Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1889 — Page 2

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THE PRIZE LOVE LETTERS.

THK EXPRESS

prizes for love letters

are enlisting much interest. .Every one who is or has been in love thinks he or she can win the first prize. All letters must be sent in before Sunday, April 21st. The name of the writer in each instance must accompany the letter and if the writer desires that it be kept from the public the stipulation will be complied with.

The release of the man Evans is wrong. There was no doubt at one time that he was a culprit. There is no less doubt now. si.

As will be seen by an announcement elsewhere, Ex-Congressman Johnston is to make a canvass of this congressional district in behalf of the service pension proposition.

The jury hearing the cases against the ten alleged White Caps in Crawford county has brought in a verdict of "not guilty." Perhaps the stories about the "Knights of the Switch" were manufactured, or perhaps "local option" has a strong foothold in Crawford county. That is to say, perhaps the Crawford county sentiment is in favor of White Cap government.

The death roll in the past few years would seem to dispute the Rip Van Winkle adage, "How soon we are forgot when we are gone." The names (irant, Hancock, Sheridan, Garfield, Til den, Emperor William and John Bright are not soon to be forgotten among the soldiers and statesmen. The death of Booth now would seem to take from the stage one whose place cannot be filled.

There has been much reckless talk about the liberation of persons charged with violation of the election laws at the last election in this state. The re marks of District Attorney Chambers in

who would not prefer making a partisan cry out of anything and everything that occurs in the regular course of legal and orderly proceedings.

In all this discussion of election frauds the fact should not be overlooked that while Leon Bailey was conducting his drag-net investigation,whereby the Dem ocratic United States marshal provided himself with a plethoric pocketbook, that no witness was produced before the federal grand jury to give testimony against a Democrat. And this notwith standing the notorious case of Andrew Crimes, of Vigo county.

The result of the municipal elections in Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis are easily explained. In each city the Re publican party got a setback because it was not true to itself. In the first named city it undertook to make a trade with the gamblers and anarchists at the last liour and as usual the gamblers and anarchists cheated it while many Republicans deserted the candidates who sought to ally their party with these elements. In Cincinnati a secret so ciety of gang Republicans attempted to thwart the will of the people, and the result was defeat for the particular candidates of this "strangler's" organiza tion. In St. Louis there was division in the party ranks because of machine methods. You can ally the Democratic party with the worse elements in a city and it will not lose votes. You can dictate its nominations by machine methods and there will be no revolt, but not so with the Republican party.

C. O. D.

AVhy

Tommy—Say, paw, I thought you saUl people could see farther as they got older. Paw—Yes.

Tommy—Well, say, paw, If that is so what makes so many old men always get In the front row at the show?

Paw—Oh, shut up!

"Permit me to take you apart," as the maid said to her mistress. There's one great advantage In writing love-let-ters on a a typewriter Instead of using a pen. A fellow can get a much better idea of how his letters are going to look In prlut when the newspapers report his trial for breach of promise.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Dayton Journal: Coal Oil Payne would drown Halstead In a Standard Oil tank If he could have his way.

Mlllvraukee Sentinel: Editor Halstead comes out of the scuffle In more enviable shape than some of the senators.

Philadelphia Inquirer: If congressmen want «iore salary why not tax the olflceseekers a dollar on every application they are asked to Indorse, and roll in wealth.

Minneapolis Tribune: The more the people reflect the more llrmly convinced are they that twen-ty-flve United States senators ought to be put Into long skirts and fed on milk from a bottle.

New York World: George Washington wore a No. 11 dress shoe on state occasions, and a No. 18 boot for every, day service and comfort He was "built according." That Is about the size of a loot which needs to be put down solidly on some of the Washington centenntal snobbery nonsease.

Boston Transcript: The peculiarity of President Adams* plan for preventing strikes is that It is based on the recognlUon of the rights of employes at the hands of the corporations. This Is a more valuable demonstration on the part of the employers even than a vlrtory over strikers costing millions.

THE RABIES CURABLE.

