The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, October 31, 1882, Image 6

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' one of the first remedies ipp LlLry headache and wo ehould never cease to use it. The brain, when excite<l, as much needs quiet and repose as a frac tured limb or an inllamed eye, and it is obvious that the chances of shorten* i.ng the seizure and arresting pain will depend on our power to have this car ried out effectually. It is a practical lesson to be kept steadily in view, in that there may lurk behind a simple headache some lesson of unknown magnitude which may remain station ary if quietude can be maintained. There is a point worth attending to in the treatment of all headaches. See that the head is elevated at night and the pillow hard; for, if it be soft, the head sinks and becomes hot, which with some is enough to provoke on attack in the morning if sleep has been long and heavy. The Cats of Ca ro. Among the curiosities of Cairo is an amateur branch of the humane so ciety, for the especial benefit of poor Puss. A curious legacy was some years ago left by a wealthy burgher to enlarge the permanent income of the cadi, on condition of his nourishing and cherishing all the unclaimed cats in Cairo. Like most Mohammedans, lie must have shared the feeling which made the Prophet cut off the wide sleeve of his robe, sooner than disturb a favorite.eat which hud fallen asleep thereon. Consequently a large court yard has been devoted to their especial benefit, and here the “nice, soft, furry creatures” lie and bitsk in the sun, and are fed at stated intervals, and alto gether have a very good time of it. It is a curious fact, however, that al though daily additions are made to this large feline home, the inmates rarely amount to more than fifty. This (in the absence of sausage machines) is a very remarkable problem. I suppose that a candidate for the office of cadi has to produce a medical certificate to prove that he is not troubled with that unconquerable aversion to dear old Puss with which so many of the mas culine genus are afllicted.—Gentleman's Magazine. A Great Storm Predicted. According to Dr. E. Stone AViggins, a new weather prophet of Canada, who some time ago predicted that the recent gale would sweep from east to west over the continent, says a great storm will strike this planet in March next. The following warning is issued by Dr. Wiggins: It will he first felt in the Northern Pacific, and will cross the meridian of Ottawa at noon (5 r. m. London time) on Sunday, March 11, 1883. No vessel smaller than a Cunarder will be able to live in this tempest. India, the soutli of Europe, England, and especially the North American continent, will he the theatre of its ravages. As all the low lands on the Atlantic will he sub merged, I advise ship builders to place their prospective vessels high up on stocks, and farmers having loose val uables, such as hay, cattle, etc., to re move them to a place of safety. I beg, further, most respectfully to appeal to the honorable minister of marine that he will peremptorily order up storm drums on all the Canadian coast not later than the 20th of February, and thus permit no vessel to leave the har bor. If this is nut done, hundreds of lives will he lost and millions worth of property destroyed. One pound of green copperas dis solved in-one quart of boiling water will destroy foul smells. Powdered borax scattered in their haunts will disperse cockroaches. o or subjects of the emperor, Chinese, Mongolians, Tartars, Baskirs, Kal- muks, Khirgees, Boukharas, Circas sians, Georgians, Mingrelians, Lap landers, Esquimaux, Persians, Turco- mans-^a strange and wild mixture of different races, half clad and armed, some with bows or lances, others with yatagans, with silver handles* or swords with wooden hilts rudely carved. This dazzling and picturesque pro cession advances, preceded by a platoon of guards of honor, with cuirases of red cloth starred with silver, and by two mounted heralds with gold embroidered brocades, red velvet caps and maces. The imperial arms, borne by high func tionaries, are placed at the left of the throne upon a table with a coyer of gold. GfoUped in front of the church under the portal draped with velvet, the clergy with erosses and mitres are resplendent in their chasubles and dal matics sparkling with gems. The metropolitans, led by the metropolitan of Kiew, holding censers await the ar rival of the emperor. At last the czar appears, lie de scends the red staircase upon which a Persian carpet, flowered with roses, is placed. lie wears the uniform of a general of division, with red trousers, and he walks under a large canopy that puts over his head a flock of golden eagles in a blue sky. The metropolitan of Moscow pre sents him tlie cross to kiss, while the metropolitan of Novgorod sprinkles him with holy water. The princes of tiie church conduct the czar to the throne. Then the metropoliran of Moscow approaches his imperial majesty and presents him with the or thodox profession of faith, which the czar reads aloud, standing with his hand upon the guard of his sword. After reading lie receives the two metropolitans of Kiew, who ascend the steps of the throne and bring him the coronation mantle. The czar takes it from their hands and places it upon his shoulders. Then he hows be fore the metropolitan of Moscow, who places ids hands over him and recites a prayer. Finally, the czar arises majestic and superb, dressed in his mantle of bro cade linen with ermine, and, taking