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s ? [* * ' The Beaufort Republican. % ? AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. DEVOTED TO POLITICS. LITERATTRE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. III. NO. 18. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1873. . '.aS^yS" ?????????? wn Only a Baby. Omly a baby, 'thout any hair, 'Opt just a little fuz here anil there. Only a baby, name yon hare none; Barefooted and dimpled, sweet little one. Only a baby, teeth noue at all, What are you good for, only to squall ? Only a baby, just a week old. What are yon here for, you little scold ? baby's beply. Only u baby! what Bhould I be ? Lata 'o big folks been little, like me. Ain't dot any hair! 'ee I have, too; SJpose'n I haven't, dess it tood grow. Not any teeth!?wouldn't have one: Don't det my dinner gnawing a bone. What am I here for ??'at^ pretty mean; Who's dot a better right, 't ever you've seen ? What am I dood for ? did you say; Eber so many things, ebery day. Touree I squall sometimes, sometimes I bawl; imy aaseani space me, cauae I'm bo small. Only a baby! ,os. sir, 'at's so; 'N 1/ you only could, you'd be one, too. *" 'At's all I have to Bay; you're moet too old; Deua m det irto bed?toee dittin' told. .. _ u. THE QUACKS. The quacks of the present day are sufficiently numerous, and meet with success enough to cause astonishment to every thinking person; but, compared viith their predecessors of the eigh- i teenth century, they pale into insignifi- , cance. Coblers, tinkers and footmen, (som e not able to read their own advertisements,) assumed the title of doctor, and pretended to be able to cure every "known disease. They advertised particulars of their wonderful cures, nnd by the use of scraps of Latin or doggerel rhymes, or by claiming to be " seventh son of a seventh son," or an " unborn doctor," secured the patron age of the lower orders. They put forward the most extraordinary assertions, as inducements for the public to confide in their medical ability. One asserted that "he had arrived at the knowledge of the green and red dragon, and had discovered the female fern p. seed;" another stated that "he had studied thirty years by aandle light for the good, of his countrymen;" whilst a third, by heading his bills with the word " Tetrachtjiagogon," insured their being read by crowds of people, of whom the majority when sick would go to no other but this learned mar. One of the most pertinacious advertisers in the early part of the century was Sir William itead. Originally a tailor he became oculist to Queen Anne, and afterward to George the First. From Queen Anne he received the honor of knighthood. Though so ignorant that he could hardly read, yet,by an unusual amount of impudence, and by the use of a few scraps of latin in his advertisements, he obtained a great reputation for -learning, and such an amount of patronage as enabled him to ride in his own chariot. When travelling in the province he practised (" bv the light of nature") not only in small towns and villages, where the ignorance of the inhabitants might be supposed to favor his pretensions, but also in the principal seats of learning. In one of his ad1* n nnllo ima? ^1* a viaa w uu vuun bliu i itc Chancellor, University and City of Oxford, to vouch for his cures. He advertised in The Tatter that he had been " thirty five years in the practice of couching cataracts, takiug off all sorts * of wens, curing wry necks, and hair lips, without blemish, though ever so deformed." His wife assisted him, and after his death, which occurred on the 21th of May, 1715, carried on his business. In those days the quacks advertised testimonials from grateful patients. Dr. Grant was a celebrated advertising quack. Commencing life as a tinker, he afterward, though very illiterate became a Baptist preacher in Southwark, then turning quack, he eventually became oculist to Queen Anne. Speaking of Read and Grant, a writer in The drub Street Journal says: "Her Majesty. ?ure, vit In surprise. Or else was very short sighted; When s tinker was sworn to look after her eyes, And the mountebank Read was knighted." Mr. Moore, the apothecary, was known as the "Worm Doctor," because of a celebrated worm powder that he sold. In one of the numbers of TV Tatter a London Tradesman advertises that he had been cured of rheumatism l?r "\fr \fnnro of fliA Pnetlp ntnl ATor. tar, Abchuicli lane. Early in the century flourished Dr. Tarn Saffold, who used io publish his ' bills in verse, thus: L "Here's Saffold's pills, much bettor than the rest. ' Peserredly has gained the name of best; A bnx of eighteen pills for eighteen pence, Thouge it is too cheap In any man's won sense." He is said to have gained more by this couplet, than Dryden by all his works. The sterner sex were not, however, allowed to monopolize the field of quackery. One of the best known rhnractejs of the last century was Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter, who, nfter leading a wandering life for some time, settled down at Epsom, then a place of fashionable resort. The remarkable j * strength with which site was endowed, together with such knowledge as she had acquired from her father (himself a bone-setter), mainly contributed to the j success which, in many cases, undoubtedly attended her operations. She journied to town twice a week