Special to the St Louis Republic. WOOSTEK, O.,

April

2.—Notwithstand

ing the generally accepted belief that hydrophobia is an incurable affliction, The Republic representative to-day conversed with a pereon who has survived the horrible paroxysm of the rabies. His name is David Barkey, a bright and only son of Jacob Barkey, a well-to-do farmer of this county. The boy was found sitting up in bed at hie father's home, fourteen miles northeast of here. He looks remarkably well for one who was racked for nearly one week with from one to five convulsions daily. His voice is a little husky, but is gradually getting stronger, and aside from a partial paralysis of his limbs from the knees down, the boy is apparently well He converses intelligently and his mind appears to be clear.

His case Is a remarkable one and has attracted attention from all over the country. The following are the facts relating thereto: On the 10th of February last, young Barkey, who is now 11 years of age, came home from school and complained of feeling unwell. His entire muscular system appeared to be affected, and a physician was called in to treat the boy. The ailment was diagnosed as muscular rheumatism, and was treated as such, yielding to treatment generally resorted to for that ill. About ten days later the disease assumed a different phase. The patient would sink into a semi-paralytic state, in which he would remain for about twenty minutes, or half an hour, and then rouse up, feeling, to all appearances, first-rate. This con tinued for several days and then he became subject to paroxysms. He would look around the room and stare at some object or person. His eyes would become glassy, and he would stick out his tongue and pant like a dog in hot weather. Froth would gather at his mouth and he would bark like a dog and simulate the growl of a vicious canine. While in a paroxysm he would snap at and attempt to bite persons around him.

When these symptoms first manifested themselves the attending physician became alarmed and called other physicians in consultation. On the day the consultation was held the boy experienced five paroxysms. Tests were made to properly diagnose the disease, and when water was placed before him, or some sprinkled on his face, he would be attacked with paroxysms. The ailment was then decided upon as hydrophobia.

About eight years ago young Barkey, then 1% years of age, was bitten through the upper lip by the family dog. Nothing serious was thought of his injury. This dog was thought to be healthy at the time, but subsequently the canine minifested signs of madness and was killed. The boy was also bitten by a neighbor's dog last fall. After the boy was taken ill the dog was killed and ex amioed and pronounced all right. The physicians decided that the rabic infection came from the first dog, but probably not from the bite through the lip It is thought that the dog had what is known as dumb, or a paralytic, rabies, and not the "street" rabies, the latter being generally the form of hydrophobia with which animals are afflicted. The supposition is that the dog, either after or between the paralytic fits he was subject to, licked a sore on the boy's hand or body and transmitted the rabic poison to him. ii -un(«i..W omr dumb, or paralytic rabies, although for some weeks prior to his

When the character of the disease had been decided upon, the patient was secured to his bed by bandages drawn over his body. His hands and arms were covered with thick cloth mittens. The paroxysms at first manifested themselves at about the noon hour. They were horrible in the extreme, and persons who witnessed them say they never want to behold a similar sight. While in a paroxysm the boy appeared to be possessed of superhuman strength. Two strong men, wearing heavy gloves on their hands, would hold his arms back and it was a terrible struggle for them to do it. While in a paroxysm the boy managed to get his father's gloved hand in his mouth, and bit through the glove to the skin, but did not bring blood. Another attendant's hand was bitten until the ends of his fingers became black and blue.

The paroxysms were of about half an hour's duration, and as they progressed he would become more violent. Pillows and thick pieces of cloth were thrust into his mouth to satiate his desire to bite. As the paroxysms would pass off, he would sink into a sort of paralytic condition and then rouse up, as he did when he was first taken ill.

HiB appetite was good and he ate with a relish, but the sight of water would drive him into a paroxysm. The sight of strangers would have a similar effect upon him and it was troublesome work to keep the hundreds of curious visitors away from the house. Such interest was taken in the case that nearly two hundred strangers called at the house one afternoon, and since then hundreds of people have called there, and the daily callers are yet counted by the score.

