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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
POLAND'S "PROCOPOvITCH." t"
A system OF multiplication which
VIII Puzzle People I'm This
Country,

4 Polish mathematician has Just in
vented an ingenious system whereby
large sums may be multiplied on the
fingers with much less trouble than
with pen or pencil. The system bears
the name of its inventor, Procopoyitch,
and already has been introduced into
the schools throughout Poland. \ lit
tie study of the illustration will enable
anyone 10 do sums. Children are first
required TO mark the numerals on the
ends of their fingers that they may re-
member them more readily, but adults
can get along without this aid by mem
orizing the position or the numbers.
The system is not used for multiply
ing numbers of less than six, since such
problems can readily be done mentally.
The fingers are first numbered as fol-
lows: The two thumbs represent 6, the
index fingers each represent Z, and the
middle fingers S, the ring fingers 8
and the little fingers 10.
In order TO multiply any two of these
numbers the fingers representing the
multiplier and the multiplicand are
placed together. Now, beginning with
the fingers placed together one counts
the number of fingers including these
two, and moving toward and including
the thumb. The sum will be the num-
Der Of tens, or the first numeral Of the
product.
a certain number of fingers still re-
main below the fingers which have been
joined. The fingers remaining on one
hand multiplied by the number remain
ing on the other will give the num-
Der of units, or right hand unit of the
product.
In multiplying eight by nine, for in
stance, the middle finger of the right
hand is placed against the ring finger
OF the left hand, as shown in the Illus
tration. Counting the number of fin
gers above those placed together, and
including these. we obtain seven fin
gers. or seventy. There are now re-
naming two fingers on the right hanl
and one on the left, which, when null
tipied, give two. These two. added to
the number of tens give 70, the product
of eight by nine.
Other combinations will suggest
themselves on the experimenter study
ing the diagram.-N. Y. Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
An Italian Expert Praises the Ameri-
can system of Developing
the Muscles.

DR.. Angelo Mosso, while in America,
made minute study of the system of
physical education, particularly as car
ried out at the athletic clubs of Amer
lean seats of learning. lie has Just pub
lished his impressions of that system.
beginning with Michigan university.
better known as Ann Arbor, he notes
the fact that with its 900 inhabitants
that town has in connection with its
school two great gymnasiums, one for
women and one for men, the former
alone being four times larger than that
Of the University of Turin, and in all
respects superior. "ln Italy," he SAYS,
I'VE have in no city theater or COW
cred area so commodious. q On
the lower floor it has pool for swim
ming, the water of which is warmed
in winter Outside the gym
nasium and around it are two lawn ten
MS courts for the professors, four other
lawn tennis courts for the students and
Il spacious park for other games requir-
ing wider area" Referring to the Bos-
ton gymnasium after the Michigan eX-
ercising halls, he says "Thc interest
and the wonder with which these aca-
demic adjuncts inspire me awaken
sense of melancholy when / think how
far we in Italy are removed from such
perfection. IT is enough" he adds, ito
look at the passers-by in the American
streets to be convinced how much more
developed and strong are they than our
compatriots. The boys and girls are
in point Of physique superior to ours.
All the public take interest in physical
eNercises-every journal being com
PEELED TO report athletic competitions.
regattas, football encounters, golf
matches and such like, because its read
ers have even a greater enthusiasm for
these topics than for the strife of par
ties. America teaches us, by the plain
est and most impressive of examples,
that physical education may be car
ried TO perfection without any mill
tary object. In the states no one dreams
of becoming soldier. If military force
is required it is provided, as in Great
Britain, by voluntary enlistment New
crtheless, America and the British isles
are precisely the two countries where
physical education has reached its
highest development. My admiration
for this new world is all the greater
when reflect that its civilization is that
OF the future, which even for Italy will
have better days in store" ."-London
Lancet.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03

FOREIGN GOSSIP.

