Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — Page 1

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MORDECAI F. CHLLCOTE. Attomey-at’Law ReNSSELAEB. IXXJJANA1 XXJJANA Practices in the Courts of Jasper and adjoinluf; counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- vml, K,S. DWIfIOIB' 1 ZIMRI DWIGGIN R. O. & z. IYWIGGINS Attorneys -a-t-Ija, w Rensselaer - - b - Indiana Practice in the Courts of Jasper” and ad jo A'tn nK cou nii«s. make collections, etc. tc Office west corucr Newels’ Block. v„nl SIMON r. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM B6OK Attomoy-at- Law. Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, RENSSELAEB, - ' . . . Pfiicriee in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITUER, Collector Rstd Abstracter w ePay, irtteular attention to paying tax' e»4 selling and leasing lands. ■ *s& FRA NIvW ,JB COOK-. xa. Stt YlfUlW Ah<! Cfcehl Ustaie SSroker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor >nd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Col lectio xve a Syedsaty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORN£YvAT-LAW and notary public vuSCSXsasSia. »«* h. wTsmtde^ at t tt Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A MPEOIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at La#, !VOT4RY PUBLIC, E&fll Estate anil Collecting Agent, .Vill practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Okkioe: Up-stairs, over Murray’s Ci# Jrug Store. Goodland, Indiana. Dl>. DALE, • • ATTORNEY-AT LAW MuNTCOELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building, np stairs. •I. H. LOUOHBIDGE. If. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl BR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, liensselaer Ind. • Calls promptly attended. Will give special utter tion to the treatment of Chronic wWuwa. Tnwniiaittmriii win am ii mu ■m *» K * s - Bwiggins, Zixnri Dwiggins, President. ' Cannier Hhj? ?g c ; H n3l Jr. REVfIREL/EF. IND., * - /.TV-'.'t j l . tlonern.l Tanking 1 business; gives v sfcet*:ulutteh»io» t eeMWfoTis • Tenrtii "'t nt ‘current , f ■ ‘‘Uga tij; ■ **vo:'- i**' ?.'* < r> b:>innees • ■’ ' ' bv. ' *JV ‘ »v ii Vv- <, • 'f 1 ■ ' ."■ -'' ■" Safe, which' • I \4*; ,w Chicago Exposition in ißp. . JVu* Saf/? 3s protected by one of Sargents The bunk vaultuscd i« as good as can be hr.ilt. It Will be seen from tbn foregeiig fly* this Bank furnishes as good sacunti to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COY, THOMAS THOMPSON* BsmMiif Mouse ort0 r to A A M^ Y THOMSON, successors U to A, aicCoy &■ A. Thompson; bankers, lf yf§ In4.*, ©oea general iSaaking business Luy sell exchaoge. Colleetions made sn ail available points. Money loaned interest paid orispecified time deposits Offleo same place as old finn of A. McCov & Thompson. \ apru.’sl

The Democratic Sentinel.

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fe, WEVERY PAIRVWRRAtfT'Q m y FOR SALE BY FARDEN & NOLAND, - 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete lme of light and heavy shoes for men and hoys, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See our goods before buying.

Gents’ Furnishing Goods!

N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware i ", South Side Washington Street, REIB'SSBtAH R, - - INDIAItf/'