The medicines used to bring about young Barkey's seemingly miraculous cure were very simple. Aconite, hydrate cf chloral and salicylate of soda were given in large doses. Hydrophobia was regarded by the attending physician, Dr. P. S. Greenamyer, as an affection of the nerves solely, and he set about to place that portion of the system in a condition that would prevent the rabic poison from acting on it. He did not know whether rabic poison was a self-limiting infection or not but supposed that it was, hence no effort was made to directly check the poison, but it was hoped that the boy's life might be bridged over tbe period of the action of the poison. On account of a hyper sensation, especially by the skin ana mucuous membrane of the mouth, throat and ivsophagus, which, by reflex action seemed to increase a tendency to the recurrence of the paroxysms, large doses of fluid extract of aconite were given for the purpose of blunting or partially paralyzing the sensuary nerves, especially tbe peripheral portion. It is claimed that no other medicine will answer this purpose better than aconite. The hydrate of chloral was prescribed for the purpose of producing sleep and obviating a general restlessness. The chloral successfully accomplished this. Large doses of salicylate of soda were given to prevent fermentation. It was argued that if rabic poison depended upon a ferment for its action or upon a michotite causing destruction of nervous tissue with decomposition, it was necessary to prevent fermentation. Salicylate of soda was considered the proper thing to give for that purpose.

Soon after the patient come under this

treatment the paroxysms began to grow lighter and farther apart and more irregular in their appearance. A week later they disappeared entirely, and for several weeks the bey has not experienced any. He haa been pronounoed out of danger, and daily improving. The partial paralysis of his lower limbe is ascribed to the strong medicines administered, and itis predicted that this will wear away. He attempted to walk to-day, but hia legs from his knees down refuse to properly perform their functions. Nevertheless he is expected to be able to get around before long.

The case has commanded a widespread interest, and many inquiries relating thereto have been received. The details as given above were obtained by the Republic correspondent from Dr. P. S. Greenamyer, a reputable physician, and are perfectly reliable.

NOTICE TO DYNAMITERS.

A fatherly looking old gentleman, with long white beard and snowy hair, wearing a Bhiny silk hat and smoking a fragrant cigar, was seated in the Bates house rotunda last evening chatting with a number of friends, says the Indianapolis News. The gentleman was Colonel W. T. Dpnms, of Richmond, state fish commissioner, who, though nearly 70 years of age, is as hearty as a man of 35 and an enthusiast

all piscatorial matters. He thoroughly understands the art of fishing with fly, spoon, troll or "trot" line. He has captured the voraciouB"muskalonge of the northern lakes as well as the agile and toothsome trout of the mountain pools. "I am here," said the colonel, in answer toja News reporter's inquiry, J"after money to carry on my work, but I am unable to get it on account of the emptiness of the state's strong box. I am going to

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evinced a disposition to snap at his playmates at school. His conduct in this respect was regarded at the time as mere playfulness.

around and go ahead just

the same, and I guess I can make arrangements that will help me out. I want to get in the fish ladders as soon as possible. The 'lad" ders,' you know, are the wooden shutes over all dams through which the fish can ascend to the headwaters of the streams and spawn. In winter the flsh go to the deep waters, and in spring they try to get back to the shallow places. You see very plainly that if they don't get back that our streams are soon emptied of them. "Have you taken any steps to prevent seining and dynamiting in our streams. "Yes.

have" nearly every proeecuting

attorney in the state with me on that point. The law against the practices has been a dead letter but I propose to make it a live issue now. Every man using a seine or dynamite will be punished, and I shall make a strong effort to apprehend all offenders. I believe that In fish culture the beBt means of propogation is protection There is no use in putting fash into a stream with a spoon, while some other fellow is taking them out with a scoop shovel."

S. P. Bartlett, of Quincy, fish commis sioner of Illinois, is also in the city consulting with Colonel Dennis as to the adoption of a particular kind of "fish ladder" in the streams of this state and Illinois.

He Paid His Fare.

