Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — Page 6

iThe Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIAN A. < E. MARSHALL, ~ Pubumbb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Thetis, Alert, and Bear arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the Ist inst, where Lieut Greely was joined by his rife and children*, from California, and his mother and brother, from Massachusetts. Secretary Chandler and Gen. Hazen extended their heartiest congratulations.... Ihe Wanuamaker Company's furniture factory, Howard’s Hotel, a planing-mill, (umber yard, and four saloons at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000,. . . The Delaware and Hudson and Plattsburg Dock Company’s freight houses at Plattsburg, N. Y„ with their contents, two warehouses, arid a number of loaded freight ears Were swept away by fire.... By the burning of a building at New York a child perished in the flames, and four persons were fatally burned. The financial loss is $55,000... .Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile at Providence in 2:10, beating the record of Maud S. The big hotels in the fashionable resorts the East are not as extensively patronsed this year as during last and previous seasons. People do not appear to have so much money to spend, and are willing to out up with boarding-house aceommodaaons in order to economize... .Nearly half ihe buildings in Afton, N. Y., were swept ■-way by fire, the loss being $75,000.

THE WEST.

An investigating committee of cattle men, iccompanied by a special State Commissioner, visited Rankkin, Neb., and discovsred that Texas fever, brought in a herd from Texas, caused the death of several aead of cattle there, and that some of the stock had been sent to Montana, undoubtedly spreading tire disease. The sale of meat by butchers at North Platte has been prohibited.... J. C. S. Harrison’s report as .•eceiver of the Indiana Banking Company if Indianapolis is understood to indicate a shortage of $95,611.05, and that he pleads poverty and inability to make up the shortige. Harrison was placed under arrest on a charge of embezzlement, his bail being fixed at $60,000.... Some frightened stockholders in the Barmum wire-works at Detroit levied on its oroperty to secure advances made, and forced an assignment. The concern employed 500 men.... The Commercial Bank »f Brazil, Ind., has suspended. Its assets ire nominally $170,000, and its liabilities $140,000, including” the entire” Schookfundt »f Clay County.... Seven horse-thieves were found 'dangling from trees at the mouth of Musselshell river, in Meagher County, MonLana.... In a freight train collision near Elkhart, Ind., one may was killed and three seriously injured. John C, Montgomery, one of the defendants in the Emma Bond outrage case, is about to begin suit against the members of the Christian County mob who threatened to hang him, and who actually put a rope around his neck, soon after the outrage for which he was afterward tried had been committed.... Mrs. Upmeier, of Cincinnati, undertook io split open a rocket with a hatchet. She lud her daughter were fatally injured by he explosion which followed, and two children were fatally hurt.... .Four daughters of Nathan Miller, residing near Marysville, Kan., were killed by lightning while lleeping... .The village of Luning', Nev., except the railroad depot, was destroyed by fire. - W. W.- Culbertson, a member of -Congress from Kentucky, who was stopping at "he National Hotel in Washington, fired five (hots into his head, inflicting dangerous wounds. The cause is said to have been depression from excessive indulgence in liquor. While practicing on the Shelbyville (Ind.) track, Miss Nellie Burke, the rider, was thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hurt, while, by rushing rgainst a fence, the horse, which was valued at $2,000, was impaled, and died on the spot. ...The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati was formally opened last week. Ihe r building cost SBOO,OOO. Tons of dead fish, chiefly perch, are daily taken from Fourth Lake, near Madison, Wis., and buried in the sandbanks outside the city. The cause of the mortality can not be learned. “Shadows of a Great City” is in the fourth week of a successful run at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. It will be followed text week by “The Pavements of Pans,” from the French of Adolph Belot, said to be a play of unusual strength and interest

Edgab L. Wakeman, of Chicago, has organized a company with a paid-up capital jf SIOO,OOO to continue the publication of his sterling literary work, the Current..... fit a reception tendered by the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce to Robert Harris, tie stated that the Northern Pacific intended within three years to complete its branches.... .Maud S. trotted a mile at Cleveland without a skip in 2:09f. She was not accompanied by a running horse... .The present wheat crop of Colorado —2,100,000 bushels—is 5 per cent greater than any previous yield.

THE SOUTH.

