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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1885. NO. 3. VOLUME XXXS|^B
AT T.AST.
At end of Love, at end of life,
At end of Hope, at end of Strife,
At end of all we cling to so,
The sun is setting?must we go?
At dawn of Love, nt dawn or Life,
At dawn of Peace that follows Strife,
At da^n of ull we long for so,
T>? yjn is rising?lot us go!
-^ Louise Chandler Moulton, in Harper \
THE PINK FEATHER.
BY ELIZABETH BIGELOW.
"Yea, it is .1 pretty place, as you say, I
the old Hathaway homestead, and it
makes me think of the t-'cripter promise
about the wilderness blossomin' like a
rose." j
There was a pleaeant anticipatory I
pucker about ray landlady's mouth that
meant a story. Her mind was stored
with neighborhood chronicles, with
which she delighted io regale me as soon
as she discovered that I found theui interesting.
They gave additional chcer
to the rainy eve .i.'igs i e-ide the blazing
fire, and charmed away the melancholy
of the long twilights, when '.'rickets
chirped and frogs ctoiked dismally, and
it became doubtful whether country
solitude was the best thing for one's
nerves.
Now. it was a sunshiny morning, and
I was sitting 011 the porch, in the pleasant
shade of the hop-vines, while Mtb.
Davidge shelied peas in the doorway. I
made no effort to draw her out; that was
unnecessary; I had learned that some of
her neighbors consideied my landlady
'kind of todious, never givin' folks a
chance to put in a word edgeways," but
I was willing to be a listener only, and
Mrs. Davidge had assured me that I was
"the best comp'ny she ever found."
"If 't'want exactly a wilderness ten
years ago, 'twas the most ruu out farm
in town. Isr'el Hathaway was a well
meanin' man, but he was one of the kind
that can't teem to fetch anything to pass.
"When women arc so, folks say they
haven't got a faculty; men are apt to be
called unlucky. And there does seem
to be such a thing as luck, let folks say
what they will; one lien will batch out
every one of her eggs, and another one
settin' right beside her on eggs out of
the same batch, and jest as diligent a
fowl, won't hatch but one or two, Some
folks call such things luck, and some
the doin's of Proverdunce; anyhow, j
there's no care no? forethought that helps
or hinders 'em. But whatever it was
that run the Hathaways clfcar'n down hill
before Isr'el died, 'twas the workin's of
Proverdunce, plain enough, that brought
'em up higher'n they ever* was before.
Proverdunce, plain enough, to my mind,
though the instrument, was notbin'
in the world but jest a pink feather!
"Of course, there was some little
things to help along: Tommy Streadley's
bein' thick-headed?on accouut of his
bein' a triplet, some folks thought, but
I must say I never saw a Streadley but
what was?and Maudany Wheelocks j
bein' as vain as a peacock. But, there, i
I am drcttul apt to begiu a story at the
wrong end."
Mrs. Davidge gave her pan a vigorous !
6hake, which brought the unshellcd peas
to the surface, and seemed to perform a
like kindly oltice for her ideas.
"As I said, the JJatbaways w:is ail run
down hill when Isr'el died. Prudence
was seventeen, and had jest got to keep
in'a district school. John was about a
year older, and he was goin' to the aca- (
demy. . If there was anythin' in the
world that Isr'el Ilathaway's mind had
always been set on 'twas to give his boy
learnin', so 'et lie needn't till the s'il lor ,
alivin'; and Jlis' Hathaway and Prudence
was set on it, too. Prudence calkerlated
that she could keep Bchool and
run the farm, too, and earn enough to
send John to college?with him keepin'
school between times, to help himself
along. And she did it; but it changed
her from a pretty, pink-cheeked, laughin'
girl to a sober, careworn old maid
bafore she was twenty-five. IIow that *
girl did work! She showed grit that
never come from the Hathaways, nor !
from her mother's folk as far back as I
knew anythin' about 'em. She'd got a
chance to teach in the academy; she
taught Latin and mathematics, fittin'
young men for college, and she'd give
herself all the education she had except
jest one year to the academy. And she
did fetch enough for them to live on, !
and Bometnmg more out 01 mat iarm.
John did pretty considerable well; he
didn't make much of a list at schoolkecpin';
he hadn't a knack for it. I!
was afraid he'd have his father's knack
for kind of dwindlin' out of everything, !
end I never felt sure?nor hain't to this
day?that he was worth the sacrifice
that was be-in' made for him, or that it's
ever right for one human bein' to sncri- ,
fice himself?it's apt to be herself,though
I have seen it the other way?to another
human bc:n'that's jest's as able-bodied or
more. There's a si^ht of them things'
goin' on, v.astin' the lives of the very j
best and sweetest-nrnded.
"Prudence always wore an old, rusty. |
black alpaca dress. I don't s'pose it
could have been always the same one, j
but it always looked old and rusty, and
he never took the least mi!e of pains
with her hair morc'n to keep it all.
drawed back, neat and tight, into a
knob at the back of her head, which
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owin'to her having a high forehead. She
never wore any ornaments but a gold ;
breastpin with her father's hair in it, '
and a iiltie mite of a gold ring that had !
been her grand mot her's; and that had
hair in it, too. Suzelty Kiug used to s.iy I
she looked jest us if her beau had been i
a sailor and got drowned. But she
looked sadder'n even than that tomelike
a cirl that has missed her
chance of the hopes and joys j
that come nateral to women
in the spring of their lives. [
Whether she ever thought of what she :
wa3 missin' or not, I can't say. I
shouldn't wonder if she had most forgot I
she was anything but a merchine to
make life easier for John and her
mother.
"Well, John had got through college,
and most through the law school, too, j
and was goin' to graduate that summer, !
and set up as a lawyer for himself, j
He'd got a pretty good openin' with a i
classmate that had a lawyer for a father, i
and Prudence must have felt uncom- ;
mon easy in her mind, for she took !
* somebody's advice and went and had i
Mis' Plympton make her a new summer :
bonnet. .Mis' Plympton had jest come
here from the city then, and some liked ;
her bonnets and some didn't; but old!
Miss Crcssy, who had mnde bonnets for j
forty years, was paralyzed, and folks :
that couldn't make their own had to I
have Mis' Plvmpton's.
"I'm certain 'twas as much as four j
years since Prudence Hatiiaway nau naa
a new bonnet. Tommy Streadley's
mouth and eyes must have opened even
wider'n he commonly kept 'em when
Mis' Plympton said to him, late one
Saturday night (she'd hired Tommy for I
extry help because her little errand-girl J
was all bent out), 'This green bandbox |
goes to Miss Prudence-Hathaway, up by
the Three Corners.'
"At the same time she gave him a
brown bandbox for Mandany Wheelock,
the squire's daughter.
" 'I can't stop to mark 'em. but you I
can't make a mistake, owin' to the dif- I
runt colors. Now, remember, which is i
which!' says Mis' Plympton.
"Tommy promised that he would,and
he always declared that he kept savin' '
goin' along, 'Green, Hathaway; brown, I
Wheelock'; but if he did he was like a
hotel-boy that I was rcadin' about in the J
paper, that was sent with some boots to
a lord that was stoppin' in the hotel,and
they told him to say, 'My lord, the boy
has brought your boots,' but sayin'it
over'n and over to make sure, he got
mixed up, and says he, 'My boy, the
lord has brought your boots!' And
Tommy Streadley by the time he'd got
to the Three Corners was savin', 'Brown,
" Hathaway!' For he left the brown bandbox
to tho Hathaways, and carried the
green one to Mandany Wheelock!
"And when Prudence opened the box
instead of the sensible, middle-aged
olain iace bonnet that she'd ordered,
there was a jaunty little mite of a bonnet,
with a pink feather on the front!
'Twas a black-lace bonnet, to be sure,
but that pink feather made it look so
pert aud coquettish, it hadn't no more
iobrietv'n a rod-winged blackbird.
. "fxudAiice looked at it kind of scared at
l^jr *&&& I
first, as if 'twas something that would
bite her. Then she took it out and held
it at arm's length, and looked it over.
" 'What was the milliner thinking of?'
says she. "It isn't a mite like the shape
I ordered! Aud think of a pink feather
for me, mother!'
" 'It don't look as if 'twas meant for
you, certain.' said Mis' Hathaway.
I 14 * T must Timi n if trod v Prii- .
! dencc, decidedly; but as she put it back
into the box she fetched a
little siirh. 'Twas a muster pretty bonnet.
Mis' Plympton had a knack for
niakin' 'era; if there's anything in th's
world that can be done well without a
knack, it ain't bonnet makin'.
' Prudence put the bonnet back into
the box; but that night she carried the
box upstairs with her, instead of putting
it away in the sittin' room closed, as she
naterally would.
"And when she come down the next j
mornin", dressed for mcetin', as true as J
you live, 'twas a minute or two before
her own mother knew her! She had her
hatr all crimped over her forehead?'twas
pretty, light colored hair?and the little
bit of a bonnet, with the pink feather 1,
atop of it! She had 0:1 a black silk
dics? that she'd had for the academy ex- 11
hibitiou the year before, and never ! i
thought of wearin' anywhere else, and j
she'd been and got some beautiful lace. :
that was tier grandmother's, out of an <
old chest, and put it into the neck and i
sleeves. j
" 'I don't know what possessed me,
mother,' says Prudence, half laughin' i
and half crvin'. 'But I felt young. I i
think the pink feather must have turned
my head. You know how fond of pink ' ]
I was when I was a little girl.'
