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FARM AID HOUSE.
Pumpkins «ts a Crop.
Pumpkins may 1» mails a most rslu-
........ for swine, ai they are healthful
and fattening and provide considerable
nitrogenous elements in their seed which
offsets the want of these in the corn. The
diuretic effect of the seed is also useful
as nuisting to carry off impure matter
from the blood. This effect of the seed,
popularly supposed to be injurious to
cows, is only so when the seed is eaten
in excewlre quantity, as when it is
throsrn out from pumpkins prepired for
drying. An acre of pumpkins planted
without any other crop may be expected
*° t aTiJ eenorttag
. to the fertility of the soil and the cuiti-
jttion given. Biz and seven feet apart
ia a good distance for the hills. This
girtM 1,000 to the acre, and fire sixteen-
pound pumpkins to the hill U not an un-
. made
to live when fed upon any single article of
diet, bnt profits under such circumstances
cre not to be expected. Variety in diet
promotes health, and health securea the
activity of the reproductive organs.
Prcah water b indispensable. Fool water
kads to disease.
Fowls should never be allowed to enter
P** 13 * or stables, as they will foul more
hay and feed than their eggs are worth.
Tl£eir domains should be entirely separ-
id cattle.
ged from those of hones am
Not only are vermin from poultry some
times communicated to horses stabled in
their neighborhood, but the specially
filthy and offensive excrements of the
fowls defiles the hay and grains.
A young and nervous horse, unused to
fowls, is often frightened if* by accident
or otherwise, * cackling, scratching
troop of hens finds entrance'to lib stable,
and he will resign his
♦v -^-5 common field pumpkin is
ft* ***** Und, being soft and easily
broken, and haring no hard indigestible
™i tbo ^ecse pumpkin has.—Jew
Tori Tima.
o-ts to the petty
thieves and stand trembling wliile they
devour his well-earned dinner. Be sore
that stable doors and windows are so ar
ranged that neither domestic fowls nor
pigeons can enter and annoy the rightful
occupants.
all fowls both young and ofd. The di
stive organs of all animal* abhor a
vorltss article of food. Some sort of
Don’t Punish the Cow.
Docs your cow cringe and curl and np-
pehr nervous and fidgety when you ait
«owU to milk her! Does she keep step-
ping, and occasionally rai»e her foot to
tho top of the poll, much to the part of
Its contents, os woll as to your own peace
•of mind? If so do not give her a “piece
of your mind” in the shape of a heavy
your ft* or mHking-stool, or a
kick with your bard boot, but just look
*t your finger nails and see if they are
not getting long and sharp. If they arc,
■pore them down the first thing you do;
then begin carefully and quietly to draw
the milk. Cows seldom kick unless they
hurt in some way or expect to be hurt.
Men a fingers are not all shaped alike,
“*ome haVing abort, stubbed ends with
that wear off as fast as they grow;
other* have long, slender fingers, with
«urp nails to correspond. Some milkers
keep their nails pared close, while others
pay bnt little attention to them. Long,
igestive organs
very little salt, pepper, mustard or gin
ger. sod other things of a like nature, b
sufficient to give a flavor to the poultry
mush or to the cooked vegetables.
For feeding young chicks a few bread
crumba soaked in milk are the best things
for the first two or three dayn. „ Feed
only a very verr small quantity. When
t older they may have a* variety of
and vegetables. They cannot
swallow large kernel* of corn, but they
can have cracked corn or small pop corn.
Millet seed b well adapted to young
chickens.
■harp nails cause a great many caws to
rebel against being milked. If your hired
men do the milking, aee tint they are
It v »“*•> M'cj «ni
thoughtful and merciful in the matter of
the care of the finger ends.—Jfrte
lend Farmer.
The Feet of Horses.
A writer in the Chicago Journal alleges
that the shoe b the direct cause of con
tracted heels, coral, navicular trouble,
bog-ipavin, splint, string-halt, laminitis,
woak heels, etc., in horses, and says:
Still owners of horses insist on having
. their horses shod in the old way with
keel-and-toe shoe, with calks bigenong
tor jack-screws. How to prevent all u.
above that our poor horses have to suf
fer: Do not allow the smith to use a
knife on the foot of your hone at all;
•imply rasp the foot oiff just enough to
a tip, or
get an even bearing, then apply r ,
a thin flat shoe; should you use the tip
never rasp the heel down at all; should
you have your horses’ feet shod with
plain flat shoes, keep the heeb down low
from a week to six weeks oldb bread,
not the ordinary household bread, but an
article made cm purpose for chickens.
Mix corn meal and wheat bran, neither
the fine norths coarse bran entirely, but
little of both, with tome fine
or wheat flour to give it
consistency. Put in water enough to make
a dough, add a little salt and bake it in
an oven as if for the family. This cheap
bread can be used to great advantage for
young chickens by breaking or rubbing
it into crumbs or by soaking It in milk
until it becomes soft and can be eaten
read.ly. Never give too mvxh food.
