Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 April 1885 — Page 8

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Kilimanjaro.

Mr. H. H. Johnston was sent to Africa last spring by the Royal Geographical society to Ctody the flora and fauna of Mount KilimanJsro. He describes the climate of its southern slopes as that of a Devonshire summer. At a height of 11,000 feet he built a village of Ants for his followers. They were so susceptible to cold that nothing would induce them As accompany him above 14,000 feet. He Ins hi 1 a height of 16,200 feet, but could not gain the summit. He found warm springs a* a height of 14,000 feet, and buffaloes aad elephants climb the mountain side to that elevation. Very few plants grow near flis snow line, though vegetation thrives with tropica.! luxuriance 8,000 or 4,000 feet below. Bfals are very rare above 10,000 feet and Tsry abundant below. Many natives live on the mountain slopes to a height of 6,000 feet. Tbey are very fond of trade, and sold Johnston plenty of provisions at cheap rates. He cays this is one of the most beautiful and interesting regions in the world, and he would sot have left it so soon had not liis funds gfren out He brought home large collections.

The Cholera.

About all epidemic and contagions diseases are now believed to come from microscopic germs or spores that arise out of the earth, or live and float through the atmosphere. These fasten themselves upon various parts cf the human body, and decline and death follow. Whether these organisms are animal cr vegetable is a disputed point. Prevailing authorities perhaps assign them the animal existence. But whatever they are, they swarm everywhere. They are found in number in human saliva in its normal stute. The discharges from the throat in pneumonia contain a bacillus, or microscopic organism peculiar to this disease.

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fever. There is also a hydrophobia bacillus. Space and matter are inhabited by teeming millions invisible to the ordinary human eye. The cholera has likewise

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germ or spore. It is found in myriad swarins along the intestines of persons who have died of this scourge. It is also found in waters and In the earth during cholera epidemics. This creature is to be seen in the illustration. It is here nagn fled 3,500 times.

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lightly curved or bent shape. If wo have cholera in the United States the present summter this is the demon that will be found in our insides. But whence he comes, or why, «r why he leaves us after a time, are mysteries past the ken of mortal rcienco. Medical wisdom knows practically nothing of cholera, though the disease is hundreds of

-s older than the Christian religion itself, oldest Sanscrit writings it is accurately described. Yet in spito of this undoubted proof of its existence in the hoary egos, it never appeared in Europe till 1880L That is another curious fact. It always exists in India, in the province of Lower Bengal. Yet even in India it only occasionally becomes epidemic. In 1880 it traveled to Surope by way of Russia, coming down through Poland. Increased intercourse among men between Europe and Asia brought increase of this pestilence. It fol lowed the steamship in close company. It iMts never been known, away from its home in India, to appear at a place that had not Jtoen in communication with an infected locality. Mountainous regions, and towns trailt upon high, hard ground, escape its ravage*. Another fact that some scientific parson thinks he has observed is that cholera janot so apt to attack districts subject to malaria and agues. It is worse in towns built upon a light, porous soil, through which air and water pass easily. It may be observed, by the ay, that there is also an ague germ, a malaria bacillus. It is not comfortable to wake up in the night aud renienilwr that whether sick or well, alive or dead, we are swarming inside and out with these microecropic monsters, but wo must accept the fact Science is science. It is true there are more things it cannot find out than there are that it can find out-, but we must take such facts as we can get for certain and be thankful.

Science has been more successful in the hygienic uapect of the cholera pestilence. There, at least, we have some certain ground. As to the prevention of cholera an eminent authority puts it in this language: "Sanitatel sanitate! sanitatel" In the plain phrase of the people—thank heaven we are permitted ••till to use it occasionally —Clean! clean! dean! Kitchen and house slops and domestic refuse thrown upon the ground in the vicinity of a dwelling constitute a so 1 on which the cholera bacillus battens and grows fierce and multiplies in hosts innumerable. It fattens on filth. The demon is in dirt. Scrub the floor, for instance, of any ordinary room with the cleanest water. Afterwards take a drop of the water that has been thus used, and inject it into the veins of a Guinea pig. It will kill him. This is the water that too often it is the custom to pitch out of the kitchen door or upon the ground near the house. Stop it The water is full of disease germs. Another point is to be remembered. The prevailing winds in this country are from the west