the imperial crown sparkling with dia monds, he places it with his own hands upon Ids head. At this moment the empress advances and kneels before her august spouse, who, taking off his crown, holds it an instant over the forehead of the czarina in token of her share in his omnipotence. In the courtyard of the Kremlin the cannons thunder. The three hundred churches of Moscow ring their joy hells and the vaults of the old cathedral are filled with songs of gladness and of triumph. The mass begins. The silver doors of the iconostasus are opened. The archbishops of Novgorod and of Kiew approach the emperor and inform him that all is ready for the annointment. The czar descends from the throne. The empress accompanies him to the door of the sanctuary, the threshold ^>f which no woman can cross. The metropolitan of Moscow then dips in the va*e that contains the holy oil the golden branch that he holds in his hand, and anoints the temples, the eye lids, the nostrils, the lips, the breast and the hands of the czar while uttering the words: “Behold the seal of the Holy Ghost.” And after each holy unction the metropolitan of Novgorod wipes away the traces. The ancient czars for seven days used not to wash the parts of their bodies that had thus been annointed. Conducted to the altar, the czar par takes of the communion, while the e brush was very flense at the bot tom of the ravine, and he thought he had had adventure sufli lent for one day. The largest of the two dead hears would weigh over 1,500 pounds. It was all two strong horses could do to drag it to a tree near by. The other, which was quite poor; would weigh about 700 pounds. From Ra mon, who was in town this week, says the Signal editor, we learn that he afterward got the wounded bear. One of his friends tells us. in speaking of Ins hear adventures, that in one win ter, on the Sespe rancho, Ortega cap tured flfty-fotlr hears with the lasso. An Oriental Beauty. Mrs. General Lew Wallace has been permitted to see the greatest beauty of I’rinee Feramorz’s harem in Turkey Two wonderfully ugly black eunuchs met the visitor at the iron gate of a beautiful garden and conducted her to a large room rather barren of furni ture hut hung with line Eastern dra peries. Here she found the prince’s latest acquisition, whom she thus de scribes in the Independent: Among the billowy cushions and va porous veilings rose the young face. Oh! what a revelation of beauty! up lifted in a curious, questioning way to see what-manner of women these are who come from the ends of the earth with unveiled faces, and go about the world alone, and have to think for themselves—poor things! The ex* pr ss on was that of a lovely child -u; ki ig from summer slumber in the happiest humor, ready for play. A sensitive, exquisite face, fair as the lirst of women while the angel was yet unfallen. A perfect oval, the lips a searh-t thread, and oh! those wonderful Asiatic eyes!—lustrous, coal black, long rather than round, beaming under joined eyebrows. Cannot Stand Civilization. The populatiorfof Honolulu is 10,000, nearly half of whom is American, the other half being made up of natives, of Chinese and some English. Of the merchants and commercial men a ma jority are Americans, the balance are English. There are also a few Chinese merchants. The natives, when the missionaries first visited them, mun- beml 400,000, hut to-day there are not over 30,(XR) natives on the islands. Like all Indians or aborigines, they cannot stand civilization and progress. Tho descendants of tho old missionaries fall in with new modes of life. When the missionaries first settled on the islands they brought up their children with puritanic strictness, hut other people coming in among them they were soon infused with the spirit of enterprise and took up grants of land and learned how to make money. Most of the mis sionaries sent their children to this country to acquire an education, and they returned with modern ideas. This, with the infusion of the foreign element, has produced a society in Honolulu which is equal in education and refinement to that of any other city.—St. Louis Republican. Fifteen lives are lost on the British coast each week on an average, and thus in twenty-six years about 20,000 j persons have perished. These losses have generally been regarded s inev- j itable, hut a society has been formed for providing places of refuge on the ' coast for fishermen and other marines. Convict labor is to be usedjn the con struction of these harbofST . Last year Great Britain made nearly 2,700,000 tons of puddled iron, and im ported 00,000 tons besides. '»• llicv'.t.vy VJL ►-» r into shapeless mounds, afld learned the art of revolution, and so became tlie Mexicans of modern times. Tlie Japanese are making Very rapid progress in education. It had its be ginning not quite eleven years ago. In 1*72 not less than 53,000 government : c iools were established, conducted orf European principles, the average of schools being one to every 640 in habitants. In two years the number of schools was augmented until the pupils exceeded 400,000. If at the commencement of this wonderful educational movement there was some confusion, owing to the incapacity of European teachers and the want of in terchange of language, these troubles- passed away. The number of pupils immediately after 1873 rapidly in creased, until in 1877 in the seveh school uiatriets nearly 57,000 male teachers, with 1,275 female teachers, were educating 1,552,410 male and 543,- 768 female pupils, There is, then, an elementary