Allow your chickens to leave off hungry.
Thousands of young chickens are killed
every year-by gorging with rick food.
For well-grown fowls a feed of whole
com at the evening meal b excellent, be
cause it digests ro slowly that the fowls
will have something in their crops all
night. The digestive organs do not
slumber, but keep at their work the
whole night long. In cold weather,
especially, the food in the crop gives
strength and support and power to re-
le cold of the small hours, when, if
the crop was empty, the birds would not
be so well nourished.
It is a good plan to boil fish before
feeding to poultry, although raw fish,
choppol fine, b not to be despised. Meat
and fish, when boiled, form a diet more
nearly resembling the soft insects which
are enough to hold it in
place on any driving horse until the shoe
is worn out. Never allow the smith to
rasp the outside of the foot at all. If
Mill follow these instructions you
ny a hone from going lame,
e smith cut the sole and froi
with nails, rasp it off until i
over any road day in and day ont, bare
foot; still as soon ss he b brought to the
city he b sent to the smith, then trouble
commences. Any horse that b shod with
a big, heavy shoe never should be allowed
to go out for a walk. A driving horse
for road pleasure has no more use for a
calk than the writer has for thirteen toes.
Any man who tell* you that a foot which
b strong and healthy requires a shoe to
protect the frog ana heels tells you what
is not so, and he cannot prove it by show
ing results.
Transplanting Trees.
Of all practices connected with trans-
ing, says Josmh Hoopcs, in the New
Jfork Tribune, that of allowing tree roots
the moat reprehensible. In bad cases,
when the bark b shriveled, nothing will
renew vitality but burying the entire
tree, root and brahch, in a trench, having
"r soaked the soil in advance.
thoroughly soaked the soil in advance.
If not the best rale, it is at least safe to
transplant deciduous trees toon after the
ground ia reasonably dry in early spri
and evergreens later but before gw
begins. Magnolias may prove an excep
tion to the first, owing to their soft sac-
eulent roots being susceptible of decay
when not growing.
j deep holes for trees ,
the small feeding roots keep close to the
surface, always waiting for fresh nutri
ment and moisture. Make the hole wide
if you wish, and fill lb with good mellow
but only sufficiently deep
'allow the tree to stand pre
cisely as. * before removal. Deep
^ 9 __ 4 r
holes aro an injury in many cases, as the
fresh soil will sink after heavy rains, tak
ing the tree with it, and thus bnry the
roots several inches lower thanL_
quired. Rich soil at an unnecessary depth
inclines the root* to run deep in search
of nourishment, and thus debars them
from proximity to the air.
It is not so difficult to transplant oaks
as many persons suppose, provided care
be taken not to mutilate the roots in dig
ging, nor to permit them to dry when out
•f the ground. Exposing roots to the air
for an unnecessary length of time b sure
death to almost any tree. Oaks are real
ly as easily moved as any forest tree, pro
vided they have been frequently trans
planted, beginning with the.seeding, of
say two years’ growth, and performing
the operation every two or three years.
In place of the original solitary taproot
they will form- a mass of rootlets and
small fibres, which insures the life of the
tree. Careless digging of any trees b a
fruitful cause of failure.
POPULAR SCIENCE,
Dr. Bess:1s, who is in charge of
government carp ponds, car* that only
about 800 oat of every l,0n0 gold ts?
through the early stage* of
gold fish life.
It b computed that a twelve-inch waft
of hard-burned bricks and good lime and
rand mortar coaid be built 1,600 feet high
before the bottom layers would be
uexore tne bottom layers
crushed. If Portland cement were
added to the mortar, the height might
reach 6,700 feet
An Italian professor within? to fini
out whether the miasm of malaria exist
ed in the dew and soil, experimented on
himself by infusions of dew and soil col
lected from unhealthful places injected
under his skin. He experienced no evil
results. ^ He and hb lriend < made fifty-
two similar experiments without harm.
The interesting discovery has been
made in Switzerland of a bright green
moss growing on calcareous rocks 200 feet
below the surface of Lake Leman. No
other moss has been known so far under
water, and how chlorophvl, the green
coloring matter, could have lieen so richly
developed in a place so remote from the
light, is a problem.
Sir Spencer Wells, in a recent paper
on cremation, contends that the mode n
system of burial contaminates both air
and soil, to the great injury of public
health; that legal opinion is in favor of
the practice of cremation as not contrary
to law, while the Episcopal church burial
.services seems distinctly framed to pto-
The Bad Lands of Dakota.
Reeks, varying and changing in color,
giving red, g.-ay and black, and all the
myriad colors of the kaleidoscope flitting
before your eyes. Hero a mountain,
there a hole; kete a precipice upon which
•untain goat, and there a
mav have been the denizen
of wolves, and there a bluff from which
the red man may have watched hb
equally wary foe.