Hebbebt Leith, one of Stonewall Jackson’s soldiers, who lost both legs during the war of the rebellion, fatally shot his cousin, John Rawlings, at Leesburg, Va., during a drunken quarrel. Both men have been prosperous farmers. • An association formed in Hamburg has purchased 134,000 acres of land in the corner of North Carolina, next to Georgia. The agent will compromise with 1,500 squatters, and intends to colonize 2,000 or more Germans on the tract. Mbs. Fbances Stegall, a widow, aged , 70, who died a few days ago near Monroe, N. 0., confessed that she had murdered her husband by ppunng molten lead into his ear thirty years ago. She refused to say what was the motive of the crime.

POLITICAL.

The Prohibitionists are disposed, it is ■aid, to confine themselves to the effort to cany Kansas and Maryland for St John. If they can obtain a large campaign fund they may extend their operations to other States. The leaders have great reliance on the generosity of the California Prohibitionists. .. .Tire national Democratic notification committee waited upon Gov. Cleveland at the Capitol in Albany on the 29th ult

Col. Vilas, in addressing the-nominee, reminded him that he was sought out for what reforms he could accomplish as the servant of a free people, from high expectations created by his record as an administrator of ability and fidelity. The Governor replied by expressing confidence that the happiness and prosperity of the people lay in the application of Democratic measures to national affairs.

The notification committee of the National Democratic Convention went from Albany to Saratoga and officially informed Gov. Hendricks of his nom'nation for the Vice Presidency. The ceremony took place in a parlor of the Grand Union Hotel, Hon. W. F. Vilas , acting as spokesman for the committee. Mr. Bell, Secretary of the committee, read the formal address, to which Mr. Hendricks responded in a five minutes' speech accepting the nomination. Mr. Hendricks was then introduced to each member of the committee. A'general handshaking followed, after which the people paid their respects to Mrs. Hendricks, and then quietly dispersed. The Democratic Congressional Convention at Columbus, Ohio, nominated the Hon. Joseph H. Ou th waite. The present Representative from that district is George L. Converse, who was conspicuous for ms opposition to the Morrison tariff bill, at the last session of Congress. His high protective views led to his defeat fora renomination Congressman Collins, of Boston, has accepted the Chairmanship of the Massachusetts Democratic Committee,... The Republicans of West Virginia have formed a coalition with” the Greenbackers and' accepted the nomination of Maxwell for Governor.

Senator Mahone has secured the dismissal from the folding-room at Washington jof Col. W. E. Sims, with whom he had a bitter quarrel in the Republican National Convention, because the latter voted for Blaine. It is probable that the Democrats and Anti-Prohibition Republicans of Kansas will unite in the nomination of a fusion ticket for State officers and Supreme Court Judges. The Democratic- convention Will be held at Topeka the 20th inst., and the Anti-Prohibition Republicans will meet at the same place the same day.

WASHINGTON.

Following is a recapitulation of the national debt statement issued Aug. 1: Interest-bearing debt— Tour and one-half per cents..s 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.680,350 Three per cents 223,453,250 Refunding certificates 274,350 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt... ...$1,225,407,950 Matured debt.......$ 12,606,365 bearing no Interest-Legal-tender notes 846,739.431 Certificates of deposit 15,230,0 w Gold and silver certificates... 238,421,661 Fractional currency,... 6,978.491 Total without interest.. $ 605,369,593 Total debt (principal)sl,B43,3B3,B9B Total Interest.. 8.583,952 Total cash in Treasury 405,910,003 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding.......s 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 323'117 interest paid by United States Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 18,148 923 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 4 . 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 44,295,381

GENERAL.

John Caswell & Co., tea merchants, New York, hate failed. John Kimpel, carriage manufacturer, St. Louis, has made an assignment, placing his assets at $45,556, but not stating the amount of liabilities. Wall & Johnson, Milwaukee, druggists, were closed by the Sheriff; and P. M. Hargrave, private banker, at Lampasas, Tex., failed for $40,000. Richball and Johnston, the pacing horses, have been matched for a race for $5,000. Mb. Theodore H. Gbowney, a civil engineer of San Francisco, who has been employed on the Panama Cana), in an interview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, gives it as his opinion that the work will not be completed under the present management. The expense will exceed the estimates eight times. Extravagance and fraud have Characterized the conduct of the work so far, the contractors have been ruined, and the mortality among the workingmen has been great.... The executions of the week included three young white men at Scottsboro. Ala., for arson; Frank Williams, at Pine Bluff. Ark., for the murder of his wife; Wilson Stevens, at Edgefield, S. C., for killing a peddler; Frederick Cephas, at Cambridge, Md., for murdering Mrs. Murphy; Alexander Jefferson. in Brooklyn, for lives and terribly wounding a third person; and a negro named Charles Phillips, at Huntingdon, Tenn., for the murder of another negro.

