Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1882 — Page 2
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
TKRKK HAUTK, APRIL 29, 1882
POPULAR PI Hi ASMS.
HOW THK KOLI/JWINU ARE 8AID TO HA OIUGIX ATEI
"Hurrah."'—This word, which is so frequently shouted, in this country especially, originated among the Eastern nations, where it was used as a war cry fr*rn the belief that every man who died iu battle for his country went to Heaven. It is derived from the Slavonic word, hurraj, which means "to paradise." "What are You Giving Me?"—This oft-repeated expression—indicative of disbelief—which baa been added to the vocabularly of slang, has no lessa source than tne bible. It may be found in the thirty-eight chapter of Genesis. "A Oat may Look at a King."—This saying is said to have the following origin: When Charles II. was fleeing, in d'.sgui.-e, from England to France he was Hitting ou deck directing the course of the vessel, when one of the sailors, tilling his pipo near bv, blew some of the tobacco in his face." The master of the ship ordered the marine to go further away from the "gentleman," when he grutnblingly, replied, quite ignorant as to the quality of the passenger: "A cat may look at a king." "Sweet By aud By.'"—This popular vrnn was the work of two men—Joseph J\ Webster, now doad, who composed the music, and I)r. S. F. Bennett, at the present time a resident of Richmond, 111., the author of the verses. The two wrote a hymn book in 1874, and "The Nw«.et By and By" was une of the pieces jointly produced for it. The suggestion came from a chant*? remark by \N ebster,
IIO WHS habitually despondent, that all would be well "by and by." Bennett at onco made tho rhymes, and Webster brought the music out of a fiddle, which was his customary aid in composition. The hymn book had its day and is forgotten but this one tune is put into every new publication of tho kind, and ha* a sale of about 10,000 copies a year in sheet form. Dr. Bennett says that lie and Webster were not orthodox christians when tho hymn was written, and that he is now even a less believer. "As Dead as a Herring."—This expression has a simple origin. The herling, which when fat is called a "bloater," dies immediately upon its removal from tho sea. It wants air, and can live only in saltwater whereas an eel lives a longtime alter leaving its native element. Swimming so near the surface as it does, the herring requires much air, and the gills when dry cannot perform their function, that of nreathiug. "Grog."— Admiral Vernon, the same .after whom Mount Vernon was named— was the first to require his men to drink their spirits mixed with water. In bad weathor ho was in the habit of walking tho deck in a rough groggram cloak, and henco had obtained the name of "Old Grog" in tho service. Such was the origin of tho name applied to rum and water. ••Tho Satanic School.''—A name often given to a class of waiters whose productions aro thought to bo charactevtzed by an impatience of all restraint, a disgust at tho whole constitution of society, and impassioned aud extravagant strain of sen timentality, and a presumtuous scorn of all moral rules, as well as tho holiest truths of religion. Southey, in the preface to his "Vision of Judgment," was I he first to uso this degrading appellation. Of tho writers who have been included under it, Byron, Shelley, Moore. Bulwor, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Paul cto Kock,and Goorge Sands are the most prominent. "limbo" or "Limbus."—[Latin, Limbos, a border.! A region supposed by some of the olcl scholastic theologians to lie ou the edge or confines of hell. Here, it was thought the souls of just men, not admitted into Heaven or purgatory, remained to await tho general resurroction. Such were the patriarchs and ottoer pious ancients who died before the birth of Christ. Hence tho limbo was called Uxibus patrum. According to some of the schoolmen, there was also a limbus puerorum or infantum, a similar place ulloted to tho souls of infants dying un-
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opinion, limbus fatuorum, or tool's paradise, the receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. Of thissujor8titious belief
Milton has made use in his "Paradise I-iost." See book III., v. -140-4117. Haute has fixed his limIH, in which the distinguished spirits of antiquity are •oj»tined, as the outermost of the circles of his hell.
