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THE MONHOE
VOL XXXIX.
SOMEWH AT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OT
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Fact* and Thrilling Adventures
Which ohow that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.
M A Kill end d.voree nr.-extreme
Jy slmpb among tl.e Mintals. one of
the aboriginal IriL* of Ind.a Per
mission t wed must be obtained from
W '"'I?' 1 1 n f ‘(‘ (usually
'"I" . ; "ith a new sari each
, 1 mo,h<;r nnd f? r andtnother, is
paid - bride,
for a but for a widow only
half I lint HIM the argument being
hal a widow will have to be returned
world.' Tim- Tlnna ities ’arc 'dis
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pl.llci v O ,'.e-I”n'' 0 e":
lrcm. lv ri„,|,lc Tho pair
upset a j„r water nnd tear in ! ", a 1 1
n,.,.,, | ‘ ' W' ,, . in the
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1,1. I," "! '' n Now V , "o become , h<*r and we sister. to one
liavc and ready a*! iTc IlJranlf^of t w'rouSI
finds her marriages. If a woman
affect ions unrequited she
whether may proceed to marry the man
he wishes or not. 'I nking a
vessel containing rice and beer she
enters the mini's house and sits down.
The "ill probably Women of object, tin* household, avIio j
may then resort
to very means short of personal
violence to induce her to leave. They
imi) burn red pepper on the fire, or
souse her with cold water, but if she
remains passive for several hours Ihe
marriage is accomplished beyond
disput 0.
“1 saw an odd sight in Lu/.i'rne
county a few days ago,” said Eckley
B. (’iixc to a I’liiladelpliia reporter.
Six mules that had f<>r four years j
hauleil cars in the lower workings of j
a t he coal shaft shaft had to to and he brought from the upowing foot of j
to the flooding of the in i ne on account.
of had tire. The light mules in nil that time |
seen no stronger thuti the ;
flicker of the little Davy lamps the
miners carried, The sun was in its
zenitIi when (ht reached ii -mr' ic
(I he was M clear as
,
' r ho
closed ilieu eves to s' out the I
flood ., , of , strong light, , . and , , kept , ,, them|
tigdill.v closed while they were being
driven to a past urn lot a mile distant
and tAirned loose 'I'here t hey stood j
i« in i mg a,- i i m > win a ia " !sU,1H *
lung evil was about to lH'^11 them.!
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an ‘ •*' ,Ul ,Ui i l 1 ,' ,"' H n n | ou m
.nn.i/i ,
mi n . ’.' n 1 \ y
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bad | become | accustomed to , the , . sun
light they elevated their heads and
slowly swept their gaze over culm
piles, sky, mountains and horizon
again and again. Toward sundown
they broke into a chorus of joyous
brays, the likes of which was never
heard from mules before. After a
quarter of an hour of that music they
took to kicking, jumping, whirling
S T ,S ! ! ey J ?? l! "r an< T l | n ^,.° hOT n
four ,n> da A \ s they spent , their tune gaz
ing at t he new sights of field and sky,
refusin" h i Mir. food n ou and .mu water, water not not even mn
nibbling at the grass, 'm. and not as
niu.-ii ». l,li«U.. K - vo in .loop.”
A l.lTTI.E " , l a >'*‘ ar ,, Murt & .
lunuer. of Springfield, lenn., re
ceivod a shipment of goods from
tftroh.n, Fisher N Co of Evansville,
Did., and among the lot wore a num
ber of ladies' pocket books. While
unpacking them, one was found by
V C. Batts, the salesman, to have a
broken clasp, and in the pocketbook
was the card of a lady, the name be
ing Annie E. Loekyoar. He wondered
who she was. and prompted by euri
osity, wrote to her. In due time, a
reply came; a correspondence begun,
and recently he visited her. finding
her a cultured and charming young
bidy. He fell in love with her and
lus affection was returned, the ro
inantic affair ending by their marriage
Just before Christmas, 1891, Miss
Loekyear went to the firm in Evans
Mile from which the tirm Batts
worked for purchased goods to pur
cha^o a pocketbook. but found after
leavmg the store that the book she
had -oug.it bad a broken clasp, and
ti^hen she returned it to the store, she
ft .*ceidemal y iett her card in it, which
bad bus been found by Batts and
was n nH.u>>ot 'ringing about the
state of affairs w’hioh has culminated
m t u union oi t ma lives.
