Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Page 7

MOON LORE.

_XraaarX»«yss>*a ' ' Mr. Harley, the author of an interesting volume on moon loje, has collected some of the legends- associated with the lunar orb, in which the fancies of different nations have located a man,, a woman, a hare, and a toad. The banishment of the man to the moon isi variously ascribed to his having gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, having strewed brambles in the church path on. Sunday, having stolen cabbages on Christmas eve, having stolen a bundle of thorns “from a hedge, etc. According to one version, the man is Cain, “offering to the Lord the cheapest gift from the fieldwhile another suggests Isaac bearing a burden of wood for the sacrifice of himself on Mount Moriah; and a third, Judas Iscariot The woman, according to one tradition, is Pandora, whose fateful box contained all the plagues with which humanity is afflicted; but the people of Mangaia see in her Ina, the pattern wife, always busy in the preparation of resplendent cloth-white clouds. In Samoa the tradition is that a woman named Sina, during a time of famine, was working in the evening twilight, beating out some bark with which to make native cloth. “The moon was just rising, and it reminded her of a great bread-fruit. Looking up to it, she said: ‘Why cannot you come down, and let my child have a bit of you?’ The moon was indignant at the idea of being eaten, came down forthwith, and took her up —child, board, mallet, and all.” When the moon is waxing, from about the eighth day to the full, a large patch is disclosed on the western side, in which imagination has traced a resemblance to a rabbit or hare.

Some Items for Moon-Gazers. Had we a railway to the moon it would take but a year to reach it, traveling at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour. None of the heavenly bodies, except the sun and moon, have any direct influence on the earth. Old sailors think that if the direction in which the moon is at the time of its change from old to new moon be ascertained, the direction from which the wind will blow for the next seven days can be known. The moon supplies a small amount of heat and a great deal of light. It also affects the earth in respect to magnetism. If the moon were burned up ships in harbor could no longer get out, and those without could not get in. Seen from the planet Venus the moon would appear as a companion star or planet with the earth. If the moon were destroyed, the loss of heat, while hardly perceptible, would slightly lower the temperature at night. It is a maxim of farmers out West that all plants which are to grow up, like com or wheat, must, in order to prosper, have their seed sown when the moon is waxing, but all which are to grow down, like beets, parsnips, etc., must have the seed sown in the waning of the moon.

Old but Good.

Do not despise a good article of furniture, says an exchange, because you are told there is something a little newer. Fashion has its vagaries, but it isijnly thtf nouveaux riche who are absolutely controlled by them. In many of the best houses of the country you will find little or no change in the furnishing, although every article speaks of a past generation. In General Logan’s house in Washington there is not a room which does not recall days long since gone by, although the house itself, an old-fashioned one, is a recent purchase. Indeed, Mrs. Logan’s good taste decided that modern styles would not accord with the place, and she spared no pains in finding the antique. You may be sure, however, that every article is good and substantial. They were made in the beginning “for long wear, not to be changed as one changes the style of the dress. And there is no more comfortable, homelike, and refined home in the country than this of the Logans. Even those who have spent thousands of dollars where they have spent one, look with admiration upon the quaint old mansion with its quaint old interior. No house in these days can be considered quite complete without some books and pictures, but these things are not to be bought in haste or indiscriminately. More than anything else they speak of the mind-furnishing of the heads of the household. It is not so much their value, but it is what they say in their silent yet eloquent way of the intelligence, the refinement, and purity of thought which dictated their selection. One fine engraving is worth more than a dozen tawdry daubs. Yet in these days good taste may be gratified in this direction without the expenditure of a great deal, of money.

Phosphorus for Matches.

Who first suggested the use of phosphorus as an inflammable agent in matches is not certainly known. Many people in England have claimed credit, from an apothecary in the Strand up to a member of the present House of Commons. It is said that Derosne, who is known in the history of technical chemistry for his application of the decolorizing properties of animal charcoal to sugar refining, made a friction match with a phosphorus tip so far back as 1816. In Germany the invention of the phosphorus match is attributed to Kammerer, but the name which is most prominent in connection with the early stages of the manufacture is that of Preshel, of Vienna, who, in 1833, had a large factory in operation for the making of lucifers; indeed, it was mainly through his exertions and those of Moldenhauer, of Darmstadt, that Austria and South Germany became for many years the chief sources of the supply of matches. To-day Sweden is rapidly coming to the front among the match-making countries of the world. Altogether in the Scandinavia there are some fourscore factories, the famous one at Joukopmg, with its 6,000 work people, being probably the largest in the world;'in 1880 Sweden exported some 50,000,000,000 matches to all parts of the world. In Germany

and Austria the number of manufactories is much larger. Altogether there are upward of 450 factories in the two countries, but the total output of each country is probably less than that of Sweden, although enormous quantities are sent from Central Europe into Russia, Turkey, and various other parts of Western Asia. In France the manufacture of matches is a Government monopoly.

