Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 January 1899 — Page 5
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Sure Cure for Colds
When the children get their feet wet and take cold give them a hot foot bath, a bowl of hot drink, a dose or Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and put them to bed. •The chances are they will be all right in the morning. Continue the Cherry Pectoral a few days, until all cough has disappeared.
Old coughs are also cured we mean the coughs of bronchitis, weak throats and irritable lungs. Even the hard coughs of consumption are always made easy and frequently cured by the continued use of
Aaer's Cherry
Every doctor knows that wild cherry bark is the best remedy known to medical science for soothing and healing inflamed throats and lungs.
Put one of
Dr. Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral Plasters over your lungs
The Bmmt Medlctml Advlcm Fr»oI Wo now have some of the moat eminent physician* in the United States. Unusual opportunities- and long experience eminently fit them for giving you medical advice. Write freely all the particulars in your oRfte.
Address, Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass.
POLITICAL GENERAUt-
Army Disorganized by Placing RM competent^ Ju Coinuiaud.
Political generals are a imisanoe. Why .should President McKiuley create more of the nuisance instead of abating it? McKinley has sent the names of a lot of civiliuus to the senate to be confirmed, ami the men bearing these names .'ire to be appointed to high positions in the army over the heads of deserving and experienced officers whe have njient their lives in the service of the country. This is all wrong. The sunatc can do no better and no more patriotic thin than to refuse confirmation. Ji IV".r. McKiuley has political debts to pay, lot him pay them in some other manner.
It is disorganizing tc the army tc place these rich political nobodies it command. It is a disgrace and a danger. Political prill, wealth, the fact that ft young man is the son of a famous father, do not fit him for a place of comxuaiul in the army. This country wants fighters who know their business, wh have seen service, at the head of its regiments. If the young fellows want to fight, there are plenty of places for them in the ranks. Let them earn promotion as their fathers did before them, and le4 the true ami faithful officers who have already earned promotion receive it.
WORLD'S SUPPLY OF GOLD.
Iuad«qnate to Furnish Motiey For the In* creasing Demands of llusineM.
A. When defeated in tlieir attempts to overthrow tlio quantitative theory, jfche gold men fail hack on their last detail
Br-
and claim that, whether that theory applies or not, as we have sufficient sold already lack of it cannot account for tlio fall Of prices. It Is true that th« annual production of gold is now about danltlo what it was in 1873. But haa the increase been sufficient to keep tip With the enlarged demand for it, due tJ increasing business and to supply the nations that have gone over to a gold b$sin Hinco 1873 and to fill tho Void cau^tl by demonetizing silver.
It is fiot fair to assume, as the gold men do, that the fehtire annual product of gold goes into coinage, for it is undisputed that more than one-half is used in tho arts Nor is it fair to take th® world's annual coinage, for much oi this is recomage. But if every ouncfl of gold has been coined and gone intv circulation it would not have begun tc furnish money enmigh to keep up with the increased demand dae to increase in business and population. Even the in--creaso in gold and silver together voul? uot have been Hufiicient.
Gold Staii'lard.
The slirinkago of values iu tho United States since 1873 has not been less than $20,000,000,000, or eight timoa the cunt of the civil war, as shown by Senator Chandler mid other:-. But even bhis enormous sum dues not- mea^uro tha whole loss. Factories have been elosod and millions of men thrown out of employment liosc. labor would havo increased the wealth oi the United State* to tho extent of $.-.,000,000.0*50 annually, as estimated by that ommi »t political economist, Ilenrv Carey Baird of
Philadelphia. An amount of interest has been paid upon tho national debt ol the United States greater ihau the original principal, and also tlifeo-fifths ot the debt itself, and yet the remaining two-fifths requires more of the produce of industry to cancel it than the whole debt, did originally at tho prices then existing.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Marriage may not be a failure, but a good many married people are. The more trust a good woman puts In a man the more she will generally find in him to trust.
Lots of men would be considered braver if they didn't have sense enough to get scared.
It is ood thing for a man to lie dissatisfio with himself in everything but his marriage.
If the women get to working in Christian Science on love affairs there won't be any hope for the men.
Women are better than men are. Men very seldom love their enemies, but women most always kiss them.