school for every 1.345 in habitants and for every four and one- eight square miles of the empire. Tak ing the total children in Japan of an age to go to school as 5,251,807, seventy- one per cent, derive the benefits of in struction. Leaving out of considera tion the higher branches of knowledge, only derivable from special schools, the effort seems to tend toward the education of the masses. Looking at the expenses, some live years ago, with an appropriation of $5,364,870, the cost of education was ten shillings, say $2.20 per pupil. The liberality of the Japanese and their linn belief in the great advantages to he derived frifm this general education becomes mani fest when it is learned that in five years about $8,500,000 of our money has been bestowed by private indi viduals for the school fund, together with a great deal of valuable real estate. Three years ago there were 2,319,000 pupils, and, from such ac counts as may he gathered last year, the total number was near 3,000,000. There is one poinWwhich, in an educa tional sense, requires correction, and that is in regard to the Japanese girls, as the number of these is very small i oroportion to the hoys. in 819 BROAD STREET, Augusta, Gi B. H„ SCHNEIDE—, m Importer and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in FINE WINES, CIGARS, BRANDIES, TOEEVCCO, MINERAL WATERS, WHISKIES, GIN, PORTER, ALES, ETC,. 601 & 802 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. Agent for VEUVE CLICQUOT PONSARDIN, URBANA WINE COMPANY, ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION. J-. T. IDEllsrismTG-. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. DEALER IN CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, NUTS, ETC. —ALSO— MANTJTACTUB.EB, OP PURE CANDY. Under the Supervision of GEO. F. LAMBACK, GROCERIES Imported & Dorn % Glothii Made Laurens Street, IHIdHSE stoci nrchased from the leading m&nafoetnreraj ROCK BO Body and Tapestry Brussels, Moquel Cloths, Door Mats, Hearth Rugs, a full ! Trimmings, Floor and Table (Ml Cloths, j (all sizes), Piano and Table Covers, WaL Cretonnes for Lambrequins, China and C JAMES G. OLD ORIGINAL CARPET STORE, . A U C3-XJ JOHN H. FEAREY, Watches and Clocks repaired. Watches and Clocks repaired. OFTH JEWUIND EHCUYER We have a Workman for each of these Departments. 729 Broad Street, Opp. Central Hotel, AUGUSTA, GA. FRESH STOCI I have in store and arriving 500 cases 1 variety; New Preserves, Jollies, Crackers, Codfish; all grades of Sugars, Coffees, Te Apples, Straw and Rattan Brooms, Scrub _ Tubs, Pails, Clothes Hampers,ClothcsBaske JAMES G. OLD STAND JAMES 0. BAILIEf *! MYERS JOBBERS IN AND SO LE A GENT FOR DIA MONO SPECTA CLES. DEA LER IN RE LI A BLE JE WELR Y. ALSO SILVER PLATED WARE AT THE LOWEST PRICES. Dry Goods, Notion: Boys Attacked by a Hawk. Three boys, children of a planter in Banks county, Ga., were playing in tho houseyard when a large hawk swooped down, and, seizing a chicken in its tal ons, flew away. The hoys were very much excited by tlie occurrence, and followed tlie hawk some distance. To their delight the bird dropped his prey, and the bojys soon were standing around the chickan. The little fellows did not suppose that the hawk would he hold enough to i it- tack them. But the bird was so angry at the loss of his meal ttat lie circled around the heads of t ae children, and finally pounced do\-n upon the eldest of the boys, whose age was ten years. The hawk fastened his talons in the lad's chin, and beat qhe poor little fellow’s head with his win] The other boys went to the resci The hawk thrust out his disengai talon and caught one of them by arm, flapping his wings meanwll and pecking at his prisoners with Ids beak. The third hoy got out his kn fe and gave a thrust, which seemed to take the hawk by surprise, for he tt en tried to get away.. But the courage the hoys was up, and they held until they hail killed the ferociousbitd. The hawk measured twenty-four ine ies from tip to tip. PEBSOKAX. ATTENTION TO AXIa NEW WORK AND REPAIRING. The undersigned would respectfully and Winter Stock is now being receive has ever been brought to this market. ALFRED BAKER, Pbesident. JOSEPH S. BEAN, Jb., Cashikb THE MOST PROSPEROUS BARK IN THE SOUTH. AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK, Wholesale Boot,! 811 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA Assets over $100,000 in Premium Bonds. Se&irity Fund in Premium Stocks. Entirely distinct from our Dry Goods, No found the largest and best-selected stocks i ished that it will be to the interest of ] M Interest paid on Deposits. Sums of $1 and upward received. Bonds and Stocks bought and sold for Investors. k JOSEPH S. BEAN, Jb., Cashieb. W. M. B. YOUNG, E. R. SCHNEIDER, ED. O’DONNELL, Finance Committee. 286 AND 288 BROAD STREET, THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. CAPITAL, $300,000. SURPLUS, $25,000. JOHN A. NORTH, Pbesident. L. T. TALIAFERRO, Cabhibb. Special attention given to collection. Dibeotobs.—John A. North, President; W. T. Wheiees, Wholes* A Co-, Cotton Fac tors; W. C. Sibley, President I>angley and Sibley Manufacturing Co.; W. H. Howard, of Howard A Sons, Cotton Factors; W. A. Latimei^ of Garrett A Latimer, Cotton Factors; J. G. Bailie, Carpet and Grocery Merchant; J. H. Alexander, Wholesale and Retail Druggist; W. M. Jackson, of Geo. T. Jackson A Go., Millers; J. V. H. Allen, of J. V. H. Allan A Co., Insurance Agents. ^ WATCHES, Dl SILVER ANI SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, deacriptton repaired. All work 799 BROAD AUC WM. SOTI i