a railway Will be built up the Ran
Alp, which is 6,4OO feet high.
Berlin servant girls are forming q
union, and the social democrats are
helping to organize them.
Although one-haf of the rubber prod
uct of the forests along the Amazon
goes to the United States, most of the
steamers, wharves and banking houses
in the region belong to the English.
The Central Union church, of Homo
lulu, raised in one collection $4,000 to
send missionaries to Mindanao, one of
the largest islands of the Philippine
group, which is about five times as
large as Massachusetts, but where there
was not single Protestant mission
airy.
Petroff Waldorf, Russian scientist,
has demonstrated that kerosene may
easily be converted into palatablc whs-
ky and supplied at 80 cents a gallon.
Now for the petroleum punch and kero-
sene cocktail to warm the stomach and
make the eyes glow with delirious de-
light.
A Swedish officer named Kuylenst-
jerne, who is at present travelling in
China, reports that the Manchurian
railway cannot be completed under
five years, partly because all the wood
has to be imported from America, and
partly because most of the 12,000 Chi
nese laborers who had been engaged
went home again, being dissatisfied
with the treatment they received at
the hands of the Russians, and unable to
endure the cold winter.
British census reports of family
names gives for England and Wales
253,606 Smiths, 242, 100 Jonses with
Williams, Taylors, Davies and Brown
following in order. For Scotland Smith
leads, followed by Mcdonald, Brown,
Thomson, Robertson, Stewart and
Campbell. Murphy is ahead in Ireland,
there being 62,600 of them, then come
Kelly, $4,000; Sullivan, $4,000; Walsh.
4l,1O0; Smith, $4,000; O'Bren, 80 400;
Byrne. $4,000; Ryan, $4,000: Connor,
$1,000; O'Neil, 29,1OO, and Reilly, 10000.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
A Land Tide,

Recent observations with the seismo.
graph at Mauritius have led to the sug.
gestion that not only the ocean and the
atmosphere, but even the land, nav
experience the effects of daily tide
running round and round the earth as
it revolves on its axis. But while the
tides in the air and the sea are due
more TO the moon than to the sun, the
supposed Hand tide" arises solely from
the suns action. Moreover, it is caused
not by the attraction of the sun, but
by its heat. A wave Of depression is
supposed TO follow the sun from east
to west, caused by the extraction of
moisture from the soil. At Mauritius
1t is found that there is a relative up
heaval of the land to the west of the
place of observation from morning un-
til evening, and a relative depression
on the same side, or. an upheaval to
the east, during the night.-Youth's
Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
WASN'T HIS HAND.
IL Was His Unbrelln Handle Tint
Cluiched The Young
Lndy's Ankle.

\ very demure young miss, belong
ing to one of Washingtons good fam.
lilies, recently went over to Baltimore
b. herself. She had never Travelled
alone, and il was with some difficulty
that she persuaded her mamma that
she knew how to take care of herself.
When she entered the day coach she
found that all the seats save one were
occupied, and that right behind her
sat n horgid drunken man. She made
| the best of the circumstances and took
her seat. The train pulled out Of the
depot and was soon speeding toward
the Maryland metropolis. The aristo.
cratic young lady from Washington
had just begun to tEink that she knew
all about travelling without chaperon
when she felt som hing slowly but
surely grasp her ankle.
She was certain that the horrid
drunken man on the seat behind her
was trying to annoy her. Her foot was
pulled steadily backward, and she al
most fell out of her seat. She eXerteG
herself and wrencbed her ankle out
of the rude clasp that sought TO hold it.
"Oh, pshaw!" mumbed the h. d. m.
"Wasser matter? Lcmme lone"
The lady turned around and gave him
a stony glance, but the h. d. IN. gazed
back with bleared, bloodshot eyes that
looked but did not see. lie was evil
4 Il
cious inebriate.
She turned around and hoped that
the incident would not be repeated.
She was mistaken. Presently the same
stealthy grasp was frightened about her
ankle, and her foot was drawn back so
suddenly that she had to catch hold
of the back of the seat in front to keep
herself from falling Again she freed
herself by a desperate effort.
"Oh, lemme lone" mumbed the h.
d. m. Think ye're smart, dosher?"
This was more than the young lady
could stand aud she decided to appeal
to the conductor for protection. She
gave IL mute signal of distress when
that official passed the next tlme and
told him in a frightened whisper that
the h. d. m. was annoying her by con-
stantly pulling her foot back under the
seat. The conductor waXed perfectly
splendid in his wrath. lie gave the
h. d. IN. swipe on the side Of the head
that made him see stars.
Wake up and get out of here said
the conductor.
NOW whatchew mean9p asked the
Ii. d. m. in most aggrieved tone. 81 ain
er doin' nothin'."
You've been trying TO bother this
young LADY, and yod'll- have TO move.
Hurry up, and no fooling."
The h. d. IN. staggered TO his feet.
"Oo-ee! He's at 1t again." gasped
Inc young lady, as she clung frantically
to her seat.
"Why, that's impossible" said the
conductor. Hes standing up. All,
have it," lie stopped down and picked |
up an umbrella with crooked handle |
which the h. d. IN. had dropped under
the young lady's seat. The innocent
had been merely trying to
keep his property from slipping away |
from him, but he was moved to another
portion of the car. That closed the in
cident, but the deep pink of the young |
lady's cheeks as she looked out of the
window showed that her thoughts were
not concentrated on the flying land
scape e.-Washingt Post.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
Another View OF the Matter

