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Great Britain’s tobacco bill, as figured
■up the by Pall Mall Gazette , is $80,000,
000 a year,or $15 per head per annum of
the adult population of England and Ire¬
land.
Minnesota’s Legislature has discovered
that several men thrive handsomely in
Minnesota by breeding wolves and sell¬
ing their scalps to the State at $5 apiece.
It has been stated that over boys under
fourteen or fifteen, a woman can more
easily exercise a good influence than a
man, and at Scottish educational confer¬
ence held this year a move was made to
employ women as teachers for boys and
mixed classes.
A Polish drink prepared from honey
is said to be growing greatly in favor in
England. A large consignment has just
been dispatched from Warsaw to London.
‘‘If the fact be true that honey as a drink
is becoming popular, then,” observes the
San Francisco Examiner, “we are return¬
ing to the simple tatses of our Saxon an¬
cestors.”
A statistical person in Washington an¬
nounces that the proceedings of the
Fifty-first Congress cover about 16,000
pages of the Congressional Record.
There are about 1500 words on a page
of that publication. Hence the recorded
utterances of our statesmen during the
two sessions amount to about 24,000,000
words.
'
The offer of a bounty of 100 acres of
land to the head of every family of
twelve children in Quebec has resulted,
announces the St. Louis Star-Sayings , in
at least three times as many claims as ex¬
pected. The idea wa3, of course, to en¬
courage the immigration of men who
bad given an unusual number of hostages
to fortune, and jugding from the fact
that ovejylOOG abnormally large families
have already entered claims, the idea
was a remarkably good one. N
“Over one hundred tools and pro¬
cesses, which are marvels of ingenuity
and scientific knowledge, ” says the Roch¬
ester (N. Y.) Democrat , “have been in¬
vented by safe burglars, A recent bur
glar’s outfit, captured by the police, con¬
sisted of a little giant knob-breaker, a
diamond drill and a high explosive of
the nature of dynamite, but put up in
the form of a powder. It would open
the strongest bank safe in a half hour,
and without ncise enough to disturb peo¬
ple in the next house., while tht entire
outfit could be carried in the pockets of
an ordinary coat.” !
“ Experiments are being made by the
United States Government,” said Herbert
W. Hotchkiss, of Michigan, to the New
York Telegram , “as to which spot in this
country is the healthiest. That is, they
are trying to find out by certain belts and
prescribed areas which part of the coun¬
try has the lowest death rate. I am told
that the long-life circle includes Grand
Traverse Bay in Michigan, near Charle
roix, and I can say that it is a place of
perpetual youth. I went there to die
lome years ago and am now enjoying
perfect health. There is no better place
to build up in than there. The hospi¬
tality of lumbermen is proverbial and
any man who spends three months up
there and does not come out a new njgn
had better die at once. ”
There are, remarks the New York Sun,
about 200 tea tasters in this city, a well
paid class of men, most of whom in the
course of nature will die of kidney dis¬
ease superinduced by their unwholesome
occupation. 'The habits of these men
are exceedingly curious. Some of them
refuse to ply their trade save in the
morning, on the ground that the sense of
taste cannot be trusted after it has been
bewildered by hours of work. Most of
them avoid the use of tobacco and of
highly seasoned food. Their accuracy
of taste is astonishing. A tea taster will
grade and price a dozen qualities of tea
ill from the same cargo. All this ac
auracy seems unnecessary, however, for
grocers unhesitatingly sell the same tea
to different persons at very different
prices, so ignorant are most persons of
quality in teas.
CREATURES THAT CRAWL.
SOME STRANGE FACTS And NO¬
TIONS ABOUT INSECTS.
Silk Made From Spiders’ Webs—
Cochineal and Lae Insects —A
Dress Woven by Worms.
In the year 1709 it was discovered
that a new and very beautiful kind of
sillc could be made from the webs of cer¬
tain species of spiders. The threads
were found to be easily separated, carded
and spun, affording a much finer fila¬
ment than that of the silk worm and
equally susceptible of dyeing. Stock¬
ings and gloves were made from this ma¬
terial, naturally of a beautiful gray color,
and great expectations of the usefulness
of the inventiou were entertained. At
the beginning a difficulty was found in
the fact that it would require 663,522
spiders to furnish one pound of the
thread, and it was declared impossible to
provide so many of the creatures with
flies, their natural food. This obstacle
was soon removed by finding that they
would subsist very well upon chopped
earth worms and the roots of feathers,
but an insurmountable obstacle arose
from their unsocial inclinations, inas¬
much, as when many were put together,
they soon began to quarrel, the strongest
devouring the weakest, until of several
hundred in a box but three or four re¬
mained alive after a few days. Obviously
it was impossible to keep and feed each
one separately. Spiders are considered
a dainty for eating by many people.
