Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1906 — Page 6

Pd*y Icings. When posies inside wedding rings were fit'st introduced does not seem to be Known. Time has covered that, as be does so many things, with the mosses of oblivion, but we know that from tbe sixteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth it was customary to have them engraved on rings. These posies or mottoes are seldom to be found with more than two lines of verse and often with only one, but there are a few instances known where three lines are used. Some of these posies are very quaint and curious, and a few reach a high standard of poetic beauty. In 1642 a small collection of rhymes was published with the title of “Love’s Garland; or. Posies For Rings, Handkerchiefs and Gloves and Such Pretty Tokens That Lovers Send Their Loves." It contains some posies that are not to be met with elsewhere and Is a very interesting work, though but few people seem to have heard of it. The South Kensington museum has a good collection of posy rings, and among them we find the following: “United hearts, death only parts;” “Let us share In joy and care.” ’’Love and live happily.” There is a story to the effect that Dr. John Thomas, who was bishop of Lincoln in 1753. caused to be inscribed inside his fourth Wife's wedding ring;: If I survive, I’ll make them five. —London Graphic. They Needed the Money. A freight steamer once came into Mariopol, a port on the sea of Azov, which had aifiong its cargo 100 pieces of machinery numbered “M.” from 1 to 100. When the pieces were unloaded it was found that No. 87 was missing, but two pieces numbered 88 showed that there had been an error, the final tally being correct. But the custom officials did not take this view of the matter, the port being in need of funds, so they fined the ship 500 rubles for being short of cargo as per manifest—namely, No. 87—and 1,000 rubles for smuggling, having two pieces numbered 88 when the manifest called for but one.—Caroline Lockhart in Lippincott’s Magazine. W-' . . Different Medicine. Mr. Courtney (flatteringly)—! had the blues when 1 came here tonight. Miss Fisher, but they are all gone now. Ton are as good as medicine. Miss Fisher’s Little Brother—Yes, father himself says she’ll be a drug in the market if she doesn’t catch on to some fellow soon. Making; a Job of It. The firemen continued their exertions until after 2 o’clock, by which hour all the damage that could be done was at an end.—Newcastle (England) Chronicle. Believed Him. He (indignantlyi—l beg your pardon, miss, but I always keep my word. She (complacently) — I can easily believe that; for no one would take it. Young America’* Reply. “We have a new baby at dur house.” “What’s his name?”' “I don't know. He didn’t bring anj tard.”

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Her Claim* to Patronage, I When Mrs. Lombard offered to recommend Miss Simpson to her friends as a dressmaker she was honest in her j wish to help the little woman, but her efforts bore more evidence of honesty i than of tact. j “1 wish you would try Dora Simp■l son,” she said earnestly to three of her I friends who were calling upon her one ' day. "She's such a good little body ■ and so unfortunate! Her old customers ' have dropped off one by one till there's I scarcely a. person in the neighborhood ■ Who employs her now. | "As I often say to my husband.” coni tinued Mrs. Lombard, with haste, as she saw signs of inquiry on the faces of her friends, "suppose she doesn't fit very well. That'doesn’t alter the fact that she has an invalid brother to support and that she tried everything from stenography to cooking, and only took up sewing as a last resort and just hates every stitch she takes and always has. Now. do try her. some of you. She's been with me for the last four days making a jacket for my Jim. Dora is just as patient about it as can be, though we've bad it all to pieces three times."—Youth's Companion. ""* 1 " I I The First Man Dressmaker. The first male celebrity who made his mark as a dressmaker was Rhomberg, the son of a Bavarian peasant from the neighborhood of Munich. One day in the month cf May, 1730, a beautiful equipage was seen driving about Paris with an escutcheon in the shape , of a corset ar.fl an open pair of scissors in the middle painted on the panel of each door. That was Rhomberg’s coat ( of arms, and it told its own tale. He I was a genius in his way and owed bis success chiefly to his skill in disguising slight deformities and bringing out the most attractive charms of his fair . customers. He rapidly made a fortune and left his heirs an annual income of 150,000 francs. Under the first empire and the restoration Leroy supplied the dresses of the ladies of the court and the higher nobility from his splendid mansion in the Rue Richelieu. An effusive encomium was written upon him by Auger, a member of the academy. Fulminate ofMercury. I A peculiarity of fulminate of mercury is that it produces a shock to 1 which all other substances are sensitive. and its supreme value as an explosive rests in" this fact and in the known liability of all explosives to be detonated by more or less distant explosions. There is a current of sympathetic influence in these terrible chemical compositions that is as strange as it is dangerous. What is required to produce explosion is the rapid generation of great heat along with large quantities of oxygen. In gunpowder, for instance, the nitrate of potash (saltpeter), which is the chief ingredient. is practically imprisoned oxygen, and when it is decomposed along with charcoal an immense heat is developed, | which causes the gases to expand sudl denly; hence explosion. Clara —1 Oon t see ...... .-uii niceti tua. group picture of our society. It wasn't particularly good of you. Isabelle—l know if, hut it was so perfectly horrid ; of that conceited Miss Gushing.—De-

