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HEALTH DEPARTMENT. By Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. 1)., Atlanta Ga. Transmission of Disease—Illustra tive Cases-Relation to Mar riage. Transmission from parents to children.—The transmission of intellectual, moral and bodily peculiarities from parents to children is one ot the most important and beat established facts in Physiology. This great truth may be read in the face of almost every child we meet, being plainly written in those features that constitute family resemblances; and is scarcely less legi ble in the inherited mental and moral charac teristics of children. The offspring partakes of the nature of both parents. Sometimes L the traits, of the one parent predominating, and sometimes those of the other, by the operation of some mysterious law which makes a stronger impress of the one than of the other. But, whichever, may be the stronger impres- sion{originally,the mother has the greater mod- i/ying power in the development, because the life of the child is bound up with hers prior to its birth, the blood of the two being comming led up to this event And even after birth, when the child has to some extent, an indepen dent existence, it is nourished by the milk of the mother—a secretion much influenced as to quantity and quality by her mental and bodily condition, and which, of course, must exert a great and corresponding influence over the infant thus nourished Here, let us notice a fact of vast importance, which is just now beginning to be duly con sidered and appreciated, even by physiologists, and which is but little known or regarded by those most interested, who have never investi gated such subjects. It is only of late years, that the great truth has been developed and enforced, that the transmitting and modifying power of parents embraces not only the original or congenital qualities and peculiarities of fath ers and mothers, but extends also to those states or conditions resulting from indulgence in bad habits. Or, in other words, that the acquired, as well as the congenital peculiarities of parents are transmissible to ohildren. This being true, bow can mothers expect to be blessed with intelligent healthy children when the brains of these mothers are stupefied, and their nerves shattered by tobacco, opium, tea, coffee, depressing passions, over excitement and the numberless health distroying influences to which most of the women of this age are sub jected—willingly and ignorantly in many cases, but, in some, by the stern conditions of their lot in life ? What expectations can fathers have in this respect, when to similar influences is super-added the raging fever of alcoholic drinks. The law has gone forth, and cannot be chang ed or suspended, that parents who thus violate the laws of health will not only suffer the pen alty in their own persons, but that their iniqui ties will be visited upon 'the children unto the third and fourth generation.’ In many cases the poison transmitted is so virulent that the progeny becomes extinct be fore reaching the fourth generation; and hence this may be regarded as the extreme limit. But, when actual, open disease is not trans mitted, parents who have impaired their health, often transmit to their children a hidden weak ness, a constitutional proneness to disease, which makes the unfortunate child subject to attacks from trivial causes, and diminishes its powers of resistance when attacked so that it falls a victim to diseases which might hayg Keep escaped entirely, or passed through safely, fad it inherited a good constitution. Casts of Transmission.—These may be seen all around us; but the following case of two noble ladies is from Haller: He tells ns that these ladies, like too many others, had more regard to wealth than anything else in making a matrimonial alliance, marrying men who were nearly idiots; and from whom this mental defect has extended for a century into several families, so that some of all their de scendants still continue idiots in the fourth, and even in the fifth generation.’ Another illustration of inherited moral char acter is that of the imperial Claudian family which long flourished at Home, unrelenting, cruel and despotic; it produced the merciless and detestible tyrant, Tiberius, and at length ended after a course of six hundred years in the bloody Caligula, Claudius, and Aggrippioa and then in the monster, Nero.’ Examples equally striking might be adduced from the family his tories of every reigning house in Europe.