These are called bad lands from the
words mauvasis tern* poor traverser,
meaning difficult to pan over or journey
plied. It would seem that neither foot
of human, or hoof of beast, could climb
their steeps or descend their sharp do-
Alinu - Va 4 .... i. ■ n.nf fVft MrM lllltll
the sage bush
, • cling to some
rock for life. The dark lines traceable-
in all the buttes and sides indicate de
clines. No tree ex<
and occasionally a
iving been burned by internal heat
thrown to the surface, resembling^ pot
tery, standing ont like giant sentinels,
red-capped, to watch over the Imps and
midnight fairies the red man supposes
infest these dens. Huge petrifications,
some _
scattered
ly Iran
vide for the process, and that proper pre-
- *•* ■’ *■’ “ prevent
cautions can easily be taken to _
any abuse of disposing of the bodies of
the dead by fire instead of by the slower
plan of decomposition in the ground.
The investigations of the Prussian
Firedamp commission have shown that
many mine explosions attributed to fire
damp, or outbursts of gas, are really due
to fine coal dust, all kinds of dust ap-
prostrate, some standing
ed over portions of aU"
grounds, disclosing unmistakable evi
dence of trank, branches and roots of
trees that were either washed or grew
here centuries ago.
These bad lands must ever form a
barrier between these two sections of the
West and Northwest, Dakota and Mon
tana. Well can «I-understand how-the*
red men on one side knew so little of
tribes either east or west of them, calling
pearing to be capable of exploding vio
lently when ignited. TI
^ _. The experiments
relative to this inflammability of coal
dust were devised as near as possible in
accordance with the conditions prevail
ing in practice, and more than two hun
dred tests were made, explosions occur
ring in every case when an electric spark
was produced in a dust cloud.
An exhibition is projected at Berlin to
show the races of men and their habits,
as animals are shown in zoological gar
dens. In the exhibition it is intended
tbafrepresentatives of various races shall
permanently reside, while of such races
as cannot stand the cold of the climate,
representatives will be brought to Ger
many to .reside daring the summer. A
museum of objects pertaining to the dif
ferent races will be established in con
nection. Art attempt was once made at
the London Crystal palace to represent
various peoples and their manner of liv
ing by means of models, but it was never
carried very far.
man and horse might pass, .
never, unless some pass exnts I; know
not of. » It has been claimed thesc are
good grazing lands, bnt there are portions
that will only feed the mountain sheep
and buffalo, forming the distinguishing
barrier of civilization. The wind, sun
shine and shower cannot be the fame as
float over other lands, being imbued with
that which generates the savage, and
makes of man, bird and beast things of
prey, unknown to the pure air that be
gets humanity in its noblest-form. The
fowls. If you boil the fish no other
preparation is needed if they are placed
in a clean spot The fowls will pick off
every morsel of flesh from the bones.
If a flooring of boards is used when the
poultiy house is built, it will be advis
able to cover the house with dry earth.
If in a dry spot the floor may be dis-
the floor. The tainted earth can oc
casionally be removed to the depth of ' ^
...
or eight inches and its place supplied
with fresh earth. If dependence is placed
pon an earth floor, it must of course be
little abovrthe surrounding ground, to
provide good drainage. It u cheaper to
build the house upon a little kaoll or rise
. or to raise a little mound of
before the house is built, than to
the earth into the structure after-
■Poultry World.
carry tl
Recipes.
Bra* Bread.—Scald one pint of
brown flour, make it thick as iitiff mush,
then put in half a cup of yeast, and let
this sponge stay over night; in the morn-
nix it up with white flour, and
sweeten to taste. This quantity makes
two small loaves. It requires longer to
bake than white bread.
Pa* Dowdt.—Pare and cjuarter ap
ples, put .in pan and half cover
with water. There wants to lie enough
water to keep the apples from burning.
Make crust as above, but leave out short
ening; roll size of pan, cut two or three
slits in top, pot over the apples, which
have, been on the stove long enough to
commence to cook, cover tight with
another pan, cook fifteen minutes. Sance,
sugar, batter, flour, nutmeg and hot
water, boil. I have made it without but
ter.
Baked Hash.—Use a cupfal of any
kind of coll meat chopped rather coarse,
a cupfal of cold cooked rice, n generous
cupful of milk, an egg, two tablespoon
‘ ' of butter, one teaspooniul of sal
salt
and one-eighth of a teaspooeful of pep-
Put the milk on the fire in a fry-
and when it has become hot
ing pan, and when it nas become hot
add all the othnr ingredients except the
egg. Stir for one minute; then remove
from the fire and add the egg, wril
beaten. Turn into an escallop dish and
bake in a moderate oven for twenty min
utes. Serve in the same dish.