".Mis' Hathaway told inc afterward j j
that it seemed to strike her all at once j
that Prudence was vouug, and 'twas hard <
to have the youth crushed right out of j ]
her, as it had been: and she never said <
a word, only jest took off her spectacles j
and wiped 'em, and Prudence hurried off ; <
as if she was afraid somebody would try i
to stop her ! <
"Goin' through the yard she picked a ; j
bunch of apple-blossoms and fastened t <
'cm in her belt. I don't suppose she'd ! <
picked an apple-blossom before senceshe ! j
was a little girl, she'd got so thrifty. j j
"1 saw her goin' by, and she actually 1 1
had a little pinky color in her cheeks; j;
whether she'd caught it from the apple- j
blossoms, or the pink feather, or from > <
fceiing young, I can't say. I couldn't j j
scarcely believe my eye3 that 'twas Pru- j;
dence Hathaway. I ]
"How folks did stare at her in church! i
And most of 'em agreed that a prettier ! i
girl hadn't been seen there for a good
while. I'm glad to know there wasn't ' 1
many that said, 'How ridiculous for that <
old-maidish Prudence Hathaway to deck i
herself out like that!' There's some such <
people as that everywhere, you know. I 1
"There was a stranger in church that 1
day, a very fine-'ooking young man that 1
had stopped all night at the hotel; no- ]
body appeared to know who he was. As
they came out of church, he went up to 1
Prudence and says, takin' off his hat: 1
" 'I suppose you don't remember me? i ]
And I'm sure 1 shouldn't have known ! i
3'ou except for the pink feather! But I 1
hope, as John's friend?'
" 'I am glad to see any friend of 1
.loha's.' said Prudence in her quiet way. '
She couldn't remember that she had ever | f
set eyes on him, but she thought he j i
might be one of the village boys that I
had been away for years, and remcra-1
bered her childish fancy for pink. When |
he said he was a friend of John's, she j j
remembered that John had written that; ?
the young man who was to be his | ]
{jartner was going iiii^ the country for j ]
lis health. Hut how e'?> he know t
that she liked pink? Prudence puzzled ,
a little, but she thought she should iind \ ?
out, in n minute or two who he was, and <
'twan't best to let on that she didn't i,
know. ,
"She was generally grave and reserved, I ?
but to-day she seemed to have blossomed }
cut every way. I don't believe in settin' ,
too much by vanities, but I don't sup- ]
pose there ever was a girl that didn't ap- ]
pear easier in her manners for feelin' (
that she looked well. <
4 'Prudence chatted as easy and gay as (
could be, and the stranger walked along j,
home with her, as a matter of course. j |
"When Prudence introduced him to | j
her mother, she jest said he was a friend (
of .John's, and kind of give him a chance | \
to up and tell who he was, buthe didn't;!,
ho seemed to think they knew : and 1 (
Prudence felt kind of mortified because ',
he didn't; and Mis' Hathaway was so ,
glad to sec a stranger, bein' real sociable j
r.nd talkative and seein' but few folks, ,
that she didn't, care who he was, especi- ;
ally as he knew John?that was her idol. (
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IIU IUIU ISUA OUIiil tttil, V/U4J Mviuiu
too hard, which might have made 'cm ,
suspect somethin' was wrong, for it wan't
a mite like John Hathaway to work too ,
hard.
"The stranger staid to dinner, I don't
suppose they had anythin' more'n a cold (
pick-up Sunday noon; but Prudence put '
a great bowl lull of lilacs and apple- i
blossoms in the middle of the table, and !
the wiudows were open, and the birds !
singin', and kind of a blossomy smell ! (
blowin' in; and settin' opposite Pru-'
dcncc, and blossomed out in her pretty ! (
lo;>ks. I guess the stranger was satisfied. >,
''But, right in the midst of it, what ,
should come pokin' iu at the window !,
but Tommy St read ley's stupid head. I (
' 'Maudanv Whcelock wants her bon- ,
net?'n'her beau, too!' says he. |
"It come over Prudence like a flash
jest what it all meant! She turned as
pale as a ghost.
" 'I think you have mistaken me for
Miss Wheelock,' says she, with a little,
sickly attempt to smile.
" 'And you ain't Miss Wheelock?' says
he. 'Well, I haven't seen her since she
was a liitle girl of twelve; but I've been
tliir.Win' 1 nftvnr saw unvbodv that had
changed so much! You sec, it was the
pink feather that misled me!"
"And he laughed a little, and went on
cxplainin' that Mandany "Wheelock's
cousin, John Doane, was a gecat friend
of his, and that he was comin' through j
here on business, and likely to stop over j
Sunday, lie wanted him to go and see
Maudany. The cousin wrote to .Mandany
about it. and Mar.dany said she didn't
dare to have come if her stepfather was j
at home, because he got so down on '
young men (which was true enough, for
Mandany was always having a dozen
strings to her bow, and the old man was
si t 011 her marryin' Aniasa IJemis, who
hud land joinin' theirs. She was engaged I
to Amasa, but she was terri- |
ble llighty, and the latest j
comer was always the best liked with
her). But she was to be at church, and ,
if her stepfather was away, he could go i
home with her, and he was to know her !
by a pink feather oil her bonnet.
"The stranger?his name was lien- j
drick Dinsmore, he told 'em?explained j
it all, laughin' away as if 'twas a good j
joke; but Prudence couldn't make light j
of it. She had sensitive feelin's, and she I
was awful mortified.
"She sent the bonnet to Mandany by j
Tommy Streadlev, with a message, say- j
in' she had worn it by mistake, and she'd
have been glad to send the beau along,
too, as Mandany ordered, but Mr. Dinsmore
didn't seem to be in a mite of any
hurry to go. Prudence couldn't get up
her spiritj again to talk much, and he
was kind of absent minded; but Mis'
Hathway would tilk to a graven image
if she once got to goin'.
i4lle went away 'long about the middle j
of the afternoon, and Prudence went
right up-stairs and slicked her hair all
out of the crimps and drawed it back in
a tight little knot, and put on her rusty
old black aipaca again.
" 'Here's your old grub, mother!' says
she, when she went down. 'She'll never
try to turn into a butterfly a?ain.'
"She tried to speak light, but there
was tears in her eyes.
".Mr. Dinsmore left town the next morning,
but 'twan't long before Prudence
got a letter from him; it seemed his
views about (lie workiu's of J'roverdunce
was jest like mine. By the time the letters
had begun to come thick aud fast
Prudence crimped her hair again ?there,
it's no use to make a mystery about it;
I hoy were married that very next September.
and Prudence wore a pink feather
in her weddintr bonnet. He was rich;
ii.-re was no more toilin' and scrlmpin'
l r Prudence; it was good to see how
her cares jest dropped oil her; he was
:!:o rare-takin' kind; he didn't let any
i' . ind blow rough on her; 'tisn't often
: ii it that kind of a woman gets such ' a
husband; them that will boar the burdens
has cot to, generally. But a self
I
reliant woman enjoys bein' taken cara j
of more'u a lop3y woman ever could!
"Prudence's husband gave John a !
groat start in life, and lie's considerable I
Avell o(F now. lie bring9 his family j
down here to the old plncc every summer. I
Mr. Din?morc fixed it up eo'st their ain't j
a farm like it in town. Prudence always ]
set a sight by it. They keep a man and |
his wife tlie;c nil winter to take care of |
it, and along in May they all come down, j
Those were Prudence's children that you 1
saw riding in the donkey-wagon. Pru.1
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when she was twenty. And old Mis' :
Hathaway has renewed her youth. She |
likes liviu' in the city, she's so fond of j
passin' and all that; and she don't enjoy |
comin' back near so well as the youn I
folks do. It's John that slie's set by. j
still; she told me, the other day, that i
she did'nt think Prudence would ever
have got such a husband as she did if j
John hadn't been so smart-appearin'!"
The Capture of John Brown. *!
From an account in the Century of ;
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, written ;
by one of his prisoners, who was in tiie j
engine house during the insurrection, |
and afterwards held the rank of captain
in the Confederate army, we quote the \
following : "When Lieutenant Stuart i ,
came in the morning for the linal reply j 1
to the demand to surrender, I got up and ! (
went lo Brown's side to hear his answer. J .
"Stuart asked, 'Are you ready to sur- \ j
render, and trust to the mercy of the i <
Government !' ' j
"Brown answered promptly, 'No! I ,
prefer lo die here.'
"His manner did not betray the least
rear.
Slfimrt (.trmnnri ;icif!o fltlfl mif]f> thft i '
signal for the attack, which was instantly
begun with sledge hammers to break
Jo aii the door.
"Finding it would not yield, the
soldiers seized a loug ladder for a bat- |
tering-ram, and commenced beating the ;
3oor with that, the party within firing i
incessantly. I had assisted in the barricading,
fixing the fastenings so that I |
could remove them upon the first effort to
[ret in. But I was not at the door when the
battering began, and could not get to
the fastenings until the ladder was used.
[ then quickly removed the fastenings,
rnd after two or three strokes of the ladder
the engine rolled partially back, making
a small aperture, through which
Lieutenant Green of the mariues forced
tiimself, jumped on top of the engine,
ind stood a second in the midst of a
shower of balls, looking for John Brown.
When he saw Brown he sprang about
twelve feet at him, and gave and an un3erthrust
of his sword, striking him
xbout midway the body and raising him
completely from the ground. Brown
fell forward with his head between his
cnces. and Green struck him several
:imes over the head, and, as I then sup- ,
posed, split his skull at every strode.