Bfhklng Bread With Sea Water. At one time sea water was used 1b some English seaside places when making bread. Even now villages along the coast line of France utilize it Fresh rain or spring water is only used for the leaven, pure sea water being exclusively employed for the making and mixing of tbe dough. By this method no mineral or table salt requires to be added, the natural salt water giving the bread the necessary degree of salinity. But. though sea water does admirably for breadmaking, when applied to other culinary purposes the result is a disagreeable failure. The wheaten bread produced by it, however, is excellent and of great hygienic value. The chloride of magnesium, which imparts the acrid taste to sea water, is decomposed in the- heating and therefore does not convey its original disagreeable taste to the bread, while the common salt of course, permanently retains all its characteristic saline properties. The mineral substances left in the baked bread are considered to be of the nature of very mild regulating medicines.—London Mail. The Tailor Bird. The brilliantly plumed birds of the tropical forests are exposed to many dangers, and if they were not gifted with peculiar yet useful instincts they would fall ready victims to their enemies. Chattering monkeys and big snakes steal and eat their eggs, while their offspring are preyed upon by foes on every side. But it takes a sly monkey or snake to get ahead of the tailor bird, a small East Indian singing bird. She hides her nest so skillfully that her enemies cannot find it, no matter how hard they try. This she does by using her long, slender bill as a needle. With the tough fiber of a parasitic plant abundant in the tropics, as a thread she sews a dead leaf taken from the end of a slender and hanging branch, and between these leaves she builds her nests, where neither monkey nor snake can approach, because the branch will not bear its weight. _ A Miniature Inland Ocean, One of the queerest sheets of water in New England or within the limits of the United States, or the world for that matter, is tbe celebrated “Snow’s ocean” in the state of Maine. When calm it is to all appearances an ordinary pond of no great dimensions, but observations and investigations made more than a century ago prove that the little body of water is a veritable ocean. It is located in Orrington, near Bangor, and its peculiarity is that, although situated among some high hills some distance from ocean or river.- it has tides which rise and fall as regularly as do those of the great Atlantic. Many so called scientific examinations of this miniature ocean’s bed and surrounding banks have been made, but so far no tenable explanation of the phenomenon has ever been given to the publie. Labor In Old Times. Twelve hours in winter and fourteen in summer was a fair average day’s work, but in Lyons in 1571 the printers worked from 2 o’clock in the morning til) Bor 9,in the evening. In other trades the working hours were often from 4 in the morning till 9 at night or .from 5 to 10. Workers in the same metier generally lived together in the same street, but the maitre artisan, had his own maison. The ground floor was his shop or workshop; above was his bedroom, which was also the sitting and eating room; a small room adjoining accommodated hjs children, and above was a garret where various commodities were stored.- —Brisson’s “Work and W’orkers.” Capsicum. The capsicum plant, from which the different varieties of pepper are produced. is indigenous to the tropical regions of Europe, Asia. Africa and America. It grows wild almost as well as under cultivation in all these countries, and in each is used by the natives as a seasoning fiqr food. Its extensive employment has suggested to filed ical theorists ‘ the thought that it must be considered as a natural tonic for the stomach in tropical countries. Mermaid*. All the world over there are legends about mermaids. The Chinese tell stories not unlike others about the sea woman of their southern seas. Mankind is taught on the most excellent evidence that a mermaid was captured at Bangor, on the shores of the Belfast lough, in the sixth century, while another caught at Edam in 1403 4 was carried to Haarlem and kept there for many years. Wanted All That Wa* In It. Father (whose wife has presented him with twins) — Tommy, you may stay home from school today and tomorrow tell the teacher that you have two new brothers. Tommy—Wouldn’t it be better to say that I have only one new- brother? Then I can stay home a day next week for the other one.— Fliegende Blatter. Health Craze*. The pursuit of health, like the morphia habit or drunkenness, grows on people till it really becomes a vice. Continuous thought and anxiety about one’s health is extremely bad for the constitution and undermines it quicker than port wine.—London Queen. Sure Thing. Teacher—A miracle is going against tire natural order of things. Are miracles performed today? Bright Boy— Yes’m. Teacher—Name one. Bright Boy—Well, mamma says that papa is always turning night into day.—Life. None can tell where the diamond gbeS to in combustion. When burned It leaves no ash and not a trace of the once brilliant stone.

