Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — Gough’s Tact. [ARTICLE]

Gough’s Tact.

According to the report Of* committee of the New York Board of Health appointed to- examine into the recent case of diptheria among some children of Amsterdam, New York, a cat and a doll were mainly instrumental in spreading the disease.

There are 125 licensed distilleries in Scotland, no less than thirty-five being in Argyllshire alone Campbelltown has twenty-two within its bounds, and there are five in Islay. In Banffshire there are eleven distilleries, including the celebrated Glenlivet establishment, of which the praise has long been sung. It still holds first position among Highland whiskey. An exchange says: “A lady residing in Berks County, Pennsylvania, has some painful coincidences associated with the anniversary of her birth. On her birthday two years ago her sister died. . Last year her youngest daughter died on the same date. This year her eldest daughter died on the sadly notable anniversary.” She must stop having birthdays, and in that way change her luck.

In French Algeria the work of exterminating wild beasts is making rapid progress. The number killed, lor which rewards were paid by the Government, rose from 647 only in 1881 to 1;656 in the following year*. Among these the jackals figure for by . far the larger proportion, numbering on the total of the two years 1,969 out of 2,303. Besides these there were four lions, six lionesses, 119 panthers, and 196' hyenas.

Every one, rich and poor, takes a dip once a day in a caldron of hot water in Japan. The rich bathe lief ore dinner and at night The whole household dip in the same water. Precedence is given to the visitorb, then the elders, followed by the young’ people according to age, and then the servants. On getting out of the caldron each bather gargles mouth and throat with cold aromatized water. They then fan each other until they are all dry. y

Drs. Richardson and Kerr in connection with Weston’s feat- of walking, that a man may take so small an amount of alcohol in a light beer that it will be of no effect one way or the other; but when he resorts to it as a promoter of strength or sustained physical effort, and takes a quantity such as he believes necessary for that purpose, it is then that he will discover his error. The Lancet says: “Whatever inference we draw or refuse to draw from Mr. Weston’s walk, it remains one of the most surprising feats that was ever performed by man.”

The Breslaur Aerztliche Zeitscrift gives statistics for the German universities for the summer of 1883: Berlin, 4,061; Bonn, 1,165; Breslin, 1,559; Gottingen, 1,104; Greifswald, 741; Ha11e,1,414; Kiel, 441; Konigsberg, 929; Marburg, 848; Munster, 318; Erlangen,. 641; Freburg, 823; Giessen, 464; Heidelbnrg, 1,019; Jena, 631; Munich, 2,225; Strassburg, 834; Wurzburg, 1,085; Leipsig, '3,097; Bostock, 231; Tubingen, 1,373. Of these 25,284 students, 6,172 studied medicine, 9,117 philosophy, 5626 law, 3,558 evangelical theology, 811 catholic theology.

Milne Edwards, the naturalist, is giving in Paris an interesting exhibition of submarine plants and animals found during his exploration of the Mediterranean. He took soundings to the depth of 19,685 feet and brought up some of the most remarkable organisms ever seen. They are said to have puzzled the most accomplished naturalists, some es them being of such a nature as to make it difficult to classify them either as belonging to a botanical or zoological, species. The dregings were on a large scale, samples of rock weighing over 200 pounds being sometimes brought up.

A gikl not yet 17, Miss Rossiter, of West Philadelphia, is at the head of women silk culturists in the United States. She has written a pamphlet on silk culture, which is claimed to be an* thority. She rears and sells worms, eggs, cocoons and reeled silk. She has made meantime the largest and handsomest private collection of objects pertaining to her occupation in the United States. Silk culture is a fascinating and comparatively new occupation for women and children in this country. It is said that it can be made remunerative and can be carried on wherever the mulberry will grow. Most of the cocoons in this country, hqgfever, are grown by women in the Spfith. Jealous wife was she whom Wesley married, fit is toll that when. Mrs. Wes. leyr wearied «f her husband’s .liberal and unsettled life she playing the spy, opening his letters,fallowing him from totrn to town, ifid plaguing

hirfi in every way, openly and secretly, that her malice could contrive. “J3y her outrageous jealousysays Sou thy, “she deserves to be classed in a triad with Xantippe and the wife of Job as one of the three bad wives.” She proved a thorn in the flesh of Wesley for twenty years, and at last she left his house, carrying off his journals and papers, which she never returnedHer husband acted in a way which may be recommended to the attention of all who are tried with jealous wives. He simply stated in his diary the fact of her leaving, saying he had no idea what the cause had been, and adding: “I did not forsake her; I did not dismiss her•, I will not recall her.”