"I was not two feet from Brown at (
that time. Of course I got out of the ,
building as soon as possible, and did not |
snow till some time later that Brown was (
not killed. It seems that in making the |
thrust Green's sword was bent double. ,
Hie reason that Brown was not killed ,
svhen stiuck on the head was that Green ,
tvas holding his swoi 1 in the middle, }
itpiL-Inrr with fhn hilt nnrl mnkinrr onlv i
>calp wounds." ? J
How a Captain's Eye Was Saved. J
Long before the Morse system of tele- \
jraphy was discovered, messages were ]
sent all over Europe by means of a mag- <
aetic current. This current was caused
jy large coils of wires being passed from 1
he north to the south side of (he mag- i
let. The oue great drawback to this i
lystem was that the distance of a circuit ]
;ould not exceed the strength of tho j
nagnet, so that there was no possible i
ivay of increasing the current. If, so to <
speak. two batteries are insufficient, the (
lumber can be doubled and redoubled, 1
intil the desideratum is obtained. The t
argest magnet was kept in the city of i
Oublin, by which fair weather messages i
:ould be transmitted across the channel i
sometimes as far as Liverpool and !.on- ]
Ion. This masnet on one occasion did {
what was considered at that time an ex- |
:raordinary service. One of tho cap- t
:ains of the Cunard line of steamships, (
jn his way from this city to Queens- t
iowu, had his eye pierced with a sail- i
needle carclcsslv left in the sail by one ]
3f the saiiors. Fortunately, the sight I i
sf the eye was not harmed. Upon J i
reaching Queenstown the captain sent I i
tiis vessel on 10 Liverpool m cnarg?: 01 i
the first ollicer anil proceeded to Dub- 1
lin, where a consultation of the most ]
eminent oculists of the day was held, j
at the head of wiiom was Dr. Wild, i
oculist to Queen Victoria. The exam- i
inatiou showed that the captain was in ]
danger of losing his eye if an operation <
was performed. Dr. Wild hit upon what 1
was looked upon as a novel method of 1
extracting the needle. He had the cap- ]
tain blindfolded and led into the room 1
where the huge magnet was. In the ]
presence of all the faculty he was placed ]
with his side toward the magnet, so that ]
the eye containing the needle would bo j
nearest to it. The keepers were taken i
olT the majrnct, the bandages removed, i
nnd in an instant the broken needle was (
clinging to the magnet and the eyesight i
saved. The same captain is still in tho (
service of the Cunard company, and can
see as far at sea as any one of his otiicers
or crew.?Xcw York Mail and Express.
The Unsound Body of Iho Athlete, j
The autopsy on the body of llobort E.
Odium, the man who leaped into the | i
East river from the Brooklyn bridge, not
only showed that the fall had crushed 1
nearly his vital organs, but also disclosed 1
the fact that, in spite of his magnificent i
muscular development and stalwart 1
physique, his body was far from sound. 1
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X iiuiu ?U3 a, uiULi Lmu i uu vuc
apex of the left lung, his liver had been
ruptured years before and healed again,
and one kidney showed fatty degeneration,
while the other was full of cystic 1
degeneration. That is to say, lie was 1
likely to become a consumptive or to die
of kidney disease, and yet Odium was a
man of fine physique and rugged appearance.
When Garfield died the surgeons 1
learned that his digestive organs were i
not in good condition, though he was a 1
remarkably strong, healthy man. It was
the same way with one of the athletichardy
desperadoes killed in the fight
near Shelby, Ohio, u year or so ago. In
fact it seems as if the doctors could discover
something wrong in the body of
almost every strong, healthy man they
get a chance to cut up. Are we all unsound
? Is a man who looks like a model
of physical perfection always a shell, a
fraud upon the eyesight? Perhaps, after
all, the invalids are the ones booked for
long life, and the weak and puny are
provided with perfect internal organs.
Let more autopsies be held upon dead
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atuieies aim mc inuu ui- kuu?>u. iu*
haps, however, the trouble is that organs
unsound under a surgeon's knife were
well after all, and that strong men live
to a hale and hearty old age without
suspecting the horrible truth that their
kidneys are full of cysts and their lungs
of tubercles.?Cleveland (Ohio) Leader.
New Use for Canines.
The medical journals are reporting a
case in which an attempt is being made
to benefit the withered arm of a young
woman by grafting on it a piece of llesh
taken from the body of a dog.
If dogs can be made useful in splicing
voung women, or people without regard
to age ami sex, they wili acquire a strong
hold on the respect and cste mu of msinkind.
These philosopher* who believe
that nothing has been created in vain,
and yet who have not failed to become
somewhat shaky in their optimism as they
contemplated the innumerable dogs in the
world, will now be comforted by the
^nnrintimi flint. llmrn is a nOr'Slblc USC for i
even the canine creation, and which will j
be of the noblest quality. If the doi? i
can be used for patching men an?l women
who have bccome ragged through fate, i
it will Jill a place grand as to its dimen- j
sions awl utility.
Peruvian bark will sink into insignill- |
e3tice in comparison witn the new dia- j
covery. The curriculum of surgical I
teachings will be enormously extended, j
The dogmas of the medical schools will
acquire additional strength, the pugnacity
of warring pathies will be modilied.
and canis majoris will become the
guiding star of the guild of hcalors.?
Chicago Timet.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
The human skull contains fewer bones
thnn the skull of most animals excepting
birds.
The skeleton of the carrion crow
weighs, when dry, only twenty three
grains.
A great many napkins and other arti- j
y-? f lu-ftfulnnco HAW m f? fl P 1T1 Ktl- I
rope from the bark of the paper mul- |
berry.
Twenty-five hundred different kinds j
of poisonous fishes have been tabulated !
by the Tokio University of Japan. Fishing
must be sometimes dangerous pastime
in Japan waters.
Piiny tells us how starlings were
taught to utter both Latin and Greek J
words for the amusement of the young
C'jvsars; and there arc numerous in- i
stances on record of the clever sentences |
uttered by this amusing bird.
The original stock of Indians found
here by the Piigrim Fathers were of the
I.enape, who may be traced, in Dr. Brinton's
opinion, from the shores of Hudson's
Bay, where their cogcners, the
Crees. still remain,retaining the language
in what is believed to be its earliest
form.
In the year 1799 New York State !
adopted a gradual emancipation act. I
rhere were then about twenty thousand j
slaves in the State. In 1817 another act j
ivas passed, declaring all slaves free on
the 4th of July, 1827. There were very
few slaves in 1827; nearly all had become
free under the act of gradual emancipation,
passed iu 1799.
"When Tobias Lear made a treaty with
the Bey of Tunis an ambassador was
sent by that power to the United States.
Uo canic in 180G, was received with
much ceremony, and entertained at the
public expense. He insisted upon having
the best house in "Washington for his
1 welling, and he visited at the public j
j.\pensethc principal cities of the Union.
[Ie was an expensive and not very welcome
"guest of the nation," and did not I
eniain long.
The cap of maintenance, or, as some- \
imes called, "Cap of Dignity," was J
>rig nally worn only by dukes; later |
nany families of distinction gladly "ac- 1
:cpted the fancied honor it bestows." j
Such as arc entitled to this distinction
place their crests upon it instead of
placing them upon a wreath. "This
iaunty 'Cap of Dignity' is simply a crira- i
on velvet cap lined with ermine, its
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twu |JU1U19 iuiiiv'u tunniu iuv wuv.?.
"Most of the reigning dukes of Germany
and many families belonging to
he peerage both cf England and of
Scotland bear their crests on a 'Cap of ,
Maintenance.'"
The Mind Cure.
Boston's latest crazc, mind cure, has
lppeared in New York, says a writer in
;he Brooklyn Ragle. No less than three ,
if the disciples of the new system have
noved to New York, and two of them
lave set up gorgeous establishments upown.
They all use the prefix "doctor"
aefore their names, and their establishncnts
are run in every way like those of
prosperous physicians of the old school.
!)ne of them, on Madison avenue, is
reaping a harvest. lie charges $3 a visit,
las a handsome brougham, a liveried
.nan in the hali. and all the other accessories
of a fashionable doctor of medicine.
These men are rapidly building
ip a boom in the line of quackery. Mrs.
Prances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist,
rt ho has written one good novel, "That
Lass o' Lowric's," and one weak play, J
"Esmeralda," and gained considerable i 1
fame thereby, is the most prominent con- i
rcrt the mind cure people ever had. They
lave been using Mr3. Burnett's name ever
?nce she was cured or converted by them
is a sort of trade mark, and, as the gen:ral
opinion among women seems to be
:hat whatever curc9 Mrs. Burnett must
jo efficacious, the mind cure people find
;he use of the novelist's name very profit- j
iblc. I called on the Madison avenue j
nen just to see what the much talked of
nine! cure was. In the first place tho
nun was as arrant and transparent a fraud 1
is I have ever met. He was a long- j
jearded, hollow-eyed and affected crca;ure
who could not talk gramatically, or
ixpress two ideas consecutively in any- |
hing like an intelligible manner. IIo j
lot only does not know how he cures I
icopic?if he does cure them?but he !
ilso has not formulated any theory by j
ivliich he can account for his assurance
a accepting money from people for aleged
services rendered. lie sat
ike Napoleon in a chair, while
ic talked to me in the most pompous i
ind stngcy manner, and spoke somewhat \
is follows: "in the?a?first place it is u
natter of somewhat extreme difficultless
to account for my treatments. Firstly,
lisease doesn't exist. If a man has a
boil it is because he thinks he ought to
tinve it, and not because he really lias it. j
f devote my intensost mental activity to !
bear on that man's mind and that cures !