Jack Ketch."- A hangman or executioner, commonly so culled from ono John Ketch, a wretch who lived in the limo of James II., and made himself uni versaliy odious by the butchery of many brave "and noble* victims, particularly those sentenced to death bv the infamous Jeffreys during the "llloody Assizes." "Halcvou Days."--Halcyono was the wife of C'elyx, and the latter having met his death by drowning, Halcvone cast hersolf into'the sea with the dead body, and both were transformed into the kingfisher bird. The animal lays its eggs on rooks near the sea in calm* mid-win-ter, and the halcyon days are therefore seven days before and after the winter solstice. "A Bone to Pick.' —It was an old marriage custom in Sicily for the bride's father to give the bridegroom a bone, saying: "Pick this in order to show how you can manage a wife, which is more* difficult than picking a bone." This a common explanation but the practice of throwing bones to dogs is a more natural method of accounting for the saying.
ST. LOUIS BEEF. Speech at a Batchers' Meeting. Mr. Frunewald said that at present the practice of selling down beef, or tho bodies of cattle that had died during shipment, was altogether too common. He had known of half-dead stock being dragged from the oars at the stock varda on the outside of the river, rushed to the slaughter houae and dressed when no one was about, and then sent over to this side and peddled out to the unsuspecting meat ahop men. This was also frequeatlv the case at the yards on this side. The public had no idea of the extent to which they were In this way imposed upon.
SOMK[PEOPLE WONDER.
Augusta
HOW HE CAME TO KIL£ HIS WIFE. f? A LAWYER TELL8 IX COU8® A TERRI
BLE bTORY, AND HOW HE CAME TO KILL HIS WIFE. V"It is not often that a more remarkable story is heard in a court room than was told last week by lawyer C'. J. Lansing of Eureka, Nev., on trial for the killing of his wife. When he took the witness stand the grief in his face hushed the bar and the spectators into a pitying silence. He began by declaring that he consented to say what he would have to say about the dead only upon the urent requirement of his counsel, and or the sake of his daughter. He then gave the jury the history of his married life. Ever since 1864 it bad been, he said, wretched in all ways. His wife took to liquor. She was a powerful woman— fully his equal in strength. She repeatedly attacked him, threatening to kill him, and, as he believed at the time, meaning to carry out her threat. She £hrew stones at his head, poured boiling water on him, tryed on several occasions to stab him with the carving knife, once at least drawing blood. She followed him into court, making such a disturbance that the police nad to remove her by force. She burst into his office and beat him over the head with a rawhide till the blood streamed down his face. She beat his little daughter with an iron poker. "I felt like letting loose all holds," he said, "and I drank heavily too." Once or twice he decided to leave her once he thought poison, and was on the point of swallowing it when he thought of his daughter and threw it away.
Last year matters'grew worse, until a night came when he did not dare to sleep under the same roof with her, and called in a neighbor. They tied her wrists and ankles with silk handkerchiefs. "I'll kill you for this, sure," she screamed. At daylight she promised t» behave, and they* unbound her. At her request he sent out for two bottles of champagne for her to "sober up on." He wandered about all day, shunning his acquaintances, trying to straighten himself up. "I could'not be still iu any place," he said. "I could neither stand up nor sit down—had ,to walk all the time." At dusk he went home. The Chinaman had finished his work and gone 'for the night. His wife came throHgh the kitchen and went down cellar, as he supposed to get whisky she often hid a bottle down there." When she came up he spoke of going down town. "You ," she said, "I'm fixed for you, and you shan't leave this house He turned around his wife was right in front of him, her hand pressed to her hip. "I'll kill yoix!" she screamed. In a frenzy of utter nervousness and terror he caught up something —it was a kitchen r'mir—and struck her. He saw her lying .. his feet. Then he found himself out in the street—he has no remembrance of how he got there— looking up at the dark windows of his neighbor's house and deciding not to wake him up. Then all is blank again in his mind until a lator hour, when he was standing in front of the sheriff and uttering the words, "I have killed my wife."
The jury was out twenty minutes. When they came in their verdiot was "Not guilty."