Jonathan Young and his son Livy,
well-known and reputable farmers, of
Johnson County. Indiana, were out
in the woods when their dog spied a
small ground squirrel and chased it
under a log. The father and son drove
the little animal from beneath the
log with a pole, the dog standing at
the side of the log ready to grab his
proy. Suddenly tho squirrel darted
out from under tht log and the dog
made a grab at him. Like a flash the
littD animal disappeared down the
dog's throat. For an instant the
dog stood and trembled as if
ing great pain and then began to
howl and roll over and over in agony,
For a half hour he continued his
signs of distres- and then condition*, gradually
return.i. I to his normal
The Ulster expected to see tin* dog
^ : he lui> fully recovered and
- *—■ s as well as ever It is *iUp
P' —V, 1 1 hut the squirrel, alter strug
. 1 Hu- stomach of the dog. was
finally smothered. Mr. Young and
his, s n both vouch for the truth of
the story.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY. GA,TUESDAY MORNING. I SEPTEMBER
|! < ,‘ liwenksMlle, ay {‘TVJ’ n ™ lenn. r the A doorstep little dog at
.
' as 1 1 " 1 11 ‘ nn< ^ •‘ >aw the
raw mg Jnonst ‘ r " n within three
01 1 >ie t iny sleeper. Without any
A ’ ' V 'ogsprangat thereptile, and
snake on egnn far an uneven big fight. 1 he
was too and powerful to
be overcome by so small an antago
rust, but he dog fought savagely,
When he deadly black folds of the
serpent began tocoil about the dogit
yelped loudly. The child was awak
ened and its screaming brought Mr.
Saylor to the scene. He speedily
killed the snake and rescued the
faithful little beast, which had prob
ably saved Ins child’s life.
A Gkhman * lithological journal re
cords , a recent experiment of Drs
r! a»l«.-honk., ,nd Sobolotny which
seems to border on the heroic Thev
w •«>
ration made from cultures of the
cholera bacillus, and afterward swal
,ro ni ,ll " ir 0, " b M they inoculated
. and
pi K! s, found that those
against "'"V’"!" cholera. V™ 1 ' 1 " lus Usually 1)0 it is tin*
guinea pig ^ who has rSl first to face IS the
m , n(s of that kin(1 but in this ease
the doctors were so sure they were
. r ! iemse K !" !!!'", its. »''*«»<>«*<• ‘h. risk
Uapt.un- V. A. Rankix, weighing
almost BOO pounds, and living at,
Grown City, Ohio, claims he is the
champion eater of the United States,
He disposes of three square meals
during the day and wakes up every
Right at 10 o’clock and morning at 2
o’clock and eats a big meal his wife
prepares for him before retiring. He
frequently demolishes ”
two fried
chickens, .... fried ,
six eggs, a loaf of j
bread six ounces of butter and four
( ups of coffee for breakfast. Mr.
kin ,s wealthy, blithe says his |
nu.ney doesn t agitate his mind as
o ten as Ins appetite.
Miss Ai>i>ik Tfckek, the young and
heautiufl daughter of prominent peo
pie living at Niobrara, Neb., a few
days ago eloped and married a de
formed Sioux Indian known as John
Suinan. The parents of the girl are!
over the affair. The In
i- s blind in one eye and has
deformities and is very unat
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f. ' bee'i''' , r fcche ter
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I mm., ja,, n, • bee. a11c,-<>- * mgr
u.xus tot toriy jo urn now i , .
carefully mounted, what is believed
robeonR 0 f jj 10 finest, collections in
tbo United States, It numbers 0,000
specimens, lie is still continuing the
work.
Wind luis been so strong in Kansas
lhisyti;ir (ha( a hoy has
had great fun rigging a sail to his
express wagon and coast
ing along the boulevard. Tacking lias
been the only feature of navigation
, , ro ubled him.
