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The Honorable J. F. Greer, one of the
best known and most highly respected
county Judges of the State. of Florida,
writes of his lior 'ible sufferings from
Inf iixiiuitory Rheumatism:
_(.;: or J. F. GREEK, Cocx’rv JuiicE,L
ci’i Cove Springs, Clay C0,, Fla. l
’31 ‘ N: Twenty-three years ago I
was" a. . with inflammatory rheumatism.
I W." ended by the most eminent physician
'th th .nd. I a'isited the great Saratoga
JBprine , N. Y., the noted Hot Springs of Ar-
kansas, and many other watering places,
always consulting with the local physicians for
directions, and finally came to' Florida, ten'
years ago. About two years ago I had a severe
attack of rheumatism, was confined to my
room for twelve weeks, and during that time
was induced to _try P. P. P., Lippman's Great
Remedy,_ knowing that each ingredient was
good for impurities of the blood. After use-
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different times Since I have had slight attacks
apd each time I have taken two small bottles
or P. P. 1)., and have been relieved, and I con-
Sider l’. P. P. the best medicine of its kind.
Respectfully, J. F. GREEK.
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says he bought a bottle of P. P. P. at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, and it did him
more good than three months’ treat-
ment at Hot Springs.
Rheumatism, as well as sciatica and
gout, is cured by a course of P. l’. 1).,
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Piano Lessons.
BSGEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter
of the late Wm. B. Nash.) gives offi cent
‘ and satisfactory instructions on the Piano :1
her home No. 193 Main attest.
J. D. Jennings. .
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RAlSlNG GOLDFISH.»
Freaks liiiiig the. Best. Prices, Six-Tailed
Fishes Heading the List.
Goldfish are so extremely common
nowadays that few people ever stop
to wonder where they come from OI
how hey are raised. .
The largest goldfish farm in the
world, if it may be called such, is lo-
cated in Shelby County, Ind.
To-day there are in the various
ponds of Spring Lake fishery over
200,000 fish, from which specimens
are constantly being sent to every
state and territory of the Union. It is
even said that some of the finest fish
in the royal aquariums of Europe
were raised at this farm.
Many people suppose that when the
goldfish is first hatched from the egg:
it has the peculiar pretty markings 01.-
its scales which make it so beautifu‘.
and valuable. ~ .
This is not the case. In its youth iii
reality the fish is just the same as any
ordinary; and everyday fish. and looks
like it for all the world. Even an ex
pert could scarcely tell it from the lit-
tle minnows which are found in any
stream. They are of a whiiish. sil-
very color, and have not the least evi-
dence of the beautiful hues which
they vill later assume.
First. theybegin getting dark, some-
times becoming :ilmost black. From
the dark complexion they begin turn-
ing to the reddish shade, and finally
'come out in all their glory. full-fledged
goldfish. Often the fish, instead of
acquiring a solid color all over its
scales from nose to tail. becomes spot—
ted with big red blotchcs here and
there at regular intervals over its
body.
The freaks
men-ts in the fish
.
and unusual develop-
are the varieties
which will always bring the best
prices in the market. Odd and rare
colors and spots upon the scales are
the marks which are preferred by
fanclcrs. Unusual shapes in the fishes
are equally popular with oddities in
colors, and will cause a fish to bring
as good prices as if it had orange or
purple scales.
In physical developments the great
varieties are in respect to the tail. One
never finds two-headed fish, but those
with more than one tail are plentiful.
Two, three, four and five tails are
'quite often found on the fish, and
sometimes even six, but the latter is
very rare. Of course, a fish with six
tails would bring a hnudsome price in
any market—Chicago Daily Tribune.
Promoted for Taking a Bath.
In the Crimea. during the winter,
Gen. Canrobert was in the habit of go-
ing about among the men of his com-
mand, incognito, to see what they
were about, and to learn their wants
and encourage the soldiers if they
needed encouragement. One morn.
ing, on one of these tours, he came up-
on a young conscript who had stripped
himself to the waist and was bathing
his body with handfuls of snow.
