‘ I I -., / - v . THE EVENING GAZETTE —.=. II lif \ ‘. *1/ ~.'. \ . ._ IIIHHIMWIII[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllll ' F llll‘. r .. - Mr. ELEM E . The Honorable J. F. Greer, one of the best known and most highly respected county J udgcs of the State of Florida, writes of his horrible sufferings from Inf ‘mmatory Rheumatism : / OFFICE or J. F. GREER, COUNTY JUDGE, 1, Green Cove Springs, Clay Co., Fla. GENTLEMEN : Twenty-three years ago I was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism. I was attended by the most eminent physician h the land. I visited the reat Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the noted Hot ‘prings of Ar- kansas, and many other watering places, always consulting with the localph '51cians for directions, and finally came to lorida, 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- mg two small bottles I was relieved. At four different times since I have had slight attacks and each time I have taken two small .bottles of P. P. P., and have been relieved, and I con- su’ler P. P. P. the best medicine of its kind. Respectfully, J. F. GREER. James M. Newton, of Aberdeen, Ohio, 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. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy. P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, is a friend indeed to weak women. It is a. positive and speedy cure for general weakness and nervousness. All skin diseases are cured by it; any- thing from pimples to the worst cases of eczemas succumbing to the wonder- ful healing powers of P. P. P. Dyspepsia and indigestion in their worst form are cured by it. As a tonic to restore the appetite and to regain lost vigor, it is simply marvelous. P. P. P. is the best spring medicine in the world. It removes that heavy, out-cf-sorts feeling and restores you to a. condition of perfect physical health. For Indigestion, Sick and Nervous Headache, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Heart Failure, Fever, Chills, Debility and Kidney Diseases, take P. P. P., Lippman‘s Great Remedy, the most. wonderful medicine in the world Sold by all druggists. UPPMAN BROS., Apothecaries, Sole Prop’n. Llppmnn’n Block. Savannah, (h. consumption reaps his ' richest HALE’S harvest . HONEY Where (llS- - 6% eases of the throat HBHEHIIIIND and lungs AND are neglected. TAR If you have ever tried Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar you know what a safe uard it is against throat and lung trou lcs. Sold by druggists. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute. 'I’IYMDUTH ROCK ICE STBIBTLY PIIIIE I Stores and families supplied. Lowest rates. ELLS & 60., I I North Ave. Norwalk. Horace E. Dann. EXOELSIOL Liverv and Sales Stable uu-uvvuwvvuw~ \ Opposite Danbnry and Norwalk Railroad depot Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Teens with or without drivers Safe horses for women sndohildren. . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIAL“ v AT” .52. w. BATES’ ”42 WATER STREET, You can find as fine an assortment of Mnnnenlaliflnetawwirl he found it: any Yard in. the Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. State Piano Lessons. RSMIEORGE W. BRADLEX, (daughter , of the late Wm. 3..N8.Sll.) gives efimert and satisfactory instructions on the PM?" 9 her home \Tn.193 ‘i.a.in ".reet ' the paying guest. 3. BALL OF. "SNAKES.- ONE. HUNDRED AND FORTY'SEVEN IN ALL WERE CAPTURED. They were Out Sunning Themselves \Vhen Discovered—In Their Desire to get away They Rolled Down an Embankment with Sufficient Force to Stun Them. Henry Moseley, who is at present a resident of Wolcott, captured more than a bushel and a half of semi-tor- pid rattlesnakes at the foot of Battle- snake Hill, below Thomaston, early this spring. The snakes were being thawed out by the rays of the warm sun. The haul was an unusually large one even for that snake country. “I am not much of a hand at spin- ning a snake yarn,” said Moseley mod— estly, “but there were some things about this last catch of mine on Rat- tlesnake Hill that were unusually in- teresting. "Ever since I first came into these parts so many rattlers have been tak- cn about Rattlesnake Hill that I have known there must be a hibernating and ancestral den on it somewhere for the reptiles. Besides, I was told that there was, and I’ve find the den, off and on, for a long time. “A rattlesnake is a heat-loving crea- ture, you know, and as