Iris mind of the delusion, which is that
lie really has got a boil. After his mind
lists been cured ihis here boil of his cures
Itself.'' If this is a fair specimen of the
mind cure disciples of Boston, I am 1
ather surprised at .the extent of the
i' ? mL. ? ?
:ni/.e mere, me liuuu uuru ummwa 13 1
the sil.iest humbug of all tho forms of i
juackery that flourish iu New York.
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Model Road-Making. I
The form of pavement that is used in 1
London and Paris, and but little if any I
in this country, is thus described by II. i
A. (,'hapin, of this city, who has investigated
its qualities: Beneath tlio pave- i
ment proper is built a grouted, solid bed, i
a foot deep, made of cement and co.irxc j
grave!. The top surface describes a j'
gradual curve from curl) to curb like the
surface made by the present system. Ou
ihis bed arc set endwise pine blocks,
kyanized or boiled in co!d-tar, with an
ut>p<r surface of thirty s juare inches and
vertical length of seven or eight inches.
These are placed a little apart, and the
spaces between are filled with Roman
cement tempered properly with sand,
which, being swept, leaves a smooth surface.
This preparation serves to protect
the wood from water, and every rain or
sprinkling washes all impurities into the l
gutters, leaving the pavement perfectly I
clean. The construction is slightly |
yielding, it is said, and affords plenty of I
foothold for horses without tearing tncir j
feet to pieces. The way this surface ,
stands wear is wonderful. In the J
thronged London thoroughfares like j
Cheapside and the Strand 700 loaded j
omnibuses run over this kind of pavement
continuously every day, beside all
the rest of the general traffic, and the
surface is free from indentations and no
noise like that the granite blocks gives
out is heard. It differs materially from
the Nicholson pavement. That has tarred
or untarred blocks side by side, but no
bed beneath to keep the surface even or
cement to keep the water out. Consequently
it has rotted. The method described
is said to cost no more than tho
granite pavement.?Springfield llcpuUitun.
The Dead Sen of the West.
The famous Dead Sea of the "West,
Mono lake, situated in Mono County,
California, is thus described by a writer
:n the San Francisco Chronicle: Its water
is bo strongly impregnated with alkalies
that the hand held for a few minutes in
it will crack open and the skin will be
eaten oft. No living thing exists in it,
though it is said that often, after strong
winds have blown across its surface,
there is a layer of worms several feet
wide on its leeward shore. It cleanses
cloth dipped in it almost instantly, and
if they arc not as speedily removed does
worse. Its shores are barren, bleak atid J
lonelv in the extreme, I ordered by a >
soil that will grow nothing !>ut the j
scrubbiest of sage-brush. Iu the pros- j
perous times of Bodie n steamer plied on |
the lake, but it is now laid up in ordinary.
The length of the lake is about |
thirty miles and its greatest width about !
eighteen miles. Seen from this inagni- j
ficent point, surrounded by the great i
walks of Bloody Canyon, it is one of the
noblest views on earth, but at the same !
time it only proves to one who has been I
about its shores and toiled across the de- i
sorted and sandy iuterval to the welcome
loot of the Sierra, with even r.<? I
better way across than the Bioodv Canyon,
that truly "distance lends enchant- j
ment to the view."
Brigham Young's descendants now
umber 15,000. I
FOREIGN TOPICS.
Various Affairs of Moment Across
the Atlantic,
The New British Ministry Abandons
Uoercion in Ireland
The British cabinet council has decided to
entirely abandon coercion in Ireland and to
rely upon a strict administration of the general
law. Mr. Sexton, M. P., addressing
a meeting at Wakefield urged
Irishmen to support the conservative
candidate for parliament and
to give the conservatives a chance. The
past conduct of tho liberals (Gladstone followers),
he said, gave thom no claim to
Irish support. Lord Arthur William Hill,
member of parliament for Down, Ireland,
and comptroller, in an election
speech at Down referred to tho recently
proposed bill for tho renewal of ttie
Crimes act, and said such measures were, in
his opinion, needless, as tho ordinary laws
were sufficiently amplo for tho government of
Ireland. The present Land a -t. he said, was
a failure. He would support thy Ijuiu Purchase
bill which the liberal government had
proposed.
THE AKfiHAN QUESTION.
One efTect of the political upheaval in England
has been the complete rehabilitation of
General Sir Peter Lumsden, the late .Afghan
frontier commissioner, and his elevation t-j a
greater decree of royal and ollicial favor than |
ho enjoyed in his palmiest days before, j
Les? than a month ago ho was scurry- i
ing homo across tho wholo breadth of Europe !
and half of Asia in obedience to an unwelcome
recall, and scattering along his path
such objurgations and ma'edictions upon the
government that tho liberals loudly demanded
that ho be cashiered. There was
moreover no lack of desire on the
j art of the government to inflict that
disgraceful punishment, and there
tu ..tf.M'v VMOin t.n Iv-liovn flint tho blow AV.1S
only averted by the fear that it would make
him a martyr, and be interpreted as an act of
truckling subserviency to Russia. Tho other
night Sir Peter was graciously entertained by
Queen Victoria at a dinner at Windsor j
castle, at which the only other guest
was tho Marquis of Salisbury. This
unusu'il honor was supplemented by
a letter, said to have been written
by tho queen herself, in which she expresses
warm admiration for his conduct in tlia
management of British affairs in Central
Asia during a most critical period. Tho
heaping of tlies* honors upon Sir Peter is
hailed with delight at the tory military clubs,
where it is regarded as a deliberate and
significant expression of disapproval by the
queen of tho attitude of tho tiladstone cabinet
toward an oflicer whom she delights to honor.
THE INTERESTS OK RUSSIA.
It is propose.! by the Russian government
to abandon the While Sea (le?t. Tho White
sea, an arm of the Arctic ocean, is frozen
over in greater purt from October until May,
A million anil a half of* rubles have been
granted to complete the fortifications in the
harbor of Nicolaiev, about 100 miles northeast
of Odessa, on the Blank sea.
A dispatch from Plagoveschensk, a town of
Russian Asia and capital of the Amoor government,
says that fresh trouble has occurred
on the Chinese frontier. According
to the dispatch, it seems that the Chinese government
sent a detachment of soldiers to protect
the Aigun gold iields from invasion by
unauthorized parties. The troops were instructed
ro baheatl all persons found engaged
in mining operations and not having tho necessary
permit Tho Russian government
eiiVi-Sn/ito fv.Mii niininrr in
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Aigun gold fields.
JOHN BRIOHT FEARS REVOLUTION.
John Bright has written a letter to Deputy
Pass}-, of Paris, in which ho says: "If Euro- j
pean nations would accept commercial liberty j
?that is, moderate or abolish customs? j
Europe might soon tend to an era of perpetual
peace. At present all resources ,1
are swallowed up by military exi- I
gencies. The people's interests uro j
wicrificed to the most miserable and culpable
fantasies of foreign politics. The real inter- '
wis of the masses are trod Jen under foot in j
defereucc to faiso notions of glory and 11a- j
tional honor. I cannot help thinking that j
Europe is marching toward some great I
catastrophe of crushing weight. The !
military system cannot indefinitely be sup- 1
ported with patience, and the populations ,
driven to despair, may possibly before long
sweep away the royalties and pretended
statesmen who govern in their names. I
hope your country and mine will remain at
peace and ba real friends."
TWENTY VILLAGES BURNED.
Twenty villages in Austria wero ignited by
lightning and burned in the recent storms.
Six men wero killed while trying to extinguish
the Haines, (ireat damage was don? to
props by a hurricane. A waterspout Hooded
Pesth. The Danube swimming baths, full of
peop'e, became loosen*! and floated down the
stream. The people wore panic-stricken, but
wero all rescued.
The recent thunder-storms devastated the j
botanical gardens at Berlin. .Several persons i
wero killod by lightning. Reports of damage
by storms have been received from various
parts of Germany and the Continent.
P.EFVSIJfO TO MOT UN* FOR AN* ENEMY.
?.l. IV>?vli i> nt'i"?<iilnr nt
London, and his w.ie liavo both refused, tno
iSL James' Gazette savs, lo appear in mourning
at tiiC court ball, as prescribed by tho
queen, because of the death of Prince Freder-1
iekCharles, of Germany. M. Waddington's refu- j
sal was oflicially declared in a courteous ncto j
sent to her majesty, in which he expressed his |
personal regret at being unable to comply j
with the royal command, but said lio could !
not disobey the orders of his government to !
not wear mourning at the death of any
enemy of France.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Failures for tho Pait S|j ^Tonths?
Better Tillies Vroinisctl,
The review of the business of tho country
.'or tho past six months prepared by a New
Vork mercantile agency, indicates a more :
lopeful condition of business than has ;
:>een Generally anticipated, owing to the j
miversal repoi*ts of dullness, want o 1 |
profit, and prospective depression. Compar- |
ing the six months of 1885 with the same
period in Ubl, tho number of failures has increased
from 5,510 to 0,001, whiio the liabilities
have decreased from $124,301,232 to $74,i22,o55.
