Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — Page 7

DID SHAKSPEARE BORROW!

An Anclont Arabian Parallel to the Hirn.im Wood Incident. The traveler and writer, Mes’udiyy, who composed his “Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems” in A. IL 332 (A. D. 943), relates, in Chapter XLVIL of that work the following incident as having occurred at the time ' of the total destruction of the ancient Arabian tribe of Jedis, who inhabited Yemama, Central Arabia, not very long ■ after the confusion of tongues at Babel. j They had been shamefully tyrannized | over by the King of their kindred tribe, Tasm, and at length had treacherously avenged their wrongs by the extermination of their tyrants. One noble of that tribe had escaped massacre, and : had journeyed to Yemeu (our Arabian Felix). He presented himself to the Himyerite King of that country, and prayed him to avenge Tasm by the de- i struction of Jedis. The King consent- I ed, marshaled his forces* and set out from Yemen. Arrived at a distance of three days’ march from Yemama, the refugee noble of Tasm informed the King that a sister of his, married to a > chieftain of Jedis, and then living in , Yemama, was possessed of so acute a j power of vision as to be able to distin- j guish a horseman at the distance of , three days’ journey. He therefore sug- j gested that the King should command ' the troops to pltick up by the roots ; every man a young tree from a forest j they had to pass through, and carry I this before him, so 'as to hide the advancing host and mask it from his sister’s piercing glance. The King gavo the order, and each man of the army i plucked up a tree, carrying it in front ! of him. The quick-eyed lady, however, from an outlook on her house-top, saw the advancing wood. Sharply scru- I tinizing it, and distinguishing behind >j the foliage a large number of men, sho ; informed the townsmen of what she ' saw. They took no notice of her warn- ' ing. The army advanced, surprised the town, slaughtered all the men, and j made captives of the women and chil- I dren. Thus the tribe was extirpated. Mes’udiyy’s story was written in the year that is exactly half way to the present date, 943—1386, A. D.: apdthe question naturally arises: Is there any ■ mediaeval channel known to seekers , after folklore by which this incident , could have become known to the writer , of Macbeth, or to any-monkish chron- i icier through whom the iirnam Wood story may have been handed down, i Macbeth’s 'death and Malcolm Can- ' more’s accession in A. D. 1057 was so ; long anterior to the crusades that it is not likely the Eastern story bad reached Scotland or England. If the Birnam Wood incident really occurred it j was a surprising coincidence; and if it ' was a monkish embellishment, it would be interesting to trace the story from ' the East, if possible. Mes’udiyy’s ver-j sion was most probably based upon j some older story that may be found in [ Egyptian or Babylonian remains, or ■ that may have come from Persia, India, ■ or China. This is a problem for the j adepts of folkloreto solve, if the means can be fohnd.— Academy.

Pleasures of the Table.

Wonderfully various are the means men have devised for preparing their food to make it easy of digestion, pleasant of taste. In these they ha>e been guided by instinct, and not infrequently enlightened by knowledge, climate, modes of life, tastes. Prejudices di ti er. i Men, and some women, weaken the di- ! destive machinery by self-indulgence ’ and indolence; it therefore needs to I be stimulated into activity by condiments, by high flavors, and by mental : exhilaration. The stimulus of festal I excitement, the merry laugh and good I talk of a well-served dinner, spur the indolent organs of digestion and enable • men to master food which, if eaten in solitude, silence, or sorrow, would produce indigestion and suicidal ideas. Food seems a very simple thing until a j long experience has taught us its com- ' thing till science reveals its metamorphoses in the way of cooking, as with thq Romans, for example, who began with pulse, bread, fruit, vegetables, a few meats, wine, and water; then followed beer. Then followed next, when they became such gourmets as the world has not seen since, the search for rarities —the livers and tongues of nightingales, brains of flamingoes, the tender portions of peacocks, wild boar, blackbirds, oysters, deer, hares, and ingenious modes of pastry. For a feast of Heliegabalus, in a single dish were the brains of 600 ostriches. The Roman gourmands were fond of young and well-fed puppies. Apicius left ten books of recipes.— New York Post.