A New Wat to Cook Rice.—Put one
ounce of butter into an iron k-rttle; when
it is hot put in a small piece of onion;
after the onion is lightly browned take
it out, its only use is in flavoring. Put
four tablespoonfals of raw rice into the
hot butter, and stir it until it is a pale,
straw color, then add threCjxps of clear
soup stock, chicken or veal stock is best.
Cook very slowly till the rio; is tender
and the soap nearly or quite absorbed.
Serve hot with grated cheese. -This is a
favorite dish, at French and Italian
taurants in the large cities.
Household HinttL
A notable housekeeper say* that stock
ings that hare served their purpose and
are not serviceable for poor persons, are
useful for iron-holders. They should be
cut down the seam and smoothly folded,
with the fcot inside. The e 3 ges should
be firmly overcast with strung linen
thread. Slip covers for iron holders are
.... — —i may he made of stout
> They are
:r apd tacked
The Language of Thumbs.
A large ball to the thumb in a bad
hand promises a leaning to all sorts of
self-indulgence; but in an artist’s hand it
would indicate love of color and gifts of
expression by means of color alone. Un-
the thumb
also developed, this large third joint of
the thumb would announce an artist who
strove after all his effects by means of
color. The large thumb ball in musicians
show love of melody; harmony is shown
by a large imaginative region,or “moon,”
to use Desbarolles's astrological jargoi
It is probably of happy augury in the
hand of a teacher, this large thumb ball,
for it often means* love of children.;. It
also stands for philanthropy sometimes.
In a commonplace hand, it probably
shows addiction to what an Irish father
told his son was “called the tinder pas
Greedy men have the thumb bill large,
and also those who, without being glut
tons, have a fine palate. There is im
mense eloquence in the way the thumb is
used. Lady Slattern “cherished her
thumb nail for thfe purposo of making
marginal notes.” A carpenter of facult;
—some declared of genius—describee
his future works, using his thumb for his
aerial diagrams. Bob Jakin's thumb is
historical A doctor whose specialty
is mental disease was called in to see a
child whose backwardness alarmed the
parents. He said, “let me see her play
with her toys.” The manner in which
she used, or did not use, heir thumbs con
vinced him of the child’s imbecility, and
he founded his verdict thereon. Certain
naturalists, Desbarolles says, have de-
flcxible heel
A Horse Wearing Diamond Earrings.
‘Did you ever see a horse wear ear-
RHEUMATISM.
Tho .Cause of Rheumatic Fever—
Symptom* or Inflammatory Rheu
matism—Mode or Treatment—
- Chronic Rheumatism.
>The manner in which a chilling of tho
surface of the body acts to set up-an
attack of rheumatic fever is still un
known. It ia very certain that an acid
—lactic, the same that is found in soar
_ arid is always formed
when muscles are exercised, and is de
composed and sent ont of the body by
way of the longs and skin. A chilling
of the body seems to prevent this get
ting rid of a poisonous substance, and
the various inflammatory troubles are
set up by it. ‘After’they have once be
gun it appears that they may continue
v some time in spite of the arid being
ly disposed of afterward. This
has been given as a medicine in
some other affections, and a number of
cases are recorded in which rheumatic
joint troubles ^have followed with cer
tainty as soon as a certain (not very
occurring after excessive exertion is that
the joints are then in a weakened
dition.from overuse, therefore more dis-”
posed to become diseased than any other
the same exhausted condition, has
about the samc kind of structure as the
joints, and ia, consequently v at that time,
ery liable to suffer in the same way.
The symptoms distinctive of “inflam
matory rheumatism” are usually pre
ceded for one, two or three days by in
definite feelings of bring “out of sorts,”
thrown to the surface things laid
buried since the flood; objects of all
kinds and conceivable shapes, trees, roots
and stumps of petrifaction, great clinkers
of melted stones, heads and trunks of
animals long extinct lie in one mingled
mass to amaze the beholder and pass to
the nomenclature of the scientist.—Sag-
Courier. 1 - >
A Big Stud of Iron Horses.
“If you. want to see what system ^
iM — r.SlpAt/1 man ‘Viti'n into tho Wl
said a railroad man, “step into
“ ‘ »f motive power
superintendent <
and machinery.
w . In his charge are nearly
700 locomotives, all in use or in repair
shop, and in a moment he can tell you 1
only where every locomotive is, but
name of the man running it, tbe amount
and character of repairs put upon it since
its purchase, number of miles run since
it was put into service, co3t of repairs
per mile rin, etc. He has-a full history
of every locomotive. More than that,^
his report which embraces locomotive
erformance on the whole road
Juring the previous month and scat
tered over more than 4,000 miles of
railway. The report shows the num
ber of -miles run in tbe differ
ent branches of service—\ „ .
freight, gravel, wood and switch
ing; the cost of fuel, of oil and
waste, forenginemen and firemen j for
round house service and for repairs. It
shows the cost in detail per tnile run and
the number of miles* run to the ton .of
coal pint of oil and pound of wofte. In
all the wide range of null * r ““
such as weariness, dragging pains
limbs, loss of appetite, etc. Then sets
in a moderate fever, beginning with a
sharp chill or by chilly feelings,' head
ache, thirst, the pulse and breathing
being quickened to correspond with the
joints, almost always lone of tho larger
one3, becomes painful. If it is one near
the surface, it is noticed to be swollen
and more or less reddened. In a few
hours, or a day or two, another joint is
attacked in the same way, the one first
affected becoming better, as a rule, but
not always. The more joints there are
affected at once tbe higher the fever.