AS WELL AS CAN BE EXPECTED. Peck'.s Hun. The custom of newspapers making funny mention of the birth of children is very common, and there is no custom that grates more harshly on tho feelings of mothers than this. We are frequently asked to make some fuunv comment on the fact that some friend is the father of a new baby, or twins, but havfe invariably declined. About fifteen years ago we made such a comment on an event oT that kind because we thought it would please a friend who came down town with his thumbs in the arm-holes of his vest and a horse-collar smile on his face, aud the next day after our "funny" Item appeared, we published an obituary notice of the wife and child of our friend and acted as a bearer to the funeral, and as we looked on the dead faces in the coffin, and tho agonized face of tho chief mourner, who had been so happy two days before, we registered a solemn vow that we would never playfully alludo to tho birth of a child to please any man on earth. These occasions are too dangerous to be treated lightly, and before editors make their mirthful allusions to the affairs, with the stereotyped remark that "mother and child aro doing well," they should turn their thoughts from the happy father who wants to "set'em up" for the boys, and who lias not done much suffering to speak of, to the poor mother who is nearer dead than she ever wantw to be again. We doubt if there is a woman on earth who ever read ono of these jblting notices of an increase in a family, but that shudderod and wished that the heartless writer could endure half the suffering that the mother has. The writers are not heartless, they are thoughtless. It is easy for a man to make fun of such events, and say that "the father is as woll as could be expected under the circumstances," betause they do not realize the terrible ordeal thai the poor mother has gone through, tad the danger of death which she realises. There is not a woman but would rather give almost anvthing than to have a local paper speak in a trifling manner of the birth of a child, or to speak of it at nil, and when papers are read to a woman on a sick bed, and she sees that the affair that has been of so much seriousness to her is looked upon as a joke by her husband and hiscom-
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owe James had a 500 coffin. Two preachers officiated at his funeral, and tho choir sang: "Oh, What a FriQpd we Have in Jesus!" And still Mime people wonder that lto! Ingersnll is a power in the land.
TnruK is a fre*h»ir mission, a flower nasM-m, and an ^mission in St. Louis'.
anions, scalding tears invariably flow the pale and wan cheeks, and her heart is touched as with a knife. And often we thiuk editors are more heartless when such events occur in their own families, and make broader comments, because they are better acquainted with the sufferer. Recently we received a paper in which an editor commented in half adozsn places in bis paper, in the jelliest possible manner, on the fact that be was the father of twins, and many would get the idea that he was heartless, when he is one of the best fellows on earth. It is pure thoughtlessness on the part of editors, and thev do not realize now deeply they wouud those who are the sufferers, and who have endured the unpleasant feature of having babies for years, without a murmur, and probably will continue to do so. But we wish the time would come when editors would leave such a subject alone, and when a father comes down town putting on scallops, and talking about the "boy," and asking the boys what they will take, teli him to "take a walk home," and see if be can't be of some use around the house. We never have studied this baby business much, bnt we know that nine-ty-nine women in a hundred dread the newspaper comments more than they dread the sick neas, and we hope never to see another funny article in a paper about sueh a serious matter.
NATCRAT I.v pale invalids are greatly improved in health and appearances by t:*ing Brown's Iron Bitter*. It strength ens mind and body, brightens tbe em, gives rosy cheeks*and creates a perfect pit tune of health, strength and beauty.
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The minej% rugg33 atad brown. Were gathered around the poster* The circus had come to town! The great tent shone In the darkness,
Like a wonderful palace of light, And rough men crowded the entrance— 8hq.ws dldnt come every night!
Not a woman's faoe among them! Many a face that was bad, And some that were only vacant,
And some that were very sad, And behind the canvas curtain, In a corner of the place. The clown with chalk and vermtllioii,
Was "making up" his face.
A weary looking woman, With a smile that still was sweet, Sewed on a little garment.
With a eandle at her feet! Pantaloons stood feady and waiting}' It was time for the going on, Butthe clown in vain searched wildlv
The "property baby" was gone?