“That’s an odd sort of soap you‘re
using,” exclaimed the General.
“Oh, it‘s good enough,” said the sol-
dier. “You see I’m young, and more
than that, I'm a Lorrainer from Nan-
cy, and a fellow-provincial of Gen.
Drouot, who shaved himself with
snow on the march from Moscow, you
know, with the mercury thirty de-
grees below freezing. The old fellows
in my company, you see, bother me,
and make fun of me because I haven’t
any beard, and since I can’t shave out
of doors, like Drouot, I have to do this
to show those old fellows that I’m no
more afraid of the cold than I am of
the enemy.” ,
“Well,” said C'anrobert,'“what if I
should give you another way of get-
ting even with those old fellows?”
“Why, I shouldn’t mind,” answered
the young soldier.
“I’ll make you a Corporal,” said the
General.
The soldier laughed.
won't go," said he,
wouldn’t have it.”
"I’m higher up than your Colonel. I
am Gen. Canrobert.”
The young isoldier was in transports,
especially as the same day he was
made a Corporal in the presence of the
regiment.—'Youth‘s Companion.
“I guess that
“my Colonel
ill/Shrinking Bride.
Washington is the Mecca for brides
and grooms .One of the last couples
who spent the first days of their
honeymoon in the Capital City left
yesterday. The bride was very large
and the groom was correspondingly
small. At the first meal the groom
confided in the elevator boy, and told
him that as his wife was of a very
shrinking disposition, he would please
have the clerk send meals to the
room. This was done. The groom ap-
proached the clerk during the after-
noon, aud told him that his wife was
of a very shrinking nature and did
not like to go out the public way, and
asked him if there was not a private
exit through which they could go to
take a carriage drive around the city.
The bell was rung quite frequently
during their stay, and the bride with
the shrinking nature became a subject
of great curiosity to the help. “'hen
they left the porter caught sight of
her and stood in open-mouthed aston-
ishment. The clerk asked him what
he meant by staring at a guest.
“Couldn’t help it nohow, boss. Ijess
bed fer look at that shrinkin’ pusson.
I‘d jess like for know how long she’s
been shrinkin’, an’ what she ’peared
like befo’ she shrunk.”—Washington
Star.
Too Much Competition.
Brassy—“Are you in favor of re-
stricting immigration?”
Roundsman—“Qiam. There are no
places to be had on the force now, and
there won’t be none for years.”-—Phila‘
,delpliia Press. ' .
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oRiGiNALiTY NOT A LOST ART.
How a Dian Edits'a Paper ‘V-lthout Put.
ting Into Print.
“I was in a small Southern town 01-1
iiisiuess," said the commercial trav-
eller. “and had just left a store where
I had sold a bill of goods, when 3
man approached and began to ques'
tion me. As I was answering his
questions and trying. to get away from
him, the. proprietor of the store came
out and introduced me to the queer
uni-ins as the local editor. Then I be-
gun to ask a few questions myself,
but before I had time to get in many,
the town marshal appeared down the
street with a prisoner, and the—editor
dropped me, and went after the latest
r-xcircnient. ‘I didn’t know you had a
.iiewspiipcr here,’ said I to the mcr- .
(*liziiit. ‘\Ve haven’t.’ said he, ‘but
we‘ve got. an editor.’ ‘I-Iow can he edit
a newspaper when there isn‘t any?’
said I. ‘He’s‘a genius,’ said he. ‘He
doi‘sn’t look’it,’ said 1. ‘Well, I’ll tell
)‘ull what fligt chap does, and what
he has been doing for a year or more.