A Bridge of Crocodile*. A. traveler writes of a port in northwestern India: “Tbe great sight of Karachi is the sacred crocodile preserve at Magar Pir. some seven miles off. There are hot springs here which feed a shallow’ tank containing nearly a hundred crocodiles. The story, usu- | ally thought to be fictitious, of the Englishman who for a bet crossed the tank by jumping successively from the backs of these crocodiles is based on I fact. The hero of this foolhardy feat ! was a certain Lieutenant Beresford, a J friend of Sir R. F. Burton. When Burton and his companion were visiting the crocodiles’ tank they noticed that these reptiles and certain islets of reeds happened to make an almost continuous bridge across the tank. This prompted the daring subaltern to hazard tbe feat of crossing by hopping from one crocodile to another. To the amazement of the spectators he succeeded in this apparently mad attempt. Sir Richard Burton had already successfully performed an equally daring feat. He managed to muzzle a crocodile by means of a lasso and then jumped on the reptile’s back and enjoyed a somewhat zigsag ride.” Inside Your Bone*. People usually imagine that their bones are of solid mineral construction, without any feeling in them. As a matter of fact, there are blood vessels and nerves inside the bones just as there are outside. During amputation of a limb much more pain is felt when the bone is attacked than when the flesh is being cut through. Through the marrow which is inside the Jiones run the'nerves and blood vessels, entering the bones from the flesh without by little holes. Nature adapts the bony structure <Jf various animals to their habits in a very interesting manner. Sluggish creatures, like the sloth, have solid bones, whereas the bones of the deer and the antelope are comparatively light, so that they may run fast, and the leg bones of the ostrich are hollow. You will find in the bones of any skeleton the application of mechanical principles which have only become known to man through the processes of laborious and long. considered indention. -’ ■ “ -• • :y- * A Finger Pillory. The finger pillory is still preserved carefully in the parish church of St. Helen Ashby-de-la-Zouch and is thus described: “An ancient and rather singular curiosity is a finger pillory. This instrument seems to have been used for the punishment of disorderly persons during divine service. It consists of two upright posts about three feet higfr; which support a beam of nearly the same length, in which are bored holes of various dimensions, cut first horizontally, then perpendicularly, in order that the first joint of the finger may be inserted and the finger retained in an angular form. The culprit is then secured by bringing down over the holes another begin which Is attached by a hinge at the end to one of the posts and fastened at the other by a lock.”—London Academy. Holding the Breath. It is a physical impossibility for a man to himself by holding his breath. Individuals differ greatly in the length of time they can hold their breath, and w’hat practice and determined effort, combined with natural great lung capacity, can do, in this direction is shown lay the long periods for which champion divers can remain under water. If a man succeeded in continuing to hold his breath in spite of the physical discomfort in wtyich he Hfid placed himself the result would simply be to induce a state of coma. When this state was reached nature would reassert herself, and the breathing functions would again resume full activity, preventing a fatal issue in spite of their owner’s desire. Mme. Scarron. Mme. Scarron, afterward the famous Mme. de Maintenon, the wife of Louis XIV., was in her girlhood remarkably beautiful. She was dqrk, with, piercing black eyes and wavy hair. In middle life her gravity of countenance and of deportment was considered quite extraordinary in that age of gayety. One of her contemporaries said that she did not smile once a year, and yet she was not gloomy, but only of a sedate habit of mind. A Monster God Home. In Mexico are found of ancient Aztec teocallis, or “god houses,” some of which are 'thousands of years old. One of these, near Cholula, is in the form of a truncated pyramid. Each side of the base of this pyramid is 1,423 feet, which is twice the length of the great pyramid of Egypt. The height of this Mexican wonder is 177 feet, and its base covers an area of forty-four acres. Not There. “Judge,” said Mrs. Starvem to the magistrate who had recently come to board with her, “I’m particularly anxious to have you try this chicken soup.” “I have tried it,” replied the magistrate. “and my decision is that the chicken has proved an alibi.”—Philadelphia Press. Fired. ‘ . Young Mother—Do you think baby looks most like me or his papa? Nursei —Like you, mum. Mr. Jenkins is a mighty handsome man. .. / Advertisement: Wanted 7-A competent and well mannered nurse. Agreed. U . Wife (wearily) — Woman’s work is never done! Husband (struggling with a buttonless shirt collar)—That’s just w’hat I thought! First say to yourself what you Would be; then do what you have to do.- Epic-

