Pine Bluff daily graphic., May 11, 1900, Image 2

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Railroad Time-Tables
Iron MouuihIu Route.
ARRIVES
ttle Rock Accoii).5:150 p. tn.
Southbound.10:55 am
22 Northbound. 4:50 p m
Cotton Belt Route.
southbound. 3:05 p rn
Southbound. 3:30 a m
Northbound. 1:05 p m
Northoound. 1:35 a m
Altheimer Branch.
Little Rock Accom. ...10:40am
Little Rock Accom.
Fine HlulT Arkansas River
Regular Passenger_ 10:10 am
Arkansas F'ver Packet C
temners Thursdays.12:00 m
" Fridays.
DEPARTS
6:55 a tn
11:00 a tn
4:55 p m
2:10 p m
3:35 a m
1:10 pm
1:40 a m
2:35 p nn
Ky.
3:00 p m
11:00 a rn
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
There is evidently everything in a
name. Phil Graves is an undertaker
i,» an Ohio village.
GOOD NEWS comes from those
who take Hood’s Sarsaparilla for
scrofula, dyspepsia and rheumatism.
Reports agree that HOOD’S CURES
(Jueen />f Portugal, M. I>.
The queen of Portugal has begun the
study oE medicine as a "hobby,” has
taken her degree of M. D., and is now
the chief physician of her consort, her
self and her children.
CJ SS ■'I* <Q> jP*. DC J*. .
Stars the 'i!ie Kind Von Have Always
Signature
Tattooing Valuable Dogs.
Nowadays the owner of a valuable
dog has it tattooed, so that when it is
stolen it can he identified. The dog
tattooers do a lucrative business,
though of course they are not rushed
with wc-v.
Prickly AhIi Bittern cures the kid
neys, regulates the liver, tones up
thestomnch and pprides tlie bowels.
Sold by Walker Drug Co.
Feeil Their Soldiers Well.
The British soldier is the best fed
individual of his class in Europe. He
receives for his daily ration 16 ounces
of bread, 12 ounces of meat, 2 ounces
of rice, 8 ounces of dried vegetables,
16 ounces of potatoes, and once a week
week he receives two ounces of salt,
four ounces of coffee and nine ouncss
of sugar,
OASTOrtlA.
Beara the spKind You Have Always Bough}
“nr c
He Wh« mi £xr«|it!o^.
Old Gatroks—“What's that? Marry
my daughter? Bah! Marriage Is an
insane desire on the part of a young
man to pay a young woman's board.”
Cholly Hardup (rattled)—“Not with
me it isn’t, Mr. Gatroks; nothing is
further from my thoughts.”—Stray
Stories.
The Indies wonder how Mrs. B.
manages to preserve her youthful
looks. The secret is she tnk e
Prickly Ash Ritters; it keeps the sys
tem in perfect order. For further
particulars c*> 11 on Walker PuigOo.
I,OHS by War.
A German army olllcer estimates that
in the century just closing no less than
30,000,000 men have been killed in war
in civilized countries.
Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature
llwivj Fire tonnes or u Year.
The losses by fire in this country and
Canada continue to be very heavy as
compared with last year. In October
♦ he total loss was 512,046,000, a little
less than in September, but 54,500,000
greater than in October, 1898. For ten
months the aggregate losses make the
enormous total of 5111,054,000, or 515,
000,000 above those of 1898 and nearly
#20,000,000 more than in 1S9?.
The most vigorous workers have
spells of “tired feeling” now and
then. This feeling is caused b.v de
rangement in the stomach, liver and
bowels, A few doses of Prickly Ash
Bitters quickly corrects the disorder
and sends the blood tingling through
the veins, carry lag life and renewed
energy throughout t he s,\ sti m. Sold
by Walker Drug t'o.
Cooperative Town in liun*«,s.
The little town of Moorehead, Kan.,
has a co-operative hotel, laundry, hall’
creamery and canning factory, and a
co-operative dining hall, with several
co-operative farms near by.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
For Infants and Children.
"Bears the
Signature of
PET SUPERSTITIONS.
i
Some That lnlluence All Sorts of
People.