1 outer, \\ is., is . , boasting of , a me
t-eor that fell in that vicinity a few
nights ago. It was a “compact me
tallie mass, of very dark color, and
weighed fifty-two pounds.”
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AN OLD_TOWNSHIP. TOWNSHIP
Some Facts in the History of an
Ancient Dutch Settlement.
Ilu Kin S s counry ' mages vere
among ” the first to he settled in. Amer
“a, amt , f lore most , among these wiese was
FlaO.u.-l,. II was at the time that
Louis XIV. reigned in France that
some settlers came from the Nether
lands , itl well-built ships, and set
t i, (1 *}..., standing nnr H nn nf the cnnntre
still on Flatbush avenue,
corner of Avenue probably' A is the Berwn
honiRs t ea d. the oldest
bu Generaf ndin" to-dav in the section Here
Washington and some of his
offi(>Rrs stopped for several tradition' days and
aC cordin" to village Gen.
Howe made roof' bis hendmmrters under
the «ame He is s-fid to have
0lVUpiR d tbe f ron t room on the nortli
sido .....‘ t >„ tbe windows "reat large
)pn m, n fF P rs with henvv i r o n
fastening fwo-storv nriv be seen Tliis old
relic is and garret, frame,
with low ceilings 75 feet long and 30
f e0 , w - u j 0 The "rent shimmied roof
slopes i n u „broken descent, and ex
tends far ove r the edge. The house
was built in 1735, by Dominie Free
man a Hollander and the bricks
USRd ; n the foundation and old fire
p ] ace were brought across the sea.
Heavy hewn beams used as a support
for the upper story are projected
ftCrosss the ceiling in the parlor.where
they can be seen to-day.
About the time of the Revolution
ftr y War this house came into the
possession of Hans Hansen Bergen,
A party of British soldiers took
charge, and compelled the family to
attend to their wants. I hoy found
several cases of • choice imported
wines secreted under the eves of the
roof, and for two or three days there
was a drunken revel. From thebe
ginning the settlers had little or no
trouble with the aborigines, for they
respected tbe rights of the redmen
and never broke faith with them.
Here in 105S was the county market,
Courts were held in the village,
which was the seat of justice for the
county. Here. too. lived tbe Sheriff,
County Clerk schoolmaster and min
ister, who preached at stated inter
vals in all of the towns. The third
Court-House was destroyed by fire
in 18532, and the fourth was built in
Brooklyn. After that the settlement
ceased to he the centre of impor
tanee, ami became a quiet country
; village. The town has been known
a* Midwood, Midwout. Midwoud and
Medwout, and why and just when it
was changed to Flatbush is hard
| say.
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! dates by several rears the American
j been Revolution. built It is believed to have
about the rear 1719 bran
Englishman named Lane. It was
once in the possession of Col. Wil
liani Axtell. u descendant of Daniel
Axtell, a colonel in Cromwell’s army,
who was beheaded bv orderof Charles
II. after having been refused by Par
liament the benefits of the act of
“general pardons and obligations.”
William Axtell was a member of the
King's council, a Loyalist and a
Tory. At Melrose Hall the Tory ele
ment met frequently. Many secret
conclaves were held and schemes
concocted to thwart the designs of
the “rebels.” The house abounds in
“ cret rooms and passage-ways.
There were said to be dark vaults be
"»e kitchen, where British
P r ‘8oners were confined, and over the
beautiful young girl was starved *•>«?,» to
death. This building stands in Mel
<lri T». '"H 011 "^1. huge
“ ml P-ues, probably more
th “" “ hundred years.old.
Erasmus Hall Academy is another
of the ancient buildings still to be
seen. It was founded in !78G by
Rev - ])r > Jf >hn H. Livingston and
dilator John Vanderbilt. The name
hrasnm, was chosen in honor of lie
siderius Erasmus, a distinguished
patron of literature in Holland in
the sixteenth century.
In 1(598 there were more slaves
in Midwout than in any other place in
Kings county.
The late Rev. Robert G. Strong
found, by careful research, that the
first deed of land was dated June (5,
J(iffi), in the extreme southern portion
of the town. It was conveyed by the
Indians claiming it to Andries Hud
den and Walphert Gerriten, a ...... nd
was known as the “Little Flats.”
land was partly in Amers
foort, now Flat-lands. The earliest
deed for land lying entirelyinMid
wood or Flatbush was to Jacobus
Van Corlaer about the same time,
ihe first school was in 1759. Dr.
