The Middle Georgia argus. (Indian Springs, Ga.) 18??-1893, April 07, 1881, Image 1
W. F. SMITH, Pablisher.
VOLUME VIII.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
The grain trade of New Orleans is
aleadily increasing.
There are 368 preachers in the North
Alabama Conference.
A lame beggar of New York makes on
an average about $1,140 ayer.
John Sherman is worth $1,500,000,
mostly Washington real estate.
An oleomargarine manufactory has
been established at New Orleans.
The artesian well in Corsicana, Texas,
has reached the depth of 910 feet.
Four North Carolina papers note an
increase of crop mortgages in their sev
eral localities.
The farmers of Alabama and Georgia
have sowed oats this season more gen
erally than ever before.
Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, condemns
as a sin the practice of swearing Roman
Catholic witnesses on a Protestant Bible.
In the Arkansas House of Representa
tives there are twenty-four natives of
Tennessee and twenty-three natives of
Arkansas.
The State Agricultural Department of
North Carolina has been experimenting
in the cultivation of jute with the most
satisfactory results.
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Ma
con, four Georgia cities, have an aggre
gate population of 100,860, and an ag
gregate indebtedness of $8,387,000.
The firat cotton factory built in South
Carolina was one erected in Sumter
county by Mr. Durant. It was driven
foj horse-power, but was* not a success.
The Knoxville Tribune says that there
are numbers of faring in Tennessee upon
which the fences amount to fifty per
cent, of the value of the property.
It is that during the period
1870-75 or,e-fifth of the entire area of the
State of Mississippi has been forfoitcd
for unpaid taxes—6,soo,ooo acres, 10,000
square miles.
The English government intends stop
ping the rum ration to naval officers and
to boys up to twenty. Chocolate will
be substituted. The glory of the English
navy may now depart.
Rabbi feonneschein, of St. Louis, advo
cates a union of Jews and Unitarians.
He says there is not‘the slightest differ
ence in character, standing, human
worth or dignity between Jew and Chris
tian.
“Kordig Essence” is the name of a
newly-disc,overed mineral essence which
produce's light without heat. One can
plunge, his hand or head in the burning
liqui'l and have no unpleasant sensa
tion is.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman: A fierce
dog ran after Emma Grutzrier, a bright
little eleven-year-old girl of San Antonio,
and when the brute reached the horror
*tricken child, she fell lifeless to the
earth. She was absolutely frightened to
death.
The County Commissioners of Bullock
•county, Ala., after six years of econmi
-cal management, have paid over $30,000
which the county owed, and retire from
office leaving a cash balance in the
treasury.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
the joint committee of the South and
North Alabama Conference will meet in
Birmingham to consider the establish
ment of a Methodist paper, to be the
bigan of that denomination in Alabama.
The Covington (Ga.) Enterprise says
it is beyond doubt that a coal mine has
been discovered within six miles of Cov
ington, and not more than three miles
from the Georgia railroad. The samples
of coal are said to be equal to that of the
Coal Creek.
||The latest novelty in spiritualism* ia
tbe production of ghostly lights in dark
seances. The luminous shapes are crostias,
circles, triangles, and other emblems,
and they float mysteriously over the
heads of the spectators. A Boston me
dium is the producer.
Spencer F. Baird intends to offer to
the Atlanta Exposition the use of the
celebrated and wonderful exhibit of cot
ton fibre and fabrics made by the Chi
nese empire at the Centennial, and sub
sequently acquired by the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
Richmond State: The corn crop in
irginia last fall was unusually large,
while the W estern corn erop showed a
decided falling ofl. It is generally the
C * Be that grain-producing Illinois can
place corn in this market at a much
wer figure than Virginia c*n, but this
year it is just the other way.
Atlanta Constitution : The telephone
Dlttittle (ficorgm
Devoted to Mistrial Interest the Diffusion of Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
is in complete working condition from
Gainesville to Auraria, nineteen miles;
Dahlonega, six miles, and Dawsonville,
sixteen miles—forty miles in all. The
hearing and recognition of voice over
the whole line is as clear and distinct as
if only a short distance away.
An Oneida Indian, who is an ordained
c l er gyman, preached in New York Sun
day, and in the course of his sermon
quaintly rebuked the sin of profanity.
He said he was thankful that “the
Creator did not give the Indian enough
language to allow him to be profane
without first learning English.”