Every one is familiar by hearsay with
the cochineal insects, which furnish the
dyer with his most highly valued ma¬
terial. They are found on a kind of fig,
and are secured by shaking the trees, be¬
neath which sheets are spread. The
cosmetic known as “rouge” is a prepara¬
tion of cochineal. Not less widely used
and for similar purposes is the “lac” in¬
sect of India, which is likewise a tree
parasite. These little animals are em¬
ployed in the manufacture of varnishes,
japannedwaiensealing wax, beads, rings,
bracelets, necklaces, water-proof hats
and many other things. Mixed with
fine sand they are made into grindstones,
and, added to lampblack dissolved in
water, they compose an ink of much
value. They are also utilized as a sub¬
stitute for cochineal for dyeing.
A very curious kind of cloth has been
manufactured by using for the purpose
the worms which are the larvae of the
so-called “clothes-moth.” An ingenious
Bavarian invented a way of causing such
worms to work on a paper model sus¬
pended from the ceiling of a room. and To
this model he could give any form
dimensions he chose, and he was thus
enabled to obtain not only square shawls,
but actually a complete woman's dress,
with sleeves, though without seams. Two
larvae can weave one square inch of cloth,
which exceeds in fineness the lightest
gauze. It has been worn by queens.
During the prevalence of the silk worm
mania in this country fifty years ago, to
meet the great demand for eggs, fish
spawn was commonly distributed, and
the humbug was highly successful. The
first silk dresses worn by the ladies of
ancient Rome were from the island of
Cos. They were sometimes dyed purple
and enriched with stripes of gold. For
age3 silk was a scarce article among the
Romans, and so highly prized as to be
worth many times its weight in gold.
The Emperor Burelian, who died in the
year 125 of the Christian era, refused his
Empress a silk dress because it was so
expensive.
The Egyptian and the Greek emblem
for the soul was the butterfly, which is at
only a caterpillar, but at length bursting
its bonds, comes out with new life and in
most beautiful attire, thus affording a
representation of the spirit of man and
of the immortality to which he aspires.
It is worth mentioning, hw the way,that
within the homely caterpillar can be
found, by careful dissection, the future
butterfly, neatly folded up and complete
in all its parts, like the rose in its unex¬
panded bud or the plant within the seed.
In the forests of Guiana some people
make butterfly catching their business,
gathering them in paper boxes and ex¬
porting them to collectors in Europe.
The Bushmen of Africa eat the cater¬
pillars of butterflies. Insects of this kind,
soon after they are transformed into
butterflies, commonly discharge drops of
red fluid and such performances by great
flocks of them have many times in history
given rise to tales of bloody rains,
which greatly excited the fears of
the superstitious.
Bees were not originally natives of this
country. They were brought to Boston
first from England, and were subsequent¬
ly carried over the Allegheny Mountains
by a hurricane. For a long time they
were known to the Indians by the name
of “English flies,” and were looked upon
as the harbinger of the white man.
Longfellow, in his “Song of Hiawatha,”
describing the advent of the European
into the new world, makes his native
warrior say of the bee and the white
clover:
“Wheresoe’er they move, before them
Swarms the stinging fly, the Ah mo,
Swarms the bee, the honey-maker;
Wheresoe’er they tread, beneath them
Springs Springs a flower the unknown among us,
white man’s foot in blossom.”
In some gpuntries bees are
about with their hives in caravans dur¬
ing the summer season, being permitted
to gather honey from the flowers in field
after field along their journey, so that
they have always a supply of fresh blos¬
soms. This method is practised in lower
Egypt, where boats ladeu with bee hives
by thousands are floa iri ■My I down the
river, stopping at for a longer
or shorter time, accoi "to the pasture.
The proprietors of hives pay the
boatmen for this s e, aud in tliU
manner the people get their honey from
all the choicest blooms in every part of
the land.