Dr. Samuel Johnson would never en
ter a room left foot foremost; th^
brave Marshal Saxe screamed in terror
at the sight of a cat; Peter the Great
was not equal to crossing a bridge |
when he came to it, unless to do so
v, .j r*o utely necessary; Byron
shared \.ess famous people than he
the di d-'.e to having the salt at table
spilled uetween him and his neighbor.
A sneeze is with half the nations of
the world nothing to be sneezed at. To
exclaim “God bless you!” when any one
sneezes in your presence is a relic of
what what the Roman did before us,
and before him the Greek. Moham
med gives directions of the same kind
to his followers, and the Hindu of to
day utters his pious ejaculation after
the sneeze by way of prayer or good
wish on behalf of the victim. Many
people will avoid going under a ladder
If they can get around it. The belief
that if you put on your stocking the
wrong side out it is lucky is very gen
eral, or was until the schoolmaster re
turned from abroad, and I myself re
member an old woman v'ho was con
vinced that turning her stocking inside
out saved her from being Tost when
the fairies, one pitch-dark night, had
misled her on a trackless English moor.
What is to take the place of a lucky
horseshoe when we all ride in auto
mobiles? There is no room for the
imagination in them. Some new mas
cot will have to be discovered. Charms
of one kind or another are carried by
people that have a pious contempt for
heathen superstitions; a small potato,
for example, to avert rheumatism, or a
chestnut. The late journalist, George
Augustus Sala, never traveled without
carrying with him, as a lucky card, an
ace of spades. Somehow it failed to
save him from his creditors. But cred
itors are notoriously deficient in imag
ination. If Shylock had remembered
i tins wnen lie drew up ms douu, i ue
Merchant of Venice” would never have
been written.—Rochester Post-Express.
AMERICANS iN THE antarctic
I’almor Named Washington Strait and
Monroe Kay in 1821.
The first important discovery of land
by an American came about in 1820. At
that time the South Shetland islands,
sighted by Dirk Gerritz in 1598 and by
him named New Iceland, had just been
rediscovered by Sir William Smith,
and, according to the good old Eng
lish custom, duly rechristened. They
seemed to offer a good field for sealers,
and promptly a fleet from Stonington
was on hand in Yankee harbor, then
the southernmost refuge known. The
commander, Capt. Pendleton, noticed
lofty peaks still farther south, and sent
Capt. N. B. Palmer in the sloop Hero,
“but little rising 40 tons,” to make in
vestigations. Capt. Palmer found the
new country extensive, but bleak and
useless for sealing, and he promptly
returned. Near Yankee harbor he fell
in with the famous exploring expedi
tion under Bellingshausen. The Rus
sians had supposed the South Shetland
to be a' discovery of theirs, and were
amazed to find an American vessel
“apparently," as Panning reports the
■p. <vh of the commander, “in as fine
order as if it were but yesterday she
had left the United States.” They were
further amazed when Palmer told them
of the new land beyond. Bellingshau
sen sailed farther south, and discov
ered more lands, but did not forget to
i give to Palmer tho honor of first sight
ing the outlines of the continent. In
the following season Palmer visited
his discovery again, coasted it for al
| most 15 degrees—from about the tilth
parallel of longitude to the 49th—and
at 61 degrees 41 minutes came upon a
strait which he named after Washing
ton. He landed in a bay and chris
tened it for Monroe. His names, how
ever, together with those given by
other Americans, have disappeared
from the charts.—Scribner’s.
Scented Water for the Table.
T1 society has not perfected the art
of dining it is surely not far from it
The latest fad for the dinner table is
scented water for the finger bowls.
Great care should be taken in scenting
the water. To be correct the Oder
must be exceedingly faint. Verbena
leaf is refreshing, and occasionally one
leaf is left floating on the water of
each finger bowl. When natural flow
ers and leaves are scarce and one has
not a private hothouse or conservatory :
to draw from perfume tablets are used ‘
for this purpose. If a scented flower
is used in decorating the table, perfect
taste requires that the water in the fin
ger bowls be of the same perfume as
the flower.
First TIinnksgHlug lJuy in Englum.
Though Thanksgiving day is not
now a national institution in England,
special days of national thanksgiving
have been from time to time appoint
ed after great victories or other deliv
erances from national peril. The first
of these days, which is the first clay of
national thanksgiving recorded in
English history, was that celebrated
on Sept. 8, 1588, after the destruction
of the Spanish armada.