Heavy rains have damaged hay seriously and caused the potato rot to put in an appearance in Quebec... .The customs authorities at Montreal raided four wholesale jewelry establishments and seized good:# worth $60,000 for undervaluation. At a picnic near Glasgow, Mo., two persons from Moberly got into a quarrel. Two policemen endeavored to restore peace when one of them, Tom Suphey, was shot dead by Harrison Mickey, one of the parties to the quirrel. A mob lynched the murderer A small party of mounted men took from the jail at Grange Court House, Va., a negro named John Fitzhugh, who had made a criminal assault upon a white lady, and hanged to a tree in the woods near by. At Raton, New Mexico, a greaser who had assaulted a young girl was given a horse-whipping by the American citizens and then hanged to a cottonwood tree by thirty men of his own race.

FOREIGN.

Cornwall, the English Secretary of the Irish Postoffice, has been returned for trial on four different: charges of immoral and felonious practices. .Mild forms of cholera have appeared at St Petersburg and towns in Russia. The trial of dynamiters at Warwick, England, resulted in a sentence of penal servitude for life for John Daly and a term of twenty years for James Egan. McDonnell pleaded guilty to treason-felony, and was released on bail, Daly admitted having buried nitro-glycerine in his garden.... Sixty-five pounds of dynamite were stolen from a magazine near Glasgow, Scotland. The thieves are not known, and some alarm prevails.... Henri Latibe, the German poet and litterateur, died at Vienna, aged 78 years. ....A panic prevails at Foo Choo, owing to the belief that war between China and France is considered inevitable. John Morley, the English Radical member of Parliament, said at a recent

political meeting in London in reference to the House of Lords: “We must end it or mend it. ” This is the motto of the English Radicals in their crusade against the House of Peers.... Mr. Gladstone, in annquncing the failure of the Egyptian conference, stated that, while the delegates agreed upon the necessity for a fresh loan, France refused to asßent to any diminution of dividends under the law of liquidation... .It is announced that the breach between Parnell and Davitt has been temporarily closed. The English journals, however, expect that Davitt will make trouble for the Pamellites at the time of the general election.

ADDITIONAL.