If the average man were as brave and handsome as his wife believes he is. he would probably have married some other—better-looking—woman.
You can always tell from the outside of a house which is the spare bedroom by the way the window curtains are fixed up.
The mission-school habit is probably the strongest while it lasts, but the sachet habit
rmakes
a girl's family a
lot more uncomfortable. A woman has to have a lot more patience to let the cat in and out than she has for her husband, because if she didn't it would leave her.
A FEW PLAIN TRUTHS
As an ear trumpet the average woman is not a success. When a girl is up in arms the young man in the case seems to enjoy it.
Happy are they who look before they marry, and overlook afterward. Nothing so enhances the value of a thing as the difficulty in obtaining it.
Some men stand on principle and some others probably would if they had it to stand on.
Every woman knows that she talks too much, but what she doesn't know is a remedy for it.
Sharper than the tooth of a serpent is the sarcasm of one who has no sympathy with human vanity.
When a man is under a cloud of debt it's rather difficult for his creditors to see the silver lining.
The clock invariably strikes the half hour when you wake up in the night and want to know what time it is.
Life is full of ups and downs at a boarding house you have to put up with what they give you and come down for it in advance.
SHORT, LENGTHS.
There are 10,000 camels at work la Australia. The life of a tradesman is about twothirds that of a farmer. -T
In New Zealand two persons working together constitute a factory. China is purchasing pig-iron from Pennsylvania manufacturers.
Alcohol is being used with mantel lamps to illuminate parts of Berlin's park, the Thiergarten.
Austria' is the only empire in the world which has never had colonies or even trans-marine possessions.
The cost of fuel on steam railroads is about 10 per cent, of the operating expenses and on electric roads is about 5 per cent.
The Japanese foot has been praised for its strength and beauty. Japanese can walk incredible distances without feeling weary.
A curious fact has been noted by Arctic travelers—snow, when at a vei'y low temperature, absorbs moisture and dries garments.
HIGH LIGHTS
It is only during the honey-moon that married ptop'.e tolerate each other's pet dogs.
The snake had his faults, but he didn't try to make Eve think that he yas a fur boa.
True frlende ara people we know who don't ask u« xo write to them when we go away.
Other people's extravagances are most distasteful when we are short of cas'h ourselves.
A cynic is either a young man trying to act old or an old man who ia mad because he i*n't young.
The woman who can speak French nearly always has a1 husband who pronounces it as spelled.
Sooner or later men quit crying for the moon and are thankful for a lamp that doesn't run out of oil.
It is better to be fooled once in a while than to live in a world in which you are the only respectable person.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if men would only listen to them when they want to talk.
ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES.
Tile following newspaper squib manages to convey quite a cargo of information about the Philippine islands:
No brooms. No hats worn. Girls marry at fifteen. No knives or forks. They sleep at midday. Horses are a curiosity. Move women than men. j. Hice is the chief product. Cattle as small as goats. Manila enjoys electricity. Natives bathe thrice daily. The grasshopper is a delicacy. We buy hair Manila's hemp.
Laborers earn ten cents a day. Cccoanut-oil is an illuminant. Manila was founded in 167L
EMPRESSJ3F CHINA.
CLEVER BUT UNSCRUPULOUS WOMAf* WHO RULES 400,000,000 PEOPLE.
Han Attracted the Attention or tbe Clvt 11 red World—Tli« Most Mrllllnnt Woma) in tho Kant—WHS a Slav© Wlien the Em peror .Saw and I.ov.id Her.
The dowager empress of Chins (Tuen-Tson-Hsi) is now the absoluU mistress of 400,000,000 people. Sh« haa deposed the divine ruler," overturned a dynasty, made bargains Witt kings and emperors, laughed in th» face of Great Britain's best statesmei and 6et herself up as the real and onlj megul. Her sway extends from thi rising sun to the summits of the mightj mountain* overlooking India.
The eyes of the civilized world art turned upon her. Her will may precipitate the b'oodiest war that man hai known. Her whim or caprice may involve Christendom in the struggle oi history. The dowager is now sixtyfive years old. and probably the mosi brilliant woman in the East. She was a slave when the late emperor saw hei aRd loved her. In the Orient the king is all powerful, and princes may marrj beggar girls at their will. Tuen's beauty won her position and power, and hei fine brain—scheming through all th« years, the real power behind the thron« —has at last made her the mistress ol the Chinese empire.