CLAZEO PAPER.
ilelcl as the Cause for the Algjri'.ing In
crease In Near-Sightedness.
According to a certain number of 1
German ophthalmologists, the use of
glazed paper has a prejudicial effect
upon the eyesight. There lies the
cause, they say, of the continuous in
crease of myopia during the last fifty
years. Formerly a dull, grayish paper
of coarse texture was used. Now the
paper has a smooth, brilliant surface,
with luminous reflections that were ab
sent from the rough surface of the old
paper. In old books a soft light easily
brought out in relief the characters,
W’hich were printed in heavier, blacker
type. Now, with the glazed surface,
the light is all the more reflected, be
cause the characters themselves are
finer and less pronounced, thus giving
rise to a play of light and shade that
is most fatiguing to the eyes. To
prove this it suffices to take an old
edition of the magazines printed ar
tistically and compare the effects pro
duced on the eyes after half an hour’s
reading. For this reason hygienists
recommend the javoidance of glazed
or highly polished paper in schools.
The paper should be of a grayish or
blueish tinge. In any case it should
not be white, and never brilliant.
An Unusual Incident.
An unusual incident happened on
the homeward voyage of the Castle
liner Carisbrook Castle, from the Cape.
The English letters not having arrived
before the Lismore Castle sailed from
Cape Town for home, the captain of
the Carisbrook Castle, which was to
sail the following day, good-naturedly
undertook to deliver the letters to the
disappointed passengers of the Lis
more Castle on the high seas. On
overtaking the Lismore Castle, the
captain had the letters enclosed in a
tin box and soldered up. This was
put into a barrel, with a pole at
tached flyins a red flag, and having
passed the Lismore Castle and got well
ahead of her, the barrel was dropped
overboard, the captain of the Caris
brooK at the same time hoisting a sig
nal which had been pre-arranged. The
Lismore Castle, coming up on her
course in due time, picked up the bar
rel, and so the passengeis received
their anxiously-waited news from
home. They expressed their gratitude
on their arrival in England by sending
to the commander of the Carisbrook
Castle a beautifully illuminated ad
dress, on which was depicted a barrel
Ooating on the high seas bearing a red
flag, the barrel being supported by two
pretty sea maidens.
COUNT PEOPLE BY MACHINERY
Facts About Each Person Will I*e Tabu
lated for the Census by Electricity.
Our first census, made in 1795,
showed the population of the United
States to be 5,000,000, and the count
cost Uncle Sam, who was compara
tively poor then, 1 cent for each per
son. It is estimated that the twelfth
census, to be made in June, 1900, will
show that our people number 75,000,
000, and that the item of clerk hire in
the census bureau alone will exceed
$5,000,000. Clifford Howard, writing of
"How the Next ^Census Will Be Taken,”
in the Ladies’ Home Journal, says that
“although the work of enumeration
will be completed by the 1st of July,
it will probably be two or even three
months later before the last of the
schedules are received at the census
office; for not only must they all be
first examined by the supervisors, but
in many cases they will probably re
quire revision because of some error
or informality. The actual counting
of the people will not be done until
the schedules are turned into the cen
sus office. The enumerators simply
gather the facts, and the office force in
Washington does the counting and the
compiling, which is done by electricity.
In 100 days all the facts relating to
"5.00t»,i '.0 people will be tabulated.-'
’TIs Always Thus.
"Isn't H strange," said a worried
looking woman, "that callers always
select just the piece of furniture to sit
on that you don’t want them to? The
couch in our sitting room has a num
ber of the springs broken, and one of
the chairs is in a rather shaky condi
tion. The other evening two young
men called on my daughter. We had
arranged it so the members of the
family would be sitting on the couch
and in the broken chair. The first
young man made a bee-line for the
couch and the other slid into the brok
en chair, when my daughter got up to
greet him. To add to our embarrass
ment the chair promptly collapsed.”
Cleveland Press.
Athti-iiu Fi coarnffes Su*c>UIe*
The iigures taken from the official
records of three Bohemian fraternal
benefit societies, for periods of from
three to five years, show that in every
1,000 deaths there were in the first 100
Suicides, in the second 20) and in the
third f,.?3. The circular calls attention
to the fact that along with this remark
able prevalence of suicide in these so
cieties there exists a general infidelity,
md argues that there is a connection
of cause and effect between them.
yueer Devices for Use lu Warfare.