Speaking in the West Virginia House
of Delegates Wednesday, on the dog bill,
Mr. Lowry presented a table sent him
by Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the
Census, showing the number of sheep
killed by dogs in West Virginia in 1879,
and the total number is 10,209. The bill
was passed. Yeas, sixty; nays, three.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Lane’s
North Carolina brigade, during the cam
paign of 1863, lost in killed, wounded
and missing 1,640 men. In the campaign
beyond the Potomac the brigade num
bered but 1,355 men. It lost 731 men.
This tells the story. There were few
such brigades in the army of Northern
Virginia.
About 800 laborers are employed in
the rolling mill, furnaces and foundries
of Birmingham, Ala.; about 400 in the
coal mines of Coketon, six miles distant,
and about 100 at Oxmoor, also six miles
distant. The country around Birming
ham is said to produce more corn, cotton,
wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre,
than the cane-brake.
Mrs. Schneider, of St. Charles, Mo.,
slapped her twelve-year-old son Willie
because he was naughty, and when Mr.
Schneider came home to dinner he
whipped Willie. Willie then went to
the barn crying. When they found him
an hour or two later he was hanging
dead, suspended by a leather strap from
a beam in the hay loft.
The Atlanta Constitution: The rail
ioads leading south from the Ohio river
are blocked with corn, pork, weat, hay
and other articles destined for Southern
consumption, all of which should have
been produced in the South itself. The
very fact of the blockade is a sad com*
mentary upon the agricultural enterprise
of the South. The railroads cannot sup
ply us with articles that our owh soil
would gladly produce if it was tackled
with the plow and the hoe.
Chattanooga Times : The project for
anew railroad to the top of Lookout is
succinctly this: A horse track to the
foot; go up on an incline to the point by
stationary-engine power, taking car,
horses and all; then a horse road back
from the point to say near Chickamauga
bluff, which has many advantages over
the point as a hotel site, being well
watered and having a large tract of fine
surface in the vicinity. The matter is
in the hands of live, energetic men of
means.
The proposed prohibition amendment
to the State constitution of Texas reads
as follows: The importation into and
the manufacture or sale within this State
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is
prohibited; provided, that the Legisla
ture may exempt beer and native wines,
unmixed with alcoholic liquors, from
the provision of this section, and the
Legislature shall at the first session after
the adoption of this amendment enact
laws to carry out the provisions hereof.
The President of the New Orleans
Board of Health says that part of the
sickness and mortality in the rear of the
city must be referred to the cultivation
of rice, and that the Legislature of Lou
isiana, the Board of Health and tne City
Council of New Orleans should consider
the subject of rice culture in its relations
to the health of the city of New Orleans;
and such ordinances should be considered
and passed as will protect the inhabi
tants from the effects of the destructive
emanations of rice fields.
The condition of the levees on the Lou
isiana side of the Mississippi river from
the Arkansas line, down as far as Pensas
parish, is reported precarious. At Al
satia the caving has cut out the apex
of the triangle made by the levee, but
the fall of the water prevents immediate
further damage. At Millikin’s Bend
the caving has cut to the top of the
levee for three-eights of a mile, and in
three places has cut the levee half in
two. The town of Millikin’s Bend is in
the active process of removal. A large
force is throwing up a second levee.
Americus (Ga.) Republican: The mem
bers of Georgia in the United States
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
Congress of 1843, were: Senators, John
McPherson, Berrien and Walter T. Col
quitt ; Representatives, Edward J. Blacfc*
Hugh A. Harrison, John H. Lumpkin,
Howell Cobb, Wm. H. Stiles, Absalom
H. Chappell and Alexander H. Stephens.
Of all that delegation, Mr. Stephens,
physically the frailest and who never
had a well day, is the only one living
now. Who would have not have picked
him out then as the first, and not the
last, victim to the insatiate archer s ar
row.
In a discussion of the divorce laws of
Massachusetts before a legislative com
mittee, Charles Cowley, of Lowell, men
tioned that “a Judge of the Supericr
Court of New York, often serving on the
Supreme Bench, had gone abroad to
marry when it would have been criminal
to do sounder the New York laws, and
had then returned. An adulterer was
now wearing the judicial ermine in New
York, and passing on divorce suits.”
Alfred E. Giles argued in behalf of men
marrying as many women as they loved,
and declared monogomy to be the source
of the worst evils.”
A New York detective declares that
physiognomies of criminals do not usually
betray their occupation. To a Sun re
porter he said : “Look over the 1,600
pictures in the Rogues’ Gallery, and you
will see that there are types of some of
the most prominent and unquestionably
honest men in the United States. It
would be unpleasant to name these un
fortunate resemblances. Begging your
pardon, I could show you the picture of
a well-known pickpocket which might
be taken for a poor likeness of yourself.