He murmured, impatienty huntiug, "It's strange that I cannot flad— Thero^i've looked iu every corner:
It must have been left behind!'' The miners were stamping and shou^iug, Thev were not patient men, The clown bent over the cradle— •'I must take you, little Ben!" The mother started and shivered,
But trouble and want were neat She lifted her baby gently: "You'll be very careful dear?" "Careful! ou foolish darling—"
How tenderly it was^said! What a smile shone through the chalk and paint— '•I love each hair of his head!"
The noise rose into an uproar, Misrule for the time was king: The down, with a foolish chuckle.
Bolted into the ring. But as, with a squeak and a flourish, The fiddles closed their tune, "You'll hold him as if he was made of glass?"
Said the clown to the Pantaloon. The jovlal fellow nodded: "I've a coup myself," he said, "I know how to handle 'em, bless you!
Old fellow, go ahead!" The fun grew fast and|furious. And not one of all the crowd Had guessed that the baby was alive,
When he suddenly laughed aloud.'
Oh, that baby-laugh! It was echoed From the benches with a ring, And the roughest customer there sprang up
With: "Boys, It is a real thing!" The ring was jammed In mlnuute, Not a man that did not strive For "A shot at holding the baby—"
The baby that was "alive!"
He was thronged by kneeling suitors In the midst of the dusty ring, And he held his court light royallv— 'Thejfalr little baby-king— Till one of the shouting courtiers,
A man with a bold, luutl face. The talk of milvs of the country, A»d the terror of the place.
Raised thelitt king to his shoulder, And chuckled "Look at that!" As the chubby fingers utcked his hair,
Then, Boys, hand round that hat!" There never'was sueh a hat-full Of silver, and gold, and notes: People are not always penniless
Because they don't wear coats!
And then: "Three cheers for the baby!" I tell you those cheers were meant And the way in which they were given
Was enough to raise the tent. And there was a sudden silence, And a gruff old miner said: "C«me, boys, enough of this rumpus!
It's time-it was put to bed."
So, looking a little sheepish, But with faces strangely bright, The audience.somewhat lingeringly,
Flocked out into the night. And the bold-faced leader chuckled, "He wasn't a bit afraid! He's as game as ho is good-looking—
Boys, that was a slja»th»t
A FEW THINGS.
TO BE DONE BEFORE HOUSE CLEANING BEGINS?.
Albany Sunday Press.
Nail up rickety step-ladders so they will.be firm enough to hold a darkey and a pail of lime without spilling them.
Give your husband due warning, that his private and valuable papers may be saved from, the ash heap.
Send th&baby on a pic-nic to its grandmother or other near relative. Lay',in a'good supply of lint, courtElaster, and other handy remedies for rulses and breaks.
Throw out or burn up every threelegged stool in the house. Ihey were never intended to stand on, but if left around they will be stood on sure, to the great down fall of somebody
Bake a plentiful supply of bread, cakes, pies, etc., before you begin operations. It will do away'with tne annoy ance of baking in the'midst of the general up-set, and save your family the inconvenience of starving.
Secure plenty of help before hand. It is poor economy to save help-hire and pay a hundred dollar doctor bill for the privilege of showing how smart you are.
Don't go at house cleaning with a dash, but get to it by slow approaches. Clean out tnid nooks and corners, closets, etc., and the worst of the battle will be over before you know it.
Send word to your daughter's young man,' that his 'past attentions have merited a vacation and that you will let him off on furlough for a week or two. Don't entrust this commission to your daughter, see to it yourself.
Get your Spring bonnet before you begin. You will have no time to think of it afterwards, and when Sunday comes you will be very apt to get mad, have a good crying spell, and tell your husband yon wish you had married somebody else.
Put away your decorative art materials till the buu-hub is over. If you don't, look out for patches of paint'and daubs of lime among your lilies aud sunflowers.
If anything ails your teeth, have them seen to at once. House cleaning is bad enough for all the inmates of a home, but if in addition to the usual discomforts the one who bosses things happens to have a jumping toothache, the position of the otoQr inmates becomes too utterly unbearable for anything.