No Map of the United States.

It will be surprising, perhaps, to the public to know that, after spending $8,000,000 in surveys, there is still no actual map in existence of the Unifed States. The Coast Survey and the Hydrographic Office have prepared a reasonably accurate map of our coast line, but the internal surveys have been so inaccurate and imperfect that rivers, mountains, and towns have in many cases been located on previous maps as much as five miles out of their true position. This is, of course, especially true of those points remote from railroads, which have, of course, been less accurate. The new map, now in preparation by Colonel Powell, would occupy the floor space of a room in an ordinary dwelling-house, and will be absolutely accurate within the limit of the scale of feet upon which it has been prepared. It will take about a year to complete this, and when done it will be the only accurate map of the United States in existence. The astronomers have long claimed to have prepared a more accurate map of the moon at a distance of 250,00 V miles than has yet been made of the State of New York from surveys made upon the ground. These maps, however, have been made by means of photography, and hence are more accurate in their outline than could have been obtained by hasty triangulations. Major Powell’s map, however, will be as accurate a representation of the geographical location of the mountains, rivers, and towns of our own country as the astronomers have yet prepared of the queen of the night He has also in preparation a dictionary of altitude, by which he will set at rest the long-mooted question as to the relative sea-level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. According to railroad levels heretofore made, the Pacific is supposed to stand about four feet above the level of the Atlantic. Within a year Powell will have settled this question. — Washington cor. Indianapolis News.

Ways of Prima Donnas.

Pauline Lucca, Baroness von Wallhofen, is the wife of the very man whom, during the greater part of her tour in America, she kept hidden in the hotels which she occupied, at the expense of her manager. When once asked by me, in a very polite way, who that mysterious person was whose hotel expenses figured in her bills, she answered, “That is part of my baggage. Are you not bound by our contract to pay for the transportation and care of my baggage?” Another German prima donna, Mme. Lichtmay, who sang here in German and Italian, was married to a Baron Garay, whose regular daily hotel bill included two bottles of Chateau Lafitte, one of Chateau d’Yquem, and several of Veuve Cliquot. He actually drank away his poor, hard-work-ing wife’s earnings. As a matter of course, he attributed to.his own merit all the success of his lady, and never spoke otherwise of her than as “we.” His usual phrases in conversation were, “we sang splendidly yesterday,” “we can not accept that part in the new opera,” “we will be sick to-morrow and unable to sing, therefore do not put us on the programme.”— Max Maretzek, in Freund’s Music and Drama.

A False Friend.

“Say, Jones,” said Bentlow, “I understand that you and Jerflyn are no longer friends. What’s the trouble between you?” “Trouble,” repeated Jones; “troubleenough. He’s a scoundrel, that man is; a villain, a cowardly thief! Oh, if I only had him here now!” “Why, my dear fellow, you seem to be excited; I can’t believe that Jerflyn is as bad as that. What did he do to you?” “Do to me? Trifled with the best and holiest feeling that a man c n know—friendship! Do to me? Betrayed me by his false, smiling, hypocritical face! Do to me ? Cheated me, my finer feelings, bruised me and wounded me. Do to me ? Induced me to try to learn to ride a bicycle! Oh, the villain!”— Somerville Journal.

To Develop the Lungs.

If a person’s lungs are not well developed, the health will be imperfect, but the development may be increased several inches in a few months by daily out-door running with tjie mouth closed, beginning with twenty yards and back, at a time, increasing ten yards every week, until a hundred are gone over thrice a day. A substitute for ladies and persons in cities, is running up stairs with the mouth closed, which compels very deep inspirations, in a natural way, at the end of the journey.—Cleveland Leader.

He Wasn’t There.

