Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — Page 7

DUELING ON THE CONTINENT.

The Deadly Mode of Fighting Which Prevails in. Russia. Over five thousand duels occur annually in France alone. The enormous majority of these encounters occur between private soldiers. In every French regiment are to be found two or three first-rate swordsmen, commonly called des tateurs, whose especial business it is to test the nerve of any recruit suspected of a deficiency of physical courage. On the most frivolous pretext the tateur fastens a quarrel on the unfortunate nouveau, and the unanimous voice of the regiment declares that honor demands bloodshed. The encounter takes place in the presence of four non-commissioned officers and the regimental fencingmaster, who stands by, sword in hand, ready to parry any too dangerous thrusts. The weapon used in the cavalry is the saber, and in the infantry the ordinary sword-bayonet, and the issue is generally harmless enough, although cases have been known of the tateur himself coming to grief through the recruit going for his adversary. In society, and especially among gentlemen connected with what the French term la petite presse, a very similar rule prevails, but with one important modification. The tateur is here conspicuous by his absence, and the young aspirant to social or journalistic honors is expected to faire ses preuves by deliberately picking a quarrel with some eligible opponent. The weapon used in these affairs of honor is almost invariably the small sword, the pistol being considered by far too dangerous an arm—the issue of these encounters is, as a rule, a scratched finger or forearm. Occasionally, when political or other considerations render even a scratch undesirable, pistols are resorted to, but with peculiar precautions. Thus M. Gambetta and De Fourtou—the former being one-eyed and the latter nearly blind —were put up in a dense fog at forty paces to exchange shots with very short-barreled smooth-bore pistols. In short, nine out of ten French duels may be looked upon as mere farces, played for the amusement of the gallery. The excellent health enjoyed by M. Rochefort, De Cassagnac, and Carle des Ferriers, who among them have beeri out over fifty times, adds strong confirmation to this view of the matter. In both Italy and Spain duels are frequent; but in both countries the saber is used, to the almost complete exclusion of the small sword. Indeed, !/ the the latter arm is ’•'so strong in Itajy that it is all but impossible to find seconds who will con- .. sent to act in a duel a I’epee. The <. natural result is that, while a fatal • .issue isare, the ugly in the face are vijry common. In both these countries Ahe penalty for .dueling, as in ’■•France, is merely nominal. Throughout Germany, including Prussia, Austria, and the minor States,

a very different style prevails. With the exception of the oft-described v “Schlaeger” duels among University students, which are still winked at, encounters between civilians are punished with considerable severity, the ordeal of Single combat being a privilege practically reserved for the army. In the event of two officers falling out, a court of honor (ehrengericht), generally composed of five superior officers and presided over by the Colonel of their regiment or the General commanding the district, carefully investigates the whole affair and decides whether an apology shall be tendered and accepted, or whether an encounter is necessary. The decision of the court is final, and any officer refusing to comply with it would be compelled to retire from the service, while any duel unauthorized by the court would infallibly lead to the cashiering of the offenders. Pistols are almost invariably used, at a distance of twelve paces; and, German officers being as a rule very good shots, fatal consequences are not infrequent By a strange anbmally the verdict of the ehrengericht does not entirely, cover the responsibility of the combatants. In the event of a fatal issue, the survivor is liable to suffer a term of open arrest in a fortress, varying from two to six months. A German officer thus finds himself placed in the dilemma of refusing to fight and being compelled to retire, or of fighting and running the risk of being placed under arrest for doing so.

In no country arfi duels more frequent or more murderous than in Russia; the Russians being, especially ■when in their cups, as quarrelsome among themselves as they are proverbially courteous to foreigners. The mode of combat universally adopted is that termed the duel ala barriere; the opponents being put up at fifteen paces, with liberty to advance five paces each at a given signal, and to fire at will. Should one of them fire and miss, his adversary is entitled to complete his five paces before returning the shot. Many cases have been known in which a duelist, although mortally wounded, has yet retained sufficient strength to take steady aim and fire with fatal effect. The great Russian poet, Pushkin, was killed in a duel a la barriere, after severely wounding his antagonist. In the Baltic provinces a system prevails which at first sight appears even more murderous. The adversaries are placed only three paces apart; the pistols are held with the muzzle pointing ■/nupward, and are brought down and dis’'‘chrifcged at a given signal. It may appear almost impossible for two men to miss at such a short distance; but this is not the case. Each of the opponents is so desperately anxious to gain the least fraction of a second on his adversary that, on the signal being given, the weapons are often brought down with so hurried and violent a jerk that the bullets bury themselves in the ground. At a duel fought last year at Riga between an officer and a student in this fashion, three shots were ex-, changed without any result, while at the fourth discharge the student had the great toe of his right foot cut clean off by his opponent’s bullet— Pall Mall Gazette.