Make up vourmind beforehand to be as agreeable as possible. You will get twenty times as much work out of a servant, fifty times as tnnch out of a small boy, and seventy-five times as much out of your husbana by one civil word, than you will by storming at them from morning till iglrt-
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. John Williams, a merchant, of Rutlege, Ga., sued a desperado. The defendant entered the store in a furious passion, held out the summons in one band, clutched a Ions knife in the other hand and said: "Williams, have ron sued me?" Williams knew that aa immediate "yes" would make him sure of a stab. "Let me get my spectacles sa that I can read the paper*" be said. He went behind the counter and came back, not with his glasses.but with an ax across his shoolder. "Yes," be said, "I have sued you." '"All right," replied thedesporado "I guess I'll pay thebUL"
THE Newark (N. J. Sunday Call says: One of our Cincinnati exchanges cities the case of Mr. Haldeman of the Louisville Courier-Journal who was cured of rheumati«uity St. Jacobs Oil. His wife cured of neuralgia by the same artide, and every member of his family of some pain or ache br the Great German Remedy.
A FEARFUL FALL.
H5W A GYMNAST FELT WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP^AND FELL.
"I have had three of the bad falls that marked the Hanlon family. You wiU probably think it singular that I neither lose consciousness nor presence of mind when I fall. My worst tumble, I think, I got in Havana. We were playing under the management of Jim Nixon, and we made a great success. The same people in Havana go to the theatre every night, and they demand constaa't changes in the dome ready for 'the leap for life,' and the people began to clamor to have'it done.' I finally agreed to do it. The feat consists, after the performance of a variety oft ricks on the ladder, in swinging yourself into motion, and jumping to a taut rope, running from the ceiling at an incline to the wings. The jump was a long one' and the house was very quiet when I began to swing, preparatory to taking the leap. I threw myself at the rope, and, when I was in mid-air, I saw it was no go and that I was done. I struck out desperately with my feet, in the hope of helping myself forward, but I only reached the rope with the tips of my fingers of my left hand. Both hands and both feet were extended in spread eagle form if you like. I ought to have struck the rope with both hands, fairly in the centre of my body, with the legs across the line, so as to distribute the strain of sustaining my weight over my whole body. As it was, it all fell on my left arm, and irv body swept in toward the rope like a whiplash. Of course, I let go, and then I began to torn spirally like a corkscrew aud then go down. I instantly realized that I must not land all spread'out. I gathered my left arm close into my body, pushed my head forward, and* drew rnv legs together, struggling to get into shape to fall on my side. I did fall just that way forty feet on a wooden stage. My arm was driven into my side, and'a rib was broken. The arm was shattered, and I was laid up for many months. While I was going down, in an instant I saw over again, as vivid as life, every fall that I ever witnessed. They came right up in my ruind, one right after another, like successive flashes of lightning, and I seemed to be experiencing all of them in my own person. But worse than everything else, a great deal worse than the shock of arriving, was the terrible shriek of agony that went up from the audience. It was liko one heart-break-iug wail of agony. 1 can bear it every time I think of the accident. That is a peciUiaritv of our family. We all heard that shriek, and none of us ever forget it. How did that accident occur? My brother Tom made a mistake in the measurements because of a miscalculation of the space in a round dome. The rone was two feet further away from the ladder than it ought to have lieen.
A PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE. Don't expect to cure constipation of the bowels, dyspepsia, indigestion, etc., by tho use of severe cathartic medicines. Relief thus obtained is only temporary when the reaction comes the disease has a firmer hold on the digestive system thau at first. The practice of taking cathartic medicines is thecause of a great amount of unnecessary suffering. The dose must bo increased from time to time until digestion is impossible without their use, and the liver and bowels eventually become a mass of corruption that*death only can relieve. The way to cure weak and imperfect digestion is to purify the blood and strengthen every part of tne body by the use of such touics as Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, Iron, Celery, and Calisaya, all of which ingredients enter into the composition of T)r. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, the Queen of all health renewers. It increases the power of en durance and counteracts the pernicious effects of physical or mental exhaustion.
