Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 13, 1889 Page: 6 of 8
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the rapid approach of the wagon and
his tail went buzzing like a broken
19 per cent of students,
cent of women sleep in the
Jones
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There is a return to white lace for the
throat and sleeves of bo lices, even for after-
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“Sure ‘nuff.
A fire nt Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed sixty
bui’dings, mostly wooden, entailing a loss of
8200,0. 0.
F. A. Schuyler, of Pottstown, has a piece
f amber from the Baltic sea inclosing a
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W. Shelly, of Milford square, has a New-
fo ndland dog ponderous enough to do all
the fa nily washing by a tread power.
A tennis player should always be willing
to take a ball and have a racquet.
i ne by one the roses fall, but "Tansill’a
uuch" 5c. Cigar outlives them all.
WINGED MISSILES.
The Shah of Persia is visiting Russia
English shoemakers are agitating for
eight hours’ work.
Drunkenness has been made a statutory
crime in Minnesota.
Illinois will erect a 830,003 monument to
Gen. John A. Logan.
The Cuban sugar crop this year will be
about 150,000 tons short.
Woman Suffrage has been defeated in
the Michigan legislature.
An Anarchist Republican conspiracy has
been discovered in Spain.
Christians are being massacred by Turks
on the Montenegrin frontier.
Denmark spends 855,000 yearly for the
maintenance of dairy schools.
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o‘n, Ka i.. one n’ght last week, and was
; ; tured by citizens and hanged.
until within the past two or three years i rather like to have flies around."
"Well, I could'nt let you have
“Moses, we've got to have a screen
door,” she observed as she went closer. Europe.
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Irwin Blair, of Valdosta, Ga., has two curi-
ously malformed hen egrs. They are small
in the middle and large at both ends.
If we must go to war with England there
is satisfaction in the thought that seals form
a more dignifiel casus belli than codtish.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets—gently laxative or ac-
tive’y cathartic according to dose. 23 cents.
A hairless < alf is owned by Mr Freeland,
of Howe township. Dauphin county, Penn
sylvan fa.
every grimcrack that comes out let rupte with giftes or brybes.”
'em do it, but we han't got no money -
to throw away.”
A condition of weakness of body and mind
which results from many disorders of the
system finds its best an 1 surest relief in
Brown’s Iron Hitters. As it enriches and
strengthens the blool so the stomach, liver,
and kidneys receive power to perform thgt A
duties, and the depressing influences froG}
diseased and disturbed condition of the
organs are removed. |
Beige with a shade of pink in it is one of
the newest stylish colors.
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in Armen a, roasting an 1 outraging their
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Old-Time English Judges.
Here is an account of the English
judges in the time of Henry VI.:
"I would • ye should knowe, that the
Justices of Englar.de sit not in tho
king's courts above iii bowers in a day,
that is to say, from viii of the clock in
I the forenoue til xi complete.
Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equcble climate, certain and abun-
lant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and.
tock country in the world. Full informa-
tionfen. Address the Oregon Immigration
Board, Portland, Oregon.
The New Hampshire legislature has elected
David Godden, Republican, governor, ther
ru ing been no choice by the people.
Sherim s sale.
Smoke the Sheriff Sale Segar, a straight 10a
Havana cigar for 5c.
A very handsome new summer stuff is
China silk with a small raised figure scat-
tered all over it.
other folks want of
Why They Lead.
Dr. Pierce’s medicines outsell all others,
because of their possessing such superior
curative properties as to warrant their manu-
facturers in supplying them to the people ( as
thev are doing thre ugh all druggists) on such
cond tions as no other medicines are old un-
ler, vP: that they shall either benefit or cure
the patient. cr all money pai i for them will
e refundel. The "‘Golden Medical Discov-
eV is specific for < atarrh in the head and all
l»r( n h al, throat and lung diseases if taken
in time and given a fairtria’. Money will te
refunded if it does not benefit or cure.
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When Baby was sick, we cave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
i takes the whlole lot anyhow,
j Jones takes the whole five.”
have any vestiges of the stone age been '
discovered. In all his wanderings Liv- ,
Snakes Leaving Their Winter
Halls.
Quite a number of r ittle snakes have
been killed near Del Mar. The other
day a party of ladies and gentlemen
were driving in Paradise Valley, when
their horses began to plunge and the
driver perceived a huge rattler coiled
"Yes, over on the corners.”
“And he's all mortgaged up and can't
buy a new plow!”
“There, Moses. what do you think!”
exclaimed the wife.
“And Dick Jones has bought them
doors?" he asked of the merchant.
“Yes, he’ll take ’em.”