Thus, nearly every joint in tne bofly may
become 1 affected; frequently all the
larger ones, hip, knee, shoulder and
elbow, are inflamed together. The pain
is intense and made worse by the slight
est movement. A heavy-step upon the
floor causes the’ vibrations to be trans
mitted to the semtive surfaces, and
causes untold agony. Sometimes the pain
is far greater than the amount of evident
inflammation would seem to account for,
and it is frequently worse toward even
ing. The skin is bathed in perspiration,
and does not seem hot to the touch, even
when the fever runs very high. The
perspiration is sour in odor and in chemi
cal reaction. The tongue is moist, usually
orfkand
tborough .nnd admirable as this in the lo
comotive department.
“How, much does it cost to run a
locomotive? Well, more than you would
think. If a locomotive were starting out
on a hundred-mile run add you were
asked what the cost of the run would be
to the company, tbe chances are that you
would say about $10. But it costa a little
moife than 20 -cents.* mile to run a loco
motive, on an average. Nearly eight cents
“ "tia is for fuel seven ana one-quarter
of this
cents for pay of engineer and fireman,
half cent for oil and waste, and more
than four and onc-half cents for repairs.
A ton of coal will ran a locomotive
twenty-four miles, a pint of oil will run
eleven miles, and a pound of waste one
hundred and twenty-three miles. The
locomotives of a railway like the North
western run half a million of miles
month.”—Chicago Herald.
••liidyou ever see a norse wear ear
rings?” inquired a well known patent
lawyer in Chicago of the Herald rambler;
“no? Well, I did. Last fall I'was out
on the plains, visiting a friend of mine
who has a stock ranch of about forty
miles northwest of North Platte, Neb.
His favorite hone is a Mexican bronco,
small but fleet and powerful, and very
intelligent. This bronco has one bad
habit, and that is running away. Several
times he has been found miles from home
after breaking his lariat rope in the
night. To make sure of identifying the
xnimal, and without disfiguring him by
brands or ear-slits, my friend ordered a
silver and gold ear-mark, two tubes, one
. fitting into the other and , fastening,
through the ear a good deal like a lady s
How Prairie Dogs are. Trapped.
A prairie dog is ingenious, . ^lace
headless barrel over, the prairier-dog’i
hole, and half fill it with fine sand. The
little borrower will soon scratch Jus
the
to the; top of the same. But the fine
and it cannot dig through the half-flm
particles, neither can he climb up the
sides of the barrel. All ho can do is to
reverse tho familiar lines of Virgil and
exclaim: “The ascent to the upper .air is
easy, hut to recall one’s steps and re
enter Avernns how hopeless the at
tempt!” This is wihout doubt the way in
which the prairie dogs in Central park
were captured.—-Jameetown Kantan,
earring. Upon the gold disk of one of
“ ’ had engraved the
these ornaments „he w ..
horse’s name and age, and upon the other
the owners name and address. Set in
each disk was a diamond, weighing about
six carats, and making a Very pretty dec
oration foe a really handsome horse. Iam
told that the ornamentation of favorite
horses with these earrings set with dia
monds is not uncommon, among wealthy'
ranch-owners of the West.”
An Analysts of the “Slugger.”
There arc no puglists now; they are
sluggers. Slugging isXimplyan attempt
to strike a man hard enough in tome
vulnerable point'to kill liim or knock
him out at one blow. No more skill is
necessary than the -mule manifests with
his deadly heel. Tarn a inale the busi
ness end up and he would wear the belt.
A wreath of laurel or bays on the brow
of a modern slogger would have to be
kept damp or it would catch fire from
his nose. If an earthquake should swal
low up the crowd arouncl an ordinary
slugging match, tlie district attorneys of
the State could take a’ vacation for
thirty years. Theo:dinarj
drunkard, wife beater and;
“ tst
Graves of the Presidents.
The deceased Presidents of tho United
States sleep widdy opart. Virginia holds
five of them—Washington, Jefferson,'
Madison, Monroe and Tyler—making her
•oil indeed sacred; Tennessee three—
Jackson, Polk and Johnson; Massachu
setts two—John Adams and Jolin Quincy
Adams, father and son; New York toree
—Van Buren, Fillmore and Grant,: Ohio
two—Harrison and Garfield; New Hampr
shire one—Pierce; Pennsylvania one—
Buchanan; Illinois one—Lincoln; Ken
tucky one—Taylor. All of them, with
the exception of Taylor and Grant, were
: V Six Governors In One Year.
