Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — Page 7

Architecture of the Oyster.

At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a paper was read asserting that the extreme age of an oyster is twenty years. Now I have previously demonstrated that an oyster might be in fair edible condition at the age of thirty years. Here are the shells of one of the oysters on the characters of which the statement was based. This double shell is thirty years old, and the inclosed mollusk was large and in fair condition. In building its shell the oyster starts with the hinge end, at the spot known to conchologists as the umbo. A small plate or single scale now represents each valve, and that is the first season’s growth. The next season a new growth or plate shoots out from underneath tne first one, just as the shingles do. The oystermen call these laps, or plates, “shoots, ” and they claim that the number of shoots indicates the years of the oyster. They certainly do contain a record of the seasons, showing the slowgrowing and fast-growing seasons. But there is often great difficulty in clearly differentiating these shoots. The record is often obliterated in places by the growth of parasites, which build their shells or tubes upon the oyster. I have likened these shoots to shingles. Now, at the gable of a house these shingles may be seen edgetvise. So on the one side of an oyster shell is a series of lines. .This is the edgewise view of the shoots or season growths. Another factor is this purple spot, or scar, in the interior of the shell. It is the place of attachment of the abductor muscle. Its first place of attachment was close up to the hinge. Had it stqud there until the shell had become adult, how difficult would be the task of pulling the valves together! the leverage to be overcome would be so great; for we must bear in mind the fact that at the hinge end the valves are held by this black ligament, which is, in life, elastic, swelling Avhen the shell opens and being compressed when the animal draws the valves together. So with every year’s growth or elongation of the shell the mollusk moves the place of attachment of the muscle onward; that is, an advance further from the hinge. As it does so it covers up with white nacre all the scars that are back of the one in actual use at the point of attachment of the muscle. This you can prove by eating off Avith nitric acid this covering, and thus exposing the whole life series of scars or attachments.— Prof. Lockwood.

How the Boys Beat a Sutler.

In 1862, at Helena, Ark., we were troubled a great deal with sharks in shape of human beings, who followed the army with goods for which they charged .the soldiers exorbitant prices —a sly way they had of robbing us. They were a sort of necessary evil, but the boys soon tumbled to their little game, and were generally prepared for any emergency, or rather flank movement whereby the sharks proposed to get the best of them. Late one afternoon a steamboat landed at the wharf at Helena, with a load of goods belonging to one of the aforementioned sharks. On account of the lateness of the hour when the goods were unloaded, they had to be left on the wharf all night; but Mr. Shark got a guard, of course—such men could generally get guard-', you know; but occasionally some of the boys would pass by those goods, look the ground over and slyly wink at each other, and there was an all-fired amount of expression in those winks, which meant business from the word go. About nine o’clock that night most of the soldiers in the brigade had assembled in the vicinity of the wharf—drawn there by a magnetic impulse hard to explain on paper—and by a sudden freak peculiar to soldiers bent on mischief, the crowd ran over those goods and guards, and when the crowd dispersed, lo and behold! the goods had disappeared, and the shark was left sitting on the wharf gazing at the vacant space and weeping and wishing he had stayed in Cincinnati. The boys had great times the next day to get boots to fit, as most of them got all rights or all lefts, and many of the watermelons were green; and they experienced great difficulty in keeping the chickens quiet under their beds while the officers were searching for the shark’s property. They were also afraid that the searching party would break tue bottles they had hid, while carelessly digging around in the quarters; but the shark did not make a fortune out of that speculation.— Riverside Enterprise.

The Whited Sepulchers of New Orleans.

New Orleans, being built in a marsh, cannot have cellars for the houses of the living or graves for the dead. At a burial the services of a mason, and not of a gravedigger, are required, and the coffin is walled up in a brick or stone cell, painted white, which makes a graveyard resemble the parked Avagon-train of a large army. * Often families or associations have large tombs, containing several rows of cells 1 , one above the other, and there are some monuments in each one, the most prominent ones being to Confederate officers and iiremen. In the National Cemetery, on the old battleground, there are 12,192 graves, of which 6,913 are “known” to contain the remains of Union soldiers from twenty-three States; 5,279 graves are marked “unknown.”—Cor. Providence Journal. To restore the original qualities to steel which has been burnt in the forge, plunge the metal at a red heat into a mixture of two parts of pitch, two parts of train oil, one part of tallow, and a small quantity of common salt. Eepeat the operation two or three times. Excellent results have frequently been so obtained.