"No he won’t! Just load three of
’em into my wagon! I don't go much
on grimcracks, and I know we don’t
need ’em, but I hain’t goin' to let no
turnip top like Dick Jones go swelling
around over me—not this year. Come
along, old woman, and pick ye out a
forty cent pair of stockings — yes you
may go as high as 60! I'll be swashed
if any family named Jones can sit on
our coat tails!"—New York Sun.
of that lot, anyhow.” Dick
The Greater Part of It a Barren
Field for Archaeologists.
F. C. Selons in a recent magazine
article tells of the beauties of Mashuna-
land in South Africa, which he calls
the richest country in that part of the
continent. According to all accounts,
about eighty years ago Mashunaland
was densely populated and all the fer-
tile valleys were under cultivation, but
most of the people were killed by
stronger tribes and there is nothing
left to show that they ever lived except
the deep pits from which they took clay
to plaster their huts and make their
cooking-pots and the clusters of thorn
trees around the sites of their villages.
While North Africa teems with the
remains of the i ncient Egyptian and
Homan civilizations, no other part of
the world is so destitute of prehistoric
remains as the remainder of the dark
continent. Savage Africa is now in
Center Line road without one.”
“Has it hurt us any?”
“Yes, it has. There wasn't a tin
peddler, lightning-rod man, piano
agent, or chicken buyer who called
last summer but what throwed out a
hint to us.”
“And if they'd throwed out a hint
that wa orter have a door bell you'd
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tion. The teacher, with his daily toil,
has a lighter sleep and more frequent
dreams. while the professor, leading a
comparatively congenial and worriless
life, is a deeper sleeper and a less fre-
quent dreamer titan the teacher.
mainspring. The gentlemen in the
party alighted and attacked the mon-
ster with whips, but he withstood the
assault Then Mrs. Tom Scott, of the
Horton House, who was in the party,
seized a club and soon laid his snake-
ship low. Saturday Fred D. Smith, a
Hetherington A Nason, 405 and 407 Elm St.,
Dallas, Tex., have a 12x20 Engine and 48x12
Boiler, Pipes, Pumps and all Complete,
Sinker Davis & Co.'s make almost as good as
new. Will sell ( heap. We have a few Busi-
ness Directories and Memorandum Books
still on hand, which we will send to those
using machinery on receipt of a two cent
stamp and address.
Architecture in Iron,
A Berlin journal announces that the
Paris exhibition marks a new era—the
era of architecture in iron. It consid-
ers that the most remarkable iron edi-
fices ever constructed—not to speak of
the Eiffel tower—are on the grounds
of the exposition.
the founders of these cities were
Phnician colonists. who while found-
ing colonies in North Africa and Spain I
did not neglect this far southern part
St hocl Teat her—“What is a phenomenon p
-itte girl (from Chicago)—“A gen’man out
walking with his own wife.”
w e will give $100 reward for any case of V
■atarrh that cannot be cured with Hall’s 1
Catarrh Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprs., Toledo, 0.
theless. not my will. O Lord, but
thine be done!"—Providence Journal.
Was Determined to Beat Dick
Jones.
There were a dozen or more fly-
screen doors outside the store marked
“Only $1.30 each," and when the
farmer and his wife drove up, their at-
tention was at once attracted.
your husband has gone to
How lovely!’’ chirruped Mra.
boy of 13. from Sherburne, N. Y., was
hunting quail two miles from Lake-
side. He shot a brace of birds that
fell among the rocks, and when he
went to get them he was intercepted
by a rattlesnake. The boy discharged
his gun at the reptile and killed it.
This snake was between five and six
feet long, as large around as a stout
man's arm and had twelve rattles.—
San Diego (Cal.) Sun.
prising if the explorations of the future ,
. , . . , in the road.
justify the present supposition that
age. Twenty-eight per cent of
Olive Green at the last reception.
My husband hasn’t gone to Europe
and isn't thinking of such a thing,” re-
sponded Mrs. Sweet Clatter. Who
could have started such a story?”
“Why,” answered Mrs. Olive Green
with a look of well-bred surprise. “I
was told this very evening that he
was half-seas over.”
ingstone never picked up so much as
a flint arrowhead. Recently, however,
quite a number of ancient stone imple-
ments have been unearthed in Angola
and on the lower Congo.
There is one part of South Africa
case, however, it tike: longer for eluded with unabated gravity,
those who are frequent dreamers and .. . -
The Boy of it.
A small boy had been having a day
of unmitigated outrageousnsss, such
as all children who do not die young
are likely to have at times, and when
he was ready for his bed his mother
said to him:
“When you say your prayers,
Georgie, ask God to make you a better
boy. You have been very naughty to-
day.”
The youngster accordingly put up
his petition in the usual form, and
then, before dosing with “Amen," he
added:
“And, please, God, make me a good
boy."