I had never been able to_ get any track of that den, I just made it my business this spring to watch for the reptiles when they came out of their long sleep. At last one day I came across a monstrous big ball of the snakesjn the sun on top of a flat ledge near the highest part, where the air was as warm as toast. “It was by all odds the greatest sight I ever saw or ever expect to see. There they were, all interwoven, ‘heads and points,’ just about half alive and half dead, like so many strips of thick leather. I suppose their being massed together in this way helps to preserve them by keeping them warm. The ball. was sort of relaxed and was flat- ten-ed out in shape like a greatc big chair cushion. Not far away was a narrow fissure in the ledge, which I saw at once w‘asthe entrance to the‘ long-looked~for den. There was not a snake in the place, all having joined in theformation of the ball. As soon as the snakes saw me they seemed to give a. signal, for the ball tightened up all at once and started to roll right for the fissure in the ledge. “As for me, I didn’t know what to do, I was so excited. There was $50 of $75 worth of snakes there, all balled up for me, and I didn’t have a thing there with me to kill them. I never felt so disappointed in all my life. You see, I never expected to have so much to do in the way of snake hunting so early in the season, and all I could lay my hands on was a piece of wide board, which was lying there. All the time those snakes were a-getting up more headway and a-rolllng faster and faster right for the entrance to the den. In another moment down they would fall into the cavern, and like as not I should lose three-quarters of them. “I acted on the impulse of the mo- ment. Said, I to myself, ‘I’ll try my best, and we’ll see what I can do with this board.’ At that I ran as fast as I could ahead of the snake ball and managed to throw my board down and cover up the entrance to the cave just before the ball reached the spot. The big ball struck the board with such an impetus that it bounded clear over the fissure and the next instant was on its way down the hill and across the top of the ledge. Before the snakes could untangle themselves the ball was bouncing down the footpath on the east side of Rattlesnake Hill. It soon whizzed so fast that the snakes had. to tighten their grip for safety. “I stood watching the ball as it went down the path. It was a big whirl- ing brown mass. All went well with it until it reached a sharp turn in the path, where it flew off the track and shot over the brow of the clifi, which is about fifty feet high. The ball fell into a mud bank below, and the thud seemed to stun the snakes, for when I finally got to them they had not moved, so I had no reason to feel afraid of them. I had a good deal of trouble in u-ntying them and straight— ening them so that I could cut the throats of the lot.” ' Mr. Moseley secured 147 snakes in ull.—Phlladelphia Times. Paving Guests. (The person hitherto styled the lodger or the boarder seems destined to dis- appear. This useful domestic acces- sory to limited incomes is now called It appears to. be understood that a lady or gentleman living in a household is, after all, a guest, with the difference that he or she happens to pay a sum agreed upon for the hospitality enjoyed. Paying guest is therefore the proper designa- tion. As this harmless piece of fiction Is said to have encouraged a good many estimable families, the members of which would have shuddered at the thought of housing a ledger or a board- er, to make a little extra money by letting a bedroom and cooking meals for a male or female guest, the word may be welcomed. Her Brilliant Scheme. Freddie—I doahn’t believe a mind weader could weed my thoughts. Oholly—How would you pwevent it? “Bali Jove, I’d think in Fwench, doncher known—New York Journal. A Sardonic Suggestion. “I’m sure,”: said the girl who is en- gaged, “that Herbert is a prize.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; “but in a case of this kind it’s so difficult to tell whether you’ve wort} a first prize or a booby prize."