PLAGUE-STRICKEN PLYMOUTH!

Does a Similar Danger Threaten Every One of Dsl How Attention la Directed to Personal Per Us. [Rochester (N. Y.) correspondence Indianapolis Kentinal.J “Judge,” said a young lawyer to a very successful senior, “tell me the secretof your uniform success at the bar.” “Ah, young man, that secret is a life study, but I will give it to you on condition that you pay all my bills during this session of court." ‘•Agreed, 6ir,” said the junior. “Evidence, indisputable evidence.” At the end of the month the Judge reminded the young man of his promise. “I recall no such promise.” “Ah, but you made it.” “Your evidence, pleaser” And tiie Judge, uot having any witnesses, lost a case for once! The man who can produce indisputable evidence wins public favor. I had an interview yesterday with the most successful of American advertisers, whose advertising is most successful because always backed by evidence. “What styles of advertising do you use?" I asked H. H. Warner, Esq. “Display, reading matter, and paragraphs of testimonials.” •“ Have you many testimonials?” In answer he showed me a large cabinet chock-full. “We have enough to till Boston, Netv York, Chicago, St. Louis, and Philadelphia morn.ng papers.” “Do you publish many of them?” “Kota tithe. Wonderful as are those we do publish, we have thousands liko thorn which wo cannot use. ‘Why not?’ Let me tell you. ‘ Warner’s safe cure’ has probably been the most successful medicine for female disorders ever discovered. VV'e have testimonials from lad es of the highest rank, but it would be indelicate to publish them. Likewise many statesmen, lawyers, clergymen, doctors of world-wide fame have been cured, but wa can only refer to such persons in the most guarded terms, as tve do in our reading articles.” “Are these roading articles successful?” “When, read they make such an impression that when the ‘evil days’ of ill-health dratv nigh they are remembered, and Warner’s safe cure is used.” “No, sir, it is not necessary now, as at first, to do such constant and extensive advertising. A meritorious medicine sells itself after its merits are known. We present just such evidence enough to disarm skeptics and to impress the merits of the remedies upon new consumers. AVe feel it to be our duty to do this. Hence, best to accomplish our mission of healing the sick, we have to use the reading article style. People won’t read plain testimonials.” “Yes, sir; thousands admit that had they not learned of AVarner’s safo cure through this clever style they would still be ailing and still impoverishing themselves in fees to unsuccessful ‘practitioners.’ It would do your soul good to read the letters of thanksgiving we got from mothers grateful for the perfect success Avhich attends AVarner’s safe euro when used for children, and the surprised gratification with which men and women of older years and impaired vigor testify to the youthful feelings restored to them by the same means. ’ “Are these good effects permanent?” “Of all the cases of kidney, liver, urinary and female diseases we have cured, not two per cent, of them report a return of their disorders. Who else can show such a record?” ‘‘What Is ihe secret of AVarner’s safe cure permanently reaching so many serious disorders?” “I Avill explain by an illustration; The little town of Plymouth, Pa., has been plaguestricken for several months because its water supply was carelessly poisoned. The kidneys and liver are sources of physical well-being. If polluted by disease, all the blood becomes poisoned and every organ is affected, and this great danger threatens every one , who neglects to treat himself promptly. I was nearly dead myself of extreme kidney disease, but what Is now Warner’s safe cure cured me, and I know it is the only remedy in the world that can cure such disorders , for I tried everything else in vain. Cured by it myself, 1 bought it, and, from a sense of duty, presented it to the Avorld. Only by restoring the kidneys and liver can disease leave the blood and the system.” A celebrated sanitarian physician once said to me; “The secret of the wonderful success of AVarner’s safe cure is that It is sovereign over all kidney, liver and urinary diseases, which primarily or secondarily make up the majority of human allmepts. Like all great discoveries, it is remarkably simple.” The house of H. H. Warner & Co. stands deservedly high in Rochester, and it is certainly matter of congratulation that merit has been recognized all over the world, and that this success has been unqualifiedly deserved. Pen Point.