Strong found that Adrian Hegeman
was school master. In August , 1770,
the village presented a terrible pic
ture of devastation and suffering,
The houses of Lefferts Lefferts, Jere
rniah Vanderbilt and Evert Hegeman
wero in Dames. This added to the
horrors war had brought on the pi a ee.
Bones of many killed in battle were
f °und ■ Hie road,, showing some had
over miserable ;’;'ss for rtd-,eu
titroijf made life tne
honest yeomen. F-ever broke out and
g ra ss grew in the streets, Horses
were stolen from their plows and cat
tie slaughtered and driven away,
Business was at an end, houses were
fired and looted and residents suffered
for actual necessities of life.
The old homestead of the Lefferts
family,onFlatbushavenue,nearLin- old, hav
coin road, is now 1S2 years
ing been built in 1762. It wasfired by
British troops during the battle of
Long f Island, partly destroyed and
rebl nt f'the There is still in the posses
sion D family a deed bearing date
0 f jfifij and bavin" ? tlie signature of
q qy stuyvesant This house is filled
wit h ancient, relics of the early part
of the eighteenth century. Garrett
Stryker, who is a lineal descendant of
the early settlers, has a Dutch Bible
published at Dordrecht, in Holland,
288 years ago.
0 n Flatbush avenue the Vander¬
•"It home, tt ..d i. oa a. .t f nr innrp
than one hundred and fifty years,
">• « r ™‘ ,7 lop ' ’1, rAAf flf mmos to
" 1,h . tn about eight teet ot ot tho the
ground, burying-ground
The od is on
Church , lane, just off of Flatbush
avenu e, and in the rear of the Dutch
Reformed Church. Many quaint ©pi
ta P hs are on \ hc tombstones. Graves
wero so disturbed that in li96 a night
"' atch " as established by an act of
tlie Legislature and a guard-house
was built on the north side. Here
and in other burial places immense
structures which took about ten or
twelve men to lift, were placed over
newly-made graves. Ministers and
members of the church who died be
tween 1701 and 1794 were buried un
Je r the edifice.
lhe recent annexation of the old
township lends new interest to much
of its earl l r history.
The Moose Made Quick Time.
“Any one who thinks a moose
can't travel at a very lively gait is
very much mistaken.” remaked Geo.
T. ilorton. of St. Paul, at the La
clede. “I used to be a locomotive
engineer up in the northern part of
mv State, and one day I had an op
portunity to test the speed of this
animal. I was running a light freight
train, and in coming around a curve
saw a big moose standing directly on
the track. As soon as the animal
saw the engine he took to his heels
right down the path between the
rails. For about four miles we had a
perfectly straight track, and as I had
heard of the great speed of this ani
nial I determined to test its ability,
The gait of the moose was a sort of
trot,such only as a moose can exhibit,
his paces being about two rods in
length. At first it was only a little
jog. but as the engine began to gain
speed the moose let himself out.
Faster and faster sped the engine,but
still the frightened moose trotted in
the van, and all the mysterious power
of steam could not prevail upon this
monarch of the forest. At last, after
we had covered the four miles, turn
ing a curve, we came upon a gang of
section hands, who were fixing the
track. The sight of these men fright
ened the moose from the track, and
he was soon lost to view in the for
| ©st,”—-[St. Louis Globe-pemocrat.
“PENNY DREADFUL”
HOW THE MELODRAMA OF LIT¬
ERATURE IS MADE.
It Takes More Plot Than Any Other
Kind of . Production-.Some of the
Methods.