He paused a second and then, to the
utter consternation of his m ther, con-
of Africa, where they were induced to
settle by the discovery of gold in its
mountains and river-beds.
But in the most of Africa there is
nothing left to disclose the stirring
history of early days, when wave after
wave of population swept over the
land, as is still occurring to som ? ex-
tent. the new-comers building their
homes and founding such prosperity
as savage people enjoy upon the ruins
of their predecessors. In the last
book t apt. Wissmannhas written he
has a picture of one of the surprising
street villages he discovered far south
of the Congo. A few years later he
found these villages in ashes and their
builders killed or driven away, leaving
no trace that a fevz more years will
not entirely obliterate.
laid the scene of his story “She," and
the ruins of great stone walls and
towersand cities that have be an found
there leave no doubt that in prehis-
toric times the country was occupied
by a civilized people, and that they
had not only one or two cities, but oc-
cupied a large extent of country a id.
formed a fair-sized state. Some of the
walls of these ancient towns are 12
feet thick at the base an l rea h even
now a height of 30 feet Considering
the difference of climate, it is believed
that these ruins have stood nearly as
well as the most enduring monuments
of Egyptian civilization. These inter-
esting relics have not yet been scien-
tificilly studied, but it will be sur-
light sleepers to fall asleep than per-
sons of opposite characteristics.
Eighty per cent of students sleep un-
interruptedly through the night, 70
per cent of other men, and only 43 per
cent of women. Light sleep and
frequent dreams increase the inter-
ruptedness of sleep. The power of
falling asleep at will is possessed by
few. It is greater in youth than in
“You was. "ch? I’d like to know
what we want of a screen door?" he
males. We conclude, then. that
women have a very much lighter
sleep than men, and that their dreams
are proportionately more frequent.
Another conclusion, the evidence of
which is too detailed to present, is that
as we grow older our dreams become
less frequent, but our sleep becomes
lighter; age affecting the intensity of
sleep more than the frequency of
dreams.
The author regards the student as in
the period af maximum dreaming (20
to 24 years of age). The deep sleep of
childhood (hostile to frequency of
dreams) is then least counter-balanced
by the lessening of dreams due to age.
The vividness of dreams shows a simi-
lar relation to age and sex: the women
dream most vividly; the students, being
younger than the other men, have
more vivid dreams. The power of re-
membering dreams is also dependent
on vividness and frequency of dream-
ing: it is accordingly greatest in wo-
men. and greater in st idents than in
more mature men. The liveliness of
the emotional nature, a prominent
feature of women and youth seems thus
to be marked out as the caustic agent
in the production of dreams. The dura-
/ tion of sleep should naturally be related
to the habit of dreaming, but in the
men no such relation can be discovev J.
In the women, however, it appears that
those who dream frequently sleep an
hour longer than those who seld >n
dream. This difference is regarded is
due to the fact that men are more 'un-
der duty to break short their sleep and
thus vitiate the statistics. This is cor-
roborated by the frequency with which
the men who dream frequently declare
themselves tired in the morning, indi-
cating incomplete sleep.
The need of sleep is greater in wo-
men than in men: th ■ duration of sleep
being longer an 1 the percentage of
tired morning and evening and ot not
tired being 3 to 2 and 2 to 3 respective-
ly as compared with the men. Stu-
dents sleep longer and are less tired
than other men. The time needed to
fall asleep is about the same in all
three classes—20.0 minutes for the
men, 17.1 minutes for students, and
21.2 minutes for the women. In each I
“What! orr Dick.”
where extensive remains of prehistor- l
ic people have been discovered. This
region extends several hundred miles
inland from the east coast, between 18 '
and 20 degrees south latitude. This
is the region where Rider Haggard
1 he Snake Died Drunk.
A Georgian who lately returned from
Hamilton, M irion county, Ala., relates
the following to the Macon Telegraph:
Owen Hatch keeps a small grocery
store in that neighborhood. Mr.
Hatch sells liquors as well as family
groceries. Keeping only a small stock
of liquors on hand, he keeps most of it
in jugs. One day last week a two-gal-
lon jug of corn liquor was left standing
on the floor behind the counter. Mr.
Hatch stepped behind the counter and
was surprised to see a black snake
coiled around the jug with its head in-
side. He watched fo a moment and
soon discovered that the snake was
drinking liquor. It was not disturbed,
and after several minutes it slowly un-
coiled itself and attempted to crawl
away, but was too drunk, and stretched
itself out on the floor, apparently
asleep, until the next day. Mr. Hatch
examined the jug and found that the
snake had drunk more than a quart of
liquor. Two days later the same snake
returned, and when it crawled under
the counter Mr. Hatch watched it. By-
coiling itself around the jug and giving
its neck a twist around the stopper it
was able to remove the cork, and again
thrust its head inside and began to
drink liquor. It was allowed to drink
its fill again, then it was killed.
