,
France, Austria Hungary, British India,
Italy, Turkey, the Argentine Republic,
Spain and Chile. In point of proportion,
however, Belgium leads with 400 miles OF
wire for every 1900 square miles of terri
tory; Germany comes next, with $50 miles;
Holland is only slightly behind Germany,
and the United Kingdom has $50 miles Of
telegraph for every 1000 miles of country.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
A Woman Train Dispatcher.

Miss Byrd Watkins of Topeka, Kans., is
the only woman train dispatcher on
single-track railroad in the United States.
She is stationed at Junction City, on the
Kansas division of the Union Pacific Rail
way. Miss Watkins is one of three
shifts" working eight hours each, and is
on the second "trick," as the time between
O'Clock in the afternoon and midnight is
called. She is in full charge of the office
during that time. Her duties as a dis
patcher on single track differ materially
from those of a double-track dispatcher, as
meeting points must be made for all trains
going in opposite Observation-Disclosures Re-
view.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
OLD TIMES RECALLED.
STORY OF THE NORTHERN MINES IN EARLY DAYS TOLD IN
LETTERS FROM FATHER TO SON.

last train that came up here had an escort oi
United States Dragons
We have formed an Odd Fellows Association
here and have petitioned for charter to
estaDilsh lodge. was appointed by the
president OF the association to deliver the first
address before the society, and believe / did IT
to the general satisfaction of, perhaps. all but
myself. AT oil events received Unanimous
vote of thanks from the society for nv per-
formance, whether it was good or bad but il
was pronounced good.
Since writing the above have been in town
and found beef had risen 5 cents a pound and
not mucn likelihood of its being any Cheaper
before July or Augustine cattla in the coun.
try.
The fourth letter, dated August 30, 1853,
contains the announcement from San
Francisco that he was on his way home,
and will go by the Panama route. This
letter inclosed a note showing how careful
some Californians were when they sent
money away. 1t is in the nature of a GER
tificate, which reads as follows:
hereby certify that see Miles Holmes in.
close draft from Rhodes & Lusk in letter
directed to John Nutter, said draft for the
amount of $500, and that deposited said let
ter in Rhodes g. Lusk's express Office in Yreka;
also that see said Holmes inclose another
draft for 5000 in another letter directed to
John Nutter both drafts being payable in New
York. The last-mentioned letter deposited in
Carson, Rogers & Co.'s express Office at Yreka.
Both letters were directed TO John Nutter, Pal
myra, Jefferson County, Wis.
CHARLES HEBARD.
Greenhorn Creek, Cal, August 21, 1858.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
BoAT-DRILL FOR sToKERs.
An Excellent Innovation on an Atlantic
Line,

An Excellent Innovation on an Atlantic
Line,
A rule recently introduced upon the
steamers of the North German Lloyd line
provides for the practice of the stokers on
steamers in the getting overheard of the
lifeboats and rowing in the same. These
exercises are made by shifts, so that in
cases of emergency the stokers will be well
disciplined and know just what is to be
done to get the boats afoat and off
safely. In case of accident such
a number of practiced hands in the
boats will be of invaluable assistance in
the saving of lives. The repetition OF the
disgraceful scenes at every marine disas-
ter, when stokers and sailors figure among
the saved, while passengers have no
chance for life, is also likely to be avoided
by this arrangement. A Bremen contem-
porary describes the activity in the har-
bor of the crews of the North-German
Lloyd feet, q number OF the white painted