Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — Page 4

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The most turbulent member of the Topeka City Council is named Lull. Thebe are seven cotton-mills in Greece and grease is in every one of them. Massachusetts has a third of all the cotton spindles in the United States. Perhaps this is why Boston abounds in spinsters. Sacramento, CaL, is shipping brandy by the ship-load to Europe. If Americans are sensible they w ill buy their cognac at first hands. A Philadelphia baker treats the conductor and passengers of a car that passes his shop at two o’clock every, morning to a hot loaf of bread. Buddha i 3 worshiped in Paris in various private temples, the devotees being chiefly Japanese, but many of them are Frenchmen and a few Englishmen. Menthol* one part, in ten parts of alcohol, makes a cooling and effectual solution for local relief of itching without eruptions and for the smarting irritation of insects. An Italian immigrant who landed in New York the other day was so overjoyed at reaching free America that he dropped upon his hands and knees and kissed the ground. German professors and university, authorities have a natural cause for their great dissatisfaction at the Kaiser’s ridiculous advocacy of dueling in the large increase of duels. One-fifth of the 1,000,000 families in France have no children. As many more have only one child, and of those who have as may as seven children the number is only 230,000. A St. Louis medical journal has coined the word “kochery” for the German professor’s system of treatment. The St. Louis editor ought to be arrested for base coinage. If Connecticut doesn’t hurry up and settle her political controversy the bottom of things will fall out in that State. Already a mound twelve feet high has sunk out of sight at Bloomfield. Members of the Weather Bureau should know that the oldest known journal of the weather was kept by one Walter Merle, a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, during A. D. 1337-44. Baltimore claims a colored man over 117 years old who now devotes himself mainly to sleeping and who can be offered as a beautiful example of teetotalism both as regards alcohol and tobacco. People who think that Newfoundland hasn’t the means to make war against England do not stop to think of the vast number of codfish balls which she will be able to fire at the redcoats. A little boy from North East, Md., while visiting his grandmother in Chester, fell asleep on the floor and rolled under the bed. Before he reappeared the police were scouring the town for a missing boy. A Georgia woodman has cut a tree from which he got two saw logs, each forty-feet long, and forty feet of the top of the tree was left after removing this section of ninety feet, making the tree 130 feet high. A member of Parliament named Hunter proposes that the Scotch deer forests should be bought and turned into popular farms and pleasure grounds. The present rental of these areas is about £90.000 a year. The latest novelty in ferns used in London is one simulating arose. When closed it looks like a bud. When opened it resembles a full-blown rose, and as it is scented with the perfume of that flower, the illusion is complete. Black ants are crowding the guests out of a Ludingtoh ('Mich. ) hotel, and the proprietor advertises for an exterminator. One guest watched a solid procession of them a foot wide crawl up the side of the room for six consecutive hours. During a heavy rainstorm in Indiana a mud turtle as large as a man’s hand fell from the clouds near Crawfordsville. For an hour the reptile lay mvtionless as if tetunned, then it began to crawl away, but it was captured and kept as a curiosity. Remedies for relief of mosquito bites are so numerous thac if one remembered them all he might try a different “cure”.on every hummock. One of the last is plain soap—the lather allowed to dry on. Cheap and handy. Try it on, first chance you get. It seems that the Chinese preserved ginger of commerce i 3 not ginger at all. The director of the botanical gardens at Hong Kong has succeeded in obtaining the flower of the plant used and has identified it as tho Alpinia Galadga. though not ginger, it is very nice. Two Patuluma, Cal., liovs found a neat of two young foxes in the limb of a tree. There were four of the little creatures, and each boy took two of them home . where each happened to have a eat with a litter of kittens, and each pussy has adopted and is raising two Form things need to be committed to mtmorj to insure safety against our poi-

