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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
Terms—Three Dollars a year, in advance
CURE FOR CANCERS.
A correspondent in India recently
•wrote to us to inquire respecting the
cure of a cancer by a Mr. Mason,
■which was published some years since
in some of the city papers. Tbo
Springfield Republican has been fur
nished by a subscriber with the follow
ing extract from the Milwaukee Free
Democrat, which we presume, will
furnish the desired information:
Our attention has been recently
called to a coro for cancers, which is
of sO mnch importance that we wish
to moke it kr.own as widely as possi
ble. Sc fob eight mOntiis ago, Mr* T.
B- Mason —who keeps a music store
on Wisconsin street, and is a brother
of ihe well known Lowell Mason—as
curtained that he had a cancer on his
face thesizoof a pea. it was cut out
by Dr. \\ oleott, aud tiro wound pa:-
tially healed. Subirqunfly it g.-cw
again, and while in Cinoirinati on bu
siness it attained the size of a hickory
rut. Kolas remained thoro. sir.c*-
Christmas under treatment, and has
corac back pet keily cuted. I'ho pro
cess is this:
A piece Os stickihg plaster was put
tfXTFtbv cancer, with a circular piece
out of the Centro a little larg.-r thati
the cancer, and a small circular rim oi
healthy rkin next to it was exposed
Then a piaster made of chloride ol
zinc, blood root ami wheat flour was
spread on n’j i oc of marlin < f the s’z
of this circular opening and applied to
. lire Cancer for 21 hours. On r. nrov
it g it, the cancer will be found to be
burnt into, and appear of t-he color
fl> and hardness of at; old shoe role, and
the circular tint ou’sido of it will np
. pear white and parboih and, as ifrealded
• by hot ttt*m. Tbo wound is now
dressed, and tho outside rim scon sup
. p urates a»,d than eorat s oat a hard
lump and ho place heals up.
The plaster kills tho ea 1 cer so tha'
it Sloughs out like dead flesh, and nev
er grows again. This remedy was
discovered by Dr. Fell, of London,
at and has been used by him f r six or
eight years, with unfailing success,
and not a care has been known of the
ndppOafilnCO Os tho cancer where this
remedy has bon applied. It has tho
sanction of the most eminent physi
cians aid surgeons < f London, but
lias not till recently been u«cd in this
country, and many of the faculty with
tlnir proverbial opposition to inn va
rious, look upon it.with distrust. 'Vo,
saw Mr. Mason at church yesterday,
and have since conversed with him
and took particular notice oi tho cica
trized wound, and cm Only say, ilrat
if the cure is permanent—and from
the evidence of six or eight years ex
perience in other oases, wo have no
doubt it is—the rent dy ought to be
universally known. Wo have referr
ed to this ease, because Mr Via son is
well known hot o and at tbc Erst. The
experiment excited inich interest In
Cincinnati, and we call the attention
of the faculty ia this State to tho rem
edy. If it is what is claimed for it
this .terrible disease will be shorn of
its terrors. Tho application is pain
ful, but the pain is of comparatively
brief duration, which any one so afflic
ted would cheerfully enduro.
The Human Family. —Tho number
of languages and dialects spoken in the
world amoinnts 3064. Tho inhabi
tants of the globe profess more-than
1000 different religions. The number
of men is about squal to the number
of womerr. The average of human
life id about thirty-throe years. One
quatttrdie previous to the ago of
Keren years; onc-haif before leaching
seventeen; and these who pass this
age erjoy felicity'refused to One half
the human species. To every rOCO
pereon* only one reaches 100 years of
life; to every 100, only six reaches
the age of sixty-fire; and not more
more than one in 500 lives to_ eighty
years of age. There are on the earth
1,000,000,000, inhabitants ; and ol
these 33,333,333 die every year, 81,-
822 every day, 3730 every hour, and
sixty every minute, or one every se
cond. These-tosses are abont balanced
by an equal number of births. L’i.e
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, <&, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1887.
married fire longer lived than tlft sin
gle, and above all,.those who observe a
sober and industrious conduct. Tail
men live logger than short ones. Wo
men bayjp' more chances of life in
their to their being fifty
years than men, but fever af
terwards. The Dumber of marriages
is in proportion of soventy-five to ev
ery oue mind red individuals. Marri
ages ara *rfiost frequent after tho
that is, during the mouths
«.f Juno add December. Thoso born
in the spring aro generally more ro
bust tbanxythers. Births and deaths
aro more-frequent by night than by
day. The number of men capable of
bearing arms is calculated at one
fourth of tho population.
