Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — Page 3

RAINFALL OF THE UNITED STATES.

Thera is s small circle in Central Florida where .the annual rainfall ranges from sixty to seventy inches. There is a belt covering Western Alabama, Eastern Mississippi, also Southern' Louisiana for fifty to sixty miles on either side of the Mississippi river, where it measures from sixty to sixty-four inches. Bat the heaviest rainfall in the United States is in Alaska, where it is over eighty inches, and along the western coast of Oregon and Washington Territory, between the Cascade range and the Pacific, increasing from sixty eight-inches south of the Columbia river to eighty inches on Puget sound. In Central Georgia and South Carolina it is fifty-two to forty-eight; in Central North Carolina and Virginia, diminishing northward, it is forty-eight to thirty-six. Along the Atlantic coast, for about seventy-five miles inward, it ranges from forty-four inches at Savannah to forty in Connecticut, and thence increases to fortyfour in Northern Maine. Along both flanks of the Alleghanies and Blue Bidge it is nearly uniform at forty. In most of tne region south of the Ohio and Missouri, from Eastern Tennessee to Eastern Texas, it ranges from fortyeight inches in the south to forty-four in the north, and the latter is about the average for Southern Indiana and Southwestern Ohio. The average for Illinois and Northern Indiana and Pennsylvania is about forty. For Western New York, Northern Ohio, Lower Michigan, Wisconsin, Southeastern Minnesota and most of lowa it ranges from forty to thirty-two, diminishing toward the great lakes. West of the Missouri it ranges from thirty inches in Eastern Kansas to twenty-six in Dakota, and diminishes toward the Bocky monntains. In Southern Texas it ranges from forty-eight near the southeastern corner to twenty-eight on the'Bio, Grande, and diminishes to thirty-four in the northeastern, and twenty-nine in the northwestern corners. In California the rainfall ranges from sixty inches on the northern coast to nine or ten in the south, and diminishes inland to eight or ten in the mountain districts, and still less in the desert regions. As for the greater part of the region embracing all the Territories except Alaska, Washington and Southeastern Dakota, all of Colorado and Nevada, the western parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, and the eastern portion of Oregon, therainfall varies between ten inches and twenty-two. Here and there within this region there are districts almost rainless. This is most common in in Northern Arizona and Utah. —lnter Ocean.

THE RIGHTING SLAV.

There is no race of men so dangerous as the fighting Slav, the Montenegrin, the Bosnian, the Herzegovinian, the Croat. Austria knows too bitterly what a terrible antagonist is the cfcrilized Dalmatian when he takes up arms. If these wilder people ever had a character resembling the Buss and Serb and Bulgar, circumstances, have transformed them. Quick of intelligence, but stubborn, cunning though fearless, patient though excitable, the mountain Slav is a very .incarnation in man, of the perfected wild beast. Under a mask of soldierly frankness he is perversely treacherous, as a rule, but also he is bound to the death by his own shibboleths, if one knew them. Pity does not move him; his brain is cool while his passions blaze to madness. And he has the physical advantages which give his character full play. Generally tall, often gigantic, he is always strong, for none but the vigorous survive. His features are handsome; his eyes of palish bine or amber yellow have the keen look fitting to a warrior. A long, fair mustache up-cnrled hides his stem month; his bearing is martial, and his stride full of arrogant>self-con-fidence. Though, rough with his fellows, a man of the upper class is su perbly courteous to the stranger. And a manly costume sets off every advantage.—Belgravia.

BRIDGES AND RHYTHMIC VIBRATION.

• Measured -vibrations are more trying to any kind of bridges, and particularly to the suspension bridges, than irregular agitation. Music alone would not strain a bridge enough to injure it materially; but a regiment of troops keep- • ing step to music when crossing a suspension bridge would subject it to a very severe strain. Consequently it is customary to stop the music before troops reach the bridge, and let the men break step, and march more or less irregularly. The reason of all this is obvious. The structure will naturally suffer least strain when at rest. When in uniform

motion the bridge acquires a momentum equal to its entire suspended weight multiplied by the velocity of the motion. It is manifest that, in the case of a heavy structure, a uniform downward vibration, be it ever so small, would develop a momentum of many tons in the direction of a breaking strain. The same disturbing forces acting irregularly, so as to counteract one another, would be far less trying to the strhoture,

HOW PIANOS ARE INJURED.

There are more pianos injured by improper tuning than by legitimate use and the consequent natural wear of the instruments. The frame of a good piano, fully strung and tuned, is made to resist a tension equal to about eight* een tons. This severe strain relaxes as the strings recede from pitch, but is renewed when the piano is tuned, and it is frequently discovered, as a result of this revealed process, that the frame is bent or bellied; at the hands of a tuner lacking judgment, an instrument of this stage is soon injured beyond remedy. With reasonable use, a piano is expected to remain in good condition for seven years, and the best makers will so guarantee their instruments; but the incompetence of some tuners injures thousands of intruments in a few years.

