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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

with good, liberal projecting caves. Or,
If you have some large shingles, they
will do very well for roofing. At the
top you will have to put on some ridge
caps so that the house will not leak.
Now cut hole in front for the bird to
enter, put little porch over it and u
perchng stick or two for the birds to
rest upon and your house is complete.
The hest support for the house is a
small, stout limb of Il tree with project
ing branches, and you can obtain it in
any woods. The branches should be
sawed off as shown in the cut, so as to
form base for the house. You may
paint the house almost any color and
plant vines around it. In year or two
it will be an attractive addition to al'
most any yard.-Chicago Record.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
Antiquity of Burnt Wood Decoration.

1t would be impossible to state posi-
lively when this art was first prac
ticed. Burnt panels have been found
in various parts Of Europe, set into an.
cient furniture, chimney-pieces and
wainscoting. In the museums OF Eu
rope there are marriage chests, Golfers
and panels, dating from the fifteenth
century or thereabouts, upon which a
species Of low-reief woodwork, not un.
like the so-called "fret-saw" work OF
to-day, has been applied or chseled out,
the fiat surface being richly ornamsnted
with fine traceries unmistakably burned
with heated points. Some years ago
New York artist, while wandering
through the seashore villages of Wales,
found in peasants hut rare panel Of
burnt woodwork OF the Italian renais-
sance (about the fifteenth century,.
The fisherman had found it on the beach,
where, it had drifted from some wreck.
In the sacristy of the little octagonal
church of SAINT Ercolano at Perugia
are some ancient chests which were
quantity decorated with hot irons some
400 years ago.. William Fosdich, In
Century.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
WHAT MEXICANS EAT.
An Americans Account of Dinner In
the Presidents House.

An Americans Account OF Dinner In
the Presidents House.
Many Americans and other foreigners
have made complaint OF the highly sea-
soned sameness in Mexican fare, and ull
kinds OF Latin cookery, but one who
has ever sat at table with the distin-
guished residents of Chapultepec
president niaz and family could
find no cause for criticism on this or
any other reasonable score. The cuisine
is Enthusiastically Mexican, but the din
ner is so well selected that the most dis
eliminating taste finds itself thorough
ly enjoying he novel quality Of the re-
past. The soup comes on with his thick
enlng CT roasted pea flour and lard
toasted bread in lieu of crackers, fol-
lowed by the ever-present eggs and
their eternal Mexican accompaniment
of fried bananas; and these advance the
way for q multitude of other delicacies
dear to the Latin gusto. One of the
dishes served, if the dinner be typical
Mexican one, is the fur-famed mole de
guajelote, which has come all the wny
down from the days of the Montezumas,
bringing with it the highly savorcd
pleasures of roast turkey, overspread
with heavy dressing of peppery chile
and rich seeds. The tortlla, small.
thin pancake made of hand-ground
corn, is popular alike among the rich
and poor, and. this will appear, deftly
rolled, and containing finely-hcshed
meat, strongly impressed with chile and
q milder dash Of garlic, the whole MAX
ing up the toothsome enchillada. There
are accomplishments of freshly-sliced
tomatoes, spiced lettuce, radshes and
varied relishes, and from time TO time
there appear other more substantial
viands. The ever. present frijole beans
appear, delicately Drowned in lard, as
only a Mexican cocinera can prepare
them; stuffed artichokes and mutton
chops come familiarly along, as do
small whiteflsh from the nearby lakes,
and scaloped oysters from the Mancha,
both served as n mid-dinner course.
For dessert there are ices, preserved
fruits, claborately prepared marina
ladies', nuts and raisihs, and great
variety of rich, fancily-frosted and
jellied cakes of small size, called pas.
teles. Home-prepared extract Of cof'
fee is poured into the cup of each at
the table, to finish the meal, and the two
or three spoonfuls Of this sirup-like and
lye-strong composition are plentifully
drowned with hot milk, making cup
Of coffee OF such delicate aroma and de.
licious taste that it's memory will lin
ger long as one Of the best things in all
Mexico.-Edward Page Goston, in
Ladies' Home Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
PERSONAL REGULARITY BILLS.
Some OF the Queer Things State Legisla-
tors Have to Denl With.