A Wonderful Sensitive Plant. An incident related by the author of -1 ’The Pearl of India” in his description . I of the flora of Ceylon is almost un- , canny, although we are assured that it is true. It is about tbe mimosa, or j sensitive plant. and makes one almost . wonder whether the plant has intelligence. The doctor, one of the characI ters of the book, while sitting with the ! family on the broad piazza which form- ! ed the front of the bungalow of a coffee plantation recognized a thrifty 1 sensitive plant, and it was made the I subject of remark. He called his I young daughter of eleven years from the house. “Lena,” said he, “go and kiss .the mimosa.” The child did so, laughing gleefully, and cnme away. The plant gave no token of shrinking from contact with the pretty child. “Now,” said the host, “will you touch the plant?” Rising to do so, he approached it with one hand extended, and before it had come fairly in contact the nearest spray and leaves wilted visibly. “The plant knows the child,” said the doctor, “but you are a stranger.” *•4 - —————_- Rabbit Shooting In France. Le Sport is answerable for much exhibition of humor on the part of a nation like ours, where killing for fun is brought to perfection, and the storyof tbe Englishman who went rabbit shooting with two Frenchmen in Normandy may or may not be true. They set out, eager for thechase; they sighted a rabbit, and up went the Englishman’s gun to his shoulder. “No. no; do not shoot!” cried his companions. “That is Mimi. We never shoot at Mimi.” The Englishman, greatly wondering, desisted. A second rabbit crossed their path. He aimed again and was again deterred from shooting. “That is the adorable Lulu,” they pointed out. We never shoot at Lulu.” Naturally, when a third rabbit darted up, the Englishman made no effort to kill it, much to the distress of his companions. “Shoot, shoot.’" they cried wildly. “That is Alphonse. We always shoot at Alphonse.”—London Chronicle. Thy Magic of a Mirror. A ward patiefitTn Roosevelt hospital, New York, grew gradually weaker without any apparent reason. “She’s fretting herself to death. a,bqut some; thing,” said the nurse. “If she would confide in me I think she would get better.” By and by the patient did open her mind and heart. “If I could only see myself,” she wailed. “I’d feel different. I know I must look like death or you’d let me have a* looking glass.” It was against the rules to supply patients in that ward with mirrors, but the nurse, recognizing the gravity of that particular case, smuggled in a small hand glass. The result was miraculous. “Why, dear me,” said the sick woman. “I don’t look half so bad as I supposed I did.” And from that hour she began to improve. Burned at the Stake. As late as the end of the eighteenth century counterfeiters were publicly burned at the stake in London. On March 18, 1789, Christianie Murphy was executed at Newgate tower, London, for the crime of "coining.” She was bound to the stake seated on a stool, the main tie being a cord around the neck. The funeral pyre was then lighted by the executioner and his deputies, one of the latter of whom finally jerked the stool from under the wretched creature, allowing the weight to fall on her neck. Within forty-eight minutes the body was entirely reduced to ashes and buried in a hole on the spot where the execution took place. The Unit of Heat. We cannot, of course, measure heat by yards, pints or pounds., but the unit of heat, the standard measure of that phenomenon, has been agreed upon by those whose business- it is to philosophize on that subject to be that quantity which can raise a pound of water one degree. Now, to tprn a pound of water into a pound of steam it requires 967 of these units of heat—that is to say, if we boil a pound of water until it all goes away in steam we shall have used In doing so a quantity of heat which would have raised 967 pounds of water one degree higher in temperature. — The Evil Eye. . Antiquitie hath held that certaine women of Seytb'..i, being provoked and vexed against some men, had the power to kill them only with their looke. The tortoises and estriges hatch their eggs with their looks only, a signe that they have some ejaculative vertue. And concerning witches, they are said to have offensive and harmeworking eies.