It is a remarkable fact that in less than
one year (1843-44) Maine had six govern
ors, which number has probably never
been equaled in any State in the Union
reality has no business to-be called rheu-
tion of cases,
or rheumatic fever a» a consequence. In
" se instances it ia no more to be con-
imjft aa rheumatic- than consumption
of the longs following measles, ia to be
measles. Like any other or
gan that has once suffered from disease,
a joint that has been inflamed from rheu
matic fever becomes a point ef least re
sistance and ready to- become inflamed
provocation. Hence a
>w, sprain or the like,
1 * ', sets up an ordi
nary inflammation, which, would not
occur had the joint always been healthy.
Prolonged exposure- to cold and damp,
as by sleeping in cellars
tad basements,
. in workshops that are
cold and humid, laboring while standing
in water or in swamps in the fall or win
ter, frequently occasion the disease. It
is generally observed in advanced life-«-
the reverse of what is noticed in inflam
matory rheumatism. It is purely % local
disease, not caused or kept up> by any
change in the blood.
The symptoms of chronic rheumatism
are these: .One or more joints are almost
constantly tender; sharp pains are felt
in them from time to time; changes in
the weather and unusual pressure or
movement aggravate these pains, which
shoot in different directions from the
affected joints. Cold and wet weather
make the sufferings greater, whale heat,
especially dry heat, wives relief. Stiff
ness, and grating sounds are noticed when
the joints are moved, and occasionally
some, swelling and increased heat in the
parts are observed. There is no fever,
REV. SAM JONES.
Not an Orator, “aa Bratus is." bnt.
Swaying His Auditors with
Earnestness and a Flood
of Thought.
of his influence upon the masse
t who throng in thousands to 1
might i
some truth what Mark Antony said with,
subtlety:
I am no orator ai Brutus is,
But m you know me all, a plain, blunt man.
He makes a queer impression upon one
who looks at him over a long stretch of
masses of heads and tries to estimate his
qualities as a speaker. But the first idea
is, what a magnificent audience. Thai
big, low-roofcd hall is packed with poo-
to the ceiling on all sides. The form t
rises upon a platform almost in the centre
has the eyes and ears of all that vast aa-.
semblage. There is no greater oppor-
ty for eloquence; for the speaker hat
tunity f
; hushes its chattering? ?
.. disease drags on for months
and'years. ' Complete recovery-ia the ex-
especially if their age is not
Prevention is, therefore, better than
cure. Internal remedies given with tbe
idea of “clearing the rheumatism out of
the blood” are useless. To improve the
appetite and general condition is, of
course, very desirable. Prolonged bath
ing the affected part in water as hot as
can be borne, painting the parts with
iodine, stimulating liniments, general
warm baths; massage or nibbing and
kneading the affected limbi: aft these
have been found useful. If the joints
become useless, “soldered together” so
that no movements are possible, certain
surgical operations may make the condi
tion more tolerable.
Macular rheumatism is a term that is
applied to any painful affection located
in the muscles. It is probable that very
few, if any of these, are truly rheumatic
covered with a whitish for; the bowels
constipated, and the secretion of the kid
neys. small in amount and intensely acid.
The pain causes loss of sleep, but the
mind is generally clear. In very serious
coses the lever rises very high and delir
ium is present. Sleeplessness, pains in
the joints and the profuse^ sweating cause
all the discomforts of which the sufferer
complains inmost cases.
This state of things, unless interrupted
by proper treatment, goes on for three to
six Weeks. New joints are attacked, or
the pains and inflammation return to
those they had abandoned. The invalid
loses ^flesh and strength, but recovers in
a large majority of cases.. Sometimes
in their nature. Some of them are real
inflammations of the muscular structure,
while others are of nervous origin. Some
of these affections have been traced to
their true cause, and are no longer called
rheumatic. The pains of lead poisoning,
of scurvy, of locomotor ataxy and of
alcoholic poisoning, all formerly called
muscular rheumatism, are now placed
where they belong and managed accord
ingly. Some of these affections are the
result of injury. Thus lumbago, ordi
narily supposed to be rheumatic, is
lally caused by some awkward move
ment that strains or breaks some muscu
lar or tendinous fibers, leaving, after it
for along time more or less pain and
tenderness on movements being at
tempted. Aside from the pain there is
no distinctive symptom of muscular
rheumatism. There is usually no fever
and no serious consequences follow in its
train. There maybe painful spasms of
the muscles, particularly of those which
hold the head in position, causing “wry
neck,” but this is undoubtedly of nervous
origin and has no connection with rheu-
ition, bnt' remains^ more or less
swollen and painful. In a few cases
two or three joints are affected and these
not very, severely. In these, tbp fever
UUh BCYWOIJ. iU U1WC, (Up iUVCf
never runs high and the disease may ter
minate in from eight to fourteen days.