tors Have to Deal with.
There are always good many queer
bills introduced in state legislatures,
and some very ridiculous ones. In some
cases bills which seem very queer to-
day may not seem so in ten years from
now. An instance of this is furnished
by the "theater hat law" 1t was
laughed out OF several legislatures OF
far western states within few years,
yet it is a statute in the great common
wealth of Ohio to-day.
One of the queerest bills ever intro
duced in legislature was that of a
Kansas member, who wanted to make
every male citizen of the state give o
bond in the sum of 81 200 that he would
not beat his wife. Still another one
wanted to make every resident furnish
a bond, which was to be forfeited in
case of suicide.
In another state a representative Of.
fered a bill providing that women
should not wear long hair. Almost all
states have had bills offered providing
uS dihop uic uSS VI NiSu SuictutS, anu lONd
has at last a law against their manu-
facture and sale. Another fayorite pro.
posed law aims at the treating habit"
and fixes the penalty for the purchase
of an Intoxicating drink for friend.
A farmer statesman who evidently
did not wish to be troubled with follow.
ing the custom Of his city brethren
introduced bill in the Georgia legis
lature making it against the law to
wear collars and cuffs. Still another
legislator in southern state wanted
to make it n misdemeanor 10 wear rub
Der shoes of any kind. AS he explained
afterward, he had been held up one
night by highwayman, who was en-
abled TO creep silently on his prey be-
cause he wore rubber vershoes.--Phila-
delphia Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
Llttle Girl,s wonderful Nerve.

A wonderful exhibition of nerve and
coolness in the face of deadly peril was
shown by Jennie Sheets, aged eight
years, recently near Kansas City. A
heavily loaded passenger train left Ca
bool, Mo. A small trestle terminates
a sharp curve few miles east of the
town, and the train was making 40
miles an hour when the curve was
reached. AS the train approached the
trestle, the engineer saw two women
and two little girls on the trestle. To
stop was impossible. The women
jumped to the dry bed Of the creek be-
low; the children remained on the
trestle. Jennie Sheets was one, and
she seized her companion, threw her
on the extreme edge Of the bridge
sleeper and there held her until the
train had passed. The train was
stopped and all the passengers I. ran
back, to find little Jennie anxiously in.
quiring II her mother was hurt.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
rhn Eirst Bnsehnll Game.

The game of baseball was so years
old in June, the first match game hav'
ing been played at Hobolken, N. j., Oh
June 10, 1876, between the Knicker'
booker and New York clubs. Previous
TO that time townball had been the
great game, but some Of the devotees
got their heads together and evolved 6
series of rules which changed the sport
so materially that they decided to cal
it baseball. The first team was or
ganized on september 2, 1845, but II
was not until the following June thai
a match game was PLAYED.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
SEED DISTRIBUTION.
One of Natures Most Wonderful and
Mysterious Operations.

One of Natures Most Wonderful and
Mysterious Operations.
In the hedgerows and along the coun-
try highways, so infinitely varied in
their peaceful beauty, what wonder
ful and diverse operations and designs
are taking place to secure the distribu-
tlon of the ripened seed-winged seeds
of suitable shapes for the wind to car
ry and let drop here and there in cleared
space; seeds that hook themselves to
the passer-by, so that perchance they
may be conveyed TO a bit of ground
not overcrowded.
The wild geranium that grows here
and there so abundantly, when its pink
petals have fallen and the seed within
its seed-case are ripe, by simple me-
chanism shoots its seeds some little dis
tance.
The capsule of the common poppy
has little doors in the top, and when it is
agitated by the wind, the seeds are
elected one by one through these small
apertures. The little doors are pro-
tected from rain by an overhanging
roof, and close themselves in wet
weather.
In the autumn, dry, bristly, round
ish thing about the size of large mar
ble (the burr of the burdock) gets at
tached to our clothes or entangled in
the long hair of our dog, and can be
only got rid of with some difficulty.
The burdock, wild parsley and en-
chanter's nightshade, so common to our
woodlands, by means of hooks cling to
any passer-by who may chance toknock
against them, using this method of dis.
tributing their seed.
Seeds by adhering to the wool OF
sheep have been conveyed in the fleece
20 other countries, and new and vigor-
Gus growth has resulted therefrom. In
the plants | have lmed the hooks are
so arranged as to provide for the remov-
al of the seed, and, although beautiful
ly formed, are small, but in some for
eign species they are truly formidable.
If the fruits of the martynia, found in
Louisiana, get hold of an animal they
| are most difficult TO remove.
A kind of grass grows in Australia, in
| which the mass of inflorescence forms
large round head, and is thus driven
for miles over the dry sands till it comes
to damp place, when it expands and
| soon :akes root.
A small annual, with rounded pods,
is met with in the sandy places in
Egypt, Syria and Arabia, which, when
dry, curls itself up into ball or round
cushion, and is then driven by the wind
till it fnGs damp place, when it un'
curls the pods open and the seeds dror
| out.-Golden Days.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
FROGS AS BAROMETERS.
The Little Amphibians Arc More Relia'
BILE Than the Weather Ofiice.