You know we have a population of
seven or eight hundred here, and we
don’t get a daily paper here until it is
eighteen hours old, and then we don’t
get it regularly. \Vell, what did that
clizip do but beg a corner in the room
where the postoffice is, and there he
put an “old arm-chair some one gave
him, and called it the editorialtrooms
of the Perpetual Gazette. At first peo-
ple laughed at him, but he went
around everywhere in town gathering
the news, exactly as if he were going
to print it, and he knew how, for he
had been a bright newspaper man
once. Then he would collect a group
of people and offer to tell all he knew
for five cents from each listener, or
sometimes he would get on a barrel
outside of the office, and, after telling
what he had to tell, he would pass the
hat and collect some times as much as
fifty or seventy-five cents. He always
got a lot of news out of the daily pa-
per. and supplied it fresh every morn-
ing, or the day after. I have often had
him come in here at night, and for a
quarter of a dollar got an hour or more
of entertainment out of him besides
getting the news. He reads stories in
the papers, too; and if anybody wants
to hear stories he can give all the cur<
rent ones at‘so much a listener.’ ”
Couldn’t Hear the Music.
Colonel Brown was a mighty fox
hunter, and loved the sport beyond
words. He owned a fine pack of
hounds and during the season thought
of nothing but his hunters, his dogs.
and the weather. He was once enter-
taining a friend from America, whose
ideas of hunting any animal involved
the use of firearms, and who had
never seen a fox hound. He had been
with difficulty persuaded to go forth
one morning with the Colonel and
some friends to a meet, and they were
waiting impatiently for the hounds to
take the scent. Presently there burst
upon their listening ears the din of 30
canine voices in full cry. The Col-
onel’s eyes gleamed, and, as he settled
his feet in the stirrups and stretched
his arm'toward the yelplng pack, he
cried:
“Major, listen to that heavenly mu-
sic!" "
The Major pricked up his ears for a
second or two, and then replied:
“I can’t‘hear a thing. those dogs are
making such a noise.”
The Colonel put his spur savagely
into his horse's side and dashed
away, leaving his guest to his own dc-
viccs.—Harpcr’s Round Table.
I’romptly Rendered.
Despite his stern manner the Duke
of Wellington had a kindly nature. In
a public ball-room he came across an
old soldier friend long lost sight of. To
the kindly query v. hether he. the Duke
of Wellington, could be of any service
to his friend, who was on half-pay and
unprovided with the money so neces-
sary to purchase advancement, “Yes,
your grace, you can do me a very great
service.“ was the prompt reply. “If
you will give me your arm across the
room, and appear to take some interest
in me, you will make my fortune.” The
service was forthwith rendered, and
explanation sought. The fact was that
the officer in question was paying his
addresses to a rich widow of the place
who still hesitated to accept him. But
she was at the ball, and she saw with
her own eyes how greatly her pretend-
ant was appreciated. This settled the
question: the oll‘icer wa accepted.
married, bought his way back to full
pay, rose steadily, till he readied the
highest honors. '
Just a Little of the Gravy.
An ex-Confederate soldier of South
Carolina tells this story: “I had a
friend who was a chaplain in our
army, a good man, as such men. should
be. Several of his own church mem-
bers were in. the same regiment. He
kept a sharp eye on us in the way we
should go. When we were rather
short for rations, some of the boys
brought in a fine, young porkcr. ‘Now,
boys, that's wrong,’ said he; ‘it is
simply stealing, and you ought not to _
do it.’
“ ‘Well, our consciences .don‘t
trouble us, and. yours won’t trouble
you when we get this meat cooked;
you will want some of it, too.‘
“ ‘No, I won’t eat it. I’d as soon eat
stelen meat.’
“But we divided it .up among ‘the
boys, and proceeded to cook a ham in
the best possible style. The smell of
it fairly made our teeth water, and
when it was cooked we were more
than ready for it.
“‘There’s a fine piece; cut that of!
for the chaplain,’ said one.
“ ‘No, I thank you,’ saidJie.
I wouldn’t eat it, and I won‘t—but,‘
passing up his plate—‘I’ll take a little}
of the gravy.’ ”.—-Detroit Journal.
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Crows can Count.
A naturalist, who is interested in
birds, says that crows can count to
twenty, and once in a long while one
can count to twenty-six. Last sum-
mer he spent in the mountains, where
a cadet company of boys were camped.