Iran against two girl friend, of
mine last Saturday vHiom I haven’t
seen for a long time; so we all turned
into- on Broadway to eat i ce8
and have a “good talk.' My two
friends are literary—tliev have not
exactly yet inscribed their
upon the roll of fame, hut they are
girls of great resource and have
enough ambition to attempt anj'
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THE TWO COLLA BOKATpas.
verse. Therefore, I av t sur
prised when they annoufi ■ , With
their mouths full of strawberry and
A'nnllla :
“We’re going to Europe^ 7#
“What—on the proceed! , journal¬
ism?’ I asked.
dreadful,’” “No, on the answered proceeds oT’a^penny
Magog. my ULjfriend,
“Do you m u9A9 Y jiav d in this
cynical and p'‘a^un^ioj there is
still a good, h dfr the
‘thoroughly
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Midge, “ °f course short there;' friend, ^ W an8Wered
my idge is al
ways ready to handle tho m. pos
sibie questions on the shortest poss*
ble notice. t 4 The pessimists , only
judge from their own little circle. If
there wasn't a demand we shouldn’t
have the good luck to furnish part of
the supply, should Ave, Magog?”
“We collaborated over* it,” said
Magog.
“ On the principle of two heads be¬
ing better than one?” I inquired.
“ Well, you see, one head with one
average imagination is not enough,”
answered Midge.
“No, I should think not,” I replied.
“ My idea of preparing to write such
a thing would be to retire into soli¬
tary' confinement long enough to try
and regain the wild and impassioned
longings of 10. Then, when my brain
was properly on fire, I should start
in.”
“And you would probably produce
a boy’s book of stirring adventure or
a psychological novel. No, you’ve
got the wrong idea altogether,” an¬
swered my large friend, decidedly'.
“The great thing to guard against
is originality'.”
“That’s convenient for you—no
effort required.”
“Don’t try to be funny,” said
Midge, “or we won’t tell you how we
did it.”
“You seem to have done it by be¬
ing perfectly' natural; but xvho reads
y r our stuff?”
“ ‘Our stuff,’ as you call it is tbe
faA’orite reading matter of the old
y T oung person of neglected educa¬
tion,” said Magog with pride.
i l Her neglected education accounts
for lie taste,” I remarked.
“Do you want to hear anything
about our system?” asked Midge,
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THE OLD YOUNG PERSON’ OF NEGLECTED
EDUCATION.
loftilv. “or do vou want to keep on
saying clever things and failing dis
mally ?
“Oh. you have a system?”
“Certainly we have, Our readers
being, as I said, old-young persons
of neglected education—and school
girls—we have to cater to tiie tastes
of people who prefer romance to
realism.
“ They have got used to a certain
style of character, and they want it
again and again. That’s why the
characters in * penny dreadfuls’ are
always alike.”
“A penny dreadful.’ said Midge
reflectively', "is v, highly imaginative
story, dealing with aristocracy,
ADVERTISER.
beauty and wealth. You know what
kind of a thing the good, old-fash¬
ioned melodrama is. Well, the
‘penny dreadful’ is the good, old
fashioned melodrama in the form of
a storv.” v
«, v , . . mvhfte'dienoAi'
fnSthcrlteeandThestteToner- w who had me- of
j ^ tics of the good old-fashioned melo
ra,na are found in the ‘penny
I dr eadful.’ You must have a ruined
castle.”
I “And a blacksmith’s forge.”
“A secret panel, of course—that
goes without saying.”
|‘A horrible railway collision.”
' And vou might as well write
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Penny I)readfuU without a set of
family jewels as go to a picnic with
out a corkscrew.”
“Then there's the gamekeeper’s
cottage.”
‘‘•And the portrait gallery—with
the particular portrait with the great
shadowy eyes that haunt every
one.’ ”
“And the skeleton hanging on a
gibbet in the ‘cold, relentless moo n
light.’ ”
“St'op.' sto p:’ I’Tnit’s enough,” I
cried. “Now tell me about the
it, s fashionable not to have one
now, isn’t it? That must simplify
matters for you two wild roman¬
”
“That’s just where you're out.
1 lie Penny Dreadful’ isn’t fasliion
able. Just get that out of your
head. It isn't as advanced a, the
‘Dime Dazzler,' or anything like as
much up to date as Avhat the English
call the ‘Shilling Shocker.’ It’s con
servative, virtuous and unreal. But
the plot! ! Why we have to steal
from X\ ilkie Collins,Dumas,Marryat.
