Indiana Oasis, Volume 1, Number 1, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 5 September 1878 — Page 2

Indiana Oasis'

E. G. i J. F. WALDO. Publishers. RISING SUN, INDIANA: OlIDS AM) Ii.MS. There are no bed-bugs in Bavaria. The Mexicans do their courting in public. Long Branch belles wear their ringer nails long and pointed. Tins is the hottest summer England has experienced in eleven years. Small pieces of sponge soaked in creosote will keep away black ants. Chalk is composed of myriads of veiy small creatures, which was once alive. J jTiie first regular representative Parliament was summoned in England in 1205. A gnat's wing, in its ordinary night, beats many hundreds of times in a second. Boiled water is flat and insipid, because the whole of the carbonic acid is espeiled. A Minnesota woman has lost two husbands bv lightning. She ought to marry A constant watch is kept over Minnie Warren's grave to prevent its desecration by grave robbers. A woman of Brookrleld, Mass., aged SO, the other day descended the w ell on her place, and cleaned out the uebris. A Nevada man whose tongue was paralyzed for five years has recovered, and is now the hardest swearer in town. At Orford, X. II., last week, a flash of lightning struck a steer and knocked off i its horns, but did it no other injury. j Russia's educational exhibit at Paris is j not flattering. Of the S0,000,000 people ! only 1,100,000 received public instruc-1 tion. The population of Berlin is at least 1,000,000, and it is said that there are only 35,000 persons who regularly attend church. The King of Burmah recently imprison ed all his Ministers for several hours because they were not punctual in attending a council. An English lady has learned in Egypt to make roses yield a preserve as delicious for the palate as their perfume is for the nostrils. The style of dancing at the Long Branch hops is peculiar to the place, and cannot be seen anywhere else except in asylums for the insane. A Texas lunatic jumped on a stallion without a saddle and it took a two days' chase to catch him. There was not a shoe left on the animal. The saloon-keepers of Wilkesbarre, Pa., are trying to foment a strike and labor troubles, in order to have troops sent there and business made lively. An exchange states that if a shirtbosom or other articles has been scorched in ironing, laying it awhile in the bright sunshine will take the discolored spot entirely out. A elce dress appears green by candlelight, because the light of a candle is tinged with yellow, and this yellow tinge, mixing with the blue dye of the dress. produces green. j In Hungary the national costumes have ! nearly died out entirely, every lady in j eyeryday life dressing as they do m Paris; i but, as far as eating goes, goose remains : as of yore the national dish. ; Among the lust things that strike the j traveler in Japan are the wooden sandals i worn by these 30,000,000 people. They j have a separate apartment for the great toe and make a creaking noise on the ; street. The boss tarantula of the San Joaqu.n j valley is on exhibition at Stockton, Cal. ; This curiosity's body is two and three- . quarter inches long, with legsto match, i each leg being about as long as the body, i He is black, w".th dark gray hairs and : wool covering his body. A Pennsylvania Brutus, revolver in j hand, drove his son back to the owner of j the boots the young man had stolen. The i young man then stole them again, and j Brutus took him to the station-house, to to be placed among the other thieves. j The number of native christians in In-! dia is given in the new"missionary directory" as 266,301, an increase of 42,133 in four years, and of native communicants 63,089, an increase of 15,873. The directory gives the names and address of 960 missionaries and native pastors in India proper, not including Burmah and Ceylon. An official t-tatement of the public debt of Great Britain on the 31st of March, gives the following figures: Funded debt of the United Kingdom, 710,843,007, and the unfunded debt 20,0('3,000; capital value of terminable annuities in 3 per cent, stock, 16,335,5S'), and the deficits due the savings banks and friendly societies on the 20th of November, 1877, 1,370,3. Since the first great exhibition, or for twenty years, from 1851 to 1S71 , London has grown very rapidly. In 1851 there were 306,086 inhabited houses and 2,303,405 people. In 171 there were 410,012 inhabited houses and 3,266,987 people. In the twenty years ending with 1876, the total rateable annual value of property has increased from 11,283,663, to 23,111,313. The Moffett register still runs ita remorseless career i n Virginia. It shows that the good people of the Old Dornin-