in a coacn- | and-four, and at the Grecian Coffee House operated on her town icnts, ; carrying their crutches back to Epsom as trophies of her skill. During one of these visits she was called into the the aid of Sir Hans Sloane's niece, and the success which she met with on this occasion became the talk of the town. A comedy called " The Husband's Relief, or the Female Bone-setter and the Worm Doctor," was brought out at the ^ theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Mrs. W Mapp attended the first performance, accompanied by Ward and Taylor, two quacks. A song in her praise was sung, of which one verse runs: " Ton doctors of London, who puzzle your pates To ride in your coaches and purchase estates ; Ol*e orer, for shame, for your pride has a fall, A.sd the poctreis of Lpsom has outdone you all." i Many remarkable ertrcB affected by her are noted In the public journals of the day, and there is no doubt that she was in receipt of a very large income. The following abstract from The Grub Street Journal, of the 19th of April, 1736, will give the reader a sufficient insight into her brief married life: " We hear that the husband of Mrs. Mapp, the famous bone-setter of Epsom, ran away from her last week, taking with him upwards of a hundred guineas, and such other portable things as lay next to his hand. Several letters from Epsom, mention that the footman, whom the fair bone-setter had married the week before, had taken a sudden journey from thence with what money his wife had earned, and that her concern at first was very great, but as soon as the surprise was over, the grew gay, and seems to think the money well disposed of, as it was like to rid her of her husband." At this time she was at the height of her prosperity, in December of the next year she died, "at her lodgings near Seven Dials, so miserably poor that the parish was obliged to bury her." Dr. Ward, one of the nuacks mentioned as accompanying Mrs. Mapp to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, waB the son of a drysalter in Thames street. He became a footman, and it is said that while traveling with his master on the continent he obtained from some monks those recipes by which he afterwards iiinuc iiin a'i iui b xiaioaiu aiivi uvuci nostrums. He began to practice about 1733, and for some time combatted the united efforts of wit, learning, argument and ridicule. The Grub Street Journal attacked him in a well-written article, showing the mischievous effects of his "pill," giving instances of fatal results from its use, and pointing out its probable principal ingredient. He replied, giving copies of depositions made before certain magistrates to show that these fatalities arose from other causes. He also inserted in his reply several testimonials to his wonderful success. The controversy went on for bome time, no doubt much to Ward's profit. One of his detractors finishes an article with this warning to the public: " Before you take his drop or pill Take leave of friends and make your will." Praised by General Churchill and Lord Chief Justice Reynolds, he was called in to prescribe for George the Second. The king recovering in spite of his attentions, Ward received a solemn vote of thanks from the House of Commons, and obtained the privilege of driving his carriage through the St. James' Park. He died in 1761, leaving his statue, by Carlini, to the Society of Arts. The Chevalier Taylor, as he called himself, was a quack oculist, whose impudence was unparalleled, as his memoirs, written by himself, will testify. Dr. Johnson, in a conversation with his friend Beauclerk, talking of celebrated and successful irregular practicers in physic, said: "Taylor was the most ignorant man I ever knew, but sprightly; Ward the dullest. Taylor challenged me once to talk Latin with him. 1 quoted some of Horace, which he took to be part of my own speech. He said a few words well enough." About this time there practiced in Moorfields a quack who advertised himself the " Unborn Doctor." A v Titer of the time speaks of him as the " stutter ing Unborn Doctor," and relates that a gentleman having asked him to explain his title, he replied, "Why,you H--s--ee, sir, I w?w?as not b?orn a d?d?doctor, and s?s?soo I am an u?u?u? unborn doctor." We may mention here Doctor Hancock, who recommended cold water and stewed prunes as a universal panacea. There was also the proprietor of the Anodyne Necklace, the wearing of which for one night would enable children to cut their teeth without pain, even though they had previously been on the brink of the grave. These necklaces had a good sale at the really moderate price, considering their effect, of five shillings each. In 1780 Dr. Graham ojpened a house as the Temple of Health. His rooms were stuffed with glass globes, marble statues, medico-electric apparatus, figures of dragons, 6taineu glass, and other theatrical properties. The air was drugged with incense, and the ear was charmed with strains of music from a self-acting organ. Here he lectured on the beneficial effects of electricity and magnetism, and explained according to his advertisements "the whole art of enjoyiug health and vigor of body and mind, and of preserving and exalting personal beauty and loveliness; or, in other words, of living with health, honor and happiness in this world for at least a hundred years." One of the