81 firmly believe she said, that
woman should have the right to pro-
pose"
"Of course, if woman proposes" he
replied, "she would give an engage
ment ring and other presents instead of
receiving them"
"On second thought" she answered,
perhaps it would be better not TO
change the existing conditions Phil
adelphia Call.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03
superstiious as to Holly Bush.

IT is popular belief that holly bush
planted near a dwelling protects the
house from liebtning.--Cbicago Inter
Ocean.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03

There are 1000 vessels which eros,
the Atlantic ocean regularly every
month. some Of them twice a month.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-03

IL was week later, and they were
seated on the hillside where they first
met. Brian Hennessy's lips were tell
ing the old, old story.
81 love you, Olive, beyond ALL" he
cried, fervently kissing the helpless arm
in the silken sling.
And you will forgive poor Rory?'
"lf you ask it," he replied, gravely.
The girl smiled demurely.
Then think, Brian, we may consid.
er it settled For the future | shall
make my home with you in dear old
Paddy's Land. d.'--Chicago Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27

CHAPTER 316-H. f. NO. 3s7.
AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Mo-
Knight for personal injuries sustained
while a patient in the Rochester hos
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27

CHAPTER S26-S. r. NO. 146. -
AN ACT to legalize sherif's certificates
in certain cases.
Re It enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota: ler1
That no certificate heretofore executed
under and by virtue of section eleven I'D,
chapter eighty-one (SD, title one ~,
statutes of Minnesota. shall be deemed
invalid by reason of the Same not hay
ing been made. executed proved or &c
knowledged and recorded within the TWEEN
ty (2O days mentioned In said section:
or by reason OF the affidavit of costs and
disbursements as provided in section 606t
of the general statutes of 1894. having
been filed after the expiration of ten
Q0) days, and the record of all such GER
tif1cates heretofore executed, proved or
acknowledged and recorded after the ex-
piration OF the said twenty 900 5ags. Is
hereby Iegalized and made valid, and said
record shall have the same force and eff
feet as If said certificate had bsen exc
cuted. proved and acknowledged. and re-
corded within the said twenty COD days:
provided. that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to apply to cases now
pending, which involve the legality or
validity of any such certificates of sale.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be
In force from and after its passa ge-
Approved April goth. 1899.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27
CHAPTER S25-s. F. NO. S2S.

CHAPTER 925-S. F. NO. S2S.
AN ACT to amend section five thousand
five hundred and thirty-tnree (5533) of
the general statutes of 1894, relating
to husband and wife not being liable for
each others debts. except in certain
cases.
Be ii enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota
Section l. That section five thousand
five hundred and thirty-three (5533) of the
general statutes of 1894 be and the same
Is hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
Section 5533. No married woman shall
be liable for any debts Of her husband.
nor shall any married man be liable for
any debts of his wife. entered Into either
before or during coverture, except that
necessaries furnished to and used by the
family are chargeable upon the property
of both husband and wife. or either of
them, and in relation thereto theY may
be sued jointly or separately. iYFQMded.
however this act shall not apply TO any
debt contracted prior to the passage of
this act -,
Sec. q This act shall take effect and be
In force from and after Its passage
ApprOved 4Rril goth, 1872 Fs-
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27