* But why multiply evidences of i truth which is manifest and admitted by a)! ? Xot considered in Jlarriage.-It be ing true then, that the mental, moral and physical character of the child depends so much on the parents, is it not strange that this is so little re garded in matrimonial alliances ? When we de sire good fruit, we carefully select good seed. •We do not expect grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles.’ "When a plant or flower is to be culti vated, we not only seek good seed, but we in form ourselves as to its natural habits, best mode of tillage, and all the circumstances most favor able to its growth. When we desire a good horse we examine carefully info the qualities of his progenitors; and in horses, ‘purity of race,’ is prized above all other considerations; and so entire is the dependence placed upon the transmission of qualities by hereditary descent that the genealogy of the race-horse, of the hun ter, and even the farm horse is looked on as a sure criterion of the properties which may be expected in their progeny.’ The same thing is true in all the lower animals. In ail ‘we calcu late, with perfect certainty on the reappearance of the qualities of the parents in their young.’ And yet, in the face of all these facts, matrimoni al connexions are formed without one moment’s thought beiDg given to them. But, no false modesty should restrain us from communicat ing tho vitally important truth, that man in his physical organization is subject to precisely the same laws which govern the lower animals. ’Men are but grown up children,’ it has been said. And it is even more true that man is only an animal in his physical structure, and in tho laws which govern that structure, whatever we may say of his mental and moral superiority. ret Paragraphs. One day yon will be pleased with a friend, and the next day disappointed in him. It will be so to the end, and yon must make up your mind to it, and not quarrel, unless for very grave causes, for neither of you is perfeet. He that keeps himself to the measure ot a just judgment, he that holds himself at that place which Lis capacities fit him for, he that forms a mod eiate estimate of his importance, he that takes a place lower than that for which he is qualified, will be continually invited to go higher. There is one statement of faith made by Charles Kingsley which receives most cordial re sponses from many men who legard ordinary creeds with indifference: ‘Of all good things that can befall a man in this world, the best is that he should fall in love with a good woman. Little acts, like flakes of snow that fall unper ceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimpor tant events of life, succeed one onother. As the snow gathers together, so are habits formed. No single flake that ia added to the pile pro- ducea a sensible change; no single action creates, I however it may exhibit, a man's character. A pig at Sunny Point, Texas, not long ago killed two negro ohildren, an infant and a little boy of two, eating off the bead of the former and a leg and an arm of the latter. Nashville, July 15.—Robert M. Lowe, a white man, was shot and killed by Calvin Andersou, colored, near Bellbuckle, this morning, while Lowe and fifteen others, in disguise, were en gaged in breaking down his door. The hogs of a Georgia farmer being troubled with fleas, their owner was told to anoint them with lard and tar. He had no lard but tried tar. For several days his hogs failed to come up. and he concluded to look for them. He found them in a bed in the woods, all stuck together like damp postage stamps. A parrot was sent over the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy railroad the other day. The cage, enclosed in paper, was put on a coffin and was soon forgotten. As the train men were pas sing through the car they heard a sepnlchral voice issuing from the coffin, crying: ‘Lemrne ont!' They were startled and thought a dead man had come to life until the bird waa discov ered. The very hot weather lately, has been unusu ally fatal. In St. Lonis on Monday, there were a hundred and forty odd cases—embracing men, women and children. Between forty and fifty cases proved fatal. Extra foroe had to be en gaged at the dispensary,and all weretaxed to their utmost Chicago, Little Rock, Nashville, Whee ling, Quinoy, 111., and other cities had fatal at tacks. Some boys hunting for fish bait on a meadow at Glen Cove, L. I., a day or two ago, discov ered an immense den of snakes. The meadow is perforated with holes over