means to this end wns the frequent use of mud-baths at a guinea each; and on certain occasions he might be seen up to his chiu in mud, accompanied by the priestess of the temple, otherwise Vestina, the Goddess of Health, This "goddess" was Emma Lyons, previously a domestic servant, afterward the wife of Sir William Hamilton and the friend of Lord Nelson. Dr. Graham removed to Schomberg House in Pall Mall, where he opened the Temple of Health and Hymen. Here he had his celestial bed, which he professed cost sixty thousand pounds. One night in this bed secured a beautiful progeny, und might be had for one hundred pounds. For a supply of his Elixir of Life he required one thousand pounds in advance. A Prussian traveller who was in England at the time described this temple, with its vari-colored transparent glasses, its rich vases of perfumes, half-guinea treatises on health, and divine balm at a guinea a bottle. Magneto-electric beds were on the second floor, and might be slept in for fifty pounds a night. Each bed rested on six masBy transparent oolumns. The perfumed drapery was of purple, the curtains of celestial blue. Graham spared no expense to attract visitors. He had two footmen in gaudy liveries and gold-laced hats to stand at the entrance. His rooms at night were brilliantly lighted. With an admittance fee of five shillings his roems were crowded with people anxious to see this magnificent show and to hear the lecture of the quack or his assistants. One of his advertisements Informs us that ! 14 VeBtina, the rosy Goddess of Health, f . j presides at the evening lecture, assist* ! ing at the display of the celestial me| teors, and of that sacred vital fire over j which she watches, and whose application in the cure of diseases she daily ' has the honor of directing. The de1 scriptive apparatus in the daytime is conducted by the officiating junior priest." The priest was a young medi, cal man, afterwards Dr. Mitjord, and father of the celebrated authoress. Graham's expenses were very large, and when his receipts fell off, the Temple of Health was closed, and the "Whole of the "properties " were sold by auction in 1(84. Graham died poor in the neighborhood of Glasgow. The Power of the Eje. " When I was quite a young map, and just beginning to make my wuy as an actor," says the late Edwin Forrest, who so well knew how to tell a story, " I was down at Mobile. I had, let me tell you, quite enough to do. I was the 1 lending man,' and sometimes had to cram with half a dozen parts a week. However, I liked work then. The wav I used to study was to take a long walk before rehearsal, and read tne part through again and again, until I'd learned it. Well, about lour miles ueyonu ine cuy?iuobile wasn't then as large as it is now, nor as cultivated and peopled round its outskirts?was a fine sweep of green and flat ground, continuing for some three-quarters of a mile, and then broken up by a thick'belt of palm-trees and undergrowth. This meadow, as it would be called here, was a favorite studying-place of mine. One morning I'd gone out there with a tolerably long part?Octoroon in 1 The Mountaineers ' ?and, with my head bent over the book ?it was a printed copy of the play? was hard at work. What made me look, I dcyi't know; but I did. Jii6t coming out of the clump of palmR, I saw what I at first fancied was a large dog. Its three or four first bounds toward me, however, convinced me I was mistaken. It was a big wildcat, or a puma, or something of the sort; and, when I realized what the thing was, I began to shake with something that, if not fe/ir, was remarkably like it. I had no weapon with me?I never carried one. Even my penknife was left on my writingtable, for I felt in my pockets for it. Then, for a moment, I thought of running away. What use would my legs have been against the animal's in a race for life ? Every instant the brute was coming nearer. I remained motionless, my eyes fixed in a horrid sort of fascination on the tiger-cat, while I calculated what sort of chance would be mine in the coming struggle?mine for existence, its for a breakfast. All at once, about twenty yards from mo, the thing crouched, its eyes glaring into mine, and its tail slowly wagging to and fro in a verv playful and interesting manner. \V11at did tnis pause mean? All at once I remembered having rend somewhere of the effect of the fixed glance of the human eye' on the infuriated brute creation. Had mine magnetized it? Not at all. Rising, it made two more bounds forward, anil then crouched as before, right opposite me, its tail still wagging. I could scarcely keep my eyes from following its motion. However, I fastened the brute's gastronomicnl inspection of my carcass with an unwavering glunce. Then it turned its head on one side and then on the other. If I only had a pistol with me! I had not, so I waited, as the infernal puma did?possibly, so it theu seemed to me, some three or four hours?prob [ ably some ten minutes. At last it rose again, slowly and earnestly contemplated me, and then, either appalled by ray eye, or taking me for a carved image, as I had not stirred, and not relishing ft meal of wood or stone, it paced slowly away. I was about makingtracks in the opposite direction from it, when , ?it was lucky I had not done so?about forty or fifty paces from me, it sprung round and once more crouched. There