CHAPTER 312-H. F. NO. 57S
AN ACT to regulate persons and corpora
tions engaged in installing or repairing
electrical wires and apparatus in GER
tain cities Of the State of Minnesota
and to provide for licensing persons
and corporations to carry on said bust
ness.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Minnesota:
Section l. The governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the senate
shall as soon as practical after the pas
sage of this act appoint five 90 persons,
two (2) Of whom shall be at the time Of
appointment master electricians, two (O
of whom shall be at time of appointment
journeymen electricians and one % who
shall be at time of appointment a munic-
ipal electrical inspector of an incorporat-
ed city OF this state, residents Of this
state, and said apDointees shall constitute
a state board of electricity; one of the
persons so appointed shall hold Office for
one O year, one for two (2) years, one
for three (3) years, one for four (4) years,
and one for five (5) years. unless sooner
removed.
Appointments to fill vacancies caused
by death, resignation or removal before
expiration of term. shall be made for the
residue of such term by the governor,
subject to consent Of senate. and all ap-
Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-06-28

in my power to make her happy:but there was no chance for me where everything else except money was of secondary consideration.
 There are cases in which paveLts do not hold the highest ideals before them in this question of the mar riage of their daughters, and 1 think the criticism holds good in the in- stance referred to. The daughter objec ted to marriage with fast young man, notwithstanding that in some respects he was good catch, and my correspondent thinks she should have waved the moral aspects of the question aLd accepted his proposal,
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@&,org,<Nx
A PINE BLUFFIAN.

From the Arkansas City Journa we clip the following: "On Tuesday evening the Home Dramatic Com pany presented the beautiful melo- drama to large and appreciative audience. The play was we'll east and the roles we'll acted. Mir. Ker- win, appearing under difficulties, having the benefit of only two re- hearsals, and a role with few oppor- tunities to show his ability as an actor. was yet great addition to the strength of the cast as Peter Paragraph. His burnt cork special- ties. jokes songs, cake-walk and dances were the best ever heard here. Mir. Kerwin's splendid stage appearance and graceful bearing marked him as a true actor"
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PINE BLUFF & WESTERN.
Messrs F. H. Head and ". H Langford Among the Directors.

The board of railroad incorpora- tion today approved the charter of the Pine Bluff & Western Railway Company, JaYs Saturday afternoons s Arkansas Democrat. The purpose of the corporatioa is to build li9e of railway from Pine Bluff to Sheridan, in Grant county. The capital stock is $250, ,000. The board of directors consists of w. E. Sawyer and J. H. MacMlllan, La Crosse, Wis; E. L. Arnold, Mime apois, Minn.; ". H. Langford. F. H. Head, Pine Bluff; T. F. Doyle, Sheridan. The first meeting of the stockholders is to be held at Pine Bluff on the first Monday in Jan uary 1900. The length of the road will not exceed twenty-five mils.
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 VERY LOW.

Master Ed Wallace, l5 years of age isldangerously i'll at the home of his uncle Mir. V. O.. Alexander on West Fourth avenue with peritonitis. He has been very sick for the past several days and all hopes of the at tending physicians for his recovery, have been given up. It is not thought he will live A hours longer. It K indeed sad affair. He is an orphan, but Mir. Alexander has cared for him for several years.
 LATER-The little sufferer breath ed his last at 9 o'clock last night. The funeral will take place, from Mr. Alexander's residence at 4 o'clock thls afternoon. Rev. J. L. Caldwell officiating. To the bereaved rrla- tiyes we extend our heartfelt sympa- thy.
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MT. George Opel, an expert timer It the shops. ard who has been here fpr several years, leaves today at
 he regret of his many friends, for Toledo. Ohio, where he has accepted similar position in large contract shop.
 A large delegation of railroad em- ployees here will attend the Cotton Belt Lodge Brotherhood of Loeomo- tive Firemen's big picnic and ball given on the 4th of July at Jones' boro. The cltisens of Jonesboro donated $500 to that order to make this celebration g grand one,
 Mir. H. K. Bates, who for the last 29 years held the position as Master Mechanic of the Fort Scott and Springfield division of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis road, has resigned on account of iii health. MT. Bates Is well known by a large number of employees here and the news of his resignation will be a surprise to them.
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A Matrimonial Auction.