A curious superstition respecting tho
beetle has reference to a scarab which is
believed by the Singhalese to be a
demon. In the shape of an insect the
diabolical agent sometimes appears in a
dwelling after midnight lor the purpose
of compassing the destruction of one or
all of the inmates. The only means of
averting the catastrophe is that some one
shall perform a counter charm, the effect
of which is to send back the beetle to
destroy his original destroyer, for in such
a case the death of one or the other is es¬
sential to appease the evil one whose aid
has been invoked. By the Egyptians
the beetle called the scarabtous was con¬
sidered sacred to the sun, the thirty
joints of its feet answering to the days
of a solar mouth. The warriors of that
nation all wore rings with beetles en¬
graved upon them, for the reason that
these creatures are always in armor.
There is a popular belief in Germany that
the stag beetle carries burning coals into
houses with its jaws aud thus occasions
many fires.
A superstition obtains among the cow¬
boys that if a cow be lost its where¬
abouts may be learned by inquiring of
the daddy long-legs, which points out
the direction of the lost animal with one
of its forelegs.
Although the well-known biblical
quotation is commonly quoted, “Strain
at a gnat and swallow a camel,” as it is
written, it should be translated, “Strain
out a gnat,” referring to the practice
that formerly prevailed in oriental coun¬
tries of passing wine and other liquors
through a strainer so that no insects
might get into the cup.— Washington
Star.
WISE WORDS.
Troubles always look big at a dis¬
tance.
Before you can do much good, you
must be good.
Many a man signs his death warrant
with his teeth.
In nothing else can there be such s
change as in man.
Doing a wrong thing with a good mo¬
tive does not make it right.
Find a man who grows little, and you
will find one who works little.
There is something lovable in all peo¬
ple, if we could but stand where we could
see it.
The man who can learn from the ex¬
perience of other people is au apt
scholar.
We are never in earnest about anything
that we cannot occasionally get enthusi¬
astic over.
It is well enough for charity to begin
at home, but it shouldn’t stop there. It
ought to be a great traveler.
How easy it is to feel generous when
you get a chance to tell other people
what they out to do with their morjey.
A good deal of the trouble in this life
comes because men take too much time
to make money, and too little to enjoy
it.
Living only to gat riches generally
turns out like the boy who got the hornet’s
nest. Just as he thought he had it he
found out that it had him.
It is said that there are only two hun¬
dred and sixty-three bones in the human
body, but when a man has been hoeing
potatoes all day long, it is hard for him
to believe it.
The doctors say that plenty of pure air
will do more good than a good deal of
medicine, and yet there are people who
ai e as much afraid of it as they would be
of the measles.
Among the bravest people in this
world are the women who go to work
and support and educate a large family
of children, after their good-for-nothing
husbands get discouraged and blow their
brains out.— Indianapolis (Ind.) Ham's
Horn.
A Rare Human Ill.
Some interesting developments were
met with recently in the inquiry by the
Coroner’s jury into the circumstances
causing the death of Catharine Robbins,
seventy years old. One of her last re¬
quests was to have a post-mortem ex¬
amination over her body. Mary A. Mc¬
Collum stated that deceased weighed
nearly 300 pounds, and that she re¬
quested the witness to see that she was
not hurried alive.
Dr. Formad testified that after a care
full examination he was of opinion that
the deceased Jiad died from an acute af¬
fection of the pancreas from fatty necrosis.
The case was of great interest to the
medical profession, as the only other
one of Sts kind known to have occurred
in this country took place some time ago
at Boston, where it attracted consider¬
able notice, as the symptoms are the
same as those in cases of poisoning. Dr.
Litz, the well-known specialist, worked
on the case, and proved that death was
caused by acute pancreatitis. Patients
suffering from the trouble dread doctors
and medicine. After further evidence
the jury returned a verdict in accordance
with Dr. Formad’s statements.— Phila¬
delphia Record.
Glucose is produced in the United
States at the rate of 1,000,000 pounds
per day, principally in Western States.
THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN
NERVINE TONIC
■AND
Stomach/’Liver Cure
The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery ol
the Last One Hundred Years. '
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.i
It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.-,
This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently been introduced into
this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet its
great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬
itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great medicinal
powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. <
This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and
qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine has
completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver
oomplaint, o'-, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures all
forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great
Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative powers
upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy and
compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder
strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of
a broken down constitution. .It is also of more real permanent value in the
treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption rem¬
edies ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nervousness
of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period Tonic known almost
as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine
constantly for the space of two or three yearn. It will carry them inestimable safely
over the danger. This great strengthener and curative is of
value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will
give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of
many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year.