Of these failures, however, only '
j,:J4t?, with liabilities of $28,001,000, aro to I
be charged to tho second quarter, showing
a progressive improvement. That i
the improvement is duo to general |
causes is shown by the fact that tho sam j ra- !
tio of decrease is exhibited in the report from |
the Dominion of Canada, which shows fail- |
nres numbering 090, with liabilitiesor *i>. i
105, as compare J with 752 failures and liabilities
of $10,742,000 for the corresponding jxv
riod of 1SS4. That the failures are of much |
less importance than horotofore ij manifest I
by the decrease in the average liabilities,
which in the last quarter show $12,0J0 per
failure, as against $^,0JU in l^Sl an J ?18,000
in 18%
The review says: "While therefore a review
of the trade of the country docs not
bring out many satisfactory elements it
nevertheless is a fact that consumers as a j
class are really in bettor condition than a
year ago, and that, in view of the low stocks
of merchandise in all hands, the decrease in
internal indebtedness, the lessened number
of failures, the low prices for IiviiiK,
and the steady tendency to economy
which the year has "witnessed, there is much
ground for the belief that the autumn business
will bo in the main satisfactory. With
the probabilities of a fair yield of agricultural
products in the West and Northwest,
the good promise of the cotton
crop in the South, with the increased
emigration of the best class which thus far
the year has shown, with a plethora of
money at low rates, a settled financial policy,
and the absence of political excitement, there
nurrlit-*<-, tiAi'on?nn whv n mnrkft.1 imnrove
inent in business should not ensue."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Emperor William, Germany's aged
ruler, is quite ill.
Ex-Attorney-General Brewster and
wife recently sailed for Europo.
Senator Don Cameron is regaining his
health at Los Angeles, California.
Ex-Secretary Blaine and family nro at
their summer homo in Augusta, Me.
Dr. Logan, our minister at Santiago,
Chili, is the first foreigner ever made an
LL. D. by the university of Chili.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg iron
manufacturer, has given $"><>,000 Torn laboratory
at Bellevue hospital for the study of
cholera.
Among noted recent departures from New ;
York for Europe, wore S. S. Cox, United j
States minister to Turkey, and ex-Senator
Roscoe (Jonklmg.
Mus. Elizabeth Cahy Stanton nnd Miss j
.Susan R. Anthony will work together on a
joint volume of woman suffrage literature
during the summer.
Rev. Thomas Harrison, the "l>ov preacher,"
who has gone from Louisville to Denver,
estimates that, he has "converted" Lotween
40,000 and ">0,0 H> souls since tho beginning
of his evangelistic career.
Captain Cyrus Sturtevant, the temperaiu-o
advocate who was tho instrument of
Francis Murphy's conversion, will be sixtysix
years old on September 4, and his friends
are going to give him n grand reception.
Processor Riley, the entomologist of the
agricultural department, is described as "a
tall, thin, dreamy-eyed person with long black
hair, which drops in curls from under Irs
broad-brimmed white hat, touching ins collar.
James Russell Lowell, late United
States minister to England, made an address
at the comniincement dinner of Harvard
university. Vice-President Hendricks and
Governor Kobinson also made short addresses.
NEWS SUMMARY
Fftilera nnd Middle state*.
The annua! eight-oared boat-raco betwean
Harvard and Yalo colleges at Now London,
Conn., resulted in an easy victory for the
former crew.
The remains of Frederick Eversman, of
Baltimore, seventy-four years old, were cremated
the other day in the crematory at
Lancaster, Penu.
Buffalo's Cromation society is about to
erect the finest "crematory temple " in this
I'uuiibrjr.
The condition of General Grant was not so
satisfactory on the 27th as it had been. He
was suffering from lassitude and debility,
and his disease was progressing unfavorably.
On the 2Slh there was no material chango in
his condition. Thoso in attendance upon the
general stated that there was a gradual falling
away of strength.
James D. Fisn, late president of the suspended
Marino bank, of New York, found
guilty of misapplying the institution's funds
and making false en trios in the bank's books,
has beensentencod to ton years' imprisonment
at Auburn prison. Fish is sixty-five years
old, and had intimate business relations with
the bankrupt firm of Grant & Ward.
General Lor,an, at a banquet given in
his honor by the Norfolk club, of Boston,
replied to Vice-President Hendricks, recent
speech iu the samo city on civil service reform.
The New Hampshire savings banks show
deposits amounting to $IU,8'2S,:J5G.41.
Thomas J. MuLBV.of Boston, has resigned
the superintendency of the North End Industrial
school, and will go to Newfoundland,
and then tn England to look nfter the
Churchill ostate, as ho is one of the nearest
Jiving heirs. The estate is supposed to bo
valued at 000,000, and Li in money and
real estato. Thero are eight relatives of
Nicholas Churchill?tho ol-l Newfoundland
fisherman who left this vast fortune?in
America, and tliey will be represented abroad
by Mulby.
Edward A. Boyd, a New York glass
merchant and millionaire, has just been
sentenced to two years' imprisonment for defrauding
tho government out of customs
duties. His son, a partner in the firm, was
sentenced to pay a fine of $1,050.
Mrs. Dudley, the English woman whe
shot and wounded O'Donovan Rossa, the
editor of the United Irishmen, in New
York, has been acquitted on tho ground of
insanity, blie will probably be sent norae to
licr friends in England.
ftonth and Wetf,
Fifteen horse thieves have been caught
and hung within a few days by a pursuing
posse of citizens in Indian Territory.
Luther K. Bruce, a leading druggist, shot
ntul killed J. C. Lentz, a prominent merchant
aud justice of tho peace, at Douglas, III. The
afTalr grow out of an attempt to suppress the
liquor traffic, Lentz being a strong temperanco
man, and Bruce an active supporter of
tho whisky cause.
Three colored men were instantly killed
and a fourth fatally injured by tho explosion
of a distillery's boiler at Bardstown, Ky.
The number of horse thieves hanged within
the past few weeks in Indian Territory by
pursuing officers and citizens has been increased
to eighteen.
At Laredo, Texa?, State Senator Hall was
slapped in tho face by Captain Sheehy, of
the Slate rangers. Both men drew revolvers
and began firing. Sheehy was wounded in
the shoulder and retreated. The affair ocnirrnd
in a crowded theatre, and the neoDle
rushed in every direction to escape the flying
bullets. The affray grew out of the senator's
attacks upon the rangers in the legislature.
A fecd between the pastor and congregation
of a Polish Catholic church at Toledo,
Ohio, has culminated in a general riot, in
which firearms and all manner of weapons
were freely used. Two men were killed, several
injured and a number of houses wholly
or partly destroyed. The police made many
arrests.
Three children were burned to death in a
fire at Beaver Dam, Win.
Ben' Holt (colored) was lynched at Adams
Station, Miss., by colored people, for the murder
of his wifa
Latest accounts of the harvesting in Kansas
show the wheat crop to bo by 100 per
cent, better than the estimate a month ago.
Andrew Dcmo.nt, a prominent colored
Republican, ex-naval officer at New Orleans,
has killed himself in that city. Despondency
brought about by domestic troubles led to the
act.
tTaihlnitoib
The clerk of the House of Representatives
says that from present indications there will
bo fewer contested election cases before the
next Congress than there have been before
any Congress for forty years. There will not
be more than four, and probably not more
than three.
The important offices relating to the New
York custom house, about which there have
been many conjectures, have been filled by
the President as follows: Edward L. Heddcn
r.s collector, to succeed W. H. Robertson;
Hans S. Beattie, surveyor in place of James
J* Benedict, suspended, and Silas
W. Burt, naval officer in place
of Charles K. Graham, suspended Mr.
Heddon is a retired business man, and his appointment
was made agroeably to the wishes
of the County Democracy, backed by recommendations
of prominent businessmen. Mr.
Beattie is the present deputy county clerk of
Now York and a prominent member of the
County Democracy. Mr. Burt was appointed
the New York naval officer by Hayes in 1878,
and is secretary ot the New York Civil Service
Commission. In politics he is a "Mugwump."
Tfrt: President has suspended Horatio C.
Burchard, of Illinois, as director of the mint,
and appointed James B. Kimball, of BetliloJiam,
Ponn., in his stead. Dr. Kimball is a
professor of economic geology in tin Lehigh
university. He is a mining engineer and
metallurgist by profession. Din ing tho war
ho served in the army of the Potomac as assistant
adjulant-general,and is now president
of tho Everett Iron company, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Burchanl's letter giving his
reasons for declining to resign is published.
Ho says substantially that ho was appointed
for five years, to hold office for that tima
"unless sooner removed by tho President
upon reasons to be communicator by him to
the Sonatothat his term has not yet expired;
that no charges have been made
against him, and that therefore he seos no
reason to resign.
TnE marble statue of the late President
Garfi'.'ld has been unveiled in the statuary
hall of tho capitol.
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ADDITIONAL, Uppoiliwueuu) UJ iuo 11K?dent:
To bo receivers of public
moneys: John O'Keane, at Vancouver,
"Washington Territory; Michael J. Cady, at
Bodie, Cal.: J. K. Djllison, at Humboldt,
Cal.; Arthur R. Delaney, United States attorney
for the eastern district of Wisconsin;
W. C. Perry, attorney for the district of Kansas;
James M. Adams, register at the land
oflice at .Spokane Falls, AVashington Territory;
Benjamin F. Peach, pension agent at
Boston; Richard Davis, postmaster at Locust
Valloy, New York.
A Washington" special of the 30th said
that the President had decided on the appointment
of Congressman William Dorsheinier
to be United Stales district attorney
for the southern district of Now York, vice
Elihu Root, resigned: and of Martin T. McMahou
to bo United States marshal for the
same district, vice Joel B. Erhardt, resigned.
Congressman Dorsheimer lias been identilied
with Tammany Hall in Now York politics.
Foreign*
Violext earthquake shocks have been felt
in France.