The Pennsylvania Railroad depot, ferryhouses, sheds, and drops at Jersey City, together with the piers, upon which were a number of loaded freight cars, were swept away by fire; A gas explosion caused the fire, the loss from which 1 amounts to about $600,000.... LieutJ Greely and his surviving companions were given a brilliant reception at Portsmouth, N. H. Nearly half the people of the State turned out to welcome them. As soon as they had disembarked a procession was formed, and they were escorted through the city amid the cheers of the assembled multitude. They were formally welcomed by Secretary Chandler, the Governor of New Hampshire, and the Mayor of Portsmouth. ,'o. Since Jan. 1 the imports of merchandise to the United States have exceeded the exports in value $75,739,902. In the same time the exports of specie exceeded the imports $36,124,187... .The fire losses during July in the United States and Canada aggregated $8,800,000, being the largest since the Portland (Me.) fire of July, 1866. Since -Jan. 1 the loss by fire has been $62,550,000. ....Returns from twenty-seven Clearing Houses of the United States show for last week an aggregate decrease of 6.1 per cent, compared with the corresponding week of last year. Outside of New York the decrease amounted to 19.2 per cent. Mr. Walker, the Irish Solicitor General, stated in theferitish Commons that Lord Lieutenant Spencer had decided to dismiss Crown Solicitor Bolton in consequence of the charges made against him in the Irish National press. It was for publishing those charges that O’Brien, the editor of United Ireland, was mulcted in $15,000 in a libel suit at Belfast. Lord Spencer evidently does not think the jury in the case acted without prejudice. Bolton will hardly try to recover the damages awarded.... Marseilles reports twenty-eight deaths from cholera on the 4th inst. There were no deaths at Toulon. The fact that the swallows and sparrows still keep away from the city is held to be evidence of a contaminated atmosphereAt Birmingham, England, 200,000 people assembled to indorse Gladstone’s reform measures. According to the reports of the Lynchburg (Va.) Tobacco Association the sales of leaf tobacco thus far this season have aggregated 19,000,000 pounds, 2,000,000 pounds less than the sales for the conesponding period of last year. The sales are now increasing and the manufacturers report a better demand. A. dispatch from Lexington, Ky., says: Reports from along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad give evidence of a bitter fight over the election of Appellate Judge from the First District of Kentucky. In an altercation at Enterprise, Robert Griffy shot and killed two men, and then died from the effects of a shot from the pistol Of one of his victims,, who fired before he was killed himself, or from the pistol of some Unknown person. At Morehead a fight took place near the polls between William Trumbo and H. G. Price, and after exchanging shots the fight became general. The first man to drop was Solomon Bradley, killed by a bullet above the ear. and the second death-was that of Add Sizemore, of Gates Station, and the wounding of Allen Sutlin and John Martin and John Day followed. The Sheriff is said to have killed Sizemore, but was shooting at someelse in the crowd. Many others were injured. At Someset, James Lay, 60 years old, and Bant Dalton, aged 50, met at the election and renewed an old quarrel, in the course of which Dalton was shot and killed. At an election booth in this city, J. G. Geers, a Republican, shot George Stewart, a Republican, killing him instantly, and Dick Muiphy disemboweled Jack Cleary with a knife.” Judge Hayes, of Clinton, lowa, released a liquor-seller who had been fined and committed by a Justice of the Peace. The effect of this decision is to take all liquor cases to the district courts for trial on indictments, by juries... .Fred Sharon, son of ex-Sena-tor Sharon, was married at San Francisco to Mrs. Louise Breckenridge, the divorced wife of the Hon. O. C. Breckenridge, and daughter of Mr. Lloyd Tevis, President of the Wells-Fargo Express Company.

THE MARKET.

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HENRY CLAY’S DAUGHTER.

The Sad Romance That Had Its Birth Beside t he Grave. Just to the right of the entrance to a small, illy-kept, almost unusued graveyard at Lebanon, Ohio, —a little cityfamed the state over as being the home for yeats of the most gifted orator of his tim'e, Thomas Corwin,—is a stained and moldy stone sarcophagus, less than three feet in height and six feet in length, inclosed by a rude fence of barbed-wire, stretched upon clumsy, unhewn posts. The yard bears every evidence of neglect. The ground around it is sunken, and the grass and briers clamber uj > the dingy stone tomb’s side andishow a disposition to cover it from view. And yet beneath those rough slabs of stone lie the remaing pf a noble young girl, upon whom in life was bestowed the extravagant love of one of America's grandest-minded men ; a young girl whose ultimate death saddened the life of one of the country's broadest and widest statesmen. The neglected grave contains tiie remains of a beautiful woman, over whose resting-place a fitting monument should be erected by the people whom her father’s brilliant talent so ably served. But it is neglected, uncared for, and almost unknown save to a few outside of Lebanon’s lirai s.

It is unpleasant to think that the offspring of such a noble parentage is thus permitted to suffer long years of almost utter neglect among a people who know the story of her birth and distinguished father’s merits, but true it is that in that humble grave lies the -remains of a daughter of Henry i laythe man whom Kentucky honors above all men; the man who labored so grandly in the interest of the nation, and who was within a step of the Presidential chair. Around that little grave clusters a mournful, romantic history. Henry Clay was one of the four prominent presidential candidates in 1824, striving for election against three other candidates —John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and Crawford, He received thirty-seven electoral votes for the position. >