One day he found a flock of crows
around a dead sheep. near an old
shanty. They flappcd away as he ap-
proached. He hid himself in the shan-
ty, but they would not come back until
he left. The next day he took five boys
in‘ the shanty, and at intervals sent
them all away; but the crows kept
count and would not be fooled. He re-
peated this experiment a number of
times, with varying numbers of boys,
but the crows would not come down
until the building was entirely empty.
At last he marched all the cadets.
twenty-six in number, into the shanty.
One by one he sent them away, but the
crows did not stir until all the boys
had departed, and then down they
came. The experiment was tried sev-
eral times, always with the result that
the crows could count to twenty; but
beyond that they were uncertain.—
Golden Days.
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IA 'iiiemarkaméi’c'at.
A gentleman of Mount Vernon sit-
ting in his library one evening heard
a curious sound in the parlor below.
The rest of the family had gone to bed.
The sound was rather musical, being
a humming in various notes, broken
by little twangs, he concluded to go
down stairs softly and peered into-the
parlor. There in the moonlight which
shone on the piano top he saw the
house cat, a big black tom, called
Steal.
Steal was sitting ’on his haunches be-
side the banjo which Bob, the son of
the house, usually plays. Steal had
learned thatby touching the strings
with his paws he could make them
sound. It was remembered afterward
that the cat always came into the room
when Bob played, but that was sup-
posed to have been because the boy
made a great pet of him.—l\'ew York
Sun.
The Old Lady in “ American Notes."
Mrs. Mary Ann Reed, who died at
the Hartford Retreat for the Insane
the other day, at the age of ninetytwo,
had been in the institution for fifty-two
:wsai's. She was the “little lady”, re-
ferred to by Charles Dickens in his
“American Notes.” The passage relat-
ing to her is as follows: “ ‘I am an an-
tediluvian, sir.’ I thought the best
thing to say was that I had suspected
as much-from the first. Therefore I
said so. ‘It is an extremely proud and
pleasant thing, sir to be an ante-
diluvian,’ said the old lady. ‘I should
think it was, ma’am,’ I rejoined. The
old lady kissed her hand, gave another
skip, smirked, and sidled down the
gallery in inmost extraordinary man-
ner. Her delusion-was a pleasant one,
and she was alvvays amiable and (lo-
cile.—New York Tribune.
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Tennessee Lawyfih' May “’eep.
The right of counsel 'to shed tears
before the jury was recently deemed
by the Supreme Court of" Tennessee.
In his remarks the judge said:
"It would appear to be one of the
natural rights of counsel which no
statute or constitution could take
away. It is certainly a matter“ f the
highest personal privilege. Ind d, if
counsel have tears at command, it may
be seriously questioned whether it is
not his professional duty to shed them
whenever proper occasion arises, and
the trial judge would not feel con-
strained to interfere unless. they are
Indulged in to such execss as to im-
pede, embarrass or delay the business
; be'fdre-g.th£_‘court."—From ,‘Case and
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'course, tin soldiers.
Big Spiders in Sumatra.
Professor J. E. Atwell, of Beaver
Falls, Pa., has. says the “'ashington
Times, just returned from the Island
of Sumatra, where he has been pur-
suing some . cutomological investiga-
tions, paying particular attention to
the spiders which abound on the
island.
In conversation‘he grew eloquent on
this sirl‘ierl. The Sumatra spiders-lie
explained. embrace some of the rarest
spiders that exist.
The largest, as well as the most pe-
culiar in the world, are found there.
They are of all conceivable forms and
colors, and some of them spin threads
as thick and strong as grocer‘s twine.
Some have square bodies set on lune,
red legs. Others have curiously inter-
twined green and yellow legs. sup-
porting pear-shaped bodies.
One has a shell which looks like that
of a snapping turtle with egg-shaped
projections all over. This last grows
to a prodigious size and preys on the
largest of insects. It has been known
to kill and devour small humming
birds, which abound on the island.
C 03:13:. Charcoal Thread.