—Montaigne. A Deadly Poisonous Beeswax. Wax is a Substance secreted by bees that is said to be analogous to the fat of the higher animals. In Patagonia, Tierre del Fuego and other portions of southern South America honey is never eaten. In the. countries mentioned all beeswax is a livid, whitish, blue colbr and more poisonous than either strychnine or arsenic. Rewarded Him. “Excuse me. mum. I was goin’ to try to git you interested in a face lotion that ’ud make the ugliest skin beautiful, but I see you don’t need nothin’ like that.” “Well—er—l think I’ll buy a box of it for a friend of mine.”—Houston Post Different. Mrs. Brown—She seems to have got over the death of her first husband. Mr. Brown—Yes, but her second husband hasn’t. , Wise men, though all Ished. would lead the same lives—Aristophanes. \

COMING DR.W.TUCKER.M.D ’ Indiana’s Leading Specealist in Chronic and Private ; Diseases of Men and Women. PRESIDENT Fort Wayne Sanitarium 221 W. Wayne St. Fort Wavne, Indiana. Will Ba At The Murray Hotel . Monday, May 14 And Every Four Weeks Thereafter. Sixteen Years of Success. -- * More Genuine Mecical Diplomas Than Any Other Specialist in the States. Absolute Cures. I Never Disappoint My Patients, I Fulfill Every Promis and Never Hold. Out False Reports. I TREAT SUCCESSFULLY Catarrh, Brohchitis, Lung Trouble, Eye (Diseases, Headache, Deafness, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Heart Disdase, Cancer. Tumors, Goiter, Rupture, Epilepsy, Appandictis, Sterility, Constipation, Piles, Fistula, Skiu disease, Ece a ma, Hydrocele. Faricoccle, Lost Vitality, Weak Nerves, Blood Poison, Liquor Habit, Opium Habit, Bladder Trouble, Kidney Trouble, Ssomach and Liver Trouble. WOMEN troubled with irregular, suppnessed or painful menstruation, weakness, leuporrhoe, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that 'bear-ing-down feeling, inflammation of the ouaries, backaeh, bloating, [flatulence,] general debility, indigestion or nervout prostraiion, or are beset wite such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, hot flashes and tir d, worn-out feeling, should call and 1 will explain my home treatment to them. I Guarantee to Cure in the Shortest Possible Time. BLOODPOISON. My treatment for this :errible disis tho best known to the Medical Science. I have yet to find the tare that will not yield to my treatment. The disease rapidly disapyears and a cure is certain in every case. NERVOUS DEBILITY. Are you suffering from that pecul-iar-weakness that makes life a bore? I treat and cure thousands of cases every yea r. The nerves are strengthed, every poison of the body? made stronger, and perfect health and strength result fiom my treatment. VARICOCELE. Any sufferer from this disease knows its terrible effects upon the mind and body. Unless cured it results, in some special weakness. I cure vari cocele speedily and without operation. STRICTURE Is usually accompanied by some other trouble. such as inflammation of the prostate gland, kieney orbladder trouble. My treatment is a true specific and quiokly removes every vestige of the trouble, leaving the portions with normal strength. , KIDNEY, BLADDER AND PROSTATIC DISEASES. I cure all irritation, frequent desire, stoppage, pain in the back, brick dust sediments, scanty flow and catarrhal condition i. If you are troubled, you should consult me at once, because Bright’s Disease may develop, unless you receive the attention of a skilled specialist. PILES AND FISTULA. I cure without the knife, cautery or operation, No pain or detention from' business. My treatment is guaranteed to cure the most severe cases. REMEMBER, DR. TUCKER , Will cure you at your home in the shortest time possible. His treatment will bring back yoiir old time vigoand make ypu yourself again. If you are suffering from anv chronic or private disease, come and consult him free, and find out just what is the matter. If your case is curable, he will cure you. If not he will honestly tell you so. He has cured hundreds right here in Adams county.