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Person Co. Courier. Published Every Thursday BY NOELL, BROS. Roxboko, N. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy One Year - - - $1 50 'One Copy Six Months - - - 75 Kemitance mu-.trbe made by Kegistered Letter, Post Office Order of Postal Note. Peculiar Mary peculiar points make Hood's Sar tjaparilla superior to all other medicines. Peculiar in combination, proportion, jir.il preparation of ingredients, Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses the lull curative value of the best known remedies the vegetable king dora. Peculiar in strength raid economy Hood's Sar is CsTiJ r the only inedi- r which can truly "One Hundred Doses DoHar." Medicines m larger and smaller bottles require larger doses, and do not produce as good results as Hood's. Peculiar in its medicinal merits, Hood's Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures hith. erto unknown, and has won for it; the title of "Tie greatest Wood purifier ever discovered.'' Peculiar in its " good nam at tome," there is now more of Hood's Sarsaparilla sold in Lowell, where it is made, than cf all other blood .CV Peculiar in its lV r. . i - a i nal recoru vi suits iXno other preparation ever attained such popu- in so short a time, and retained its popularity and confidence among all classes Do not be induced to buy other preparations, L::t is sure to get the rccullar Medicine, Heed's Sarsaparilla f .ilJ'.iya'.ldrnggigts. $1; slxforgs. Prepared only vj V. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. Doses Ono Dollar rOFESSOINAL jARJDS C. S. V3M8TEAD, BANKER, IlOXBOllO . . WILL DO A BASKINt. BUSINESS "WITH W. E. WEBB, Cashier. lii!VV MANAGEMENT. ARLINGTON HOTEL MAIN STREET, Danville, Virginia. YATES & RICHARDSON, Proprietors. J, T. Strayhorn. Roxboro, N. C L. M. Warlick. Milton, C S TUAYHOEN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice In all the couits of the State and in the Federal courts. Management of estates Btrictlv attended to. Special atteution given to cases in Person and Caswell counties. A. W. Graham. 2. VT. Win-ton QTTA.UAJI & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oxford. N. C. "Practices in all he courts of -the State. Han Vc monev and invest the same in best. 1st Mot t Keiil Estate Security. Settle estates and investigate titles. LUNSFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Roxboro, N. C. J 8. M til it ITT, ATTORN E Y AT LA V Boxboro,'JJ. C. - - Prompt attention given to the collection of iaims. . "W vv KITcmK' ATTORNEY AT LAW, Roxboro, N. O. Practices wherever his services are requ'red. JjR. J T. FULLER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Uoxboro, N. C. P.ciilence, place formerly occupied by Dr C. li. Bradsher. Office over (J. G. Mitchell's drug store QR T, T FIUZIER, is 'PRACriCTNCr DI N TISTRY tain at Soati Boston, T., office in Mer5 cua n.l i')pnU3rs'.Bank Building. 103 mo x It. (J. G. NICHOLS Offers Ilis . PROFESSIONAL SERVICESlto th PEOPLE yf fcoxboi o and surrounding country. Practices iu all the branches of Medieme. DR. C. W. BRADSHER DENTIST, Oilers h.'s services to the public. Calls promptly attended to in Person and adjoining" counties. Any one wishing work in Lis liue, by writing bim at Bunny Fork, N. C. will be attended at o"- JJR. J. C BRADSHER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, ROXBORO, N. C. JK. E. A. MORTON, " PBACTICIIIO PHYSICIAN. Offers his professional services to the people t Roxooro and surrounding country. Practices in all the branch ot medicina. 10-4-ly EERLESS DYES n vnr Own lvelnir. at Home. Th-y will dye everything. They are sold every where. Price lOe. a package. Theyhavenoequdl . Strength, Brightness, Amount ia Package ur for Fiistnesa of Color, or non-fading Qualities. They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. Mot sale by J. U. Morris & Co. Roxboro, N. O , W. T. Pass & Co., Roxboro N C, and G- Coleman, Gen, mds. Gordonton N. C. PAINLESS CHHDBIRTB HOW AOOOMPLISHED. Every, lady ehonld know. Pd stamp. BAKER REM. 0O.,Box 104 Baffalo.N jY. ERSi AN BLOOM, Best Ccaplezloa Beaa tifier, Skin Opse and Blemish Eradioator known. ecua aiamo lor trial pacKaga. Aaareas as ao ovr- I'tfSSOlS?3869 tWifto the hair." ;lromotca a lusuriaiit n-on-iii. HmJirsNover Fails U Fj. ?$U;;UJ Hairtotteo.u-i iNover rai-a to Payors Grsv GcFcr. 3'S linkup- P ACKER'S l?yalubl0 f w evmijlM, CoW. Inward lulm. EkLaus-o . NOELL BROS. Proprietors. VOL. 5. PECULIARITIES - OP MEMORY. Hot One Only bat Many Memories in Each Hind. It is manifest that there S not -one memory only,, but many memories, in each mind; and that one kind of memory is preeminently developed in one person, and another . in another. "Memory," fcays Ribot, "may be resolved into mem ories, just as the life of an organism may be resolved into the lives of the organs, the tissues, the anatomical elements which compose it." Referring exclu sively to the perceptive faculties, we need only mention a few thoroughly recognized facts in proof of this statement. Persons having a strongly developed organ of what the phrenologists call "individu ality" receive peculiarly distinct impres sions of external objects, and, therefore, of persons; hence they immediately re cognize them on seeing them