son sumachs: First. —The three-leaved ivy is dangerous. Second—The fiveleaved is harmless. Third—The poison sumachs have white berries.— Fourth—No red-berried sumach is poisonous. Walt Whitman is now 72 years of age, hale and happy. May he live to grow still youDger and siDg many more jubilant chants? Whitman is the most American American living and he is intimate with the national sentiments and aspirations. The top of the morning of his birthday to him. R. M. Duffield, aged seventy, a mail carrier in Jackson County, West Virginia, claims to have walked 110,000 miles in the last ten years. He thinks no other man has done such an amount of walking. He is also a sort of expressman. A few weeks ago he carried a plow ten miles and on the next trip carried a small cookstove twenty-five miles. Wilder, the Western humorist, says that in appreciating good jokes a crowd of newsboys is the quickest and most intelligent he ever met. No point, ges ture or shade of inflection escapes these alert little nomads, while on the other hand many fashionable assemblages are chilly and unresponsive until you break the crust of reserve or indifference as if with a sledge-hammer. The “angry tree,” a woody plant, whioh grows from ten to twenty-five feet high, and w'as formerly supposed to exist only in Nevada, has recently been found both in Eastern California and in Arizona, says the Omaha Bee. If disturbed this peculiar tree tree shows every sign of vexation, even to ruffling up its leaves like the hair on an angry cat, and giying forth an unpleasant, sickening odor. Some ingenious prisoners in the jail at Marion, Ind., by means of a hose connected with the natural gas pipe, projected a flame against the inner side of the outer wall. When the stone was made red-hot, cold water was applied, and huge slices were peeled off until the wall was breached. None of them wanted to escape, and they explained that the mischief was done to show the authorities how easily one could be planned.

Several Chinamen were engaged in San Francisco to go to the fish canneries in Alaska, and were supplied with advance money and articles of clothing suited to the new climate. When the contractors “went for the heathen Chinese,” to get them to go on board the waiting vessel, they learned that some of them had decamped, while most of them were enjoying themselves in a prolonged opium debauch, and refused to leave San Francisco. The uses of bells in places devoted to religious purposes is very ancient, dating many centuries before the Christian era. In China, long before the time of Christ, bells were hung at the temple gate and the worshipper on entering rung them to attract the attention of the deity he was about to honor. Bells were common in India at the time of Pliny, and it is believed that they came into Europe in the first or second century. They were first used on Christian churches A. D. 4CO, in Nola, Italy, not so much to give notice of the time of worship as from an idea that their music drove away evil spirits and protected the people of the parish from thunder and lightning. An army physician who sees a good deal of the diseases among the Indians of Northern California, fiuds them very susceptible to the pet disease of civilization—consumption. When the disease attacks a healthy, robust Indian he is seen actually to melt away under its influence, which is due in part at least to the fact that while the Indian has taken to the clothing, food, and shelter of the whites and lost something of his natural hardiness to exposure, he adheres obstinately to certain habits, crowding in close apartments, going about in wet clothing, etc., which make him an easy victim. The mortality among infants is very large, and families are not seen with more than four children, some having but one or two. Rheumatism is crippling a great many. The one thing which they do seem to enjoy is immunity against trouble from poison oak, the stems of which they use in making baskets. While the remains of the old commander lie in a rude and neglected tomb in the city of New York, whose people manifest no purpose speedily to completed their long promised monument, another majestic Western memorial of General Grant has been fittingly, dedicated. H. H. Kohlsaat’s generosity, patriotism and public spirit have given to Galena a superb statue of the great captain who went forth from that town in 1861 to inscribe his name on the scroll of fame, and representatives of the people of half a dozen Western States assembled to participate in the exercises attending the formal transfer of the monument to the muncipality. The day, the crowd, the speakers were all that could be desired. The presence of Chauncey M. Depew, ex-Governor Hoard and others gave the affair more than a local significance and the honors shown to Mr. Kohlsaat no less than those paid to the memory of a national hero cannot fail to have an influence for good upon many thousands of Americans. With one such man as Mr. Kohlsaat in New York that imperial city would soon be relieved of the odium that must rest upon it so long as its oft repeated promise to provide a suitable tomb for Grant’s ashes is unfulfilled.

LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Sayings and Doings of Little Ones Gathered and Printed Here for Other Little Folks to Head. A Queer Boy. He doesn’t like study, it “weakens bis eyes,” But the “right sort” of book will insure a surprise. Let it be about Indians, pirates, or bears, And he’s lost for the day to all mundane affairs; By sunlight or gaslight his vision is clear. Now, isn’t that queer? At thought of an errand he’s “tired as a hound,” Very weary of life and of “tramping around.” But if there’s a band or a circus in sight, He will follow it gladly from morning till night. The showman will capture him some day, I fear, For he Is so queer. If there’s work in the farden, his head “aches to split,” And his back Is so lame that he “can’t dig a bit.” But mention base-ball and he’s cured very soon; And he’ll dig for a woodchuck the whole afternoon. Do you think he “plays ’possum?” lie seems quite sincere; But—isn’t he queer? A Child’s Peculiar Fancy. Flossie’s grandmother was a nice old lady, but she was very difficult to get along with, and this was particularly true during her last illness, and the child came in for her share of it. One day, shortly after the old lady’s death, Flossie’s mother observed that she was very thoughtful. “What are you thinking about, FlosBie?” “I was just wondering.” she replied, with great seriousness, “how grandma and God are getting along together. ” Washington Star. A Frinos of a Boy. “He is just a prince of a boy,” said Mrs. Hatton, of Willie, and I listened and watched, for a prince, you know, is the son of a king, and I wanted to see if Willie was like a king I read of. When he dropped his hoop and ran in to amuse baby for mamma, and did it so pleasantly, I began to get my answer. When he came out of school, smiling, instead of pouting because he had been kept late, I felt pretty sure. But when he cut his apple in two and gave one-half to ragged Ned Brown, I was satisfied. Yes, Willie is a “prince of a boy,” because he tries to do just like that King who is kind to all, and like that Son of a King who came to minister and not to be ministered unto. — Golden Rule.

Bright Little People. Little Leo, aged three, was watching the sunset. It was- very brilliant, and the clouds, all crimson and gold, had a mottled appearance. “O grandma, grandma,” he cried, “do come quick and See— the moon is melting the Bky!” Edna noticed that papa did not kiss the new baby, so she put her arm around his neck, and said, coaxingly, “Kiss it, papa. It won’t bite.” How Did She Toll? In little Daisy’s dimpled hand two bright new pennies shone; One was for Rob (at school just then), the other Daisy’s own. While waiting Rob’s return she rolled both treasures round the floor, When suddenly they disappeared, and one was seen no more. “Poor Daisy. Is your penny lost?” was asked In accents kind, “Why, no. mine’s here!” she quickly said. “It’s Rob’s I canuot find.” — St. Nicholas Had Not Learned It. It pays to cidtivate habits of politeness aad show deference to those with whom we come in contact. The boy or girl with pleasing habits is pretty •certain to be chosen in preference to the one who is rude in address and manners, if both are seeking the same'situation ; and the same is true throughout life. A gentleman stood in a shop the other day, when a boy came in and applied for a situation. “Can you write a good hand?” was asked. “Yaas.” “Good at figures?” “Yaas.” “That will do—l do not want you,” said the merchant. “But,” said the gentleman, when the boy had gone, “I know that lad to be an honest, industrious bcv. Why don’t you give him a chance ?” “Because he hasn’t learned to say, ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘No, sir.’ If he answers me as he did when applying for a situation, how will he answer customers after being here a month'?” And the gentleman was silent. The boy had been weighed in the balance, and, because of his lack of politeness, had been found wanting. It pays to be thoughtful and pleasant. Boys! Treat your mother as politely as if she were a strange lady. Be as kind and helpful to your sisters as to other boys’ sisters. Don’t grumble or rlfuse to do some errand which must be done, and which otherwise takes the time of some one who has more to do. Have your mother and sisters for your best friends. Find some amusement for the evening that all tUe family can join in, large and small. Be a gentleman at home. Cultivate a cheerful temper. If yon do anything wrong, take your mother into your confidence. Never lie about anything you have done. It Fays to Be in Earnest. A boy was once walking along a dusty road. The sun was very warm and oppressive; but, as was his usual way, he stepped along quickly, thinking that the faster he walked the sooner he would reach the end of his journey. He soon heard a carriage coming, and when it had caught up with him the driver reined in his horse and kindly asked the lad to ride, which invitation he gladly eocepted. When