He Prefers Starlight.

A graceful submission to petty impositions is not one of the English traits of character. Here is another instance of the fact. Prof. Richard A. Proctor was telling me the other day about an experience of his with a St. Joseph gas company. “I had ordered gas by the month,” said Mr. Proctor, “of a local monopoly. In November, 1884, when President Cleveland was elected, we had a great illumination, my wife’s friends all being strong Democrats. The illumination, was kept up for three nights, and we burned a great amount of gas in honor of the new President The bill came in and I paid it The next month I was away a good part of the time and the house •was very quiet Little gas was used, but the next bill, when it came in, was larger than ever. I called on the company’s officers, but no reduction was made. Finally I told them that I shouldn’t use any more of their gas, and we have been burning lamps ever since in my house at St Joseph.”— New York Tribune. I When She Ought to See Him Swear. “Do you remember how you were on your bended knees the night you proposed to me, love ?” ___ “Oh, yes; but that’s nothing.” “Nothing?” “You ought to see me swear on my knees when my collar-button drops and rolls under the bureau. **—Yonkers Statesman. It is stated that electricity will put a piano out of tune. Now we* know what ails the piano across the street. It Las had an electric shock.

Sleeplessness.

When sleeplessness is troublesome, relief should be sought for in the discovery and removal of the cause, whenever possible. The condition is often due to indigestion, and when this is the case, the ordinary remedies for inducing sleep are worse than useless.. 4'ho nervo.'.s rotations between the brain and the stomach are so intimate that disorder of the one organ is, almost certain to affect the other, says the Fortnightly Review. Excitement, worry, and anxiety, which have.their seat in the brain, interfere with the functions of the stomach, and in a like manner anything that unduly tax-s the power of or irritates the stoma-h disorders the circulation and nutrition of the brain. The sleeplessness often complained •of by gouty persons is due to the poisonous effect of the morbid material upon the nervous system. Excessive smoking, too much alcohol, tea, and coffee, often resorted to by overworked persons, are frequent causes of sleeplessness. . In all these cases the cause is removable, while the effect may be counteracted by appropriate treatment. Nothing is more mischievous, however, than to continue the habits, and to have recourse to drugs to combat the effects. >. ■ ■>- A due amount of exercise tends to induce normal sleep, and such exercise need not be of a violent character. A walk of two or three miles a day is sufficient, and is perhaps as much as a busy man can find time for. A ride on horseback, the Palmerstonian cure for gout, is probably the best form of exercise for those whose minds are constantly at work. It has been well said that a man must come out of himself when in the saddle; he is forced to attend to his horse and to notice the objects he meets. Walking may be a merely automatic process, and afford little, if any, relief to the mind, and carriage exercise may be practically valueless, if the mind is not diverted from what had previously occupied it.

Getting to Be the Rule.

Do you notice that nowadays this is getting to be the rule? The rich are marrying the rich and the poor are making matches among the poor. The sudden increase of wealth and aping of .English rules of caste are frightening young men out of the old chivalrous spirit; when the humble fellow claimed the girl of his heart and defied the world to rob him of her. Do you think the girls are learning wisdom and won’t look at poor’men any more? That shows how little you know of femininity. "Where the heart is the brain is not, and girls ? are just as-big geese as ever in love matters. Of course there are some wise ones who coldly determine to . marry a.carriage, a maid, and thirty dresses a year; but I don’t like wise girls, don’t see any woods full of them anywhere, and would not wager a pound of French mixed that their wisdom, would stand much of a test if the right young man happened along and courted them with the force and ardor of a hurricane, as any rightminded girl likes to courted.— Clara Belle’e letter.

The Risk of Cleaning Pictures.