again, and easily picture them to themselves from memory. Persons abundantly endowed with the organ of ' 'locality' exhibit an - astonish ing power of finding their way in regions previously unknown to them, and of re membering the character of those they have visi ted. Persons thus endowed, when strongly impressed by the contents of a passage in a book they have read, re member exactly, the part of the page in which the passage occurs, and whether the page itself be a left hand or a right hand page. The number of degrees of capa city of perception and recollection of col ors is scarcely less remarkable the power of recollection of them being always proportionate to the power of perceiving them and signalizing their differences. Similarly, he who possesses the musical faculty in an eminent degree possesses in a like degree the power of learning and remembering the pieces of music to which his attention is directed. A striking proof of the distinctively individualised charaoter of our various faculties and memories is presented in the otten observed fact that the percep tion of musical sounds and the per ception of time, though both alike essen tial in the mental constitution of a good musician, differ greatly in their relative strength in different individuals so that while one may be a skillful musician he may be an indifferent timist, and vice versa. In the former case the orderly succession of notes of a musical passage is easily remembered, but the time in tervals, which are a distinctive feature of it, are remembered less easily; whereas in the latter case the memory of time is Btronger than is that of tune. Equally notable is the fact that persons who are especially able as calculators recollect numbers with peculiar facility. Moreover, persons especially gifted with toe i acuity or language have a propor tionate facility of recalling words, and of quoting from memory long -passages which they have previously heard or read: Cardinal Hezzofanti. who is said to have known more than 100. different languages, used to declare that he never forgot a word that he had once learnt. Westminster Review. Bagging at the Knees. The subject of trousers bagging at the knees is ona of general and widespread interest. More widespread and general than is commonly supposed, for the rea son that a great many who have given time and thought to the consideration of it will not frankly acknowledge that they have done so. But, all the same, there are rich ,bankera, merchants, poets and statesmen, who will to-night, before they retire, carefully fold up their trousers, lay them pa a rhair and place a heavy Bible cr a file of patent oiSce reports on them; so that in the morning they will not be compelled to walk abroad with two bay windows located prominently at their knees. There are politicians who stop thinking of the tariff several times a week to give a little thought to this detail of dress, and attempt for the hun dredth time to solve the harassing prob lem involved. There are poets who will pause in the midst of making rhymes to take this absorbing theme into considera tion. The same thing is true through all the ranks and professions of life. Boston Herald. Value of Industrial .Drawing. Interest in the manufactured products of manual training schools and the inci dental courses of instruction in the use of tools seems to have taken attention away from industrial drawing as an indispensable factor to their success; but its great importance in de veloping the skill of the hand tnd the eyo in obtaining and express ing knowledge should not be lost sight of. In every manual school the thoughts to be expressed in wood, metal, etc., are first expressed by drawing. If, Jbert fore, manual exercises are to be intro duced into schools, the first thing as preparation for them ia to introduce in dustrial drawing. This should be so taught that pupus may be led to express their thought not only by drawing but by making it that is, by constructing the object of the thought. The extent to which this method may be carried can not be determined at this time, when our experience with it is still in the first stages. That it is possible to do some thing, however, has already been fully demonstrated by the excellent results ob tained by the pioneers in this . movement in such cities as St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, Columbus, Worcester and Quincy. Charles M. Carter in" The Century. New Material fop Paper Palp. The discovery of a new use of the cot ton stalk, for paper pulp, is followed by the discovery of a method of utilizing the tops of pine and spruce trees for the same purpose. This at once makes Mar ketable a vast mass of hitherto waste material. It is a sort of waste that has led to untold mischief ia lumbering regions, because, haying bMme dry, it has been the originating place of nearly all forest fires in lumber districts. Here after the tops and branches .of all ever greens will be gathered, and being steamed to extract the resinous matter, will be ground into dry pulp. This, ia portable to any distance, -when it can be used in paper manufacture. ; The effect of the two discoveries on paper produc tion will ' be enormous, and for the ad vantage of the press and people." It is impossible to avoid the CjOnviction that in due time we 6hall discover that noth ing need be wasted, but that all things are useful when properly understood. Globe-Democrat. r ROXBQRO," NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, THE NORWAY SHEEP." The fierce wind breaking from bis bonds-comes " roaring from the west; , , I On every long, deep rolling wave the white horse shows his crest As if a million mighty steeds had burst their mas- . 