he was seated in the carriage the gentleman, a good Quaker, said: “I noticed thee walking along briskly, and so asked thee to ride: but if I had seen thee walking lazily, I would not have done so by any means.”—Morning Star. Lutle Walter had been put to bed, and nis mamma had returned to the sitting-room, when a stray cow began lowing near the house. "Mamma, mamma!” called the small man, excitedly, “do you hear that cattle mewing ?" Youth’# Companion. A little boy, seeing his mother take some ducklings from a nest, exclaimed: “Oh, mamma! what kind of chickens are those with mashed moufs and paper ’tween their toes ?”

STARS IN THE NATIONAL EMBLEM.

The Admission to Statehood of Wyoming; to Be Properly Symbolized. Another star now glitters in the national dag. This is not because of any recent admission ty Statehood, for there has been none. But the law requires that the admission of a new State shall be signalized in the national banner from the Independence Day following the admission. The new star which will find a place July 4 this year will stand for Wyoming. That vigorous young Commonwealth came in after last Independence day by just a week or so. Idaho had been

POSITION OF THE STARS IN THE FIELD OF THE NATIONAL FLAG.

more lucky, as the President had signed the bill admitting it the evening of July 3, so it has had its star all the year. With the one added for Wyoming the stars will number fortyfour. It promises to be several years before any more Territories are admitted into Statehood, so that the emblem is not likely to undergo further change for some time to come. In unofficial flags the admission of Wyoming has been. recognized by its exjtra star for nearly the year past, and the grouping of the stars has been according to the individual flag-makers. It is left for the army emblem to fix the grouping according to the Government’s idea. This is done in the order just issued by the War Department, as follows: “The field or union of the national flag in use in the army will, on and after July 4, 1891, consist of forty-four stars in six rows, the upper and lower rows to have eight stars, and the second, third, fourth and fifth rows seven stars each in a blue field.” Every flag floating as the sign of authority of the National Government will henceforth conform to this order. The flags with less than forty-four stars and with the old grouping wnl not be at once condemned, forthe Government does not go to that extravagance. But as the new emblems are called for the new order will be observed and the old flags will gradually disappear.

Is Culture Hereditary?

The whole point at issue is whether there is a casual relation between the cultivation of the mental faculties and their development; in other words, whether the increment gained by their exercise is transmitted to posterity. Professor Weismann and most of hiis followers, constituting what is generally known as the school of Neo-Dar-winians, deny such transmission. If they are light, education has no value for the future of mankind, and its benefits are confined exclusively to the generation receiving it. So far as the inculcation of the knowledge is concerned, this has always been admitted to be the case, and the fact that each new individual must begin at the baginning and acquire all knowledge over again for himself is sufficiently discouraging and has often been deplored. But the belief, though vague, has been somewhat general that a part at least of what is gained in the direction of developing and strengthening the faculties of the mind, thiough their life-long exercise in special fields, is permanently preserved to the race by hereditary transmission to posteiity of the ac quired increment. We have seen that, all the facts of history and of personal observation sustain this comforting popular belief, and until the doctors of science shall cease to differ on this point and shall reduce the laws of heredity to a degree of exactness which shall amount to something more like a demonstration than the current speculations, it may perhaps be as well to continue for a time to hug the delusion.

The Nations that Eat Most.