m & urn, Dealers In G roeeri es, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, F anil Maeh i n ery, BKICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as else* iv here, lu our Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Depot t ment, sml be found everything called for. Our Farm Maui: j nery, m great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick aul iile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We. respectful 1 y solicit yoi 11* patronage. BEDFORD & W'A REFER.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1883.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Air electric signal apparatus on a i French railway causes the blowing of a steam whistle upon a locomotive approaching a danger signal. The engineer is thus warned. This apparatus is found ! valuable in fogs ana snow-storms, j when ordinary signals often escape notice. The number of varieties of insects is vastly greater than that of all other living creatures. The oeh supports 450 species of insects, and 200 are found in the pine. Humboldt, in 1849, calculated that between 150,000 and 170,000 species were preserved in collections, but recent estimates place the present number at about 750,000 species. It is a very general belief that great burial places exert a noxious influence, which must raLder the localities very unhealthy es places of residence. This idea is shown to be a mistaken one by the results of any inquiry into the sanitary condition of the cemeteries of Paris. The composition of the air in the cemeteries is reported to be indistinguishable from that of arable lands. Concerning the moon’s effect on tides, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland receutlv stated that, while the day is gradu&Jly lengthening through lunar action tides, the earth reacts on the moon and drives it away farther and farther. Looking backward, the moon must have been nearer and nearer the earth, and at one epoch in the remote ages of the past—perhaps about 50,000,000 of years ago—the, two bodies must have been very close together. Then the day was but three hours long instead of twenty-four. At that distant period, the earth rotated onfte every three hours, and the moon revolved with it in the same time. So near was the moon that, if there had been oceans in those days as now, the tides must have been 216' times as great as at the present time; and, rising to an immense height, would ! have swept over the whole of England. Animal life in the Sahara is somewhat peculiar to the region, and, according to M. Vogt, the traveler is struck with the absence of all bright colors in the animals of the desert. As a rule, their hue approaches that of the ground, and the adaptation is most remarkable in birds, reptiles, grasshoppers, etc. Black and white exist in some animals—for instance, the male ostrich—which have nothing to fear from enemies; and a 3ingle exception to the rule occurs among insects the Coleoptera are nearly all black. To explain the existence in safety of these insects whose : color must make them conspicuous. M. Vogt states that they feign death on the approach of danger and in that state ! closely resemble the excrements of gazelles, goats, and sheep. This description, wi% their disagreeable odof, gives them sufficient protection. The general color of the ground to the desert u, of course that of sand. At the Crystal Palace, London, a second international electrical exhibition is to follow closely on the heels of the first at Paris. The objects to oe exhibited are chiefly compared in these classes : Apparatus used for the production and transmission of electricity and magnets, natural and artificial; mariners’ compasses ; lightning conductors, and applications of electricity to telegraphy and the transmission of sounds, to the production of heat, to lighting and the production of liprht, to the service of light-houses and signals, to apparatus giving warning to mines, railways and navigation, to military art, to fine arts, to electro-chemistry and chemical arts, to the production and transmission of motive power, the mechanical arts, to surgery and medicine, to horology, to astronomy, to meteorology, to geodesy, to agriculture, to apparatus for registering, and to domestic uses. It is expected that the exhibition will prove much more attractive to Americans than that at Paris.

The Number of Public Schools.

According to the last report of the United States Commissioner of Education, General Eaton, Pennsylvania him the greatest number of public schools of any State in the Union. The following { table is of interest. The reader’s attention is invited to the letters opposite the names of States; “a,” where the nnm- I ber of schools is indicated ; “ b,” nnm- ' ber of school-houses: (jj Alabama ~, 4.071 (a) Mississippi ,83 ! (*>) Arkansas'... ‘ ... 70s 'fa) Missouri 8,09 S i (a) CalUuruia. 2,743 (a) Nebraska.... 2,776 , (*>} Od<‘i-mlo , ... 2»y ;a) Nevada. 173'' <a) Cbrrmtftictit ... I,$L (a) N. Hampshire.. 2,3.35 ; <») He la ware......... u,., | ,b> New Jeraov. ... 1,558 j (a) Florida.— ! ;i>) New York.., 11,862 I (a) Georgia 5,73.. j fa) X. Carolina 5,503 (a) Illinois...; 12.324 (b) 0hi0..... 12,14:1 | (b) Indiana 0,345 (a) Oregon 865 ; ■(b) Ijv/a 10, 75 U (a) Pennsylvania... 18,386 ' lb) Kansas 4,032 (a) Rhode Island... . 81!) 1 (a) Kentucky 6,450 (a) S. Carolina 2,901 (a) Louisiana........ 1.494 (a) Tennessee 3,612 ! (b) Maine. 4 263 (a) Texas;.... 5,804 (a) Maryland 2,:): :> (ai Vermont ... 2,573 (a) Massachusetts.. 0:5 .i a j Virginia .... 2,491 (b) Michigan .... ... 6:3:7 , a ) \V<- ( YVginia... 3,727 (a) Minnesota 3,9.7 ,b) Wi.v:njj.,in, 5,626 Massachusetts Las 8$ evening jici.ooht and „Rhode Island 33, r. .liuh' are .not . | counted in the*above env mei atioq. Jiy ' rssissippi, it is e-rv'h, (' ■ o*;hobl district.* hi-e tn- •?»..' ■. f. sUeh cities of 1,100 wno. i:.-, v. kh U as may choose to organize separate dis 1 tricts. The figures given for Virginia | count each grade of one teacher in the ! graded schools as one school. Two lambs recently presented them- : flelvea at the door of a fancy hall, and 1 being asked by the usher, what 1 characters they personated, they re- ! P ll( ? d that the 7 were without any special costume, whereupon the stupid fello w i bawled out, “ Two ladies without any ' character I” J *■ ■ - h ■ . !