1 tere' hold; For the wild white sheep of Norway are coming . to the fold. - . . i The Btorm drum shows its warning sign; the sea j gulls swoop and cry; j The fleecy clouds are driven fast across the stormy sky; . Along the sands the fresh foam-gouts in ghastly ' sports are rolled; "''-.; For the wild white sheep of Norway are-coming . to the fold. v ; Wistful the fisher seaward looks, out from the great stone pier; - . " : Wistful he stands, the breakers' call along the cliffs to hear. To hear across the flowing tide'' the ceaseless iwV vH t.VIl-- White fast and fierce the Norway sheep are com?-: ..,. n .-J: H "The wife and bajrna will get no bread from yon der sea," he thinks, As his idle coble by the staithes strains at its cable's links; Small use to bait the lines or seethe broad brown sails unrolled. While the wild white sheep of Norway are com ing to the fold. 'God guard the ships at sea to-night," the stern ,c4d -sailors say, Straining keen exes across the waste of heaving, tossing spray, Recalling many a bitter night of storm and dread of old, When the wild white sheep of Norway were com ing to the fold. Oh! there is many an aching heart, here in tho red roofed town. As wives and mothers bear the blast come wail ing from the down. Who knows what talo of death or wreck to-morrow may be told? For the wild white sheep of Norway are coming, to the fold. All the Year Hound; AS OTHERS SEE US. "Two pretty girls on the boat at any rate," said Harry, as the three friends alighted at the wharf. ' 'There should be one more, though one for Tom, poor fellow; ho has no knack of making ac quaintances." "Yes; it's too bad about Tom," re marked Phil, derisively. "I do not care to meet any one," said Tom; "you shall have clear field today, boys. Fact is, I'm tired of talk, especially society talk ; it's all hollow. If I could exchange thoughts for a while with 6ome interesting party, I think J should .quits enjoy it." "You might as well be a deaf and dum.b man," said PhiL "Suppose you travel as .one this after noon," said Harry; "you will hear can dor enough;" and the novelty of the proposition secured its laughing accept ance before they had reflected on its ab surdity. From thr.t moment Tom was deaf and dumb, and, strolling forward on the boat, he seated himself near the two young ladies, and his friends, in a spirit of merriment, began a make believe con versation with him on their fingers. 4 "Tell him we'll be back after a while," said Phil; "also, that we'll see to the tickets, and that he can just sit here and enjoy himself as well as he can. Poor fellow, it is hard to be so afflicted, even if one has a million!" Thi information having been'commu nicated, apparently by the signs, the two sauntered away, leaving Tour with the ladies, who had been interested specta tors cf all the little pantomine. Of .course they had their views to exchange on such an unusual event as a deaf and dumb compagnon du voyage worth a million, and Kate began immediately, in her impulsive way: "Isn't it sad, Milly? and he is young and handsome, too; yes, he would be called so that is, in some places; we would have thought so at Mme. Ber trand's. His eyes are good, and his mus tacheno, it isn't red, not real red. Jt's blonde, it's that new color, not terra cotta, but h.e it, you know that lovely new russet. And worth a million, too; I suppose he'd give it all to be able to 'hear. I wonder if he can talk, and if he was born eo; if not, it must seem all the worse; and those friends of his, how heartless they are to leave him alone! Probably no one else on the boat knows how to talk with him." "But I presume he can write," said Milly. ' 'He looks intelligent enough." -"Indeed he does," responded Katej "and more than that, he looks .cultured and scholarly; and notice in what good taste he dresses; nothing to indicate his wealth, no jewelry yes, there's a watch chain, but it's small and it's allowable-; it's necessary, it subserves a purpose. Ho wears no rings, and do you notice how taper and white his fingers are? and See the ship go sailing over there against the hill. You know, Milly, wo must not talk of him when he's looking straight at U3 these deaf neonle aio bo ouick: he could tell what vou said bv the motion of rnni. lino v i i ,i your lips, whenever ho looks around we must talk of ships, for fear that- There goes another one; that is a steamer Milly; you can tell that, Milly, by the steam and it's going through the water. There, see how I met that crisis? I never moved a visible muscle. Yon must excuse me if I tell you all sorts of foolish things about 6hips when he turns those deep eyes on me. They are beautiful eyes, Milly, soft and brown and good. . I think he is a good man that is, he would be if he could hear and talk; not goody good, but a man of character & gentle man under all circumstances." "Oh, do take breath, Kate."" said Milly. "How you rattle on, no matter what the subject! But tell me, would VfMl Tnorrv cimli a -man?' ' Do you mean if I loved him?"