New England’s Deadly Climate.

That dire" disease, pneumonia, is working sad destruction to life in New England in the present spring months. It claims its victims among the young and vigorous, as well as those more open to the attacks of ordinarily fatal diseases, and it cuts down untimely many useful careers. It is to be hoped that the worst form of its manifestations is past; yet a word of caution to the public is still not inappropriate. It is well to remember that we live in a climate which is peculiarly threatening to life in the months of the year when violent changes are to be apprehended. The belief in the balmy spring of New England is altogether a delusion. Mildness of atmosphere seldom prevails at that time beyond a brief period, and, when it does appear, the indication is one for warning much more than justifying confidence. Deadly disease lies in wait under spring in her most attractive aspect at this period. If one is deluded into the belief that our climate can be trusted, it is only to be bo traved to danger, if not to death; and of late there appears to be a tendency to breed epidemics in the atmosphere, from the effect of which the most cautious often fail to escape. Sudden changes in the weather have become almost the rule in spring: and if they are not fully established as the rule, the safest course is to assume that they will come, and to be prepared as much as possible to resist them. If the South has its malarial epidemics, the North has its climatic ones as well; and pure and cold breezes bear with them at times an element as destructive to life as do the tainted airs poisoned with miasma which are engendered in tropical climes. Death lies in wait in more thgn one form, and, with the frequent warnings that have been furnished, it is evident that the human system cannot be too sedulously guarded against his approaches.—Boston Herald.

A Sad Death.

In Philadelphia recently, at a Coroner’s inquest over the body of a t hild, the jury ietumed a verdict that death wa3 caused by the administrat on of a patent cough svrup, containing morphia. Dr. Sam’l K. Cox, of Washington, states that not on» cough medicine iu (en is free from this objection. After careful analyses and practical tests, he indorses Red Star Cough Cure as be ng purely vegetable, absolutely free from opiates, poisons, and narcotics. He regards it as a most, happy and valuable discovery.

The Baby’s Growth.

Any one who has listened to the usual talk of the mother or the nurse about her baby will have noticed that she endows it with a degree of intelligence which it is quile impossible that it should possess. She has no hesitation in infusing a grown-up mind into the helpless bundle in her arms, and in attributing to it likes and dislikes, perceptions, expressions of will and of temper, and various virtues and failings which are incompatible with its stage of development. It is a very natural misconcepton. Mothers may bo interested in comparing their children’s progress with that of the typical baby; we therefore subjoin the following table: First With intention Motion. attempt, and success. Shaking the head 4 days. 1C weeks. Holding up the head.. 11 weeks. 16 weeks. Seizing 117 days. 17 weeks. Pointing. 8 months. 9 months. Sitting....-. 14 weeks. 42 wee ■ s. standing 23 weeks 48 weeks. Walking 41 weeks; 66 weeks. Kissing 12 months. 23 months. Jumping 27 months. 28 months. — Babyhood.

A Tonic in the True Sense of the Word.

Not all medicinal preparations called tonics are such. A mere stimulant cf rppetite, which gives g simple “ fillip to Nature ” —which removes no obstacle to her processes in the human system, is in no true sense a tonic. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters cot only far transcends in purity the ordinary unmedicated stimulants of commerce, the cheap local bitters, and eye-openers vended as tonics, but where they are powerless to do more than Impart a temporary stimulus to appetite, tho Bitters restores digestion, remedies biliousness and insures regularity in the habit of body. It is, therefore, a tonic in the true sense of the word, for does it not renew harmony of tone in the most important functions of the body, Avhere all before was discordant, feeble, and inharmonious? Besides this, its invigorating and regulating effects constitute it the best possible safeguard against malarial diseases. It conquers rheumatism, kidney complaints, and nervousness.

What Free Lunches Cost.