it lay again upon the grass, its tail lashing backward and forward, and its head rocking from side to side, as, if it wished to verify its ideas touching my not being a. creature of flesh and blood. How long this continued I was only enabled to guess afterward. But it did come to an end. Slowly it again rose, and, allowing its tail to drop between ; its hind-legs, ran?yes, gentleman, it ran!?away in the most sneakingly, cowed manner possible. And so did I; not, however, until it had completely vanished in the palm and brush belt at the far end of the meadow. The four miles?this is mentioned to demonstrate my speed?between the spot upon which I had been stnnding and Mobile, were covered in less than half an hour." " Ami lintv lfirirp. inav I ask. Mr. For rest," inquired one of his auditory on this occasion, " was the puma ?" " I didn't measure it, sir." " Of course. But how large should you suppose it to have been ?" ''Thirty-five feet from its snout tothe top of its tail, if I reckon its inches by the scare it gave me!" exclaimed Forrest, with a humorous twinkle in his eye. " Not half an inch less." Copper .Mines. One of the copper mines at Kewenan Peninsula is probably the richest in the world. The metal is there found not in the condition of an ore?that is to say, it is not minernlized by sulphur or oxygen ; but is in the metallic state. Sometimes it occurs in grains, scales, or masses in true veins, which cut the beds of rock; while at other times it is scattered through the beds themselves. In .certain cases it is the material cementing the pebbles and broken materials which make up great conglomerate beds. The Calumet and Heels Mine, which is a deposit of this latter kind, presents a breadth of twelve feet rtf rnrk enntaininc about five ner cent. of metallic copper, which is extracted by crushing and washing. The produce of this mine for the past year is aboul 8,000 tons of fine copper, the value o] which at the present high price of this metal is not less than five millions oj j dollars, of which more than one-half if probably profit. This is a result prob ably; unexamplad in the history o: mining. There are various other coppei mines in the same region which ar< worked with advantage; though th< profits are far less than the Calume ; and Hecla. x The Giants of Antiquity. In examining the claims of th giants of antiquity we mu8t take int consideration tne fact that it was th 1 custom of all ancient nations to mngnif : the stature of their kings and lieroet ! To be considered a giant in strengt : and size was the ambition of every wai j rior. Even the great Alexander was nc free from this vanity, for, we are tol that, in one of his Asian expedition! j he caused to bo made and left behin I him a suit of armor of huge proportion in order to induce a belief among th people he had conquered that ho wa? c 1 great stature. Homer exaggerates th size and strength of all the heroes c the Trojan war, and leads us to infe that the whole race of man, even in hi | day, had degenerated. V?Te may sin | pect that even the Jewish writers vei i not entirely free from a similar feeling Admitting that a people like the Keg haim existed in Palestine, of greate stature than the Hebrews, it would r< | quire but a little stretch of a poetic in agination to paint them as giants. The may have been no larger in compnriso with their conquerors than are the Pi tagonians beside other more civilize races of to-day, ^et have seemed in mouse to the 'children of Israel, wli were more probably under than over th average height. I Again, there is no absolute ccrtainit that the Biblical text, as we have it, i . as it was originally written. Our ai I tborizfed version makes Goliath, for ii stance, six cubits ana r span 1 height; hut the Vatican copy of tl Septuagint, (Codex Vaticans) as old t any in existence, (unless the Slnaiticu exceeds it), reads "fodV cubits and span," agreeing in this vith Josephui To which account are we to adhere If to the latter, then tl e giant of th Philistines was only a little ovei six an a half feet in stature, instead of niu and a half. The sacred writer does nc give us the measure of King Og, In only that of his bedstead. It is iu necessary to dispute the thirteen and half feet of the giant couch. But w are half inclined to suspect that Og wn afflicted with an ambition similar to tin of Alexander, and used a bedstead n( in proportion to his actual size, but i proportion to his fancied importnnci It is curious to observe that, aecordin to Dr. Smith,the words in Deuteronom translated " bedstead of iron "are als susceptible of the rendering, " snrct phagus of black basalt," but thiR dot not militate againt the probability c i our supposition. Comparatively modern writers are nt free from like exaggerations in regar j to the stature of noted men. Williai ! of Malmesbury makes the tomb of "Wa I win, nephew of King Arthur, and one ( his famous knights, fourteen eet i length; and Hollinshead, quotmig Hy vester Oiraldus, says that the body < King Arthur, found in Glastonbury i 1189, was two feet higher than any ma who came to see it. Camden, who givt an account of the discovery, fails to no) this peculiarity of the corpse, the stor is probably without foundation. I like manner, Charlemagne rnd his pah dins have been represented as of grei stature Eginhard says that the great emperc was "seven