ion's capital know full well how to crook j

the pregnant hinges of the elbow, for in the eleven months ending July 31 last, the register shows the consumption of 1,443,945 alcoholic dunks and 1,567,120 malt drinks, netting a total tux of 843, 937.06. A r.RiEFand successful temperance cutj sade has had Its being iu Springfield, Illi- j j nois. August Aarberger was in the hab- ! t of going home drunk at all hours of the ' morning and disturbing his neighbors, : ! with his drunken yells. The other mornj inghe was surprised to find himself seized i by half a dozen women, who knocked him j ; down, pulled his hair and rolled him in . : the dust. It was not until August feign- j ed death that his tormentors let him 1 ; alone. He has net been drunk since. ; California exchanges say that the irj ligation of that part of the S in Joaquin ! valley, in Tulare county, which was long j thought to be good only for stock raising, : i is entirely successful. 12 y ditches, 200,i 000 acres have been made to yield about j forty bushels of wheat per acre. AVater, ! continually supplied, is the only fertilizer ; the soil needs, and inundation serves also ' to level the ground, with the aid of meI chanical means, and to kill or drive away the ground s-quirrels, gophers, kangaroo, i rats, field mice, badgers, gray foxes and '. coyotes, which are destructive to farm i product. ! Bismarck, at last accounts, iattnued j parting with his big dog Sultan. The ani mal, while devouring his rations of meat, troubled by a bone in his throat which seemed to give him pain. The Princess Bismarck immediately began slapping the dog's neck in order to facilitate the passaf the bone, but Sultan, being very much out of humor, and not understanding the demonstration, rushed at his mistress and knocked her down. The bone disabled him from biting, or she might have been much hurt. So long as Sultan bit the servants or strangers Bismarck had no fault to find, but an attack upon a member of his own family necessitates the banishment of his trust' companion and protector. l.DIAXA STATE .iGWS, Fort "Wayne has thirty-one churches. Female tramps abound in the Northern part of the State. A new pleasure steamer that cost its owner $1,000, has been placed on Lake Manitou. Lightning rod agents, recently took over $2,000 out of Fulton County, for their wires. Considerable quantities; of blackberries were gathered this season in the graveyard at Akron. An archer' club at Greencastle is composed of young ladies who call themselves the "Ten Little Indians." An average of over thirty bushels to the acre was harvested from a farm in Madison county, this year from land that was cleared in 1822. Plymouth Democrat: The heathen of the South Bend Register, whose early musical education has been sadly neglected, talks about a fellow playing the tuber! Such baseness is seldom witnessed. Cabbage worms are said to be getting in their destructive work again this season. Black pepper, ground line and sprinkled over the cabbage is recommended highly as a destroyer of these pests. James I). Allen has, by will, left one thousand dollars to the M. E. Church in Rockport, the interest of which is to be applied to the payment of the pastor; and one thousand dollars, the interest to be used in the cause of temperance. A walnut knot was recently stripped from a tree, at Summitville, which brought $55.10, at Indianapo' is. It was bought on the land where it grew for 2, and weighed 1,000 pounds. The knot is said to be of the finest quality ever shipped from Madison county. Peru Republican: The wheat crop of Jacob Snider who lives near Roann beats all that we have yet heard of. He had 3,000 bushels altogether, and the whole crop averaged 26 bushels per acre except one field which yielded 36 bushels per acre, lie engaged 2,400 bushels of it before threshing at 85 cents a bushel. The Rochester Independent give the following picture of society in Aubbeenaubbee, Fulton county: Scandal-mongers are rampant ;in this vicinity. Lios are manufactured and gratuitously uiotributed, without money and without price ad infinitum. "We will pay a liberal price for a sufficient quantity of brim stone to start at Aubl eenaubbee, hell. Rochester Sentinel : Felix McLaughlin, a well-to-do farmer of Wayne town ship met with quite a misfoitune last Sunday evening. His large barn, into which he had just stored away most of the products of his year's labor, burned down, destroying everything, including four valuable horses. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Richmond Telegram: While Harrison Ogborn was en route to Jackson's school house, a couple of miles southeast of the city, last Thursday evening, to attend a greenback meeting, he went to a house to enquive the way, and, doubtless thereby spoiled a scusalioual item. As he approached the house a big buck negro left it, and when he got in he found ,tlie only

