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A tradition ha* long prevailed that
th** waters of Lak** Tahoe, i alifornia,
would n<*t sustain a human Ixxly. and
that many daring swimmers bad |>*r
iahad by venturing into its treacber
out depths. Professor L*< <*nte ami
the young men of hi* scientific expe
dition have exploded thia delusion by
swimming in the lake.
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Aa an illustration of the fact that
school attendance during epidemics
largely contributes to the spread of in
fectious diseases. It is stated that dur
mg the late serious outbreaks of diph
lheria io the ironstone villages of
England the closing of a school proved
in every instance an effective means
of bringing each local epidemic to an
end
Now that hydrophobia is a burning
question, a wholesale druggist of Phil
adelphin affirms that the drug elefaiii
pane is an infallible preventive of it,
ami cites a numlier of instances in
which Its efficacy was demonstrated.
The active medical principle of the
plant is found in its root and is known
aa Inulin, and this druggist believes
that It completely neutralizes the virus
communicated by a rabid dog.
Commending vegetarianism. Dr. B
W. Richardson says “The oftener
wo go to the vegetable world for our
food, the oftener WO go to the first,
arid therefore the cheapest source of
supply The tendencies of ail ad
vanced scholars In thrift should be to
find out plans for feeding all the com
munity, as far as possible, direct from
the lap of earth; to Impress science
Into our service so that she may pre
pare the otioicesl viands, minus the
necessity of making a lower animal
the living laboratory for the sake of
what is Just a little higher than canni
bal propensities.”
Signor Farlni, the explorer of the
Kalahari Desert, in Africa, makes an
interesting statement bearing on I‘as
teur's inoculations for hydrophobia.
He says that in the region mentioned
a similar operation i< resorted to in
cases of poisonous snake bites. Every
native, when he goes out hunting,
carries with him some dried poison
glands <>f a snake. If he is bitten, lie
immediately introduces a small portion
of tills sluff mar the wound ami goes
to sleep. The limb swells, Lui after
two days it regains its normal size and
the patient recovers. Animals are
treated the same way.
People who are slender and nervous
tom*times express a dread of the
effect that "shock" might have upon
them In case of accident. At a recent
meeting of the New York Mate Medi
na! Aaaoclatlou, Dr \\ Brown, re
ferring to individual susceptibility to
shock, said that ••some persons of fleshy
habit and apparent health will suc
cumb sooner to a minor injury, pro
ducing shock, than some others of deli
cate habits and nervous temperament,
the nervous system in the latter giv
ing way less readily." \lso. shock is
less in persons suffering from chronic
disease than in healthy people, though
the former are less likely to make com
plete recoveries
One of the features of misslsn work
in Japan is the opposition encountered
from a society organized three years
ago to prevent Hie spread of Chris
tlanily This society has been very
active, especially tn the northern part
of the island, in enrolling persons and
families who are willing to promise
not only that they will never accept
Christianity, but that they will do all
they can to prevent others from ac
cepting it. In some towns nearly
everybody has been so pledged The
missionary is made to feel its influence
in many ways. Sometimes lie finds
he cannot t;eiit a house or secure a
preaching place. The society often
gives much trouble ly interfering
with Christian burial.
Th< Pennsylvania Railroal Com
pany sends a Ira n out of New Y. rk
at 9 o'clock every morning that beats
the time of tlie “Flying Dutchman ’
Considering the distance covered, it is
the fastest train in the world When
the care worn business man journevs
from New York to i’ln’.a lelplua. Chi
cago or M Louis he find- in the par
lor cais a luxurious home on wheels.
As he is liemg whirled a ng at Hie
rate of sixty miles an hour ot i etter
not a jolt disturbs his serenity The
rails lest on a twsi balla-ted with ,>;;d
rock, and the joints are made with a
kind of chair and Osh-plate, of the
company’s own make, that cause the
mile* of track to lie as unbroken i- one
long jointless rail. There is no lust,
little noise, and not a c.nder.