Kitchen refuse and slops thrown upon the met ride of a dwelling are more apt to return and enter the doors and windows in tb« form of disease than if thrown in other directions. Scrub, clean and dHnfeot wy closet and cellar with concert ted lye, or something else just as good. Whitewash thoroughly cellars, hen houses and every other place that ran be whitewashed. Rake away rubbish, ventilate and let the sunlight and air into all corners and crannf" Rati* you and change your clot: often. Sat hful food, and live regularly. Ftna' \. your conscience Vrtr, and doot scared, no matter hat hap p»nt a «, ca death* have cotne about from pure si tr lew. We may or may not have choterr to United States this summer, hut hi anj ««m dont lose your head. la epidemic* the.o are always those who mors about ii :h* midst of them, bravely feeing dortg what neads to bedooe, and never «oo» t.ki-sj: the disease. Tbey seem to bear chars*. «s. It is their strong fsarfawsnw atore Un«t' -nything abs that saves them. 'f §1 tPHw Kssajpa la ftoetal 8e»ea«s.

Hcnrv omh, of Rachssfsr, Ji, Y., offers Ant an- icoad prises on «aeh of the followFirst—**Bsalthy Hamas and Foods Cor the Wnktaf Clsssss Beroad—"Sanitary CotKtlvoai cad Meusdll- of School nr-i School LiCa* TWrd-"D«afao-

lion Individual Prophylaxis Against Infectious Diseases." Fourth—"Preventable Causes of Disease, Injury and Death in American Manufactories and Workshops, and the Best Means for Preventing and Avoiding Them." In this fourth essay the needs of the American werkingman will be especially considered. It is agreeahle to koow that the judges will award the prize to fiww who go down into the work and make original investigations, rather than to those who sit at their desks and compile their essays from encyclopedias. This is as it should be.

The essays on disinfection will discuss the relative value of disinfectants, and the best methods whereby the individual may escape contagion. The essays on food and homes for the working classes must be written in popular style, as indeed all of them must be, and within the comprehension of the working people themselves. This, too, is as it should be. For each topic the first prize is $500 second, $300. The prizes are offered through the American Public Health association. The essays are to be sent to its secretary, Dr. Irving A. Watson, Concord, N. H. They must be handed in by Oct. 15, 1885. Prizes will be awarded at the annual meeting of the association, the second week in December. Authors of any nationality may compete, but the essays must be written in the English language. It is to be sincerely hoped that the working people themselves will take an interest in the matter. Why should not they as well as anybody else compete for some of these prizes?

Facts of Interest.

A type-setting machine has been invented with an automatic spacing attachment The Royal society of London have ordered made a photographic atlas of the stars of the southern hemisphere.

Ninety-nine photographs of the late eclipse of the sun were taken at the Naval Observatory at Washington.

A language club, which promises to be of some use, has been organized by some learned gentlemen of New York and vicinity. Its object is the preservation of the purity of the English tenguage.

In Brazil physicians are vaccinating against yellow fever. The experiment has been tried on 500 persons, every one of whom has thus far escaped the infection. The patients are inoculated with on attenuated yellow fever virus.

A new porcelain, superior to the famous Sevres, and identical with that of China, landing itself to artistic decoration and taking all kinds of glazes, has been produced, after ten years' experiment, by M. Lauth, of Sevres.

Frederick Hinkel, German consul at Chicago, died there of consumption recently. He roquested that his body should be burned. It was accordingly sent to the crematorium at Lancaster, Pa. It was reduced to ashes in an hour.

The Dutch government have issued the first part of their official report of the Kratoa eruption. It deals With the history of the island prior to the occurrence and the events of the catastrophe itself. The second part will deal with the scientific results of the investigation.

The Royal Academy of Turin announces the foundation of a prize of the value of 12,000f. for the most useful and striking discovery in anatomy, physiology, pathology, the exact sciences, geography, or statistics effected from 1888 to Dec. 81, 1886. The members of the academy itself are not eligible for the prize.

Summer Dress Goods.