Mrs. Henry Wood, and heaps of
others—for it takes about fifteen
ordinary plots to run one ‘Penny
Dreadful on. ’
“You seek,” said Midge, “it comes
out in numbers, and we have to leave
our readers in a state of suspense at
the end of each number.”
“The name is an important tea
ture,” said Magog.
“Oh, yes,” said I. “A compound
arrangement.”
“That compound arrangement has
to mean a lot,” said Midge. “For
example, ‘Gwen Clietwynd’s Fate;
or, in the Shadow of the Gibbet
Tree.’.”
“And you have a particular style
of name for the create. vynr
fancy, don’t you?” .
“Oh, yes: never anyth' n 2 common but
—no Smiths, Browns, or one i s es *
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A SCHOOLGIRL READER.
Chetwynds, Fitzherberts, Cholmon
deleys, Glendinnings”-
“Does the old-young person of
neglected education scorn Browns
and Joneses?”
“She wouldn’t waste her time on
them.”
“On what lines do y'ou conduct
y'our love scenes?”
“Our proposals are ideal propos¬
als—exactly' the opposite of what
real proposals are,” said Magog.
“Now, I believe in what Oscar Wilde
say's, that when you come to think of
it.it is the women who really propose.
Now, I had a proposal the other day.
I had flirted with the man ami had
been nice to him, but I had to help
him out with his proposal before I
could refuse him properly. A girl
doesn't want to refuse an undevel¬
oped proposal. Now, the man in the
‘Penny Dreadful’has a perfectly phe¬
nomenal flow of impassioned lang¬
uage,and he proposes grammatically,
enthusiastically' and artistically. If
he is the hero the girl merely has to
rcise her great pansy eyes to his, or
if he is the villain all she has to do is
to spurn him; there’s a good deal of
spurning done in the ‘Penny?’ Dread¬
ful.’ ”
“Well,” said Midge, “you may be
as scornful as you please, we know
what there’s a market for, don’t Ave,
Magog?”
“Yes,” answered the big partner.
“And it says a good deal for the ro
mantic tastes of the reading public
that there is still a decided derfiand
for the 'Penny Dreadful.’ ”
“A good deal for the neglected
education, you mean,” I replied.
And they' said I was jealous.
T. M. W.
A swamp rabbit, killed near Pales
tine. Texas, the other day. had three
horns on the head each two inches
long. Two of the horns came up
from the sides of the head, The
other was in the middle. Warts all
over the under jaw gave the creature
a horrible appearance,and the natii'es
think they' have at last got rid of the
hoodoo of the vicinage.
FOR FAT PEOPLE.
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THE CAUSE AND TREATMENT
OF OBESITY.
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Bismarck’s Private Physician Dis
! C ° Ur " S UP °" Corpu " nc > H °~
'» Con Be Curod-Wh.t F.t People
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Professor Schweninger is Prince Bis
, march’s protege and private medical
adviser, and, although his reputation
in Germany rests upon a wholly dif
ferent footing, this alone should enti
tie him to be heard with respect
whenever he has a consolatory mes
^age to deliver to sick and suffering
humanity. Of late years he has de
voted his attention to the annihila
lion of the ill, to which well fed flesh
.s her, and ha, pul, ,,hcd h.s view,
m an article entitled “Cure and
Cures.” His treatment of obesity is
the outcome of his views on its na
lure and origin.
As to the causes that produce cm
bonpoint, Professor Schweninger
holds that they are legion. Among
the most frequent and efficacious,
liowever, he enumerates mental indo
leiiee—leanness beinga characteristic
“Lt® a 1 "S|^ e ! l, too C m„7h
en£ of combustion. bSuJit/S But bv
far the most
effective cause is eating “of and drinking;
an increased supply food, white
consumption and secretion remain
the same or diminish, of necessity
augment the weight of the body and
lead to an accumulation of fat.
The German physician lays great
store by his method of treating
obesity,and condemns those of all his
predecessors,who lay too little weight
upon details and upon the necessity
ofadjustingandmodifyingtheirpre- scriptions in accordance
with the
He varying needs of the pat ient. Food,
holds, plays an important part in
the cure of corpulency, not, however,
merely by reason of its chemical
composition, but in various other re
spects. Thus, the amount of liquid
food, the times and frequency of
meals,their mixture and temperature,
the relation between the quantity of
nourishment taken and the amount
of work done by the patient, are
more important factors in the eyes
• )r - Schweninger than the ques
tion of allowing or forbidding any
an alar edible.