occupant, a woman, almost frightened to

death. The black tramp had announced his attention of staying all night, despite the good woman's protestations and fears. As the man of the house would not be at home during the night, Mr. Ogborn drove to a neighbor's and had one of his boys to go back and protect her in case her visiuu returned. j Northern Indianian: Miss Emma E. j Finney, who resides at Etna Green, daughter of Rev. Ralph Finney, sends j us a quantity of the finest Weathersfield i onions that we have seen this season. The young lady has raised over a hun- ; dred bushels on a little more than a quurter of an acre of ground. This is a re maik: kable yield, and we hope the young find a ready market for her product, for she certainly dlady will summer's serves it. The Syracuse Gazette appears to think that Elmer Miles, of that place, is rather , unfortunate. Sometime ago he fell from I tree, and was badly crippled by a sharp 1 piece of wood which pen-t rated his foot, j Then he experimented with firecrackers! and had his eye almost blown out : and j week before last he fell from a lad der to ; the ground, a distance of about eighteen feet, striking upon his back and injuring him considerably. He will get hurt yet, if he is not careful. Wabash Plain Dealer: A sad acci dent occurred on the Mill Creek Pike, last Monday evening, 3.V miles ,sou'.hwest of Wabash, resulting in the death of Mr. Eii Sullivan, an early settler in the southwest part of the county, aged about 60 years. Mr. Sullivan had been to town during the day, imbibed pretty freely of whisky, and as he was on his way home with his team and a load of stone, fell from the wagon and broke his neck. The team moved on, and Mr. Teague seeing them without a driver stopped them and went to look for the owner, whom he found on the pike, a short distance from the team. Mr. Sullivan breathed but two or three, times after Mr. T. reached him. He was a man known, we presume, to every liquor vender in the place as in the habit of becoming intoxicated every time he came to town, yet some of ;them;"would always sell him liquor, and perhaps auy of Jthem would have done so. Who sold him liquor on Monday we do not know; perhaps it was not a saloonist; but whoeyer it was, he sold it to a man he knew to be iu the habit of becoming intoxicated, and in that condition in danger of being crippled j or killed in managing his team in going j home; yet for a pittance, or tor the sake of his custom in trade, he sel l or gave him the liquor that made him drunk, and drunk he fed from his wagon and was killed. Is not, therefore, the vender of the liquor guilty, to a certain extent at least, of the blood of Eh Sullivan? Mr. S. was a good farmer and a man of many excellent qualities, and leaves a soorrowing family to lament his sad death. Anderson Herald: On last Sunday morning abou 10 o'cloek, just proceeding a slight shower, a bolt of lightuingjstruck a two-story, three-gabled, tenement house, located in the center of the town of Eiwood, and occupied by a widow named French, and a family of the name of German, about ten persons in , all. The house was literally demolished, the shingles torn from the roof, boards stripped oil and carried a hundred feet, and windows in the house torn out, and the building left a mass of rums, lz one cor- j ner of the house, just under the sheeting, j is a hole about half an inch in diameter, j where the lightning entered and then struck the wall, twisting the main posts j into splinters, and pursuing its work of I destruction. Strange as it may seem, the inmates who, at the time were scattered through the lower rooms, escaped entirely unhurt. Richmond Palledium: Mrs. Graham, a lady about 05 years of age, residing near Arba. who is alllicted with epilepsy, went mto the Darn-yam in which was a lot of hogs, to milk the cows, Wednerday, and had a lit and became unconscious. Not returning as soon as expected, a party went to the barn-yard to look after her and was horrified to find her lying on the ground and the hogs engaged in eating her. "When driven off, the swine had eaten one of her ears off close to her head, mangled her shoulder, and chewed one of her hands horribly. She was taken to the house and cared for as well as could be under the ".circumstances, and a messenger was dispatched 'post-haste for Dr. Mclntyre of this city, who visited the old lady as soon as possible, and afforded all the relief in his power. The injuries are very severe, which, with her advanced age, makes her recovery extremely doubtful. Peru Rkpuiu.ican: A clearly defined case of hydrophobia was attended by Dr. Ellis, last Friday. Samuel Clark, a young man, was attacked at the residence of Mr. Bennett, on Pipe Creek near the Cass county line. Some members of the family, attracted by his barking went to his room. He was quiet for a moment, but appeared to have much fever. Mrs. Bennett took a basin of water to bathe his head. At sight of the water Clark was seized with a violent paroxysm from which ha did not rally for six hours. He made desperate attempts to bite the per sons in attendance. The alarm he'l was rung instantly and neighbors came iu to