Tuen is not the mother of the dethroned emperor. She is his stepmother, which accounts for the cruelty with which she hru treated the sacred monarch. The situation in China today is this: The dowager is supreme mistress of the country. Kang Yu Mel,
DOWAflBR BMPBESS OF CHINA.
who was going to reform the antique customs of the kingdom, has fled in precipitation. The emperor, who recently took from Li Hung Chang the yellow jacket—symbol of power—is a prisoner in his own palace. The crooked stick plow policy is in the ascendant. Russia is backing the dowager and Li will soon be placed on the throne of power once more. Peking is freer, apparently, to-day from the ipipress pf Western civilization than ever. Great Britain sees her glorious trade prospects vanishing, and with them the United States sees her own hope of commerce in China dwindling.
The Popular Girl.
The popular girl is not necessarily pretty. She has tact and good sense.-
She is self-possessed. She is modest. She is gentle. She has dignity and self-poise. She is never fussy or ill-tempered. She is not. always thinking of herself. She is industrious. She is pure minded and sweet and wholesome.
She is never loud or noisy or rude. She is considerate She cultivates a soft low voice.
Siunllcat dnfCB in the World. Probably the smallest monarch in the world reigns over the Hindoo vassal state of Bophal, and governs a people of more than a million souls. This dwarf is a woman, Djihaa-Begum by name but although she is about 50 years old, she does not appear larger than a child of ten. Her diminutive size does not prevent her, however, from holding the reins of government with a firm hand, and in her realm quiet .and order are supreme.
Sunset-Bell.
At the sunset hour, in Seoul, Corea, a town bell proclaims the fact when the sun has vanished beneath the horizon. No man is allowed in the street after that hour, under the penalty of a flogging but, strange to say, the women were permitted to go around as usual, visiting their friends, or strolling for pleasure.
Queer ANintio Custom.
It is a common Asiatic custom for the bridegroom to give chase to the bride either 011 foot, on horseback or in a canoe. If the bridegroom catches the fugitive he claims her as his wife otherwise the match is broken oft.
Olncrvnllon.
Miss Chatter: "I knew you would be here to-day to see sister." Mr. Cudler. (interrog.): "Intuition?"
Miss Chatter: "No—observation. You always appear on the same day that Ethel refuses onions at dinner."
Afflcoil Too Mwlt of Ilim.
Cholly—My friends say that I have a very line voice. Would you like to hear me sing, Miss Molly?
Molly—Yes, provided you will accompany yourself on my brother's flute.
•w A Ultnt of Money.
It is said that Sarah Bernhardt, who was getting $40 a month at tbe Odeon in 1872, has in the last twenty-five years since then received 12,500,000.
SOME THIKC3 TO KNOW.
Even the hardens! locomotive has
tender part.
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A talkative person seldom fails tc make one pneumatically tired.
Snuffing a candl« Increases the effect and diminishes "he cause,
How little man kn«ws of his fellow-
man—unless he liv«e in a village.
When some men bury the hatchet after quarreling they
dig up an ax.
go right out and
Scorching is injurious physically— also financially if tie policeman catches you.
The ball player hits "the most "balls" at night always hits the fewest in the next day's ga-tne.
The liquid voice of a woman would probably be more appreciated if she would occasionally tu?n off the flow.
It is always a sevfTe strain on the angelic qualities of a Ivoman when she has to use her wings to dust the furniture.
CULLED FROM ALL SIDES. Savages, on the whole, live longer than civilized people.
Forty years ago the first missionary was eaten on the ^iji islands. Swallows have been met at sea more than 1,000 miles from any land.
In Costa Rica canary birds, bullfinches, and paroquets are special table dainties.
According to a German authority the human brain is composed of 300,000,000 nerve cells.
In the orange fields «f New Zealand the crop has been known to net as high as $1,000 an acre.
Eight million pounds are computed to change hands in England yearly through betting on races.
Over 400 diamonds are known to have been recovered from the ruins of Babylon. Many are uncut, but most are polished on one or two sides.