The question of picture cleaning is one of the most complicated that can be. Suppose you leave a very dirty picture as it is, do you see, can you possibly see, what the artist painted ? Assuredly not. And why should decent people tolerate dirty pictures when they wi|l not tolerate a dirty tablecloth? The answer is that, if the picture could be cleaned as safely as the tablecloth, it would be done without hesitation, but that cleaning may possibly remove light glazes and scumblings along with the varnish, and that if these glazes, the finish ng work of the artist, at e once removed, no luiman being, except the artist who painted the picture, can replace them, says an acknowledged authority. But by the time a picture urgently wants cleaning the painter has generally been for many years in h’s grave. Therefore, in having a picture cleaned, you are risking that which cannot be replaced.— New York Journal. NN ~ "T ’T 7

Genesis of a Salt Mine.

On the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea a curious phenomenon is in progress;. The Kara Boghaz is an estuary nearly separated from the main body of the sea by a bank through which there is an inlet. The evaporation from this gulf is so great that a current continually sets in from the Caspian; and as there is no return the water of the gulf becomes more and more saliferous, and a deposit of salt is in course of formation. J n time the gulf will be cut off from the Caspian, and will then be dried up and become an extensive salt-bed.— j— —

The Russian Cure for Drunkenness.

In Russia drunkenness is cured by steeping in liquor the bread, meat and. vegetables fancied, by the patient, and also by putting into his tea and coffee his favorite spirit—at least one-third of a cupful. The result is that he soon becomes disgusted with even the color of liquor. The plan has been tried also in the German army. — Galveston News. - _ A German legend—“lt is not good for man to beer alone."

Two 1886 Gold Medals.

Messrs. Mason & Hamlin again have the distinguished honor of having been awarded the highest gold medals over all exhibitors, American and European, both at Edinburgh and at Liverpool, the two most important exhibitions of the year 1886. Since the first great Paris Exhibition of 1867, the Mason & Hamlin Organs have invariably received the highest honors at all great world’s exhibitions. The eye of the horsefly is made up of hundreds of separate lenses, those in the upper part of the eye being larger than the lenses below the median line? Practically the horsefly has two kinds of vision, telescopic or long sight lenses above the median line, and microscopic or short sight lenses below the median line. Thus lie ~ can adjust his vision to circumstances without the ad of glasses.— Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly.

A Foolish and Stubborn Belief

In the efficacy of certain remedies of vi-lent action, li the besetting foible of the ignorant)' and prejudiced. The indisoriminata use of purgatives is a very common pl aio of the I»tuity of such people. Aloes, podyphillln, disguised in sugar coating, castor oil. mercury, and other oid-faihlonud drugs, st 11 hold their own among this class; and although the success of Hostetter's t-tOmach Bitt.ra sufficiently disproves the necessity for violence in medication, the adherents of an exploded fallacy*tti!l persist in giving and talcing inordinate purgative sloses. Dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint are os orrtatnly and.thoroughly subdued ; bjr the Bitters as they are invariably aggravated by an ibdiscrimifiats use of medicines, officinal or proprietary, belonging to the class which wo havs condemned. Fever and ague, nervuu-no.ts, rheumatism and inactivity of the kidneys yield to the Bitters. ■——; ■ a fc

A Bad Temper.

“You sajr your wife gets mad and raises a row?” “I should say she did. She makes enough fuss to run a train forty miles an hour. That’s the way she has been doing all her life. ” “But if you knew she was in the habit of getting mad why did you marry her?” “Because if I had held back she would have got madder than ever. I did it to pacify her; don’t you see?”— Texas Siftings. There used to be 709 tribes of Indians in America and not a single Government agent.

“Nip’t in the Bud!”

Sad to say, many a good thing attains to nothing more than a fair beginning. On the other band it is a matter for congratulation ? that the growth of some evil things may be also promptly frustrated. A largo proportion of the casei of the most wide-spread and fatal of diseases—consumption—have their inception in nasal catarrh. Dr. Bago’s Catarrh Remedy is pleasant, soothing and effectual. Try it. It has cured thousands. All druggists. Is thebe a soul living who has heard a sentiment emanating from tha breast-_of - veals * * * * Nervous Debility, in either sex, however induced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. Address, with 10 cents tn stamps for reply and book of particulars, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Majn street, Buffalo, N. Y. THEBE has been no. strike yet for an advance in the wages of sin.

A Guilty Sacrifice

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Prize Stories.

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A Printer’s Error."

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