of his own feet" in heigh) from which we must infer either th: lie had a very smaii 1001, entirety m of proportion to his Rize, or that lie wr a very tall man. The old writers woul have us believe too that Rouland tli hero of Roncesvalles, was also of gigni tic stature and strength. Happily \s have some direct evidence on this poin HakewiU, quoting CgmerariuB, says "FrancisI King of France, who reigne about ono hundred years since, bein desirous to know the truth of thot things which were co/mnonly spren touching the strength and stature < Houland, nephew to Charlemagiu caused his sepulchre to be openei wherein his bones and bow were foun rotten, but his armor sound, thong covered with rust, which the King, con munding to be scoured off, and puttie it on his own body, found it so fit f< him, as thereby it appeared thnt Roi land exceeded him but littlo in bignei I and stature of bodv, though liimse were not excessive tall or big. We hai similar evidence in relation to the bod l of William the Conqueror, which wi reported to have been dug up, four hui dred years after buriel, and found to 1 eight feet in length ; for (Stowe sa; that, when the English took Cannes, i 1552, some solders broke into the mom ment in search of booty, and four nothing remarkable about the bones. Were it possible to get at the trill concerning tne giams 01 anuquuy, me is little doubt but that half of the could be shows to be pure myths, ar that nine-tenths of the remainder cotil be reduced in size very mnterinll, Pliny's assertion that mankind is gra< ually degenerating is wholly gratnitou and has no foundation in fact. Indeei a vast deal of proof can be adducti tending to show that the men of to-di are equal, and probably superior, : ! stature to the ancients. The Greel 1 and Romans were undoubtedly of smu size. The helmets and sword-hilts th l have come down to us from the hero : ages could not be used by the majori' ! of soldiers of the present Europe? ' nations. Ancient rings, also, are t< small for modern fingers. But the classic writers give testimoi ! enough on this point. Caesar, spenkir of the Gauls, says : " Our shortness < stature, in comparison with the gre size of their bodies, is generally a su ject of much contempt to the men < j Gaul." Tacitus also describes the Ge ! mans as of robust form and of gre ! stature ; and Strabo says that he hi I seen Britons at Rome who were a hall l foot taller than the tallest Italians. Y there is no proof that the men of the ; nations were any larger in nncient tim than they are now. On the contrar [ the graves and barrows tell a differe s story. The remains are usually und t the average height of men of the prese f day. It is the 6ame with the Egyptii } mummies. According to Athenieua, f, man of four cubits, or si* feet, inheigt ? ! was considered of "gigantic size" - ! Egyot. f j Apollodorus, the grandmother r; Athens, gives the height of the " giga 5 tic Hercules" as four cubits; the womi ? who was selected to personate Miner? t at Athens, in the time of Pisistratus, < account of her great height, which w considered wonder/id, did not exceed in p stature four cubits less bj three fingers, or only alwmt five feet ten. Numerous other examples might be given but the facts cited are sufficient to I prove that mankind at the present day, ^ if no greater, is certainly no less in . height and in size than in the days of jl old ; and that fully as many instances j of abnormal stature have occured in comparatively modern times as when " there were giants in the earth."?Ap* pklon'a Journal. e if The Lion's Ride. I When a lion wishes to have a giraffe " for his dinner, lie is obliged to be very j* careful how ho goes to market. uiraues are not cheap articles of diet, even for a " lion, and an attempt to get a meal of r that kind of meat always costs him a '' great deal of trouble, and sometimes " costs his life. Of course, the lion slips up very quietly toward the giraffe. He always docs that, no matter what his " prey may be, but in this case it is neces^ sary to be very carefnl indeed, for if he springs and misses the giraffe, the great J beast may get a kick at him before he has time to recover himself, and a kick from a giraffe, whose hind legs fly oxit e like sledge-hammers, will make even a 1 lion feel considerably shook up like. But even after the lion has safely landed on the giraffe's back, his dinner is not ready. The giraffe is a large and pow" erful animal, and away he rushes, as J fast as his long, awkward legs can carry him, and that is very fast indeed. ClitI ter, clatter !?spring and bound ! Away he goes, with the lion hanging on like ' a good fellow, and the hyenas come " yelling after, hoping to have a chance to get something at the second table, 'e for it is hardly possible that a lion can , eat a whole giraffe. But it is not at all certain that there will be giraffe for ^ dinner at all, for if the frightened crcaj. ture can get into the woods, he may be )t safe. Dashing among the limbs and rocks, he may knock the lion off. And look out, Mr. Lion ! The giraffe will turn on you as quick as lightning, and * kick the life out of you before you can .4 get out of the reach of his heels. Although giraffes have been kuow to get s the best of lionH in this way, they are ' not always so fortunate. If a thick wood cannot be reached, the giraffe will ^ become exhausted, an