The Electoral College failed to make a choice, and when the work of electing a President devolved upon the House of Representative, Clay, seeing that he could not win himself, carried his strength over to Adams, and secured the latter’s election. In March of the following year, when Adams organized his Cabinet, he Tendered Cl ay dim Premier’s portfolio. Clay Went to Washington, and after he had familiarized with the duties of Secretary of State, lie returned on a visit to his home in Kentucky, to see his family, among whom was a beautiful and intellectual daughter, Eliza, whom he particularly loved. Eliza at that time had just turned her 12th year, but she was wise and womanly for her years, and it was one of the principal objects of Clay's long and tedious journey to Kentucky to bring Eliza to Washington with him on his return. Travel in those days was not the easy, luxurious affair that it is now. The cumbersome stage-coach was the only public conveyance that traversed the pikeS, and the trip from Kentucky to Washington City was both long and wearying. Henry Clay and his daughter started for the Capital from Lexington, Kentucky, early in August, Miss Clay was father delicate physically, and found traveling by coach a very distressing affair, The hotel fare on the route did not agree with her, and the various changes and discomforts she experienced brought on a malady—inflammation of the bowels, I believe—that became so ala ming when Lebanon was reached that a stop was made here and medical aid summoned to attend the young lady at her hotel. She grew worse instead of better, and one night, after a delirious flight, followed by a beief period of consciousness, she died in her father’s arms. It was impossible for Mr. Clay to return home with the remains of his dead child, so it was determined to bury her here temporarily. The intention was to remove her remains to Kentucky, and place them in the family burialplace. Mr. Clay, sad-hearted and weighed down by grief, completed his journey to Washington. His busy and not untroubled life at the Capital, as Premier of A lams’ Cabinet, is a matter of public histpry. The grass over his daughter’s grave, and the snows of two winters, covered its meanly appearance with spotless mantles of white, and yet no move was made to have the remains transferred to Kentucky. In the third summer, I think, this rough sarcophagus was erected by Mr. Clay, who seemed to have determined not to disturb his daughter’s rest. (0.) Leader. ,

Borrowing Trouble.

The real troubles of life are few : the imaginary sorrow’s are many. Most persons habitually forecast difficulty, and imagine evils that are at least iu the future, if they exist at all. When the time arrives when the sorrow was expected it has vanished, -Many have speculated on the reason for this. Why should so universal an evil exist? Does it grow out of apprehensions resulting from our lack of prescience as to the future, or is it the outcome of disturbed physical Conditions? Dyspepsia or an inactive liver will fill the mind with gloomy ideals. Do all such impressions come from disordered health ? No doubt ignorance, superstition, and ill-health, or lack of mental have much to do with things. -Apprehension and fear are apt to attend what we do not understand. In the old, superstitious times a strange sound, a gloomy day. an eclipse and many other things caused apprehension. Even now there are those who, if they happen to find the number at table to be thirteen, are alarm- d. Dream> are thought by some tohave intimations of trouble. A dream of struggling with snakes means that a secret foe will assail. And so along a catalogue of superstitions. W-e have learned, however, that eclipses are governed by natural laws, and that unlucky numbers or days, and tliat dreams, rarely amount to anything, and are not suggestive causes of special results. Much that was regarded with superstitious awe is now looked upon as an exploded theory. And thus much of what we call trouble is even yet the

result of old superstitions not entirely banished, even from intelligent minds. But these are being gradually dispelled. The light of science is rapidly penetrating what was thought to be mysterious a. few years ago, and it is relieving much that was the cause of trouble and perplexity.— Philadelphia GaU* -

Emotional.

An orator who uses pathos should bp careful that he does not fall into bathos. The best precaution That he can take against such a disaster is for him to see to it that his emotion is real and not put on, and that it is expressed in homelv phrases and short words. In his eloquent speech against the continuance of the Crimean war, John Bright dared to be pathetic, even in the House of Commons, whose critical sense is always alive. At—one—pass age of the -peroration, —“The Angel of'Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of h s wings.” the silence was intense. The “beating” might have been heard could it have occurred. But as they left the House, Mr. Cobden, his friend, said to him : “Bright I tremble I for you to-night. If you had said flapping, we should have laughed at once.” But the ear of the great orator ivas too musical and his taste too sensitive to allow him to say “flapping” instead of “beating.”