As a matter of curiosity. the Ifnifez‘:
States Consul, at Ghent, reports to ilie
State Department that the mod expen-
sive product in theworld is the char-
coal thread employed for incandescent
lamps. It is for the most part manu-
factured at Paris, and comes from the
hands of an artist who desires hisl
‘crease the painter’s wrath, and he
name to remain unknown, in order to
better protect the secret of its manu-
facture. It is by the gramme (equiva-
lent to 151/; grains) that this product is
sold at wholesale. In reducing its
price to the basis of pounds, it is easily
found that the filaments for lamps of
twenty candles are worth $8,000 pei
pound, and that for lamps of thirty
candles they are worth $12,000 p91
The filaments for lamps of
three candles are so light that it would
require nearly 1,500,000 of them to
weigh a pound, and their total length
would be one hundred and eighty-
seVen miles—Golden pay-s.
Toys of the Kaiser’s Sons For f‘lmrity,
According to the diary of a German
courtier, the children of the Emperor
are well supplied with play thin-gs. On
Easter eve, he writes, the tutor of the
Emperor’s sons collects all the .toys
which have been given to the children
during the year. They consist for the
most part of things of a military na.
ture, such as minature cannons," sa-
bres, horns, drums, comets, and, of
Then he causes
them to be repainted and generally re-
paired, and distributes them among
the poor and the hospitals of the capi-
tal. Last Easter four cart loads of
toys were thus distributed,
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Life Insurance Manager (in asttfiiishy
ment)—“What under the sun' {ever
made you take a risk on this man’s
life? Why, he swears that he has been
a confirmed invalid for five Years.”
Agent—“One of the best risks, sir.
Confirmed invallds never die of any.
thing but old age.”-—Tld-Bits.
Butler on Evolution.
Two or three mornings after the ar-
rival ofa new butler the mistress of
the house took the opportunity of
asking the cook how she liked her
new fellow servant. The report was
an excellent one. “In fact, ma’a.m,”,
said the cook, “the servant’s hall is
quite a different place now.” Not un-
naturally the mistress pressed ' for
further particulars. “Well, he talks
so cleverly,” said the cook. “Last
night, for instance, he explained’
things to us for an hour and a half.”
"Explained things—what things?”
said the mistress, now really inter-
ested. “Well,” was the reply, “he
was telling us how we are all de-
scended from Mr. Darwinl"—Nash-
ville Gazette.
Asked Too Much of Friendship.
. A neat little correspondence took
place between David. Roberts, the ar-
tist, and a friendly art critic with
whom he was in the habit of helmet)-
bing. Roberts had painted a number
of pictures into which he put all his
genius, and upon placing them on ex«
hibltion, much to his surprise and mor-
tification his friend the critic severely
attacked them. In due time, however,
a. note arrived, addressed:
“My Dear Roberts—You have doubt-
less read my remarks upon your pic-
tures. I hope they will make no dif-
ference in our friendship.
- Yours. etc.,
This had a tendency to slightly in-
3’
couched the following:
“My Dear ,-——The next time I
meet you I shall pull your nose. I
hope it will make no difference In. our
friendship. Yours, etc.. D. ROBERTS.
It is not recorded whether they met
afterwards, but it is safe to say. those
erstwhile friends. hobnobbcd no more.
First American News Boat.
Doubtlcss few know that the New
York Journal of Commerce originated.
what is popularly known as a news-
paper extra. When this occurred times
were troublesome In Europe, and the
great revolution of 1830 was approach-
ing. Naturally America was anxious
for early news, and all the newspapers
of New York equipped. small boats
that cruised about the harbor, waylay-
lug the large packet vessels arriving
from abroad to get the tidings.
The Journal of Commerce-conceived
the plan of sending out a small schoon-
er to intercept the packets two or
three days ahead of their arrival. The
originators of the plan were laughed
at, and told that it would in the end
ruin them. Results proved otherwise,
however, and when, the semaphoric
telegraph announced their schooner in
the offing, and later, coming up the
bay, the crowd would gather around
the office of the paper. They had to
wait until the extra evening edition
was ready, and then one of the part-
ners would sometimes read the' news.
aloud to hundreds of citizens, while
thousands of copies were sold. This-
scliooner was the‘ifirst American news-
boat of any size—Round Table.
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