. .Attention should also be paid to
mental activity, to exercise, repose,
to the
Af ’ h,orw1 io
*uu m^uremeu
wholetiody and .t certain
The treatment is not at all drastic
In the first place, the progress made
during control HJ ed cure at every must stage be verified by means and
of weight and measurement, both of
which, of course, are relative. And
brs
At ., least "ee , .. u gn , i .
once a
the body should b« measured round
the chest and the abdomen, ihe
girth round the abdomen decreases
m direct proportion to the weight,
one kilogramme of the latter cor
responding to ten centimetres of the
former. The girth round the lie
decreases much more slowly. J
face often reveals furrows and
wrmkles during and even after the
cure winch had no existence before,
and ladies especially are apt to wax
wroth at the awkward discovery. It
must he borne with however the
C^iho'^nS
disappear if only the patient shoAs r
herself worthy of that name.
At the very beginning of the cure
the stout man must cast off all cloth
in" of a kind calculated to exert a
STlonand Wnt’r Ure m p?oSs f s re of
■
combustion.
The next prescription which is
water applications, and we blessing are as¬
sured come as a boon a
to the patient whose body, “being
isolated from the outer world by a
dense layer of fat, that .is, by a very
bad Conductor of heat,” can with
difficulty free itself from the redund¬
ant warmth and longs for a contribute cooling.
As mechanical causes
to obesity, mechanical action must
be enlisted in the service of the suf¬
ferer from it. Walking, ivorking,
gymnastics, are beneficial, in moder
atiou-the essential point being to
alternate physical exercise and
pose with mental It is a gross m s
take to auej ta ongna s, mj
tarn tours heavy rowing bicyelmg
or skating for hours at a time are the
re ^e~e%l^ St walks,
dancing, swimming, rowing and even
tree fellin". are all excellent in mo
deration, V . the , golden rule being that ,
each individual should remain well
W1 i ” n * d; 3 .. "he ... 11 , ? . cLrT ,
‘ if ' ’’ U max tiV f frr.rrinl
* ’
ann . at ex amh ,ng i ■, gen onrl a ‘ '
«
allv. But all exercise should be of
short dun,tion and followed by real
repose, which same repose consists
in something more than mere cessa¬
tion from previous effort, and in¬
cludes change of position Thus
sitting is not the appropriate kind of
rest that should be indulged in after
a walk, but lying, because in both
sitting and walking the leg s hang
doAAUAAard.
Finally comes the all-important
question of diet. Man lues no on
what he eats and drinks, but on what
he digests and consumes, aad.accord
mg to the way m which he digests and
consumes it. Wdh reasonable limits
his patients may eat and drink as
much as they like, provided that they
confine themseUes to the kinds of
food which he permits, that they eat
little wt once, though oftener than
usual, and allow a certain time to
elapse between eating and drinking,
NO. 87
Prof. Schweninger allows his pa
tients to compose their menu from
the following foods: 1. Staple nour
cooked isliment—Every species of flesh meat
j in every conceivable manner,
and served hot or cold, fat or lean •
flsh ’ caviar, oralis, lobsters,
sausage eggs cheese etc. 2. Sub
,«oam'..us°c^bh^es' cumbers'* ‘ ’ e,t ‘ ’ ,s- ' v,au cu * ’
’
gret'n salad. Drinks—
xv fttor soda-wntor V 1, \ "
1 r J , . u unon
j uice
alst tipntiAls soups rile p~tS?oes , nuH
macaroni J ’« pastry and butter and
} j ‘
ftr ( ox ol)t u so far \
needed in order to, ^* A a lt
SlsCta vegetables') I.l» and not nnlv £ i te" 1
' oho.ok
CO coa and milk.
Tto V L i>,. n foooo. T d<nlef d~i~f "’“ n y (>0m P lain! , . ?