“Ridicule is the test of truth,” says an. old aphorism. This may or may not be a true saying, but it is true that the pathos which cannot endure raillery is, at least, suspicious. An anecdote will make clear our meaning. In the days of our fathers, one of the most eloquent of advocates at the bar of New York was Elisha Williams. He was noted for the gracefulness of his delivery and famous for the melody of his flute-like voice. His power over a jury, when he used Iris pathetic tones —and he did in every case which admitted their use—was wonderful. Mr. Williams seldom failed to secure a verdict for his client when he played to jurors oh his human Hute. But on one occasion he failed so ludicrously that court and spectators were convulsed with laughtei. He was defending a man charged witn murder. The jury was made up of countrymen, each one of whom was thrilled by the pathos of the orator.; The friends of the murdered man had retained an unlettered pettifogger, of great local reputation among the farmers, to assist the District Attorney. This ignorant man, following the defence, said: - "Gentlemen of the jury, I should despair, after the weeping speech, which has been made to you by Mr. Williams of saying anything to do away with its eloquence. “I never heard Mr. Williams speak that piece of hisn better than what he spoke.it now. Onct I heerd him speak it in a case of stealin’ down to Schaghticoke. Then he spoke it agin in a case of assault up to Alsopus, and the last time I heerd it, before jest now, was when them niggers was tried—and convicted, too, they was—for rpbbin’Van Pelt’s hen-house, over beyond Kingston. 7 ...........

“But I never knowed him to speak it and affectin’ as what he spoke it just now.” The juiy looked at one another shyly, as if ashamed of the tears they bad shed. Then they whispered together. The pettifogger saw at once that he had convinced them. lie was shrewd enough to -top with the single remark, — “Gentlemen, if you can’t see that this speech don’t answer all cases, then there's no use of my saying anything more.” There was not; his ridicule had done its work. There could not have been truth and real power back of the pathos. The jury gave the pettifogger their verdict.— Youths' Companion.

Decorative Dogs.

Any one who has thought about it has noticed that the dog-star is in the ascendency now. No home is complete without a papier mache dog which is usually an artificial pug, the real article being much too high for ordinary service. Dogs of pasteboard are frequently seen in the window’s of even stately dwellings, w’here, half revealed, half concealed by the lace curtains, and held in place by a real brass chain and collar, they bear a strong resemblance to life, The skye terrier is a favorite for this purpose. To the back of the dog an easel is attached, and the animal is so naturally painted that dogs going by on the street have been known to bark at the faithful likeness. ” Bonbonniere dogs. —These are usually mastiffs or St. Bernard dogs of paper breed, whose heads come off, showing a hollow space within for the sweets. Probably more dogs have been manufactured this last year than ever before, one reason being that children are almost invariably attracted to the pictorial dog, and a favorite card to give away is ohe with a group of puppies, Terra Cotta dogs, for lawns and gardens, are always in demand. An amusing case is recorded of a man who possessed a'life-like animal of this pattern, upon which he was regularly taxed every year, the assessor having no doubt of the genuineness of the dog. The man paid the tax without a word, and, when remonstrated with by a friend, said it was the cheapest dog he ever possessed, as it ate nothing, kept tramps off his premises, and never got into trouble by biting anyone. The cemetery dog may be considered in a decorative sense as well as an emblem of fidelity and watchfulness. It is usual’y of iron or bronze, and is a stern mastiff with a mournful countenance. While ft is repugnant to the feelings of most people and contrary to the rules of all cemeteries to have living dogs there, the sculptured semblance of the animal is never denied an imposing position, either 'in couchant at the foot of the master’s grave, or on watch at the door of the dead.— Detroit Free Pres-<, It is believe that; four thousand comets have roamed through space since the records began. Most of them were invisible without a telescope.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