—Washington Star. been trying to, A WHOLE STATE RUN BY WOMEN. Farm the Land, Repair the Roads, and Sendthe Men. to Work in the City. The woman question has been on trial for years in a country the condi- tions and tendencies of which seems more outspokenly opposed to progress in that particular direction than those of any other land. It may sound strange, yet Russia is the empire rc- ferrcd to. In Central Russia is the township of Besjukovschtschiua. There, in 1861. after an epidemic that reduced the peasants r0 starvation, the women, led by Saschka, ordered the men to leave and go to the city to find work. The women remained alone and began to till the farms. The men were al~ lowed to return only for‘ the holidays. The woman state comprises a terri- tory of ten square miles, and is divided into seven villages. Saschka and seven other women, the wives of the exiled elders, administer to all public affairs, such as the levying of taxes, the allot- ment of acres to the various families. the keeping up of the churches, the paying of the shepherds, etc, etc. They also assume the recruiting officer’s du- iics by sending those men who attained the proper age to town in order to sub. mit to medical examination. In the Summer the fields of the dis- trict afford a peculiar aspect. One may ride over the Besjukovschatschina domain from morning till night with- out encountering a single male being. All the work, the hardest as well as the lighter manipulations, is executed by women and girls of different ages. With naked fleet and arms they trot behind the plough, throw out seeds and gather fruit. Here we observe a dozen or more sturdy members of the weaker sex engaged in lifting a mighty rock; again, we see others cutting down trees or subduing a bucking horse or a wild bu-ll. Toward evening all hands assemble in the church squares of the seven villages to hear reports of com« mon interest, the women acting Mays ors being the speechmakers, who dis- cuss public questions in decisive and businesslike manner. This done, the women go home to attend to their own affairs. Besides cultivating the fields, they keep the roads in order, and occasion- ally sct up a new cottage or stable.— New York Journal. DIAMOND JIM BRADY. The Fad of a Man Who Travels with Prec- ious Stones Worth $60,000. Accompanying a party of Southern Pacific ofiicials returning from a con- ference at Mouterey, 0:11., that passed through Denver the other day was James R. Brady, who is engaged in the business of railway supplies. Mr. Brady is known as “Diamond Jim by his associates. When he dresses for a pleasure excursion, it’ is said, he goes about with $60,000 worth of diamonds hidden about his person. He dis-plays ordinarily a diamond scarf pin. a pair of diamond cuE‘but- tons, and a ring or two. His watch is studded with diamonds, and cost $3,000. The diamonds that are not displayed conspicuously are said to be the costliest. He wears diamonds upon his garter buckles, the buttons of his silk underwear have small diamonds set in them, and his suspender buck- les are incrusted with gems. The chains of his suspenders are of gold. He carries with him a collection of umbrellas and canes, all of which have golden handles set with diamonds. He also carries matches in a diamond or- namented match case, and his cigars ai’e offered to his companions from an elaborately enamelled and diamond incrusted cigar case. He lets his fad run unchecked in the matter of cuff buttons. He has twelve sets of coil? buttons, nearly as many sets of shirt buttons, and scarf pins innumerable, with the ornaments always diamonds. Of his many diamond rings of curious designs there is one that bears a soli- taire torquoise set within a cluster of diamonds. , This he calls his mascot, and he never lets it leave his posses- sion—New York Sun. The Spider Growing Industry. When mine host in the ideal coun- try inn, which all of us seek but none of us find, brings up a bottle of crusted wine covered with cobwebs and dust, this outward and visible sign is taken as convincing evidence of age. W'e grieve to have to record that the trust may now be misplaced. A bulletin (No. 7) of the division of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture says that in France and Pennsylvania on industry has recently- sprung up. which consists of the farm~ ing of spiders for the purpose of stock- ing Wine collars, and thus securing al- most immediate coating of cobwebs to new wine bottles, giving them the ap- pearance of great age” This industry is carried on in a little French village in the Department of Loire, and near Philadelphia, where “E-peira vulgaris” and “Nephila plumipes” are raised in large quantities and sold to wine mor- chants at the rate