Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

tric current, not very strong—about cockroach power, in fact. The cockroaches tumbled to it, literally. They were shoveled np, by thousands for a few nights, and -after that peace reigned. __ At the end of 1889 there were twen-ty-seven cotton mills at work in Japan, having a total number of 200,500 swindles. The gross amount of ooiton manufactured during the year was 27,936,116 pounds. Much of the raw cotton is imported fiom British India, as there is not yet enough grown in Japan to supply the demand. A Canadian farmer got an idea that his wife was acting a little queer, and he took the S3OO in bills out of the parlor stove find substituted paper in their place. Next day she skipped, taking what she thought was the boodle with her, and the husband says be would give $25 to have been around when she met the Buffalo man and placed the “cash” in his fist. New cures for consumption are coming along faster th/in we can keep track of them. French physicians are using goats’ blood and dogs’ serum with excellent results if we may believe their own reports. Dr. Bruce is testing the utility of hypodermic injections of aniline on some of the consumptive patients of Charity Hospital. He finds that it relieves distressing coughs, and improves the night’s rest. One of Bradlaugh’s last characteristic expression of views was that he favored woman suffrage, and would do so even if he were sure, as he had been informed, that the effect of giving the woman of Northampton Parliamentary suffrage would be to insure bis defeat. Bradlaugh was largely endowed with ambition, but was always willing to sacrifice his immediate advancement to gain a point for a principle In Prof. Koch’s wide search for something to kill consumption bacilli, lie found that light was as potent as chemicals, that sunlight would kill them in a few minutes or hours, according to the thickness of their bed, and even ordinary daylight will exercise the same effect in from five to seven days. If we cannot let daylight intc our lungs, we can let more of it into onr houses by liaviog less closed blinds and drawn curtains. Almanacs were first published in 1470 by Martin Hkus at Buda. The first almanac in England was printed at 1673. “There were,” says Wood, “thirty thousand of them printed, besides a sheet almanac for two-pence that was printed for that year; and because of the novelty of the said almanac and its title, they were all vended. Its sale was so great that the society of booksellers in London bought off the copy for the future, in order to engross it in their own hands. The remarkable peculiarity of the grip in Japan was its prevalence among the upper classes, whereas the cholera selected its victims among the poorer people. Some idea of the extent of the epidemic may be gathered from the fact that, at Yokohama, the sufferers officially reported numbered over 50,000, and it is estimated that the unreported cases throughout the prefecture were nearly twice as great. Of the 130,000 inhabitants of Kobe, 25,000 were attacked by the disease. In Tokio the epidemic raged with great virulence, and similar reports come from some of the Chinese cities.

The bulk of Barnum’s property ■will go to Barnum Seeley, his only grandson. Barnum paid taxes on about $1,000,000 worth of real estate in his home city, Bridgeport, Conn. When he had, by the accumulation of wealth, passed all quostion of financial trouble, he used what his foresight had secured to him for the benefit of the poor people of Bridgeport. He established the system of building houses and selling them to the working people on long payments and low rates of interest, and hundreds of the pretty residences now owned by the working class in that city were secured through Mr. Barnum’s generosity. Dr. Brush, of Mt. Yernon, thinks there is no basis for the customary prejudice in favor of sugar of milk in the preparation of artificial food for infants. In experiments of his own, he has come to regard it as leos nutritious than ordinary sugar, because he finds that milk sugar of commerce is eliminated by both kidneys and bowels, whereas in infants fed at the breast there is no such elimination of milk sugar. His criticism is directed against the milk sugar of co;-mercd — that which can be bought in the stores —and owing to its unreliability, he would prefer the cane sugar, or ordinary sugar. New Caledonia, an island of the Pacific Ocean, is a French penal colony, and it has a convent to which the women convicts are sent. To this convent the male convicts are permitted to go for the purpose of select ing wives, after they have obeyed the rules of prison life and earned the right to live in liberty outside the prison walls. Such marriages havo probably been permitted or encouraged on the presumption that married life would conduce to contentment aad better behavior, but the Mother Superior of the oonvent thinks it is a bad plan. She asserts that criminals thus paired off are more likely to descend to lower depths of depravity, and that the children of these unions are if possible more degraded than their parents. In her opinion, the regeneration of criminals through the family life is a prodigious failure.