A Texas preacher caught four or five boys in his peach trees. He did not punish them, but merely said: “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, particularly the big boys. Which of you boys here is the oldest?” “He ain’t here at all, sir. He didn’t know that we were coming,” said a youngster.— Texas Siftings.

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Mahogany.

The finer sorts are found in the mountainous districts of Cuba and St. Domingo, and are called Spanish mahogany, though the forests on the coasts of Honduras supply the English market with a large amount. The seeds from the mahogany tree are winged; they are carried in all directions, and take kindly to the soil, which, however, has much to do with the value of the timber. If the wood grows without any moisture, except what it receives from the atmosphere, the grain is harder, more knotty, and of a deeper color; for this kind as much as a thousand dollars has been paid for a cubic yard, while the poorer quality has not brought a hundred dollars. Asa rule, the branches furnish better timber than the trunk, the wood being of closer grain, and more richly figured. The tree takes 200 years to grow before it is fit for use. A London firm once paid $15,000 for three mahogany logs, the product of a single tree. They were cut into veneers from an eighth to an inch in thickness, and when polished>reflected the light in the most varied manner, like the surface of crystal. , The virtues of St. Jacobs Oil, as proclaimed by millions of restored sufferers, should induce every one to supply his household with this great specific. It conquers pain.

American Fables.

THE SKIPPER AND THE CANUCK. •*' An American -who Arrived at Montreal in Disguise Complained because he was not Admitted to Good Society. “But you stole $30,000 and had to skip the States,” was the reply. “Exactly, but if I had not been Encouraged to do so by your Laws I should probably have Remained an Honest Man.” Moral: The Partaker has no Right to Elevate himself Above the Thief. THE SHAD AND THE FISHER. A Shad, which had been Hooked by a Fisherman, claimed that an Unfair Advantage had been taken of him, Inasmuch as he had Never seen a Hook before. “That may be True,” replied the Fisher, “but if I sat here to Teach you Wisdom I should dine on Bean Soup in Place of Shad.” Moral: Don’t Expect a Gambler to Post you on his Game.— Detroit Free Press. “It is as harmless as it is effective,” is what is said of Red Star Cough Cure by Dr. S. K. Cox, D. D., Analytical Chemist, Washington, D. C. Price, twenty-five cents.

The Nerves of Taste.

The discovery that heat influences one set of nerve-points in the skin while sensations of cold are received by another set, has been followed by an interesting investigation by two Italian physiologists, whose experiments seem to indicate that the various tastes result from the exciting of distinct sets of nerve-fibers in the. tongue. The prolonged application of ice removed the sensibility for all tastes —sweet, sour, salt and bitter. Cocaine destroyed —temporarily, of course —sensibility for bitter only. Other substances, such as caffeine and morphia, reduced the power of discriminating between different degrees of bitter. Diluted sulphuric acfd had a peculiar effect, causing distilled water and even quinine to taste sweet at the tip of the tongue, although the bitter of the quinine, was elsewhere tasted as usual.

Serious Danger

Threatens every man, woman and child living in a region of country where fever and ague is prevalent, since the germs of malarial disease are inhaled from the air and are swallowed from the water of such a region. Medicinal safeguard is absolutely necessary to nullify this danger. As a means of fortifying and acclimating the system so aS to be able to resist the malarial poison, Hostetter’s Stomach Bit? tors is incomparably the best and the most popular. Irregularities of the- stomach, liver and bowels encourage malaria; but these are speedily rectified by the Bitters. The functions of digestion and secretion are assisted by its use, and a vigorous as well as regular condition of the system promoted by it. Constitution and physique are thus defended against the inroads of malaria by this matchless preventive, which is also a certain and thorough remedy in the worst cases of intermittent and remittent fevers.

How to Make Beautiful Ornaments.

Tortoise shells, or those of the small fresh water turtle, are becoming quite fashionable as parlor ornaments. To clean and polish the shells first wash them in warm, soft water, to which a little ammonia has been added, using a common hand-brush. When clean rub them with a cloth and paste made of whiting and a little water. When the shells feel smooth to the touch wash this paste all off and dry, after which apply a few drops of sweet oil and rub them briskly with the ball of the thumb or the palm of the hand, or a piece of soft leather will answer.— Allentown (Pa.) National Educator.

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Stranger than Fiction

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