-was the reolv. 4Whv. of course. I would marry any ono I loved." - ' - "But I mean' explained Milly, "could nomcauy, uunair conyincea. -.. you love him?" , 4 Not at al,? said Baird- 'IshaUin- "Oh, that's one of your puzzling ques-'.'1 sist on his jojning xis to-morrow evening, tions," replied Kate. "That depends if : jft will never do for him to make a her he loved me, perhaps; if he prized, me init of "himself at his time of life. So above all ' other women, if I was neces- young that is" - . ; sary to his happiness, if he should prove i "Your twin brother, I believe," said to be the one man in the world for me, K!ate,-- Witha mocking . sometliing in her why, his infirmity would make ixo differ-voiee and manner. . r ? " r ence. But here comes Agatha. Do you : "Yes, oh, -yes," continued Tom. "We know I wish she wouldn't come? ' She's 1 are quite, different, though, as people ob- deceinui. 1 some way have no con fidence in her since that Percy affair She encouraged him foj months,;untU 1" his father failed. But let us shock her ; don't . tell her the mystery of our friend 1 V avA anl tsa UMll h.jmfTr Hot " might bavucceede4 ad it not ijl HOME FIRST: ABROAD been that Agatha had justlieen talking i with Harry on the lower deck, andr un der pledge of secrecy, he: told her of the joke which he began to realize was more on Tom than on any one- else. So Aga tha went forward, at Harry's suggestion, to see what was going on,' and also de- termined to make a good impression on Tom, whom she knew by reputation. -"How do you do, Agatha?" said Kate, affably.' "Won't you sit here with us awhile? This, is the coolest place on the boat, and the most pleasant, too. - We have such a charming companion; look i. at him, Agatha isn't ho handsome? He l is a little sunbrowned, but that's because he travels; he hunts and fishes and" flirts, and leads a very t happy life. ' He has money, too, invested beyond the. reach of failure, and he . is- of stalwart, manly build, and eyes--Milly there , is another ship, there 6Qmewhesaiitree it ''"yet, - i T 1 . , T but I will look for it and, as I was say- mg, he looks self, reliant and dignified, and tissable and adorable." .'Why, Kate, are you crazy?" said Agatha. 'Not that I am aware of, Mian Agatha," replied Kate, loftily. "But, Milly, continued the new- comer, presence?" "Oh, Kate means no harm." said Milly, blandly. "He is a gentlemanly fellow, and doesn't care what we say, and he i3 sunburned and dignified; Kate was right. " ""Is he a friend or relative of yours?" asked Agatha. "Relative? No,'1 eaid Kate. "Friend? I do not know. I am his friend, and his name is Tom. "Whether he is my friend or not, remains to be seen. '' "Well, young ladies," said Agatha, "your conduct is. to Bay the least, inex plicable. I certainly should grieve to hurt the feelings of this gentleman or of any person. Perhaps you may not be giving offense or doing anything uncon ventional. I do- not wish to misjudge you there is 60ine rnysteiy about it that I cannot fathom. But I must go below with mamma." "Well," said Kate, after Agatha left, "that was a curious position for her to take ; as though we were possibly doing anvthing wrong the idea I Her whole speech is unlike her; there is, as she says, some mystery here." "Indeed there must be," replied Milly. "She have feeling 1 She has none for! anybody. Something in her voice re- ' minds me of tho day when she told the madame hyvf she had been inveigled into that excursion, , of , which she was the promoter.'' j "Yes, I remember just how 6he looked," said Kate. "I tell you there is : treachery here. Let us go to the cabin for a whil. Some way I feej uneasy." When they had gone, Tom rose, walked j to the eid of the boat and fcerfously con- I templated jumping overboard. His -eheeks burned at tne -position in which his folly bad placed hiia, and he was so angry as ins mends as to nave given them little grace had they appeared just then. II had been awkward, terribly awkward and distressing. Why hadn't he left when fits, they began-fto lalki Ho .bad place&&ne of the brightest, sweetest, most beautiful girls he hted ever seen in a false position which wouki al ways mortify her, make her hate him, and make him hate himself. He had been a dishonorable spy, an eavesdrop per; he had listened to private conversa tion. Thoroughly vexed aud chagrined, he went below, and meeting his friends, said, very sternly: "Boys, through your amazing idea of a jpjse I have disgraced myself. Unless you do just as I ask you, and help me out, I never want to see or speak to either of you again." The boys, who had heard something of the facts through Agatha, laughed till the tears streamed down their faces laughed, in fact, until Tom became so enraged that they dared not irritate him further. So they readily promised to as sist him in any way he might desire. Tom remained below, sullen and reti cent, until they reached Rockledge land ing. There he and his friends left the boat, and when once on the wharf he saw, to his dismay that a party, includ ing the three young ladies, had also landed, and