Begging their pardon, I could show two
of our police Captains their counterparty
.n the gallery.”
The Tyranny of Buttons.
Among all the nnsaii fui
woman’s natural inferiority to man the
only one having real force has never
been formulated; this is her meek and
unquestioning submission to buttons.
The buttons of the male habiliments
are always coming off—notably before
breakfast, when the average husband is
about as amiable as a bear with a sore
head. At this time, if he finds a button
loose, he gives it a “yank,” and then
looks about helplessly for his victim—
the first woman coming into his field of
vision. He holds the button up before
her, says it has “come” off, and she is
expected to sew it on straightway. Gen
erally the Victim is his wife; and, though
the baby may be crying, and the break
fast preparations in need of supervision,
while the tyrant himself has nothing on
earth to do but make his toilet, and has,
moreover, sewing materials right before
him on the bureau or dressing-table,
he never rises to the conception of his
possible competence to supply bis own
wants. Woman, in his eyes, is the pre
ordained supervisor of buttons ; and a
delicate consideration for her rights and
prerogatives is his motive for relegating
the task to her ; at least this is the way
he apologizes, when in a playful mood,
for his lack of deftnesß with the needle,
which, as a rule, is wholly the fault of
the women who had charge of his boy
hood. They should have taught him to
noplace the buttons he is forever wrench
ing off with his rude fingering. One or
two lessons about the time the boy be
gins to go to school, a little work-box
placed in his room, containing needles,
thread, two or three kinds of buttons
and an open-top thimble—the only kind
that ever should be worn—and the prob
lem is solved for a l: feiim6; for whatever
one is accustomed to do from childhood
one does easily and dexterously. Wom
en have shown their capacity for accom
plishments and attainments supposed to
be exclusively masculine. It is time for
a corresponding display of ambition and
adaptability on the part of men ; and
they cannot make a better beginning
than by learning to sew on their own
buttons.
Unde Mose Tams Ore? a New Leaf.
A neighbor, with a coffee-cup in her
hand, called in on Uncle Mose, remark
ing : “Unele Mose, I wants to borjy a
cup ob parched Coffee from you for
breakfas’ till to-morrer.”
“Go right to de box on de shef and
hep yersef.”
The neighbor did as requested, but
discovered the box to be as empty as
the head of a Legislator.
“ Uncle Mose, dar’s no parched coffee
in dis heah box.”
“Does yer know why dar ain’t no
coffee in dat ar box ? ”
“ No, doesn’t know nuffin’ abont it.”
“ Dar ain’t no coffee in dat ar box,”
said the old man, solemnly, “ bekase dat
ar am de returned coffee-box. Ef yer
had brang back all de coffee yer bor
rowed last year hit would be plum full.”
—Galveston News.
Conversation between two schoo
boys: First boy—“l have been down
to have my head felt of by a phrenolo
gist ” Second boy—“ What did he say?”
First boy—“Oh, he said I had a great
brain, but my body wasn’t equal to it,
and he told my Guv’nor hed orter take
me out o’ school for a year, and just let
me play to rest and develop my physique,
and Guv’nor s going to do it * Second
boy is now pestering his father to take
him to the phrenologist’s.
Cigarettes.
A few years ago cigarettes in their
present form were unknown. Cigarettes,
so-called, were of Spanish make, so
loosely rolled that they required reroll
ing by resident smokers. Then was in
vogue, and is now to a less extent, the
practice of making one’s own cigarettes.
Properly shaped and sized papers were
furnished, in which Turkish tobacco was
rolled by the ostentatious young smoker.
Then sprang up manufactories of cigar
ettes already rolled and prepared for the
smoker. Th/a increase in manufacture
has hardly kept pace with the demand,
for it is said that during last summer the
supply at some watering places fell short.