•Wherefere the Justices, after they
have taken their refection, do passe
and b stowe all the residue of the day
“That’s exactly what I am going to in 1110 study of the lawes, in reading
ask for.” she said, as she climbed holy Scripture, and using other kinde
down over the wheel to the platform, of contemplacion at their pleasure. So
that their lyfe may seem more content
plative than active.
“And thus do they leade a quiet lyfe,
discharged of all worldly cares and
Some Interestins Dream Statistics
Gleaned by a Russian Univers-
ity.
An interesting investigation upon
the above subject has recently been
made under the auspices of the Uni-
versity of Durpat, Russia, says The
Boston Medical Journal. Some 500
circulars were “eut out with a series of
quite definite questions, which were
answered with equal detail by 151
students, 113 other males, 142 females.
The results for the two sexes were so
different that they demand separation,
while the students formed a homogene-
ous class interesting as a special
study. The first problem that was pro-
posed was the relation between the
frequency and the vividness of dreams.
It appears that 62.5 per cent of those
who dream every night dream vividly.
take on till you got one, I s’pose."
“I don't say nothin’ "bout door bells,
’cause folks can knock when they
come; but we do need a screen door. ’’
“What fur?”
“They look rich from the road, and
they keep flies and bugs out.”
“We have kept house thirty-eight
years now, and we orter be used to in-
sects. Bugs and flies don't bother us
none, and they are healthy anyhow.”
“See how cheap they are Moses,”
she continued in pleading tones.
“Ya-as, but you kin buy the netting
fur five cents a yard—white and green
and yallar and all kinds. I tell ye,
Martha, we can’t afford it.”
She sighed and was turning away,
when the hardware man came out and
briskly said:
“Ah, how are you. folks. Looking
at those screen doors, eh? Powerful
nice things to keep flies out.”
“Ya-as, I s’pose so,” replied the
farmer, “but we don’t want any. I
Thread Found i 1 an Apple.
Louise Hunceker, a Bristol (Conn.)
girl, bit into an apple recently and
found a thread imbedded in it. By
careful manipulation the apple was cut
up and the thread removed. It was
twenty-four inches long and quite
coarse, being about No. 4 in size.
'There was a knot in one end. The
apple was the King Phillip species and
about four inches in diameter. The
thread was wound directly about the
core. Its presence in the apple is ac-
counted for by the theory that last
spring a bird must have dropped the
thread, which lodged in the apple-
blossom and remained until it became
inclosed in the apple.
60.5 per cent of those who dream fre-
quently. and o ily 26.8 per cent o' those
who dream seldom, showing that the"
vividness of dreams increase very rap-
idly with their fraq : ency. Next, how
is the intensity of sleep related t> the
frequency of dreams? Of the students
who dream nightly 68 per cent have a
light sleep (and oily 28 per cent have
a deep sle:p); of those dreaming fre-
quently. 4 lpjrcj.it: of those dream-
ing seldom, 32.8 per cent. Similiar
percentages for the other males are
68.8, 42.1. and 39.3, and for women
72.46 and 5) percent. We conclude,
then, that frequent dreams are a con-
comitant of light' sleep, though the
relation is far from universal. As re-
gards sex, women have 73 per cent of
their number drearring nightly or fre-
quently, while students have only 50
per cent, and other males 48 per cent.
Again, 63 per cent of the women sleep
lightly, and only 12 per cent of
students, and 41 per cent of other
indicating a making up of insufficient
sleep on the part of mem
The effect of dream h tbits upon
mental work is also evident Those
who dream seldom, or sleep deeply, are
better disposed for work in the fore-
noon than light sleepers and frequent
dreamers. The forenoon seems in
general to be the preferred time of
work. The statistics regarding nerv-
ousness confirm the accepted fact that
this is greater among women than
men. It is greater among students
than other men at large. It is, too, a
concomitant of light sleep and frequent
dreams. As to temperament, the
phlegmatic people are quite constantly
deep sleepers and infrequent dreamers
I inally, a contrast between teachers
and professors of the same average
age shows the effect of the occupa-
troubles. And it hath never been
if folks want to buy knowen that any of them beene cor-
Kicked Hs Foot Off. UX)
Wade, the negro bla ksmith, had a rather}
1 urio is and serious accident happen to a
nule on which he was putting shoes at his
shop yesterday. The mule be ame frightened
at something, and uncontrollable. and in its
frantic movements came in contact with a
street scraper. With a terrible kick he
struck the sharp edge of the scraper and cut
one of his feet off. We do not know upon
whom the loss wi l fall.—Tyler Democrat.
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