"QIBIS, HELP FATHERS "My hands are so stiff I can't hardly hold a pen," said Farmer Wilbur, as he sat down to "figure out" some accounts that were getting behind. "Can I help you, father?" said Lucy, laying down her bright crotchet-work. "I shall be glad to do so if you wilj explain what you want." "Well, I shouldn't wonder if you can, Lucy," he said, reflectively. "Pretty good at figures, are vou "I would be ashamed if I did not know something of them after going twice through the arithmetic," said Lucy laughing. "Well. I can show you in fifteon min utes what I have to do, and it'll be a wonderful help if you can do it for me. I never was a master-band at accounts in my best days, and it does not growany easier since I have put on spectacles."
Verv patiently did the helpful daughter plod through the long lines of figures, leaving the gay worsted to lie idle all the evening, though she was in such haste to finish her scarf. It was rewarded enough to see her tired father who had been toiling all day for herself and the other dear ones, sitting so cozily in his easy chair, enjoying his weakly paper.
The clock struck nine before her task was over, but the hearty "Thank you, daughter, a thousand times!" took away all sence of weariness that Lucy might kave felt. "It's rather looking up when a man can have a clerk," said the father. "It's uot every farmer that can affcrd it." "Not every farmer's daughter is capable of making one," said the mother, with a little pardonable maternal pride. "Nor every one that would be willing, if able," said Mr. Wilber which last was a sad truth. How many daughters might be of use to their fathers in this and many other ways who never think of lightening a care'or labor! If asked to perform some little service, it is done at best with a reluciant step and unwilling air that robs it of all sunshine or claim to gratitude.
Girls, help your father. Give him a cheerful home* to rest in when evening comes, and do not worry his lire away by fretting because be cannot afford you all the luxuries you covet. Children exert as great an influence on their parents as patents do on their children.
MK. SIDXKY MCNAXXY, of New Richmond, O., writes: "My lungs were weak, my breath carre quick and short, my heart palpitated, my dreams disturbed me, my blood was poisoned with scrofula: my back ached, I had dyspepsia, ray Kidneys were affected. I could not work, nor could I even eat with comfort. life seemed a burden rheumatism was in every joint: I suffered from piles urination was painful and full of sediment. I thought I ootild never get well, but Dr. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla has removed all ray afflictions.
LTOIA E. PPTKHAM'S Vegetable Compound revives the drooping spirits invigorates and harmonizes the organic functions: gives elasticity and firmness to the step, restores the natural lustre to the eye, and plants on the pale cheek of beauty the fresh roses of life's spring and earlv summer time.
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THINGS ALL HOUSEKEEPERS DO NOT
Whta the cold Winter months have passed away, and Spring onoe more has dawned upon us, the thoughts of neat housekeepers are naturally turned towards house-cleaning time, and many things require their attention preparatory to that great event. Boxes and bundles are to be overhauled, closets cleared of useless contents, bureau drawers rearranged and garments that are useless, or unalterable, and that are no longer of safficient value to crowd space needed for more available possessions, are to be disposed of.
Many ladies would laugh at the idea of utilising old, half-worn materials but if a little thought is given to the possibilities of their use, they will find these very materials may yet be of much service, if they are not gathered up indiscriminately and throwu into tne rag-
he skirts of old cotton dresses, made into large, square eloths, answer admirably for covers to chairs and other small pieces of furniture while the process of sweeping is going on—or, being soft and pliable, for dusters, of which there never can be too many in a house. I have often seen children's table-bibs mado from such materials, and it is reallv surprising to see how long they will fast.
Old cotton cloth, too, will be found abundantly useful by a thoughtful housekeeper large r611s of it should be put away carefully for use in sickness, asit is impossible to submit the tender skin of an invalid to the roughness of new muslin.
In contagious diseases it is generally necessary that all clothing, used in the sick room, should be destroyed. At sueh a time, a stock of soft, old muslin underclothing would be almost invaluable. Old, all-wool, soft flannel should also be saved with scrupulous care, to be used in sickness, and thoroughly protected from the ravages of moths, as the latter seem to have an especial fancy for this material.