No Fun Being President.

It is notran enjoyable treat sometimes to be the editor of a paper, and mould public opinion at so much per mould, Mid get complimentary tickets to the sleight-of-hand performances, but with its care and worry, its heartaches and apprehensions, it is more oomforting on the whole than being President. When we were a boy, and sat in the front row among the pale-haired boys with checked gingham skirts at the Sun-day-school, imd the teaoher told us to live uprightly and learn a hundred verses of the Scriptures each week so that we could be President, we thought that unruffled, calm, and universal bation waited upon the man who sue cessfully roe© to be the executive of a great Nation. With years, and accumulated wisdom, howeter, we have olianged our mind. Now we ait at our desk and write burning words for the press that will live and keep warm long after we are turned to dust and ashes. We write heavy editorials on the pork outlook, and sadly compose exhaustive treatises on the chinch-bug, while men in other walks of life go put into the health-promoting mountains, and catch trout and wood ticks. Our lot is not, perhaps, a joyous one. We sweiter tnrough the long July days with our suspenders hanging in limp fystoons down over our chair, while we wflN the death-dealing pen, but we do not want to be President. Our salary is smaller, it is true, but when we get through our work in the middle of the night, and put on our plug hat and steal home through the allpervading darkness, we thank our stars, as we split the kindling and bed down the family mule, that on the morrow, Bl#* though we may be licked by the man we wrote up to-day, our official record can not be attacked. There is a nameless joy that settles down upon us as we retire to our simple couch on the floor, and pnll the cellar door over us to keep us warm* which the world can neither give nor take away. We plod along4l|pm day to day, slicing great wads of mental pabulum from our bulging intellect, never murmuring nor complaining when lawyers and physicians put on their broad brim chip hats and go out to the breezy canyoss and the shady glens to regain their health. We just plug along from day to day, eating a hard boiled egg from one hand while we a scathing criticism on the sic transit gloria cucumber with the other. * No, we do not crffVe the proud positron of President, nor do vre hanker to climb to an altitude, where forty or fifty millions of civilized people can distinctly see whether we eat custard pie with a knife or not. Once in a while, however, in the stillness of the night, we kick the covers off, and moan in our dreams as we imagine that we are President, and we wake with the cold, damp sweat (or perspiration, as the oase may be) standing out of every i pore, only to find that we are not Presi- j dent after all, by an overwhelming ma- j jority, and we get np and steal away to ; the rainwater barrel and take a drink, : and go back to a dreamless, snoreless sleep. —Laramie Boomerang.

Good Manners.

Perhaps good manners are not good morals, though the time was when the words morals and manners amounted to pretty much the same thing. When the New Testament was translated into English, in 1611, it taught its readers, and still teaches us, that “evil communications corrupt good manners.” And the revisers of 1880 have left the good manners to stand, changing only communications into company. So I have very high authority for saying that what I am driving at in this letter has something to do with the basis of character. A bad man may have the handsomest manners, the manners of a gentleman, and thereby the more thoroughly fitted to work all manner of misohief with greediness. He is a hypocrite in the world, as one who merely pretends to be a saint is a hypocrite in the church. But the beginning, middle, and end of good manners may be condensed into the divinely given principle of preferring others to ourselves; denying self for the happiness of another ; rendering to everyone his due, as superior, inferior, or equal. If mothers form the mainers of the children, they should feel the burden of responsibility. They may permit the inborn waywardness of the child to go unchecked, while he grows to be a pert, saucy, forward, disagreeable, dreadful boy, a terror to the neighborhood, and a nuisance to everybody but his doting mamma. She gives him a stick of candy when a stick of something not so sweet would do him more good. She coddles him into a curse that by and by will come upon her own head. Just as the twig, etc. Blood is great, and blessed are they who are well bprn. But more than. Wood, better than pedigree, is culture. Train up a, child in the way he should , : \ - '■sk,L it tt-eh ftjkSli . ’ ;,_e l i; . s • •' •• di; i. •;> iu£bei v .e . 4 ..,, v u. . a was pious, because he honored his father. It is a long way toward godliness to obey one’s parents. And happy is the parent and happy the child when love is returned with love. Thebe has been another walkingmatch. The only walking-matches that we now take any interest in are those that disappear mysteriously from our match-safe. That necessitates our blackmailing all our friends for ft li-ht for our cigarettes.