Mexico is in hard financial straits, and is
struggling with a deficit of $'.?5,000,000.
Tiik earthquake shocks in tho Vale of
Cashmere, India, have been renewed witfc
great violence.
At Gananoque, Ontario, the wife of Dr.
Fraleigh, a prominent physician, threw herself
in tlio river with her babe in hor arms,
BI1U ouui nno uiui.iici.
It is reported from C'nlml lluit Isa Klmu,
supported by Russian allies, Inn risen against
Abdullah Khan in Afghanistan. Isa Khan
marched upon the city of Khana-i-liad and
seized the treasury there, valued at a million
pounds sterling, and belonging to the ameer of
Afghanistan.
Term Kit' storms have prevailed recently
in France, and the destruction of property
has been grout. Kight persons were killed by
lightning, and a number of others drowned.
llrssiAX advices from Vladivnstock say
that a Russian steamship which attempted to
enter Port Hamilton was intercepted and
forbidden to outer by an English mnn-of*
war. The Knglish aro sai"l to hi fortifying
the port, and Avar rumors have again been revived.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Texas has a cremation society with a capital
of $o0,009.
Over 125,000 paupers receive public aid in
Paris annually.
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the bicycle is to oe omcutuj ill LI uuutcu
into the Bavarian array.
One-fifth of the le^al voters of Massachusetts
are veterans of the lato war.
One hundred and twenty nine Smiths have
held commissions in the United States army.
It costs twice as much to travol on the
railroad in California as it does in New York
state.
During the year about 150 species of edible
birds find their way to tho Now York
markets.
United States greenbacks are so popular
in Cuba that they command a premium over
gold or silver.
The new city directory of San Francisco
contains 10,000 more names than that of 1&S3,
and the population is now estimated at
325,000.
Poles are being terribly persecuted again,
about SO. 1)00 having been recently expelled
from their home and country by the Russian
government.
Nearly 20,000,000 eggs are shipped across
the Atlantic to this country, chiefly from
Antwerp and Hamburg, during the summer
months of each year.
In Pennsylvania the figures Bhow 170,524
males to 170,406 females In Virginia they
bring to light the fact that there are 745.5S9
mnlrw to 7(iti.97(i females.
- ? .4 : : * . *'
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Some Matters of In'cerast Froic
Washington.
Important Changes in tie Postoffice
'Department,
With t!w H3W fisc.il year beginning July 1
th? new 1'pisla.t.ion co:itj,iuo;l in the nostof
.
flee appropriation bill has gone int j effect. In
the o111cc of tin first assistant postmaster
general twelve additional clerks are provided
for, tno3t of them baing specially designated
foY service in the salary and allowance
division.
Provision was also made for the establishment
of a system of special delivery of letters
immediately upon their receipt at postollices,
but the postmaster-gene ral has not yet given
the matter his personal consideration. It is
possible that tho system will be tested in one
or more of the largo cities next autumn, and
its extension will depend upon the result of
tho experiment.
In tlio oillco of the second assistant postmaster
general the appropriation for star
route service has been increased ?>00,000; for
railroad service,? 110,0JU,and for railway postal
clerics, $ !S2,:J00, thus allowing for a wholesale
expansion of tho transportation iscrvice.
A clause in tho new bill provides that tho
j>ost nastor-goncral may extend domostic
steamship service to foreign ports within two
hundred miles of the ueare.-.t domestic port.
The steamship service between New York
and Havana and between San Francisco and
Victoria, 13. C., may be affected by this provision.
Lettere weighing one ounce or less may
now be sent through the mails for two cents,
and th? rate on newspapers mailed by publishers
have been reduced from two cents to
one cent per pound. The deficit for the year
just expired is roughly estimated at $1,000,000,
and the estimate tor the new fiscal year contemplated
a deficit of $i,8-'0,03!J.
'There is a terrible amount of misunderstanding
and misinformation about the than
gOJlll IUO postal law Limtnuveguueiiiiu violation,"
remarked a postotfice department official,
"and there will be a great deal of mail
matter that will go into the dead letter of lice
in coaseqtionce of it. The only change in
which tho public are directly interoited is
that hereafter a letter weighing one ounce
or under will go lor two cems. It does
not mean that ordinary half ounce letters will
go for one cent. The ordinary letter will cost
two cents tho same as heretofore, but a letter
that has cost four cents in the past can now
bo sent for two cents. There are certain
changes about printed matter, but that interests
publishers only. Others will have to pay
as much for mailing newspapers or magazines
as they do now. There lias been no reduction
in the postage of merchandise."
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.
A reduction of 119 persons in the force of
the bureau of engraving and printing has
taken place. The saving in salaries thus ef|
fected amounts to |277 a day. An order first
given requires tho strict enforcement of the
eight-hour law throughout the bureau. The
new order will bring the entire force on duty
at eight o'clock and keep thorn at work
until 4 o'clock each day. Mr. E. O. Grave?,
chief of the bureau, to whom, acting under
the authority of the secretary of the treasury,
the redactions and changes to be effected
are due, has been carefully oxumining
tho working methods of the bureau
since ho was appointed to its control.
A small reduction in the amount of
work to b3 required of the bureau during the
next fiscal vear ha? bem takm into contirlar
ation, but the reduction* in chief part have
been made possible by the adoption of improved
and more systematic methods of
work.
removals in the treasury department.
A number of transfers and removals have
taken pla?e in the treasury dspartmjnt, a'ld
it is expected that more will be male.
Twenty dorks in the classifle 1 service were
dropped from the rolls, and the force in the
offices of the commissioner of internal revenue
and of tho renter were re Juced by transfers
to other offices.
Mr. William Sosnerville, of Illinois, chief
clerk of the internal rovenu3 bureau, Ins
tendered his resignation, and Frank M.
Thorn, of Erie county, N. Y., has been selected
as his successor.
It is understood that the vacancy in the
office of chief of the custom? division, caused
by the resignation of .Mr. H. B. Jamas, will
be filled by the pronntion of Captain J. B.
BnGregor, assistant chief, who has been in
ol?4rge of the office for over a month past.
sirrixo bull and custer.
An army officer who has been investigating
the subje-t ever since the imssaore of Custer
and his men, hns just expressed the opinion
| that Sitting Bull was not present at the Custjr
| massacre, notwithstanding his stitements to
I fiia pimtrarv. Ho savs lie his ascertained
that Sitting Ball hns two twin boys.
Onjof them was christened "The Boy that
was Taken," and the other ''The Boy that
was Left." He said that Sitting Bull aud
Mrs. Bull were in such a hurry to run away
that th?y left o:ie of the twins. The infant
was in the thickest part of tha fi^ht and escaped
injury of any kind by crawling under
the roots of a tree. This was ' the Boy
that was Left." After the massacre
Mrs. Sitting Bull went, to tho scone and found
the child. This officer says Sitting Bull is a
mean kind! of an Indian, an 1 is not entitled
to tho fame that he lias received. Spotted
Tail was tho best Indian and the bravest
fighter. Iled Cloud came next and Chief
Josoph nest. Sitt.;n? Bull ha place3 last in
the list.
LATER NEWS
Ma iledde.v,the newly-appointed collector
of the New York custom house, has taken
charge of that office, his bond for $20J,0J0
having been approved
Three girls?Rosa Miseal and Sarah and
Fannie Rosenberg?were burned to death in a
tenement house fire at Cleveland, Ohio. Theodore
Trau, tho lover of Miss Meisel (the two
were to be married in a few days) was badly
injured while trying to rescue his affianced,
and has lost his reason.
A serious riot, brought about by an attempt
of a Chicago street car company to
fill the places of striking drivers and conductors,
resulted in the demolition of several
cars,the prevention of others from running,
and the calling out of the police.
A. J. Spreckles, son of the Sandwich
Island sugar king, in November, 1884, shot
and dangerously wounded M. H. De Young,
proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
That paper had attacked Spreckles'
father. Young Spreckles has just been ac
quilted, Ult) JUIJf 9 ycigiti ucukiug givuv uui
priso in San Francisco. A few years ago De
Young's elder brother was shot by Mayor
Kallocb, and a year or so afterward again
shot, and this time killed by Kalloch's son,
who was also acquitted.
Further appointments by the President:
Ex-Congressman William Dorsheimer to b?
United States attorney for the southorn district
of New York; Martin T. McMahon tc
b9 United Statas marshal for the same dis
trict; Mr. Maldrow to bo first assistant secretary
of the interior, a new office creatod
by Congress; Georgo A. Jenks,
of Pennsylvania, to be se.-ond
assistant secretary of the interior; William
W. Kockhill, of Maryland, to bo secretary of
the legation of the United States to China;
Charles Denby, Jr., of Indiana, to bo second
secretary of the legation of the United States
to China; James B. Hayes, of Wisconsin, to
be chief justico of tho supreme court of the
Territory of Idaho; Benjamin F. Jonas,
of Louisiana, to be collector of customs
for tho district of New Orleans, La.;
E. S. Wilson, of Jackson, Miss., to bo receiver
of public moneys at Kvanston, Wyoming
Territory. To bo marshals of tho United
[ States: William L. Cal;el, of Texas for the
I northern district of Texas; James L. Liddell,
I of Mississip]>i, for the northern district of
I Mississippi. To bo attorneys of the United
i States: Robert S. Shield-:, of Ohio, for tho
northern district of Ohio; Charles B. I'earre,
of Texas, for tho northern district >>C Texas.
A Vienna dispatch says that "if the United
States government refuses to recall Mr. Kolloy
the Austrian government will formally
decline t> recogui zohim."