They were telling experiences the other night, and Colonel Grannies told one of his. He made the trip through the Southern country here just after the

running the train in the rough region, and at one of the stations a formidable specimen of that tough human boarded the cars. The conductor came along punching tbe tickets, and this cowboy did not pay any attention to him. At last the conductor laid his hand on the cowboy's shoulder and said "Ticket, please." The cowboy turned in true cowboy style, pulled out his revolver, and pointed it at the conductor. "Here's my ticket."

The conductor walked on and punched everybody else's coupon. Then he disappeared. The little incident had been forgotten by almost everybody on the car. The cowboy was in a quiescent state and the car was quite still when the conductor came in. He walked leisurely up the aisle and suddenly stopped before the cowboy, placed great big knife dangerously contiguous to his vital part and said quietly: "Lemme see that ticket again."

The cowboy paid his fare.—[San Fran cisco Chronicle.

Sir Charles Russell.

Sir Charles Russell is an IriBhman by birth and blood. He is the son of a brewer, Thomas Russell, and nephew of the late R9V. Dr. Russell, of Maynooth college, to whom Cardinal Newman in his "Apologia" referred to as the "dear friend to whom, under heaven, I am indebted for my conversion." Mr. Russell was born in Downp8trick in 1833, and was educated at Trinity college, Dublin He site for a London borough, Hackney,

Advertising Stamps.

A firm of great genius has offered the British government an immense sum for the use of the national postage stamp for advertising purposes. The advertisement is to be printed on the back of the stamp before the gum is put on, so that the purchaser of every stamp must see the announcement before he moistens the gum. This is an Australian idea.

Edison's Exhibit.

The feature of Edison's exhibit at the Paris exposition will be an enormous model of an incandescent lamp, forty feet high, and made entirely of small incandescent lights, of which it will be necessary, it is said, to use 20,000. The French and American flags will be worked out in incandescent lamps on either side of the big lamp. v--v

An Even Thing.

Irate Father—Young man, I am amazed, astounded, sir, that you should seek to marry my daughter on so short an acquaintance. You are almost a stranger to her.

The Young Man—Well, Bhe don't take any more chances than I do. She's almost a stranger to me, too.—[Philadelphia Record.

Not so Mad After All.

Physician—Your husband is quite delirious and seems utterly out of his mind. Has he recognized any one today?

Wife—Oh, yes. He called me a dragon this morning, and he constantly speaks of the governess as an angeL—[Boston Beacon.

A Monnt Vernon Natural Gas Company.

A company is forming at Mount Vernon to prospect for natural gas, and Governor Hovey has subscribed $2,000: W. C. Fuhrer Jc Co., $1,000 D. Rosenbaum, $500, and the Citizens' association $1,000 to that end.

THE TERRE HAtffE EXPRESS, THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 4, 1889.

DKATH CAU8ID BY fBlGHT.

An Interacting Qaerttea DiMmsMd-A Shock as Deadly as a Ballet.

Can a or woman in ordinary- good health be killed by sudden fright just as by & ballet, a knife wound or a fall? asks the New York Mail and Express.

The burden of opinion is on the side of the theory that even the most hearty person can die of tbe shock caused by fright. It seems that it has been impossible to disgnos one of these cases. Fright, if ik causes death, leaves no peculiar mws by which the character of such ah Stack can be defioed. In most cases S death there is some conablee the physicians to demise. case of death by fright there is no lesion on the brain, nor is there any condition of the organs that definitely marks the' cause of demise. Nevertheless, a majority of the beet physicians agree that fright alone will cause death. Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, .the specialist in nervous disorders, holds this view, and most of hia colleagues agree with him. Visits made at a number of New York hospitals and dispensaries showedlthat the physicians in these institution^ nearly all take the same ground.

diiion that ter(nine tb But in tl

Proposes

Indiana's FUU Commissioner Vigorous Measures.