■ r •
bv his stou't’fn ' T ° r" lnanifcs,tHl
his ^ toilt female patients on hear
n ) P aiu u>luniniH ( 1000 ' 1 ^ late. against Milk, tea,
1
, 'i IVV, . SUHl ul
rea v ‘, !°^° 1 rmur. H 0 aiu li If . ,a, 1 ' 1 have, : m *
0 A 1 ’’ niy *‘ a and eof
<>.,., • >
’ ‘ s 1 ,!‘ r0 for n \° to tako
at lir , *W«nr.' , Sch^ningvwZ,' ,
^ T “
\ (
,i i, . t ,
b011t 1 ° tlur snmlar . ' S ’’ nutritious foou. V
The Work of a Dairy School.
The instruction is given, first, by
lectures; second, b}' work at the sep¬
arators, the churns, and the cheese
vats, as well as in the laboratory.
Lectures are given in the following
branches: The breeds and breeding
of dairy cows, the feeding of dairy
cows, diseases of dairy cows, the
bacteriology chemistry of milk and its products,
of the dairy nroduots,
physical problems connected with
the dairy, and the care and manage¬
ment of the boiler and engine. These
subjects are presented to the class
by different professors of the univer¬
sity.
The practical work is taught in the
butter and cheese room, as well as in
the laboratory. The picture of the
separating room shows the arrange¬
ment of the separators. Of these all
the latest and most improved pat¬
terns are kept, as well as of the but
ter extractor. It may be in order to
benefit of the many^, m
..SS’“Ui.iSne'fo^ ’"' w MchlL never were inside of u
f
^"bvmeims the cream from the skim
^ of acentrifugttl force. made
A * steel bowl is
J hand-power or steam, at
I five to eight thousand
rev o]utions ^ min iite; by this
meang tho eavier porti0 n of the
milk, the skim milk, is separated
f rom the lighter » portion, the cream,
collected in separate
,
The work the creamery roo.n In
cludes the lmndlin g and care of the
prev ioua to churning, the
, ttnd U , e working " and pack
» f butter . j„ u „, cheese
> wlle re there are eight milk
eac)l o( „ cttpaclty „f three lmn
dred poundSi ' ,h ir ty. t , V o students may
„. ork !lt the 8ame timc . tUe v „ ri0 us
1 , n cheese-making, from the
P > ha „ a , in g „ of the milk to the
, the c he ese, arc hero learn
ed—[Popular Science Monthly.
Eating Alligator.
There j g reason to believe that the
, , ., , , K , .
disti^utebable iro.n veal. tender It
is probably cleaner and more
than much of the meat of the ani¬
mals that are usually consumed as
food on the continent or the east end
of London. I have never desired to
taste the flesh of crocodiles, cooked
or uncooked. But in India I have
seen the Santals and other casteless
natives greedily devour the flesh of
an alligator without waiting to cook
| 1 ' The flesh was very pale in color,
and probably was much superior to
the flesh of snakes and rats and such
like creatures which form the ordi
nary food of the predatory Sant al
Avhen hunting in his native woods.
t { n to his lot very often
circumvent and slay and
^ a , dllgatot . He more Ire
| ; .juently J J comes upon ^ small alligators, J
, » th( , eont nts 0
k „ howevcr , h( , ls
f *»chy as to meet a sahib who has
^’e°t‘long, ”, etgeriy ° J fails 5 upon 1 the
unwonted delicacy . without ... . waiting ...
| u
' h—w much as we read in
books of African adventure that , , the ,i
natives devour the carcasses of the
large game animals that the English
. sportsmen * do not want for their own
followers.^l.ongman rr , s Ar Magazine.
nSw
Photographing Lightning.
^* photographs *’ | of lightning had
^ ured d| ri the last {ew
> month there w&g
known reeord made in this way,
&f ^ gIobu]ur form of lightning.
Such a one is said to have been ob
tained by Dr . Kemphill, of Kingston,
J f and during f a terrible storm,
g g e hibits both the or .
8 inuous flashes, and, on the
; of the sea . a number of fire¬
toother by horizontal
light, and resembling the
C( . Jrse of ball of woo l played with
. a k jtten.”—[New York Telegram.
A Philadelphian has invented a
four-winged flying machine.