Lady Randolph Ch'.'kchilt., who is the
daughter of Mr. Leonard Jerome, of New
York, is personally engaging in the canvasto
secure the re-eleetijn to the British parliament
of hor Imsban 1, Lord Randolph
Churchill, the new secretary of slate for India.
UNCLE SAM'S CASE
RorcliXM and Expenditures of ilic
Govern incut tor Two Vcarw.
Th(? following is a comparative statement
J of the receipts and expenditures of tho
United > tates government for tho two years
j ending June 31, 1884 and 1885.
Receipts.
Source. 1*85. 188t.
Customs *1*1,1 10.770 $105,0 57,489
Internal revenue.. 1 12,500,321 12I,5S0,072
Miscellaneous 28,010,080 31,8(50,307
Total $322,?K),77(5 f US,:,10,SC.!)
Erflcndilures.
Ordinary $153,0>5, 104 $184,1 18,037
Pensions 58,305.738 55,420,228
Interest 51,387,5!0 54,578,37S
Total $202,788,452 $344,120,214
For tho month of Juno, 1885, the receipts
worfl$27,157,015.55; Juno 1884, $20,032,088.30
expenses for Juno, 188j, $15,255,658.11; Juno
1864, $10,110,113.00.
OUR MINERAL RESOUBOEa
Coal, Iron, Pctro'cnni. Etc., Produced
In 1SS3 and 1S&J*
The second report on "TI19 Mineral Resources
of the United States," by Albert
William?, Jr., chief of the division of mining
statistics and technology, U. S. geological
survey, is now in press and will bo issued
shortly as one of the census publications.
Tha 4s t 1 iojo 1
A<^/V*U ? ivi mo uuiuuuiu year IO>J auu
1881, and contains detailed statistics for these
periods and also for proceeding years, together
with much descriptive and technical
matter. According to the report the commercial
product of the coal fields during tho year
1884 were as follows: Pennsylvania anthracite,
30,718,203 long tons; bituminous
and brown coal, lignite and small lots of anthracite
mined elsewhere than in Pennsylvania,
66,875,772 long tons: total, 97,594,005
long tons. The spot value of tho commercial
product was,Pennsylvania anthracite,$(51,430586;
bituminous and all other coals, $70,219,561;
total, $131,050,117. Including the local
consumption, etc., the total product in 1884
may be stated at 100,90j,295 long ton3; namjly:
33,175,750 long tons of Pennsylvania anthracite,
and 73,730,539 long tons of bituminous
and all other coals; ana the value at the
mines was: Pennsylvania anthracite, $00,351,512,
bituminons and all other coals,
$77,417,005; total, $143,708,578. Tin
total production (that is including colliery
and local consumption) of anthracite
was 1,160,713 long tons than in
1883, while its value was $10,935,543 le3s the
disproportionnti decline in value being due to
a fall of twenty-five cents per ton in spot
prices ($2.25 to $2). The total bituminous
coal production increased 5,199,039 long tons
over that of 1883; but its value was $4,820,734
less, the average valuation at the collieries
having fallen from $1.20 to $1.05. The total
output of all coals showed a net gain in tonnage
of 4,03S,3i0 long tons, and a decline in
value of $15,726,277.
There were 4,873,805 short tons of coke
made in 1884, worth $7,242,878 at the ovens.
This production consumed 7,95l,974shorttons
of coal. The amount of coke made was 590,916
tons less than in 1883, and the valu3 was
?B7H r,0 I loco
AVOW.
The product of cmde petroleum in 1884
was 24,089,753 barrels of 42 gallons each, of
which the Pennsylvania and New York oil
fields produced 2.'J,6'22,75'3 barrels. The total
value, at an average s_pot price of 83 cents,
was ?20,476,'J94. As compared with 1883, the
production was 689,529 barrels greater, but
the total value was $5,263,958 less, the average
spot price having fallen from $1.10, or 25
cents per barrel.
From tho report it appears that 8,200,000
long tons of iron ore were mined in 1884,
valued at the mine at $22,550,000. The pig
Iron made aggregated 4,01*7,808 long tons, a
decrease of 597,642 tons as compared with
1883, valued at the furnace at $73,761,624, or
$18,148,576 less than iu 1883. The product of
copper in 1884, including 2,853,754 pounds
made from imported pyrites was 145,221,934
pounds, worth $17,789,687, at an average
Erico of twelve and a quarter cents per pound
l New York. Tho amount was 28,070,139
pounds greater than the production of 1833,
tut the value was $'275,120 less, owing to the
decline in price. The total value of the metallic
proauction of 1834 was $186,097,599,
and of the non-metallic mineral product
$227,037,021, making a grand total of $413.104,620.
Tables showing the quantities and values
of the mineral products of the United
States in 1883 ana 1882 are appended for
comparison. From those it appears that
the total value of tho metals and
minerals produced in 1884 was
$39,100,008 les3 than in 1883, and that the decline
in 1883 from 1881, was $3,012,001; that
is, the falling off in value began on a small
scalo in 1883, but was accented in 1884. The
docline, says the author of tho report, has
been due rather to a depression in price than
a decrease in quantity; indeeJ, several important
substances show a decided increase
in production, notwithstanding the general
dullness of the trade. The over-production,
taking the whole Held into consideration, has
been less than was generally feared.
THE CHOLERA SOOURGE,
Spread of llm Dreaded Discaio
Throughout ftpaiiii
At a time of tho year when tho cholera had
only taken a few scores of lives in Toulon
and its suburbs and had just made its appearance
in Marseilles in 1N34, there have been
4,200 deaths, reported from eight provinces
of Spain, which is more than half the entire
number of deaths in all of France lait year.
From the start, says a London dispatch, the
rate of mortality in Spain has been turgreater
than it was in France, and latterly it lias become
greater than it was last year oven in
Naples. Tho average ratio of deaths to cases
now is about four in nine throughout Spain.
Roughly speaking, the death ratio was two
in seven in Franco last year and three in seven
in Italy. Within the last week, and notably
has this been th3 case in Muroia. more than
half the people attacked havo died, and in
the new provinces where t ho pest has appeared
within the lost few days escapes have
been tho exception.
All tho features of last year's sioge, either
essential or eccentric?and \\ ho shall say in
this strange diseaso which is which?are baing
repeated. The fearful experience at tho Aix
madhouse finds its parallel in an asylum outside
of Afadrid, where tho lunatics arc dying
like sheep in a murrain. Tho peculiar
susceptibility of young soldiers to ch >lera,
which was noted at Toulon and in
Campobasso last year, has been exemplified
again at the Toiedo barracks. The deaths
among the sisters of charily, now as then, are
almost wholly confinod to peasant women in
the less exclusive ordei3 like the Augustinians.
The plagua finds ninety-nine in a hundred
of its victims in tho slums or poor villages,
where hygiene is an unknown word.
When wo consider tho total mortality at
this early date, it is frightful to contemplate
what tho total for Spain may be, and almost
surely will be, during the four or five torrid
months to come, to say nothing of the probability,
nay, almost ccrtainty, of the speedy
outbreak of tho plague in other southern
lands.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
CiNCiNyATi has three colored clubs.
The pitcher is once more a big man in tL?
league.
Portland, Me., has over fifty organized
base ball clubs.
The new grounds of Chicago are enclosed
by a brick wall.
The Eastern and Southern New England
clubs are playing good balL
O'Rourke, centre fielder of the Now York
league club, gets $4,200 a year.
Before 1854, in playing baseball, in order
to put a man out it was necessary to hit him
with the balL
The salaries of the Boston players, not including
those of the directors, amount to almost
$29,000.
It is estimated that between 600,0(>Sand
700,000 people will pay fifty cents apiece to
witness 294 championship base ball games
| this summer.
It is said that each player of the Chicago
j team is promised a certain per cent of the
profits over and above a stipulated amount
| in case the club wins the league championship.
A movement is said to be on foot to iorm
an Eastern league, to consist of Boston, Providence,
Now York, Baltimore, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, "Washington and one other
city
Ssays tho New York Sun: "The ball-playing
profession is gradually swelling in dignity
and importance. A protective union
lias been proposed, and more than two hunI
dred players have siguified their willingness
to join such an association."
An old-fashioned game of ball was played
recently at Haverhill, Mass., between two
teams, chosen respectively by Colonel E. D.
| Bailey, aged sixty-nine years, and Dr. Francis
j Butters, aged seventy. The former's side won
I by a score of fifty-three to thirty-two. El1
bridge Sheldon, aged seventy-one, managed
| the game, and H. S. George, eighty years,
, officiated as umpire. The ages of the sixteen
I players aggregated 1,333 years.
Tho championship records up to recent date
j are as follows:
THE NATIONAL IEAUCE.
Hon. Jj?hU I To i. Lost.
New York. 31 S i Boston 15 24
Chicago 33 S j Si. Louis 14 25
Philadelphia....'2t 20 j IiufFalo 12 27
Providence. 23 13 | L'ctroii 7 32
AMERICAS ASSOCIATION.
; St. Louis 35 13 [ Brooklyn 20 27
j Pittfliur? 2S 22 Baltimore 20 27
Cinciniuti 23 22 | Athletic 23 ?6
Louisville 23 2(51 .Metropolitan.. .17 3J
EASTEUN LEAUUK.
j Jersey City 0 27 | Norfolk 13 25
I Lancai-tor 21 IT (Trenton 23 15
I National 25 11 | Virginia 32 S
! Newark 2J 16 | Wilmington 5 32
SOUTHERN I.KAlil'E.