the extent of about an aore, and from each of these holes protrud ed the heads of three or four of the reptiles, which Ikept up a lively hissing at the intruders on their domain, while from tufts of grass nu merous other heads were seen. They were of the species known as black snakes. The boys killed about twenty, aDd reported that hun dreds escaped into their holes. A grand snake bunt is talked of. In Cincinnatti, a very strange thing has occur red. Last week a man and his wife, Lavelle, by name, proprietors of a restaurant, were strick en suddenly dumb. The wife first, and most violently, for the husband has since partially recovered the use of his tongue. The symptoms were peculiar. There was no acute pain, ap parently, but the eyes are inflamed, the tongue swollen and covered with a thick, black coating. Mr. Lavelle was sitting down writing a letter to a friend and describing his wife's strange affeo- tion when he was suddenly seized in the same way himself. A few days ago three boys, aged respectively eighteen, sixteen and twelve, slipped into the house of Mr. Sterling Jenkins, who lives on the Talbotton road, and stole a watch and some oth er valuables. Mr. Jenkins tracked and overtook them in Hamilton. He recovered his property but did not desire to put the rascals iE jail, so he told them that if they would whip eaofi other he would not prosecute them. This they agreed to do. They were taken out, stripped to the waist and provided with stout hickory switches. One was tied to a tree and the others laid on their backs lustily with the switches, until Mr. Jen kins expressed himself satisfied. The ceremo ny was gone through with each one. They were then dispersed with smarting backs and peni tent hearts. They said that their mother work ed in the mills here and that father was dead. Humor ‘Mother,’ said a little five year old, ‘have you heard that Uncle John got shot yesterday?’ ‘Why, no ! Dear me ! How did he get shot ?’ ‘Oh, he bought ’em.’ It is not the man who has the most money who is the happiest; that theory has been explod ed long ago. No! The fellow who smiles the oftenest, looks the jolliest, and eats the biggest dinners, is the man who has no aches and pains, never had corns, and who has a boy old enough to get up and make the fire of mornings. A lady with a fatal sqnint came once to a fash ionable artist for her portrait. He looked at her and she looked at him, and both were embar- ressed. He spoke first. ‘Would your ladyship permit me,’ he said, ‘to take the portrait in pro file? There is a certain shyness about one of your ladyship's eyes which is as difficult in art as it is fascinating in nature.' An opulent farmer applied to an attorney about a lawsuit, but was told he could not un dertake it, being already engaged on the other side. At the same time he gave him a letter of recommendation to a professional friend. The farmer, out of curiosity, opened it, and read as follows: ‘Here are two fat wethers fallen out together. If you’ll fleece one, I’ll fleece the other. And make ’em agree like brother and brother.’ I found my love at the garden gate, Jnst where I expected to find her, And I also found, too awful late, That her father was right behind her. Miss Mollie Perkinson fell into a mill pond whilst fishing, Her father jumped in to rescue her. Both would have been drowned bnt for the heroism of Miss Lavinia Kreth, who rushed into the water up to her waist and extended a paddle, rescuing them; so says the Raleigh Net os. Hold on there, Biddy ! Save the slops. Don’t squander wealth. A down-east Yankee firm is now making all kinds of jewelry out of sour milk, and every family able to keep a goat will soon have a ohance to put on more airs and gew gaws than a oity beau at a rustic picnic. It is a peaceful refreshing sight to see a female negligently reclining against the softly cushion ed seats of her fashionable landau, smiling sweetly to her friends as she passes them on the avenue, while her placid face is shaded by a car dinal silk parasol. More peaceful far than to think of her crossing a five-acre lot on foot with that wild sunshade oscillating in the air and an inquisitive bovine following her in hot pursuit. —George Eliot. THE MEN. The Earl of Enniskillen is stone blind, and the tallest man in roe House of Lords, measur ing six feet seven inches. He possesses one of the finest collections of coins in the United Kingdom, and in spite of his sad affliction, takes great interest in numismatics. His daughters are also exceedingly tall, being over six feet; yet very handsome, and fine horsewomen. Governor for life.