Millions in free lunches are spent every year in New York. No other city in the world can equal it. There are over 10,000 salohns in the city that run free-lunch counters. Some of them are at a great expense each day to supply a free lunch to their customers. The cheap saloons have reduced the matter to a science, and know almost exactly how many ounces they have consumed each day. The New York Mail has gathered some statistics as to the expenses of the various saloons and made an average of them. The following table will not fall far short of the exact daily expenses of the free lunches of all the saloons. The Sundays are left out in the estimate: 15 saloons at S2O a day $93,000 300 saloons at sl2 a day 1,126,800 1,500 saloons at $5 a day 1,347,500 3,000 saloons at $2 a day 1,878,000 6,000 saloons at $3 a day 6,631,000 10,850 saloons, annual expense $11,080,200

“Consumption Cure”

would be n truthful name to give to Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery, the most efficacious medicine yet discovered for arresting the early development of pulmonary disease. But “consumption cure’’ would not sufficiently indicato the scope of its influence and usefulness. In all the many diseases which spring from a derangement of the liver and blood, the “Discovery” is a safe and sure specific. Of all druggists. "It is true,” said a lady, “I scarcely know a girl who wants to marry. They are learning something in the way of a profession, something that will interest them as well as support them—two roles in which husbands just now fail. The truth is, we are all scared away from any desire to marry by seeing how wretched those who do marry are. Where should we look for husbands ? Among the ‘snips,’and ‘sports,’ and characterless young men that fill our drawing-rooms? They are insufferable as mere acquaintances and beaux; who could contemplate them as husbands? I have always thought that if I could find a young man at all like my father 1 could love and marry him; but that school of men has vanished from the younger ranks. ”

. The present reigning dynasty of Japan dates back 2,516 years, and is considered the oldest in the world. The records of Japan are accurate’y preserved for Jfchat time. All the nations now called civilized, without exception, have had their beginning since then. How OFTEN is the light of the household clouded by signs of melancholy or irritability on the part of the ladies. Yet they are not to be blamed, for they are the result of ailments peculiar to that sex, which men know not of. But the cause may be removed and joy restored by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,” which, as a tonic and noi vine for debilitated women, is certain, safe and pleasant. It is beyond all compare the great healer of women. The Esquimaux think their snow place like home.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan, Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage,and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less monev at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. Every man may, have a price, but every other man can not pay it.— Whitehall Tim 8. People who desire to preserve their health should be exceedingly careful about their diet, at this season, and at no time Bhould they be without a supply of Perry •Davis’ Pain Killer. It is used externally and internally.

Rupture, Breach or Hernia

permanently cured or no pay. The worst cases guaranteed! Pamphlet and refereuoes, two 3 cent stamps. AVorld’s Dispensary Medical Association,663 Main street.BuCalo, N. Y. *• Notwithstanding the fact that “one good turn deserves another,” it is not advisable to turn a collar more than throe times.

“Put up” at the Gault House.

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

HOYT & GATES.

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The following pleasant letter was recently received by Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y., and signed “Old Schenectady": “I procured a bottle of ‘Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy’ and my wife used it with the best results. She has no more headache or pain in the Bide. Indeed, the medicine seemed to have an almost magical effect, and she feels very grateful to you for your kind advice, and especially for the ‘Favorite Remedy.’ We shall be glad to recommend it to all women who may be suffering from any of the ills peculiar to the sex. It Is all you claim for it.” It may be in place to mention, as pertinent to the above letter, that Dr. Kennedy, the proprietor of “Favorite Remedy,” located In the City of Schenectady soon after his graduation,and went from there to the war. Some of the most cheering letters he reoeives are from Ills old acquaintances in that place, many of whom know from experience what “Favorite Remedy” can do for disease. There all the Doctor’s old friends will believe him when he says that “Favorite Remedy” is a specific for Liver and Kidney Complaints, Constipation, Diseases of the blood and Urinary Organs, and all diseases and weak tics-es peculiar to femiles. Write to Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout, N. Y., and state your case, or ask your druggist for “Favorite Remedy," for sale by all druggists.

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