A famous aeronaut says that no balloon has ever gone over a second sunset The moment the sun goes down the gas condenses and you get through the

night better than the day. But the next day, in the presence of the sun, the gas expands, and you mount to great elevations, but every mount the balloon makes cripples its power, and it is only a question of hours, if not minutes, how long you can keep up. If an aeronaut could have have forty-eight hours of night he could travel a great distance. The highest rate of speed he had ever attained, even with a strong wind blowing, was eighty miles an hour.

Grant’s Going to West Point.

“It was a mere accident that put me into the army," said Grant to an old comrade. “I hadn’t much fight in me, and didn’t want to go to war. I thought of being a farmer, and I thought of going to sea; but of all the possible features I dreamed of when a boy, being a soldier was not one of them. I am not sure I had ever heard of West Point when my father told me to get ready to go on for my preliminary examination. This is the way it was: Our next neighbor’* boy got a chance from our Congressman to go to West Point. He went, and failed to pass the examination—for physical reasons, I believe. He did not come home after that, and the family did not allude to his failure; but his mother, who felt very sore about it, came and told my mother, confidentially, what was troubj ling her. Mother told father, and father wrote straight to our Congressman and got the chance for me. Oh, yes, I know that those who remember my boyhood tell about my firing a pistol without flinching when I was 2 years, and crying for more of it, but I don’t think such tendencies were strong. I never thought of being a soldier. Going to West Point was just the accident I have told you. ” “How came you to pass the examination ?” asked my informant. “Almost any boy can do that,” answered the' General. “I was 17 years old, and all that was required was some knowledge of reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic to decimal fractions. If I was superstitious I should think there was some fatality in my going to West Point,- for when the war was over I figured up, and as near as I could find out, the little country village of Georgetown, Ohio, from whidh I Went—a place of 200 people—sent to the war one full General (myself), three Major Generals, two Brigadier Generals, three Colonels, three or four line officers, and one private soldier! The private deserted, I think. I had no very easy time of it at West Point. In a class of more than a hundred I was behind them all in almost everything. I never succeeded in getting near either the head or the foot of the class. I was within three of the foot in languages, I believe, and within five of the head in mathematics, I was at the head in horsemanship, but that didn’t count. I graduated as No. 21, and was glad to get it.” “But ohly thirty-eight out of the hundred odd graduated,” said his visitor; “rather narder luck than our class had. 1 ”

“Not a few,” said the General, “who had to leave school because of a failure to keep up with the class have since taken commanding positions in life, and would probably have succeeded in the army if they had only got into it.” —New York letter.

Love-Making in France and England.

I havq never much admired the way in which declarations of love are made in France. With us the foolish animal has to go on his knees at a woman’s feet. With her eyes modestlv dropped on us, this little demon of observation makes an inventory of all our smallest defects—of our hair, growing sparser, of our languishing eyes turned up and showing their whites; of a little wart which we thought concealed. I put it squarely that in this little scene it seems to me we have to play a supremely ridiculous part. If any one of my readers is not of this opinion, let him put this question to himself, “Should I ever think of being photographed in the attitude above described ?” I await his answer. They manage these things differently in England. You sit down comfortably, very much at your ease. You have the adored object of your dreams at your side or at your feet, and you can murmur your sweet whispers of love into her ear without ever dislocating your vertebral column. You may even smoke your cigar, without any fear of giving offense, all the time you tell your love and build your castles in Spain. “Then you are something of a pasha,” I can imagine some emancipated women exclaiming. Not at all, madame; it is no question of master and slave; it is a matter “not of slavery but of exalted duty.”— “Les Filles de John Bull,” by Max O’Bell.

What’s in a Name ?