that the steamer was ,al ready under way. : He must keep up the farce for a little longer, at least until the next boat back. Reaching the hotel and there was but one he took the landlord into his confidence and evolved the following ingenious plan of action: He was Mr, John Baird, who.had com in oyer the mountains to meet hia twin brother, Mr. Tom Baird, who had CGnae no on the boat. To this notable scheme hi3 two friends heartily assented; but once away from him, they fairly roared when they reflected that Agatha was in tho secret, and would probably disclose it at ju&t tho wrong time. In pursuance of the .plan, however, Mr. Bennett, the landlord, begged of Kate and Milly that he might introduce Mr. .Tnlm TViirrJ who Snafc r.flnift in fvum t.lift T John Baird, who just KcckkiH Valley. When Baird was introduced, although j ho had changed his clothes and appear-j-ance-as far as possible, Kate's stately : "hauteur" and Milh's withering ecorn almost frozu his blocd. i 4I believe we had -the pleasure cf (fee?" ; ing- Mr. Baird on the boat this after- soon, ".said Kata. icily. . i '-One Mr. Baird, I havo no doubt',-" i said Tom recklessly. 4 'Mr. Tom Baird, i jny twin brother. Poor fellow;- you doubtless noticed his infirmity, only of , recent date, too very recent, in fact; he wouldn't come'down to-night he avoids : society, naturcAy; he's a great 7 hand to 1 rise ?eai-ly. and - be gone all day in tho . mountains, .and at night take dinner in : Ins room." . K- "So we shall, doubtless, be denied the ! pleasure ' of rmeeting him?' said Milly serve, when we are together." : 'Indeed," said Kate, with a doubting eoartesy;-and then, as Tom left "them, she added: ."Milly, what tlo yourthink?'r , - 4'I can't tell, replied that young lady. " j . wait imtU we ? vv aic.umu - we fiee-.weox. weiacr. NEXT. her old doubts turning with added force. " ' - ' - '- Agatha, however, understood the del ation, and sought to make the most of it by cultivating Mr. John Baird, as she affected to believe him. In this she made but little headway. . Meanwhile it . became notorious through the hotel that Mr. "torn" Baird had rambled awav to a village down the river, and had thence gone to -the city, telegraphing for his valise. Some credible people had seen the dispatch, and it was quifee. as well known that a valise had been sent to Mr. Tom 'Baird at his city address. These little incidents, though perhaps not en tirely convincing, at least gave Kate and Milly an excuse for treating Tom courte ously .-a toleration of which he made the most, endeavoring, by every attention, - to reinstate himself in their good graces The fact is, Tom was desperately, hope lessly in love with Kate; and she was so far interested as to remark, without j seeming offended, several little incohsiSt- i encies in his storv. -"I observe, Mi". Baird, "said she, "that your friends, when" speaking in haste, are quite as apt to call you Tom as John. Doubtless they .confound you with your unfortunate brother. You must be very like." Thereupon Tom makes some incoherent answer or observation in a pained, re proachful way,-and changes the subject. At length there was a revelation which Kate could not overlook if she desired to for Agatha, jealous that her arts were vain, and that Tom should be monopo lized by her rival, at last said: "How lon, Kate, are you going to keep up that stupid farce? Why, I knew "aU the time how it was, even on the boat; Hurry Bishop told me. Deaf and dumb, indeed! Tom Baird deaf! What a joke! I presume, however, you regret that he is not." "And you knew and did not fell usl" said Kate, 6lowly, and with deliberate scorn, "You teach me the value of your friendship, Miss Vine; you knowingly witness our mistake in order to further your own ee'fish ends." She turned away proudly, passed down the long porch and slowly away through a winding forest path. Her self control was superb. Yet at last, when far from the beaten track, in the heart of the woods, she seated herself on a rock, buried her face in Jier hands and shook with sobs which she could no longer re press sobs born of bitter mortification at her mistake and the notoriety which it must soon obtain. Suddenly her name was spoken, and Tom stood before her. She sprang to her feet, her eyes blazing with fire, her face queenly in its scom. "How dare you, sir, intrude again upon mel Again dishonorably, like a 4 'Miss Norman," said he, with a quiet ' earnestness which commanded her atten tion, "I stand on the brink of a cliff; it ia perhaps a hundred feet down to the rocks below. A few -words I must say ; to you, and then, unless I have won your i full forgiveness, I will swear an oath" ""and he spoko with dramatic intensity . 4 'to throwTnyeelf down this precipice as some poor atonement, the only repara tion left me, for my folly and for your tears." I What woman could be insensible to so much earnestness? What woman that loved? What woman could ask a man to jump a hundred feet down on jagged rocks? A handsome man, a man with a million a man who, 3 he told her, loved only her, and offered to prove -it by jumping any time sne gave tne signal, As, at last, they walked home arm in : arm along the shadowed, sinuous path, she said: "Tom, how dared you swear you would jump if I didn't forgive you? Would you have really jumped?" 