d the lion will fix his teeth in his throat, and drag the poor " beast down and kill and cat hira. )f Plants or Trees on One Acre. The number of square feet in one d acre, or in one hundred and sixty 11 square rods, is 43,560. With these 1* figures as a guide, any intelligent school boy can readily determine the II uumber of hills of potatoes, com or any 1* other plunts or trees that maj' grow on 'f one ncre. If a person desire to plant a n certain number of ncres with apple, 11 pear or any other trees, it is easy to '8 calculate how many will be required be^ fore he makes the purchase. If beets y or turnips are allowed to grow exactly 11 one foot apart, iu rows running at right angles, 43,560 may be raised on one d ncre. If plants of any sort stand two feet distant each way, 10,800 may be >r cultivated on an ncre. When the hills ; > are three feet distant each way, with rows running at a right nugle, 4,840 will it rrmw mi mm n/?re When bills are five PS**"* "" ? 18 foot, 1,742 may 8taml on one acre, prod vided the rows run at right angles. If ie the rows are marked out in the quiui cunx style, the plants may all stand at a given distance fipart, and at the same t. time a larger number than we have Indii: catod will stand on an acre. When d trees of any sort are planted in rows f? running at a right angle, twenty feet apart, 103 may he planted on one acre ; d but if they be planted in the quincunx order, all twenty feet apart, more than p. this number will stand on an acre. 1. Beginners will do well to investigate d this subject, so as to have a correct unh derstanding of both systems of marking i- out ground for any desired purpose. g )r Arsenic Eaters. It seems almost incredible that any If person can be guilty of the madness of ;c resorting to the use of poisons, either [y internally or externally, for the purpose of improviug the complexion. Arsenic, a. in any form in which it is used?al)0 though not in a pure metallic state and rH before oxidation?is a terrible poison. in If taken in sufficient quantities it causes l. death, after exeratiating suffering. In l(l small doses it produces very unpleasant effects, aud undoubtedly shortens life. The habit of eating arsenic once conre firmed cannot be broken off. A person m is to be looked upon as idiotic who will ,j deliberately adopt the practice of taking [J such an injurious and dangerous drug, v merely for the purpose of whitening tht \. skin. But there are other substances v iion/1 titan nroon\t h) 1uiu.-ii iuuic vw.u.u?uv ..ov, [] for their effect upon the complexion, .j which nre also highly deleterious, iy Many of the cosmetics which nre sohl i*n contain lead, and there nre few poisone jH which produce results more to be dreadJ1 | ed than those occasioned by lend. Even at i as used in hair dyes, it occasions neujc j ralgia, paralysis, suffering and death, ty Seek good looks by seeking health ; bj ^ early rising, out door exercise, whole)() some food, a clear conscience, and the cultivation of a cheerful temper, and jy not by the use of arsenic or any othei ; poison. of at Fcrs.?In Maine, skinsof minks sellal I,. $0 each, a reduction of 81 on the price of of the previous year, while in Ottawa, r. | Canada, they bring from 82.75 to $3, at This difference, the Ottawa Citizen u| says, is due to a change in the fashion: *ft of ladies' furs in the large cities of the et United States, brought about througl: 8e , the rage among servant-girls for "mini eg sets." "At length," continues the Citi jt zcn, "mink became so common that the ot wealthy classes sought for something er more expensive. The South Sea sea . I a m'nti.lnnlrinoranil mm nnd onnn Via, m came popular with the belles of Nev a York and elsewhere." If this view b< ' correct, it seems rather strange that th< in prices of mink in Maine should hav< gone down only 81, at the very sam? of time that there had been a reduction ii n-1 Canada of from 82 to 83. an a, Anselmo, Vivante A Co., London mer on chants, have suspended, with liabilitiei as of 83,500,000. The Better Education of Farmers. We are apt to take too much of a dol lar-and-cent view of the question of agricultural education. In so many yean a young man could earn so much money will it pay him to give this up in ordei that he may got an education which will enable him in later life to make more money than he could without it ? Will any education that can be gained al school make a better money-getter of t boy than would the same amount o) time and attention given to learning the practical operations of the farm ? Without stopping to answer tliest propositions?which are foreign to oui purpose?we desire to call attention U other considerations that must hav< weight with all thoughtful persons The greatest prosperity of farmers, as i class and individually, must come fron causes which will advance farming ai an occupation. No permanent and sat isfactory prosperity can attend an] calling which is not held in good re pute, and no calling in these moden days can be in good repute which is no represented by at least a fair proportioi of men of education and intelligence In the so-called "professions," in me chanics, and in trade, the tendency ii toward better and better education anc a more cultivated intelligence, and th< degreo of respect in which they are scv erally held is in all cases proportionate to the intelligence