of $10 per hundred. This application of entomology to in- dustry is one which will not be highly commended—From Nature. The Smallest Picture in the “'orld. Probably the smallest piece of painting in the world is that executed by a Flemish. artist. It is painted on the smooth side of a grain of common white corn, and pictures a mill, and a miller mounting a stair with a sack of grain on his back. The mill is rep- resented as standng on a terrace, and near it is a horse and cart, while a group of several peasants is shown in the road near by. The picture is beautifully distinct, every object being finished with microScopic fidelity, yet by careful measurement it is shown that the whole painting does not Cover 3 surface of half an inch square. RED LAKE. It Iii-comes that Color About Two of [three Tinles Every Ten Years. Luke Morat, in Switzerland, has a mice-r habit of turning red about two or three times every ten years. It is a pretty lake, like most of the sheets of water in that picturesque country. and its peculiar freak is attributed to a disposition to celebrate the Slaughter of Burgundians under Charles the Bold. on June 21,1476. But the French say that it blushes for the conduct of the Swiss, who in that battle gave the Bli'l'g‘lllllllzllls no quarter. The old fishermen of the lake, who catch enor- mous fish cullcd' silures, that weigh between twenty-five and forty kilo- grams says when they see the waters of the lake reddening, that it is the blood of the Burgundinus. As a matter of fact, some of the bodies of the Bur- gundinns killed in the battle were thrown into the lake, while others were tossed into a grave filled with quick- lime. This historical recollection au- gered the Burgundian soldiers of the victorious armies of the republic of 1708 so much that they destroyed the monument raised in honor of their compatriots who fell heroically in that battle, and Henri Martin very justly 'reproached them for that piece of van- dalism. It would hardly do to attri- bute the reddening of the waters of the lake to the blood of the soldiers of Charles the Bold. The color is due simply to the presence in large quan- tities of little aquatic plants called by naturalists Oscillatoria rubescens. The curious thing about it is that Lake Morat is the only lake in which this curious growth is developed, and the peculiarity is beginning to interest sci- entific men. NEW DEFINITION OF VERACITY. A Jersey City \Vitness Says It’s a Bad Thing to Carry Around. Richard lVelling was a witness at the trial of Rachel Schreiber in the General Sessions Court in Jersey City the other day for larceny and receiv- ing stolen goods. Maggie Werner, the 14-year-old n-eice of the defendant’s husband, was the principal witness against her, and the defence tried to prove by the testimony of Mr. \Velling and others that Maggie’s statements could not be relied upon. Mr. VVell- ing took the witness stand with a con- 'fident air and testified that Maggie’s reputation for truth and veracity was bad. "What is the meaning. of veracity?” asked Assistant Prosecutor Noonan sharply. The question came so sud- denly as to confuse the witness, and he hesitated about answering. "It’s a pretty bad thing to carry around with you, isn’t it?” continued Mr. Noonan. “Yes, sir,” answered the looking very much relieved. “You wouldn’t like to be accused of veracity, wbuld you?” “No, sir; I would not.” “I move the testimony of this wit« mess be stricken out,” said Mr. Keenan, addressing the Court. “Strike it out,” ordered Judge Hud- speth, and Mr. Wailing looked as if he did not know where he was at. Mrs. Schreiber was acquitted—New York Sun. witness, HER DESIRE ,MODEST. And She Received All that Her Advertise- lnent Called For, Here is a good story. A woman once sent the following advertisement to a London pap-er: “A lady. in delicate health, wishes to meet with a useful companion. She must be domesticated, musical, early riser, amiable, of good appearance, and have some experience of nursing. Total abstainer preferred. Comfortable home. :\’0 salary.” A few days after the advertiser received a bumper labelled: “This side up, with care—perishable.” On opening it she found a fine tabby cat, with a let- ter tied to her tail. It ran thus: “Madam: In answer to your advertise- ment, I am happy to furnish you with a. very useful companion, which you will find exactly suited to your re- quirements. She is domesticated, a good vocalist, an early riser, possesses an amiable disposition and is consid- ered handsome. She has had a great experience as a nurse, having brought up a large family. I need scarcely add that she is a total abstainer. As sal- ury to her is no object. she will serve you faithfully in return. for a comfort- able home.