Thousands of yards of “Smyrna” rugs are made in Kensington, this city; thousands more in Great Britain. The name of a carpet signifies little in these days; even the “Kidderminster,” or ingrain carpet, is no longer made in Kidderminster nor the Mecca prayer rug in Mecca. Philadelphia to-day makes more goods than all England, and she calls them Brussels, Venetians, Dutch, Axminsters. What, indeed, is in a name ? Massachusetts produces the highest grade Brussels, Wiltons 1 and ingrains. The time is past when the fact that a carpet is of English origin has any influence in a sale. Twentytwo million dollars’ worth of Philadelphia goods are made and sold every year. Competition is sharp, and not only are the yarns doctored with foreign substances but the colors used are, in many cases, reduced, when dry and old, to a mere dust, which can be literally swept with a stiff broom from the floor. A practice which has crept into the retail trade is this: If a buyer discovers that he has certain goods which are unsatisfactory, he puts a premium on them of 5 or 6 cents a yard, and this induces the salesmen to pay special attention to them. They are what are commonly known as “stickers” instock, and the purchaser is very likely to have this undesirable rubbish palmed off upon him if he is at all influenced by the enthusiasm or assurances of the average salesman, .who reaps direct extra profit by the transaction.—Philapelphia Times.

A Darling Doctor.

“There is a big difference in doctors. I tell you, 1 * said an old-timer. “You think you know something about ’em, but you are still in the fluff and bloom and kindergarten of life. Wait until you’ve been through what I have?" “Where, for instance?" I asked him. “Well, say nothing about anything else; just look st the doctors we had in the war. We had a doctor in our regiment that looked as if he knew so much that it made him unhappy. I found out afterward that he ran, a kind of cow foundling asylum in -Utah before the war, and when he had to prescribe fora human being it seemed to kind of rattle him.

“I fell off’n my horse early in the campaign and broke my leg, I rickolect, and he sot the bone. . He thought that a bone should be sot similar to a hen. He made what he called a good splice, but the break was above the knee, and he got the cow idea into his head in a way that set the knee behind. That was bad. “1 told him one day that he was a blamed fool. He gave me a cigar and told me I must be a mind .reader. “For several weeks our Colonel couldn’t eat anything, and seemed to feel kind of bilious. He didn’t know what the trouble was till he went to the doctor. He looked at the Colonel a few moments, examined his tongue, and told him right off that he had lost his cud. “This doctor was always telling of his triumphs in surgery. He did save a good many lives, too, toward the close of the war. He did it in an odd way too. .

“He had about one more year to serve, and. with his doctoring on one side and the hostility of the enemy on the other, our regiment was wore down to about five hundred men. Everybody said we couldn’t stand it more than another year. One day, however, the doctor had just measured a man for a porous plaster, and had laid the stub of his cigar carefully down on the top of a red powder keg, when there was a slight atmospheric disturbance, the smell of burnt clothes, and our regiment had to apply for a new surgeon. “The wife of our late surgeon wrote to have her husband’s remains forwarded io her, but I told her it would be very difficult to do so, owing to the nature of the accident. I said, however, that we had found an upper set of store teeth imbedded in a palmetto tree near by, and had buried them with military honors, erecting over the grave a large board, on which was inscribed the name and age of the deceased and this inscription: “Not dead, but spontaneously distributed. Gone to meet his glorified throng of patients. Ta, ta, vain world."

Sleep, Trance, and Death.

The relationship between sleep, “the cousin of death," and death itself is probably reklfas well as apparent. The distance which separates them is great, but they are intermediate conditions, grades of disolution as of development. Among these the similar states of trance and hibernation are worthy of special notice. For sleep and for trance one cause, exhaustion chiefly of nervous matter, but more or less of every organ and tissue, is assignable. The hysterical stupor is the sleep of nerve centers, worn out with the assault and conflict of stormy reflex action. Healthy sleep is the rest of physical elements wearied by the same strain applied more gradually. Cases have been recorded in which somnolence, continued for day? without cessation, has resembled trance in duration, while preserving all the ordinary features of natural sleep. Various facts support us in associating the hibernation of animals with the same train of organic or functional changes as the other unconscious states we have been considering. It comes like a habit; it has, one may say, annual return; its apparent cause is the oppression of external cold, and the animals which it affects are those which, from their bodily structure or habits, are subject to great periodic variations of temperature. Vital tissue is exhausted, and function is in part suspended, probably because the numbness of cold has taken hold upon the radicles of the outer circulation and that part of the brain surface which is connected with it by numerous anastomoses. In such amemia would seem to be the cause of the winter sleep, as there is evidence to show that it is also the cause of that temporary starvation of the brain which lulls without arresting its action, in the natural repose of each night. We may even regard the lethargy, ended by death, into which man falls when exposed to great cold, as a sort of mortal hibernation.— British Medical Journal.