It is well, if you have children's clothes that have been outgrown by the little ones, aud are of no further use, to hunt up some poor woman who has children to provide for, and give them to her but, as far as my experience goes.it is better to repair nil the rents that may be in theln, before they pass out of your hands, as they aro seldom of much ad vantage to most poor mothers, if such a course be not taken.
Gentlemen's cast-oil' clothing, when ripped, washed and ironed, will sometimes make over admirably for little boys—or may bo cut into jackets and trimmed with some bright colors for girls to wear under their cloaks in cold weathor. When not suitable for either of these purposes, the garments may be cut into strips, neatly sewed together, and, after being braided, fastened with strong thread into the form of rugs, that are quite pretty as well as useful.
BRONCHITIS.—Throat diseases often commence with a cough, cold, or unusual exertion of the voice. These incipient symptoms are alleyed by the use of "Brown's Bron«hial Troches," which if neglected often result in a chronic trouble of the throat.
r.OCKING IN THE DEAD.
AND THROWING T1IK VAULT KEY IN THE RIVER.
The burial vault of tho Brewer family is the oldest in the oldest in the Allegheny cemetery, near Pittsburgh. When the wealthy Charles Brewer died, some years ago, ho ordered in his will that only one more person, after himself, should be buried there. This exception was Miss Hern, a neice. After her death the vault was to be locked and tho key thrown into the river. Miss Hern died last week, and the executors of Mr. Brewer have obeyed his injunctions as to the key.
SOME THINGS I HAVE NOTICED.
I have noticed that when a horse gets up he gets up forward llrst and jerks his hind parts after him, while a cow will get her rear hall up all right and draw her forward half up in place also, when drinking, a horse will draw in water rapidly with every breath the cow, on tho contrary, will suck in one continuous draught as long as she can hold her breath.
I have noticed that sheep and goats are both butters, yet a sheep has to run a few steps backward before he can butt, while tho goat has to raise himself on his hind legs to execute the same movement. One is called a buck sheep, the other a battering ram. Thev aro the only two animals I know of whoso butt ends are in front.
A squirrel can run down a tree head first. The cat and tho bear must get down tail first (if left to themselves).
If your dog finds his way into your cellar and sees a nice steak he will steal it and run out, but if your cat gets in and finds a steak she will sit right down by it and eat what she wants (ir not surprised before).
I have noticed that a leather strap buckled about the height of yourself around a young tree, iu a few years will lxj away tieyond your reach, but if nailed at the same distance will never get any higher (only-the outer shell runs up).
Although turkeys are much more swift of foot than geese, yet in a week's drive a flock of geese will come in ahead for geese you can drive at nigtit, especially moonlight, but when evening approaches turkeys will roost.
A man can stand on one foot in the middle of a room and pull on his shoe, while a woman must lean up against something to accomplish the same thing.
A man holds the needle in his left band to thread it, but a woman holds it in her right.
In one thing I think every one will agree with me: Dress a man a* a woman dresses and you will freeze him to death. But I guess I won't tell all I know st once. X. I. X.