Probably few people who visit London are aware that one of the most novel sights of the great city is that of the pigeons around the public buildings.
The British soldier has not always worn a red uniform. White was the prevailing color under Henry VIII., and dark green or russet in the time of Elizabeth.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
The queen of Greece is the only woman admiral in the world. When tea was first brought to England the leaves were eaten.
The Polar currents are said to contain less salt than those from the equator.
Britain requires a yearly supply of breadstuffs of about 30,000,000 quarters of wheat. She produces about 6,000,000 quarters.
The custom of keeping birthdays is many thousand years old. Pharaoh's birthday festivities are mentioned in the Pentateuch.
Berlin is one of the most cosiimpolitain of Europeans cities. Though it is the capital of Germany, only 37 per cent, of it3 inhabitants are Germans by birth.
The broad-headed horses are the cleverest. In the British household cavalry horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more rapidly than the others.
In Russia the propflrtionate number of births is nearly double that of France, while the German population increases faster than that of any other country.
TOLD BY FIGURES.
A caterpillar in the course of a month will devour 600 times its own weight in food.
There are found In both nooks of the bible 3,586,483 letters and 773,693 words.
Since the birth of Christ 4,000,000,000 men have been slain in battle. If kept continuously running a watch will tick 160,144,000 times in a year.
Some scientists now hold that above the altitude of 12,000 feet from the sea level the temperature decreases about one degree for every rise of 350 feet.
The British government is the owrter of over 25,000 camels. Several thousands are used in India to carry stores and equipment when companies are changing quarters by line of march.
The largest proportion of single persons is found in Ireland and Scotland and the smallest in the United States. In Ireland 67 per cent., in Scotland 65 per pent., but in the United States only 59 per cent, are in that condition.
METHODS OF AUTHORS.
Mrs. Browning generally wrote in bed. Whlttier and Longfellow were very methodical, always had their desks in perfect order and demanded utter quiet
George Eliot generally wrote doubled up on a sofa, her feet curled under her sofa pillows and a pad of paper on her lap.
Harriett Preecott Spofford writes anywhere—on her lap—meanwhile taking an animated part in the conversation going on about her.
Anthony Trollope always wrote standing up very straight at a high desk, with his watch before him, timing himself to a oertain length of duty.
Walt Whitman ceuld write anywhere. He has been Men writing on tbe edge of a newspaper in an omnibus, his elbow all the time Joggled by the ArlTer, «al«e tern* and eootfertaM*
ANTIQUITY OF DICE.
B*cn
in Religion* ceremonies
From Time Immemorial.
People who sit upan forms are apt romance and mystery. They have to stand upon ceremonies.
The origin of the dice is buried in
been used in religious ceremonies from timo immemorial. Dice have been used in all earlier forms of worship to find out the future by divine aid and guidance.
Tbe variety of the world's dice is surprising, but practically may be di-
Men are like chicPena—they always vlded into two kinds. One kind is want to get on the highest roost. cubical, represented by our ordinary dice. With two exceptions, Korean
an
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Estruscan, the spots are arranged
that the six and one, five and two, and three and four are oppositp, mak-
ing the sum of orposite sides invariably seven. This is the dice not only of modern Europe and America, but of classical Greece and Rome, of Syria, Persia, India, China, Japan, Burmah and Siam. The other principal kind of dice is the long square prism, also marked with "d-iee eyes," found scattered among the prehistoric remains in Europe and existing to-day in India and adjacent countries.
With these dice must al.so be classed the top of spinning dice, with four or six sides, which are twirled with the fingers. The oldest is from Naucratis, a Greek colony 600 B. C. Only two specimens of dice have been discovered at Babylon. No name for dice has yet been found in the cuneiform writings.
WpIkIH of XiMmarcU'H Hrnln.
Prince Bismarck's brain, according to the flattering estimate of the anthropologist, Otto Ammon, was probably the heaviest known to anatomical science. Herr Ammon, in consultation with Prof. Schafer, the sculptor, concluded from the measurements taken for Schafer's buBt that the brain of the old statesman weighed 1,867 grammes, and consequently exceedefi *n weight that ef any known genius. Cuvier's brain weighed 1,830 grammes. Byron's 1,807, Kant's 1,650, Schiller's 1,630 and Dante's 1,420. The average weight of the brain of an intelligent European is only 1,380 grammes. Herr Amnion's belief cannot be verified, owing to Bismarck's orders.