.. ,t ii e'meWo R Y.
Mi mot'y has been well called tho
i storehous; ts our ideas. The illustra
-1 tion is trsgj not only in its main feat
ure, but irr, many of the minor details.
Tho value of what a man puts away in
Ia storeh '«jA dspbnds much upon tho
ui-dor and system with which tho ob
jects are stored. Tho wisa and thrif
ty merchant Jraa bins, and- box
es, and compartments, and 'pigeon-
I halos, all arranged with due drdorend
symmetry, and every item of goods,
as it is added, to his slock, is put away
: i.t once In if sappropriate place, wl.oro
| ire can lay iris hand on it whenever it
iis wanted. There should boa like me
! thod and system in uur mental uc
j cumulations. The . remembranoe of
| f'.cts and truths is of little value
ito us unless we can remombor them
in their connection, and can so re mem
| bar them as to bo able to lay our
] hands upon any particular thought or
j fact just whan or where it is wanted.
Many parsons read and study vora-
I c'Oiisly, tillfrft; their minds most in
idiistik uidy with know ledge, but such
• a c infusion of ideas prevails.through,
lout, their intellectual stcrooure, tint
1 their very wealth is an embarrass-
menf'td them. *Th'a vwy*first role Iff
bo obterved, therefore, in cultivating
iho inomory is to reduce our knowl
edge- to some system. Those who are
charged with tho trniningof tlieyoung
should setk not only to store their
minds with ideas, hut to present Ule.so
ideas to them in well-ordered shapes
a>d forms, and in duo logical order
and coheremo. Hence the peculiar
value of requiring children at tiro
proper ago to commit to memory tho
grand formulas of the Christian doc
trine, on - which, in ovory church, its
wisest and ahlost men have expended
their etregtb in placing groat truths
in connected and logical order and
dependneo. Theercedsand catechisms
of the Christian Church aro among
the best products of tho human intel
lect as more specimens of verbal state
ment, and and ara valuable, if for
nothing elso, as a means of cxoici
ei-g the memory- A Child who has
ihorougly mastered a good catechism
has his intellectual storehouse already
reduced to souyg order and system. —
Hi-, mind is not the chans that we so
often find in those chilfren who aro
gathered into our mission schools.
A Celestial Horn..—There is in
Pekiu aMlouse with Chicken Feath
ers,’ where houseless vagabonds may
sleep for one mil? (th > tenth part of
a cent) a night, in an immonae hall
the floor is covered two Or throe feet
thick with chicken feathers, The cus.
torners are introduced into this hall
and take the first plaso they can find ;
they disappear irr the feathers as if
they were in water. All ages and
bqlh lie pell-mell together. Over
this downy bed hangs a canopy ns
large as tire hull itself; tha canopy is
made of felt and is perforated with as
many oval holes as the hall has sleep
ers. When the hour is struck for the
closing of doors this canopy is lower
ed to tho floor. Every sleeper hastens
to thrust his bead through a hole, in
order to breath fresh air and escape be
ing suffocated by tbo feathers. At
the hour of rising a gong sounds aid
each sleeper pulls his head out of the
hole to avoid being strangled by the
canpoy, which is pulled up to the ceil
iug by blocks and pulleys# This so
cures the waking of all tho ledgers.
They can then go to' the office and
pay their mill for their night’s lodg
ing.
PARIS FASHIONS.
INTERESTING! PARTICULARS FOR THE
LADIES.