The Little Amphibians Arc More Relia-
BILE Than the Weather Office.
Hans was in the garden making mud
pies. Suddenly he heard his father
call:
Hans, come here; ! want to speak to
you."
''What is it, father?" cried Hans, get
ting up from the ground where he had
been playing and going over to the
window where his father was.
Hans" said he, II want you to find
u tree-frog for me--like those you hear
in the evenings"
"What do you want tree-frog for?"
asked the boy.
an show YOU" replied his father;
"but get me the tree-frog first"
So Hans ran off wonderingly to the
back of the yard, where there were a
great number of fruit trees growing.
Here he searched for some time un-
successfully.
"It's always the way" said he to
himself. "If didn't want one could
find Il couple of dozen in quick time"
At last, as he was about to give up
the search, he found one-a big green
fellow-sitting quietly in an old hol-
low stump, its coat so mingling with
the color of the wood that he would
have passed it by had it not uttered a
croals of displeasure at being disturbed
With cry of delight the boy picked
It up by the hind legs, for, though
Hans was not cruel boy, he was some
times thoughtless, and then he was q
little afraid of frogs. He carried 1t tc
his father who stood waiting for him
on the porch.
Mynheer voost took the frog from
his son and went into the house, close.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

New Boarder-Madam, is this a san
itarium or a boarding house?
Proprietress-What do you mean,
sir?
New Boarder-I am not in training
for bicycle race; I'm not trying to
take off flesh, and the doctor says my
digestion is perfect.
Proprietress-I think | understand
you. 1t was very considerate to men
tion the matter privately. just eat al
the second table with me,-Detroit Free
Press,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE MONSTER "PRAcTlclNe,

Wherever may go,
Whatever l may do,
That dreadful monster, 'Practiclng,"
Looms up before my view,
And in voice / must obey
He calls me from my pleasant play.
Each day, at half-past three,
When ] come home from school,
In sternest voice he summons me
Straight to the piano STOOL
There while my chords and scales try
i count the moments passing by.
II / am out of sorts
And GROSSLY strike key,
With dlscord most unbearable
He then does punish me.
He'll worry me with all his might
Until my exercise goes right.
They tell me that in time
More beautiful he'll grow;
Therell be a smile upon that face
That now does scare me SO,
His ugliness will flee, and
Viii grow to love him-by and by.
And so, perhaps, II
Am good and persevere,
And do my lessons right and try
Not to offend his ear,
Old "Practiclng" will grow to me
AS pleasant as they say he'll be.
Margaret II. Mauro (aged l2), In st
Nicholas.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
Current Rcport.

81 can't understand how shipwrecked
people starve to death at sea-" said lit
tie Johnnie Chaffie.
"Why can't you underestimate. There
Ia nothing for them to eat in the
ocean"
'There ain't?"
"No."
swell, then, my teacher is liar. He
said there were currants in the ocean,
Nobody need starve when he can eai
currants. wish ! had some row.
Texas Sitter.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
One Dollar Fer Year
sERT's BIRD HOUSE.
Hc Drew All tho Plans Himself and Did
Every Bit of The Work.