At length we have bad a warm day. Let us make the most of it Let us build on it Let us marshal the host of lovely summer dress fabrics, and set them forth in dazzling array. In short, let us make believe that summer is coming, anyhow. This much is certain: There never were more beautiful dress goods for summer wear than are displayed this spring. We never remember, either, to have seen so great a variety of styles. These prove that cotton can be made to imitate in woof and texture any other fabric in wool, silk or linen that can be made. The colors and figures are new, also. Some are modifications of fashions seen last summer, but others are such as have not been seen before in this generation, if at all.

NEW DESIGNS.

We seem to be approaching Chinese fashions this summer in some of the new goods. Some very novel designs show Chinese figures upon a Turkey red ground. Red figures upon a navy blue ground, though not the very newest, are pretty, and will still be worn. A pale cream ground, figured in colors, will be one of the most fashionable shades. This ground, flecked with pink, red and pale blue squares, is much seen. Wine color is another fashionable tint The grounds mentioned are sometimes covered, also, with figures of an Egyptian pattern. Then we have actually crazy quilt sateens, upon a somewhat dark ground. By the way, in the opera of "The Bohemian Girl," recently performed in New York, the heroine wears in the gypsy camp a silk skirt of genuine crazy quilt pattern. Bright and pretty lawn tennL. suiting appears in a fabric of navy blue, cream and garnet stripes.

It is impossible to describe the fancy figures and kaleidoscope patterns that cover the ground colors mentioned. In the new summer goods ever}* combination of color that is bright, rich and odd comes to light The fantastic holds carnival. Yet the effect is not glaring and bizarre. The colors are agreeably combined. The flowers and figurw are smaller tbnn tbey \wiv last summer.

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lUTDFXan ULSTER.

The well-known ew York ladies' taikx has design"* for us a summer ulster that u*y be used also for colder weather. It Is made of fawo-oolored Vienna ckrth. The braid with which It is trimmed is a new pattern of farfc brown aad gold togctibsr, fastened ia front dowtk TO ths waist with long military tattaa The skirt Is made to open, and twm otw at ths coram, whioh ars caught back, ss showa in the illustratMa. This is for na

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mer. The skirt of the drees, which shows beneath, should be of some pretty contrasting color. In cooler weather the Jappels can be let down and the ulster fastened like an ordinary garment. in the next garment we have also some* thing entirely new. 'hi same artist-

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HEDFKRN BBAiDKD GOWN.

It is now, we believe, considered the proper thing to call a dress a gown. This "gown," then, is moss-green in color, trimmed with a new style of braiding invented- at the Paris branch of the house named. It is called the Astrakhan braiding, and is made with a dark amber-mixed cord. The dress is handsome and unique, and needs no particular explanation. It speaks for itself. "i\^ J|

SATEENS.

These will be as fashionable as ever the coming summer. Indeed, cotton goods and wash goods of all kinds will be worn very generally. They are much daintier and cleaner than sticky and stuffy woolen goods during the perspiring days. There are beautiful fabrics so cheap that everybody who is rich enough to pay liberal wash-bills, or fortunate enough to be able to do her own washing, can hafe plenty of pretty dresses.

The sateens are a shade cheaper in price than they were last summer. They will be worn on all ordinary occasions. There are dark sateens for shopping and traveling. There are also Turkey red sateens for the country, for home and the seashore. This color, indeed, enters into much of the summer dress goods. Fiery red, however, is not comfortable to the eye during dog days. It is too suggestive of roasting. Pink, blue, brown and golden brown are fashionable shades in all fabrics. So also are drab, myrtle green, navy blue, light olive and slate. Then we have fine checks, known as the pin-head checks. Something quite new is a sateen in pin-head checks, flecked with small squares or polka dots, the color of the check. The old reliable polka dots, like the poor, are always with us. One pretty piece of goods for fk jnd mourning was a sateen with bright purple dots upon a black ground.

OTHER FABRICS. jV

There are French cambrics, for skirtings, in vivid black, red, blue and pink stripes. They look like the American flag. We have nlan percales. In this goods there are dark blue and a pretty electric blue used for boating suits.

Batiste comes in the same colors as those mentioned for sateens and percales. This thin, clear goods is very elegant It is in plain colors, with wide embroidered edge of same for trimming.