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Stratagem of "War. A certain. American in the war of 1812 played a mean trick upon the Admiral of the attacking Britishn squadron. The Britons were entirely too strong for the Americans, so stat-e- gy became necessary. Accordingly, one clever young man- spread the report that he had invented a fearful ma- chine of war which he would send among the British boats and explode at the proper moment. Then he filled a. barrel with sand and a little gun- powder, and towed it near the Brit- ish ships. A fuse set the powder ofi. There was an explosion and to the amazement of all, the British. ships put to sea, fully convinced that a new infernal machine had been invented. How :1 Great. General Sleptfl A good story is told of the Duke of Wellington. The French, with a fresh force double that of the duke, were closing in upon his jaded troops one stormy night in Spain. Wellington completed his preparations, and then, turning to a scout, asked: “How long will it be before they can reach us?” “Half an hour,” was the reply. “Then I can go to sleep,” he said; and wrapping his cloak about him, he dropped where he stood in the muddy trench, and in an instant was asleep, He awoke when the bugles of the cue-j. my sounded in his ears—Weekly Tcle- - graph. . C The only kind that in one and the same package supplies ,' the Laundress and Housekeeper with the perfection of wash- . ing powders, and furnishes the family with all Soap it requires CAKE son’s: IN EVERY PACKAGE. 9‘K ‘4 1' Washing Powder ' 4 the Toilet ‘- Write for catalogue of choice premiums. -. Towed By al‘ish. A great jewfish was caught off La J olla deep beds lately. Two men were out in a small rowboat. Gazing into the limplid waters of the ocean they could easily distinguish six or eight monster jewfish idly cruising thirty or forty feet below searching for a lunch- eon. A hook bait-ed with a tempting Whitefish was lowered before the noses of the hungry monsters and watched eagerly by the anglers, who could easily see every movement of the finny game. One big black fellow after another would paddle up to the innocent look- ing bait, smell of it and back away. Something seemed to arouse their sus- picion. Finally one old veteran, the largest of the school, advanced to the lure. The huge mouth opened. The jaws snapped down on the bait. The anglers were delighted. Waiting for half a minute until the fish had the bait well swallowed they gave the line a sharp jerk. The Steel hook penetrated the vitals of the fish. The agonizing shock stimulated the creature to a fierce plunge into the lower depths of the sea. Twenty fathoms of stout line paid out from the bow of the boat in a twinkling. So rap-idly did the line pay out that water was thrown on the smoking coil to prevent it burning. The fish hit the floor of the sea and then sped toward Japan like the wind, drag- ging the boat almost bows under in its wake. Half a mile ran ran the fish. Then, partially exhausted, it sulked, made a few feeble efforts to escape, was drawn to the surface and dis- patched with a knife. It weighed 453 pounds, was 6 feet 2 inches long, 19 inches from tip to tip of the tail, and of 5 feet girth.—SanFrancisco Call. ——x:..——I—-‘—‘-—. . . DOG THAT CAN TEST METALS. Silver Tip Knows Good Bloncy froth Bad Every Time. No bank teller, crack or populist in Iowa has a truer instinct for real. genuine, 16 to 1 cart-wheel silver d01- l-ars than has a Rock Rapids dog called Silver Tip. Silver Tip is tan-colored and weighs about ten pounds. All of his two years of life he has been the property of Landlord Barber, of the Lyon Hotel, at Rock Rapids, but it is only within the last year that his pow— er of immediate insight into the na- ture of metals has become known to his owner, says the Chicago Times- Herald. The way Tip manifests his powers, as his owner puts it, is as follows: If one takes a pile of coins the size of an American dollar—say a. trade dollar, a Mexican dollar, a five-franc piece and some counterfeit dollars—and puts one genuine dollar piece in the center of the pile, Tip will rummage around among them for an instant and then snatch the good coin and proceed to take care of it in approved dog fash- ion to an accompaniment of growls and bites. Or if one rolls a coin along the floor, Tip can tell every time whether it is good. 