In tuning a piano the correct method is to begin in the center of the instrument, on middle C. Yet many tuners when leaving middle C, instead of going down the scale and tuning the lower notes first—thus immediately bringing the greatest tension to bear upon the frame, and forming a solid foundation upon which to operate—will go up the scale, beginning with the highest notes, leaving the bass strings until the last, with the invariable result that, when the tuning of the lower portion of the piano is completed, the upper octaves are decidedly away from pitch. Every time a piano is tuned in this manner it increases the liability of bending the frame, and renders the instrument more difficult to tune and keep in tone. Many tuners do not carefully note the condition of a piano, and adapt- their treatment to the circumstances of the. case with full knowledge that a bent, weakened, or very old frame will not stand the extreme tension or sustain the strings at the high pitch which can be put upon and borne by a frame and wires which have never been injured through ignorance or neglect and bear no special marks of time or use. There are very few pianos, even those of the best description, that will stand at concert pitch. Were the matter generally understood by the owners of the pianos, they would consider it greatly to their interest to have their instruments tuned by persons in’whose hands there is the least possibility of accident or injury.

A TRIFLING DIFFERENCE.

A Jerseyman called upon a New York lawyer and announced that his rich brother had drawn up a will and died, and that —” “ Ah! I see!” interrupted the attorney, “and you want me to bust it. Very well, sir; we’ll plead insanity. ” “Oh, no—he wasn’t insane. You see the will leaves everything to—” “To his second wife, or some church or college. Have no fears, my dear sir. I can bust the business high-sky. Well plead undue influence.” “But I influenced him myself!” “All, that alters the case somewhat; but I’ll prove to the jury that he was afflicted with softening of the brain.” “For Heaven’s sake, don’t do it!” “But I njust and shall bust the will.” “Then I’ll have to find a lawyer who can’t, for it’s drawn in my favor, and I want to beat all the other heirs!” “Ah! certainly! that alters tne case. Your brother was sane, sensible and in perfect health; and all the lawyers this side of Halifax- can’t break the will! Sit down, sir!” —Wall Street News.

DEVOTION REWARDED.

When the small-pox threaffened to bring the life of Prince William of Orange to an end, nothing, the doctor said, could save the patient unless some healthy young man became his bed-fel-low, and, by 4 enfolding him closely in his arms, should impart sufficient heat to his body to enforce the obstinate disease to break out. William’s page, Bentinck, volunteered for the dangerous office. The experiment succeeded, and the faithful youth escaped unharmed to share his master’s rising fortunes, became Prime Minister of England, and founded a Ducal house in the land of his adoption. Wadlky, Ga. —Dr. B_RL Doyle says: “I consider Brown’jß.lrbn Bitters superior as a tonic any. preparation now in usa”

Rescued from Agonising Death.

New Yam.— Mr. James White, 15SS Broadway, formerly chief instructor in Dickels’ Biding School, in this city,, said to a newspaper reporter: “ I broke my shoulder, arm ana elbow, splitting the socket in four parts. Rheumatism set in, and I employed the best physician. He fried everything, but I grew worse, and at last he said: * I have one more thing to fry, and if that fails nothing can give you relief, and that is St. Jacobs Oil.’ I used this great pain reliever, and am able to use my arm, free from all rheumatic trouble. I have also reopmmended the remedy to a number of people, and in every case they have been speedily and effectually cured. ”

HE BLEW THE BUGLE.

A small party of Austin young men were standing on the corner of Austin avenue and Bebeoca street. They were curiously examining a bugle belonging to one of them, and as a stranger came along an animated discussion arose. “I wish I could play on it,” said one. “Play on it!” exclaimed another. “I wish I could make a noise on it.” “It’s a pretty hard thing to do,” observed a third; “if you haven’t got the hang of the thing just right.” “Hard thing to dol” chimed in the stranger, halting and regarding the party with evident contempt, “why, I could blow a bugle before I was a foot high.” “Well, some bugles are different from others,” Said one of the young men. “Gimme that bugle,” said the strange excitedly. It was immediately handed him, and putting it to his lips he made one trial trip. There was a subdued splutter, and then the stranger commenced a kind of a war dance, at the same time holding his mouth in both hands. “Great Cleopatra’s Needle!” he yelled, with tears streaming from his eyes. “Who in thunder filled that mouthpiece with cayenne pepper? I’m small, gentlemen, light and fragile, but I can lick the man who peppered the horn.”— Texas Siftings. During the last century New York city doubled its population every seventeen years. The Sun thinks babies are living who will know of a New York city containing 10,000,000 inhabitants. A street-car line, with cars pulled by goats, is to be established between Butte and Walkerville, Montana,