Dr. T. ,M. Coan, writing of the cereal
f.nxls and milling, reiuaiks that "the
virtues of wheat are unlocked first, by
the miller; second, by the baker. In
; both processes more improvement has
taken place within the last twenty
years than during the whole previous
history of civilize I n an." The mill
atone is being replaced by a Hungar
ian invention which pulverizes the
1 grain by rollers with less heat of
friction.
Are the offspring of short parents
short, and do the children of tall per
son- grow to be unusually tall? Such
a question u s otch scientist recently
asked himself, and he set to work to
gather some statistics of stature. His
i data consists of the heights of 930
adults and of their respective parents,
205 of each sex in number, or alto
gether of 1,340 observations. It. was
shown that difference lietween the
height of the two parents might be
disregarded, having on the whole an
Inconsiderable effect on the height of
the offspring. I’ was also shown that
marriage sele, tion takes little or no
account of shortness or tallness. The
general result was that where the
mean height of the two parents was
greater than me llocrity their children
tend to be shorter than they.
Artem vs Martin is the librarian of
the Ini ted States coast and geodetic
survey. He enjoys the further dis
tinction of being one of the most
thorough mathematicians in America.
Before he was called to his present
place he was a market gardener, own
ing a small piece of land on Lake Erie,
where he raised kitchen truck to be
carted to Erie City, where he regular
ly occupied a stall and served custom
ers. Suddenly it was announced that
■Mr. A. Martin, of Erie, had been made
an honorary member of some learned
•ociety of (.real Britain No one in
Erie seemed to know wiio ho was. A
few days later Michigan university i
made him master of arts. For some
time after this he tended Ins stall, and
was only a few months ago appointed
to his government, i,flirt-. Nothing I
short ot tlie most abstruse malbeniat- .
ical problems are said to give him
any amusement
"It will be nows to many people,"says
tn exchange, "to be informed that
there are several nourishing common
Ities of Mormons in New England and
that they are rapidly growing. How
ever, it must be promptly added that
they are not of the p dygamotis vari
ety. They belong to the fold which is
known as the Reorganized Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, !
and which has its headquarters in
Lamoni, la., with Joseph Smith (son I
ot the original Prophet Joseph) as its j
President. Hence they are commonly !
termed Josephltes. They have con- I
gregations in Fall River, Boston, New ,
Bedford, Providence, Plainville, Broc
ton, Dennisport, Little Compton, Scit- i
uate and in many places throughout ’
Maine and Nova Scotia. These Mor- *
mono are intensely hostile to the doc
trine of plural marriages. Oae of
their elders gave valuable assistance
to Senator Edmunds in framing his
Anti-Polygamy bill; they have sent
their prophet to Utah as a missionary,
and their organ published Miss -Kate
Field’s fierce onslaught against the
•twin relic.’”
A Washable Wall Paper.
It is stated in tVuDnferrs’ Jouiinl
that a firm in Lancaster, England,
have brought out a novelty which the !
name of "Teetoreum" has been given-
Wlnle it possc—es an artist e .ip.e ar
ance, It can be repeatedly and thorough
ly washed with soap and water with
out suffering any injury, being entire
ly impervious to damp. It is very
durable, is as cheap as ordinary w ill
paper, an I can be applied in (he usual
way; while inasmuch as it cheeks the
inroads of damp into a room, it can
lay claim to hygienic qualities. It has
always been possible to clean by di
verse m *ans, the different articles of
domestic furniture; and the only
structural portions of a room which
one has not been able thoroughly to
wash have l»een the walls. With the
new material in use the walls may tie
.scoured .is freely as the floor; and the
consequent advantages in the case of
hospitals, schools and other buildings,
in which perfect clean lincsM issues
sential. will be considerable.
A Dangerous Medicine.
Young Physieiaa (to Patient)
Did you follow my directions in t iking
the little pills one every three hours?
Patient Well er v. u see doc
Young Phv-sician Great lleavi-nsl!
you didn t take them oftener than
that?
Patient I didn’t take any My lit
tle boy got hold ot the bottle in the
and ate them ail up.
Y-ung Phys.clan (hastily ) Where
is Hie I >y ?
Patient The last I heard of him he
was out in the backv.ird atuain • cats, i
AV*c 1\..-A- 7’ ( ’
Is Life Werth Llviag I
Is 1 ile wo* th living t Ask the lad.
