Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — In Heaven. [ARTICLE]

In Heaven.

It has often been noticed, so often that the subject is trite, how often a vein of comedy is found in the deepest tragedies of life. This is exemplified in a remark of Godwin to his dying wife, the char* acteristic of that unsentimental materalist to.be passed over. In one of Mary Woolstonecraft’s last hours, when she was mi fieri ng acute agony, Mr. Basil Montagne ran to Dr. Carlisle, and returned before the physician with an anodyne which he administered himself, raising her in lied to give it. The medicine had an immediate effect, and she turned to her husband, who held her hand, with a sigh of relief, and said, “Oh, Godwin, I uni in heaven I” But even at that moment Godwin declined to be entrapped into the admission that heaven existed, and he calmly replied, “You mean, my dear, that your physical sensations are somewhat easier* " “Shvt Your Moctjb.”—Catlin taught the world the importance of shutting tu© mouth and breathing through the nose. It would seen that his little book entitled ‘Shut your Mouth,’ is bearing fruit in Germany where new thoughts receive more attention from physicians tlum anywhere else in the world. Respiration by the mouth is easier than by the nose, but it is not so safe. The now to a certain extent fits the air for entering the lungs. The aenae of smell warns us against oreatlung an air loaded with poisonous vapors. The moisture of the iiaaal cavities to some extent saturates the air, and makesit leas irritating to the throat and larynx. The mucus of th® hairs catch the dust before it goes for enough to harm. On the other hand. hreathiM through the month dries the throat am in children may cause folae croup catarrh, and it may so effect the Eustachian tube as to cause injury to the ear and deafness.

flwi CORXDLMr * DDO OCMMMDu Ivy DM had. Sd: . AV.T fl- A-V Abia tbs lady; W, tEffakofc* I jSTlakl ft down Tbs dsrt was immsdfafely flisod with a severe attack of qmckened conscience, and passed right off of the subject of parasols on to U* weather. The Sub’s DiwAXCE.-lt will be remembered that tbe astronomer royal foi England some time ago announced to Pariiament that the sun’s distance, as 'lnduced from the British transit of Venns observations on December?, 1874. miles. This was conriderably greater than had been anlici pate-f. Mr. Stone, of Cape Town, has rediscureed the observation by picking and choosing among them and casting out those which appear least valuable. The result is a distance of 91,940,000 miles. Singularly, though. Capt Tupman. who was in England and ignorant of Mr. Stone’s calculations, bad just obtained the same result by the same method, on the very day that Mr. Stone’s letter of announcement arrived. ’ Catabjh Remedy.-—ahe following remedy for catarrh, is pronounced a certain cure for that disease: “Burdock, yellow-root, dandelion and red-clover roots, each 4 ounces, two gallons of water and a small handfal of hope. Boil slowly one hour, strain and com, and then add a large cupful of yeast. When it has fermented set it to a cool place, and take a small fal three times a day. But ia addition to the above, mnllen-learea, prepared as tobacco, should be smoked three times a day." Love or Counts*.—Teach your daughters and your sons alike, next to honoi; next to the love of home, to love their country. Then, wlien her need comes, If come it must, in any struggle her honor will be as their own, and fife itself will not be too dear to offer for her sake. Who tliat remembers a battle, a husband or son sacrificed, who that ever saw a soldier die, or stood in any silent city of the country’s slain, or in a churchyard where the village heroes rest, can ever make our country seem again a vague or visionary thing? —He who has nothing to do to this world but to amuse himself, has got the hardest job on hand. —At dinner the host introduced to tbe favorable notice of the company a splendid truffled pheasant, amid murmurs of admiration. “Isn’t it a beauty,” he says. ‘Dr. So-and-so gave it to me—killed it himself." “Aw, what was he treating it for?" asked one of the guests. - —Some people believe they can think faster on railroad trit ins than anywhere else, the theory being that tbe rapid motion quickens the action of the mind. Some influence of that kind may have affected a man and woman who met for tbe first time while traveling from Elmira to Philadelphia. They sat in the same seat, fell into conversation, were irresistibly attracted toward each other, and at the end of seven hours, were married. —To clean off the ugly scratches left »n paint by lighting matches upon it, cut a sour orange or lemon in half; apply the cut half to the marks, rubbing for a moment quite hard: then wasn off with a rag, dipped first in water to moisten it, and then in whiting. Rub well with this rag, dry thoroughly, and nine times out of ten the ugly marks will vanish. Of course, sometimes they are burned in so deeply that they cannot be quite eradicated. '-Prof. Ottoni. the Roman artist, haa oil exhibition in London, “Christ Dying on the Cross." which, by means of a false shadow on tne upper eyelid, the face is given the look of life or death, according to the point of view of the spectator. Several years ago a crucifix to a German gothic cnurch, at Remagen, attracted a good deal of attention from this device, and the same trick was repeated by Herr Gabriel Max, in hie ‘‘Head of 0u r Savior." —Dr. Huiliet.late of Pondicherry, undertakes to show, that vaccination was known to a certain Dahu wan tori, who flourished several thousand years before Hippocrates. Dr. Huillet arrived at this conclusion from tbe contents of certain Hindoo manuscripts preserved at Pondicherry, in which are described the effects produced by innoculating the human subject with the matter taken from a man or cow. The secondary disease is described as identical in appearance with its* source, with this difierence-' that it is quite harmlees.

—ln selecting flour first look to the color. If it is white wfth a yellowish straw color tint, buy it. If it is white with a bluish cast, or with black iu it, refuse it. Next examine its n<lheflivenewt its*. and knead a little of it between your fingers; if it works soft and sticky, it is poor. Then throw a little lump of dried flower against a smooth surface; if it foils like powder, it is bad. Lastly, squeese some of the flower tightly m your hand; if it retains the shajie given by the pressure, that, too, is a good sign. It is safe to buy flour that will stand all these tests. < * —A Troy inventor will shortly take out a patent for a cataphene. By means of wires stretched along backyard fences and house-tops he conveys, with the aid of some simple machinery, all concatenate caterwauls into an air-tight barrel. By another simple contrivance the sound in the barrel can be compressed, and can be used in quantities for fire and burglar alarms. The inventor predicts that he will give to the boys something that will make Rome howl in place of dangerous firecrackers for Fourth of July celebrations. For blasting rocks, he says it is just the thing. "“Bev. Dr. John Hali warns the young ®en of America that they are threatened by four perils, which are: Shallowness ta business training, dislike of a trade, lac* of any settled purpose in life, and enervating pursuits. Four dangers also confront toe community in general. Th KH? public spirit, weak commercial conecience, an exaggerated idea of personal and the feebleness of the prevaiMng rolfoious life as evinced by enormous church debts, the dearth of aUe ministers and the intellectual gymnasti<» to which some clergymen resort In their efforts to obtain hearers. —The Chinese mode of wearing toe ?*kee the flowery land the paradise of barbers, and the Chinese barber has not his counterpart the world over From dawn he is in the streets carrying upon his shoulders at either end ofa long bamboo adorned with an effigy of a chimerical creature, the paraphgA. nalia of his craft. Eagerly onthelookout for any one whose poll is ncApep. fectly shaven, as soon as he detectsrach a one he has him in a trice installed on as ivory. That done he passes on to the so. 7 to bear on the fingers of recalHtmnt d _- r h “ no < * her »an tired of UfeSS^it’S