Cigarettes used more in summer than
in winter, as the bare hand finds it un
comfortable jy*cf the gloved hand comes
clumsily Id*the business. At first cigar
ettes were simply rolled and papered
later, mouthpieces were added of paste
board, wood, corn husk and glass, the
latter being last year’s addition Facto
ries are in New York, Baltimore Roches
ter and elsewhere, and the larger ones
employ from five hundred to one thous
and operatives in rolling cigarettes. One
cigarette-making firm has an automatic
machine that performs the labor of many
operatives. Paper and tobacco are fed
in at one end, and from the other comes
out cigarettes ready for use. The perique
cigarettes are made in Louisiana. Per
ique tobacco grows only in certain parts
of this State. It is put into rolls and al
lowed to remain until cured, and satur
ated to the requisite state of blackness
and strengths The wooden mouthpiece
cigarettes come from Virginia; those with
glass ends are made in Baltimore, and the
brisk variety in New Orleans. Turkish
cigarettes from Dresden, St. Petersburg
and Odessa and other places, made from
tobacco grown in both Asiatic and Euro
pean Turkey, have limited sale, owing to
the increased cost, which is a hundred
per centum greater than American cigar
ettes.
The sale, as already intimated, in
creases. Ail classes smoke cigarettes.
The old smoker may be wedded to liis
cigar, but in Ids moments of brief leisure,
or snort interim in business, suggest the
quickly consumed little cigar, unless he
is like a noted literary man who collected
stumps, and then made it a rule to smoke
so many cigar# and sdfpian? stuffibs Per
day, Until the block of the latter was
consumed. The objective point of the
anti-tobacco society should be cigarettes,
for they have aided, as nothing else has,
to make youthful smokers. After a diet
of sweet fern the boy passes to cigar
ettes. From smokiiig a full power cigar
he is likely to lie under the fence, for the
greater part of a day, but the cigarette
is not so mastering, and in time the
young smoker passes to the strongest of
tobacco stimulants. —Providence {R. Z)
Journal.
The Mining Prospects.
Behold the prospector who wandereth
over the face of the earth.
He traversetk the hills and picketk the
barren mountains with his pick.
The pangs of hunger grip his bowels
in the morning, and at night he lieth
down with only a blanket to Cover him.
And the graybacks come forth and
rend him.
And he lifteth up a voice of lamenta
tion in the wilderness and cries aloud to
heaven:
“ Why has this affliction come upon
me, and why do the terrors of hell com
pass me round about ?”
And while he sleeps the wolves devour
liis substance.
And when he findefeli the croppings he
diggeth in tile ground and tacketh up
the location notice on the board.
Then he hieth to the valleys and say
'eth to the capitalist:
" Itelirken unto me, for I have struck
it big. Here are the samples from the
ground, and behold the gold maketk
lousy the rock with richness”
And the twain return to find others
coiling upon the claim.
And the prospector graspeth his gun,
saying : , ,
"“Getye gone from here, ior tins is
holy ground.”
Aud a fire coming out of the bush
smites him on the hip, and he calleth
with a loud voice ;
“ I am done for; take off my boots.”
And they hasten to take off his boots,
and the fragrance of his socks reacheth
unto heaven.
And he giveth up his ghost and is
gathered to his fathers.
And behold, others work the mine. —
Nevada Monthly.
A Young Lady’s Heart Misplaced.
A eurioas case of malposition of the
heart was recently discovered by a phy
sician in a patient who was consulting
him for spinal trouble. The woman is
about twenty years old, of good form,
handsome face and pleasing disposition.
A careful study of the precis© locality and
form of the heart shows it to be trans
ferred to the right side of the chest, and
instead of the apex beating just below
the breast, it stakes upward against the
right collar-bone, near ite outer third.
In this case there most be a double curb
to the large vessels of the heart, and the
base of the heart is doavnward. In other
words, heart is on the wrong side of
the bodv, and is upside down. This
unnatural’ condition of things does not
give rise to any inconvenience, except
when moving too quickly or going up
stairs, when the organ beats with painful
violence against the ot>llar-bone, where
its motion is plainly viable.— New York
Mercury.
A wjtjcr ssy s at the. majority of
pytTi \j they could ha'gfe tfceir own way,
rrffi-Md net house than onoe
in ttbi veaxs. Thera maw be fellows as
that, but _
IN A BEAR’S CLUTCHES.
A Tonne Woman’s I>f*pernte Mtra(fl< at
the MouU of a Cavn
(Damascus Correspondence of the Ph-ladelpbla Time*.]
Lottie Merrill, the female huntei of
this section, has had another adventure
worthy of record and one which came so
near costing her her life that she will prob
ably in the future never resume her
masculine sport. Just after the great
sleet storm which swept over the coun
try, Lottie determined to go deer hunt
ing. Donning her snow shoes she started
to cross Drig Swamp, a dense mass of
scrub oaks and laurel. When she had
reached the centre of the marsh she dis
covered the foot prints of a very largo
bear on the crust. She followed the
trial out of the swamp for about two
miles, when she discovered the den
which the animal inhabited. Entering
the cave she found two little cubs on a
bed of leaves in one corner. The cubs
were about the size of kittens and were
easily captured.