The physician who spoke most freely on the subject was Condict W. Cutler, who has charge of the New York dispensary, the oldest in New York City, and one in which some one hundred and twenty-five thousand patient^rfi treated every*jrear for all manner of diseases. m. Cutler is an expert in nervous diseases, .. and

ranks high

among pathologists. He is decidedly of the opinion that persons in good health can die from sudden fright, although, he say?, that in his opinion such cases are extremely rare. "It is a question that has been widely studied and discussed, and one which has been the subject of

much contro

versy in medical journals. But a majority of physicians now agree that fright may be set down as a cause of death unassisted by any other." "But is there not usually some other complication? some heart or nervous trouble or some other organic weakness?" "Not necessarily. Of course, in most cases there is, but death might result from fright alone even if there existed no organic troubles. Nor has the mere physical strength of a man or woman much to do with the matter. A small weak woman is frequently less affected by these shocks than a strong man." "You see," continued the doctor, "there is something peculiar in the make-up of a man or woman. There are strong men who can not endure the sight of blood. There are men even in the medical and surgical professions who never become reconciled to some of the more disagreeable taskB that they are called upon to perform. Tnen, again, there are others physically weak who have nerves of steel, and who delight in the most difficult operations." "But how can it be determined that a person has died from fright alone?" "Ffom general conditions," said the doctor. "Of course there is no means of defining the cause of death as in case of death by ordinary causes. So far no lesions have been found on the brain that would make clear the action of the shock upon the organ. Nor are there any other marked conditions that enable one to make a satisfactory autopsy. In fact I have never been called upon to do so, although I have watched the discussion of this questipn with interest^ But to make it plain, it is agreed hiiuiiyAW a nwrann hw been subjected suddenly a severe shock, where it is subsequently found that the pereon had in life suffered from no disease, and where it is also found that at the time of death the organs were in a normally healthy condition, it would appear at once that deatn was the result of fright. You know alcoholism is put down as a cause of death* and yet it was but the other day that a prize was offered for any paper that would establish the existence of lesions on the brain that would prove that alcoholigm alone is a cause.of death." "But is not death from fright very rare?" "Extremely so," was the reply. "As I have said, I never had one come under my personal observation, although I be lieve that such deaths sometimes occur. "There are," continued Dr. Cutler, "cases where persons suffering from heart troubles have had death hastened by some sudden fright or shock, but even these cases are not common." "But is not insanity sometimes the re suit of fright?" "Sometimes, but it is more frequently caused by some other kind of severe shock. But both causes produce but a small percentage of cases. Insanity, as a rule, is caused by drunken parents or is inherited. On the whole, this is an important question, and one in which pathologists generally are naturally interested and concerned. If it be possible to finally settle the question whether a person can be frightened to death or not, something important will have been done. It is a common thing to say one has been frightened to death, but there is not much in the phrase. As a rule, fright, unless it be an extreme case, does not affect healthy grown persons. Children subjected to extreme fright are frequently driven into convulsions just as women are driven into hysterics. But there is not much fear of death, even in such cases." "You do not think fright alone is worth considering very seriously as a cause of death in this country?" "No but the human frame is a queer machine and anything that bears on any of its orgars is worth studying. The nervous system is a pecular one. You may place a strong man among lunatics and leave him where he will come into constant contact with them long enough and his mind will become affected by hia association tfith the insane. "It has been noticed too, that one child in school, if afflicted with St. Vitus' dance, will cause other children about him or her to becomeeffected to some extent. One nervousJPtwitching person in a room where others are Bitting will cause others to become nervous, as well. We are to a very great extent a nervous people, and it is necessary to study every phase of it. It is here that the importance of theq uestion of death from fright comes in."

A Challenge Accepted.

About two years ago Mr. Richard H. Lee, of Atlantic City, built a sea-wall around his house and "defied the Almighty to destroy it." The Almighty accepted the challenge last Friday night, and there is not enough of his bulkhead in sight to build a chicken coop. Mr. Lee's attempt to play the role of Canute proves a most dismal and disastrous failure.—[Washington Poet.

Bringing Salts Against Bill Nye.

Bill Nye, the noted humorist, is in great trouble on account of impaired health. Most of his engagements in Iowa had to be canceled, and now the several opera house managers have commenced suits aggregating $1,500 against

himfor breach of contract The parties bringing the suits secured the services of detectives, and claim to have good evidence that he only feigned illness.