Barefooted, homeleo*, starved, ill-clad.
And hear the answer yon will get,
"My dorg an' me Las fun—you bet.”
la life wo-th living ’ Aak tlie wretob
Upon the gallows doomed to stretch
Hie hangtn 'n'e rope, and hoed hie cry,
•'ll »’it » ' Don't let me die !”
la lite worth living? Aak tlie Hamp,
VVh >*« honie'a the gutter cold and damp
And lioar him lell you with a jerk,
Il .a old |>ar i, for I don’t work.”
h life worth living • Aak the dude,
Whom old Dame Nature somehow aperrr’,
And a*-e him stick his cane and say,
“Aw— wenlly —life m— aw-quite gay.'*
la life worth I ring ? Ask the fool,
Die giggling maidens freeh from school,
The toiler, invalid, the alave;
<> * life, sweet fife they over crave,
la life worth living* Aak the wise
Philosopher who vainly tries
lo aolve the myatery about
Ihe matter and —remains in doubt.
la life worth living • Aak Ihe great.
The mdlionaue. the kings in alate,
Ami note their looks of utter wo
Aa in despair thev shriek. "No! no!"
—//. C. IM'je, tn IMroit Kru Prtu.
. » -i"' -a- J.—
CHARLEY’S TOOTHACHE.
A young newly-married Denver
man went to hid home on Welton
street, the other night, taking with
him a severe case of toothache. As
I soon as he got into the house he threw
himself into an easy chair and began
to groan. At about the same time his
face on the side where the aching
tooth had many years before attained
i a homestead began to swell. In about
thirty minutes his left cheek bore a
strong restnbiance to an old-fashioned
apple dumpling prepared by the hands
of a generous mother for a large fami
ly. The more the jaw enlarged the
louder the young man howled and
rolled about in his chair. His wlfs
was several years younger than he,
. and her sole ex per ance with the tooth
ache had hitherto been limited to one
or two mild attacks caused by an ex
cessive consumption of caramels. She
had usually cured her pain with creo
sote, and so soon as Charley had found
time between his groans to tell her
what was the matter with him she got
the creosote bottle and told him to
open his mouth and let her see the
tooth which was troubling him. He
complied, but as she could not tell by the
looks which one of the teeth was making
the trouble, and as Charley could not
enlighten her, she thought that she’d
better pour a little of the stuff into the
neighborhood of where she thought it
probable that the tooth was located.
Just as she got this idea into her
head she happened to think that there
was another toothache panacea in the
house. It was in a small phial which
a peddler had left there for trial.
She thought that it would be a good j
plan to mix a little of this stuff with
creosote, and put the mixture on the '
infected jaw. So she made a nice lit- |
tie combination in a tablespoon, and
telling Charley to open his mouth she
poured it in. She was a little excited ■
and nervous, and her hand shook and I
so the Quid penetrated to every nook I
and corner of the young man’s food
receptacle. There was a yell of agony
which awoke every dog in the neigh
borhood, and Charley performed a !
•hornpipe in the middle of the floor, I
and accompanied it with a series of j
words, the majority of which his wife
had never heard before.
It was an hour before Charley got
quieted sufficiently to sit down, and
about that time a lady neighbor ven- j
tured in to ask if they had sickness In 1
the family. She was told of the afflic
tion which had overtaken Charley, and
she was all sympathy at once. She
had suffered just so herself, and the
only way to cure the trouble was by
making cold applications upon the
outside of the c eek
So she went home, and Charley’s wife
made u neat little bag and filled it with I
chopped ice, and then tied it on his
face with a long red stocking.
This had the effect of changing the
nature of the pain and make Charley
feel as though he was having needles
thrust into his brain.
He could feel the hair stand right
up on the top of his head, and his eyes
protruded from their sockets to such
an extent that bis wife thought Char
ley was going crazy.