Now while war is going on the pro
ific brain of the inventor is busy de
mising ways in which to speedily an
lihilate the enemy. One ingenious in
lividuai, 'an Englishman, suggests a
mist or fog ball with which to envelop
m antagonist in impenetrable dark
ness. The balls are easily broken
spheres,containing ammonia and acids,
which, on escaping, create a very
dense fog, wrapping everything near
it in a haze until blown away by the
wir.d! He argues that this would be
a most efficacious method of prevent
ing the Boers from aiming at English
troops. Another proposes to blind the
foe by firing into their midst bullets
filled with pepper—thus doing a double
good work, both disabling the enemy
and increasing the consumption of our
colonial produce.
Important
Questions.
There are three things to ask
yourself when ycu enter a gro
cery store.
Is the Quality,
the Price and
the Service Right?
Our prices are always the low
est. Ask any one who trades
with us exclusively—and there
are many such—and they will tell
you we handle the best goods
made. The service is also as
good as conscientious and expe
rienced help can make it.
If you trade with us these
three important questions will be
established. Give us a trial.
Knox & Smart,
No, 328 Pine Street.
I
Ice Cream Freezers,
Gasoline Stoves,
Window Screens,
and all Seasonable Goods.
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if-i jo HunBKWR mj arewms w m I
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This is because wear does not change the correct
contour of the teeth of the gears. Continued use of '
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the COLUMBIA BEVEL-GEAR CHAINuan
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j added p°lish to the surfaces of the gear teeth, which, if p MIA, causes
the mechanism to run more evenly and smoothly at the end ex a season
than at the beginning. New models reduced in weight awl improved
throughout. Models 59 and 60, $60; Models 65 and 66, $75. '
New model COLUMBIA, HARTFORD, STORMED
PENNANT CHAIN WHEELS, $50, $35, $30, $25.
ihe COLUTviblA COASTER BRAKE maybe attached to aimers
any bicycle, chain or chainless. Price $5.C0 extra when ordered with
c£ the work;’
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anew 1900 machine. “ Saves one-third
See Columbia and Stornur Catalogues.
J.T.LLOYD, Columbia Dealer,
PISE BLUFF, AUK.
CO umbia bicycles, QME OFFICE, Hartford, Coon
JRHEEMATISM CATAKKH ABE I5LOOI>
GISEASES-FKEE!
It is the deep-seated,obstinate cases
of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B, B.
B. (botanic blood balm) cures. It mat
ters not what other treatments, doe
tors, sprays, liniments, medicated air,
blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B.
B. always promptly reaches the real
cause and roots out and drives from
the bones, joints, mucous membrane,
and entire system the specific poison
in the blood that causes rheumatism
and catarrh. B. B. B. is the only rem
edy strong to do this and cure so there
can never be a return of the svmptoms.
Don’t give up hope but ask your drug
gist for B. B. B.—botanic blood balm or
3 bs.—Large bottles one dollar, sis
bottles (full treatment) five dollars. B.
B. B. is an honest remedy that makes
real cures of all blood diseases after
every thing else fails. We have abso
lute confidence in Botanic blood balm;,
hence, so you may test it, we will send
a trial bottle free on request. Personal
medical advice free. Address,
BLOOD BALM CO.,
222 Micthell St., Atlanta, Ga.
ARKANSAS RIVER
PACKET CO.
ei> NOWLANU, Frea. (ien. MuRr.
C, K. FHIU’OT General A*i«.
Boat Leaves Memphis every Tues
day at 5 p. m
Boat leaves Pine Bluff every Fri
da v at 11 a. in.
We make lowest rates Dom and to
all points.
Telepiiouo No. for. general ir>
rmali on.
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Dr. Wells LeFevre,
Homoeopathic
Physician and Surgeon.
Hours D to 12; 2 to o
Sundays fl to 11 : : :
Office and Residence, 6o8 w. 5th.
Both Phones.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
GENSTO-URiNARY AND RECTAL DISEASES
eJiseases of Women a Specialty
Wm Lovett
Clothes Cleaner.
Suit? pressed and cleaned at remarkably
low prices. I also make a specialty of
ladies’ skirts, in cleaning and pressing
Leave orders at
Forrsst Gay's Barber Shoo.