Among modern nations the greatest eaters are the English, Germans, French and the Ameiicans—the ruling people of our civilization. The diet of of the Spaniards and the Italians is notably less substantial than that of the English and Germans, just as their brains are le'3s active and original. The Americans are, on the average, the. greatest eaters in the world. Said Carlyle to Emerson: “The best thing I know of that country is, that in it a man can have a meal for his labor.”

Red Veins.

Red veins in the face are natural to some people, and cannot be removed nor prevented from coming. Veins of a bluish cast beneath the eyes indicate physical weakness, and are usually seen in people of delicate health. Large veins that are swollen when a Krson is in anger or exercising violtly cannot be removed nor prevented from showing. They are not harmful. They indicate more or less passion, and betray an earnest, sensitive nature.

TO LIFT SUNKEN SHIPS.

ADevlce in the Shape ot Air Balls of Steel. , Working models of a new device for raising sunken or wrecked vessels have been exhibited both in this city and in Washington. It is claimed that this system is the only one that will work successfully in raising vessels sunk at sea which have heretofore been abandoned after as large a part ol 1 the cargo has been saved as possible by sending divers down to the vessel. The inventor of this new device claims that he can raise a vessel of 3,003 tons in less than ten minutes’ time. The apparatus consists of an iron sphere twenty feet in diameter and made perfectly air-tight. From six to eight of these spheres are needed for thq raising of a vessel of 3,000 tons burden. They are practically steel pontoons. At the top of these pontoons is an air valve opening downward into'the interior of the sphere, while at the bottom is a valve opening outward. They have a capacity for containing 5,333 cubic feet of air, and each pontoon has a lifting capacity of from 500 to 700 tons. The exterior shell of the pontoons is of steel one■quarter of an inch thick, braced latitudinally and longitudinally. When the wreck is reached water is pumped into the pontoons and they are sunk over the wreck at the point needed. Their course is guided by chains working from derricks on the deck of the wrecking vessel. Outside of the pontoons is a heavy network of iron bracing, inclosing it like a jacket. At the bottom of the pontoon is a heavy iron chain, fastened to the outside bracing, and at the lower end of the chain is a strong double catch hbok. A diver is sent down with each pontoon as it is lowered to the position needed, and by descending the ladder he is able to fix this catch hook upon

the hawser block or stanchion on the deck of the sunken vessel. When a vessel is resting on the bottom it always has a list to one side. The plan adopted by the managers of this new system, is to lower two pontoons, one at the bow and the other at the stern of the vessel, on the other side to which she is listed and then pump out enough water supplying the space with air to right the vessel. Thpn the other pontoons are lowered and placed in position, two at the bow, two at tbe stern, and two, four or more amidships as may be needed. Then the pumping apparatus is set at work on the wrecking tug, and it is claimed that the water in the pontoons can be forced out through the outlet at the bottom at the rate of forty barrels a minute, and that in eight minutes the sphere will b 9 filled with air and be floating on the surface of the water. The wrecked vessel is not raised above the water, but is brought near the surface. In this manner the vessel is towed to the nearest port and placed in the dry dock. — New York Herald.

FINE-FINGERED WORKERS.

The Type of french Women Whose Hellcate Touch Creates Marvels. French peasants do not require much margin for developing their ideas of dress, but in head-gear they can be as different from one another even as stars differ in glory. In the accompanying sketch there are chosen three French woman making Torchon lace, and it will be observed that each one has a different hat. The

FRENCH PEASANTS MAKING LACE.

lady on the left has a mountain on her head that leads one to suspect she has an eye on the theater, while by her side is a dear little body with a closefitting hat of black felt or velvet. The woman in the middle wears the muslin cap of a domestic. But despite their head-gear they are all workers in lace, in which they make good wages and harve steady employment. They do not look to be especially bright, but they have hands of wonderful dexterity and delicacy of touch, which accounts for the superior reputation of the French lace for fineness.

KILLED BY A CORK.