A Paris letter says: The other eTening
the ’Conspiration d’ Amtoise,’ a piece in
verse, which was much real merit, was
played before this audience, and the Em
press’ cosluue excited great admiration.
It consisted of a white brocaded silk, with
bouquettes of flowers seemed over it; and
was trimmed with green velvet represen
ting a festoon of leaves at the lower part.
A white feather fastened by a diamond
crescent formed the head dress, the ears,
throat, arms and shoulders being covered
with magnificent diamoud ornaments. Al
most all the ladies present wore figured
and brocaded silks, in order to accede to a
desire of the Empress, to piomote ns far as
passible that branch of the trade in silks
at Lyons, which bas suffered considerably
of late years in consequence of the prevail
ing fashion of wearing taffetas and plain
silks.
This fashion will therefore be generally
adopted in Paris this winter, to the dissat
isfaction in general of most dressmakers.
Among tlie guests of the second series of
invitations at'Compiegne who is specially
noticed by their Majesties, and who contri
butei not a little to the pleasures of tho
evenings when music is lire order of the
hour, is one of our charming countrywo
men, Mrs. C, Moulton, of whoso talents as
a musician and songlress, I have some
times had occasion tcPspeuk to your read
eis. This lady is as indefatigable a skater
as she is a charming songstress, and used
to be ono of the Emperor’s partners on
the ico two years ago, and to give lessons
(not very successful ones, itinay he owned)
to the more inexperienced Empress. She
lias this year been delighting tho court
circles w ith her enchanting strums.
The fashions of the day—l must speak
of fashions now, as wo aro drawing near
the season when they will become an en
grossing topic—lean more and more to
ward those of the first empire. Just now
they are pretty, as far aa tho make of dres
ses and skirts is concerned, but must as
cend nb fiTgTier tfuin'iTiiVSktit, for tlie iertvy
narrow bodices of that period have not yet
ventured to make tlieif appearauee#. The
dresses are wern very much gored, almost
flat round the hips and body, and swelling
gradually into an enormous breadth at the
bottom, which, toward the back, forms a
sharp pointed train of great length.-
The breadth are in general trimmed ail
tho way down their length, so as to nuuk
the reams, either with gimp, guipure, vel
vet or other ribbons; the front of the dress
is much shorter than the sides 'and back,
and a very habitual fashion is to have the
lower part cut out in dents, Vandykes, or
mmaillion, which arrangement is followed
out round tho pulcioc sue or pepluin, as j
may le. These continue to ho made eith
er the same as dress or in velvet; or, jf j
for full dress, in laces, the body being;
trimmed to correspond with it.
Numbers of people have adopted what
dress-makers term ‘costume?,’ a convenient
enough style-for walking in, but. as fits
name indicates, somewhat fanciful. The
costume, then, is a short skirt, generally
black, cut out in Vandykes or scollops; or
trimmed with fringe and jet, reaching
above tho ankles; underneath this upper
garment, which is considerably gored, is
another of striking color, such as violet or
of tho same material if it be woolen and
one color, which serves as it petticoat, and
a-illy just touches the ground, being some
times plain, sometimes scolloped Ike the
robe. A pale lot sac of the seme mate
rial, likewise cut out at the edges, finishes
the ‘costume,’ and gives, on the w hole, a
very jagged, dangling sort of appearance
ito thb wearer. Velours de loins, in blue
and violet shades, richly embroidered with
jet and passementerie, makes a very useful
and pretty paletot sac, which is the fashion
to have short, with real or simulated
v ic-air.ers at the hack. These costumes
aio made for home wear, of a cheap sort of
velvet called velveteen, which has come
across the channel, and our great elegantes
do not disdain to wear petticoat, skirt, and
paletot of till-t material; which'cost* little
more than a dollar a metre, and looks very
well when new, either in a gold sort of
brown or blue. Worth, the great man
millinc-r of the Rue de la Paise, lim3 made
some morning dresses sprite short in front
and aid-.?, with a long narrow trains at the
back- A few-, very few, ladies have also
begun to wear small head dresses resem
bling the turbans of the first part of the
century, and the E-npreSs’ plumes the
other night seenr an approach to that fash
ion.