Nervousness and
Nervous Prostration,
Nervous Headache and
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness,
All Diseases of Women,
Nervous Chills,
Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and
Nervous Choking
Hot Flashes,
Palpitation of the Heart,
Mental Sleeplessness, Despondenoy,
St. Vitus’s Dance, Females,
Nervousness of
Nervousness of Old Age,
Neuralgia, Heart,
Pains in the
Pains in the Back, i
Health.
All these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Iserviue Tonio,
NERVOUS DISEASES.
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been abl©
to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in
all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬
ual. Nine-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family is heir, are
dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an
insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of
the brain', spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, lika
starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and
a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As tha
nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of tha
body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition.
Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutrimelnfe
v icessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor impose* food be
upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve
supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been
found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue
is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous
CRA.WFOEDSVn.LE, IND., Aug. 20, ^8.’
To the Oi eat South American Medicine Co.:
De. r Gents I desire to say to you that I
have buffered for many years.with a very seri¬
ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried
every medicine I could hear of but nothing
done me any appreciable good until I was ad¬
vised to try your Great South American Nervine
Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and since
using several bottles of it I must say that I am
surprised at its^vonderful powers to cure the
stomach and graeral nervous system. If every¬
one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you
would not be able to supply the demand.
J. A. Hardek, Co,
A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA.
Crawfordsville, Ind., old, May had 19,1886. af¬
flicted My daughter, for several twelve months years with Chorea been St.
or
Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton,
could not walk, could not talk, could not swal¬
low anything but milk. I had to handle her
like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave her
up. I commenced giving her the South Ameri¬
can Nervine Tonic: the effects were very sur¬
prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬
vousness, and rapidly improved. Four bottles
cured her completely. I think the South
American Nervine the recommend grandest remedy it ever
discovered, and would to every¬
one. Mrs. W. S. Enshinoer.
State Montgomery of Indiana, County, \,,. f ° '
Subscribed and sworn to before me this May
19, 1887. Chas. M. Travis, Notary Public,
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.
The Great South American Nervine Tonic
Which we now offer of you, indigestion, i3 the only Dyspepsia, absolutely and unfailing the remedy ever discov¬
ered for the cure vast train of symptoms
and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of the human stom¬
ach. No person can afford Stomach, to pass by because this jewel the of incalculable value who ki
affected by disease of the experience and testimony of
thousands go to prove that this is the one and only one great cure in tha
world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of umnalignant diseass
of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South
American Nervine Tonic.
Every Bottle Warranted.
Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $l.25.Trial Size, 15 cents.
NEILL ALMOND,
Sole Wholesale and. Retail Agents
r v. •
FOR HARAAr.-: J COUNTY, CA.
Broken Constitution,
Debility of Old Age, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and
Heartburn and Sour Stomach,
Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Loss Frightful of Appetite, Dreams,
Dizziness and Ringing in the Ear*,
Weakness of Extremities and
Fainting, Impure and Impoverished Blood,.
Boils and Carbuncles,
Scrofula, and Ulcers,
Scrofulous Swelling
Consumption of the Lungs,
Catarrh of the Lungs, Cough,
Bronchitis and Chronic
Liver Complaint,
Chronic Diarrhoea, Children,
Delicate and Scrofulous
Summer Complaint of Infants.
Mr. Solomon Bond, * member of the Society
of Friends, of Darlington, Ind., says: “I have'
used twelve bottles of The Great South Ameri¬
can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure,
aud I consider that every bottle did for me ona
hundred dollars worth of good, because I bava
' ' good night’s sleep for twenty years
on account : nf of irritation, irritation, .pain, rain. horrible horrible dreams. dreams,
and general nervous prostration, which haC
been caused by chronic indigestion and dys¬
pepsia of the stomach and by a broken down
condition of my nervous system. But now I can
lie down and sleep all night as sweetly as a think baby,
and I feel like a sound man. X do not
there has ever been a medicine introduced with into
this country which will at all compare stomach.”
this Nervine Tonic as a cure for the
Crawfosujsvtlle, Ind., June 22, 1837.
My daughter, eleven years old, was severely
afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. We
gave her three and one-half bottles of South
American Nervine and she is completely re¬
stored. I believe it will cure every case of St>
Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it in my family for
two years, and am sure it is the greatest rent*
edy sia. all in forms the world Nervous for Indigestion Disorders and and Dyspep¬ lailinj?
of
Health from whatever cause.
John T. Mao.
State of Indiana , \,,. 05
Subscribed Montgomery and County ,J to ■ before this Juno
sworn me
22,1887. Chas. W. Wright,
Notary Public. ,