Ho Drew All tho Plans Himself ana Did
Every Bit OF the Work.
Bert Wallace has been building a
bird house. lie drew the plans all him"
self and did every bit of the work, even
to setting up the house in the corner OF
the yard, where some wrens have since
taken possession of it, II is very easily
made, and you can, il you care to follow
his example. For the bottom OF the
house he used stout board, sawed two
inches larger each way than the house
was 10 be. The sides he made very sim
ply, of Stats about the size of lath-lath
would do very well if you haven't any
thing better. They are securely nailed
to strip of wood at both bottom and
top, those for the front and back being
slanted off so as to form the caves, as
you see in the cut. When the -four sides
are made they may be fastened securely
to the bottom and a slat roof put on,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
A FaiIur0.

Marriage" exclaimed the fat WON
an, 'is failure"
Upon the table before her was a Cana.
dian cent and plugged quarter, her
share Of the gate receipts Of her 4OOth
souvenir public wedding to the Living
Skeleton.
Over oil the trembling gaslight cast
dta garish gleam.-Detroit Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

Rooter-A friend of mine had n load
Of bricks dumped on him the other
day and escaped without the slightest
injury.
Baseball Magnet-You interest me
Where can he be found?
why, what do you want with him?'
"He's just the fellow for good UNI
pire. ."--Philadelphia North American
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

So rapid has been the change in thu
English language that the English Of
to-day bears no more resemblance to
the English Of 1000 years ago thnn II
does to German.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

Since the beginning Of this century
the use of the italian language has
greatly increased; in 1901 it was spoken
by 15,o7o,o0O people, and in 1890 it wa
used by s3,400,000.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01
A Safe Mule,

"Rastus, you internal niger, you told
Inc that mule was perfectly safe, and
when l went into the stable he nearly
kicked the top of my head off,"
"Yes, sab; ] sayed de mewl wuz safe,
sab. But eff you kin recollec', / didn't
say muffin about wedder it was safe in
his vicinity. Dat mewl is able enough
to be safe anywhar. indianapolis
Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

--'It always flies to my headl" ex.
claimed the man with bald pate, al
lie brushed of the troublesome ipsect
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-10-01

The original civil engineer was the
mole. He anticipates danger by max
Ing several exits and eatrances to his
abode,
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

\ YOUNG man in San Francisco has re-
Gently won $4,000 by keeping SOBER '"'
ten years. We love TO see sopriety eli
couragcd. and if there are any more iu''dS
appropriated for this purpose, we wou'u
very respectfully suggest that quite d hu'''-
Der of us have kept sober for the past ten
wears Send money by certified check.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22
TWINKLES.

OMEONE has cstl-
mated that II a
man should read
all the new books
publis he d III
America during
lone holiday sea
son it would take
him a hundred
wears. SO. after
he had finished his
task. he would be
a hundred year,
older. But how
MANY wears wiser
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

themes. Our double-page cartoon pages
S,nd o.. shows the historical evolution OF
OH nksgiving Day i'll pictorial form.
From the austerc celebration of the earli-
est colonial davs to the merry observances
of our own time is quite a span OF time
but our artist has clearly covered 1t. HIS
panora:~c review of three centuries OF
Thanksgiving customs will well repay
little study, for it i, full of philosopiiic AS
we'll as humorous suggestions.
Our titlc-page cartoon reminds Us that
all Europe is talking Turkey, too. Alas
for Armenia it is 50 far only talk. Vet
there is no mstaking the tone of recent
uttcranccs by the leading statesmen OF
Europe. Lord Salisburys recent dcclara-
tion that there is no longer any necessary
hostility between England and Russia on
the question, and that lie is hopeful oi ITS
solution by the joint action of the Powers
seems to forcsladow the end. The whole
civilized world is warning and nenacing
the Sultan, and ultimately he is bound to
he cocrccd into Il decent respect for the
opinion of civilized mankind. And that
will be cause enough, whencverit happens,
for A worldwide shout of thank ksgiving.
So far as the American people are con-
cerncd no Thanksgiving Day i'll many
wears has found them with more or greater
causes for grateful rejoicing. The honor
and the credit of the nation having been
goriously maintained by a patriotic up
rising OF the people i'll their defense, the
mighty machinery of industry, trade and
commerce is once more moving with new
and daily augncnting energy. The bu>i
ness skies are clearing i'll all quarters, and
the sunshine of prosperity will soon flood
the land Party spirit is AT Il low ebb. and
We are apparently on the threshold OF an
other era of good feeling, Ill which all
classes of the people will share the bless
ings that now,from a cessation of bitter
party strife and from fixed and normal
conditions of business Yes. indeed, this
is Thanksgiving when there is abundant
reason for thankfuncss
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