Effect of Tobacco.

“You smoke too much,” said W. B. Reynolds, of Austin, to Sam McLane, who is bald-headed. “May be so.” “If a bald-headed man stops smoking, he will have a full head of hair in a short time,” continued Reynolds. “I can’t believe it. ” “Yes, it is true, for I knew a baldheaded man who quit smoking, and in less than a month he had as thick a head of hair as I ever saw.” “Do you mean to say that the hair grew out all over his head?” “No, of course not, but as soon as he stopped smoking he saved up money enough to buy himself a wig.”— Texas Siftings.

An Article of Necessity.

A Louisiana gentleman was discussing the tariff question with a gentleman from Kentucky. . “Sugar,” said tthe Louisianian, “is as much an article of necessity as flour and meat” “A great deal more so, my dear fellow,” responded the Kentuckian ;“withj out- sugar you can’t make a whisky toddy.”— Texas Siftings.

An Antique Dish.

The vegetarians are taking to christening their dishes. The latest addition to their table is called “Eve’s pudding,” with Adam’s apples for dessert probably and sugar Cain to sweeten their coffee. It is figured that 7,000,000 sermons are preached to Americans yearly. This does pot include Caudle lectures.

The Revolution

In medical practice, which has taken place within the paat thirty years, has been very marked. When Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters first made their appearance, violent purgation, the lancet and narcotics were measures resorted to with little regard to the idiosyncrasies of the sick. Now infinitely more satisfactory results are accomplished with the Bitters. The constipated are no longer dosed and drenched, the feverstricken are not weakened by bleeding, and sedatives have taken the place of opiates. Dyspepsia, nervousness, insomnia, irregularity of the bowels, rheumatism, and chills and fever, are successfully treated with this popular tonic and regulator. As a medicated stimulant, it is professionally commended, and is preferable, as a means of renewing exhausted energy, to the average tonics. These statements rest upon ample evidence.

Egyptian Women on the Nile.

The only primitive costumes we’ saw was on the first day after leaving Assouan on the left bank—the country of •the Kalabseh—where the young ladies simply wore round their loins a fringe composed of thin leather stripes. The married ladies were clothed to the feet Curiously enough, the women on both banks hate or dreads being looked at through a glass. One I saw run away, screaming as hard as she could; others at once cover their blanching faces with their hands. It is a fact not generally known that dark-skinned ladies blush white. Others again anathematize you according to a fashion extending all over the East and even among the Greeks of Constantinople, by holding up their hand, palm outward, and jerking it toward you. This, I Untold, means, may five devils seize you. If they wish to emphasize the spell, they put up ten fingers. Others sAy this is a protection against the evil eve. At some villages, encouraged f>y the soldiers who flung biscuits from the decks, lads and -girls ran frantically along the banks screaming for them, to the great indignation of the land owners, over whose crops they ran riot. In vain these colored gentlemen stood in the way, flinging mud and stones at them. They scrambled by, and continued the chase its long as biscuit was flung, or until dead beat. — ~' 1 —As jfe* SHE wmjt to the roller-skating rink. And put the Hilders on; A strap or two about her "hoe. And then she’s off and gone. She slid, she slode, she gild, she giode, Unheldby fear or fetter. But at test the gentle maid whs “throwed," And the roller-skates upset her. Wk accidentally overheard tho following dialogue on the street yesterday: Mftn. Smith, why don’t you stop that disgusting hawking and spitting? Smith. How can 1? You know I am a martyr to catarrh. J. Do as I did. I had the disease in it* worst form, but I am well now. v' N. What did you do for it? J. I used Dr. Huge's Catarrh Retfiedy, It cured me and It will cure you, i tj,; S. I’ve heard of it, and, by Jove, Til tryw. ; J. Do so. You'll find it at all the drug stores in town. “What did you say your friend is, Tommy?" “A taxidermist.’' “What’s that?” “Why, he’s a sort of animal upholsterer.” - ,®W.-

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stay at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one mlllioiLxtoltet*. reduced, to, !! and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator,, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horae.cabs, stage, and eleyaJed railroad to all depute. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. Men can by no possibility become female clerks; but there is nothing to prevent women becoming mail clerks.

Horsford’s Acid Phosphate,

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Young Men, Read This.

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“Put up” at the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will And firstclass accommodations at the low price of S 2 and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in tide center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. H. W. Hoyt, Proprietor.

“I Have Been Afflicted

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G. M. D.