'stufi to be chased. Tip never makes a mistake, and there isn’t a bit of doubt about his powers. He has been tested by Chi- cago business men and by committees of Iowa scientists. He gets no human help in his work. The good coin is not marked in any peculiar way for his benefit, neither is it scented. Any one can use his own coin in the ex- periment. Nor does Tip’s powers de- pend on signs from his master. rl‘he latter leaves the room without detract- ing rom the dog’s ability in the least. Mr. Barber has refused all offers for the purchase of Tip. ,—- forbuilding purposes. GIUSEPE GARIBALDI. Personality of the 111051: Romantic Hero of the Century. Well might an English writer of the time call him “the most romantic hero of our century, a living man whose le- gend is already as firmly implanted as that of Wallace or William Tell, whilst the several historical critics of the future will be unable to deny either the reality of his exploits or the originality of his character. This hero and idol, this superb sol-i dier and worshipped leader, was quite a different being in person and attain- ments from the popular notions of him that are still prevalent. People think because he was a man of action and loved the people that he must have been ignorant, peasant-like, and with popular free and easy manners; not at all; he had been a professor of mathematics. ' This is what M. Dupont says of his appearance at their meeting: “The man is small, delicate, nervous, but his small gray eye flashes like pol- ished steel; he has a kind voice; he wears eyeglasses, owing to his short sight.” But this little, delicate, short-sight- ed mathematician, who was a suffering invalid long before he ceased to be a soldier, was not only the greatest per- sonal hero" of his century, he was a poet as well; his proclamations and public letters to his beloved Italians are full of poetry, and here is a frag- ment from one call to arms at the darkest hour of the Italian struggle for liberty, which shows how sublime and profound that poetry could be: “In return for the love you may show your country,” he wrote, “I offer you hunger and nakedness and wounds and weariness and death; whoso ac- cepts these" terms let him follow me.” When, in the history of natioiis, was there ever so consummately daring, noble, and sagacious an appeal as that? No wonder a General who‘so understood the latent heroism of hu- man nature was never disappointed in his followers—Chicago Inter-Ocean. i TIiiI‘oil Lined lilivelopes. . - “Envelopes lined with” tinfoil will possibly be a ‘fad' in the near future. if experiments with the Rontgcn ray continue.” says Paper and Press. It has already been demonstrated that the contents of a sealed letter. enclosed in ' the ordinary envelope, may be photo- graphed. The Gaulois, a French pa- per, has photographed such private matter in fifteen seconds. By using en- velopes with tinfoil our contemporary would defy the X rays in the hands of the inquisitive.” ~ . - I. Trees GFrow Bread‘ and Tow era. The most wonderful tree that grows is found in the Pacific Islands. From this tree the natives procure towels, cloth, tinder, and bread. It is about as tall as a three—story house, and the branches, which Come out‘ straight from the tree like so many arms, are covered with leaves and fruit not un- like apples in appearance. This fruit is used as bread, and it is in season during eight months of the year, the natives finding a good living in it. ' As for glue, it oozes from the trunk of the tree, and is found useful for many purposes; the leaves make excel. lent towels for the natives who care to use them; and from the inner bark of the tree a kind of coarse cloth can be made. Besides this, its dried blos- soms are used for tinder in lighting fires, and the wood is in great demand i 'l'he lights 53? '5 g - THE ORIGINAL Stamped fl Boss” ‘- Always th nickel-plated—no tin; outside oil-filler; cotton packed oil- fount; double canvex ground‘photo- lens; burns kerosene, throws a light 90 ft. and weighs but 12 ounces. Three years a leader, and three years’ , improvements now added. 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