J / tlanta 3'5 12|CoIniu'u3 21 24
j Augusta 2S 10 j Nine >11 21 24
I Birmingham...H> 25 | Memphis 16 2$
| Chattanooga...! 6 261 Nashville 23 17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
Dr. Mary Walker makes a living by ox
i Libit ing herself in Western dirno museums.
! Marie Van Zandt, tho American singer,
is to sing at tho next State concert, BuckiugI
ham palace, Eugland.
I Diox Boucicaclt is announced by tin
, Hawaiian Gazette for a series of dra'mati*
performances in the Sandwich Islands.
Mrs. Scott-Sidpons has been invited to
j Berlin to give dramatic recitals beforo th<
| crown prince and princess of Germany.
! Manager Dckf, of the New York Stand
| ard theatre, is talking about bringing ovei
, Carl Rosp, and his English opera company
< next season.
! Charles Garnier, the architect of tb
! errand onera house in Paris, says that tho cos
of that building was exactly 30,0- uu1
I ! francs ($7,000,000).
J I Two thousand New Hampshire chlldrei
; have signed a temperance pledge, which is t
be placed in the corner stone of the new gov
1 ; ernment building at Concord.
STORMS IN THE M |
WU a IFaTi?iwlr VnllAtr TtalnflfAfl hv ft
lilt iiJLV!XC9 TT A ? UIIUJ JLTVAl&Q*'** w/ w ^.rCloudburst.
Overflowing Streams Cause Buin to JM
Acres of Growing Cropa
The terrific raia aud wind storm which '
visited the Mohawk valley, Now York, a few , " 'j SigB
days ago, did groat damage. A Canajoharie ,
dLspatch says:
"A terrific rain and wind storm prevailed
throughout the Mohawk valley yesterday af- j
ternoon, a part of which reached litre today.
At about 2 p. m. yesterday, at Ames, a
little hamlet in this town, a loud report ,
was heard. The people rushed from their
houses, thinking that an earthquake
shock had oceun o I. It proved to be a clond .
burst,and they were mot by torrents of water, ' "'A
which drove them back. Several persons narrowly
escaped drowning. Benj.Christmanaaw
his land roller floating down the stream, and
ho made an effort to sivo it He was carried
a considerable distance, but was saved by ... ;*?S
neighbors with the greatest difficulty. Calves/
pigs, chickens, dogs and cats were seen
floating down the stream, and because of th#
washing away of fences horses and oowsescaped
from pasture and have not since been -:. i:3?
seen. Soon after tho report was heard the
dam connocted with tl? flour mill of Bar- . ;
ringer & Gardiner was carried away, adding
greatly to the flood. '
"At the time of the cloud burst Mm Hugh
McEvov and her daazhter were sleeping in I'gwB
their house, and were awakened bz the water r.'?&j
bursting their doors in. Mr. JIcEvfly had gons .
out a snort time previously, and, not being
able to find him, tho ladies concluded he wa*
drowned. They screamed for help, and the -i v!
Rev. A.T. Worden,the Baptist minister,waded
to the house, he being at times breast deep is
the water. He pacified the ladies until a : >vSj
neighbor with a norje and wagon backed up " *
to the door, and they were taken to a place'
of safety.
"Bridges are reported to have been carried y
away in various parts of the town and at
Sharon Springs. Gardens, hop yards, wheat 7--'Ms
Golds and corn fields have been washed oat :
and utterly ruined. The surface of the
extensive onion and cabbage farm of ' j4S
Edward Say leu was washed away,
and tho growing vegetables rooted ; '&#
out. About fifty persons who were in
town to attend church could not get away, :
and every house was filled to overflowing,
many persons being obliged to sleep in tbe fv'
church. Tho damago will aggregate 11,000.
In Burtonville, in this county, a similar cloud
buret sesms to have occurred, and growing '
crops were washed out Several buildings ."V#3j
were wrecked and other damage is reporteaT" - '
A Jamestown dispatch says: "An electric
storm, accompanied by heavy rain and wind,
prevailed here on Sunday afternoon. An oil , ,
tank at Carrollton, with 11,000 barrels of oil,
was fired. Five cannon balls discharged into
the lower part of the tank allowed the oil to - -.
escape ana prevented a big conflagration- The ' S?5
Free Methodist church at Vermont was struck .
in the be! fry, which was splintered and scatter
ed into tlie surrounding ueios. xnu uirgauuugregation
was severely stocked and terribly t :.rgg
frightened. The telephone poles for half a ' J-*?s
mile at Kennedy were shattered. A great
many persons here and elsewhere were severe- *
ly shocked."
From Geneva comes the following account:
"Yates and Ontario counties were
early last evening visited by a destructive "'"im
rainstorm. For over two hours rain fell In .
torrents. The rivers overflowed their banks,
and ruined acres of finely growing field '. . j **
crops. Great quantities of green
fruits on trees were knocked off bv
the rain. In Penn Yan, hundreds "
of dollars of damage was done to
small buildings and fences, which were % "rip
floated away. Scores of gardons were washed
out by the flood. Nearly every cellar In the ;
village was filled with water, which it will .' 4m0H
require several days to remove. Farmers say
that tboir loss of growing wheat, barley and ' '^*2
oats has been very great Sovoral flour mills . '
were seriously damaged by the swollen ' Jstreams,
which furnish the mills with power." . ,
A dispatch from Waterloo says tnafc the
electric storm which passed over that village
on Sunday aftarnoon was most violent.
Liehtninjc struck among a number of men
who wero milking cows, and seven of the V-r3
animals were kitted and two of the men were
paralyzed by the shock.
THE HOME DOCTOB.
First Indications of Consumption. ; Zfl
It is not as extensively known as it $|
ought to be that in the large majority of . .*&?
cases consumption begins with a slight 1
cough in the morning on getting up.
After a while it is perceived at night on r''^S
goin<2: to bed; next there is an occasional coughing
spell some time during the .
night; by this time there is a difficult
of breathing 0:1 any slightly unusual exercise,
or in ascending a hill, and the -
patient expresses himself with some sur- .->'.7:;
prise: '"Why, it never used to tire me VraS
so!" Next there is occasional coughing .
after a full meal, and sometimes "cast*
ing up." Even before this persons be- , '
gin to feel weak,,while there is an almost
imperceptible thinning iu flesh and a * --.j
gradual diminution in weight?harassing
cough, loose bowels, difficult breathing,
8W01ICQ CXiremillCB, uoiijr ie>? uuu .. ,...
miserable death. Miserable because it is . J
tedious, painful and inevitable. How
much it is to be wished that the symptoms
of this hateful disease were more
generally studied and understood that it
Be detected in its first insidious approaches
and application be made at ^
once for its arrest and total eradication;
for certain it is that in very many instances
it could bo accomplished.
It must be remembered that cough is
not an invariable attendant of consumption
of the lungs, inasmuch as persons
have died, and on examination a large
portion of the lungs was found to have
decayed away, and yet these same persons
were never noticed to have had a
cough or observed it themselves, until
within a few days of death. But such
instances are rare, and an habitual
cough, on getting up and on goin? to
bed, may be safely set down as indicating
consumption begun.
Cough, as just stated, is originally a
curativc process?the means which nature
uses to rid the body of that which
offends, of that which was foreign to the
system and ought to be out of it; hence
the folly of using medicines to keep
down the cough, as all cough remedies
sold in the snops merely uo, wuuum
taking means at the same time for removing
that state of things which makes ffiajjjf-;";
cough necessary.?Hall's Journal of ' ?: - *
Asthma.
"When asthma is independent of other / '?
diseases it is called primary. It is to
this that the young are most liable. The
attacks arc peculiarly violent, but the
intervals between them are long, and
wholly free from asthmatic symptoms.
It is in this form that, when the accumulated
nervous tendency explodes in
an attack, the generul system seems
reneveu. ims lunu, iuu, u u>^. ? nnm
Secondary asthma has its exciting cause
in bronchitis, derangement of the stomach,
or in heart disease. The last foim ; ".tJSK
is really rare, the difficulty of breathing
(dyspna'a) in many of the supposed cases
being due to the heart alone. The second
form occurs about two hours after dinner.
In many of these latter cases the
patient may be helped by taking no lood
after an early dinner.
bronchial asthma is the most common
of all, and the most intractable. Every
cold that brings on an attack of bronchitis
induces an attack of asthma; and
where tbe bronchitis is chronic, the disturbing
cause is never wholly absent.
This form is characterized by copious expectoration.
As chronic bronchitis is
seldom fully relieved, so it is with the
asthma, of which it is the resulting
cause.
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age. A child of ten is likely to outgrow
it; a person of twenty may; one in middle
life will find it chronic. It is regarded
quite favorable if the attacks are
light, or the intervals long between
them, or if, in the intervals, the breathing
is free and natural.
As to treatment, what helps one may
not another. To some all remedies are
alike powerless.
The main remedies are such as producc
nausea (depressents), such as render the
nervous system less impressible (seda;
tives), and stimulants. Of the first arc
ipecacuanha, tobacco and lobelia. They
, should only cause nausea without vomit!
ing, keeping up the nausea until the
spasm is relieved.
Other popular remedies, are smoking
1 stramonium and nitre paper (made by
' dipping blotting-paper in a saturated solution
of saltpetre). Thislastis perhaps
{ the best. It often prevents an attack at
C night, to impregnate the air of the chamber
with its fumes.
Of stimulants, coffee, strong ns possiki
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o ach. often gives full relief. Taken in
the ordinary way, it tends to induce an
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