Lottie was just emerging from the
cave when she was met by an immense
she bear. The bear had heard the cubs
yell and was making all possible speed
to rescue them. Before Lottie could
draw her rifle to her shoulder the animal
was upon her and grasping her in her
paws gave her such a terrible squeeze
that she faiuted, when the bear, thinking
her dead, released her grip. She for
tunately regained consciousness quickly,
and while the old bear was playing with
her cubs the plucky hunter drew her
rifle and shot her in the side. The bul
let did not strike the animal’s heart, and
as the brute dashed at her again Lottie
drew her hunting knife and with one
bold stroke nearly served the bear’s
head from the body.
Lottie was just congratulating herself
on her successful escape when the dead
bear’s mate made his appearance. Lot
tie’s rifle was unloaded and she was
totally unprepared for a second encounter,
but determined to “tight it out.” The
struggle was a long one. Fortunately
the young lady was not encumbered in
her motion by petticoats, for in all her
hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons
of doeskin, with a long blouse. When,
finally, Lottie thought the bear was
dead she stooped over to cut his throat,
and the animal. witl> ln “
iaonstrours paw, tore the clothing almost,
completely from her body. During the
protracted struggle the bear had reached
the edge of a cliff fully a hundred feet
high and sloping at an angle of more
than forty-five degrees down to the Wal
linpaupack Creek. As the animal grab
bed Lottie he commenced sliding on the
slippery crust down this almost per
pendicular slope. Lottie was carried
with him, and every foot of distance tra
versed added to their velocity. When
they reached the foot of the slope they
struck against a tree, completely killing
the. bear and breaking two of Lottie’s
ribs, her left arm and one of her limbs.
She managed, however, to crawl about a
mile to a house, where she received
medical teatment. The first bear killed
weighed, when dressed, four hundred and
three pounds, and the male one, four
hundred and eighty-four pounds. Lot
tie, who is improving slowly, has the
cubs in her possession, but she says it
Will be some time before she will take
another expedition of this kind.
He Had Reasons*
One day last fall a queer sort of an
old man hired a boat and rowed out on
the river a little below Yonkers to fish.
So far as could be observed from the
banks he had no luck. He went out
about 10 in the morning and at 4 in the
afternoon he sat in the same position,
held his fishpole the same way, and had
evidently settled down to stay there all
night;
Pretty soon a steamboat came rushing
along down the river. She was headed
directly for the fisherman, who was in
mid channel; She blew her whistle to
warn him, but after a glance over his
shoulder he resumed the old attitude.
The steamer came nearer and nearer;
and the old man, was observed to ye a
sudden sintt and pay more attention io
his line. When too late, the pilot
tried to stop and avoid the accident.
The skiff was struck broadside and
splintered to pieces, and for two or
three minutes it was believed that the
old man was drowned. Then someone
espied him in the wake of the boat, and
he was fished out.
“ Didn’t you hear us whistle ?” asked
the Captain, as the dripping man stood
before him.
“Yes; andl whistled back!” was the
reply,
“We whistled for you to get out of
the wav.”
“ And I whistled to let you know that
I’d be darned if I would. ”
“ Had you any reasons for hanging to
the channel ?”
“ Reasons ! I guess I had ! I had
fished there for six hours without a nib
ble, and just as you came along I’d
hooked a perch, which I honestly be
lieve weighed mighty nigh a pound !
Drat your old steamboat, but I’ll make
you pay for that fish as well as the dam
ages ! I was six hours catching him,
and I won’t settle for a farthing less
than 50 cents.”— Wall Street Daily
2^ews.
Inflammatory Information.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, which
is an authority on matches of all kinds,
says : “It has been developed that 85,-
613,000,000 are consumed every year in
the United States, or 700 for every man,
woman, child, and baby. Adding to
these the number of all that are made
between the hard and soft sexes it is ap
parent the inflammable business is gen
erally pretty brisk in the nation.
The Baltimorean says: “A painted
woman is only a picture of health.
SIWBCRIPTION--SI.SO.
NUMBER 32.
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
A derrick is a bivalve because it is a
hoister.
The way for a bad boy to go on a ben
der is over his mother’s knee.
Most people that see trouble would
be happier if they would close their
eyes.
“Teeth inserted without payin’—”
remarked the tramp, as he bit into a
stolen pie.