Pretty soon the ice began to melt
and to drip down upon Charley’s shirt
bosom, and to meander around his col
lar and course slowly down his spine,
and Charley in his delirium felt as
though he had been fishing and fallen
overboard. Then lie began to pace uj
and down the room and kick the foot
stool. and stare out of the windows,
and look unkindly at the eat; and just
at this juncture a friend of Charley
and Mrs. Charley arrived. His name
was Arthur, and heh.ul been a drug
clerk before he became a dude, and in
consequence his most intimate friends
all call him “Doctor."
He was much interested when he
found how his fr.end was suffering
and he smiled a superior smile when
Charley's wife explained what she had
done for him. What was neede l. he
said, was a counter-rritanL The
teeth and the interior of the mouth
were inflamed, and there was un
doubtedly fever there. A hot plaster
of some kind on the outside would be
just tlie thing. He said that if Char
' ley's wife would get him the materials
!he would prepare something which
would ease the pain aimostimmediate
|iy-
So they all went to the kitchen and
Arthur turned back his cuffs and be
gan to work. First he ripped open
the bag which hail contained the ice
and laid it out flak Then he put on a
coating of mustard and moistened it
with hot water. Then he put on a
layer of red pepper and then sprinkled
the whole with water so that it made
a nice thick paste. He tied that upon
Charley's face and then put a bandage
soaked with hot water over that, and
then tied the red stocking on once
more. Then he went home and Char
ley went to bed.
During a period of about twenty
minutes after Arthur had bowed him
self out Charley howled, swore, danced
and he stood upon his head. His wife
at first asked him “if it ached worse."
Then she didn’t dare get within speak
ing distance of him, until in a mo-
ment of wild frenzy he tore the plas
ter from his face and dashed It at a
picture of "Two Cherubs," which wae
hanging upon the wall.
Then Charley fainted, and she hod a
chance to look at his face. There was
the swelling, the mustard, the pepper
and a two days’ beard all mixed to
< gether. The removal of the plaster
[ had also caused the secession of a con
siderable section of cuticle, and, take
it altogether, It did not look like the
same face which Charley’s wife used
to think ‘‘too sweet for anything."
She thought that his face must be
sore, and she remembered that once
when she was a little girl she burned
her finger one day and her mother
put cold molasses on the injured mem
ber and that took the pain away. Sc
she took the syrup pitcher and poured
its contents on Charley’s face. Two
ladies who lived down the block called
just then to see who had been injured
in the house, as they had thought they
had heard some one groan there. One
of these, when she found out the cause
of the trouble, said that sweet oil and
lime water was good for burns. She
had some all prepared at home, and
she kindly offered to go and get it.
While she was gone the old lady
thought that flour was good for burns,
so they threw a handful of breadstuff
upon the molasses. Then the other
lady came with the sweet oil and lime
water mixture, and they poured that
on. Just then the family washer
woman called to see if they wanted to
have their washing done the following
day. As Charley seemed “to suffer
some pain,’’ they asked the washer
woman, who was old and Irish, and
they thought ought to be wise, as to
what to do. She said that “blueing”
was the best thing in the world, and
eo they added another color to Char
ley’s face.
Well, the two ladies staid with Char
ley’s wife that night, and they have
since declared that Charley is the
worst-tempered man whom they ever
saw.
Charley is better now, but he says
that he will not get out of the house
for a month to come unless he wears a
mask.— Denver Tribune.
He Enjoyed the Trip.
“Have I ever been to Yurrip?” ex
claimed the middle-aged and bald-head
ed passenger; "should say I had.
Half a dozen times. Like it? Rather.
'Tain’t so much Yurrip I care for as the
ocean voyages. How I do love those
ocean trips, though!"
“Don’t you get sea-sick?”
‘•Sea sick? I shou d say I did.
Why, I just lie in my berth five days
out of the eight and hope the ship will
sink in ten miles of water. There
seems to be a whole slaughter house
inside of me. I feel like a sick egg.
But I enjoy it, all the same, you bet.”
“Enjoy a voyage under such circum
stances? How do you make that out?"
“Well, you see, my wife she’s al
ways along with me. She gets sick,
too —sicker’n I do. In fact, she gets so
awful sick that she can't talk till after
we’ve anchored on the other side, and
if I were to try for a week I couldn’t
tell you what blessed days of relief
they are for me.”— Chicago Herald.