of its representative men. In the future allotment of honor ant influence, and consequently of prosper ity, that calling will take the lead whose representative men are the most dis tinguished for education and cultiva tion, and that will fall to the rear ii which there has been the least progres in these respects. The road of the fn ture is an ascending one, and progres over it is to be secured much more b; the aid of mind tlia* by the aid of mat ter. Those who take care and keep tin lead in the race will do so because o their brains rather than of their bodies and the leadership will imply contro over those who are behind (and there fore beneath) them. How far their rul will be merciful will depend on condi tions which we cannot now foresee, bu that they will rule is as certain as tha mind has always ruled over brute force If farmers can take the lead, furmin will be a favored and fortunate occupn tion. If they must fall to the rear, i will be a degraded and an unfortunat one. Whetlier it is one or the othei depends oh the extent to which fanner are educated and enabled to standafai chance iu the "struggle for the lead, and our successors will be the lords o the land or a down-trodden peasantry according as they are educated or nol We assume, of course, that prosperit and intelligence will go hand in hand and that as we gain in education w shall gain in wealth. At the same time we believe that the beRt chance for th future of our craft lies in the ability o its representatives to take a high stair for education and intelligence. Be!ie\ ing this, we long for the better genera education of farmers: not of those o the farmers' sons who are destined fo other occupations, but especially fo those who are to stuy on the farm. Le us bring better-trained brains to th performance of our work, and shed th light of cultivation and refinement ove our hearthstones, and we may confl dently look for a success which mer wealtn could not secure.-American Ar, riculturiat. Wlmt can bo Done with Musical Boxes. A tourist writes: * Almost the la* words I hoard before leaving New Yor last spring were: ' Now be Biire to se the musical boxes when you get t Geneve.' So, when I came to Geneve I went round from one shop to anothei looking at them; but I did not see auj thing very remarkable until one dnj sauntering nlong the promenade, dropped myself into a shop aud aske for musical boxes of the pretty, viva ciotis little French girl ut the counter. " A salesman who spoke remarkabl good English showed us, in compan . with several others, the remnrkable fet tures of the rooms. By one of the wir , dows hung two wicker cages, each cor 1 tuining a canary bird. But what, in th name of wonder, can that thing stickin out at the side be ? Presently up come our conductor, and grnsping the 'thing commences turning it. Sure enougl it is a key, and he's winding up the Til ( tie songster. Each forthwith Begins t . sing, fluttering at the same time its ta feathers, and turning its head fromsid to side in the mostuntural way imagint , ble. This bird would continue, we ai [ told, to sing at intervals for two houi , just like a real canary, only better. ] ' cost six hundred francs. Our eyes wei I next drawn to several bottles and d< , canturs which adorned a sideboart . The guide picked up one of them, an on his turning it bottom up, it immed ' ately began to j;lay ' Coming thro' tt [ Rye.' It was intended for wine, an , when your guest filled his glass by ii . verting the bottle, his cars would I i saluted with music. It would puzzl . any one not in the secret to tell when< the music came; for the bottle is pe \ fectly transparent except one place i . the bottom, which is ground until tl , glass becomes opaque, and in the ho I low of which the musical box is plocei ''Next came a cigar and wineglai stand, which played when opened, an stopped when it was closed. Ladie ; work-boxes and photograph albums a< [ dieted to the same pleasing habityrei strewn broadcast over the tables, to ss ' nothing of purses that, when you opene , them to take money out, played an a] , propriate air; perhaps, ' Coal-Oil Jon: , ny' or ' Tommy Dodd.' " ! Di-infection [of Air of Sick Rooms. The three best agents for accomplis! i ing ihe disinfection of air after smal t pox or other contagious diseases, a I sulphurous acid, iodine, and carbol acid, xne best metnoa 01 empioju 7 sulphurous acid is to scatter a fitt 9 flowers of sulphur upon a heated shof 9 and carry it about in the room or rooi 9 which are to be disinfected. 9 Iodine may be used by simply placi 1 a little in an open glass or earthen t< sel, and it vaporizes readily at the on nary temperature of a house. Carta - acid may be employed by sprinkling i weak solution of it on the noor of t room, or cloths wetted in snob. Items of Interest. Sitka has a public debt of ?100 and only 70 cents in its public fund. | A sausage 69 feet long and weighing ' 5,592 lbs., has been made in Lancaster [ Co., Pa. , Advice free gratia to young men?Of | all your gettings, get respeotability and t a good trade. i '' Gentlemen's pantaloons upholstered f here," is the sign near a seating park in f Titusvilie, Pa. " We're in a pickle now," said a man ' in a crowd. " A regular jam," said au* other. "Heaven preserve us I" moaned > an old lady. > ! A black bear recently attempted to ' htig a Wisconsin maiden to death, but 1 she iabbed him in the eye with an um1 brella, and he fled. Is it an approprite thing, new, for the . proprietor of a skating-rink to put up . over the door of his private sanctum, j " Business off-ice ?" t It is now claimed that the architect i of the great wall of China was a woman, . but a woman wouldn't do anything to - keep men out in that way. s The Scotch newspapers are discussing 1 the propriety of an intended day of 5 special prayer on Sunday, that more - missionaries may be raised up for the 8 foreign work of the church. ' Six establishments in New Orleans, . with an aggregate capital of $1,500,000, 1 are engaged in the manufacture of oil ' ?1 "? ' ? eaaA f.llfl viflld ana ou-cue irum vu?