Brigham Young had eleven ohildreu
by his wife, Eliza, and ho called her his
fertilize.
Young people are always ready to
adopt the “latest wrinkle. ” It is the'flrst
wrinkle that they object to.
No wonder we have white milk, ’cause
the the kick of a cow is enough to turn
the milk-pail. —Kokomo Tribune.
“ You can’t comet,” sho remarked to
him, as he tried to snatch a kiss from her
rosy lips, as they were out star-gazing
the other evening.
The lad reached up for Auntie's cake,
Rut quickly made a pause,
l>'or something grasped his collar, and
lie knew ’twas Antic's claws.
—DankUoni Ult Sentinel.
Curiosity shop—“ Oh, what a lovely
vase. It’s antique, is it not?” “No,
ma’am, it’s modern.” “ What a pity! it
was so pretty.”
The Baltimore Every Saturday com
mences an item with “An old woman
died in the west end last week. ” It is
supposed the result was just as fatal as
if she died all'over.
An old bachelor who was called to an
account for still remaining in single
wretchedness gave as a reason that
“ Congress hasn’t yet removed the tax on
matches, you see.”
A young man who lived at St. Paul
Came here and attended a ball,
He made love to a belle,
W hen she said go to—well
He drowned himself in the canawl.
— Kokomo Tel bane.
The father who punishes a lad for the
pranks he himself has played usually
takes a fair view of the case. At least he
doesn’t take a “once-I-did” view of it.—
Boston Post.
“ Look here, boy, this is a miserable
certificate your teacher sends me of your
son. ” 'Taint my fault. I didn’t have
the getting up of it, or it would have
been all right.”
“ Etiquette” writes to us to inquire
if in our opinion it would be proper for
him to support a young lady if she were
taken with a faint—even if he hadn’t
been introduced. Proper, young man,
certainly—prop her by all means.
The train had just rolled iuto the sta
tion, and little Charley. Btood listening a
moment to the sound of the Westing
house escape. Then, turning to Ins
father, he said: “Pa, the engine’s all
out o’ breath, ain’t it?”— Boston Tran
script.
Just why a man should be ashamed
to own that he is injured by a fall we
don’t see, but ninety-nine men out of a
hundred on getting up from a slippery
spot, will lie like butchers, and say:
“Not hurt at all,” when in truth they are
bruised and skim in over twenty places.
—Boston Post.
Tiie cliild of a very fashion able family
was sick, and the colored servant was
sent to the drug store with a prescription.
“If the child can not keep the first pow
der on its stomach, you must give it an
other one,” remarked the clerk as he
pasted on the label. “ You don’t reckon
we would give him the same powder ober
again, does yer ? We ain’t no poor folks,
we ain’t. ” —• Medical Journal.
Here is a good illustration of the mo
tives by which most men are moved: A
Sunday school teacher said: “Now,
children, if a boy should strike you on
your ivay to school, it would be your
duty to forgive him, wouldn’t it?” “Yes,
ma’am,” from the whole class. “And
yon would really forgive him, wouldn t
you?” One little fellow answered with
calm deliberation, “Yes, ma’am; I think
I would, ’specially if he was bigger than
lam.”
Laughter.
There is not the remotest corner or
little inlet of the minute blood vessels of
the human body that does not feel some
wavelet from the convulsion occasioned
by good hearty laughter. The life prin
ciple, or the central man, is shaken to
the innermost depths, sending new tides
of life and strength to the surface, thus
materially tending to insure good health
to the persons who indulge therein.
The blood moves more rapidly and con
vevs a different impression to all the
organs of the lx>dy, as it visits them on
that particular mystic journey when the
man is laughing, from what it does at
other times. For this reason every good,
hearty laugh in which a person indulges
lengthens his life, conveying, as it does,
new and distinct stimulus to the vital
forces. Doubtless the time will come
when physicians, conceding more im
portance than they now do to the in
fluence of the mind npon the vital forces
of the body, will make up their prescrip
tions more with reference to the mind
and less to drugs for them; and will, in
so doing, find the best and most effective
method of producing the requir e effect
upon the patient.
For articles of rubber which have be
come hard and brittle Dr. Pol recommends
the following treatment. Immerse the
articles in a mixture of water of ammonia
one part and water two parts, for a time
varying from five minutes to an hour,
according to the circumstances of the
case. When the mixture has acted
enough on the rubber ft will be found to
I have recovered all its elasticity, smooth*
I ness, and softness.