; THE CORPOREAL PUNISHMENT OF GIRLS.
I Df, Morrill Wyman, of Cambridge, bas
j i'een one of the most active in denouncing
: the recent case ot girl whipping in that
I city, and bas published a pamphlet setting
. forth.the moral and physical rersons why
| corporeal punishment should not bo inflict
ed upon girls, with great clearness and
force. lie says:
Wiry should not girls bo treated as boys?
Because girls are not boys. Every parent
having children of both sexes knows that
that lirej’ have moral characteristics which
at once dislingprfjh them before they ar
rive at the scluujl age. They rq-a |'mUr
in body and more sensitive in feeling, and
are moro occupied with the impression they
make upon others long before they know
its■ value. That delicate senso of propriety
which distinguishes the woman has already
its germs in the girl. They 6cem to know
instinctively that they cannot rely upon
physical strength, and instinctively cling
to others for sipport and protection. They
are gentle, dotfile, confiding and affection
ate. They exhibit these gentler qualities at
homo and in stdrool in a thousand ways ;
they hasten to, meet their teacher as sho
approaches in |lie morning; they run by
her side, they seize her hand, and evince
their affection by kisses upon her cheeks
and roses upon her desk. .The skillful and
faithful teacher takes sdvtffftngo of these
qualities, especially of their docility, and
so moulds them that corporeal punishment
is not only unnecessary, but it ia cruelty.
Physiologically she is different, nnd to
tins I would most earnestly beg your atten
tion. Her blooJcorpuso'es are smaller, lrer
nervous system is of a more delicate struc
ture, Lev brain is lighter, and her muscles
smaller; she is made for quickness nnd vi
•vanity,-but not for strength and endurance.
Tho same lessons which prevent her from
sharing the rougher games and plays of
boys should protect her from suffering the
harsher punishment of boys. Sho is moie
sensitive to internal emotions and external
sensations ; and l assert, without fear of
! contradiction, that no physician can ho
' safely trusted to advise for the preservation
lof health *Aits restoration, who disre-
gards the distinction of
sex. Tlie - Aiost eventful period of her
physiological life is spent in schools. Du
ring ibis period there is not uofrequently
mental uneasiness, irritability and depres
sion, easily mistaken for petulance nnd de
flaneo by the unwise, and I greatly fear has
sometimes produced punishment lor that
for which sho is answerable to her God
alone.
With a rapidity of development un
kuown in the other sex, sho becomes a wo
man, with all a woman’s refined 'sensibili
ties, hopes nnd fears. Sho now instinc
tively "knows that upon the good impres
sion sho makes upon others is based her
hopes for the future. If her physical or
ganization is sensitive, her spiritual nature
is doubly sensitive, nnd it, is this which
makes her what sire is. It is vain to count
the number and weigh the severity of the
blows upon her person, and note the hours
that elapse before their marks disappear.
Her spirit is wounded, she is disgraced and
degraded ; years mav not eflhcit the conse
quences. It is this that stirs the sensibili
ties and brings down the censure gs the
greater part of tho civilized world, and
from none is that censure more severe than
from cultivated women. Strike not a wo
men, even with a feather, is Ihe rnot.to of
civilization, and it is in accordance with
tho spirit of Christianity also.
“There he goes again,” said Mrs. P,, in
the Legislature, as a member stood,up for
the fifth time to spesk on tho sumo ques
tion. ‘There he gees like a soda fountain,
and just as fluid as water. Now, Isaac,
mind him, and sec if you can’t bocomo a
speaker of the house of repreliensibles
some time. I declare,” continued she, as
anew burst of eloquence reached her ear,
“it does seem as if the mantelpiece of
Daniel Webster had fallen onto him, he is
so bright.”
“Speaking of shaving,” said a pretty
girl to an obstinate old bachelor. ‘I should
think that a pair of handsome eyes would
he the best mirror to shave by,’ ‘Yes ma
ny a poor fellow hhs been shaved by them,’
the wretch replied.
