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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.’