—We heard a prominent South Carolian say the other day that, while he did not agree with Governor Hampton in many things, he did believe it would pay the State handsomely to have him a life-long governor at the rate of $10,000 per annum. Hampton has a great national reputation, he is universally lov ed, and is the embodiment of personal honor and politioal harmony.—Herald. An enthusiastic gentleman who writes to the New York Sun over the signature of "Mononga- hela,” Bays that he used to be in favor of Thur man for president, but that now he is tooth and toenail for Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Colonel James Casey, Grant’s brother-in-law, says that Grant will go into convention two years hence with every southern state solidly for him, and Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin already assured. Casey thinks that there will be only one ballot and no opposition. Miss P. W. Sudlow, for many yoars superin tendent of the Davenport Schools, has accept ed the chair of Euglish literature in the Iowa State University. Salary, seventeen hundred dollars a year; just the sum that was paid to her predecessor. There was no cut in her oase be cause she is a woman. Lydia Thompson off the Stage. The moment Lydia Thompson leaves the stage she becomes a rather dull, commonplace little English woman. The wit that sparkles before the footlights vanishes. She knows nothing outside ot her business; anything that tends in a different direction has no charm for her. In stead of going home for a night of carousing, she retires quietly to her hotel with her hus band, eats a chop and drinks a glass of porter, -J.L, J 0 :a livvcr sees raea. -A per son who knew h^r intimately for a number of years told me that never but once in that time did she have a man home to supper, and that was a newspaper man out West, invited by her husband, Mr. Henderson. Miss Thompson, in stead of being the reckless, prodigal oreature, people believe her to be, is thrifty and econom ical, and often selfish. She likes a big dinner, more than a good dinner, and if she indulges in a bottle of champagne she economizes in something else. She always pays her bills, and keeps her word. ‘What would she have been if she hadn’t been an actress ?’ I asktd one who knew her well. ‘A bar-maid; only I hardly think that she would have had repartee enough for that,’ was the reply. ‘ Was she at all fast?’ I inquired. ‘Not a bit; she cared for no man but her husband, and she made him a good wife -better, indeed, than he deserved.’ And that is the siren whom the preachers prayed against! While I say a good word here for Lydia herself, I will not attempt to deny the pernicious effect of her company upon the morals of young America.—Letter in Boston Gazette. A Great Artist. -Strolling recently along the streets of your beautiful city, chance led us into { the studio ot Mr. Albert Guerry, the artist. Af ter a shock of surprise from the sudden ap- . parition of a galaxy of magnificent portraits The perusal ot tins epistle cured both parties j that met our aaze, we felt into a halt critical and and terminated the dispute. Must We Give Ur- the Bird ? George W. Peck, in his Fourth of J uly oration at La Crosse, said: ‘It may huve been noticed that thus far I huve made no illusion to the American eagle, the national trade-mark, pa tent applied for, but it is not that I do not ap preciate the position that species of poultry oc cupies on these occasions. The poet alluding to the eagle says: ‘Bird of the broad anil fleeting wing, Thy home is high In heaven.’ This is too true. H# is a high old bird, and the committee that selected the eagle as a na tional emblem, should have been arrested for disorderly conduct. Oh great bird! You live on mice. You soar aloft on pinions airy, until you see a poor little monse with one leg broke, and then you swoop down like a ward constable and run him in. You are a nice old bird for a trade-mark, for a nation of heroes, you old cow ard. You sit on a rock and watch a peasant wo- woman hanging out clothes, and when she goes in the house to turn the clothes wring, you great bird, emblem of freedom, you represen tative of the land of the free and the home of the brave, you swo->p down on the plantation and crush your t.dons in the quivering flesh of her little baby, take him to your home high in the heaven, an.d pick his innocent little eyes out. The bird that should have been selected as the emblem of our country, the bird of pa