ALCOHOL IN MEDICINE.

Its Indiscriminate Dm Is Dangvrons, and .Should Be-Restricted by Law.

According to Professor Binz, of Bonto, as reported by the Therapeutic Gazette, alcohol in small doses increases the arterial pressure in large doses the opposite effect is produced. Alcohol increases the activity of the left ventricle of the heart, and diminishes the moments of rest and increases the respiration. Alcohol in moderate doses is eliminated by the lungs and kidneyB. Alcohol burns up into carbonic acid gas and water taken into the system. This action produces heat, and is of value to temporarily stimulate and strengthen the system. Alcohol does not increase oxidation. Only such substances can be rightly considered as nutritives which promote the heat of the body without producing any injurious accompanying symptoms. It is known that alcohol in large doses increases thedecomposition of albumen, and hence, in many cases of severe illness, tends to hasten the fatal result rather than retard it. Alcohol has the power to reduce the temperature of the body in certain conditions. Moderate doses, which do not produce the least symptoms of' intoxication, will cause a fall of temperature of several degrees. The habitual use of alcohol deadens the heat-reducing property until it becomes no longer observable. Narcotio doses of alcohol reduce the temperature several degrees, and this reduction remains for several hours. All the causes of this fall of temperature are not understood. One of them is an enlargement of blood vessels of the skin and an increased radiation of heat. Alcohol seems to be a drug of great value in therapeutics, but it must be given with great discrimination. In a healthy man it is always an injurious drug. A habitual beer drinker is as much an alcoholist as a habitual whisky drinker. It is the duty of physicians to support every effort to break up the indiscriminate use of alcohol as a beverage or medicine, and insist that it be used with therapeutical precision. These views were Bustained by the members of the congress, and a general agreement was reached that all poeeible caution should be observed in the use of alcohol as a medicine, and its changing effects on different individuals.

fiXPLOEEE STANLEY'S TACT.

He Hail the Good Sense to Fay Honor to a Savage Chiefs Fetich.

Mr. H. H. Johnston relates a story which strikingly reveals one great secret of Mr. Stanley's success in dealing with the uncivilized tribes of Africa, says the London Globe. On one occasion Mr. Stanley went to meet an important, but rather unfriendly, chief, named Ngantshu, on an island in Stanley Pool. The chief came with a great retinue and with his ancestral fetich. This was a repulsive looking thing, made of a mon key's skull and red clay, studded with cowries and hung with little bells. In it Ngantshu believed the spirits of his ancestors dwelt, and he treated it with veneration and from time to time poured wine upon it and placed chewed up food in its mouth.

The chief introduced the fetich to Mr. Stanley rather anxiously. The average white man would probably have laughed

in s'ucE'abeurditick"*1 But*this*"great explorer Bent for a camp chair and respectfully placed the fetich in it,

that

Ngantshu's ancestors might be present at the conference and when lunch time came and Ngantshu put food into his mouth and poured wine upon it. Mr. Stanley did the same. The result was that Ngantshu signed a treaty and became for all time Mr. Stanley's devoted friend. Perhaps by this time the mis sionaries have taught him to forsake his wretched idolatry but they would never have had a chance to do so had not Mr Stanley first treated his faith with courtesy.

Claims Half the Baby.

HERMAN,

Minn., April 3 —A novel pro

ceeding in law was begun here yester day.

H. H.

Schram, a wealthy farmer,

leased his homestead to Alex. Weir, it being stipulated in the lease that all the increase by live stock on the farm should be equally divided between tbe lessor and lessee. Bafore Schram could remove from the place his wife gave birth to a son. Weir now claims that by virtue of his lease he is entitled to onehalf of the baby, and has instituted proceedings to prevent its removal.

Handkerchiefs Changing.

The style in men's handkerchiefs are undergoing a noticeable change. Silk is supplanting linen and cambric in great measure, and plain white patterns are giving way to tints and combinations of colors except for outing purposes, where silk is not considered in good form. [New York World.