Walking down Broadway is very pleasant when you feel well, and T K never felt better than when his friend asked him how he got over that severe cough of his so speedily. “Ah, my boy,” said T , “G. M. D. did itl" And his friend wondered what G. M. D. meant. He knew it did not mean a Good Many Doctors, for T K had tried a dozen in vain. “I have it," said he, just hitting the nail on the head, “you mean Dr. Pierce's *Golden Medical Discovery,’ or Gold Medal Deserved, as ray friend J S always dubs it.” Sold by druggists. No waste of shot: “What did you kill?" inquired a pedestrian of a sportsman on horseback. “Time," was the sententious response. Colds, fevers, andintiamniations broken up by Dr. Pierce’s Extract of Smart-Weed. A subscriber advertises for “A plain girl to cook.” He probably was afraid he would be hanged if he cooked a pretty girl.

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Get live of your friends to join you by cutting this out and showing it to them. Send us 52.30 and we will send you THE POULTRY KEEPER for one year, and one numbered receipt for each of -our Bl subscribers, and onp extra for your trouble. . M SEND TEN SUBSCRIBERS WITH *3.00 and we will send yon IB subscriptions and 18 receipts. S Aft DAYS ONLY ! “?‘ 11 ™ ru "r “ "'Z’ “ •»>•“ »•«•»» the number of new subscrip. ■ •tU MA I V VUL I e tiona to 100,000, so we would advise all of our friends to rotward subscriptions at an early date as in no case will they be receivecßlater than February 22. B TINE Pftlll TRY YFFDFII J , ’ h,b **'.‘ n 0 *blMt edited Poultry Paper in the country and already has a eircu-M Ins rUULIfII KECrtll tation of WOW copies, and requires only 40,000 more to have the desired number. ■ It contains sixteen pages, beautifully illustrated. Tells how to make poultry pay. Mg 500 STEM-WINDING WATCHES FREE. In order that we may positively get the 40,000 more subscribers required by the 22d of February; the publisher has bought B 500 Stem-winding Watches, and those JOO Watches will be given away to the first 500 people who answer this vertisement If you send us SO seats you will be entitled to one of these old, well known and reliable watches and one raeelnt B good for oae present. These watches are warranted to be good time-keepers. M Vfs will print in full in the February issue of THE POULTRY KEEPER the names end addressee of the winners of the 800 B Stem-winding Weterbury Witches. Thin offer is bona fide and Will be carried out to the letter. Send now, don’t wait, ® THE POULTRY KEEPER U!!Ji»rstSSß ’Sr3W^WSBrt3»-"I could not afford otherwise. Undoubtedly some who read this new departure will think an offer to give awky *3O WO in flpresents re most unreasonable and unprofitable-, but let us say to all such persons that It'cSkta anywhere from *20,000 to *150,-B 000 to secure a targe circulation to a paper. We know of a publisher that spent *50,000 in one week in givtng away free copies B and advertising his papers, and ths money was well spent, for it secured for him sn ertaWlsbed ctrcutatlon that paid goodß interest on the investment Publishing nowadays must either be done on an extensive scale or not at all. It costs just as B much lor matter, and just as much for illustrations, electrotypes, editorial services, rent, and Ibr setting up the type for a B paper of 100 circulation as it does for a paper with 300,000 circulation. On email editions each one ofthe above items swells B the coat of a single paper alarmingly, but on large editions the expense is spread over So many papers that it Is almost entirely ESS lost. Thus you see that targe profits can be made only by doing a targe business. This is precisely what we propose doteaß with THE POULTRY KEEPER. We will send a Printed List of the Awarda free, and mH prewnta will be forwarded to holders B of receipts as they may direct. OUR OLD PATRONS AND SUBSCRIBERS, whom we number by thousands, should goto work st acre and help us to increase our list, by this trend and. generous offer. i >' /INI V Rrt AFNTR »«""'* POULTRY KEEPER one yesr and one receipt good for one prevent. ■ UN LT OU VtW I O One number ofthe paper Is worth double the subscriptionTrics. rwitoWfty, firs* rtffW rfo not know uo to any Bank or MorcantUo Aftncv. W Honeyin' sums of *1 or less may Usent in an ordinary letter at our rishi laiw rams sbotfiita emit by Registered Latter B orPoetid kote, m,d eddresved to THE POULTRY KEEFER, Eg, Rangolgsh gU Chloogo, lIL r B 48 \c a a . '

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