In novelty goods we have a cotton crepe de chine. This is, in fact, nothing more or less than a cotton crepe, and a pretty one at that. It looks like a flower garden, so gay it is. Another novelty is brocaded cotton goods, like brocaded* silks and velvets. Brocaded sateens in wood colors and golden browns are stylish. Other novelties are Sicilienne goods of the same style. Grenadines will be worn again. •Vj,.'- The Princess Di-c**h. "**.~

This always beautiful costume is revived again. It is the most graceful and becoming drees the female sex can wear, showing to perfection the graceful curves of a woman's form from the waist to the hips. Bunchy skirts and short waists are hideous. The fit and draping of American-made dresses so closely follow, in these days, the grace and finish of the alwavs artistic French costume that the two, placed side by side, are very often almost exact in appearance. One of the most difficult robes to finish and fit to perfection is the princess drees, where unerring skill in shaping the skirt is imperative. It must, in the direct language of the work room, be "well hung," or the effect is wholly spoiled. In all houses known to fame then, are distinct workers, each branch of laboi necessitating a different course of study anc experience, as in the case of medicine and surgery, with the same mutual relevance. It is for this reason that the dress, as a whole, is complete and perfect within its outline ana accessories. Wff

FASHION LETS.

Among the new colors is Alderney, which is the deepest shade of cream color. The most correct glove for the promenadt is one that matches the costume—a trifl. a

There is fashion in charity as in everything else. The latest style is to give breakfasts to unemployed workingmen.

Real palms are now used to decorate the churches in profusion on Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter. Pieces of them are given to members of the congregation. The long, waving branches make graceful ornaments after the day has passed.

Hie word "pantaloons" is tabooed in high iifa. Dont call 'on that, as you value your gentility. And to say "pants" is still worse. It is a vulgarity only second to eating with your knife. Cadi them "trousers," or be dismissed from fashionable society.

The most beautiful Cans exhibit a combination of silk embroidery with fine painting on the silk or satin cover. There are delicate fans of finest silk gauze, hand-painted and embroidered. There ars also artistic and costly fans decorated by French and German artists after the style of Watteau, Greuze, Boucher and others.

Colored cheese-cloth will make inexpensive dresses for picnics and small evenings for, trimmed with inexpensive lace and bright ribbons, these dresses show but little difference between them aad the more expensive veiling. Heliotrope, pale yellow, bhw and green are found among the new tints in the cotton veiling, newly christened from cheese doth.

A pretty cover for the piano stool is made of a square of felt ft shcnJd have fringe around the edge, either sewed oa or made by s&shmg the edge of the felt Tbeornameotattan is of velvet ribbon, pot oa ia lines to form squares: the ends should be painted, and the edges of the velvet ihay bt fastened down with fancy stitches in bright embroidery silk. Or a border of satin ribbon may ha pat on pat a square of ths ribbon in each oorasr, and then a plain strip of the ribbon with ths ends pointed where they job ths squares. This, too, may be made very mental by ths of eBbrettey*

MEXICO AMD THE MEXICANS.

A New aad Novel Feature *ith W. W. Cole's Colossal bhows.

Reallatic Pictures of Ufe In our Slater Kepublic.

Magnlficlent Collection of Carlos and Relics from the Hall of the Mentexomas.

have been, until recently, oomparaiivi strangers. The march of civilization, bow ever, with ts invariable adjunct, the railroad, has gradually puxhed aside the bursters, and we mny now be said to be getting on speaking terms with the modern inhabitants of the land of the Aztecs. It is a counhistory has been written in blood, wliose rulers huve been for the most part