•:5" A 115,000 Judgment. NEW YOBK,

April 3.—In the court of

common pleas to-day, Miss Clara Totten secured a verdict of $15,000 against Cassius R. Reed, proprietor of the Hoffman house, in a suit for $100,000 for breach of promise, seduction under promise of marriage, and abortion.

Not Long to Wait.

"I have only a moment to spare," said the visitor at the White house. "Is the president engaged?" "Yes," answered the official "a gentleman from Illinois has just gone in to see him." "I will wait," said the visitor, taking a seat.

Philosophical.

Doctor—Bummer, I will tell you candidly, every glass of liquor you drink is a nail in your coffin.

Bummer—Well, doctor, you can't expect a fellow's coffin to hang together without nails.—[Burlington Free Press.

Billy Birch Alive and Well.

Billy Birch is alive and well. The story of his death was evidently started out of malice or possibly as a joke by some unknown person, who sent the misinformation to the papers.

The Unexpected.

Winks (rushing in triumphantly)— Mrs. Langtry is married. Crowd—Who to? 1.

Winks—Mr. Langtry.—[Philadelphia Record.

Canned Goods Exported.

Half a million dollars' worth of canned goods were shipped from this country to tropical regions last year.

If it is acaaeof cut or bruise, or break, or sprain, Salvation Oil will settle matters for 2* eents.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

CASH.

Oh, cash: thou ait a ruling power,. A mighty king. In busy mart, at ev'ry hoar,

Thy voice doth ring. in paper men, and yelli Thy cumukure wealth lg told To gain thee good, pure souls are sold

For what they bring.

Oh, cash! thou art a bonded slave, Poor little one! A day of liberty you eraye.

When all Is done.

At everybody's beck and call, Up stairs and down, through crowded halU What matter, now and thai, a fall?

Life's Just begun.

Bat by and by a maiden fair You'll be, 'Us true With form divine, and golden hair.

And ejes of blue.

And then the man who owns the place Will bow before such gentle grace He "Cash" will gain In your sweet face,

And so will you. —[Pearl Eytlnge In Judge.

Phonograph parties are said to be the rage in places where the modern instrument can be procured easily.

A whist player, who has counted the number of games he has^played during fifty-one years, recorded 78,832.

A Georgia lady who bought a pink pearl at Nassau. N. P., for $10, has been offered $500 for it by aNew York jeweler.

Statistics collected in England show that a university education is an advantage for girls, even from a medical point of view.

ANew York policeman has been ordered to appear before the commissioners on a charge of dancing a can-can on the open streets while on duty.

A Pittsburg, Pa., swain invited his intended to a ball. She wore a low-necked drees, which so surprised and shocked him that eoon afterward he wrote her a letter breaking the engagement.

A French scientist has come to the conclusion that we are traversing a "cold period." He notes that during the last four years there has been a considerable diminution in the average mean temperature.

Even Californians seem to tire of their perpetual sunshine. The Visalia Delta remarks: "Dwellers in the San Joaquin valley would like to swap off a few Bqnare leagues of Italian sky for a little Oregon mist."

The negro population of Mississippi is increasing at a much faster rate than the white. In 1870 the number of negroes in the state was 445,080, and of whites 384,549. In 18S0 the negroes numbered 653,559, and the whites onlyJ481,728

A masculine beauty show is being arranged at Nienn8, of which women will be the judges, and prizes will be awarded to the handsomest man, the man with the finest mustache, the man with the biggest nose, and the man with the largest bald head.

Recent advices from Japan state that an American believer in Buddhism had arrived at Kioto and remained at the Chion-in-Temple. He delivered a lecture to 2,000 people, in which he explained that his object in life was to uproot Christianity.

Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make a good living off the baby. "We just gets 'im christened," explains the man, "in all the towns we passes, and then, you see' parson makes us all comfortable wi' summat to eat and money for beds. On days orful bad we has to do'm twice."