In others, the fever rises to 103 to 108
degrees. Fahrenheit, thepnlse becomes
enormously quickened, delirium followed
by unconsciousness anil death occurs. For
tunately such cases are rare. In drunk
ards and those whose constitutions have
The treatment is by warm baths, by
keeping the patient warm and perspiring
fora day or two; by effective d^qs of
quinine, if there,is a suspicion qf malarial
poi mning; and by rubbing the affected
parts with stimulating liniments. Faradic
electricity, by which a strong impression
is made upon the nerves of the skin,
often removes the pain at once.—St.
Louie Globe-Democrat.
above all other themes that
have called forth human eloquence. |
The figure is not an impressive one ia
its quiet conventionality. The speaker
in a cutaway coat showing his watch-
chain might bo taken for a 1 well-to-do
clerk or engineer. Tho first peculiarity
is noticed when he lifts his hands. Tho
lanky, cuffless .wrists contrast strangely;
with the white-collared neck. But Mr.*
Jones has not overlooked on article of Iris
dress. When ho lifts Iris arms in apos
trophe or prayer that stretch of bam
wrist has its proper dramatic effect. Ho
is a man who is appealing to the people^
and he does not wish to have any more
starch about him than is necessary. Tho
voice'has a plaintive os well as a penetra
tive quality; it rises and falls, slowly*
drawling, and with every phase tipped
with a rising inflection and a twang.
is not wearisome; it is soothing. ~ It ia
the voice of one who has never been in.
much of a hurry, and it might have taken
its melancholy color from the loneliness
of the mountains. It is homely, but not
rude.
The sermon begins and one wonders at
e speaker's fluency. He takes an idea
and he spreads it out as thinly as they
spread the butter on the bread at a
jharity school. He is never at a loss
for an idea, for he keeps ringinjr
the changes on the ola one tul
something else occurs to him. Whrit
he feels for something fresh, he passes
his hand slowly over his head, running
his fingers lightly through his hair. Be
seems to have the assurance of innocenco
itself; thoughts panting for utterance do
not stumble or crush each other at his lips;
he never suffers from the rush of ideas to
the brain. Other men may tremble oe
flush with the message that is in them and
struggling for deliverance, but Sam Jones
has a calm consciousness of power that
wonld well become a power that wax
greater.
Ho soon makes a joke. There is a rip
ple of applause and a great gratified
cackling. The fringe of spectators near
the doors who have been sitting and
staring at one another with the indiffer
ence of sight-seers suddenly crane their
necks and cackle with the rest. That,
is undoubtedly what some of them Hava
been waiting for. It is said that Amer
icans are flippant. Some, indeed, speak .
of their flippancy as irreverence. But.
there are others that hold humor, even ]
it sometimes run away from tho j
strings of taste, is a healthy < *
will grow up rugged and manly Mr.;
Jones, it would
race. But
’ child and
is a humorbt. It may be questioned
whether the tragedy of life has impressed.
delirium like delirium tremens may set
in, especially toward evening, when the
fever is highest. In these the symptoms
are apt to become aggravated and go on
to a fatal termination in the second or
third week of the disease.
Although rheumatism of this variety
will undoubtedly get well if not treated
with any drugs, is in fact a self-limited
disease, still we have it in our power to
lessen the danger of heart complications,
give ease to the sufferer, and cut the dis
ease short in a large proportion of in
stances, provided more than one joint is
affected. :; ■}
The alkalies, bicarbonate of soda, pot
ash of lithium,, should be given in large
doses (20, 30 to 60 grains)
every.. few hours, until the
acid in the blood and tissues beqome
neutralized. This is known by the se-,
cretiOn of the kidneys becoming alkaline.
The alkali may be given with lemon
juice, with which it,forms an efferves
cing drink that is not very disagreeable.
Whatever else is done, the alkalies should
The Shah of Persia.
Probably tbe most restless man on the
face of tbe earth is Nussir-u-deen, shah
of Persia, asylum of tbe universe, and
king of kings. These two titles, as
seriously given to the absolute monarch
of Persia as we apply the more modest
term majesty, are not inappropriate, for
from the royal fiat there is no appeal.