>uu dw^, ? ^ 9 being 100,000 tons per*annum. It is estimated that of the present 1 great crop of fruit throughout the s United States, more apples will have been lost by rotting and waste than an s average crop would have amounted to. Y The Piute Indians in Nevada recently " organized themselves into a vigilance e committee, and executed summary jusf tice upon one of their tribe, known as i. Buffalo Bill, who had killed a brother 1 warrior. The Sacramento Bee states that the e Modoc war is gotten up by certain '* whites for the sole purpose of driving' the Indians off their lands, so that the 1 land grabbers can get them. ' The balances in the U. S. Treasury ?m are; Currency, $1,185,846; coin, $64,j 519,711, including $25,425,500 in coin certificates; special deposit of legal . tenders, for the redemption of certift'B cates of deposit, $27,150,000. r A young lady in Western New York " has just declined an offer of marriage ,f from a wealthy lover whose name is - Hussey. It i? impossible not to admire I the spunk of that woman who refuses to y be called a Hussey for any man. , A charitable lady of St. Louis sent e one of her last year's dresses to a des- ? ), titnte woman. She was somewhat sur0 prised to have it returned with the >f statement that it was too full behind for d the present style, and would she take r- out a breadth and change the trimmiag. " Is Pat Flannigan on board this * ship ?*' roared Nelson, during a lull in r the firing at the battle of the Nile. "I'm r here, my lord," said Erin's son, showing 1 himself on deck. " Then," said the e the gallant Nelson, looking satisfied, e "let the battle proceed." That story is * Pat's. " The Bavarian government will repay the twenty millions of florins deposited by officers of the army as caution money for permission to marry. The law requiring caution money to be deposited will henceforth be repealed for all [* grades above captain, and (he amount k payable by subalterns will be materially e reduced. , Gold is found in no less than thirteen ' States of the Union, namely, in Verraont, Maryland, Yirginin, North and , South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, j Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, j Oregon, and California. During the t last twenty-four years California has produced tne immense amount of $654,y 121,449 in value ef the precious metal. y A paper of a somewhat sporting chari acter is responsible for a story of the i- wonderful sagacity of a hunting-dog, I- which was quietly preceding its owner e along the streets of New York, when it g made a sudden point. Its owner, sur:s prised, instinctively looked for a Vrd ,' or rabbit, which might accidentally have l, been dropped oa the street, but vainly t- searched until his eyes caught the o words "A Partiudoe" on an office' 1 ?1 vrna inatiintlv ii uoorf wut'u me uijokvij ? v .e solved. l" Tliroughout the interior of Africa, e and, indeed, some parts of Asia, a \ _ "8 woman is prized for fatness. Such " being the public sentiment, mothers "e seasonably commence a system of dietetic treatment that makes their daugh' ters irresistible. As soon as betrothed, ? the girl is cooped up in a small room ** and dilb'gently fattened. If her purchaser has lost a wife by death or divorced one, her anklets are sent forward for 1- the new matrimonial candidate. When >e she has attained a size to fill the pattern 'e rings, she is carried in triumph to her 'e new home. u The next House of Representatives ie will consist of 292 members. Of these j. all but four from Connecticut and three ]_ from New Hampshire have been elected. ,s The delegation from Louisiana is in disd pute, and two sets of members will s* appear as claimants for seats, each havj. ing certificates of election, though from :e rival returning boards. Leaving the re presentation of these three States out, the members holding certificates will be p. politically divided as follows: Republiq. cans, 184 ; Democrats, 91; Liberals, 4* Republican majority, 89. A two-thira vote will be 194. The Republicans thus * *? -* ?onntml of isoi ten ox bcoiuvuq wiur>v>v , the House. Qu ? re Carbolic Acid as a DnmmsoTAirT.? io 0. Homburgh, of Berlin, proposes to ig use carbolic acid as a disinfectant by le saturating sheets of Bristol board or el any thick spongy paper, with a solution as of carbolio acid in water. The paper in any convenient sine, may be hung up Qg in the rooms to be disinfected, or may *- be plaoed in drawers or wardrobes, li- where it is desired to protect clothing lie from fhoths or other insects. This sun; a gests a convenient method of using this he exoellent disinfectant and insect-destroyer, 'M