Sn l right or wrong in taking this ftlon? Generally speaking. 1t is IA and better to follow the advice Pther and mother in every way Bible, but not always. Some sO- N mothers have been known to |their daughters for the sake of Ealnlng fashionable and finan- IVY bac ked marriage for them. Ese daughters have been brought. Y their charms exhibited, and at enatrimonial auction they have Pt 10 the highest bidders. Then naich-makers put on 8 knowing x and say: Rare bit of diploma |Va the part of Mrs. X. We'll man. Fa' and if the daughter plays her FuS as shrewdly she is well fixed |iip.p
 E'aer people who believe that love |qld be the real tie at every mar K altar say: What a pity! That
 left to herself. might have eu- |td some mans life with the Ellh of her womanly affection. " [e true -haarted nlan who would \ blessed this woman with the [pl manly heart, but who didn't [fgold enou2 h to put him in the [%of good catches, says: Il low |Sat girl and would have done all
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|Bez still Believes in Only One hal Standard for Both Sexes.
Says That Some Mothers Sell Their Daughters
 for Gold.

k York, June 25.-In my morn
 bail is a letter from a young
 who calls my attention to some
 nents which I made recently
 Bning a young woman who re- # to marry a man whose moral #cter did not equal her own. Correspondent is at odds with #Osition. He writes: If her pa- q were satisfied with him as a Ea.laW why should she object to he was a little fast?" A *bd reading of the article will this correspondent that no Enpt was made to deClde for this bg lady, her case being taken as @Od one to emphasize social b which 1 fully believe in, not this vesy earnest let tom 8 man who thinks l am en7 N in the wrong. Briefly, the po- bn taken in the Sunday morning Twas this: There should be no rent moral stan dard for young lthan for young women.
 kaid l did not take an atom of fk in this miserable makeshift to nse the sins of a ynlDg man by ing he was only sowing his wild !. That if young woman SOW. be same wild oats she would be rely censured. That if the nor IaDdards for both sexes were not same, two sets of command ts would have been found on l, one with wildcat reservations Foung men. l also added that a lhas right to demand at the flage altar only what he can
 in return.
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Treat Them Both Alike.

1 believe that the first qupstion a young woman should ask ct ncerning a young man to whose destiny her own may be IiLked should be, What kind of man is he?" And believe that any standard of society which teaches that she should b willing to overlook some things which have not been just right in his life should be equally lenient toward her if 1t happen that some missteps have been made in her highway of e- 'ence.
 s.~ty may condone a wrong In a y--- : man, but the wrong Is no less - account of this. And 1t may se- vsftly censure the misstep that a young woman makes, but 1t does not make her sin any worse on this account. I suppose 1t is fair to say that at the final bar of judgment a wrong in woman will receive no seYerer censure than the same wrong in IT an, and think it only fair to Insist that the same standard of judgment is just and equable for so- ciety to use.
 Either there is one moral standard for both men and women, or there Is a different standard for each. If on- ly one, then my position Is unassail- able. If two. then am wrong. and the sowing of wild oats in young man should be charitably overlook ed, while the same In any young wG- man should by severely censured What is your opinion In the matter, one standard for both, or different standard for each?
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Josephine and Napoieon's Son.

propos of the French Napoleonic drama TOW being played at the Nou- veau theater, and entitled 'Le Roi de Rome" an interesting communication to the Gaulois states that Josephine only once saw Napoleon's boy. It had long been her ardent wish to set eyes on him, snd at length Napoleon him. self took the child. then two years old. to Malmaison. The little fellow took a great fancy to Josephine, and said: 'I love you; you are good. You must come back to Paris with us,and live at the Tuile-tes.' The emperor Is said to have been much moved by the in tevvtew, aud hastily terminated 1t, say Ing. we must go. my boy; wish the lady good bye. ."-London Chronicle.
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