4 'Oh, that's a leading .question, my love," was the reply. "I probably should have jumped, for I felt thorougly wretched at the time, and hated- myself for having caused you such pain. Then, too, my dear, you may also bear in mind that I did not really swear I'd jump. I. said in effect that I would swear, whioh is quite a different thing. Again, my dear Kate, the cliff is not quite as high as I stated in niy excitement."' "You said one hundred feet, Tom ono hundred feet to the rocks below." 4 'Oh, did I? Well, so it doubtless is, my dear; one hundred feet to some of tho lower Btrata, perhaps not to the up- j per ones', however. One more kiss, ; Kate, just one; that is really the last 1 chance. Around the bend wo will be in plain sight cf tho hotel." M. M. Cass, Jr., in Frank Leslie's. Signed tlie Lord's Prayer. How easy it is in Russia to get a high ' : official's signature to any sort of a docu- a m it il. ! ment may oe mustraiea Dy an anecaote i tiiat JL have every i-eason to oeueve is at ' solutely true. A "stola nachalmk," or i head of a bureau, in the provincial ad ministration of . Tobolsk, while boasting one day abcut his power to shape and direct governmental action, mado a ! wager with another chinovnik' that lio ' could get tlie governor of the province tho late governor Lissogorski to sign a manuscript copy of the Lord's Prayer, He wrote tho prayer out ia the form of an oiScial document on a sheet of stamp !ed ..paper, numbered it, attached the proper seal to it, " end. handed it to the , governor with a pile of other papers vhich required signature. He .won his j wager. Tho governor duly signed the Lord's Prayer, and it. was probably as ; haiale63 an official document p.s ever '. came 4out of his cfiiC3.- Georg;o Kennau in Aiie century. . . Tlio Barber's Pa.t Record. A barber i Boston affects to be gusted with tho record of a London ber who. on a wager, shaved sixtv 0.13- bar men it sixty minutes. The Boston rnan says that he has frequently disposed of tho grizzly growths of twelve faces in ten minutes 4 4 just for funl' imd-tliat the London artist's feat is "as nothing He talks of challenging the barbers of Amer ica to a shaving match f or he champion ship of the United States. Chicago News." Cinnamon and Cockroaches. : Anong other things cinnamon is said: : to possess grea,, attractions i fojr the cock- ; roa.palate.and there i4 a scandal , to tne erxeci mat pose wuose uuainess ib is to reduce tne cmnamon suciib w a pow der are not very careful to separate the" ! ' : i. K4u; sri anr.ir, K0n vtc. rvf iho, t gLSS Sff hrrvt f,,! n, WW irtrv $ . 50 ? Per Year in Advance. 1889; NO. 29. The Consumption f Quinine. r Some writershave pkdmed -that the use of quinine establishes what is termed a quinine habit or a -morbid desire for the drug, the gratification of which is essential to the nornial well being of the victun. When the large consumption of quinine is considered, Jiowever, and the fact that no well ' authenticated casea ap pear in the voluminous literature de scriptive of the nature and action of tlite drug, the absurdity of the claim will l e apparent, and the following case which fa reported ' by' a correspondent of The Druggists' .Circular will be regarded rather as an interesting anomaly than as proof that the quinine habit practically has any existence in fact: -, "A few vers ago, while clerking in a small town in North Missouri, there was a young drygooda merchant ocatadext door to the store in whickl wa3 em ployed." This young man wonM come into the store from four to ax timet daily walk back to where the quinine bottle was uepc (it was purposely placad m a con venient position), and with ihe point of a spatula would put prob&bly two or three grains upon his tongue, hand us a nickel and walk out. without taking any thing to allay its bitter taste. This was a daily occurrence during tlie time that I remained there (nearly thjrte years). In reply to a query from rae, he said that he took the quinine because he liked the effects of it, and unless he did so his mind became confused, and ho was scarcely able to properly attend to his business duties." Though many ill considered articles have appeared iu print since cocaine has been so widely employed, claiming that the use of this drug established a physi cally and mentally demoralizing habit, the testimony of the most competent observers and the investigation of so called cases of cocaine habit have clearly 6hown that a cocaine habit in the sense that we speak of the opium or alcohol habit doe3 not exist. With the excep tion of a few drugs, among which we may mention opium, alcohol, chloral and hasheesh, no adequate proof exists that th use of drugs creates a morbid craving for tbem uncontrollable by the will. Msdical Classics. TThat Oua 3jke Costs Chicago. The smoke nuisance has become so great here that Chicago is by long odds the dirtiest city in the country, and prominent business men are urging the prohibition of the use of soft coal within the city hmits. There are the most rigid prohibitive smoke ordinances here and endless so called "smoke consumers, " but neither seem to have the slightest effect. It is claimed that while the abolition of soft coal would greatly increase