NUMBER 27.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Fob toothache, where a cavity exists, there are many remedies in common use, bnt, says an exchange, none foom to relieve as equal parts of hydrate of chloral and gum camphor rubbed together. Saturate a piece of cotton with the mixture and put it into the cavity of the tooth covering it, with dry cotton. Care must be taken not to allow the remedy to come in contact with the inside of the month, ns it may produce severe burning. An exchange says : “ Let anyone who has au attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will follow in than a minute. Nothing bettor car applied to a severe cut or lonise cold turpentine ; it will give certain hes almost instantly. Turp ..tin is a sovereign remedy for crou, . t ■ sci a piece of flannel with it, a ,1 pi- >< flannel on the throat and chest, an every case throe or four dro; \ ou a 1 of sugar may be taken inwardly.” Dr. Ebkaud, of Nimen, stntßs that he has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely of a flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. The iron is heated xmtil sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, and is then covered with some woolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the apparatus is npplied at once to the painful •spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery ensues at once. Salt in Diitttheria. —Tn a paper read at the Medical Society of Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years Regarded diphtheria, in its early stage, as a purely local affection, characterized by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted must to the free and constant application oi au!aseptics, and, when their employment nas been adopt-' I ed from the first, and been combined j with judicious alimentation, he has sel- ■ dom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In ! consequence of the great powt - which 1 salt po ’Besses in p dventing th. pretiei factive decompoaitv >n of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has o ten prescribed for diphtheritic patient; Jiving far away from medioal aid the frequ at use of a gargle composed of a tea spa. aful or more of salt di ived in a tumble* of water, giving Shi.ben who cannot gargle a teaspoonful ■ two to drink occasionally. Adults to n o the gargle as a prophylactic or preventive, three or four times a day. How Voltaire Curbs thb Deoav ow His Stomach.— ln the “Memoirs of Count Segur” there is the following anecdote : “My mother, the Countess de Segur, being asked by Voltaire re specting her health, tola him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the decay in her stomach and the difficulty of finding any kind of aliment that it could bear. Voltaire, by way of consolation, assured her that he was onse for nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be incurable, bat that, nevertheless, a very simple remedy had rostored him. It consisted in taking Mt other nourishment than yelks of beaten up with the flour of potatoes and water.” Though this circumstance concerned so extraordinary a person m Voltaire, it is astonishing now little it is known and how rarely the remedy has been practiced. Its efficacy, however, in cases of debility, cannot be questioned, and the following is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food as recommended by Sir John Sinclair x Beat up an egg in a bowl, and then add six table-spoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well together; then add two table spoonfuls of farina of potatoes ; let it oe mixed thoroughly with the liquid in the bowl; then pour in as much boiling water as will convert the whole thing into a jelly, and mix it well. It may be taken alone or with the addition of a little milk in caß6 of stomachic debility or consumptive disorders.—Scientific American*

Making Flowers of Soap-Bubbles. A pretty experiments has been described by the well-known Belgian physicist, M. Plateau. He bends fine iron I wife, so as to present the contour of a flower of six petiui The central ring to which the petals axe attached is suppor ud on a forking stem, which is stuck in a piece of wood. After oxidizing the wire slightly with weak nitric acid the flower is dipped in .glyceric liquid so as to. receive films in the petals and the oenti i i part. It is then turned up, placed on n table near a window and covered with bell jar. For a little at first it appv’ara colorb" butsoon a striking pity of colors c menccs. In the « xperime; r, ltok Plat*, f describes, the liuw< r continued u‘how!.'-J mociifi"UUo;:s c< .or for toil henna, , when dusk stopped ,U rvation. Next. ' morning several 'petals had burst. Th* liquid used was of very mediocre quality, ; JS&pmfttends preparation of ne liquid thtffi : IKsolve i fresh p : ec© #f Marseilles soap, cut up into . <ll pieces, iu foi y parts by weight of hot distilled water. F : ’1 t after cooling and mix thoroughly three volumes of the solution with two of Pi-ice’s glycerine. The solution should be left at resbtill all the air bubbles are gone. Londpr* Times. I ’. ; ' ~ T " Prof. SuLLiiAft has eyeavated a| Gnosso, in Crete, the he supposes to bo I’b‘th -<• jus f;r. < the I’llsßTirf and the Minotaur. • •*'.