try1whose whe tyrants masquerading as pat)lots, and as a natural consequence the habitual state has been one of armed revolution. This has naturally fostered the military spirit and its concomitant habltsot reckless daring among the ruling and middle classes, while it has served to keep in a cond tion bordering on abject servitude the lower strata or mixed race, made up of an admixture o. native Indian, Spanisn and negro blood. Eminentlv a pastoral people, and, the interior provinces especially, shut out from contact with the progressive spirit of the age, their advancement has been much less rapii than has been marked in our own favored country. Tbi ir methods have been and are to a large extent yet, of the most primitive description, and their faculties fur communication of the rudest kind except in one direction, that of horseback travel. And here we find them to excel. N cecity has made them a race of natural equestrians, and the boundless jains, with, theii countless herds of horses, ave furnished a rare fMd for the development of thefaccomp ishment. The men are almost raised in a saddle, ani their sh ill and daring is a portion of their history. As a race they are hardy and frugal, except in the matter of personal adornment aud in this they retain many of the notions, so far as he men are concerned, of early colonial days, when the "lords of creation' dressed in finery with fully as much zest as the modern belle. Th ir style, however, is distinctive an«i unique,'and the mounted Mexican Vacquero, with his own and his horse's ga" trappings, forms a not unpleasing picture of dashing gallantry, at ouce unique ami in terestiug to the casual beholder. With spirit of progress and a desire to place before the people a novel sight, Mr. W W. Cole has, after considerable trouble and expense, induced a party of genuine Mexicans to visit this country and make a tour of the States with him this season In connection with his Colossal Circus and Menagerie. They come with all their appurtenance* to give correct and truthful pictures of Mexican life, among which will be the famous Vacqueros from Quendero, the great lassooing experts and kings of the saddle, subjugating the wild bronchos, whose kicking and bucking propensities have made them famous in at least that direction a complete representation of a Mexican Hacienda, or country home in the wilds of Mexico, with its beautiful ,dark-eyed cigarettesmoking senoras and senorltas, with their attendant Hacendados a Mexican road scene, represent the capture of a dlligenl a by Mexican Balteadores, synonymous with our Western Road agents, in al the glory of their elegant attire and trappings, snn armed! to thethe teeth a hugeemcampment ot rtmoheros, Arrieras and Mestizos, with their mustangs and burros, attacked by brigands, representing the attack, the repulse, the running fight and the stampede—a most exciting aud .interesting scene Added to thi8lsaRrand museum of Mexicnn curious, many of them dating back to the da of the Aztecs, inc.uding the "Piedre de los Sacroflcios" or green sacrificial stone of Teocalli, upon whose surface have been sacrificed 130,000 human beings, for the most part captives taken in war an ancient idol covered with gold and jewels and bound with go denser pents the only specimen in the United States of the "Giant Spanish Dagger," a Mexican house plant growing forty feet iij height (the specimen shown being only ten feet high the giant Mexican Cactus almost nine feet high jmagnlflcient working models of Mexican gold and silver mines uniforms of the Mecican Imperial Guaid, worn during the brief but eventful reign of the unfortunate Emperor MaximiliHu Aztec mummies blazing filagree jewelry, gorgeous horse trappings, national emblems, buttle flags and a thousand other souvenirs of every period of Mexican history from thetime of its conquest by Hernado Cortes, to the present, forming one or the most-unique and complete special features aver presented to any traveling exhibition,ffnd now shown by Mr. Cole for the fl'St time in this country.

Iu making tlii* departure, Mr. Cole has been actuated by a desire to add novelty to his shows and indeed no reason can be mentioned wherein he hasnotso added to his list of attractions. That the public will appre 'ciate this spirit as they nave always done there is no aoubt, and that Mr. Ode will reap a rich and substantial reward for his foresight Is equally certain. The shows with its manifold attractions, inclu« ing the last added feature, "Mexico and the Mexicans," will exhibit in this city on Wednesday the 29th of this month.

Cheap Carpets 15c. Foster's.

Cutlery, Spoons, Scissors,

Coffee mills and scales, all grades and prices. Dunbar Hardware Company,.,,

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Gentle Annie,.and finds Fred "t,!Lee, the Fourth StreetlGrocer,

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NEW VEGETVABLES, ,» EARLY GREENS

of all kinds. FAT POULTRY and country produce. 124 south Fourth street.

MIXED PAINTS,

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Glass, Varnishes, Oilsr,

Paint and Whitewash V*

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Ladies Satchels, Supporters, Feather Dusters, Choice Perfumery,

Pure Wines and Liquors.

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1,000 BUSHELS

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WE WILL OFFER A

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20 doz. Elegant 4 Hook Kid Gloves

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Have more patterns, largor experience mmi capacity, and employ more mechanics any other flJmimr establishment within sev-enty-five mile of Terre Haute.

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Italian Marble and ail kinds of can and Foreign Granite

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