A member of the New Jersey Legisla
ture, convicted of selling his vote, has been
sentenced to imrrisonment for one year
and forever precluded from holding public
office.
A Wisconsin justice has decided that a
man is not liable for his wife’s liquor hills
It would seem that the Wisconsin women
occasionally crook their elbows.
HOW A MAN FREEZES TO DEATH. 1
M. Pouehet lately read an interesting
paper on this subject before the French
Academy of Science. The author’s iufer
onces ore as follows :
1. That tlie first phenomenon produced
by cold is the contraction of the capillary
vessels to such an extent that n globule of
blood cannot enter ; these vessels, there
fore can remain completely empty.
2. Tlie second phenomenon is an altera
tion of the blood globules, which amounts
to their complete disorganization.
3. Every animal completely frozen, is
absolutely dead, nnd no power can re ani
mate It. I
4. When only a part is frozen, that part
is destroyed by gangrene.
5. If the part frozen is not extensive,
and only a few disorganized blood globules
pass into circulation, tho animal may re
cover.
0. But, if, on the contrary, the frozen
part is of considerable extent, then the
mass of altered globules brought into the
circulation when the part is thawed, rap
idly kills the animal.
7. For this reason a half frozen animal
may live a long time if maintained in the
condition, since the altered globules do not
gel into tho circulation; but it expires
rapidly a3 the frozen part is thaw
ed.
8. In all cases of congelation, death, is
duo to tho alteration of the blood globules,
and not to any effect on the nervous sys
tom. «
8. It results from there facts that Ihe
'ess rapidly tha frozen part is thawed, the
more slowly altered globules find their
way into tho circulation, and the greater
the chances of the recovery of the ani
mal.
Something Ahout Chignons.—The
newest hair nets aro very invisible, mere
cobwebs, but wbat ia under them is not on
ly tangible but heavy. I was lately inquir
ing ahout the reasonable prices for chig
non?, and was told that n first-rate pound
er could lie made for a brune, at tho rate
of fifty francs, but that a blonde could
not bo accommodated under sixty francs,
Unft!s»,-indeed,- her chignon wus miraa of
cheveux de chffonnier (street picker.) I
was not too horror struck to further inquire
what kind of hair that implied, but I was
inwardly afraid of hearing some disclosure
connected with grizzly beards. I was re
warded for my self-command by a good
deal of techanieal information. By a
street picker’s hair is meant hair picked up
by men wbo go about at night with a lan
tern and a little iron hook at tho end of a
long stick, which they rake the loose bits i
of hair out of tl-e heaps of refuse cast ev
ery night after dark in tlie streets of M.
Ilaussetnann’s Paris. This hair, either
twisted in knots or paper, or promiscuously
hanging about, is carefully carried to some
big saucepan Jn a suburban locality, where
it is boiled, strained, and hung up to dry !
In this stale future chignons are sold to
wig-makers. ‘And thus it is, Madame,’
said my informant, ‘that the cheveux de
chiffonnier, being of plebeian origin, never
fetch a high price, whereas bair cut from
authentic dead bodies is tprite a different
article.— Cor. Herald.
A smart fellow in London lias discover
ed a way to enable ladies to wear ear-rings
without having their ears pierced. The
fastening is managed thus: The rosette
infrontof earring top is the head of ascrew,
which, by being partly withdrawn, allows
the wires to separate, and, on being screw
ed back, when adjusted, presses the wire
oil tin* lobe of the ear; in fact, the fas
tening, instead of entering the flesh, clasp
it. This ingenious invention will recom
mend itself to those who are prejudiced
against ear piercing, if they are not fear
ful the ear-ring will be unsafe thus worn.
“Darare,” said a sable orator, address
•ing his brethren, “two roads to dis world.
De one am a broad and narrow road, dat
leads to perdition; de order a narrow and
bread road dat leads to sure destruction.’
“If dat am de case,’ said a sable hearer,’
‘dis cullcred indiwiduf.l takes to de woods.’
