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^ Just Added to Our Stock, enables us to
furnish Without the Delays of an Ex
press Order,
| Folders for Party Invitations,
Wedding Invitations and double
, envelopes to match,
Embossed Dance Programs,
Program Pencils, Cards and Tas
sels,
Ladies’ Visiting Cards.
Our prices are reasonable and we
would be pleased to quote them on any
prospective order.
Commercial
Printing
Four different grades of Fine Linen and
Bond Papers for Letter and Note Heads,
ruled and unruled, all excellent type
writer papers. Also Good Grades of
Flat papers for Letter and Note Heads.
Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
cheaper grades. A complete line of
Statements, Bill Heads, Round and
i j Square Cornered Cards, etc.
With New
Type Faces
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tee our work to be neat and modern.
Best of all, it’pleases the customer.
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
REMARKABLE WEAPON.
I Blowpipe Used by ttie Indian Sharp
•booters of Guiana Nicely
Constructed.
There are two kinds of blowpipes In
nse among the Indians of Guiana. The
first, called the poocoona, is made of
the oorah reed. This remarkable reed
is found in the Orinoco river only,
and then only at certain spots. The
oorah grows to a height of at least
30 feet, and the basal joint, of which
the blowpipe is made, is 14 or 15 feet
long, straight as an arrbw and without
a knot, says Longman's Magazine.
The inside of the reed is as smooth
as glass, hence the facility with which
the dart traverses it. Very little of
the reed is cut away, so that the pipe
is about 12 feet long, and is so strong
that when held horizontally there is not
j the least bend in it.
The reed, having been carefully se
lected, cut and prepared, is inclosed
in a small, thin palm trunk, which is
split open for the purpose, scraped
thin as a wafer, and then rejoined with
i the reed in the ceAter. This palm, for
. length, straightness and lightness, is as
remarkable as the reed. The whole pipe,
when finished, never weighs more than
1 y2 or 1% pounds. Both the mouth, or
muzzle, and the breech are bell mouthed,
the bell pieces being fixed on.
There are front and back sights, the
latter Ic.-icd of the curved teeth of the
da'yproctai aoouchi, a species of rodent
somewhat larger in size than a
wiiu rabbit. Two of the insicors of
this animal are fixed on the breech of
the ifipe by means of wax. The teeth
being placed parallel to each other and
very close together, the sight is taken
between them. Sometimes the fore
sight is made in the same way, but it
more often consists of the single sharp
tooth of a fish. It is placed about a
foot back from the muzzle, the back
sight being affixed four feet along the
uiue, su mat n is a uonsiueiauie uio
tance from the eye when aiming.
The missile used with this tube Is
misnamed an arrow. It is really a
dart, scarcely larger than a large
darning needle, and with a point quite
as fine. The dart is made of the rib
of the coocooreete palm leaf, and is
so heavy that it will sink in water.
It is about seven inches in length, not
thicker than a large needle, and the
usual number that an Indian carries
with him when shooting is from 350
to 500, ready poisoned, but not pre
pared with the necessary cotton plugs.
These darts are strung together
something like the reeds on which
soft cheeses are placed, and then rolled
on a stick and carried in a quiver,
points upmost, it being requisite to
protect them from every chance of
being broken or dulled. To protect
the hand when handling them the top
of the stick is furnished with a small,
wheel-like shield.
The fine points are given to the darts
by means of the teeth of the devilfish
(serrasalmus pivava), and the cotton
with which they are plugged before
use is found growing wild. It is
bound to the base of a dart with
thread made of silk grass; this thread,
with wax obtained from several trees,
being largely used also in making the
blowpipe.
GROWTH OF INSANITY.
In the Large Cities It Is Increasing
and Experts Demand a
Change.
What change can toe made in city life
to stop its enormous production of in
sanity, yearly increasing?
Here is a question which is yet to be
solved, says the New York World. The
medical fraternity is at a loss for a gen
eral remedy; puzzled to find means of
overcoming the baneful effects of a
city’s activity on the general medical
condition.
London produces 70 lunatics a week
and New York 1b almost as bad, and its
increase is greater proporionately. Ex
perts say that if it were not for the fact
that nature steps in and generally re
fuses to grant children after the fourth
or fifth generation conditions would bq
far worse than they are.
"The outlook for the future is not
bright according to medical opinion, un
less the minds of the city people are bet
ter able within the next few generations
to adjust themselves to their progressive
complicated environment, unless bal
ancing interests and mental habits are
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nervous tension of city life.
So complicated is the enviornment of
those who live in great towns, so many
and so varied are the calls upon the
self-control and upon their effort-mak
ing powers, that their mental machin
ery is apt to become more complex, its
parts require more construction and ad
justment, and the whole machine Is
more apt to get out of gear and to suffer
derangement than in the more primi
tive and less emotional life of even half
a century ago. It is not overwork that
is the determining cause of the disturb
i fence or mental equilibrium, but carking
i care, worry and anxiety.
To the rich insanity is brought by in
dulgence in sensuous luxuries. To the
poor, who are at the mercy of every
economic crisis, whose financial circum
stances spell Indifferent nutrition, over
: crowding and unmoral surroundings,
; the condition of modern life bring de
pression and despair. The natural re
sult Is that they attempt to drown their
sorrows in the flowing bowl. Alcohol is
the cause of one-fifth of the insanity in
males and of more than half of that in
the weaker sex.
Can■« for Alarm.
Anxious Mother—Doctor, I am uneasy
j about my boy.
Doctor—What seems to be the trou
ble, madam?
"I don’t know. It's his symptoms that
scare me. He has lost his appetite. He
j only wants three meals a day now!"—
1 Chicago Tribune.
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MEMPHIS, TENN
GEO. H. LEE,
General Passenger, Agent,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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