tience, forbearance, perseverance, and the bird of terror when aroused, is the mule. There is no bird that combines more virtues to the square foot than the mule. With the mule emblazoned on our banners, we should he a terror to the foe. We are a nation of uncomplaining hard workers. We mean to do the fair thing by everybody. We plod along, doing as we would be done by. So does tue mule. We as a nation are slow to anger. So is the male. As a nation we occasionally stick our ears forward and fan flies off our forehead. So does the male. We allow parties to get on and ride as long as they behave themselves. So does the male. Bat when any nation sticks spare into oar flauks and tickles our heels with a straw, we come down stiff-legged in front, our ears look to the beautiful beyond, our voice is cut loose, and is still for war. and our subsequent end plays the snare dram on anything that gsta in reach of ns, and strikes terror to the hearts of all tyrants. So doss the male. half wondering mood of thought. Here, said we, to ourself, in the desolated, depreciated South, by a native artist, once more, are to be seen and studied, works of the highest order of artistic genius. Why had we not heard of them before? Are our people waiting for some gen erous critic from the North to come and tell them that these are admirable paintings and worthy of their pride ? Or do the people know that they have a great native artist among them ? If we had stumbled into the studio of Albert Darer, instead of that of Albert Guerry, we could not have been, even as much surprised, for we see excellences here, that that renowned painter had no conception of. Why, here, in a little up stairs, ont of the way room, in the remote capi- tol of a Southern State, is a collection of paint ings, the production of a Southern man, yet young and comparatively unknown, which arc worthy of the study of the best critics of the age, and of the admiration of any civilization. Would you study what artists call nature, grace, beauty, character, coloring and expression ? Would you understand the permanent, general principles of visible objects as they affect the eye of a true artist—the harmony which consti tutes the beauty of the human face and form— the artless balance of motion and repose, which is grace, and the quiet simplicity, contrasted with brilliancy,the artistic effect of true coloring, observe the splendid portraits of Gordon, Cobb, Loohraue, Mrs. Keeiey and others, which now adorn this studio. We learned with great pleasure that the A. M. L. Association hud had tue taste, and liberality to employ the genius of such an artist to deco rate and ennoble their hail with the portraits of Cobb, Gordon, Loohrane, Brown, and other great men, both living and dead, of Georgia. And when those picture are hung in the Library Hall, they will becoms a oentre of attraction and education, of which the entire State will he j ustly proud. L. All communications relating to this department of the paper ahonld be addressed to A. F. Warm, Atlanta,Qs. Chess Headquarters- Young Men’s Library Associa tion, Marietta street. Original games and problems are cordially solicited for this column. We hope oar Southern friends will re spond. Correct solution to problem No. 59 by “Fersmorz" and Problem D. Solver. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 59. 1. Q K. PROBLEM NO. Cl. By Problem D. Solver sud Mr. Mandeville. black. Mandeville. white. Problem D. Solver. White to play and give mate in two moves. End game between Mr. Mandeville and Problem D. Solver, the latter announces mate in two moves. CHESS Between Mr. of Connecticut. BY CORRESPONDENCE. Shields, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Hunt, (King's Gambit.) Shields Hunt Shields Hunt White Black White Black 1. PK4 P K 4 19. B B 1 RXR 2.PKB4 PXP 20. KXR QB+ 3. Kt B 3 P K Kt 4 21. BBS Kt B 3 4. PB4 P Kt 5 92. QXP KK 5. Kt K 5 B Kt 2 23. ^ B 2 Kt K4 6. P Q 4 P Q 4 24. Kt Q 2 Kt Q 6 T. KtxP PXP Q Q 4+ Kt K 4 8. BXP BxKt ? 26. B K P B 4 9. QXK K Kt K Bt 27. QQ5 , Q B3 10. Q Q (a) Kt Q 4 (b) 28. OxEP R K 3 11. QKt4 BXW P 29. Kt B 4 P Kt 3 12. PQB3 B B3 30. Q Q 4 KtxB 13. B Kt 5 BXB 31. RXR KtxQ+ 14. PXB PK 6 32. RXV KXR 15. P Kt 6 ! I (c) B PXP 33. PxKt K K 3 16. QK6+ K B 34. K K 2 K0 4 17. B B 4 K Kt 2 35. K Q 3 and wins. 18. BxKt (d) RB (a) Here we prefer QXB if R Kt ; 11. BXB P, Q K 2 ; 12. Q R 6. (b) Very Blow for a correspondence game. (c) A beautiful move which should win the partle. (d) Black Bhould now resign, as his game is beyond recovery. (Continued.) (Scotch Gambit.) D. 12. Kt Q 2 B Q R 3 13. K R K B Q Kt 5 14. PBS K K K 15. Kt K B 8 RXR-t- 16. KtxR BQl 4 17. B K 3 B O Kt 3 18. RtJ R K II. 10. Kt Q B 3 B K B 4 n. tixti+ BXU 12. Cas fas 13. K R K B Q Kt 5 . 