Menhman’s Peptonized Beef Toma, the only preparation of beef containing Tts entire nutritious properties. It contains bloodmaking, force-generating and llfejmetaining properties; Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, ana all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard A Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. “Don't you think, Clara, that ydu oould love me a little?” And Clara answered, with her most engaging smile, “Yes, Fred, a very little. ” “In case I am recalled,” announced a young vocalist to a Western audience, “I shall sing ‘My Grandfather’s Clock.’” She was not recalled. Very few people nowadays suffer rfom suggestion of the brain. — JYr*. Partington. *lr you are a woman and want both health and beauty rembmber that all superficial efforts to Increase your personal charms are vain. Freshness and beauty accompany health, and to secure this Mrs. Lydia & Pinkham’s remedies for all female weaknesses offer the surest means of renovation. The highest intelligence loses its luster when it must find expression through a bilious complexion. Good for either sex The old saw, “fine words butter no parsnips,” is now rendered, “elegant diction oleomargarines no pasbinaca edulia. ” Paralytic strokes, heart disease and kidney affections, prevented by the use of Brown’s Iron Bitters. A girl has been arrested while disguised as an old woman. The old woman disguised as a girl is still at large Anamosa, lowa—Dr. J. G. McGuire says: “I know Brown's Iron Bitters is agood tonic and gives general satisfaction.” * Doss a man make a rye face when he asks if it is good for a drink?

Try the Gault House.

When in Chicago, try the Gault House, where you can gee every comfort and luxury of a high-priced botel at the low rate of $2 and $2.50 per day. The Gault has been rebuilt and refurnished; It is located In the heart of the wholesale district, only one block from the Union Depot , corner Madison and Clinton; elevator and all the modern conveniences. Menu and rooms best in Chicago. H. W. Hoyt, proprietor. Skinnt Men—'“Well*'Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cures dyspepsia,lmpotence. sl.

Personal I—To Men Only!

Thb Voltaic Belt Co.. Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated ElectroVoltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above N. B.— No risk is Incurred, as thirty days’ trial Is allowed. . _____ “Rough oh Bats"—Clears ont rats, mice, flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, chipmunks, lie. Cabbounk, a natural hair restorer and dressing, as now improved and perfected, is S renounced by competent authority to be le best article ever Invented to restore the vitality of youth to diseased and faded hair. Try it Bold by all druggists. “Buchu-Paiba. ” —Quick, complete cure, all anndying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, ft Ltoh’s Patent Metallic Heel BUfleners keep new boots and shoes from running over. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. Wells’ “Rough oh Cobbs.’*—lsc. Ask for it Comnletejwftnanentoure. Corns, warts, bunions.

Life is soon Jeopardised

By inaction of the kidneys, la bad mss their Inactivity and the consequent retention at tba Injurious constituents of the urine by the blood, produces coma and death. Bright’s disease sometimes culminates in this way. A gentle stimulus, when they become torpid, is often the means of averting more serious A diuretic, in which the stimulating principle is* modified by combination with botanic ingredients of known corrective potency, is to be (bond in Hoe tetter’s Stomach Bitters, which strengthens while It impells the kidneys to activity. It Is a far more useful means to this end than the unmedicated stimulants of commerce. Its early use for the prevention of kidney and bladder troubles is highly advisable, as such ailments are among the most formidableknown. This remedy also prevents and cores malarial maladies, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, heart-born, nausea, sick headaches, rheumatism and nervous troubles. “You have lovely teeth, EtheL" “Yea, George," she fondly lisped, “they were a present from Aont Graoa " Gama is one of the hardest-worked business capitals in the country.