Acquainted With Music.
“Does he know anything about mu
sic?”
"Well, I should rather think he
ought ta”
“How so?”
••Well, for one thing, he’s the father
of twins not more than six months
old. and. for another, his wife was
dead -set on having a sealskin for her
birthday, and didn’t get it"— Chictigc
Ledger.
SCIEJITIUC SCRAPS.
Sir John Lubbock, in some observa
tions on the intelligence of the dog,
suggest that dogs might be made to
understand by means of a system like
that used for deaf mutes. He had a dog
which would pick out a card contain
ing a request for food or drink.
In the Royal Arsenal at Soudan is
an old Chinese elghteen-pounder
bronze gun, lined with an iron tube,
the native workmen having anticipa
ted by many years the contrivance
which the artillerists of Europe have
almost universally introduced in some
shape or other during the present gen
eration.
During eighteen ascents of lofty
mountains—from 5,000 to 15,000 feet in
height—Mons Vernet has made a
number of physiological observations
on himself. He finds that the strong
exertion —both in mounting and
decending —caused an average rise in
bodily temperature of about three
degrees; a rise in the pulse from about
75 to 83 in a minute; and an increase
in respiration from about 21 to 25 in
i minute.
At a recent meeting of the Linnean
Society of New South Wales was ex
hibited a curious beetle —which is
found under the fur of the common
rat in Tasmania. The belief was ex
pressed that new and interesting
species with similar habits might be
discovered in Australia if the smaller
mammals were examined when freshly
killed. Two allied species from Peru
are known, one being found in the fur
and nests of mice.
A Belgian botanist has published a
treatise 250 pages long, on the sting
ing nettle. According to the author,
a long life would be needed to acquire
all the knowledge to be gained from
this humble plant “Even then, it
may be presumed, the next generation,
with improved methods of observation
and research, would find as much
work to do.” The chief interest of
the stinging beetle to botanical
students is in its microscopic anatomy.
In some recent scientific experi
ments on the effects of cold two frogs
were frozen solid in a temperature of
about 20 degrees, and kept in that
condition for half an hour. On thaw
ing slowly they recovered perfectly,
but it was found that longer periods of
exposure invariably killed the animals-
The experiment was tried of freezing
hermetically sealed meat, so as to kill
its bacterial organisms, and thus
render it incapable of putrefying. It
was found, however, that so low a
temperature as 80 degrees below zero
would not destroy the vitality of
micro-organisms. It was thus made
clear that the attempts to preserve
meat for a long time by a momentary
freezing of it must be abandoned.
The Perpetual Candidate.
Judge David Key, of Tennessee*
told a good story of a man in the
mountain region of his State, who was
a stereotype candidate for local officea
of all descriptions, but who would
never give a decided opinion upon any
question. On one occasion when he
was a candidate for the position of
sheriff there was great excitement on
the enforcement of the school tax. He
addressed quite a gathering at a mus
ter, but evaded the only question that
the audience wanted to hear about,
and just as he was closing a fellow
shouted:
"Tell us about the school tax. Are
you for it, or are you not?”
The crowd cheered, and the orator,
thus pressed for a declaration of opin
ion said:
“Gentlemen, you have a right to
ask for an answer. I have no conceal
ment to make. lam a frank man, and
to you I say in all frankness, if it is a
good thing lam for it, and if it is a
bad thing I am agin it”— Ben Perley
Poore.
An “lllefant.”
An old Scotchman, when takin? his
bairns to be baptized, usually spoke of
them as laddies or lassies, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he
must not say it was a laddio or lassie,
but an infant So the next time that j
Sandy had occasion .to go to the clergv
man the latter said:
“Weel, Sandy, is it a laddie?”
“It’s nae a laddie,” was the answer.
"Then it’s a lassie.”
“It's nae a lassie.” said Sandy.
“Weel, mon, what is it, then ?” said j
the astonished preachor.
“I dinna remember vera weel,” said
the parent, “but I think the wife said
it was an illefant.”
—
Wrote Poetry.
Phrenologist: “Your bump of im
agination is abnormally large, sir.
You should write poetry.”