The Seattle manufacturing company is preparing at its mill at Seattle, W. T., for the Paris exposition, a pine board jam inch thick, forty inchee wide and thirty-two feet long, and entirely free of sap, gnarl or flaw of any kind. The Paine lumber company, of Oshkosh, Wis., will send to Paris a similar board thirty-six inches wide..

The police are exerting extraordinary vigilance to prevent emigration from Hungary, and women and children who Beek to escape from the country to join their husbands and fathers aiready in America have to submit to great hardships, and often are unable to get away at all. The authorities profess to fear a dearth of farm laborers.

The feature of Edison's exhibit at the Paris exposition will be an enormous model of an incandescent lamp, forty feet high and made entirely of small incandescent lights, of which it will be necessary, it is said, to use 20,000. The French and American Hags will be worked out in incandescent lamps on either

Bide

of the big lamp.

Burls, used in making veneers with remarkable eccentricities of grain, are excrescences that grow upon various trees, such as the walnut, rosewood, mahogany, oak and ash. They weigh from one to six thousand pounds, and the largest and best come from Persia and Circassia, and cost in the rough from fifteen to forty cents a pound.

In anew book upon "Americanisms," some of the less familiar are: Bibibles for drinkables, Bohn for a crib or translation, balditude for a state of baldness to deacon, or to place fine fruit at the top parquet, or the pit of a theater from its mosaic floor pizarro for piazza, skulduggery, wire-pulling trampoos, to wander aimlessly, and daisy, for anything first-rate.

Cardinal Haynald, the Hungarian prelate, was leaving his hotel to go to his carriage, a few days ago, when a child begged him for alms. He felt in all his pockets without finding a coin, and, seeing a richly dossed woman passing, beckoned to her, asked for her purse, and taking from it a liberal sum, bestowed it upon the child. Then he thanked the woman gravely, and, entering hio carriage, was driven away.

As the north-bound express train pulled out of tbe station at Norman, I. T., on Tuesday the passengers were treated to the sight of a lynching by the citizens of that town. The people had captured a horse thief and taken him to a telegraph pole near the railroad to bang him. It was daylight, and none of the lynchers were disguised. Just as the train started the man was strung up. "Quartered" oak, of which so much was beard duriog the early part of the ceiling investigation at Albany, is made by sawing the oak log first into quarters, and then laying the round side down and sawing each quarter up into boards. This method of working up the log gives to the hoards a peculiar figure in the grain that is lacking in oak prepared in the ordinary way by cutting the whole log up into strips.

The Crawford Connty White-Cap Cases.

The trial of the "White cap" oases in Crawford county terminated Tuesday at Leavenworth in tbe acquittal of the defendants, the jury reaching this result in ten minutes.

Antique Oak.

The so-called antique oak is ordinary American oak sawed in a peculiar way and stained to look like the old English oak.

The avenues leading to an early grave have often been stopped dy Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.

cents.

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Cough medicines, Ayer's Cherry pectoral is in greater demand than ever. preparation for Throat and Lung Troubles is so prompt in its effects.^so agreeable to the taste, "and so widely known, as this. It is the family medicine in thousands of households. "X have suffered for years from a bronchial trouble that, whenever I take cold or am exposed to inclement weather, shows itself by a very annoying tickling sensation in tbe throat and by difficulty in breathing. I have tried a great many remedies, out none does so well as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral which always gives prompt relief in returns of my old complaint-" Ernest A. Hepler, Inspector of Public Roads, Parish Terre Bonne, La. "I consider Ayer's Cherry Pectoral a most important remedy

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Six years ago I contracted a severe cold, which settled on my lungs and soon developed all the alarming symptoms of Consumption. I had a cough, night sweats, bleeding of the lungs, pains in chest and sides, and was so prostrated as to be. confined to mv bed most of the time. After trying various prescriptions, without benefit, my physician finally de~ me Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I took it, and the effect was magical. I seemed to rally from the first dose of this medicine, and, after using only three bottles, am as well and sound as ever."

Rodney Johnson, Springfield, 111.

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