WE SHOULD HELP ONE ANOTHER. Hr. Nobican Hunt, of No. 181 Chestnut St., Springfield, Haas, writes, April 10,1888, saying: Having the affliction caused by Kidney and llvar diseases, and, after enduring the aches, pains, weakness and depression incident thereto until body and soul ware nearly distracted, I aeught for relief and a cars from my trouble, and waa told by a friend who had been cored by it himaelf, that the beat and only sure core waa Hunt’* Remedy, sod upon hla recommendation I commenced taking it, and the first few doses improved my condition in a very marked manner, and a continuance of its use has J netifled all that my friends claimed for It—that it waa a sure and permanent cure for all diseaaea of the kidneys and liver. Several of my friends in Springfield have used it with the moat gratifying reaults, and I fool it my duty aa well aaa pleasure to me to recommend Hunt's Remedy in the highest possible terms." MANUFACTURER'S TESTIMONY. Hr. H. W. Panne, manufacturer of harness, aaddlery, trunks, valises, etc., No, 477 Halnatreet, Springfield, Hass., writes under date of April 10,1888: "Gentlemen—;l have used Hunt'a Remedy, the beat medicine for dlaeasea of the kidneys, liver, bladder and urinary organa, and have received great benefit to my health from lta use, and I find that it will do just what la claimed for it; it will cure disease and restore health. I therefore pronounce it the best medicine that I have ever need." BOSTON AND ALBANY RAILROAD. Albert Holt, Esq., Paymaster Boston and Albany railroad, at Springfield, Hasa., writes April 38, 1868: *1 have used Hunt's Remedy, and my experienoe with it has been such that I can cheerfully say that I am satisfied that it will do just what it promises to do, if oaed aooordlpg to directions, LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE OOMPOPKD. I« a Positive Cura Par aH these PalafWl Osasplaiata aad Ysstaaaail sr i —nrf “ i-tt- 1 -**— AHedielasfbrWoaui. Invented bjr a Woman. Prepared by a Woman. the flnatsst Hatha! Hesettry Mat* ito Pava es Vstsfy. tWTt revives the drooping spirits, Invigorates and tonnoalase the organic functions, gives eiaatlatty and Innnese to tha step, restores the natural lustra to the aye, and plants on the pale cheek of woman tha Crash rosea of Ufa’s spring and early summer time, tar Physicians Use It and Praacrlhe K Fraeiy.H* It remorse faintness, flatulency, destroys ell craving tor stimulant, and rellavee weakness of tha stomach. That feeling of bearing dowm, causing pain, weight tnd backache, la always permanently eared by its use. Par the ear* sfEUsty Complaints sf either sax this Oessps—d la oaaofpaaaad LYDIA E. PINKHAH'B BLOOD PURIFIER Both the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared ad sn and W Western Arenas, Lynn, Haas. Pries a< either, $L Six bottle* for lent by mall In tha form of pills, or efloaenges, oareoeiptof price, gl par bos for either. Era. Flakham freely answers all letters ad inquiry. Patinas tot stamp. Bead for pamphlet. * Bdt ° rP KT»oldby all Druggists.o) . - #7O A WEEK. sl3 a day at home eerily made. Costly WiJontiHfreo. Address True A Co.. Augusta. Halna. AGENTB WANTED MMffiyM ting Machine over Invented. Will knit a pair of stockings with HEEL and TOE complete in 30 minutes. It will also knit a great variety of fancywork for which there is always a ready market. Send for circular and terms to the Twombly Knitting Machine Co., 188 Tremout Street, Boston. Haas. A SURE RECIPE For Fine Complexions. 1 Positive relief and immunity from comulexional blemishes maybe round in Hamm’s Magnolia Balm. A delicate and harmless article. Sold by druggute everywhere. It imparts the most brilliant ana life-like tints, and the closest scrutiny cannot detect its use. All unsightly Discolorations, Eruptions, Bing Marks under the eyes, Sallowness. Redness,Roughness, and tne flush of fatigue and excitement are at once dispelled by the Magnolia Balm. Jt Is the one Incomparable Cosmetic.

StJacobsOil

DeUqpte and Feeble Ladies. Those languid, tiresome sensations, cawing you to feel scarcely able to be on you feet; that constant drain that 1b taking barn Sour system all its former elasticity; driving lie bloom from your cheeks; that continual ■train upon your vital forces, rendering yoa irritable end fretful, can easily be remove# by the use of that marvelous remedy, Hop B.tters. Irregularities and obstructions of your system are relieved at once, while tbs special cause of periodical pain are permanently removed. None receives so rnuah benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an Interest In recommending Hop Bitten aa women. Feels Young Again. *My mother waa afflicted a long time with Neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the whole system; headache, nervous prostration, ana was almost helpless. No physician or medicines did her any good Three months ago she began to use Hep Bitters with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although over 78 years old. We think there la no other medicine tit to use In the famlly-”--A lady, in Provideuoe. Bradford, Pa, May 8,1875. It has cured me of several diseases, enoh as nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly troubles, eta I have not seen a sick day In a year, since I took Hop Bitten. All my neighbors use them. Mu' Fannie Grebe $3,000 Lost.— “A tour of Europe that coat as ‘‘s3,ooo, done me less good one bottle of Hop “Bitters; they also cured my wife of fifteen “years’ nervous weakness, sleeplessness and “Dyspepsia.” B. M., Auburn, N. X High Authority. Hop Bitters la not, In any sense, an aleoheUs beverage or liquor, and oould not be sold Urn use except to persons desirous of obtaining • medicinal bitters. Green B. Baum, U. S. Com. Inter’l Rev. 80. Bloomville, 0., May 1, VA Sirs— l have been suffering ten years and I tried your Hop Bitters and it done me man good than all the doctors. Miss 8. B. Boom Baby Saved I We are eo thankful to say that our nursing baby was permanently oured of a dangerous and protracted constipation and Irregularity «$ the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by ito mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect-health and strength. The Punk Rochester, N. Y.

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