The Russian authorities ruling over the newspaper press continue to distinguish themselves by effecting the most ridiculous results. When the funeral of the late Count Vladimir Adlerberg took place recently, the Emperor and Empress and nearly all the Imperial Grand Dukes and Duchesses were the most conspicuous among the chief mourners, and the Emperor even rode for a short distance behind the remains in the procession, which is an honor reserved by the Russian Czars almost entirely for deceased members of their own imperial families. For three days the Official Messenger did not publish a single word about this great public funeral, and all the other journals gave their different accounts without uttering a syllable as to the presence of the imperial family. They were deterred by the standing order forbidding all mention of movements of imperial personages until officially chronicled in the Government Gazette. Yet the fact of the imperial presence at the funeral was telegraphed the same night to Moscow, and unreservedly published the next day in M. KatkofiTs favorite jour nah

It is probable that within a few years the storing and selling of ice will be dispensed with. By mechanical anc chemical devices a cold atmosphere can be induced of a temperature so low that artificial ice very readily forms. These are used where many animals are killed and stored for food between the decks of vessels which take dressed meats from America to Europe, and in storage warehouses in which are kept eggs, butter, cheese, meat, and poultry. In the St. John*s Railway Depot in New York is a series of some ninety rooms, covering an area of 30,. 000 square feet, which are kept at a freezing temperature all the year round by means of a pipe running along the ceiling through which the freezing mixture from the tank is sent. In a great' apartment house in West 23d street, in New York, there will be a cooling as well as a heating apparatus affecting all the rooms. In addition to being lit by electricity, and heated by the steam from the engine that runs the dynamos, every room will contain a coil through which will circulate a freezing mixture forced up from the cellar. Thus on a burning hot day in July and August the occuparts of this great apartment-house can turn on the cooling air and produce ice in their rooms, if they wish to do so. Saloon and sleeping cars can be refrigerated in mid-summer, and thus kept comfortably cool. The manufacturers of the apparatus say that after the first cost of the plant,, the running expenses would not be 2 cents a day for each refrigerator, which is, far cheaper than ice, apart from the cost of handling and storing the latter. With this apparatus, the heated plains and the buring sand of the torrid zones may be made not only habitable but comfortable for the average man or woman of. the temperate regions of the earth.

It is not expedient for a lecturer to be so eulogistically introduced to an audience as to arouse expectations which he cannot meet John B. Gough relates how he managed to escape from such a catastrophe when introduced to a London audience: His introducer had pronounced him the greatest orator who had ever lived, and ended a long and fulsome eulogy by telling the people to prepare them- ■ selves tor suftfi a bam of elhjytr&nce as they had never before listened to. Gough, knowing that the best efforts he had ever made would, under such circumstances, fall far short of anticipation, determined to practice a ruse, and the ruse was to effect stupidity. He opened by stammering and hesitating, by beginning his sentence, and leaving them unfinished, until, as he said, the worst speaker in England could not have done worse. He soon overheard those on the platform whispering their disapprobation and censure, one man saying,— “Oh, this will never do here, yon know. It may all be very well in America. yon know, but in England, yon know, it is quite a different thing.” He still continued in his dull, disconnected way until he had seen that he had a background for his verbal pictures. Then he gradually adopted his natural manner, and as sentence after sentence rolled out, vivid and resonant from his lipa, his audience grew enthusiastic, and fairly roared with applause. He had never been more rapturously greeted than he was then and there-. Those who heard him declared that they had never known a man to change so after he had once warmed up.