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT. A lady residing in Georgia, whose son was threatened with consumption, wrote to several of our old patients, whose testimonials in favor of Compound Oxygen we had published, asking if these printed testimonials weretrue. Among them was T. S. Arthur, the well-known author, who replied to her June 17tfl, 1880, as follows: "Mrs. In reply to your favor, I will atate that the testimonial to which you refer is genuine. From what I have myself experienced, and from what I know of the effect of Compound Oxygen in others, I am *ati*/Uxt that this new remedy ut one of remarkable curative power. Your son, I think, can hardly fail to receive benefit. Others as badly diseased, and suffering for many years, have been cured, or greatly relieved, by this Treatment, as you will see by Drs. Starkey A Palen Report of Cases, which I am well assured is authentic. Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, containing large reports of cases and full information, Ami frer. Drs. STARKEY A PAI.KX, 1,109 and 1,111 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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HO W TO SLEEP WELL. Hall's Journal of Health. No healthful sleep comes except that which follows voluntary or involuntary action of the bodv. Peiiestrians fall iii-^ to sound, deep sleep as soon as put tol bed, at the appointed time for rest. This* is the sleep from voluntary muscular exercise. A person in good health sits around the house all day a« invalid may all day sit and lounge and lie down from morning until night without sleeping and both the healthy mail and the invalid, in the course of the evening, will become sleepy and fall into sound repose, the result of the weariness which involuntary action brings about for the various organs of the body, the heart, the liver, the stomach, the eyolids, work steadily every day. The intestines ar^ as ceaseless in their motion as the waves^ of the ocean as these latter are always d&shing toward the shore, so is the great viscereal machinery working, working, working, pushing the wastes of the body downward and outward from the first breath of existence to the last gasp of life. There is not a movement of the system, voluntary or involuntary, external or internal, which does not require power to cause it. When that power is to a certain extent exhausted, instinct brings on the sensation of sleepiness, which is the result of exhausted power, intended b3' nature to secure that cessation from activity which gives time fo recuperation, very much as a man wh runs for a while stops and rests, so as get stronger to run again. We get up in the morning with a certain amount of reserved or accumulated strength in the course of the day that strength becomes expended to the point necessary for the commencement of a new suppy, which comes from rest, the rest from sleep. Opium narcotics, all forms of anodynes, cause sleep artificially compelling rest.
Mit. H. W. Merton, of Oswego N. Y., writes: My wife has been restored perfect health and strength. Nbesutt'ered many years from iiidigestiou, complicated* with femalo irregularities. I never saw her lips so red and her cheek so rosy for vears.
SOMETHING ABOUT PANCAKE*. Some people suppose that pancake* are always unhealthful, but I think, if woll made, they are more wholosonn than either sour or heavy bread. It often said that they are* just as good without as with oggs, but I don't think so. Made without eggs, they are very apt to bo either "soggy" as thoy cool, or too thick to be enjoyable. When eggs are plentiful, allow one egg to each cup of "wetting," usually sour milk or sour buttermilk. When'really sour, milk does not keep increasing in sourness though it soon becomes bitter. Kach cu of really sour milk or buttermilk re quires half a level teaspoonful of soda carefully dissolved before mixiug it with the batter. While flour alone Is not so good as genuine graham, or a part cornmeal (well scalded), and part white flour. Old bread soaked in sweet milk, or in sour milk with the soda added, or cold hominy, or oatmeal, or Indian mush, all work into good pancakes. Make tho batter just thin enough to spread easily upon the griddle, when dropped from tho spoon. Grease the griddlo lightly, and avoid a "smudge."— [F. K. It., in American Agriculturist for May.
A HINOL'I.ARI.Y interesting case WIW lately referred to bv the Brooklyn Kagle. It was told by Mr. W. A. Davenport, oon nected with tlio house of Messrs. Butlc Pitken A Co., 470 Broadway, New York and concerned tho marvelous cure of Mr. Ezra D. Clarkson, near Newark, N. J., of a terrible case of rheumatism, which other remedies had failed even to alleviate. He was on his way to a hospital when Mr. Davenport met liim and induced him to try St. Jacobs Oil, with the result named.—Clevoland O., Praotica' Farmer.
BURYING CONGRESSMEN. Detroit Free Press. When they bury a Congressman pitblic expense the cost is about J.'!,00 When his friends bury him tho whisk, and cigars are left out, aud the bill about $100. _______________
GIVEN UP It DOCTORS. Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is aud at work, and cured by so simple remedy?".' 'I assure you it is true that be is e,\ tirely cured, and with nothing but H' Hitters: and only ten days ago Ir doctors gave him up and said lie nii die!"
Well-a-day That's remarkable! will igo this tlay and get some f.r poor George—1 know hops are good.
American antl Ktiropenn IJorJori It issaid by some of the mostodobrat physicians in Europe and America th the German Hop Bitters are one of th best remedies now in use. (2m
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