4 CINDER III a mans eye is doubtless a
very uncomfortable affair. But it does not
feel nearly as uncomfortable rs does the
average man in big dry goods store dur
ing the height of the shopping season.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

ROF. I.IN J.. X
sEDGE, Of Au-
tralia, has dis
covered gold Ill
sea water, and
estimates that
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

I HUNG { A NC has
been given new honor>
by t II t Emperor o I
China. Ii Is 50 old that
his wisdom teeth have
long been cut, and he
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

unable to tell whether it Is a cloud, but
terny, river a map OF South America, or
A woman. YOU should 90 into aesthetic rap
lures at once for the picture is modern
poster and high art.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

IT IS now determined by a moderate es
innate that there are between three and
four hundred of the " bibclot periodicals
published in this country. All these pub
lications together must have between three
and four hundred readers.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

has told his rOVaI master tndt Ill MS
travels around the world he has found
no sovereign so august and magnificent.
and no country that i'll wealth. progt,,,
and education compares at all with China.
BISMARCK i, a great man i'll very many
respects. and lately he seeilis determined
that the world shall know that lie has been
a great diplomat also-in the worst sense
of the word.
TROTTINC records bicycle records and
speecll-making records have all been broken
this year. 1t is almost as easy to break 4
record as it is To break the moral law.
THE KING OF Spain is ten years old and
Gen. Wcyler SAYS it is unfortunate he is So
Young But the king will be a very old
man when Weyler conquers Cuba
THE miners of British Columbia have
advertised for 5000 wives. Go. north
west Young woman, 90 northwest
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

II WEyIER expects to kill of the Cuban
insurgents why doesn't he adopt modern
methods, Let him establish trolley cars
in Cuba. and get Brooklyn men to run
them.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

\ RUINED city has been found i'll Mex
leo which is larger than New York. How
Chicago must envy this city. Chicago
would be perfectly willing to be ruined II
she could only become larger than New
York
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

HE matter OF erecting
public statue, is per
llaps a little overdone
i'll this country But
II any new statue Is
to be erected, let lis
build it To that Indian
who invented the
Indian Summer.
WHENEVER YOU
see a picture and are
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

American people view the dying agonies
of the Altgeld crew Let their sorrows be
buried with them, OH the banks of Salt
River.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

would he be- Arithmetic III the present
state of development is unable to caIcu-
late
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

II l. ]: X i L l. y J. = y
rules he hour.
The whole world
i, talking Turkey.
Our artists have
accordi in < ! Y
turned their pen
ellis this week 10
Thank sgiving
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

FLYING machines have now reached
such stage of development that they
nearly always Ay long enough to kill their
inventors, and then step. But it is said
the people who watch these machines
feel so nervous that it seems as if they
would fly.
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

there are 10000. 900 900 tons OF goia III
the ocean This story must obviously be
taken with several grains OF salt. 1t Is
certainly good one to tell to the marines
New-York tribune., 1896-11-22

ETTER it is that the
hearts of the anarchists
should break than the
banks. -Four years OF
general prosperity will
do much to assuage the
grief with which the
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-27
THE BERMUDA.



Is Taking on a susnlcions Cargo and Men
az jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla, April 9t--Thc steam.
or Hcrmuda arrived In port at O'clock
tonight and anchored in mids,ream, di-
rectly opposite tho clyde deck Tugs hav-
ing a covered barge In tow loaded with
arms and ammunition at once put ont
for the steamer. The barge was taken to
the far side of the steamer and concealed
from view from the city Hois;ing ma
chincry was al once Sc, 70 work and nm
leading boxes rr,n tho barge to the Der
muda. This was completed about II
ocook. SlN large We boats capable Of
holding tifty men each, which arrived a
short 'irne ago tom New Work we're
also nu aboard the Bermuda In Tho
meantime tho cnNan- ia the city took
about nfy foreign cubans to Tho docks
where they were transported IN naptha
launches and row boats 20 the steamer.
Many others are reported to have hccn
on hoard when tAc rermnda arrived. Tic
bermuda Will sail ostonsLiy for bermuda.