One of our lawyers having found a purse
and returned it to the owner, a friend re
marked it might be honest and honorable,
but it was exceedingly unprofessional,
Why does a sculptor die a harder death
than any other man ? Becaueo he mak%s
faces and busts.
An amendment to the Ohio State Con
stitution has been introduced in *e legis
lature, which extends the right of suffrage
to women and removes restrictions on col
or.
VOL. L-NO. 40.
j LAKGE AND SMALL FAJ3MS.
Many largo estates will have to bo
divided into small farms. We have
assorted this before, and it is, as most
men admit, only a question of time
ior fulfillment. While we do not hes~'
itate to make declaration of an evita
ble tact, it is but fair to quality what
might othei wise seem too general a&
opinion. Tho division ot large estates
will not, of nocoseity, compel planters
to turn market gardeners. On the
contrary, we believe that planting on
a large scale will and ought to be pui'-
| sued by those who can afford it;—
Numbors, possessed of tho requisite
moans ahd ability, will thus cultivate
broad acres, but not in tho same pro
fusion as of yore. Superior energy
and talent must accumulate landed
property, just as the same qualifica
tions gather merchandise or gold.
; But tho number of IhcSe groat pro-*
| prietors cannot bo so formidable as
| under tho slave system. Labor-saving
! machines, such as steam or buggy
ploughs, reapers, threshers, etc*, ren
der immenso estates still possible. 16
is well that they should not be wholly
am.ibilaled, for there are no betted
schools for enlarged ideas of state
craft or private enterprise. Admin-*
istrutivo ability of a high order is
requisite. The common slang abont
“keeping a hotol,” as evidencing pe-»
culiar traits of governing, apply with
tenfold force to the management of a •
fine estate. M uch of their eminence
as tho breeders of statesmen or politi
cians has sprung from these habits of
the Southern people, nursed from the
cradle to uso authority and engineer
vast systems of labor. It is objected
to the division oi large plantations
that this eminence may be surrender
ed. We think not. There will be#
.sufficiency of plantations to ereate.a
superabundance of statesmen, and it
may bo matter for congratulation that
tho supply is necessarily limited.—
, Thus, too, there may be just aa mtteh
; ioree of character necessary to regu
late matters on a modesl isrtn. #•
feel assured that poverty will compel
the groat body of Southern youth to
manifest the noble qualities of cour
age, fortitude, patience and industry
which, running in a diffbront grove*
made them splendid .gentlemen and
incomparable heroes. The South has
much to loam, and she knows it. £x
perienco may bo a fool’s teacher, hot
it frequently transforms folly into wis
dom.— Constitutionalist.
Rules for Measurement.— The fbl*
lowing rules for measuring oorn and
liquids will be very useful to many of
our readers i- "
Ist. Shucked Corn.—Measure ilea
longktk, width, and depth of the erib
infect; multiply thoso three dimen*
sions together and their product by
eight; then cut off two figures to the
right; those on the left will be so ma»
ny barrols; and those on the right so
many hundredths of a barrel.
2d. Ui.shuckod Corn —Multiply afi
in rule first in the above example, and
tho product obtained by five and two
thirds; then cut off-two figures on the
right, thoso on the left will be barrels,
thoso on tbo right so many hundredths
of a barrel.
For grain, fruit, herbs, in borne or
box, find tire length, breadth and
depth, multiply these together; then
ajir.ex two ciphers and divide the pro
duct by 124. Answer in bushels, pecks
and quarts.
3d. Liquid—Find the longlh in inch
es from the bung, the under edge of
the head or chine; multiply it into
itself twice and products by 270.
Answer in gallons, quarts, pints, and
gills.
Measuro 209 feet on each Bide and
you have lacking an inch, one square
aero.
An Indiana sojdier during the war
was discharged for “disability.’ His
wife recently gave birth to three chil
dren.
“How docs that look ?’ said Mr, Cramp,
holding out his brawny band. .That,’
skid Amos, ‘looks as though you were out
of soap.’
A hi iefleas young lawyer thinks that
any young lady who possesses a thousand
acres of land lias sufficient ground for nn
‘attachment.’