the ex i penses of railways and manufacturers ! generally, yet, even from a financial Standpoint alone, the city would benefit from it. The head of a leading dry goods firm says merchants are absolutely prohibited from carrying many fines of delicate fabrics for which there ia a demand here, as in every large city. Goods which can be handled in New York, and for which there should be a liberal market in Chi cago, are simply inadmissible here for reason that exposure would mean ruin to them. The city is so dirty that the use of Illinois marble, great quarries of which are within a few miles of Chicago, has been almost entirely abandoned, and thousands of dollars are spent every year in the transportation of buildinsr material from various parts of tho country where 1 the product is of a color that wul not York Tribune. Dr. Hansen's Exploring Expedition. News has come of the Greenland ex pedition under Dr. Nansen. It appears ; that he and his six companions landed i on the east coast of Greenland on the 1 j 18th ultimo, in latitude 63 degs. 80 ruin, i This is nearly two degrees south of the j j Arctic circle, and will imply a journey i of some 300 miles across to the west i , coast. Tho two Laplanders who accora- panied Nordenskjold in his second unsuc cessful attempt to cros3 Greenland (in a f higher latitudo and from the west side) j managed to advance eastward some 140 jniles and attained a height of over 5,500 .feet, whence they got a view of what ap- , peared to be an endless snsv field. j Shoti'd Dr. Nansen 's party reach this ' snow field, their chances of success will Ife great, as they are all famous snowshoe walkers, and have frequently crossed the Norwegian mountains in the depth of whiter. They could not have landed in Greenland at abetter time; for they escape the short and thoroughly dis agreeable sub-arctic summer. What ha3 been described as an endless snow field is , nQ ,joubt the water shed cf the innum erable Greenland glacier streams, the terminations of which form such a strik ing feature of the Greenland coast. Should this prove to be tho case, the j ultimate discovery of a vast inland sea or : series of great lakes is not improbable. St, James' Gazette. B( coicisj a Common ACTeetion. Sobacco bilndneas, it ia said, i3 becom i a common affliction. At present there are several persons under treatment for it at ono London hospital. It first takes the form of color blindness, the sufferers who have smoked themselves into this condition, being .quite unable ta distin-', guish the" color of a piece of red cloth ' held up before them. Sometimes thorj victim loses ids eyesight altogether. -" To- bacccv being a narcotic, naturally' be-- numbs the nerves. When the nerves are , thus benumbed people do not see aa.dii- tinctly and this defectiveness cf vision tends to increase and become pen Boston Budget. meet. For tbe Workmen's; Informations ; - ' In order thatrno antiquarian treasures unearthed in the digging of the Man- 1 Chester Ship canal may be .lost through 1 ignorance of their nature 'br- value, the local Antiquariaii society has had printed and distributed among the workmen rep resentations of arrowheads, stone imple ments, coins arefpottery," with: urgent requeststhat anything found of this na ture v may be transmitted to them with fuU aetaig tbe place of finding d th soil Burroundmg3. - - Home Journal : "iNever get wct;'.as teo-i one ct -Ad- wzzl Porter s rulus ia fifg, and ltU 'a rulua ia life.'and ibu adit he lived -up to it dormg ail his lorg career ia the nary-. , :: : THE COURIER:. is published in Jhe centre a-fine tobacco growiug section, making It one of the best, advertising , mediums for. merchants. and warehousemen iu the adjoinUig: counties. Circulated largely in Person, Granville and Durham counties in North Carolina, and llalifaxcounty Virginia. ' . . J JOB WORK aH. description neatly executed on short ootice and at rcHBonable'prices, When in need of .work give the Cobsier a trial. Cheap Food In tonflon. . For a penny the London beggar may buy a bowl ,of beef or pea soup and a large piece xi bread, enough to- keep off starvation for a day. , The spooirhe eat3 it with and tho bowl he eatsxiut of are chained to the table. Nothing is left ly ing around loose in that style or restau rant. Two kinds of I soup constitute the entire bill of fare for the penny soup house. For a ha'penny there is always a hot roast potato ready on the sidewalk. These potato roasting ovens are 'trundlM about on wheels, and are built to resem ble a small locomotive. They are known as 4'.Murphy busters. " Another Rtyip'of street f kitchen deals in kidney and ci l pies, smoking hot", and two pence each. ' The "ham and beef shops" are i-fldy with their cooked wares at noon--corne l Jbgejt jajgtwo. pence,, tar iowcet'&raoiir.l: weighed out, and' for a ha'penny each a paper cone filled wjth freshly bailed po tatoes or turnips. "Winks,' a species of salt water snail, are bpiled in quantities and sold on the streets. The fried fish kitchens about 10 h night are filled with people, plate in. hand waiting for the well browned sole from the great frying vats at 4 pence the plate, with a generous quantity of fried pota toes added for a ha' penny. Six pence buys the supper for a small" family and 3 pence more pays for the inevitable pine of porter. The 10 o'clock supper, is tho Englishman's most enjoyable- meaU and twenty odd millions of people over thero eat it and do not suffer so much from in digestion as we do. It looks odd ac first though when you make a call, to see at 10 o'clock the table spread as if for din ner and the roast beef hot from the oven brought on. Prentice Mulfofd in New York Star. Chickens Sold by Piecctpeal. 