It is said that dusting finely pondered chlorate of potassium on the surface of ulcers and ulcerating epitheliomata relieves pain and promotes healing, by changing the character of the morbid processes. The surface should be cleansed and the powder dusted thickly on twice a day. Dr. Haley, in an Australian Medical Journal, claims that minimum doses of iodide of potassium are of great service in frontal headache. A two-grain dose dissolved in half a wineglass of water will often cure a dull headache which is situated over the eyebrow. The action of the drug is quite rapid. A boy, aged 10 years and a half, died in Washington, D. C., after long suffering, from a swelling of the abdomen, which defied diagnosis. The small intestines contained twenty large plum stones, a copper cent, a nickle, a tooth, two buttons, and other foreign substances. The liver was enlarged. It is bad practice to probe a penetrating wohnd produced by a missile entering either the abdominal or thoracic cavity. After ascertaining to a certainty that a cavity of the trunk has been entered, stop all probing at once and hermetically seal the wound and leave the rest to nature. Exclude the atmosphere, and then the chances of restoration will be largely increased. Old Dr. Hunter used to say, when he couldn’t discover the cause of a man’s sickness: “We’ll try this and we'll trv that. Well shoot into the tree, and if anything falls, well and good.” “Aye,” replied a wag, “I fear this js_ too com-_ mbnly the case, arid in your shooting into the tree, the first thing that generally falls is the patient.” And the wag was not very far from the truth. Preventive Medicine in China.—lt is recorded that on a certain occasion the Emperor of China inquired of Sir George Stanton about the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When he was made to understand what the custom was, he exclaimed, “Can any man in England afford "to be ill ? Now I have four physicians, and pay all of them a weekly salary; but the moment J am sick that salary is stopped until I am well again; therefore, my indisposition is never of long duration.”

Right Living vs. Drugs.—An extract irom the biography of the late Gen. John A. Dix gives an account of an interview with the em inent Abernethy, whom the General had consulted for professional advice. It is gratifying to note that the common sense advice of the illustrious physician, was taken in a common s’ense way by the distinguished patient, and that the result was a ripe and robust old acre (80 years), of which the dyspeptic youth of the General scarcely gave promise. After hearing a few words of his patient’s story, Abernethy cut him short as follows: “Sir, you are pretty far gone, arid the wonder is you are not gone entirely. If you had co insulted common sense instead of the medical faculty, you would probably have been wellyearsago. I can say nothing to you except this: You must take regular exercise, as much as you can bear without fatigue, as little medicine as possible, of the simplest kind, and this only when absolutely necessary, and a modest quantity of plain food, of the quality which you find by experience best to agree with you. No man, not ever a physician, can prescribe diet for another. ‘A stomach is a stomach,’ and 4t is impossible for any one to reason—with safety from his ewa to that any other person. There are a few general rules which any man of common sense may learn in a wedi, such as this: That rich food, high seasoning, etc., injurious. I can say no more to you sir; you must go and cure yourself.”

The Fancied Need of Eye-Glasses.

“Wearing glasses seems to be considered fashionable by a great many people and every day persons whose eyes are perfectly good come after something to stick in their eyes,” says a Philadelphia dealer. “They are generally dudes and we sell them these large glasses. They are made of the finest imported glass, but have no refracting power and are perfectly harmless. You see, they have no frame and are only meant to be held to the eye or stuck in for a few moments. This is supposed to be an English custom and you can see young Anglo-maniacs any day on Chesnut street wearing them. One lady bought a dozen the other day. I can’t imagine what for. It takes some practice to carry them withput letting them drop and they never can be considered graceful. “The wearing of glasses and spectacles is becoming commoner. I don’t think this is because there are more ■weak eyes, but because every year we know more about the eye and are now able to make lenses for many cases that we didn’t understand before. Astigmatism, presbyopia, strabismus, diplopia, and the other diseases or defects of eyesight are now generally capable of remedy by different kinds of glasses, and this probably accounts for their greater use. Then there are always lots of people who imagine something the matter with their eyes and insist on wearing glasses or spectacles. Four or five such come in every day and are vexed if we say that their eyesight is all right. If we can’t persuade them out of their idea we sell them lenses that will do as little injury as possible and such as many persons use in reading. Xhe number of these cranks is astonishing. They come to be tried for -up; o;ed color-blindness, hypermetropia.or oversight, and' every thing they can think of. A genuine trouble of the eye, however, and one of very recent origin, is that caused by the. glare of the electric lights. To a verysensitive retina this is intolerable, and some protection is necessary. For this we use smoked glasses and tire demand for them is gerfectly surprising. In New York thousands of gross of these are sold every year. The linemen, who adjust the arcs of the electric lights, add, of course:, need very strong glasses, wear oblong pieces of blue glass fastened together, two for each aye. and capable of shielding them from the terrible brilliancy. Even with these their eyes are often injured. PhiZfljde/jO/n'fl Tinies. Par excellence good father I . — The fudge.