assist in the care of him. The Doctor

happened to be near and was called iu. Chloroform was administered until it Was possible to tie the unfortunate man to the bed to prevent his injuring the attendants. After the paroxysm passed oil' lie improved rapidly and was sent Monday to friends iu Canada. It is not known that he was bitten by a rabid dog. VEWS OF Till WEllk. The cotton operatives at Radciilie, England, are on a strike. A large number of Turkish officers have surrendered to the Austrians. The grand prize has been awarded Edison, for his inventions, by the Paris Exposition. l lie sensation m lrgmia tor a month i has been the proposition of the wnmt. n to pay the State debt, to save the shame f repudiation. Dennis Kearney has written a k"t:r abusing the people of Bloomington, 111., for not raising money to pay his expenses while there. The population of England and Wales, according to a recent ccsus, is 21851,397; of Scotland, 3,593.!29, and of Ireland, 5,436,040. Total of the United Ki c gdom , 03,881,906. Messrs. Seward, Minister to China, ard ex-Consul General Bradford, subptcnacd by the Springer Congressional Investigating Committee, have arrived, and are to be examined at an adjourned meeting of the committee in November. The imports o! Great Britain for the year 177 amounted to 37. J 52,799 in gold and silver and 3(.I4,419,682 iu merchandise. The exports for the same time were 39,79,119 iu gold and silver and 252,340,030 iu merchandise. That deficiency of untold millions in the United States treasury which kept i Senator Davis, ot West Virginia, awake! o'nights so long has disappeared before ' the investigation ordered by the Senate. ; The accounts balance to a cent. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press editorially estimates the wheat crop of' the State at 25,000,000 bushels; acreage, 2,225,961; average yield per acre, eleven bushels. Below a line due west from St. Paul the yield is probably ten bushels to the acre. It is slated from Serajevo that proof nas oeen discovered ot s-ervia s complicity in the Bosnian insurrection. Mod; tenegro is accused of a like violation of international obligations. The loss to the Bosnians at Serjevo is estimated at 1,000. The number of Austrians killed is said to be comparatively small, but many were severely wounded. In consequence of reports from Phillips county, Arkansas, that organizations arc being formed with a view io depriving the colored men of the privileges of voting at the approaching election, Governor Miller has caused an order to be promulgated declaring all such organizations illegal, and ordering them disbanded. The Government Commissioners who were appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians, having returned, repoit that the Indians would not agree to remove from their present, location to a point on the Missouri river, but were willing to go to a point southwest of the Black Hills in the sou'.harn part of Dakota, near their old reservation. Bolivia has sent a Consul General to New York with instructions to solicit American bids for an important railroad between the city of La Paz, numbering 100,000 inhabitants, aud the coast. The Germans now have full swing in that country, but the Bolivian government desires closer commercial relations with this country. The demand for, aud the trade in American manufactures is rapidly increasing in Russia. Heretofore Great Britan has almost monopolized that trade. The Philadelphia Press says eighty-one shipments of Pennsylvania products alone iron etc have gone to Russia since the first of last January. A year or two ago Russia bough; all her machinery and other iron and steel manufactures in England and Scotland. Our Wives. Philadelphia Bulletin. A young womau during the first week of her married life entertains vague suspicions that the statements of older wives, that the way to a man's heart is through his mouth, are true. Her Charles, who is almost, if not quite, exempt lrom human failings, .has already manifested a profound admiration for veal pies, and has openly expressed his detestation to overdone mutton. She accordingly builds up within her a fortress of resolution, iu which to guard that sacred treasure of a husband's affection. In her girlhood this young woman had spent much time iu cultivating her musical tasu in reading Emerson aud Carl le; she had been fond of pretty landscapes, and could use her pencil w ith eflect, aud she had been heard to declare with pride that when she married she would give up none of these things. Let us visit her now, at the end of ten years of matrimony, and we will find that she has broken her vow and thrown it to the winds. We find a tiresome sort of persou, whose whole intellect Is absorded in attending to the cares of housekeeping and iu getting stylish dresess for her children. Her conversation ris's sildom above the level of infant gossi; ai;d servants, and the only ideas devel pe .1 by time and experience are expressed iu her conviction that nu n are the m st ' nieasoimble and selfish of creatures, and wo-

men the most abused and self sacrificing. There is a great eyii somewhere, but what is it The husband acknowledges to himself that he is disappointed in the wife he has chosen, and yet he finds difficulty in pointing out his mist ike, and hardly finds cau-e to blame her, for is she not a faithful wife, a devoted mother and a most frugal manager? The mistake is a national characteristic. So pass ionate and intense Is the American mind in purj suit of its temporary interests, the men