Swarthier than most of his subjects, of
middle height, very short-sighted, he is
seldom without bis spectacles, and until
he opens his month he gives rather the
idea of the mild Hindu. But when he
ks in his lond and imperious way, all
of mildness disappears. The loud
tone, however, is more the effect of con
stant habits of command; aad the cus
tom of addressing his majesty in a low
tone, that is observed on all occasions,
probably tends-to make it more noticea
ble by coi
not be neglected. Salicylic add,
if soda, seems to act a
„ contrast. 1 Although the king of
Persia has a larger collection of jewels
than any other monarch—save on state
occasions, such as the public salaam of
the new
any
his dress.
black cloth, pr, at timet,* of finest cash-
mere shawl, which in Vinter rime is trim
med and lined with priceless fur, ia his
usual wear; bat the colon are generally
dark.—London World.
large proportion of cases. One of these
shonlcTbe given along witirthe alkalies,
for ft docs not insure safety from heart
complications, until about 120
have been given. This amount
insure the best results.' Then it should
be discontinued for a day or two, then
resumed in smaller doses, and kept np
for one or two weeks in this intermit
tent manner. As either of these drags
depresses the heart’s action, some form
should be taken with each dose,
these do not control the pain, opium or
morphine should be given in sufficient
quantity. c .The affected, joint ‘-or joints
should be wrapped in cotton dipped in
On alkaline solution and kept at rest by
being put into splints. Hot applications,
when well borne, sometimes give a great
airfield for the year
1843, resigned; Governor Cavanaugh,
president of tbe senate, 184*3, died, —
ceeded by Governor Panis, presides
the senate, 1843; Governor Bunn, speak
er of the house, 1843, superseded by Gov
ernor Dana, president of the »
Governor Anderson, elected
"
■1
that blisters and ico bags over the
fected joints do good. These are very
distressing to most sufferers, and there is
still a great deal of doubt os to their do
ing any good. There is a foul-odorcd
A Carriage Drawn by Sheep.
Almost every American ia Paris who
has ridden oat toward the Bris has seen
'the old man in the little carriage drawn
by sheep pottering along in the Avenue
du Bo is de Bologne. These sheep are
two fine fat South Downs, bat the occu-
is a cripple named Dr. De Reroy.
has been by 1’
^. toms a soldier, a trav
eler, a politician, a journalist and a man
of letters. A nephew of tho Abbe Lam-
menais, he was for a while private secre
tary of Lamartine, also an intimate friend
of the Marqnis of Hertford, at whose
Vince Ni
Daring the war he
patchra out of Paris for the government
of the. Defense Nationals. He started
alone jn a baloon, which wan caught in a
hurricane^ carried into Switzerland, and
came down in the midst of the Her de
Glace glacier, where his legs were so
frost bitten that -they had to be ampu
tated. Beside his legs, he lost his for-.
tone by the war. ^
the tragedy of life has impressed,
him deeply, but it is certain that the comedy*
has touched him acutely. But stop. He
strikes a pathetic chord. He speaks of
maternal love. The tone is true, but not,
overwhelming. An orator would have
swayed that vast audience, and for nr
single instant perhaps have fused aH.
souls in a single flame of feeling. Mr.*
Jones is not tne master of hb hearers.I
There is something wanting in him to
give him absolute control. The exprcs- t .
sion of indifference returns to some facev
the sm'ile cf amusement to others, and.
the loose, flowing sentences slope lazily*
through the air. Now and then, when s
point is to be made, the speaker stoops-
low, and lifting himself high whuar
sweeping hb arms, gives forceful utter-
imaginstive : w
attempted—the description of a caravaa.
in the desert sending the cry of “Water
found” from one veice to another toward,
the rear. The figure b a fine one, the
simile as it is applied b apt; but before
the effect of what b really eloquent ia
obtained the speaker branches off on a.
trivial story.
It may be said that what b tbe best ia
Sam Jones b hb easy, familiar way. The
very fact that he takes no pains with,
words or with calculating effects provea
that he b not a really great speaker.
There is something more than instinct in
the triumphs of great word-builders and
great word-utterers. There is work,
bard, patient, and sometimes painful.
Mr. Jones’ fluency b at once his gift •
and hb fatal defect He may convince
...... . them with enthusiasm*
The word “brother” is scattered through,
hb rambling discourse, and the kindly*,,
off-hand way in which it bsi>oken makes
it effective. It ia the best thing be does.
The people in the building go scramb-
■ l ha is through; they
ling ont as soon as
have listened to oqe of their own kind,
speaking in their own everyday way, of
duty and of other things: they have been
interested; they have been tickled—noth
ing more, unless one be permitted to as
sume that they have been bettered by
what they have heard.—C Vu-ago Tribune.
The Schooner John G. Whittier.
A new schoener for the Gloucester
(Mas*.) fisheries launched recently, wa*
christened the John G. Whittier. The
poet acknowledged the compliment by
sending the owners tho following lines:
TO A CAPE AXX SCHOOXER.
Lack to the craft that bears this name at
Good fortune follow with the golden spoon.
The g azed hat and tarry pantaloon;
And whertsoe’er her keek shall cut thm
brine
Cod, bake, and mackerel quurrel for bar
line. ' '
Shipped with h:r<
blow
Or tiles delay, my wish, with 1
Fishing by proxy. Would