The Singular Accident Coat a Minister His Life. The Bev. Geo. W. Bothwell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., died from the effects of having accidentally inhaled a cork. The case became quickly celebrated, not because such accidents are rarities, but because of the prominent position of the olergyman and the efforts made by surgeons to save him. About to pour medicine from a bottle, he held the cork between his teeth, and being at the same time made to laugh by the antics of his child, he took a quick, deep breath, and the oork went with the draught of air into the breathing tubes, and soon lodged as cloeely is in a bottle in one of the bronchial tubes leading to the middle portion of the left lung. Several attempts were

made by competent surgeons to dislodge the cork, and a special corkscrew instrument was devised for the purpose, but the cork was too firmly imbedded in the bronchial mucous membrane, and post-mortem showed that this membrane had become swollen all about the cork, so that its removal would have been impossible except very soon after its entrance. It position had been accurately located. Not being removed, the cork caused local inflammation, formation of pus, bloodpoisoning, heart failure and death, after about fifteen days of patient and courageous suffering. Foreign bodies, such as false teeth, aonCs, and coins, have in some cases remained hidden and quiet in the lungs for several years, and been suddenly and unexpectedly coughed up again. So it is often a serious question what to do —to operate or let alone. A study of 636 cases shows death in 41 per cent.when no operation was performed, and in 23 per cent, after operation. In this late case the result of non-inter-ference might have been better, but probably would not have been because the cork so perfectly plugged a tube, and thus became a very offensive for--eign body. A bullet shot into the soft lung tissue would be less aggravating than a.soft cork thus situated. The location of tho cork as found at the postmortem examination is clearly shown in the accompanying illustration, which shows the larynx, or voice box, the straight bronchial tube, and its bifur- » cations and larger branches. The amount of breathing surface cut off by this plug could have been spared, but the danger of doing nothing to remove ;t lay in the inflammatory action it could excite. It was a case in which the choice of either policy would be likely to make the surgeon wish he had done the other thing instead. The victim of this unfortunate accident seems to have been needlessly killed in.the midst of a life of health and activity. His experience affords but one lesson—that is. the wisdom of not making the mouth the handy receptacle for articles which, if inhaled, may as surely kill as a bullet shot into the lungs; but such fatal accidents are so uncommon and the mouth is so generally made useful in this way that it is doubtful if the sad fate of Mr. B. will be of any use as a warning—for more than a week and a day, at all events. When articles are inhaled which do not fit the lung tubes so well as a cork, as collar buttons or tacks, surgeons are often able by expert operations to get them out, but such operations are painful and tedious to both patient and surgeon, and one of the jest things you cau do with a button, a pin or a cork, is not to put it in your mouth.— Health Monthly.

A I[?]eep Laid Plot.

Young Lady—You are the Chiei Head Center of the Pullers and Haulers’ Union in papa’s factory, aren’t you. Walking Delegate—Yes, miss. “Well, I’ll give you a gold breastpin, a pair of diamond earrings, two nice rings, a lady’s watch, and $27,' if you’ll order a strike on the first of May.” “Eh? What d’ye want us to strike for?” “Because papa was too busy at the factory to take us to Europe last season. and I don’t want him to have any such excuse this time.”—Good News.

Depth of the Ocean.

The greatest depth of the ocean which has been ascertained by the sounding is five miles and a quarter feet or 4,620 fathoms) and quite equal to the height of the highest known mountain, Mount Everest, which measure * 2y.002 feet or five and a half miles high. The average depth between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south is nearly three miles.

Hotel Logic.

Guest—How is this ? My bill this time is $4 a day, and last December I had the same room and it was only $3 a day. Clerk—Yes, I know; but the davs are much longer now. A little innocent misunderstanding is sometimes verv useful in helping one over a hard place. “Mabel,” said the teacher, “you may spell kitten.” “K-double-i-t-e-n.” “Kitten has two i’s then, has it?" “Yes, ma’am, our kitten has.”