14. B K B 4 BxO, tjl 16. PXB K K li ” (To be continued.) CHESS INTELLIGENCE. The Association Problem Turney.—First prize, S. Loyd; second prize, W. A. Skiukman; third prize. Dr. C. C. Moore; fourth prize, to set “ Che Sara;” fifth prize, X. Hawkins. Mr. Loyd also takes prize for best single problem of the tnrney. The Georgia Draughts Association,-The annual meet ing will be held in Athens first week of August. The championship and several prizes will be contested for. Drangbt players throughout the State are invited to at tend. Entrance fee, $2 For information, address A. F. Warm, Atlanta, (la. Paris Chess Congress —Mason of New York has won four and lost eight. Winawer of Prussia is ahead, win ning every game he has played. Our problem this week merits attention—a beautiful finish that is rarely seen in actual play. In view of a general reduction having been made in the various branches of business, as well as in the cost of liv ing and in the price of labor of almost every conceivable enterprise, we have concluded to make public a corres ponding reduction, from former prices, in the following operations in our own business: GOLD FILLINGS, that have here tofore been made at $5.00, will be re duced to $2-50; those formerly $3.00, to $1.50, and those at $2.00, to ONE DOLLAR. We can say that fully eight out of ten of all fillings made, CAN BE DONE OF GOLD for this amount —the work being as good in all respects as if we received five dollars per filling; thus you see these teeth may be saved for the amount or dinarily charged for extracting them. We are now making sets of teeth, using the best makes of artificial teeth, for from $5 to $10. - We have recently perfected a plate material which we think is far supe rior to anything that has yet been given to the public, and which, when used, will he found the great want sup plied. We REFIT poorly constructed and badly fitting sets of teeth, so that they are comfortable and serviceable, for a very small amount. Such persons as may doubt really good operations can he done at the figures we state, (and there are parties who, hoping to receive twice or three times our charges for the same work, will help them to doubt) we par ticularly ask to give us a trial. We have some reputation as a Dentist, and have made it by doing good work at as low figures as is consistent with thor oughness. Among our patrons we have such men and their families as Mr. Sam’l Inman, Maj. Campbell Wallace, Prof. William Henry Peck, Dr. J. M. Johnson, Hon. B. H. Hill, Dr. A. W. Calhoun, Rev. J. H. Martin, and hosts of others to whom we can refer. Persons not living in the city, de siring to avail themselves of our ser vices, should write us and make en gagements some days before coming, or immediately upon arriving here ; . otherwise they may be disappointed, as we woik altogether by ap pointment- Having office and residence connect ed one with the other, we can offer the comforts and security of home to those visiting or employing us. WM. CRENSHAW, Dentist. Office and Residence: 24 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA. GA. "mo n 4i-E4. : U? I L , !. , ? A LTi: the liver MUSiT ltL KtPT I It ORIJUIt. DR - - DYKES* BEARD EUXIR it. tiu'l wiil do it ou the smoothes* face. 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I would say to you, gentlemen, that I have in store a full supply of Egyptian Balm, which i- a sure and effective corpse preserver. Anybody can administer it. and it makeB the use of Ice useless. One botile of Egyptian Balm does more towards preserving a corpse than any amount of Ice you may be able to procure; keeps it life-like and natural, to which hundreds of our own citizens can tea tify. Call on me before the corpse becomes rigid, or as soon as death lias taken place, and I will guarantee to keep the corpse Tor any length of time you wish. Refer ences given from first families in the city. Office and ware-rooms. No. 26 West Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. METALLIC AND WOODEN BURIAL CASES, of any style and size constantly on band. FKAiVK X. BLILEY, Undertaker. 124-ly The French tramp resembles his English oousio. Met with the response that there was nothing for him to do, he answered, 'On, Mad me, if you only knew how little work would occupy me. 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