Citizen: “I do write poetry. Only
yesterday I took a poem to an editor, I
and that bump you are feeling is
where he hit me. Don’t bear down
co hard.”
EPISODES OF ARMY LIFE.
Interesting Extracts from
Gen. Grant’s Memoirs.
First Impre sions of a Battle —The Crisis-
at Fort Donelson.
Gen. Grant, in his “Memoirs,’’ de
scribes bis life in the array of invasion
and the battles of the Mexican war in
I considerable detail. Perhaps the most
I interesting portions of his narrative
i xre the descriptions of accidents in
i which he took a leading part, and his
; iomments on the men of the day.
His first impressions of a battle are
I thus given:
j “As we lay in our tents upon the
seashore, the artillery at the fort on
the Rio Grande could be distinctly
heard. The war had begun. There
were no possible means of obtaining
1 news from the garrison, and informa-
I tion from outside could not be other
wise than unfavorable. What Gen.
Taylor’s feelings were during this sus
pense Ido not know; but for myself,
a young Second Lieutenant who had
never heard a hostile gun before, I felt
sorry that I had enlisted. A great
many men when they smell battle afar
off chafe to get into the fray. When
they say so themselves they generally
fail to convince their hearers that they
are as anxious as they would like to
make people believe, and as they ap
proach danger they become more sub
dued. This rule is not universal, for I
have known a few men who
were always aching for a
fight when there was no enemy
near, who were as good as their
word when the battle did come. But
the number of such men is small.”
An incident in the battle of Monter
'ery, Mexico, is given:
“We had not occupied this position
long when it was discovered that our
ammunition was growing low. I vol
unteered to go back to the point we
had started from, report our position
to Gen. Twiggs, and ask for ammuni
tion to be forwarded. We were at this
time occupying ground off from the
street, and in the rear of the houses. *
My ride back was an exposed one. Be
fore starting 1 adjusted myself on the
side of my horse farthest from the
enemy, and with only one foot holding
to the cantie of the saddle, and an arm
over the neck of the horse exposed, I
started at full run. It was only at
street crossings that my horse was
under fire, but these I crossed at such
a flying rate that generally I was past
and under cover of the next block of
houses before the enemy fired. I got
out safely without a scratch.”
Grant thus describes his course at
the crisis of the battle of Fort Donel
son:
“I saw the men standing in knots,
talking in the most excitable manner.
No officer seemed to be giving any di
rections. The soldiers had their mus
kets, but no ammunition, while there
were tons of it close at hand. I heard
some of the men say that the enemy
had come out with knapsacks and hav
ersacks filled with rations. They
seemed to think that this indicated a
determination on his part to stay out
and fight just as long as the provisions
held out. I turned to Col. J. I). Web
ster. of my staff, who was with me,
and said: “Some of our men are pret
ty badly demoralized, but the enemy
must be more so, for he has attempted
to force his way out, but has fallen
back; the one who attacks first now
will be victorious, and the enemy will
have to be in a hurry if he gets ahead
of me,” I determined to make the as
sault at once on our left. It was clear
to my mind that the enemy had start
ed to march out with his entire force,
except a few pickets, and if our attack
could be made on the left before the
enemy could redistribute his forces
along the line, we would find but little
opposition except from the interven
ing abatis. I directed Col. Webster to
ride with me and call out to the men
as we passed, “Fill your cartridge
boxes, quick, and get into line; the
enemy is trying to escape and he
must not be permitted to do so.” This
acted like a charm. The men only
wanted some one to give them a com
mand.”
How the Pen Travels.
A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he
must draw his pen through the spaee
of a rod, sixteen and a half feet. In
forty minutes his pen travels a furlong.
We make, on an average, sixteen
curves or turnes of the pen in writing
each word. Writing thirty words in
a minute, we must make 480 turns in
each minute; in an hour, 28,000; in a
day of only five hours, 144,000; in a
year of 300 such days, 43,200,000. The
man, therefore, who made 1,000,-00
strokes with his pen was not at all re
markable. Many men—newspaper
writers, for instance—make 4,000,000,-
000. Here we have in the aggregate
a mark 300 miles long to be trac d on
paper by such a writer in a year.