'That economy which is so great an e'e ment in the French character is very evident in thfr marketing of fowls. In Paris half birds can be purchased, both cooked and uncooked, but at Bordeaux this division of the fowl' is carried out to -a much greater extent, and in the octag onal market of tho beautiful city on the Gironde can be seen -peculiar looking car casses offered there for sale carcasses whose leading characteristic seems to be the absence of meat. Legs, wings, breast, all are gone. These limbs and portions are offered for salo separately, an1 thus a Bordelaise housekeeper able, as all French cooks are, to make a fine dish with very little meat, can buy a leg, or a wing, or a. breast, without any of the other por tions; or, if the purse is not well lined, then the carcass can bo taken, from which a splendid di-sh of eoup may be made. Even the blood is sold, showing that here at leatt the proverb, 44Waste not, want not," is understood and ob served. How different, says an Eoglish writer, to the wastefulness in the kitchen of" a Yankee millionaire, of whom , it ia said the breasts alone -of the fowls are cooked and sent to the table, the car casses, including legs and wings, being thrown on to the dunghill. The secret cf French success in poultry culture comes from the attention paid to the little things, and from a practical belief in the impor tance of this branch of live stock as a profitable portion of agricultural tions. Eoston Herald. opera- Mistakes Concerning Deodorisers. Attention is being called by Dr. Roose, of London, an eminent authority on the subject, to some mistakes concerning de odorizers and disinfectants. It is simply useless, he says, to place saucers con taining chloride of lime, carbolic acid, etc., ia a contaminated atmosphere, with tho expectation that tho germs floating about will be caught and killed. Tho chlorine doubtless will remove some of- : 1 1 1 1 .1 ! !, iwiaivo uuura iu:u miuLuy uiunsa useu through the rcoa, but to act as a true disinfectant it must bo so much concen trated that the air hi the space containing it would be quite irreepirable by human beings, though it is, when used scientifi cally, the best of all disinfectants for purifying the walJs of an empty room. For deodorizing in f ick rooms and pas sages Dr. Rooso thinks euchloiine 03 very efficient produced when a few crys tals cf chlorite 5f potassium are dropped into a little hydrochloric acid ; bromine is even more powerful as a disinfectant than chlorine, and belli are far superior to sulphurous acid; as to carbolic acid, it 13 stated that tho spores of the micro-organisms discovered in criec-sof eplenio fever have been found to be absolutely unaffected after lying for upward of three montli3ina 5 per cent, solution of car bolic acid in oil. Philadelphia Record. System or Personal Property. If one were disposed to be extremely analytical he might .observe that attached to this. whole system of personal prop erty and the easy getting of incomes ia a certain snare. Iho American people liavo only within tho past twenty years become generally informed as to the na ture of persontd property, such as stocks .and bond3 and rncrtgages. Prior to that time we derived' oyr incomes from real things, generally real estate, or, what was almost tho samo thing, a raani steady vocation, where his wits and cap ital visibly worked together at wine busi ness like coach making or brick niakincr. The tendency of civilization has been to make real property an annoyance, or any- thing which can 'interrupt a man '3 life w1k prefers the easy and indolent method cf drawing ' his .check, and having a bank to coHechis rents, interest or -whatever is due upon ; his personal things-, which 1 keeps in a tin box at a small rental j "Gath m Cincinnati Enquirer . . Tlio Lethe of Forjretf alnesa. Il London specialist, one ' Dr. -Edward fick; has oomo to tlii? country to tell Americans;- how to cultivate iand . tram their' memories. Up to ;a certain pokit. Dr. Pick's speciality.' Impiiesa desimbia attribute. I3u$ life i3 so-very fuil f thing3 ;.tljat ono ii- iKiprjier ia 't forgetting that a retentive inemory U another narj fox.continuai unhappiness If the emi nent Englishman can to train the mem ory that it3 power to retain Agreeable. lecoHections cati hs coltivaietl its prone- ue : of uess toiecall ali the disagreeablt events the past can-be 'curbed, then haehould 2 j i'6 encouraged,raiiu many will thero le who-will rise find a!l him. blessed. 4Tho f!easures of memory'. liave been imm.or ' t:il:ed in noetrv. Lut tlie Lethe cf forgot- fulness is, after ail, a desirable quality,- Ii.(,bmr Bullctiit:" L ' " i
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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March 7, 1889, edition 1
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