! will sutler the cnains of business to bind j them do.vn and throttle them, while their wives bend beneath a similar yoke of I duty at home. j What is lacking is the power to raise ! above these petty annoyances of daily ! life; we need to learn to distinguish trifles from all iirs of moment, to know that I every moie hill is not a mountain. We j need" not forsake the upper strata of seutii incut, thought and ideality the atmosI pbcre of the soul because we know there is a lower one of routine and small vexa- ! Hons, iu whi h our feet a'x told to tread. To breathe iu the one is to receive j strength and refreshment for exertion in ; the other. It is a good plan to pick up ! needles and pins from the floor, but to .pickup pins ought not to be made the ' chief obj.-ct of existence; for if we move along witli our heads constantly down ward we most assuredly will see nothing . better than pins or needles to the end ot , our days. Sea Sick Animals. W;:;-i.ii;:r.!l STur. It is a fact perhaps not w idely kno vn that mo.-t of the iid animals procured for the meuagenes and zoological gardens of Europe and America are brought from Attica by a German New Yorker named . Keiehie, who has an aquarium in that '; city. It is another curious fact that these animals should come from Africa mainly through North Germany. It seems they are collected in Africa, (mainly cubs) and ; brought to Trieste, and thence to North Germany, and from there are distributed ; to the countries where they are needed. It thus happens that the North German j steamers frequently carry these animals i to the United Stales, and it is interesting ; to hear about their habits on shipboard. I The lions, tigers and hyenas are great ; cowards in a storm. They also sutler a j great deal from sea sickness, and whine ' about it. Tiie elephant has little to say j when he is sea-sick, but he sways his great head lrom side to side and looks ' "mutterahle things." It has been dei scribed by a famous writer (Chas. Reade) how the sagacious elephant iu storms at sea saves himself from hi lug washed oil the deck by throwing himself flat upon ; b;s hcllv, with all his 1;air legs and hi:; trunk spread out with suction poer upon tie ph-.nks. Captain Neynaher being interrogated upon this point remarks with a sly wink iu the diicction of the undersigned, that it will not do to believe all we see in print, lie says that no shipin .ster would undertake to carry a loose elephant on deck. A loose elephant : tumbling about in a gale would be a more : dangerous object than the loose gun told i of by Victor Hugo. The elephant and i ail the other wild animals transported by ' steamer are confined in thestiougest kind I of boxes, and the boxes themselves are secured in the firmest manner. The j horse, it appears, is the most nervous and sensitive animal that goes to sea, and a hen shows the most utter disgust with i life when sea-sick by vomiting and ec centric movements. The Beginning of Chinese Immigration. The first Chinaman who came to America, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, was Chum Miug, in IS IT. He was a native merchant of Nai Sing, a province of Canton, intelligent aud enterprising. He went into the mountains, aud, finding gold, wrote to a friend, Cheong Yum. in 1848, about the neiv country. Cheong Yum immediately came to the Pacific slope, but, before doing so, told a number of his countrymen of the discovery of gold in America. It w as then that the Chinamen began to iloek to the Pacific slope. There ?vere at that time no steamers to bring them, so they came in sailing vessels In IKt'.lthe rj gonauts began to arrive from the east, and at that time the Chinese influx was a mere drop iu the bucket. Within the next four years the arrival of Mongolians became more frequent and in larger proportions, so that in 1852 there were four thousand on the coast, two thousand of whom lived iu San Francisco. As soon as the tide of Chinese emigration had set in toward California, the Yeoung Wo and the Kong Chow, the first two of the present six companies, bi gan the business of aiding the shipments. Fortune-Tellers Almanac. To dream of having a great number of servants is madness. To dream of a bear foretokens mischief which your vision shows you is bruin. When a fashionable young lady dreams of a filbert it is a sign that her thoughts are ruuniug upon a Colonel. To dream that your nose is red at the tip is an intimation that you had better leave oil brandy aud water. To dream of a mill stone about your neck, is a sign of what you expect if you marry an extravagant wife. If you dream of cloth, it, is a warning not to go to law; for, by the rule of contraries, you will be sure of a non-suit. To dream of tire is a sign that if you are wise you will see that ail the lights in your house are out before you go to bed. It is very lucky to dream that you pa for a ihtng twice ov r; since afterward you will -i.ibably tal-.e care to have all of your bio receipted. For a p. tson in unembarrassed circumstances to dream that he is arrested, is very fortunate; for it is a warning to him on no account to accept a bill. When a man enters the postot'iee and sees a woman standing at the delivery, he braces up, smiles, and concludes to wait patiently a few moments. If there tire two women there, he sneaks up behind them and tries to wink to the clerk to get his mail. But when one of the women enters into conversation with the official as to the reasons why the magazine has not come, and how long before it w ill be here, and if he is sure he looked in the right box, the citizen jams his hat down over his eyes and strides out of the postoffice lobby in a way that would do credit to a professional pedestrian. The next day he negotiates for a lock-box.