Costly Coin.
In London and Paris cats are more highly prized than in the United States, and there are frequent sales there of tabbies at ?2§0 each. Some choice cats, with rare "markings" and "points," are disposed of at {500 each.
The famous cat Nicodemus, which won the first prize for beauty at a New York cat show, cost its owner, who purchased it of a street urchin, the Bum of 10 cents. After the close of the exhibition the gentleman received a dozen offers of $1,500 for it, and one woman bid $2,100.
A lady who controls a cat farm in California paid $1,000 for a cat in Paris and considered it a bargain.
A Connlderntc Mnti.
A Welshman who was in London when extensive sewering operations were in progress lost his watch. He reported the matter to Scotland Yard, and the officials said they would leave no stone unturned to find the missing timekeeper. Shortly afterward Taffy again visited the metropolis, and saw street after street being turned up. He was told in all thirty-six miles of road were in the same condition. He rushed down to Scotland Yard and exclaimed to the wondering inspector: "I didn't think I was giving you all that trouble. If you don't find the watch by Sunday, I wouldn't break up any more streets."
'..'•••Tlie liiii'KCMt LocMnotlv*.
The largest locomotive in the world is the Giant, of French type, on the Mallet compound articulated ays term, that was constructed by the Belgiaa State railway administration foe the sharp gradients near Liege, having been shown at the Brussels exhibition of last year. This engine, carried by 3ix pairs of wheels, weighs in running order 108,000 kilos, equal to 106 tons, which weight is entirely utilized for adhesion but the arrangement such that each pair of wheels only loads the rails with 18,000 kilos, equal to 17% tons.
Lurgrrat Statne in the World.
The largeststatue in the world is Bartholdi's "Liberty Enlightening the World" at the entrance to the New York harbor, presented by France to America in 1885. The cost of the statue was about ?40,000 its height, from the base to the top of the torch held high above the head of the goddess, is 151 feet. The statue, standing on a pedestal eighty-eight feet high, is made of repousse copper and is so large that forty persons can be accommodated in the head, while the torch, reached by a spiral staircase, will hold twelve.
I.oiiKthcii.-d Hit Tomli.
Woolrych Perowne, in his book on "Central Asia" gives an interesting description of the tomb of Daniel at Samarcand. The Mohammedans believe that Daniel continued to grow after death, and so year by year they lengthened his tomb till it was sixty feet long, which was apparently regarded as a proportion great enough for even the most holy of saints.
A Primitive Race.
The Papuans of the Malay coast of New Guinea are still in the most primitive state. They are wholly unacquainted with metals, and make their weapons of stone, bones, and wood.
To Prevent Squeikinff,
Boring a hole half way through the sole of a shoe Is wild to prevent its squeaking. The reason assigned Is that tbe air between the layers of leather is released by tbe boring.
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OTICK TO EI HP, CREDITORS, ETC.
111 the matter of the estate of William K. Franelf, (lecaaHoJ. I11 the Montgomery Circuit Court, Jn'v. term.
Notice is horoby given that UeorKO W Francis, as administrator of estate of William K. Francis, deceased, has presented and filed bis accounts and vouchers,lu llnal settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination anJ action of said Circuit Court on the Kith day of Jan. 1890, at which time all heirs, '•redltors or legatees ot said estate are required
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appear in said Court and show cause
heirship.
If
any
tiii'ro be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notifled to be in eaid Com tut the time aforesaid and make proof of
George W. Francis, Administrator.
Dec filet, 1893.
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Nfw« Item.
December loth a special train, con sisting of thirty cars, of woven wire fence, left tho Western Avenue station, Chicago, via the Chicago &. Northwestern Railway, for Lincoln, Nebraska. The shipment was made from Adrian, Mich. This is the largest shipment of wire fencing ever made at one time over ar.y railroad, and the Northwestern Line demonstrated its progressive spirit by furnishing a special train for it.